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Post by Farrar on Mar 28, 2024 14:56:21 GMT -5
It's like asking which child is your favorite--but this has long been a favorite Flessel of mine.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 26, 2024 21:09:28 GMT -5
MRP Missives and that astonishing cover
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Post by Farrar on Mar 20, 2024 18:08:02 GMT -5
Phantom Lady #1 (1954/5), the second series from Ajax-Farrell
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Post by Farrar on Mar 19, 2024 14:59:31 GMT -5
jester
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Post by Farrar on Mar 13, 2024 16:23:42 GMT -5
Contest Date: March 13 2024
Subject: Crossovers featuring characters from different comic book companies Winner: MDGA History of Underground Comics
Author: Mark James Estren, published in 1974 Looks like an interesting book!
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Post by Farrar on Mar 13, 2024 16:17:32 GMT -5
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Post by Farrar on Mar 7, 2024 19:16:03 GMT -5
- I'm curious about the Kamandi/Planet of the Apes thing. Wiki says this : Wow, I had no idea that that the famous, accomplished music composer and conductor Pierre Boulez had also authored such a timeless, famous novel! (Among his many accomplishments, Boulez was once the music director/lead conductor of the New York Philharmonic, before the arrival of Zubie Baby ). Just kidding; once again Wikipedia's slip is showing. Obviously the POTA author is Pierre Boulle...and not Pierre Boulez. (Hmmm, maybe the person who entered this into Wiki was the victim of predictive typing/autocorrect or something?) Anyway, like many people I find Wikipedia's reference links/sources very helpful...but the info in the entries themselves? Very suspect, to say the least. And yes, I know this sort of thing is old news...I just felt like venting. So humor me.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 7, 2024 18:50:14 GMT -5
Also fwiw, on the subject of Aquaman#42, everything I've read over the years points to the logo as being Cardy's work (as Prince Hal noted). Cardy was a staunch admirer of Eisner's The Spirit splash pages that incorporated the title logo into the illustration. As such Cardy asked if he could "put the title logo at the bottom, so I could incorporate it into the ledge of the volcano." And of course Infantino loved the idea and that sort of design; remember his own Batman #194 and Flash #74 covers? At any rate, Cardy and Infantino were admirers of each other's work; and Cardy says that Infantino gave him more and more artistic freedom, so even when Infantino provided a cover sketch Cardy could still add his own ideas and could experiment on those those Aquaman covers.
(One source: the TwoMorrows book Nick Cardy: Behind the Art; highly recommended for Cardy lovers!)
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Post by Farrar on Mar 7, 2024 18:47:46 GMT -5
Great episode!
And while there's probably more than a little of good ol' 20/20 hindsight involved, fwiw Infantino always maintained that he was against the 1971 price increase to 25 cents.
For instance in an interview that's included in the TwoMorrows book Carmine Infantino: Penciler/Publisher/Provocateur, Infantino states that going from 15 cents to a quarter was due to "the Independent News guy, Harold Chamberlain. He and [Jack] Liebowitz were involved with that. I had nothing to do with that. When Marvel went down to 20 cents, I thought we should have gone back down to 20 cents immediately. I said, "It's not going to work. We're going to get creamed."
Chamberlain said, "I know more than you do about this. We're staying at a quarter. Our readers are loyal."
Well, bull. The fans went for the cheaper books. You can't blame them."
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Post by Farrar on Mar 7, 2024 16:58:59 GMT -5
Contest Date: March 6 2024
Subject: New York City Winner: kirby101Will Eisner's New York The Big City
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Post by Farrar on Feb 28, 2024 20:07:54 GMT -5
Roy Thomas has long credited Neal Adams with the idea that the Vision was created from the original Human Torch's body. For those who may be interested, here's an excerpt from a 2015 interview with Roy: “I think that was actually something Neal Adams wanted to do [for their first Avengers story, in #93]. It wasn't my concept. Neal wanted to send Ant-Man -- who hadn't been around "The Avengers" for ages and not as Ant-Man. He said, I'd like to have Ant-Man go inside the Vision and take a look around and he said, "We could make some pages out of it." It was obvious he was thinking about something like the movie "Fantastic Voyage" from a few years earlier. The funny thing is that it was the most memorable sequence in the whole Kree-Skrull War, but it was really nothing to do with the war. [Laughs] It was just something Neal wanted to draw and I figured, why not? I don't know if he told me this before he drew it or after he drew it, but Neal said, "I had this idea that maybe it's the originally Human Torch's android body." I thought that might be fun to do something with. I never got around to it myself because I had to leave the book a few issues later when I became editor of the company, but Steve Englehart knew about that and he followed through on it later on. These things just build. Neal came up with the general idea, I approved it, Englehart worked on it. It was a collaboration and just trying to have fun and sell a few comic books.” Source: www.cbr.com/roy-thomas-talks-creating-avengers-villain-ultron-and-his-50-years-in-comics/In other interviews I’ve read (such as in the 1999 RT interview that’s included in Alter Ego: The CBA Collection), Roy has stated he was surprised when he first saw Neal’s pencils for Avengers #93, because “When I’d conceived him [the Vision] in 1968, I hadn’t envisioned him as having robotic insides; I’d seen him as more organic, with synthetic flesh and blood and bone. But I’d given Neal something resembling carte blanche on this sequence, and didn’t want to quibble.” After all, back in #57 when Thomas had Pym examine the Vision, he had Pym conclude that the Vision was “...every inch a human being—except that his bodily organs are constructed of synthetic materials!” Sorry for the drift! And now back to your regularly scheduled program
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Post by Farrar on Feb 28, 2024 17:11:34 GMT -5
Contest Date: February 28 2024
Subject: Crisis of Infinite Characters: (Same-character)Duplicates, Multiples, Doppelgangers Winner: MDGZippy Annual #9 - Welcome to Dingburg
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Post by Farrar on Feb 28, 2024 8:04:47 GMT -5
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Post by Farrar on Feb 27, 2024 23:15:38 GMT -5
jester and that Colan-Klein DD cover.
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Post by Farrar on Feb 25, 2024 18:16:43 GMT -5
Contest Date: February 21 2024
Subject: Cameras Winner: MRPs_MissivesFriday Foster
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