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Post by dcindexer on Sept 27, 2015 4:12:51 GMT -5
I built this. But my 50 year unbroken run of every DC comic from 1960-2010 is a pretty good achievement too.
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Post by dcindexer on Sept 21, 2015 4:41:21 GMT -5
This one is a pre-GL All-American containing Ultra-Man, Hop Harrigan (a favorite of mine), and Adventure in the Unknown, plus assorted other features.
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Post by dcindexer on Sept 13, 2015 12:31:42 GMT -5
See PM
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Post by dcindexer on Sept 2, 2015 1:28:09 GMT -5
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Post by dcindexer on Aug 1, 2015 20:12:43 GMT -5
Nice jump, Superman. Too bad you can't fly... Yet!
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Post by dcindexer on Jun 25, 2015 17:47:54 GMT -5
I picked up this pre-Hero book from the 1930s today. It's the last book of DC's Wheeler-Nicholson era.
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Post by dcindexer on Jun 19, 2015 21:43:31 GMT -5
I've read quite a few of the Golden Age DC text pieces. The ones from the All-American group were generally better than those in DC mags. Hop Harrigan (AA's pilot hero) was featured in many of them. One such Hop Harrigan story in All-Star #8 is actually the second time Superman and Batman appeared together in the same story. (The first being All-Star #7.) I think Evelyn Gaines wrote the majority of the AA stories or at least a fairly good number of them.
I've tried reading some from other eras too. The late 1950s stories are nearly unreadable in quality.
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Post by dcindexer on Apr 27, 2015 19:20:11 GMT -5
Ok. This one isn't as old as Action Comics #16, but this one completes an important run in my collection. This was the last DC book I needed from the 1960s! I now have an unbroken run of every DC comic from 1960-2010 including all genres, imprints, variants, and collection editions.
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Post by dcindexer on Apr 16, 2015 18:25:19 GMT -5
As an editor at National, it was he who bought the first Superman story from Siegel and Shuster, correct? Yes. Sullivan was the editor for Detective Comics, Inc. (The name of the company when Superman was first published. It did not become National Comics until 1947.). The story goes that Max Gaines and Sheldon Mayer recommended the feature to Sullivan. Boy, if this and Action #16 were the only books in your collection, it would still be mighty impressive. These are just the most recent books added to my collection of 54,000+ issues. This isn't even my earliest More Fun, I picked up #7 and #8 back in January.
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Post by dcindexer on Apr 16, 2015 17:50:23 GMT -5
Another new purchase from the pre-Superman era.
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Post by dcindexer on Apr 14, 2015 0:41:39 GMT -5
This one is now my earliest appearance of the Man of Tomorrow (beating out #17 by 1 month)
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Post by dcindexer on Jan 23, 2015 15:42:54 GMT -5
More Fun #7 and 8 (1936) Contain the 2nd and 3rd published works of Siegel and Shuster. Both are oversized and extremely rare. #8 is arguably in the top 10 rarest DC books.
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Post by dcindexer on Jan 19, 2015 21:07:53 GMT -5
I no longer have an Overstreet to look those up. Are those American or Canadian publications? Do you know what the story was behind those reprints? Double Action Comics #2 contained black and white reprints of More Fun Comics #28 and #29. The cover was reused from Adventure Comics #37 with additional material for the inside and back covers being pulled from: More Fun Comics #43, All-American Comics #4, and Detective Comics #27(!). It is suspected that 10 or fewer copies still exist. It is in the top 5 of the rarest DC books. The story told be longtime DC production manager Sol Harrison was that the book was a test to see if black and white comics would sell. The book was apparently only distributed to newsstands in Connecticut. Double Action #1 does not exist. Some rumors as to its existence have circulated from time to time including a fake cover that was created using the logo from #2 and the art from an ashcan used to secure the trademark for Action Comics. The five 1945 books were each published after the end of WWII by different American publishers (at least according to their indicias). Federal Men Comics #2 contained a reprint of Siegel and Shuster's Federal Men from New Comics #3, S&S Radio Squad from More Fun #11-15(?) and the two part Bret Lawton stories from Detective Comics #1 and 2. I don't have direct access to a copy, so I'm cribbing the contents from elsewhere. It was published by Gerard Publishing. I'm not aware of any other comics published by them. They were a magazine publisher. No #1 exists. Although DC did do an ashcan version using this title years earlier. Atomic Comics #1 was published by Green Publishing. It also contained Radio Squad reprints from More Fun #17-21. This was all one storyline, but they were printed out of sequence. It also contained King Arthur by Rafael Astarita from New Comics #3-7 and Barry O'Neill. The Barry O'Neill story is especially interesting as it is not strictly a reprint. The story is the same as New Fun #1-4 including word for word copies of most dialogue. However, it was completely layed out and redrawn by a different artist. Atomic Comics continued for three more issues. Each contained a mix of reprint and original material, but none of it was DC related. It appears to have been pulled from Jerry Iger's studio. Warrior Comics #2 was published by H.C. Blackerby. It contained reprints of Wing Brady from More Fun #11-16 and Mark Marson from More Fun #15-18. It also contained an original story entitled "The Iron Man" written by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. This featured the character Allan De Beaufort who appeared in two DC stories from New Comics #1 (1935) and a story entitled Hooves of the Tartar Horde from More Fun Comics #30 (1938). I'm guessing this story was written during that same era, but never published. No #1 exists. H.C. Blackerby also published Bingo Comics #1. I have never seen more than a couple pages of the interior which had Sandra of the Secret Service reprint from New Fun #1. The panels had been re-pasted because New Fun was oversized and its contents could not fit on a standard comic page. However, the reprint I saw had the panels pasted out of order. I don't know what else Bingo contained. A canadian version is said to exist published by F.E. Howard. Lastly is Cavalier Comics #2 published by Sture Ashberg. It contains another section of the Barry O'Neill story from New Fun #5 to More Fun #10. Like the Barry O'Neill section from Atomic Comics #1, this first 6 pages are completely redrawn. The next two pages are partial redraws and partial reprints. Pages 9-12 use the same art as More Fun #9-10. This leads me to believe the pages were redrawn because of the oversize nature of New Fun #1-6. More Fun #7 & 8 (both of which I just bought this week!) are also oversized but not as big as the New Funs. For whatever reason they must have decided to redraw the pages instead of re-paste them as they did with the Sandra story in Bingo Comics. This issue is rounded out by Captain Quick from New Comics #6-11 and Speed Saunders from Detective Comics #5. Apparently there are two editions of this book, the 1945 version and a later version from 1952(?). I can't confirm the later one, since I only have the 1945 version. It may have been published by A.W. Nugent, who created the puzzle pages that appeared in comics from multiple publishers from the 1930s-1950s. Cavalier Comics #1 does not exist. As to why these five issues exist, I can only speculate that the contents were sold to a comic book packager after WWII. Comic book packagers were common in those days. Packagers like Funnies, Inc., Harry Chesler, and the Iger studio supplied comics to a variety of publishers. It may be that this material was dumped by a Nicholson era employee or DC founder Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson himself. The packager then sold the contents to a variety of publishers trying to break into comics. This theory is supported by the fact that Iger material was used to fill out the remaining issues of Atomic Comics. The other titles had no follow-ups. /// Back to the original topic of Homages. I included the four examples above, not because I consider them all to be Homages, but because someone else could. Based on the comments that followed there is differing opinions on what is an Homage vs a swipe etc. It doesn't appear that there is a definition common to everyone. Certainly the Whiz #2 example is a different pose etc, but is thematically linked. Double Action #2 is the exact same artwork, reused on a different issue. Atomic Comics #1 copies the general pose and feel, but has a different character. Federal Men #2 has the exact same pose and character drawn by a different artist. Four examples of different types.
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Post by dcindexer on Jan 19, 2015 19:23:05 GMT -5
Each is an attempt by DC to register the later's title in order to block any other publisher's from using it. They are called "Ashcan Editions" an in-house only publication made up strictly by reprints and sent to some agency as to be the first to lay claim on that title. Double Action and Federal Man never went to the newstands. DC did this many,many times in the 1940s. I recall seeing dozens of examples including the titles Superwoman,Superboy and more from the early 1940s None of these are ashcans. Double Action #1 may have been an ashcan but #2 was not. There are many theories/stories on why Double Action #2 was published. Federal Men Comics was not even published by DC. It was published in 1945 along with four other books (Atomic, Warrior, Bingo, and Cavalier) which contained some Nicholson era DC reprints and some original material.
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Post by dcindexer on Jan 19, 2015 6:04:11 GMT -5
Action Comics #1 (1938) Whiz #2 (1940) ---------------------------------------------- Adventure Comics #37 (1939) Double Action Comics #2 (1940) ----------------------------- Detective Comics #8 (1937) Atomic Comics #1 (1945) ----------------------------- Detective Comics #9 (1937) Federal Men Comics #2 (1945)
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