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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 8, 2022 11:03:08 GMT -5
Wellman was all over comics in the '40s and '50s. He wrote Captain Marvel, Captain America, Plastic Man, Aquaman, Blackhawk, Bulletman, The Phantom Stranger, Spy Smasher, and Tarantula, as well as dozens of Spirit stories. Cei-U! I summon the credits tonnage! Wellman began as a prolific pulp writer, much of it in the SF genre as well as others. Many of his longer stories were reprinted in early paperback books Indeed. He was part of that initial group of fans-turned-pros that also included Otto Binder, Julius Schwartz, Mort Weisinger, Edmond Hamilton, L. Sprague DeCamp, Otis Adelbert Kline, Jack Williamson, and Frank Belknap Long. You can find a photo of them all together in Chapter 5 of my book.
Cei-U! I summon the ultimate fan club!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2022 13:31:47 GMT -5
Wellman was all over comics in the '40s and '50s. He wrote Captain Marvel, Captain America, Plastic Man, Aquaman, Blackhawk, Bulletman, The Phantom Stranger, Spy Smasher, and Tarantula, as well as dozens of Spirit stories. Cei-U! I summon the credits tonnage! Wellman was much like Gardner Fox in that he wrote for whomever was offering to pay him to write. -M
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 8, 2022 16:15:14 GMT -5
Clark Kent, raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent. But I don't recall any Kent aunts or uncles in any stories. You telling me that not only were the Kents childless but they had no sisters or brothers, no other relatives? No cousins? No grandparents in Clark's younger years? What a lonely family tree
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Post by zaku on Aug 8, 2022 16:21:03 GMT -5
Clark Kent, raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent. But I don't recall any Kent aunts or uncles in any stories. You telling me that not only were the Kents childless but they had no sisters or brothers, no other relatives? No cousins? No grandparents in Clark's younger years? What a lonely family tree According to the wiki, these are the Earth-1 PreCrisis Jonathan Kent's relatives
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 8, 2022 22:24:37 GMT -5
Clark Kent, raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent. But I don't recall any Kent aunts or uncles in any stories. You telling me that not only were the Kents childless but they had no sisters or brothers, no other relatives? No cousins? No grandparents in Clark's younger years? What a lonely family tree Farmin' 's a dangerous business, a-yup!
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 8, 2022 22:33:47 GMT -5
ps That's a part of my childhood, in a nutshell. My grandfather farmed all his life and one of my uncles farmed, as well (and worked for the phone company, as a lineman). On my mother's side, her father had farmed for a good portion of his life, her uncle and grandfather farmed all their lives (and her cousin still farms). My father became a teacher, but we lived in a small farm town and he taught at the local junior high and high school, originally teaching agriculture, then science. We spent summers on the farm, running around. My grandparents had a copy of that photo, which they got from some farm magazine, around the time it came out (late 70s).
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Post by koe on Aug 11, 2022 11:51:01 GMT -5
Thank you. I realized after I wrote this post that I wasn't taking into account the best part of this was for me to actually go to the stores around the country over time and pick up said cards. Well, let me know if you want them, james . Feel free to PM me. Hi, James. I hope you're well. Might you still have the "Soho Zat" business card? I used to go there back in the late 80s to buy comics and sell canvasses on commission. Please advise. Thanks in advance!
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Post by koe on Aug 11, 2022 11:54:54 GMT -5
Thank you. I realized after I wrote this post that I wasn't taking into account the best part of this was for me to actually go to the stores around the country over time and pick up said cards. Well, let me know if you want them, james . Feel free to PM me. Good day, MDG. Might you still have the "Soho Zat" business card? I used to go there in the late 80s for comics and even sold canvasses on commission. Please advise, and thanks in advance!
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 11, 2022 20:52:21 GMT -5
Clark Kent, raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent. But I don't recall any Kent aunts or uncles in any stories. You telling me that not only were the Kents childless but they had no sisters or brothers, no other relatives? No cousins? No grandparents in Clark's younger years? What a lonely family tree Pa Kent's younger sister Minerva (who claims that she and Clark are "the last of the Kents" when she comes to move in with him. (Action 160) Clark's millionaire Uncle Kendall Kent (Superboy #119): which is a reworking of Adventure Comics 159: Clark's Great-Uncle Simon who raised Pa Kent when his own father Matthew Kent was recovering from wounds sustained during the Spanish-American war (Superboy 113)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 11, 2022 23:53:53 GMT -5
Thanks to all the responses to my previous Kent relations question A new one for you T he Overstreet Price Guide lists Superboy # 52 (1956) as it's first Silver-Age issueSo, being curious, I dove into my digital collection to see why that particular designation Lana Lang and Krypto had already appeared in Superboy Comics The Comics Code had been around for about a year already At first I thought it might be something about the Kents being farmers (Golden Age) or a General Store owner (Silver Age)-I'm not even sure if that is a distinction between the 2 "ages" of Superboy I found nothing in the issue that led Overstreet to make his statement There's 3 stories in the issue. One's about Lana Lang's magic amulet that puts voices in her head, another about crooks building a fake Superboy robot The 3rd is a super-preposterious story about another Superboy living on the planet Juno. The planet is threatened by an enormous growing jungle now covering half the planet. Supboy's solution- build a giant buzzsaw, cut the planet in two, toss the infected half into the sun, find an uninhabited planet, cut that one in two, tow the half planet to Juno, join the halves together. Easy Peezy It does sound like a Silver-Age Super Story
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 12, 2022 6:36:17 GMT -5
Thanks to all the responses to my previous Kent relations question A new one for you T he Overstreet Price Guide lists Superboy # 52 (1956) as it's first Silver-Age issueSo, being curious, I dove into my digital collection to see why that particular designation Lana Lang and Krypto had already appeared in Superboy Comics The Comics Code had been around for about a year already At first I thought it might be something about the Kents being farmers (Golden Age) or a General Store owner (Silver Age)-I'm not even sure if that is a distinction between the 2 "ages" of Superboy I found nothing in the issue that led Overstreet to make his statement There's 3 stories in the issue. One's about Lana Lang's magic amulet that puts voices in her head, another about crooks building a fake Superboy robot The 3rd is a super-preposterious story about another Superboy living on the planet Juno. The planet is threatened by an enormous growing jungle now covering half the planet. Supboy's solution- build a giant buzzsaw, cut the planet in two, toss the infected half into the sun, find an uninhabited planet, cut that one in two, tow the half planet to Juno, join the halves together. Easy Peezy It does sound like a Silver-Age Super Story Probably due to the fact that it came out at the same time as Showcase #4 which is generally considered to be the start of the Silver Age.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 12, 2022 7:13:03 GMT -5
Thanks to all the responses to my previous Kent relations question A new one for you T he Overstreet Price Guide lists Superboy # 52 (1956) as it's first Silver-Age issueSo, being curious, I dove into my digital collection to see why that particular designation Probably due to the fact that it came out at the same time as Showcase #4 which is generally considered to be the start of the Silver Age. It looks like you are right. Overstreet names Superman # 109 as the first Silver Age issue, which came out a month after Superboy's. There was nothing in particular with Superman's issue that deserved the notation besides the month it was printed. Personally, I don't buy the reasoning that all books became Silver Age in a given month because of Showcase # 4 Then you'd be saying Detective Comics # 225 with the Martian Manhunter's intro, one year earlier, was not a Silver Age book
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Post by tonebone on Aug 12, 2022 7:53:47 GMT -5
Clark Kent, raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent. But I don't recall any Kent aunts or uncles in any stories. You telling me that not only were the Kents childless but they had no sisters or brothers, no other relatives? No cousins? No grandparents in Clark's younger years? What a lonely family tree When they first find Kal-El, Martha cooks up the plan to keep him, and say that he was the son of (I'm paraphrasing) "My sister in Kansas City" or something. I believe that's in most of the origin stories, including Superman the Movie... the Byrne version, I think, has them snowed in and isolated from their neighbors, and *voila* they had a baby. But usually, the story was he was actually her nephew. Now, how they legally adopted a child with no birth certificate, no proof of birth parents, etc. I don't know.
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Post by zaku on Aug 12, 2022 8:50:26 GMT -5
Now, how they legally adopted a child with no birth certificate, no proof of birth parents, etc. I don't know. In the pre-Crisis Earth-1 they dropped him at an orphanage and then adopted him. After that they were two caring and loving parents. Obviously, he, being the dick he was, after his cousin arrived on Earth he decided that she should have nothing like that and must rot in an orphanage for as long as possible.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2022 11:52:17 GMT -5
Once again, search engines can’t handle precise queries.
In the mid-to-late 90s (I’m gonna guess 1994-97), I saw a Spider-Man magazine in my LCS. I think each comic had 2 stories in. In the middle pages were science articles and puzzles, the science articles based on something relevant to the stories. I’m pretty sure the stories were NOT reprints, and were probably targeted at a juvenile audience.
“Spider-Man magazine” (and various words via search terms) are just bringing up reprints of Panini’s stuff, covers of movie magazines, etc.
Does anyone know what I am talking about? I’ll buy you a Foster’s lager if you’re ever here in the UK if you can answer this. I’m at a loss (did I imagine it?).
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