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Post by jason on Mar 28, 2024 20:59:04 GMT -5
Did Gold Key books ever have letters columns? Obviously the later days when they became Whitman didnt, but what about in the 60s or early 70s?
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 28, 2024 21:16:54 GMT -5
Did Gold Key books ever have letters columns? Obviously the later days when they became Whitman didnt, but what about in the 60s or early 70s? In the late 60s, early 70s Gold Key started to print "Reader's [sic] Pages", and I think the occasional letter may have made its way into them. They ran drawings and jokes and interspersed blurbs about upcoming comics, but they were clearly aimed at a very young audience.  |
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 28, 2024 22:53:20 GMT -5
Did Gold Key books ever have letters columns? Obviously the later days when they became Whitman didnt, but what about in the 60s or early 70s? In the late 60s, early 70s Gold Key started to print "Reader's [sic] Pages", and I think the occasional letter may have made its way into them. They ran drawings and jokes and interspersed blurbs about upcoming comics, but they were clearly aimed at a very young audience.
Compared to most modern comics, some of those characters have real potential. The Melter in particular catches my eye!
good thing Disney hasn't found these and laid some stupid IP claim on them.
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Post by berkley on Mar 29, 2024 0:05:55 GMT -5
In the late 60s, early 70s Gold Key started to print "Reader's [sic] Pages", and I think the occasional letter may have made its way into them. They ran drawings and jokes and interspersed blurbs about upcoming comics, but they were clearly aimed at a very young audience.
Compared to most modern comics, some of those characters have real potential. The Melter in particular catches my eye!
good thing Disney hasn't found these and laid some stupid IP claim on them.
I wonder how old Ian MacRae of Ottawa was at the time - Canada's centennial was 1967, was he a young kid who became fascinated with the word from hearing it so often that year?
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Post by MDG on Mar 29, 2024 9:49:08 GMT -5
Compared to most modern comics, some of those characters have real potential. The Melter in particular catches my eye!
good thing Disney hasn't found these and laid some stupid IP claim on them.
I wonder how old Ian MacRae of Ottawa was at the time - Canada's centennial was 1967, was he a young kid who became fascinated with the word from hearing it so often that year?
I don't know, but he was obviously a fan of Norm Saunders' ugly stickers from Topps.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 29, 2024 9:53:19 GMT -5
I wonder how old Ian MacRae of Ottawa was at the time - Canada's centennial was 1967, was he a young kid who became fascinated with the word from hearing it so often that year?
I don't know, but he was obviously a fan of Norm Saunders' ugly stickers from Topps.
I don’t know if Saunders named these creatures, but whoever did really nailed this one. |
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 29, 2024 12:47:03 GMT -5
Forty years ago today, Blue Devil #1 went on sale. The character’s debut wasn’t that long before Crisis, was he changed or impacted by DC’s reboot?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 29, 2024 12:52:15 GMT -5
Forty years ago today, Blue Devil #1 went on sale. The character’s debut wasn’t that long before Crisis, was he changed or impacted by DC’s reboot? No. Crisis itself had no effect on the character. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 29, 2024 17:33:13 GMT -5
I wonder how old Ian MacRae of Ottawa was at the time - Canada's centennial was 1967, was he a young kid who became fascinated with the word from hearing it so often that year?
I don't know, but he was obviously a fan of Norm Saunders' ugly stickers from Topps.
I will always be floored by the breadth of your knowledge!!! |
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Post by MDG on Mar 29, 2024 19:13:59 GMT -5
I don't know, but he was obviously a fan of Norm Saunders' ugly stickers from Topps.
I will always be floored by the width of your knowledge!!! And it's all so incredibly useful 😉 |
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 31, 2024 10:13:39 GMT -5
Did any characters, who predated Wolverine, have a healing factor (even if it was called something else)?
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 31, 2024 10:20:17 GMT -5
Did any characters, who predated Wolverine, have a healing factor (even if it was called something else)? At least one that I know of. When The Beast got his own series in Amazing Adventures, he gained the power of rapid healing at the same time he turned blue and furry. It eventually faded away.
Cei-U! I summon the fortune he saved on medical bills!
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Post by driver1980 on Mar 31, 2024 10:23:58 GMT -5
Did any characters, who predated Wolverine, have a healing factor (even if it was called something else)? At least one that I know of. When The Beast got his own series in Amazing Adventures, he gained the power of rapid healing at the same time he turned blue and furry. It eventually faded away.
Cei-U! I summon the fortune he saved on medical bills!
Thank you. That’s interesting, I did not know that. I must read those tales now. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 31, 2024 10:38:51 GMT -5
Did any characters, who predated Wolverine, have a healing factor (even if it was called something else)? Swamp Thing could regenerate. Does that count? |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 31, 2024 11:06:12 GMT -5
Did any characters, who predated Wolverine, have a healing factor (even if it was called something else)? Manhunter, in the Archie Goodwin & Walt Simonson feature, in the pages of Detective Comics #437-443, from 1973. Paul Kirk, aka Manhunter, after World War 2, returns to hunt in Africa, but finds that his heart isn't in it, after the killing of the war. He basically commits suicide-by-elephant. However, the Council finds his still living body and saves his life and performs experimental surgery which allows for rapid healing. He is then trained by a ninjitsu expert, to become the head of the Council's enforcement branch. Their stated goal is to save the world from itself; but, Kirk comes to question their actions and motives and rebels when he is ordered to kill an Interpol agent. He ends up fighting a war against the Council and their assassins, who are clones of himself, before a grand finale battle, where he teams up with Interpol agent Christine St Clair, ninja Asano Nitobe, armorer Kolu Mbeya and Batman, as they infiltrate and destroy their base, in Australia. Throughout the stories, you see Kirk wounded, but recover. In fact, when he and Christine St Clair finally meet, face to face, he is horribly wounded....  All of this before Wolverine ever cut himself while scratching his backside! Also, ninjas before Frank Miller had drawn a shuriken. |
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