ATLANTIS,THE LOST CONTINENT by Dave Goode

When I was a young fan-boy back in the early 60s I was fascinated by the legend of lost Atlantis found originally in Plato's writings Timaeus and Critias. Atlantis was a highly advanced island-nation that was sunk beneath the waves by the gods for the hubris of it's rulers. I of course learned of Atlantis from it's image in comic books. That of an advanced metropolis protected beneath the ocean depths by a huge glass dome. As always the continuity in DC Comics left me a bit flustered as that there were two different underwater cities called Atlantis in their Silver Age comic books. The one found in Superman family comics featured mer-people. While the Atlantis Aquaman ruled over was populated by bi-pedal humanoids. Over at Marvel Comics , Prince Namor ruled over an Atlantis populated by bi-pedal humanoids. Albeit with blue skin.

However most movies about Atlantis don't deal with underwater civilizations. Instead they deal with the destruction of Atlantis. Of these my favorite was ATLANTIS,THE LOST CONTINENT (1961). This sci-fi peplum movie was produced and directed by George Pal with a script written by Daniel Mainwaring and Gerald Hargreaves. The movie starred Anthony Hall as a Greek fisherman named Demetrious and Joyce Taylor as Princess Antillia of Atlantis. Useless trivia time. Anthony Hall was songwriter Sal Ponti who wrote Fabian's first recorded song " I'm In Love ". The storyline followed the events leading to the sinking of Atlantis. This was a good Saturday matinee type film. And I enjoyed it in my youth. I still enjoy it. But I think it would have been even better as a sinew & sandal flick starring Ed Fury and Bella Cortez.

And speaking of sinews & sandals Edgar Rice Burroughs would contribute to the Atlantis mythos with the Lost City of Opar in his Tarzan stories. I've said in the past that a lot of Burroughs' Tarzan tales came across like Maciste stories. These are some of them. In these stories Opar was an outpost of lost Atlantis now populated by beautiful women and ape-like men. Opar and it's beautiful high priestess La would appear on both the movie and television screen going back as far as the silent age of movies. But I always thought a perfect casting of Tarzan and La might have been Mike Henry and Martine Beswick. Which leads to our new Golden Adonis comic.

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