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Post by MDG on Nov 2, 2022 8:49:25 GMT -5
... Plus, if a fly enters my living room, I need a physical comic to swat it. Swatting a fly with an iPad could result in damage costing hundreds to repair. Depending on the comic book, swatting a fly with one could also cause hundreds of dollars in damage.
A couple years back, I got a kindle fire for around $80 that I use mainly to read (comics and prose), watch movies, and play Sudoku. Standard comic pages are reduced a bit, but I can enlarge them and move the image around to see them in context of the whole page. Best entertainment investment I ever made.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 2, 2022 10:59:28 GMT -5
If I was a kid in the 70s I would have mailed in that coupon to Count Dante to get The World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets. Would have saved me a lot of time going to shotokan karate classes.
There, I mailed it.
You' d have better instruction from a subscription to Judomaster. Frank McLaughlin was a real judoka and illustrated correct techniques in the book. Plus, he wasn't a con artist with a flamboyant hairdo and beard, like John Timothy Keehan, aka Count Dante. Shame no one ever arranged a tournament between him, Frank Dux, Ashida Kim (Radford William Davis), and the various dim mak and Qi fraudsters.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 2, 2022 11:07:06 GMT -5
You're correct, the profiles were indeed presented in the Bullpen Bulletins. The idea of knowing a bit more about the Marvel staff was interesting, but yeah... most of the questions asked were pretty uninteresting. The big checklist from the 1980s was also kind of a waste of space; I preferred the older Bullpen Bulletins, in which we'd have Stan's soapbox and at least some description of what happened in certain books (instead of a list of titles). Dick Giordano's Meanwhile column was much more interesting, as far as I'm concerned. I liked those questions and I loved the checklists! I remember being so disappointed when they got rid of the descriptions of each issue. How about "Ask the Answer Man" in 1970s DC? Does anyone else feel the Answer Man (who I think was Bob Rozakis) always sounded a little annoyed at having to answer the questions? It struck me as a big difference from the tone in Marvel comics.
I look at it this way: you're a writer or assistant editor, and you have a million things to do and big deadlines. Sorting through stacks of letters asking stupid questions and having to answer some is most certainly not your top priority, but it is a part of your job. I'm actually amazed Marvel letter pages didn't sound annoyed/angry more often.
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Post by Calidore on Nov 2, 2022 13:23:51 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 2, 2022 13:51:42 GMT -5
There is an article in one of the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu issues, about a martial arts tournament and demonstration (a major one) and it mentions that Keehan's dojo was represented there and were being royal a-holes around the place, like a proto Cobra Kai, well before The Karate Kid. There is a Youtube channel (probably more than one) about the various fakers, nutjobs and con-men, including Keehan, Frank Dux (of Bloodsport fame), Ashida Kim (phony ninja bullshido), Stephen Seagal and some of the guys who claim to defeat opponents with the power of their Qi. May be more a reflection of the power of their BO, given the amount of excrement they put out. (Warning, some NSFW language and some people getting bloodied, now and then, when exposed....oh, and excerpts of The Amorous Adventures of Ashida Kim) Some footage of Keehan, early on, as he is one of the first subjects.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2022 21:43:02 GMT -5
When butchering was the norm...
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 2, 2022 21:56:26 GMT -5
When butchering was the norm...
Hey, at least the newsstand guy got his lousy 20 cents back as return credit... "these funnybooks are for kids, anyway..." right?
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Post by tarkintino on Nov 3, 2022 5:53:58 GMT -5
When butchering was the norm...
Oh, the absolute horror.
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Post by tonebone on Nov 3, 2022 10:13:58 GMT -5
When butchering was the norm...
I don't think I ever had a comic butchered like this... but I did have TONS of coverless comics. My aunt worked at a huge thrift store, and would squirrel away any comics or books she thought I would like. Coverless comics would come in by the boxloads. I guess that was evidence of some retailers doing the right thing and not selling them?
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 3, 2022 11:28:20 GMT -5
When butchering was the norm...
That's not "butchering," it's fraud. The masthead was returned as proof of unsold copies, for credit, applied to the next order. The affidavit signed claimed that all unsold copies were destroyed. It was a very common scam to not destroy the copies and then sell the comics at low prices, double dipping. This is part of why the publishers dove in so heavily on the Direct Market, once they saw the consistency of the audience. Affidavit returns are still done in periodical distribution, but, usually, whole covers are returned. However, with newsstands pretty much in a death knell, there is less incentive to cheat. Mass market paperback books are also sold under these terms.
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Post by tonebone on Nov 3, 2022 22:01:19 GMT -5
When butchering was the norm...
That's not "butchering," it's fraud. The masthead was returned as proof of unsold copies, for credit, applied to the next order. The affidavit signed claimed that all unsold copies were destroyed. It was a very common scam to not destroy the copies and then sell the comics at low prices, double dipping. This is part of why the publishers dove in so heavily on the Direct Market, once they saw the consistency of the audience. Affidavit returns are still done in periodical distribution, but, usually, whole covers are returned. However, with newsstands pretty much in a death knell, there is less incentive to cheat. Mass market paperback books are also sold under these terms. Well, I for one am appreciative to those who lied on their affidavits and passed coverless comics on to me! Thank you for risking jail time in order for me to read Richie Rich for free.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2022 22:50:55 GMT -5
The creature that nibbled on this was quite considerate....it still left the comic quite readable....
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 4, 2022 10:10:27 GMT -5
That darn kid must have ignited that rocket and blew away the bottom portion!
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Post by tarkintino on Nov 4, 2022 10:56:35 GMT -5
Thank you for risking jail time in order for me to read Richie Rich for free.
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Post by jason on Nov 6, 2022 11:45:36 GMT -5
When I used to come across those butchered comics, at the time I was so naive that I thought that someone was such a big fan of the characters that they just cut the title off of the comic and put it on their bedroom wall or school locker. Wasnt till later that I discovered the true origin.
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