Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Jul 17, 2014 13:08:08 GMT -5
NO ACKNOWLEDGE MY CORRECTNESS I simply can't do that I'm afraid because, you know...you're not.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:08:14 GMT -5
All these Roy Thomas citations and nobody mentions Captain Carrot? C'mon people
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:10:15 GMT -5
I may be wrong, but using drugs in the workplace is a tad more unprofessional than what you do in the privacy of your own home. Maybe that's just me Clearly, unlike me, your resume doesn't include a career in the newspaper field. (I kid! Sort of ... My predecessor as weekend editor in Little Rock apparently kept his bottle of booze outside in his car, entailing frequent trips out there for a nip ...) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:13:34 GMT -5
I may be wrong, but using drugs in the workplace is a tad more unprofessional than what you do in the privacy of your own home. Maybe that's just me Clearly, unlike me, your resume doesn't include a career in the newspaper field. (I kid! Sort of ... My predecessor as weekend editor in Little Rock apparently kept his bottle of booze outside in his car, entailing frequent trips out there for a nip ...) I never said anything about working drunk, I'm all for that. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 17, 2014 13:21:23 GMT -5
I find it hard to believe that for decades Marvel was a drug-free zone until that wacky English teacher from Missouri showed up.And once he was gone, it was polyanna time again
Vinnie Colletta was able to ink 30 pages a day because of his bathroom tootski breaks
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Post by paulie on Jul 17, 2014 13:22:39 GMT -5
Shooter took over in January 1978. The Star Wars license was obtained in late 1976 going in to 1977. Archie Goodwin was the EIC then. That was Steve Englehart who wrote his own letter to respond to concerning the mind-blowing Sise-Neg saga that he did with Frank Brunner. Classic! Classic!!!! Supposedly, some of the anti-Kirby letters in the wake of his revamping of Black Panther & Captain America were Bullpen-generated fakes. All I know is the one I wrote lamenting the Panther overhaul was the real thing. I think I have an issue with a published letter from Dan Bailey! |
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Post by paulie on Jul 17, 2014 13:25:03 GMT -5
I find it hard to believe that for decades Marvel was a drug-free zone until that wacky English teacher from Missouri showed up.And once he was gone, it was polyanna time again Vinnie Colletta was able to ink 30 pages a day because of his bathroom tootski breaks I think a few folks are on records saying Roy was kind of straight-laced. Not much for the drink or the drug.
I've never hear that about Vinnie. Is it apocryphal?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:27:31 GMT -5
Supposedly, some of the anti-Kirby letters in the wake of his revamping of Black Panther & Captain America were Bullpen-generated fakes. All I know is the one I wrote lamenting the Panther overhaul was the real thing. I think I have an issue with a published letter from Dan Bailey! They didn't publish that one (though Rascally Roy did sent me a personal reply). By then I'd already had at least a couple (out of what turned out to be a total of 5) published, though, which in retrospect was clear evidence of the company's mid-'70s downward spiral. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 17, 2014 13:29:33 GMT -5
I find it hard to believe that for decades Marvel was a drug-free zone until that wacky English teacher from Missouri showed up.And once he was gone, it was polyanna time again Vinnie Colletta was able to ink 30 pages a day because of his bathroom tootski breaks I think a few folks are on records saying Roy was kind of straight-laced. Not much for the drink or the drug.
I've never hear that about Vinnie. Is it apocryphal?
No just kidding,but knowing the deadlines they were racing,would you doubt anyone ever did? Or at least speed or uppers? Here's that link to Evanier's letter column article he wrote earlier today. www.newsfromme.com/ |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:32:37 GMT -5
Many of the things Quesada gets criticized for has nothing to do with content. So to praise Roy Thomas for writing Conan and curse Quesada for variant covers isn't a valid comparison.
The books published under their respective tenures, and the quality of, is obviously going to be a matter of personal preference.
Hate Quesada all you want, but he brought Marvel back from bankruptcy, made their publishing division the top in the industry again, kept the characters viable enough to be licensed, and is an important part of Marvel Studios, which is in the process of world domination.
Variant covers will not destroy comics, it's okay. All the deaths and what-not seem to get pretty good mainstream press coverage, which, and I'm no expert on marketing, tends to be the kind of publicity most companies strive for.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:35:10 GMT -5
Supposedly, some of the anti-Kirby letters in the wake of his revamping of Black Panther & Captain America were Bullpen-generated fakes. All I know is the one I wrote lamenting the Panther overhaul was the real thing. I think I have an issue with a published letter from Dan Bailey! My picture is in Guardians of the Galaxy #2, my son's picture is in the issues of Avengers/New Avengers for that month, and I had a letter printed in Avengers A.I. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:36:34 GMT -5
I find it hard to believe that for decades Marvel was a drug-free zone until that wacky English teacher from Missouri showed up.And once he was gone, it was polyanna time again Vinnie Colletta was able to ink 30 pages a day because of his bathroom tootski breaks Unless Stan and Jack were smoking something other than cigars, they were the only ones around other than staff. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:37:50 GMT -5
And Colletta inked that many pages because he frequently erased Jack's pencils, so ... hooray?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:43:33 GMT -5
I think I have an issue with a published letter from Dan Bailey! My picture is in Guardians of the Galaxy #2, my son's picture is in the issues of Avengers/New Avengers for that month, and I had a letter printed in Avengers A.I. The most recent Guardians & New Avengers, I take it. I'm not familiar with those incarnations (or with Avengers A.I.), though I guess it's a good thing I completed my run of the 2nd Guardians series a couple of years ago before back-issue prices started going up because of, I take it, a movie that's coming out at some point. (For that matter, I'm missing, I think, 2 issues from having the full 1990 run.) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 13:49:26 GMT -5
Most recent yes.
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