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Post by dcindexer on Dec 27, 2014 3:44:52 GMT -5
I got 159 this year. All are 1961 or earlier.
Action Comics #115,154,166 Adventure Comics #88,98 Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis #10 Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet #4 Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #6,7,25,35,37 All-American Men of War #13,15,49,55 All-Flash #13,16,18 All Funny Comics #13 All-Star Comics #53 All-Star Western #95,99 Animal Antics #6 Batman #13,107 Big Town #16,31 Boy Commandos #8 Buzzy #11,16 Dale Evans Comics #14 Danger Trail #5 Date With Judy #8,12,13 Detective Comics #45 (3rd Joker),209,242 Dodo and the Frog #85,88 (series complete) Falling in Love #4,8,17 Fox and the Crow #29,30 Frontier Fighters #3 Funny Stuff #11,19,42,61,66 Gang Busters #47 G.I. Combat #58,59,60,66,70,87 (1st Haunted Tank) Girls' Love Stories #9,10,12,16,61 Girls' Romances #6,10,15 Hollywood Funny Folks #27,35 Hopalong Cassidy #86,110 It's Gametime #2 Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners #3 Jimmy Wakely #5 Leading Comics #6,32,33 Leave It to Binky #14,16,18 Mr. District Attorney #21,37,42,43,47 More Fun Comics #29,33,41,45,49 (all from the 1930s) Movie Comics #5,6 Movietown's Animal Antics #39 My Greatest Adventure #6,13 Mystery in Space #44 New Adventure Comics #22 Our Army at War #36,82,84 Peter Panda #16 Picture Stories from the Bible #2 (series complete) Real Fact Comics #2,9 Real Screen Comics #46,69,74,85,91 Romance Trail #1 Secret Hearts #2,11,26 Sensation Comics #62,74,86 Sgt. Bilko's Pvt. Doberman #1 (series complete) Showcase #8 (2nd Flash), 11 (3rd Challengers) Star Spangled Comics #3,13,50,93,97,101,106,107,125 Star Spangled War Stories #132(#1),90 (1st War That Time Forgot) Strange Adventures #63,70 Sugar and Spike #6,12,13 Superboy #10 (1st Lana Lang),34,51 Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #2,4 (series complete) Tales of the Unexpected #29 3-D Batman #1 Tomahawk #9,14,31,36,38,53 Western Comics #14,19,22,44,59,60 Wonder Woman #26,106 World's Finest Comics #82
Plus 2 non-DC issues which reprint 1930s Wheeler-Nicholson content Cavalier Comics #2 Warrior Comics #1
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Post by dcindexer on Nov 25, 2014 23:21:43 GMT -5
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Post by dcindexer on Oct 18, 2014 14:32:59 GMT -5
page counts measured against someone else's say 9000, but as it seems strange not to see his name mentioned here, how about Mike Sekowsky? Sekowsky ranks at #18 on my list. Here's 11-25 (#1-10 appeared earlier in the thread). Keep in mind this list is primarily just stuff from the Big 2 with a few odds and ends from other publishers. Sekowsky did a fair bit of work for other publishers. So did a number of these guys. However, this should give you an idea of where they rank relative to one another. Rank | Penciller
| 11 | Dick Ayers
| 12 | John Romita Jr. | 13 | Mark Bagley
| 14 | Ron Lim
| 15 | Joe Staton | 16 | Dick Dillin | 17 | George Perez | 18 | Mike Sekowsky | 19 | Joe Kubert
| 20 | Ron Frenz | 21 | Don Heck
| 22 | Tom Grummett | 23 | Herb Trimpe | 24 | Jim Mooney | 25 | Sheldon Moldoff |
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Post by dcindexer on Oct 14, 2014 10:23:54 GMT -5
That makes sense, but I'm extremely unfamiliar with John's work pre-Marvel. Is it safe to assume that Sal would beat John when comparing Marvel page counts? Sal did a lot of work (several thousand pages) where he inked the work of others. The numbers above are credits for pencils not inks. If you include his work as inker, then yes, Sal did more total pages, but not by much. Top 5 for pencils or inks: Creator | Pages | Vince Colletta
| 20799 | Curt Swan
| 18865 | Sal Buscema
| 18420 | John Buscema
| 17915 | Jack Kirby
| 17455 |
If you are talking Marvel pencillers though John is by far #1, followed by Sal, Kirby, Colan, and Romita Jr. (who ranks #12 on the combined list)
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Post by dcindexer on Oct 14, 2014 2:06:52 GMT -5
Actual numbers: These account for mostly just material from the big 2 (Marvel/DC). Though Kirby's numbers do include his work for Harvey, Prize, Fawcett, and a few other publishers. Rank | Name | Stories | Pages
| Covers
| 1 | Curt Swan
| 1415 | 18865
| 1012 | 2 | John Buscema
| 813 | 17899
| 588 | 3 | Jack Kirby
| 1326 | 17310
| 1634 | 4 | John Byrne
| 735 | 15143
| 741
| 5 | Gene Colan
| 1148 | 14940
| 416 | 6 | Sal Buscema
| 672 | 13517
| 348 | 7 | Carmine Infantino
| 1053 | 12810
| 490 | 8 | Gil Kane
| 923 | 11964
| 1556
| 9 | Ross Andru
| 873 | 10669
| 543 | 10 | Dan Jurgens
| 461
| 10556
| 432 |
I completely agree that DeCarlo and other humor artists would make this list. I just haven't compiled numbers for them. However, everyone is missing the #1 guy on the list. The OP said "artist", not just penciller. Vinny Colletta was the man with 1590 stories, 20689 pages, and 559 covers. If you want to extend the definition of "artist" to include colorists, Bob Sharen ranks #1 with 33650 pages.
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Post by dcindexer on Jul 25, 2014 17:42:32 GMT -5
A couple of 1943 DCs
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Post by dcindexer on Jul 23, 2014 2:50:26 GMT -5
I'd love to see that setup, if you ever have the time to photograph it. Seconded. Would love to see those custom built tables. It's really hard to capture the room in pics because its 360 degrees of multi-level comic boxes. The is nearly no room to stand. I can't even walk through the aisles without turning at an angle. These pics are from my old place. The new place is similar except it spills over into the living room now. Far Left: Archives and Mags; Left Center: Absolute Editions; Right Center: Manga and Digests; Right: Boxes of TPBs Shots from the lower level of the comic room The upper level boxes in the comic room
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Post by dcindexer on Jul 22, 2014 14:33:24 GMT -5
Wow. That's roughly 3x the size of my collection, and I am absolutely strapped for space in my attic. How do you find and access a book you're looking for? That photo isn't representative of how my books are stored. I moved about 6 weeks ago to a new place and this was my living room after unloading the truck. This isn't even all the comics. There was another 30 or 40 boxes in another room when the photo was taken. The boxes are actually stored on custom-built tables that allow me to get into them fairly easily. Everything is sorted alpha-numeric by publisher. I can generally locate and retrieve any book in the collection in a minute or two.
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Post by dcindexer on Jul 19, 2014 22:23:57 GMT -5
Within the last couple of weeks... Action Comics #154, 166 Adventure Comics #98 All-Flash #18 Batman #13 Big Town #16, 31 Girls' Romances #6 Movie Comics (1939) #5, 6 Real Fact Comics #2 Star Spangled Comics #97 Strange Adventures #63 Warrior Comics #1 Wonder Woman #26 World's Finest Comics #82 Plus several funny animal titles: Funny Folks, Funny Stuff, Leading Comics
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Post by dcindexer on Jul 19, 2014 22:07:18 GMT -5
DC Comics 1960-2010 (Yes. All of them.) That is pretty amazing! May I ask how many long boxes that is? 164 Long, 75 short, and 24 magazine - 53,000 issues in all, which is more than just my 1960-2010 run. I've got 50% of all DCs published before 1960 about 75% of stuff after 2010. More than 6,500 of those are Marvels, plus a couple thousand are from other publishers.
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Post by dcindexer on Jul 18, 2014 2:10:07 GMT -5
DC Comics 1960-2010 (Yes. All of them.)
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Post by dcindexer on Jun 28, 2014 20:00:19 GMT -5
Just got Batman #13
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Post by dcindexer on Jun 9, 2014 2:41:48 GMT -5
I think the Whitmans were reprints marketed outside the usual distribution, due to the success of the cartoons on TV at the time. Like in toy stores or something. Whitman's were not reprints. They were first printings released via an alternate distribution channel. In the 1970s the newsstand was the primary method of distribution for comic books. Comics were sold on a returnable basis to distributors. Unsold copies were returned to the publisher for credit. For many reasons this system was falling apart by the late 1970s and publishers were seeking alternate means of distribution. One of these was the early direct market where comics were sold on a non-returnable basis to specialty shops. However, Western publishing had already established a different market via toy stores. Western published comics on the newsstand under the Gold Key imprint. However, they also produced toys and games featuring licensed characters in toy stores under the Whitman label. Since Western already had a relationship with the these stores and their distributors, they were able to get their comics into them also. The Whitman label appeared on these comics and were sold on a non-returnable basis. The Whitman label served two purposes. One, it differentiated it from newsstand Gold Key's so they could not be returned for credit. And two, the toy chains were already familiar with the Whitman brand and trusted it. Western already had been licensing coloring/activity books and games featured the DC characters under the Whitman label. When DC decided to try these markets, they leveraged their existing relationship with Western who was already established in this distribution market. So many DC's got the Whitman label in the late 70s/early 80s. As I said, these weren't reprints. They would simply stop the printing presses, and change the plates to print the Whitman labeled covers. Scarcity exists for some issues mainly due to the way orders were placed. Stores didn't order individual issues, they'd just ordered a number of units which included a mix of comics. When those sold out, they'd simply order more. That might be a month, it might be six months. Western had a warehouse (in KC I think) where they'd store the comics, and they'd just ship out lots as they were ordered. As a result some stores or areas may never have received particular issues, though I suspect the actual print runs per issue were the same. At one point the warehouse was full, so they stop printing new issues, when more were sold they resumed, but the interruption actually caused issues to be skipped on several of their own Disney and WB licensed titles. More info can be found at: Mike's Amazing World - Whitman FAQ and on Episode 11 of Mike's Amazing World of DC History
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Post by dcindexer on Jun 5, 2014 13:40:36 GMT -5
Have you tried the Two True Freaks network? They have more than 25 different shows on a variety of comic and geek-related topics. www.twotruefreaks.com/main.phpI run Mike's Amazing World of DC History which covers the history of DC Comics from the very beginning. www.twotruefreaks.com/shows.php?show=31I'd also recommend Tales of the JSA and Back to the Bins.
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