Atlantis in Popular Culture - Comics

Comics

• Atlantis (along with its nemesis, Mu) plays a major part in the Italian comic book Martin Mystere.
• In The Kingdom Beyond the Waves by Stephen Hunt, an expedition sets out to find the ancient city of Camlantis. Once inhabited by the most advanced society in history, the city is believed to be adrift and derelict in the highest pockets of the sky. Much like Atlantis, Camlantis is a utopian society whose people perished overnight due to a great cataclysm; however, Camlantis resides in the air, as opposed to the watery grave of Atlantis.
• In DC Comics, several characters, including Aquaman and Lori Lemaris - among others - are said to have come from a sunken Atlantis. Due to a combination of magic and advanced science, they survive with the ability to breathe water. There are several Atlantean civilizations in the DC Universe, the most notable being the recently destroyed Poseidonis (home to Aquaman and other humanoid water breathers) and Tritonis (home to Lemaris and other mer-people). Aquaman is from the royal family of Atlantis.
• In Marvel Comics, Atlantis was an ancient landmass which was home to a technologically advanced civilization, but was sunk by the space gods the Celestials for hubris. Later the sunken continent was populated by the genetic offshoot of humans known as homo mermanus, including Namor the Sub-Mariner, son of an Atlantean princess and human, meaning he can breathe in both environments and has superhuman strength, but he is much stronger in the water. This species can breathe underwater and have powerful technology. In Tales of Suspense #43, Iron Man meets a race of Atlanteans whose city sunk to the bottom of the sea and is renamed the Netherworld, and whose Queen Kala (comics) is planning to invade the surface with advanced technology. He stops her by showing her that Netherworlders would age rapidly in the surface world, though Kala is restored to normal when she returns to the Netherworld.
• In "Tuk the Caveboy", Captain America #2 & 3 (1941), Tuk and Tanir (a cro-magnon man) meet Eve, princess of the not yet lost Atlantis, and help her reclaim the throne from her wicked uncle.
• In the Ultimate Marvel comics, Atlantis did exist and was home to a culture similar to Ancient Egyptians, but far more technologically advanced. It was destroyed 9000 years ago in a conflict with a species known as the Tan-ed-Drul, or Hydra.
• In the now defunct CrossGen Comics, Atlantis was the basis for the fictional universe known as the Sigilverse.
• In The Sandman: Brief Lives, by writer Neil Gaiman, a chapter called "The People Who Remember Atlantis" speaks of "echo-Atlantises" and (many) other equatable prehistoric civilizations, and explores the theme of the bulk of human history and knowledge being lost to the modern world.
• In the webcomic Wigu, the Tinkle family as well as the head of the Illuminati are of Atlantean heritage. The second black and white comic book is to be called The Case of Atlantis.
• Dark Horse Comics produced a four-comic-book series based on the story of the Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis LucasArts classic PC game.
• In Asterix and Obelix All at Sea, Asterix, Obelix and Getafix go to the remains of Atlantis (said to the be the today's Canaries) to seek the secret of age reversal as Obelix was accidentally reverted to childhood. At Atlantis, except for the high priest, everyone is in a state of childhood.
• In the Donald Duck comic "The Lost Suburb", Donald decides to get Daisy Duck a necklace. And instead of going to Atlantis, Donald finds himself stranded in a suburb in Atlantis.
• In the Uncle Scrooge comic "The Secret of Atlantis", in an attempt to outwit his nephew Donald, Scrooge acquires most of the world's circulating 1916 quarters and dumps them into the Atlantic. When circumstances necessitate his retrieving one, it is found that the quarters inadvertently ended up in Atlantis, now inhabited by fish-men who evolved from the original human Atlanteans.
• In the backstory of Hellboy comics, Atlantis is an outpost of Hyperboria, which soon collapses after Hyperboria does.
• In Topolino e l'Atlantide continente perduto (Mickey Mouse and Atlantis, the lost continent, 1987), Italians Giorgio Pezzin (story) and Massimo De Vita (artwork) send Mickey and Goofy back in time to witness Atlantis' last moments.
• Edgar P. Jacobs authored his own Atlantis Mystery in 1955–1956. There, Atlantis and a rival civilisation have survived until our days in giant caves beneath the Azores, but a new series of (part man-made) cataclysms strikes again.
• In Batman #19 Atlantis is shown to be inhabitated by an advanced people ruled by an Emperor. The Nazis have discovered Atlantis and are using it as a Naval Base. Batman and Robin discover the base and are able to reveal the deception of the Nazis.
• In Marvel Family #10 Atlantis appears. It was sunk about 8000 BC by an earth fault below the Island, but the Sivana Family hope to use an element there for a machine to prevent the Marvels calling their lightining down. A scientist Chal-Patzun, hoped to have Atlantis raised in the Future by his descendants, his son having gone to the mainland. He had an element called Protium, which in 10,000 years would become Neutrium, and in another 10,000 Electrium. A machine powered by this would raise the Island. Before Atlantis sinks Georgia Sivana, having traveleld to thepast, steals a vial of Protium. During the 20th century his descendant, Dr. Charles Patterson, is shot by Sivana while in the vault after he tries to stop him taking Neutrium. It is raised around 12,000 AD by his descendant Chas Passan, though two of the vials had been stolen by the Sivanas in the past and present, leaving just eight. Sivana Jr. succeeds in taking a vial of Electrium just after the Island is raised. Atlantis is apparently located around the Atlantic coast latitude 35. See more on Sivana Family.