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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jun 6, 2017 18:49:47 GMT -5
Maybe. But I'm thinking there were others before Roy. Maybe Gardner Fox or Jerry Siegal, possibly using fake names. Don't forget, Marvel was still publishing Millie the Model.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jun 6, 2017 18:07:29 GMT -5
Just wondering. In the very early days of Marvel, circa 1963 when Stan was writing everything, who was the first writer he hired to help take the load off of him? Not counting Larry Leiber.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jun 2, 2017 12:41:25 GMT -5
Anyone remember NEC publishers? I got a few issues of Terrology and Tales To Terrible to Tell in 50 cent boxes back around 2000. I was just rereading them and forgot how much comics history these books contained. Besides reprinting Pre Code horror stories they have a lot of history on the publishers of these horror comics.
A quick look at ebay showed me that back issues of these book are out of my price range. Actually it would be more correct to say the cost of shipping is out of my range. I don't know if these still turn up in 50 cent and dollar boxes.
NEC was also the publisher of The Tick comics.
Feel free to discuss any of these books.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 30, 2017 8:15:34 GMT -5
I wonder if there's an original version of Avengers 4 lurking somewhere and this is a quickly drawn replacement? Just a thought. The inking job, either. I thought it might be Paul Reinman, but the GCD credits George Roussos. Either way, the damage was done. For me, Kirby was best served by the kind of smoothness inkers like Joe Sinnott brought to his pencils. Is that inset inked by someone else, btw? It looks better than the faces on Cap and Thor. Imo, the Sub-Mariner inset on Avengers 4 is also inked by Roussos. Roussos had a long career in comics starting at the very beginning of the Golden Age thru the 80s. But I never liked his inking style. It always had a rushed look to it, imo.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 23, 2017 16:49:34 GMT -5
I think I was only vaguely aware of the Daniel Boone book.
In the first Matt Savage story, he collects his crew. The rebel and yank you see on that cover are Clay Dixon and Jim Grant. Even tho the Civil War has ended, they continue to fight it. Definitely what you want on a cattle drive. Tho I haven't read that story, it was a common plot on Rawhide for the drovers to get mad at Favor and try to take over the herd.
Another recruit is Luther Jones, a young kid who is quick on the draw. You could say he has more in common with the Montgomery Clift character in Red River than with Clint Eastwood in Rawhide. Next is the cook named Biscuits Baker. He is a dead ringer for Wishbone, the cook on Rawhide. There are three others, one of which is Spanish.
The Matt Savage story in Western Comics 82 is titled "Showdown at Rawhide Gulch".
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 23, 2017 15:07:24 GMT -5
Prince, I also noticed the resemblance to Wayne on the covers. I just added an image of Western Comics 78 to my original post which clearly looks like Wayne. I dunno about Red River. It was made in 1948 and while it was well remembered, it's wasn't easy to see it in 1959 before tapes and dvds made it available. On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me if it took 11 years for DC to make it into a comic book. Also while researching this I ran across a DC comic called Frontier Fighters from the same period which featured Davey Crockett. Clearly an attempt to make a quick buck off the Disney series which was taking the country by storm.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 23, 2017 13:42:35 GMT -5
I just became aware of the character Matt Savage, Trail Boss who appeared in nine issues of DC's Western Comics in 1959-60. I just read his origin story reprinted in Action Comics 437. This looks like a great series. I have read reprints of Pow Wow Smith but he seems more like a Batman in buckskin than a western hero. And Matt Savage is not one of the countless "Kids" that made up most western comic book heroes. IMO, Matt Savage Trail Boss was inspired by the TV series Rawhide. Rawhide began in January of 1959. The first appearance of Matt Savage was in Western Comics 77 cover dated Oct. 1959. Tho DC was not known for it's ability to quickly jump on a trend(that was more Martin Goodman's MO.) I think the character of Gil Favor, trail boss on Rawhide was where DC got the idea for Matt Savage. I'm going to try and get all the MS reprints; two in Action Comics and two in DC Super Special. Now let's head 'em up and move 'em out! (Edit) And I feel sorry for Gil Kane who had to draw a herd of longhorn cattle in every other panel.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 20, 2017 17:43:33 GMT -5
In the original cover, Iron Man is pretty much at the mercy of The Crusher. In the Buscema cover there is some tension; can IM reach the Kirby gun in time? Tho I'm not sure why IM needs a gun. I thought he could shoot some kind of rays out of his gloves.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 19, 2017 13:47:01 GMT -5
Around 1965 I had been reading a steady diet of Batman and Superboy. One day at the drugstore comic shelf, I flipped thru a couple of Marvels just to see if I was missing anything. I couldn't understand the language being used in Thor. Another Marvel, probably Tales of Suspense or Tales to Astonish had so many blurbs on the cover that I quickly put it down because I could tell this was some kind of ongoing story and I didn't want to jump into the middle of it. Also on the Marvel books I couldn't tell which characters were the good guys and which were the bad.
Another drugstore I used to check out, had just a few comics on their magazine shelf. Every week it was the same ones until they were finally reduced to one copy of Classics Illustrated War of the Worlds. I finally got so tired of seeing that one comic that I bought it in the hopes that the owner would then put out some new ones. But he didn't
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 18, 2017 8:15:22 GMT -5
In this case, they must have used one of the panels from the original story I no longer have that Subby Special but the GCD says all the interior stories were drawn by Gene Colan.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 15, 2017 12:28:29 GMT -5
Both sides make good points. This is a close one, but I will have to fall on the side of the Kirby issues of JO being part of the Fourth World.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 13, 2017 16:06:34 GMT -5
Totally agree on the Swamp Thing logo. 76 was a low point in art directing at DC as far as I'm concerned. I hated the weak colors they used. I also hated the DC Bullet being in the center of the masthead.
I may be stating the obvious but this issue is sort of a Strange Adventures Annual. All the reprints are from Strange Adventures.
However the wonky logo causes some confusion. The GCD lists it as "Strange Flying Saucers Adventures". I think it more correctly should say Strange Adventures featuring Flying Saucers.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 13, 2017 13:00:34 GMT -5
Here's some of my favoritesFlying SaucersDC Super Giant #27 I'd definitely like to read the UFO issue. I think the logo is the worst logo ever to appear on a DC comic. Looks like it was a last, last, last minute effort. I think that DC's attempt at scary SF stories are amusing. The art looks like it was done by their romance artists. DC didn't have a Kirby or Ditko to make these stories visually exciting.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 12, 2017 10:08:24 GMT -5
I recently remembered the Super DC Giants of 70-71 featuring reprints. Back then I had the Challengers of the Unknown issue which I think was tied in to the return of Kirby to DC. I think all the Chall reprints were by Kirby. I was just looking at the covers to this series on GCD and noticed a blurb on the cover of issue 15 which says "Introducing an Exciting New Frontier Hero--Half Breed!". The cover shows a young blonde haired guy fighting with an Indian chief on horseback. I assume he is the character Half Breed. The issue is all western reprints except for a 12 page story written and drawn by Gil Kane which I assume is about the Half Breed character. I was just wondering if DC was serious about launching this character or was this story just an inventory story they wanted to get rid of. But also I invite anyone who remembers these books to post here if they had a favorite issue.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 10, 2017 17:09:23 GMT -5
I'll second Crimebuster. I'd also like to nominate Red Oak Kid . His threads are always thought-provoking and lots of fun to take part in, with such gems as "Favorite/Least Favorite Superhero Mobile", "Did You Ever "fix" Your Comics?", "What Attracts You, Writers or Artists?" and "You May Be A Comic Book Nerd, IF......" being among my favourites. He's also notorious in my mind for starting the thread that I least understood: the "Comic Books in YOUR Wheelhouse" thread (because I'm English and I don't understand no stinkin' baseball!). Happy to second this. I wish ROK would post a lot more! Hear me, Red Oak Kid ? Just between us, I don't understand baseball either.
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