Devilina #2 - Atlas

May 1975 - Illustrated stories of female-filled fantasy!

Atlas/Seaboard wasn't around long, but they certainly gave it the old college try, both in their color comics and b/w magazines. Case in point: Devilina, Atlas' only attempt at a recurring character in their magazine line, a cross between Warren's Vampirella and Marvel's Satana (man, the 70s were awesome).

We've previously covered the first issue, and this is the second--and last--issue. The main Devilina story, "Curse of the Ra Scarab", was written and drawn by the underrated Ric Estrada, whose work had a similar naughty fluidity of Ernie Colon, who also worked at Atlas:

This story is a lot of fun, but that's not all you get! Even better is the second story, "Vendetta", drawn by the incomparable Frank Thorne:

This story is chock-full of female nudity and violence. Like I said, it was drawn by Frank Thorne.

Next is "The Devil's Procuress!" by John Albano (who also wrote "Vendetta!") and Jack Sparling:

This story features a woman gang-raped by demons. Not for the squeamish, and in terms of outre content was a few steps past what Warren was doing at the time, which I guess was part of the point.

There's also "The Prophesy" by Suso, and "Night Creature" by Albano again and Leo Summers:

...this story also features a monster raping a woman. I see a disturbing theme here.

Top it off with an article on the soft-core parody film Flesh Gordon, and you've got one crazy-ass issue of Devilina. Too bad Atlas folded so quickly, it would have been interesting to see where this (and Atlas' other mags) went. The stories may have been a little rough (in every sense of the word), but the art was top-notch and it all ended too soon.

R.I.P. Devilina!