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Timely was what published "Marvel Comics" back in the 40s. There is an Omnibus of mostly the Simon and Kirby stuff:
https://a.co/d/2zHVhBe
Daring Mystery Comics #1-3 and #6-8
Red Raven Comics #1
Marvel Mystery Comics #12-25
Human Torch Comics #2
Captain America Comics #1-10
All-winners Comics (1941) #1-2
Usa Comics #1-3
Young Allies Comics #1
Mystic Comics (1941) #7
The trick with Atlas is there are TWO of them.
The original Atlas, in the 1950s, is what Stan Lee would turn into Marvel Comics. Fantagraphics has reprints in both Print and Kindle:
https://a.co/d/3KIx47G
"Our first volume, Adventures Into Terror, includes a treasure trove of stories drawn by many of the most stylistically accomplished artists of the Golden Age including George Tuska, Carl Burgos, Mike Sekowsky, Joe Maneely, and Joe Sinnott. Highlights include Russ Heath’s two-part story “The Brain” from issue #4 and “Return of the Brain” from issue #6; Basil Wolverton's classic “Where Monsters Dwell” from issue #7; Gene Colan's moody “House of Horror” in issue #3; and Don Rico’s wild layouts are on display from #4’s “The Torture Room." The stories are written firmly in the tradition of the pulpy, perverse, borderline deranged style that brought Fredric Wertham, the United States Senate Sub-Committee, and public opinion down like a sledgehammer on comics in the early ‘50s."
In the 70s, one of the former Timely/Marvel business guys launched Atlas Comics, that was really only notable for how awful they were. Still, some interesting early work from Howard Chaykin and Pat Broderick.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas/Seaboard_Comics