|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 25, 2016 19:26:54 GMT -5
This thread is for people who subscribed to comic books.
In the mid 60s I subscribed to Superboy Comics. I don't have a super clear memory of how they were mailed but I think they were sent flat in an envelope. I don't recall them being damaged in any way.
In the early 70s I had a subscription to E-Man and they were definitely shipped flat in an envelope.
About the same time I got a subscription to Swamp Thing, The Shadow and Kamandi. These were folded in half and squeezed into a brown paper wrapper. They were pretty screwed up when they arrived.
Anyone else have any subscription stories?
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 25, 2016 16:29:31 GMT -5
Please correct me if I am wrong but I think near the end of Ditko's run on Spiderman, he did get Co-Plotting credit along with Stan on the first page of the comic. Perhaps he wanted full plotting credit which would have been closer to the truth.
However I think this was too little too late in their relationship. I also believe that Stan had promised Ditko a raise but never quite got it approved by Goodman.
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 24, 2016 18:30:41 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 24, 2016 18:19:52 GMT -5
I'm an Anita Ekberg Fan, and I did not care for Screaming Mimi at all because I find this movie pretty tame and like Red Oak Kid pointed it out - this movie is not all that cracked up to be. I watched it once and did not care for it at all. I can certainly understand your view and I would have to agree that as a movie, if it had not been for Ekberg, I probably wouldn't have watched the whole thing. I'm still not sure what the point of it was. And I thought Harry Townes went way over the top in some of his scenes. But on the other hand, the fact that it is so different, makes it interesting to me. I'm not sure what the film makers were trying to say. I suspect that having Ekberg sign on was the main reason it even got made.
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 24, 2016 18:10:19 GMT -5
Thanks for the link, Rob.
I think something that should be pointed out is that Stan was the perfect choice to be the voice of Marvel in the very early days. Kirby and Ditko were not the type to go speak at colleges or to magazine writers. They were too busy drawing. As a general rule, artists were the type to stay at home and draw.
So it was left to Stan to talk to magazines, radio and college kids. And yes, back then, he did not fully credit the Marvel artists with their plotting contributions.
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 24, 2016 16:19:39 GMT -5
SCREAMING MIMI1958 I had never heard of this movie until I saw it a few days ago. It's unusual. Anita Ekberg is the main star. Phil Carey and Harry Townes are second leads. I guess you would call it a physiological noir. There is an interesting scene where Ekberg and Carey are talking in a darkened room with a blinking neon sign outside that alternately lights the scene and then plunges it into total darkness while the dialog continues. Is that the film that begins with Anita Ekberg taking a shower? One of many reasons its a classic Yes, but that scene is pretty tame compared to several other scenes she has in the movie. She plays a stripper and her act is shown but she doesn't take anything off.
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 24, 2016 10:00:03 GMT -5
SCREAMING MIMI1958
I had never heard of this movie until I saw it a few days ago. It's unusual. Anita Ekberg is the main star. Phil Carey and Harry Townes are second leads. I guess you would call it a physiological noir. There is an interesting scene where Ekberg and Carey are talking in a darkened room with a blinking neon sign outside that alternately lights the scene and then plunges it into total darkness while the dialog continues.
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 22, 2016 20:12:26 GMT -5
I don't recommend parachuting wearing deck shoes.
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 20, 2016 8:53:49 GMT -5
Captain America and Daredevil added someone. Do those count? Black Widow and Falcon were like guest stars but didn't have their own titles with falling sales...unlike both Power Man and Iron Fist who each had their own books. I barely have a handful of issues of each...but know they can be bought for cheap... My memory is fuzzy on this but I think in the 70s there had been a Bullpen Bulletins announcement about Black Widow getting her own title. Instead she got cover billing with Daredevil. Were Daredevil sales bad enough that the book was about to be cancelled which explains adding Black Widow to the cover? Same question about adding Falcon to the Capt. America title?
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 19, 2016 19:20:52 GMT -5
Power Man and Iron Fist was combined. YES! That was the Marvel title I was thinking of. Thanks!
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 19, 2016 19:07:07 GMT -5
Another post here reminded me of the combining of two titles into one, to(hopefully) save them; Atom/Hawkman.
And Green Lantern was changed to Green Lantern/Green Arrow in the 70s.
I know Marvel tried this in the 70s but can't recall the title.
What title mergers stand out in your memory?
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 17, 2016 19:54:58 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 17, 2016 19:01:35 GMT -5
Green Lantern #30. I had read some Superman and Batman comics before this. But GL 30 was one of my earliest comic books. I could read it, but I asked my mom to read it to me several times. I think I just wanted an adult to enjoy it as much as I did. In spite of numerous garage sales and purges, I still have this comic book.
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 17, 2016 16:23:00 GMT -5
Some new Adams Variant covers came out today and I liked the inking on a couple of them. Bill Sienkiewicz did a nice job inking Robin, Son of Batman #9. Terry Dodson did very good inking Wonder Woman #49. I liked Josh Adams' inking on Batman Superman #29. Tom Palmer inked Martian Manhunter #9 but his style seems to have changed.
|
|
|
Post by Red Oak Kid on Feb 14, 2016 17:13:19 GMT -5
I guess Thunder-Man in Tomahawk 107 doesn't count.
|
|