diff --git a/resources/recipes/atlantic.recipe b/resources/recipes/atlantic.recipe
index c6db016010..a41a931e37 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/atlantic.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/atlantic.recipe
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
 '''
 theatlantic.com
 '''
-import string
+import string, re
 
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag, NavigableString
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ class TheAtlantic(BasicNewsRecipe):
     remove_tags        = [dict(id=['header', 'printAds', 'pageControls'])]
     no_stylesheets = True
 
+    preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile(r'<!--.*?-->', re.DOTALL), lambda m: '')]
+
 
     def print_version(self, url):
         return url.replace('/archive/', '/print/')