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Post by MDG on Dec 19, 2015 10:33:07 GMT -5
I thought the artwork on this 1956 copy of Unexpected was ahead of its time... Ruben Moriera? John Prentice? This style was pretty typical on the insides of DCs, but not often on the cover. i don't know how ahead of its time it is--pretty similar in style and quality to people like Matt Baker, Ogden Whitney, Maurice Whitman... |
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Post by chadwilliam on Dec 19, 2015 15:36:05 GMT -5
I've read quite a few Roy Raymond strips and found them on the whole to be engaging and smartly written. The set up is pretty straight forward - Roy Raymond is a TV host who specializes in presenting people who claim to possess unusual, even supernatural, abilities. Raymond's job is to debunk them on live television. He's sort of a James Randi skeptic who's made it his mission to expose con-artists and fakes, but he only accepts submissions from people whose tricks he can't immediately figure out. It's quite gripping to watch Raymond as he's forced to come up with a rational explanation for the most bizarre occurances within a very short time frame.
Some of the stories however, are themselves a con as a few of the solutions Roy offered were just dumb - ie. "this being was able to make buildings and people vanish because he's an alien" - but these cop-outs out seem to have been rare occurances in tales in which a writer really had to use their brain to come up with a typical Roy Raymond tale.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2015 18:30:32 GMT -5
I've read quite a few Roy Raymond strips and found them on the whole to be engaging and smartly written. The set up is pretty straight forward - Roy Raymond is a TV host who specializes in presenting people who claim to possess unusual, even supernatural, abilities. Raymond's job is to debunk them on live television. He's sort of a James Randi skeptic who's made it his mission to expose con-artists and fakes, but he only accepts submissions from people whose tricks he can't immediately figure out. It's quite gripping to watch Raymond as he's forced to come up with a rational explanation for the most bizarre occurances within a very short time frame.
Some of the stories however, are themselves a con as a few of the solutions Roy offered were just dumb - ie. "this being was able to make buildings and people vanish because he's an alien" - but these cop-outs out seem to have been rare occurances in tales in which a writer really had to use their brain to come up with a typical Roy Raymond tale.
Oh, wow. Now I want to read these!!! |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 19, 2015 20:52:43 GMT -5
I've read quite a few Roy Raymond strips and found them on the whole to be engaging and smartly written. The set up is pretty straight forward - Roy Raymond is a TV host who specializes in presenting people who claim to possess unusual, even supernatural, abilities. Raymond's job is to debunk them on live television. He's sort of a James Randi skeptic who's made it his mission to expose con-artists and fakes, but he only accepts submissions from people whose tricks he can't immediately figure out. It's quite gripping to watch Raymond as he's forced to come up with a rational explanation for the most bizarre occurances within a very short time frame.
That does look kinda cool - I'll keep my eyes open for cheap/beat up copies. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 19, 2015 23:42:16 GMT -5
I've read quite a few Roy Raymond strips and found them on the whole to be engaging and smartly written. The set up is pretty straight forward - Roy Raymond is a TV host who specializes in presenting people who claim to possess unusual, even supernatural, abilities. Raymond's job is to debunk them on live television. He's sort of a James Randi skeptic who's made it his mission to expose con-artists and fakes, but he only accepts submissions from people whose tricks he can't immediately figure out. It's quite gripping to watch Raymond as he's forced to come up with a rational explanation for the most bizarre occurances within a very short time frame.
Some of the stories however, are themselves a con as a few of the solutions Roy offered were just dumb - ie. "this being was able to make buildings and people vanish because he's an alien" - but these cop-outs out seem to have been rare occurances in tales in which a writer really had to use their brain to come up with a typical Roy Raymond tale.
Oh, wow. Now I want to read these!!! Roy Raymond, TV Detective, is one more reason to love Detective Comics! |
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