After the comicbook boom of the war years and the late forties, Marvel, Atlas or Timely Comics, whatever they where calling themselves at the time, were producing over eighty comicbook titles a month. In December 1950 a new superhero appeared in the form of Marvel Boy. The only new Marvel hero created in this decade, Marvel Boy lasted all of two issues but epitomised the anxieties of the atomic age facing alien communists in flying saucers who threaten the seat of American democracy. Marvel also moved into producing war comics not the flashy nazi bashing heroes of the forties though these comics portrayed the misery and pain of real war. Around this time the company took on the name Atlas comics and moved into the horror genre producing titles such as Strange Tales and Journey Into Mystery. In 1953 the heroes returned, Stan Lee revived the Human Torch, Captain America and Submariner in issue 24 of a comicbook called Young Men and by 1954 all three had their own title and where frantically battling communists as hard as they had the Nazis. But the Mcarthy witchhunting years had begun and everywhere everyday Americans grew suspicious of each other, suspecting communism had silently invaded the American culture. Anything 'un-American' was criticised and one man Dr Frederick Werkman turned that criticism on comicbooks. In his book Seduction of the Innocent, he proposed that comicbooks caused all manner of ills from juvenile delinquency to criminality and homosexuality. In 1954 he aired his views before a senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency and the widespread publicity he acquired led to mass panic amongst the parents of the nation and a massive slump in comic sales. The comics industry banded together to combat damaging criticism and in 1955 created The Comics Code Authority, a group whose job was to award the Comic Code to be shown on the cover of titles that passed it's stringent regulations on the portrayal of horror and violence, creating. Throughout all this Atlas continued churning out comicbooks although the decline in sales towards the end of the decade led to most of the staff being laid off and the Atlas name disappeared. Stan Lee remained as editor and rode out the slack period producing titles in the Teenage, Romance, Horror and War themes that still proved relatively saleable. In 1958 he enlisted the skills of Jack Kirby and Steve Dikto and began producing a range of science fiction orientated comics under such titles as Amazing Adventures and Strange Tales featuring city smashing monsters. Lee was gathering around himself a core of artists and writers that were soon to usher in a new age of comics, the Marvel Universe was about to be born.