Thanks man. I'm at the stage where I don't want to Buy any magazines just to toss it in a pile afterwards.

Don't worry Dan, I'll send it to the school near your house. They all know where you live and they'll bring it to you.

I've been neglecting this thread - Roy has posted several requests but I've been swamped by Real Life. Here's what you've missed. If you have something he's looking for, let me know.

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Hi List--

Want to use a cover of Ace's FOUR FAVORITES comic from the WWII years as
the cover of an issue of ALTER EGO... but need a far better scan than
the GCD has. I need good scans of the covers of FOUR FAVORITES #4, 5, &
9. Naturally, the person who sends the scan used for the cover--not
sure which issue it'll be yet, alas--will receive a copy of the issue,
about a year from now. The others may be used in the issue in place of
lower-res scans we now have, in which case one or two more people may
get comp copies. In any event, your help will be appreciated... by me
and by others.
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Hi List--

Two or three of you responded with scans of the covers of one or more of
the above covers of the Ace title FOUR FAVORITES... but layout man Chris
Day informs me that none of these is good enough to be used as a cover.
What we really need is at least a 300 dpi if not more hi-res cover...
sent hopefully NOT to me, but to Chris at chris@chrisdaydesign.com, with
just a note to me telling me it's been sent. It seems I need to find
someone out there with an actual copy of the mag... doesn't appear scans
from places like Comic Book Plus (let alone GCD) will help in this
case. Our plan has been to use the cover of #4 as that of AE #144, but
we might use that of either #5 or #9 instead if we need to.
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Hi Folks--

Need a bit of help from someone out there. In the interview that'll be
appearing in ALTER EGO #137, Jim Shooter says that his first work
walking into Marvel in the 1970s (after a brief staff job there circa
1969) was when I gave him a "Man-Wolf" story to do. Now, I don't
believe it's me he was remembering-- must have been Len Wein, maybe Marv
Wolfman, after I stepped down as ed-in-chief... but mainly I'm trying to
figure out where any Man-Wolf story written by Jim Shooter was
published. Doesn't seem to be in CREATURES ON THE LOOSE. Maybe one of
the black-&-white mags? A copy of AE #137 to the first person who gives
me the right answer... plus my gratitude.
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Hi List--

Wondered if anyone has access to Dan Maraka? Dan and I made a deal for
his "Irwin Hasen" documentary to be transcribed for ALTER EGO... but now
I find myself not getting any responses when I e-mail him, and I
wondered if he's one of those people who've moved on to Facebook,
Twitter, et al., and no longer checks his e-mail... or perhaps the
e-address I have is no longer valid. It's essential I get in touch with
him soon, so I hope someone can help. I may soon be reduced to writing
him a letter--and just hoping that he hasn't MOVED, too!
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hi List--

Thanks to Shane Foley, et al., for their comments. I don't recall the
Lee-Buckler Man-Wolf thing at all, but I'll look into it. I can't
comment on Tony Isabella's statement, as I don't know precisely what
he's referring to. I've had my own differences with Jim in similar
areas, as is well known... but every case deserves separate treatment.
For instance, in the interview coming up in ALTER EGO #137 in December,
he talks of working in the bullpen briefly circa 1969 (70? I forget
exactly), which I recall, though our paths barely crossed... and,
perhaps as a result of that, he forgets that I was there. He also says
John Romita didn't come on staff till later, but of course, Romita came
on staff in summer of 1965, only 2-3 weeks after I went to work for
Marvel and was there consistently after that for decades... but I put
that down to simply a lapse of memory, such as we all have.
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Hi Folks--

An odd request, unlikely to answered... but I couldn't resist trying.
Jim Shooter relates, in his interview for AE #137, that he spotted a
mistake in a MILLIE THE MODEL story during his 3-week stint as a Marvel
staffer in 1969... a reference to the main punchline (and theme?) of a
story being the planet Mars. Does anyone have a copy of that issue
(don't know the name or date), so that they could send me a scan of the
story's final page? No big deal... but it would be nice to have!
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Hi List--

We're looking for a good, hi-res image of a photo that shows the outside
of the San Diego Convention Center at Comic-Con time, with the big
"Comic-Con International" sign showing, lots of people, etc. Google
images aren't strong enough, even though there's one at least there that
perfectly fits the description above. We'd really appreciate it if
someone has some ideas where to find such a photo. We can't go through
the Comic-Con itself because, although we've no quarrel with them
certainly, they want to see the accompanying article before they
cooperate with anything, and I don't let that kind of thing happen. So
we need a photo that we can use without seeking anyone's permission...
even though there should be nothing in the accompanying article (about
David Siegel's lining up Golden Age artists for the Con for 15 years)
that they should really object to.
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Hi List--

I know it's a year away, but ALTER EGO #144 is in preparation, and here's the rough info I sent TwoMorrows publisher John Morrow for the blurb in PREVIEWS, etc.:


ALTER EGO #144: "Aces High!" The story of Ace Comics in the 1940s and '50s, told by MARK CARLSON--with super-heroes like Magno & Davey--Lash Lightning--The Raven--Unknown Soldier--Captain Courageous--Vulcan--The Flag--Mr. Risk--and more! Art by the likes of HARVEY KURTZMAN, JIM MOONEY, DAVE BERG, L.B. COLE, RUDY PALAIS, HARRY ANDERSON, HARRY SAHLE, B. CURRIE, et al. Plus--RICHARD ARNDT interview with BILL HARRIS, 1960s-70s editor of Gold Key and King Comics--with art from The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mandrake, etc. Plus FCA, Comic Crypt, and Comic Fandom Archive. Cover by B. CURRIE from a 1940s issue of Ace's FOUR FAVORITES.
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I know that people have sent pictures of the Convention Center but I don't know if any of them are usable. Someone found a story about Mars in Chili #10.

He is not. I contacted Mr. Thomas a couple of days after Rob's original post to see if he still needed that one, but he had already gotten it.

Roy is looking for someone:
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Hi Folks--

Just wondering-- if anyone out there is in touch with Mark Schomburg
through Facebook or some such, I'd appreciate it if you could tell him
that I've tried (twice) to respond via e-mail to the e-mail that he sent
me... but even though I sent it to the e-address on his original
message, my reply bounced back to me as "undeliverable." Weird, huh?
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Roy posted this earlier this afternoon, and for a change he's looking for 90s stuff. Get in touch ASAP if you can help:
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Hi Folks--

Sorry to bother you about something I should be able to take care of
myself...but I can't quite. I'm readying ALTER EGO #139, which (behind
a beautiful Rafael Kayanan cover) deals with my work in the '90s on
Conan and Stan Lee's aborted Excelsior line, as well as my work for
Topps, Cross Plains, etc. Weirdly, at just this time, I'm having some
of my comics bound for the first time in two decades... and, since I
can't usually get good copies from my already-bound volumes and can't
lay my hands on spare copies of a few other items, I'm hoping someone
can help out in exchange for copies of the issue. Naturally, the copies
have to go to the first person who sends the scan I use... so you may
wish to contact me before bothering to do the scans, and I'd certainly
understand that. Here are the few things I know that I need right now:

A few good pages to choose among from the 3-issue series CONAN: LORD OF
THE SPIDERS (with the sorcerer turning into a spider, that kind of
thing, as well as Conan)... can't tell precisely which pages I want to
use till I see them, 'cause I can't right now lay my hands on any copies
to look at.

A few good pages to choose among in the 3-issue series CONAN: DEATH
COVERED IN GOLD.

Splash page of "The Coming of Conan" re-do by Buscema from SAVAGE SWORD
OF CONAN #222

Splash page from SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #220 (Conan and Solomon Kane)

May have a few others as I go along...

Thanks for listening!

Best wishes,
Roy
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