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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 3, 2017 11:48:32 GMT -5
Roy's looking for stuff related to Larry Ivie:
Hi Folks--
I'm getting ready over the next 2-3 weeks to edit Sandy Plunkett's huge
article about Larry Ivie, who had so many ties both to fandom and
prodom, esp. in the 1960s... and Sandy, as Larry's friend, has access to
just about everything I need of Larry' art, etc., except for a couple of
items I'm checking on... but I could use scans of some material that he
didn't do but that he is related to. To avoid duplication of work (and
e-mail attachments), I hope someone who might have some of these things
would contact me first. I hate to have someone go to a lot of work and
not get even a copy of ALTER EGO #152 (next April) for his/her
troubles. What I'm looking for is:
(1) Covers and other illustrations for the early-60s Canaveral Press
books by Frazetta, Krenkel, Crandall, et al. (I have Larry's cover for
GODS OF MARS--don't recall if he did other illos for it, since I
traded/sold my hardcovers some years back.)
(2) Larry's also listed in the WHO'S WHO as being the artist of two
paperback ERB books... not sure what they were; perhaps ones was a
paperback of GODS OF MARS?
(3) Did he do the cover of the 1987 OLLIE NORTH COLORING BOOK he did?
Would be good to have either way.
(4) Possibly may need some art he did in early 60s for CASTLE OF
FRANKENSTEIN, though I may have some of that... hard to tell just now.
(5) He supposedly did 1958 movie ads for UPA... work in 1961 GALAXY and
IF, 1958 MONSTER PARADE.
(6) He reportedly penciled a story in a 1959 issue of DOUBLE LIFE OF
PRIVATE STRONG (a Shield story)
(7) In Charlton's comic I LOVE YOU, he reportedly drew a 1965 story...
and a war story or two in 1964-65... not sure of title.
(8) He reportedly was writer or ghost writer of a Batman story c. 1965,
Bat Finks 65, Once upon a Time: a Comic Tales (whatever that was--also
1965)... Fox and Crow (66)... even Superman c. 66. Anybody got any ideas
what these were?
(9) He supposedly inked some Dell features c. 65, but I've no info on
what those were... says also "Western," which more likely to mean Gold
Key, but no listing of what those might be.
(10) Did he write for MAD between 57-59, 82-84, 87, 89? That's what
WHO'S WHO said.
(11) Also, sometime in 60s he reportedly did editing for SICK... not
sure of dates, but nice to see masthead if listed. Wrote for CRACKED in
1970, too.
(12) For Gilberton/Classics Illustrated, he allegedly drew "various
features" c. 1961-62.
(13) He did work for CREEPY and EERIE, and I'd like to run a page or
three from those. I have the hardcover reprints, but would prefer art
from the original issues if possible.
(14) He supposedly wrote for ALARMING ADVENTURES (Harvey) in 1962, and
BLAST-OFF in 1965 reportedly printed stories he'd sold in 58.
(15) I know he wrote a story or three for FLASH GORDON illustrated by
Williamson in 1966-67. I ran some of that material in AE #146 in
conjunction with the Bill Harris interview, and have a few more pages I
might be able to run from those... so probably don't need any of that
right now.
(16) For the later PANIC of Panic Publications (not EC) he supposedly
wrote something... ditto for mag WACKO in 1980.
(17) He also did some writing and drawing for Tower (Dynamo, Noman) in
1965 for Tower... and is listed as editor of THE TERRIFIC TRIO, a 1966
"graphic album reprint" (does that mean paperback book in this case?)
reprint of Tower heroes.
Thanks for listening,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 30, 2017 20:17:01 GMT -5
This just in:
Hoping someone can help me, in exchange for a free copy of the relevant
ALTER EGO issue, to obtain scans of the splash pages of the two stories
"Space Court" and "The Little Earth" from Harvey's BLAST-OFF #1 (Oct. 1965).
Thanks,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 9, 2018 16:37:13 GMT -5
No requests this time! Here's a "coming attractions" look at the next year of AE:
I don't feel I keep this list up to date enough with what's in store for ALTER EGO, so I figured that, as I was writing some tentative blurbs for the next year (from which TwoMorrows publisher John Morrow will take info and write his own blurbs for PREVIEW, etc.), I should share the info with you, as well. Here goes, starting with #152 (since #151 is about to come out, with its chief articles on OWL/EYE artist/writer Frank Thomas and on the super-heroes of Dell and Gold Key. I don't have a lot of info at my fingertips about most of the FCA, BILL SCHELLY, and MICHAEL T. GILBERT contributions... but they'll be great as always!:
#152 (out in April): Presenting LARRY IVIE--maybe the most important Silver Age comicbook artist/writer you probably never heard of! He conceived (and named!) the Justice League of America--he helped develop the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS--he brought EC art greats to the world of Edgar Rice Burroughs--and he created MONSTERS AND HEROES, one of the first magazines ever to bridge the gap between fan and pro artwork. Artist and friend SANDY PLUNKETT chronicles this unsung star's career, with art by WOOD, FRAZETTA, CRANDALL, KRENKEL, MORROW, WILLIAMSON, DOOLIN, and others--plus rarely- and never-seen Ivie art and story pages spotlighting the Justice Society/League, Hawkman, The Atom, Sandman, Superman, Sub-Mariner, and others. Plus FCA, MICHAEL T. GILBERT, BILL SCHELLY, JOHN BROOME's bio, etc.
#153 (out in June): FLO STEINBERG tributes, with art and/or remembrances by KIRBY, DITKO, LEE, WOOD, ADAMS, TRIMPE, WILLIAMSON, PLOOG, STEVEIN, GOODWIN, SCHWARTZBERG, REESE, WEISS, GOLDBERG, (Trina) ROBBINS, HAMA, SCHELLY, THOMAS, et al., and a 1980s Flo interview! Second feature: RICHARD ARNDT's interview with Flo's 1968-69 successor ROBIN GREEN, who went on to win awards for writing TV's SOPRANOS and NORTHERN EXPOSURE--plus Robin's 1971 ROLLING STONE article on Marvel, with photos of the late-'60s bullpen! Plus FCA, MTG, SCHELLY, BROOME, etc.
#154 (out in August): ALLEN BELLMAN--last man standing from the early-1940s Timely/Marvel Bullpen, interviewed by DR. MICHAEL J. VASSALLO about his memories of LEE, COLAN, SHORES, BUSCEMA, BRODSKY, et al.--and about his amazing Life After Comics on the comic-convention circuit! Plus--the Marvel female heroes of the early '70s: THE CAT... SHANNA THE SHE-DEVIL... NIGHT NURSE... featuring interviews with LINDA FITE, PATY COCKRUM, CAROLE SEULING, & ROY THOMAS, with art by SEVERIN, WOOD, ANDRU, MORTIMER, FRADON, etc. Plus FCA, MTG, SCHELLY, BROOME...
#155 (out in October): Great Golden Age artist NORMAN MAURER remembered by his wife JOAN MAURER! Memories of CHARLES BIRO'S Boy Comics, Daredevil, Crime Does Not Pay... of St. John's 3-D and Three Stooges comics with fellow legend JOE KUBERT... of Norm's 1960s movies starring THE THREE STOOGES (MOE HOWARD was his father-in-law!)--plus Norm's work for Marvel, DC, Gold Key, Fox, et al. Plus FCA, SCHELLY, MTG, BROOME, and more--including more of LARRY IVIE's pre-JLA Justice Society work from the late 1950s, presented by SANDY PLUNKETT!
#156 (out in December): Second issue devoted to the All Time Classic New York Comic Book Convention of 2000! Building on AE #148, this issue features all-star panels from JOE PETRILAK's legendary con, showcasing the Golden Age (CUIDERA, HASEN, SCHWARTZ [ALVIN & LEW SAYRE], BOLTINOFF, LAMPERT, GILL, FLESSEL) & the Silver Age at Marvel, DC, and Gold Key (ANDERSON, FRADON, AYERS, SEVERIN, SINNOTT, DRAKE, BOLLE, GREEN, SIMONSON, THOMAS, etc.). Plus FCA, GILBERT, SCHELLY, BROOME, etc.
#157 (out in Feb. 2019): Special FCA [FAWCETT COLLECTORS OF AMERICA] potlight on great Golden Age comics writer WILLIAM WOOLFOLK at Fawcett, DC, and elsewhere--doing Captain Marvel, Superman, and everybody in between--an interview with his daughter DONNA WOOLFOLK (conducted by RICHARD ARNDT), plus some of Bill's never-seen writing records... and a San Diego panel hosted by MARK EVANIER and featuring WOOLFOLK, LUBBERS, CARDY, OKSNER, NOVICK, & LEW SAYRE SCHWARTZ. Plus WILL MURRAY on artist FRANK FOSTER and--the "Batman of 1932"--no lie! Plus SCHELLY, GILBERT, & BROOME.
Best wishes,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 8, 2018 17:59:27 GMT -5
Did anyone get a letter from Marvel in the mid-to-late 1970s? Roy's looking for the stationery:
The nice, hard-working people at Taschen, with some help from fans and
pros, have located most of the types of Marvel/Magazine Management
stationery they've been looking for, about which I asked once before.
But they're still having trouble laying there hands on a type used
probably in the middle or more likely late 1970s... a format I don't
ever remember seeing, though I was still under contract to Marvel at
that time.
It has a creeping pic of Spider-Man, the biggest thing on the page,
above the words "MARVEL COMICS." On the left margin of the sheet, going
down, are images of Daredevil, Conan, and the Thing... and on the right
are the Hulk, Luke Cage, and Captain America.
Anybody recall seeing this, let along actually having a copy?
Thanks for listening,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 2, 2018 13:48:14 GMT -5
The latest request from Roy:
I could sure use a picture from the 1970s, the earlier the better, of
Howard Chaykin... besides the ones of him and me hawking "Star Wars" at
the 1976 San Diego Con. I have plenty of later photos, but would like
one vintage mid-1970s if possible.
Thanks for listening,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 4, 2018 13:18:00 GMT -5
dcindexer may have this; not sure if anyone else here might:
I was wondering if anyone out there had an actual copy (not a reprint)
of WONDER WOMAN #15, as I'd love to get hold of the first splash page in
that issue. Please contact me offline before sending it, though, as I
probably need a 300-600 dpi scan sent not to me but to ALTER EGO's
layout man Chris Day.
Thanks for listening,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 6, 2018 13:33:29 GMT -5
Anybody recognize the picture Roy's looking for?
Wonder if anybody has access to a pic of this: Stan Lee standing in
front of a (hung) Spider-Man rug, which was made especially for him
years ago by Paty (Cockrum). Paty, whose interview will appear in AE
#154 along with those of Allen Bellman, Linda Fite, Carole Seuling, and
myself, says that there's a picture of that type out there somewhere,
'cause she saw it... it is, alas, the only way we can now document it.
Stan still has that rug... just as I have the Marvel chess set Paty
surprised me with 40 years ago. When that lady makes something for
someone, they tend to hang onto it!
Thanks for listening,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 20, 2018 15:00:53 GMT -5
Two Timely requests from Roy:
Preparing an interview with Golden Age Timely artist Allen Bellman for
ALTER EGO #154, and could use some art from the Patriot story by Allen
in MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #70 (1946). I have a good copy of the splash
page, but could use others!
And
For the Allen Bellman interview in ALTER EGO #154, I could use scans of
the story in KRAZY KOMICS #12 that included caricatures of many Timely
humor artists. We've printed some of these in b&w, but need color
versions this time. Dr. Michael J. Vassallo may be able to provide
them, but I'm up against a deadline here and, not having heard back from
him yet, I thought I'd best cast my net a bit wider. Naturally, I can
send a copy of the issue to the first supplier.
Thanks for listening,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 20, 2018 15:30:58 GMT -5
And another new request:
Wondered if anybody has a scan of the splash page of the story "Racket
King Vic Reno" from Lev Gleason's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT #109 (April
1952). The runs I've seen online only go up to #74 or so.
Thanks,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 27, 2018 12:37:30 GMT -5
It's been a while. Roy's been busy and has some catching up to do:
Hate to show up on the list with a mini-emergency... especially since
it's partly caused by my traveling earlier this month to conventions in
Honolulu and Connecticut (great as they were)... but in trying to put
art and photos with a 2000 pro panel on Gold Key comics (to go with a
Marvel and Golden Age panel in the issue--but there's some Dell/Western
coverage as well), I find I'm coming up short on art in a few key
areas... and I have to finish the issue in the next week. Hope one or
two of you can help me. Incidentally, the panelists were editor Wally
Green, writer Arnold Drake, and artists Tom Gill and Frank Bolle. Here
are the Gold Key and Dell/Western things I could really use--not
enormous quantities in any one area, but just a representative sample or
two in each case--generally interior pages rather than covers, since
different artists usually did the covers:
LITTLE LULU by Arnold Drake (he wrote it for a 10-year period not too
long before the end of the series)... and one good page from the John
Stanley period (editor Wally Green says even he wrote a LULU or two,
but don't know if those have been identified)--and did Paul S. Newman
write any? - also, Drake wrote the series "Little Itch"--also, some of
that series were done by Fred Fredericks
(Weird addition: the transcription says that, during the Drake
period on LITTLE LULU, some of the art was by "Herb Trimpe"--but this is
probably a mishearing of what was said. Anyone have any idea what artist
Drake might actually have mentioned? He mentions Win Mortimer perhaps
doing some... but that might've been hard to detect on LULU, at least
for most people.)
BULLWINKLE by Arnold Drake
BORIS KARLOFF by Arnold Drake
TUROK, SON OF STONE written by Arnold Drake - also page from first issue
by Rex Maxon (besides the one used in AE #151)
LONE RANGER comicbook pages by Tom Gill - hopefully a page or two
written by Paul S. Newman
GREEN HORNET interior page from Western/Dell 1953 issue (aside from page
used in AE #151)
HI-YO SILVER interior pages-- some by Gaylord DuBois,
O.G. WHIZ by both John Stanley (I think he drew it as well as wrote it)
and writer Arnold Drake - Stanley did #1
DR. SOLAR pages by both Fujitani and Frank Bolle
(non-Western) TIM HOLT or REDMASK during the period when Bolle was
drawing the "3-D effect" comics.
YOUNG HAWK
MIGHTY SAMSON written (later in series) by Arnold Drake
STAR TREK written by Arnold Drake (he says it was circa 1974-76 period)
- including pages of "Spock Psycho-File" fill-in drawn by Al McWilliams...
Story "Wondrous Witch's Cauldron" from DC's HOUSE OF MYSTERY #1
Frank Miller apparently wrote a story or two for Gold Key--love to see
some of that, with untypical (for Western esp.) storytelling--not sure
of the title offhand
Sample of comic strip FLOWER POTTS drawn by Tom Gill (just lasted one year)
Sample of ROY ROGERS comic strip
Page from the "Robotman" backup feature in some issues of DOOM PATROL at
DC, series called "Robot-Maniac"
Sample of comic strip POTTSY by Jay Irving
Photo of Western editor named Brenner... perhaps Walter Brenner
Photo of Western editors Chase Craig & Matt Murphy & Paul Kuhn & Denise
Van Lear
Here's a weird one, just in case somebody knows the source: Wally Green
mentions once reading a DC war comic in which the artist (Kubert,
perhaps?) had drawn at least one panel in which the reader is looking at
the characters through Venetian blinds.
A good, clear, simple-paneled Russ Heath DC war page (so sorry to hear
Russ passed away... so glad I got a chance to talk with him again, for
the first time in years, late last year at a CAPS banquet)
Thanks for listening--
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 30, 2018 11:14:46 GMT -5
A followup to the last message -
Thanks to several of you, I've got most of what I need re Arnold Drake
for AE #156. But I could still use something from BULLWINKLE AND ROCKY
and/or ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE between 1973-80, since that's when Drake
wrote it (even if we can't be 100% sure perhaps if an individual story
is his)... a TUROK (he wrote it in the "1970s," but that's probably too
vague)... maybe a DARK SHADOWS frm 1973-75... or one of his MIGHTY
SAMSON stories from 1975-76 or 1978. Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks for listening,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 17, 2018 11:19:15 GMT -5
two unrelated requests to start the week:
ALTER EGO #157 (out in February of next year) will feature an in-depth
interview with Joye Hammel Murchison Kelly, who was the ghost writer
(for WW co-creator William Moulton Marston) of Wonder Woman stories from
circa 1944 to 1948, and I would greatly prefer to be able to accompany
that talk with art scans taken from the original DC issues of WONDER
WOMAN, SENSATION COMICS, and COMIC CAVALCADE rather than from the
Archive reprintings... though I'll do that where/if necessary. Does
anyone perhaps have a collection of the original DC mid-40s comics from
which scans could be made in trade for a copy or two of the issues,
etc.? I'm not sure what pages besides splash pages I'll need--her
stories in WONDER WOMAN often were book-lengthers with 3 or 4 chapters,
but here are the issues in which her work appeared, according to the GCD:
COMIC CAVALCADE #11-13, 15, 18, 23, 29
SENSATION #41, 43, 48, 49, 52-55, 57, 59, 64, 65, 71-79, 81, 82, 85
WONDER WOMAN #12-21, 25, 26 (preceding 12 issues all serials), 27
("Kidnapped Dummy"), 28 (serial), 29 ("Ice World's Conquest" & "Treasure
Hunt"), 30 ("Secret of Limestone Caves")
She may also have written the WW story in the BIG ALL-AMERICAN COMIC
BOOK, but I have a copy of that, thanks.
Also...
This is a weird request, and probably a futile one... but I'm making it
anyway. Marv Wolfman, on a 2000 panel that is transcribed in ALTER EGO
#156 (out in December), recounts George Pal, who produced the "Doc
Savage" film in the 1970s, calling his attention to a next-issue ad
(presumably in the first issue of the b&w DOC SAVAGE Marvel magazine)
that included the infamous typo-phrase "Don't fail to miss." Barry
Pearl, who has a complete collection of that magazine, has ransacked the
run and has not found it, leading me to believe that perhaps the typo
was in some other DOC SAVAGE issue--or maybe even in another b&w mag. I
thought that perhaps somebody out there in the Group Mind that is comics
fandom might have knowledge of where this phrase appeared, besides in
the CRAZY parody pages from which Marv says it was inadvertently carried
over during a careless moment. Marv, Barry, and I would just like some
independent confirmation that we're not crazy... and I can't check it
because I believe that the bound b&w DOC SAVAGE was among the bound
volumes I foolishly allowed to leave my hands back in the 1980s. Can
anyone help in any way?
Thanks for listening.
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 18, 2018 10:53:38 GMT -5
Following up on yesterday's request:
Thanks to a handful of prompt souls, I've already lined up pretty much
everything I need of Joye Hummel Murchison-written Wonder Woman stories,
except for a handful of pages--and I'll probably need a few other
earlier and later pages, which I'll ask about soon. Meanwhile, wondered
if anyone has good 300 dpi scans from the original WW issues of the
following (the "A," "B," and "C" designations are from the 1st, 2nd, or
3rd chapters of full-lengthers/three-parters, and are numbered as such
in the actual issues):
WONDER WOMAN #12, pp. 3A & 8C
WONDER WOMAN #13, pp. 1A, 3C, 5C, & 6C
WONDER WOMAN #14, pp. 1A, 3A, 1C, & 11C
WONDER WOMAN #17, p. 2A
WONDER WOMAN #18, pp. 1A & 7B
WONDER WOMAN #20, p. 1A
WONDER WOMAN #21, pp. 1A, 1B, & 1C
WONDER WOMAN #27, p. 1 of story "Secret of the Kidnapped Dummy"
WONDER WOMAN #29, p. 1 of "Ice World's Conquest"
WONDER WOMAN #30: P. 1 OF "Secret of the Limestone Caves."
ALSO--there's a girl in the story named OLIVE, who's an Amazon
trainee... if possible, I'd like a page or two featuring her prominently.
Thanks for listening! AE's going to be proud to carry a major interview
with a mid-1940s writer of one of the great Golden Age characters... and
we appreciate your help. And if you can't help... well, you might BUY a
copy.
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 15, 2018 18:04:03 GMT -5
Any collectors of mid-60s DC teen humor titles?
Could use the main splash page from DC's SWING WITH SCOOTER #2, or any
between #3-6 and also stories in #19, 28, 32, 34...
Also the story "Dress Dilemma" in DATE WITH DEBBI #7... the story "Easy
Bread" in LEAVE IT TO BINKY #71 and the Buzzy story "Buzzy the Loveable"
in BINKY #75.
Thanks for listening,
Roy
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 29, 2018 15:04:12 GMT -5
The latest:
Wonder if someone out there has a good 300-dpi scan of the pterodactyl
splash page from ADVENTURES OF REX THE WONDER DOG #31. I have a lo-res
scan, but Chris Day needs one a bit better.
Thanks for listening,
Roy
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