Jack Bellew

[3] After leaving the Daily Telegraph, Bellew, George Warnecke, and Clive Turnbull founded Atlas Publications in 1947.

The company was managed by Peter Ryan, who characterised the founders as "a small syndicate of well-off Melbourne lefty journalists".

Their first major success and one of the earliest home-grown Australian comic heroes was Captain Atom drawn by Arthur Mather.

[6] Bellew and his wife Molly were close friends of John and Sunday Reed and became part of the Heide Circle.

These were once joined together [...] but late one night Jack Bellew, a journalist, said, "Look, Sid, that painting is too bloody big, cut it in two."