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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 10, 2018 13:43:50 GMT -5
They distributed Dennis the Menace comics into the 60s. I had forgotten that they did the Dennis the Menace book. Looks like they had that book from '58-80. Plus all the Giants and what-not.
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Post by comicsandwho on Aug 10, 2018 13:54:25 GMT -5
They distributed Dennis the Menace comics into the 60s. It was later than that; I used to have Dennis comics from around 1979-80 that had a small Fawcett logo(that series ended in 1980, as Hank Ketcham made a short-lived deal with Marvel). Fawcett also distributed Archie comics for a while.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 10, 2018 14:34:06 GMT -5
Fawcett's Dennis the Menace comics were done in partnership with the Hall Syndicate, who distributed the Dennis strip to newspapers. Most of the comic books bore the name "Hallden" - Hall/Dennis.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 10, 2018 18:12:05 GMT -5
I was reading some Defalco Thor, and I noticed some mention of a couple Marvel books I've never seen or heard mentioned before...
Powerline Dr. Zero St. George
What's up with those? I feel like even obscure minis at least show up now and then...
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Post by Trevor on Aug 10, 2018 19:19:27 GMT -5
I was reading some Defalco Thor, and I noticed some mention of a couple Marvel books I've never seen or heard mentioned before... Powerline Dr. Zero St. George What's up with those? I feel like even obscure minis at least show up now and then... Without looking it up to confirm my memory, they were the main pieces of the Shadowline imprint. It was an alternative imprint from Marvel, better paper, more mature stories iirc. I quite enjoyed the first six months or so of the line before running out of money and cutting back. But my memory sucks so much of that could be wrong. Edit to add:en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowline_(Epic_Comics)Looks like I was mostly correct. Seems like the sort of storyline that probably has a review thread here. I think I picked up the entire runs in dollar bins eventually, but still need to read it all.
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Post by comicsandwho on Aug 10, 2018 20:17:47 GMT -5
Fawcett's Dennis the Menace comics were done in partnership with the Hall Syndicate, who distributed the Dennis strip to newspapers. Most of the comic books bore the name "Hallden" - Hall/ Dennis. Later 'Publishers-Hall', and, by the mid-'70s, Field Syndicate(which is what I remember from the last few issues of that Fawcett title).
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 10, 2018 23:38:01 GMT -5
I was reading some Defalco Thor, and I noticed some mention of a couple Marvel books I've never seen or heard mentioned before... Powerline Dr. Zero St. George What's up with those? I feel like even obscure minis at least show up now and then... They were started by Archie; but, were mostly the baby of Dan Chichester, before he got the Daredevil gig. They got some press when they launched, thanks, in part, to art from Klaus Janson, Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz. Sales were never particularly great, so it ended after 8 issues of each title, plus 7 issues of Critical Mass. Like most things from Epic, that didn't have Frank Miller's name on it, it was considered secondary to the main Marvel line and didn't get a ton of promotion, after the initial launch. I seem to recall reviews being fairly favorable, at the start; but, I didn't read any of them. St. George was the only one that intrigued me, in any fashion. I'm pretty certain I have them, with my Epic Comics digital material. Epic was almost always the red-headed stepchild at Marvel, despite some fine material being done there. Epic Illustrated was created to compete with Heavy Metal; but, costs were high and sales were nowhere near as good as HM (which went through several down cycles, themselves). The main Epic line always seemed to struggle to get the word out, apart from the Elektra stuff. I don't think the sales department cared, much and it didn't seem to be a priority under Shooter and was an afterthought under DeFalco. When Archie left Marvel, the editorship when to Carl Potts, who did the Heavy Hitters branding; but, again, after the initial publicity (mostly house ads and press releases), faded into obscurity.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 11, 2018 3:00:17 GMT -5
Yeah, it's too bad about the whole Epic imprint, and Epic Illustrated in particular. I always thought the latter featured generally better material than Heavy Metal. (edit to add:) There I said it...
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 11, 2018 6:08:08 GMT -5
I think I remember all those imprints exploding on the scene during the speculation period of the 90's.
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Post by Duragizer on Aug 12, 2018 22:43:58 GMT -5
For the last several weeks, I've been reading Dennis O'Neil's run on the Batman comics. They're certainly fair stories, but fair's about all I find them to be. Not even the Ra's al Ghul stories rise above "alright" for me.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 12, 2018 23:57:48 GMT -5
I think I remember all those imprints exploding on the scene during the speculation period of the 90's. Yeah, Heavy Hitters fell into that. Sad thing was, the bulk of their offerings were quite good: Howard Chaykin's Midnight Men , Joe Kubert's Tor, a revived Trouble with Girls, Alien Legion. Midnight Men was a pulp tale of a secret brotherhood of California heroes, which is stumbled upon by a thief, who ends up joining them. Kind of a modern Dominic Fortune, crossed with the American Flagg sensibility. Trouble with Girls was a bit more R rated, than the Malibu stuff; but, pretty entertaining. Tor was Kubert. Alien Legion was restarted. Not bad; but, nothing that really found an audience. I think the Clive Barker stuff that Epic was publishing had their best sales, of the period.
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Post by MDG on Aug 13, 2018 8:27:17 GMT -5
For the last several weeks, I've been reading Dennis O'Neil's run on the Batman comics. They're certainly fair stories, but fair's about all I find them to be. Not even the Ra's al Ghul stories rise above "alright" for me. Re-reading some of them lately, I was struck, despite the usual school of thought that O'Neil made Batman more "realistic," how often they included supernatural elements.
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 13, 2018 9:00:58 GMT -5
For the last several weeks, I've been reading Dennis O'Neil's run on the Batman comics. They're certainly fair stories, but fair's about all I find them to be. Not even the Ra's al Ghul stories rise above "alright" for me. Re-reading some of them lately, I was struck, despite the usual school of thought that O'Neil made Batman more "realistic," how often they included supernatural elements. He made him more realistic because compared to earlier writers, he made him more human.
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Post by String on Aug 13, 2018 13:28:55 GMT -5
I would much rather have (and enjoy) a new trade collection of Fantastic Four Vol. 3 with Lobdell, Davis, Claremont, Larroca, and Pacheco than a trade collection of the Heroes Reborn FF series by Lee.
That's right, I said that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 13:55:02 GMT -5
With the awesome creative teams Marvel had on those titles after Heroes Reborn I always wondered why Marvel didn't just put those guys on the books and skip all the HR nonsense?
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