The Atlas Artist Edition No. 2After becoming a professional comics artist in 1948 at the age of 17, by 21 Al Williamson was well regarded enough as a Western and science fiction illustrator to be recruited for the EC Comics staff rosterthe absolute peak of the field in the 1950s, and a team rarely challenged since. After the Comics Code forced EC to reduce their business, Williamson found himself at the door of Atlas Comics, the largest employer of freelancers in the field. From