Here's the thing ....

When the middle tier mainline superhero masterwork lines were outselling Atlas --- and here I am thinking titles like Marvel Team-Up and Iron Man and Hulk --- they were still in their fairly innovative early periods. Since then, sales of those lines have been pretty lackluster.

I am not saying that most Atlas volumes would sell in Spidey or Avengers quantities but you can only release so many Spidey and Avengers titles.

I wish the folks at Marvel would give Cory a chance to prove that the strong sales of the last Atlas volume (Strange Tales V6) were not a fluke.