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One needn't have to believe the comic book version in order to think it likely that there was relatively advanced civilization in many parts of the world, and that it might reach back much farther than previously advertised. The idea of Atlantis being a well civilized region, even one of many such places lost to history (so far) isn't really all that much of a stretch.

No ofcourse not!

Surely there where many cultures. Why, i am myself part of a culture or two. And im sure there where plenty of ways for a culture to go down.

But Atlantis, Mu, Altland, Lemuria, Shangri-La, Agartha, Hyperborea, Kumari Kandam, Lyonesse, Ogygia, Shambhala, Thule, El Dorado, Tir-Na-Nog and any other 'lost place', whether it existed or not, has nothing to do anymore with archaelogy.

Rather, it is like an art-project where everyone can freely fantasize and post it on the internet and get people enthusiastic for their new angle on "that place/culture/race in a galaxy/time far away", and then that angle is added to the huge compendium which accompanies such concepts as Atlantis.

That then get's posted on yet another site, sucking even more people into it's dark hole of truths, half-truths and out right lies and turning them into members of the club. As such believers are good little minions, they go run around telling people about the great truth which they uncovered, infecting even more people with their conjurings.

Like some sort of thought-virus it spreads turning normal functional people into crystal piramid worshipping new agers, who then infect ever more people ever faster.

For sure, if so many people believe it, it may actually be true right? Right? Or.. not? Could it be that the amount of evidence required to constitute a fact is independent of the number of people that actually believe it?

The answer is: yes. It is indeed independent.

Atlantis and co. stories are just like Wikipedia! Without the monitoring. Or the facts. But it sure fills up an afternoon with glorious conjurings of a fantasy world as even Tolkien or Lovecraft dared not imagine. Atlantis is the most elaborate art-project at the moment, and it's creators dont even realize it.

But just because it's been made into an "art project" (apt description, imho) doesn't mean that it didn't actually exist, albeit in a somewhat more reasonable form than the art project version.

Exactly -- the nature of 'legends based on fact' in the past has followed this same pattern.

People take a story and 'embellish' it, especially when the true details fade from memory.