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Post by kirby101 on Jul 27, 2023 11:42:23 GMT -5
From a longer post about Gil Kane and Jack Katz on Howard Chaykin's FB page.
I thought this was cute.
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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 4, 2023 19:52:36 GMT -5
I love little glimpses at "what might have been". Here, from the Bullpen Bulletins of January 1974, is an interesting encrypted announcement:  I didn't have the decoder, but even at 13, I was clever enough to crack a simple cryptogram and discover that the upcoming new feature in SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS was "The Victims of Dracula"! To my disappointment, it never appeared. I think it evolved into "The Curse of Dracula", which was what the first issue of GIANT-SIZE CHILLERS was billed as presenting. And that wasn't as interesting as I'd hoped it would be...it was just Lilith, Daughter of Dracula, before the book turned into just plain GIANT-SIZE DRACULA.  I'd really been looking forward to what I imagined "The Victims of Dracula" would have been: ordinary people who'd been turned into vampires, or who'd had loved ones turned, or maybe supporting characters from TOMB OF DRACULA like Blade and Taj and Rachel Van Helsing. When SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS did return, after about a half year hiatus, it turned issue 5's "Living Mummy" into an ongoing feature, and I wasn't impressed enough to keep buying. |
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Post by berkley on Aug 4, 2023 20:28:13 GMT -5
That Giant-Size Chillers is one of the few individual ToD comics I'm missing - and the back-issue is now priced far out of my range.
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 6, 2023 7:35:14 GMT -5
I saw this today when I was sneaking up a staircase at work that's not open to the public yet...  Is that RIT? |
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Post by MDG on Aug 6, 2023 15:22:58 GMT -5
I saw this today when I was sneaking up a staircase at work that's not open to the public yet... Is that RIT? It is indeed |
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Post by tonebone on Aug 7, 2023 10:17:09 GMT -5
From a longer post about Gil Kane and Jack Katz on Howard Chaykin's FB page. I thought this was cute. I have been reading Chaykin's "Hey Kids! Comics!", and its so fascinating and layered... and so frustratingly mysterious with all the fake names, composite characters, etc. Lee, Kirby, Kane, Maneley, Chaykin, Roy Thomas, Wood, Gaines, Kurtzman, Eisner, and a bunch of others are easy to decipher, but some characters are really hard to suss out. |
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Post by MDG on Aug 7, 2023 10:55:37 GMT -5
From a longer post about Gil Kane and Jack Katz on Howard Chaykin's FB page. I thought this was cute. I have been reading Chaykin's "Hey Kids! Comics!", and its so fascinating and layered... and so frustratingly mysterious with all the fake names, composite characters, etc. Lee, Kirby, Kane, Maneley, Chaykin, Roy Thomas, Wood, Gaines, Kurtzman, Eisner, and a bunch of others are easy to decipher, but some characters are really hard to suss out. This is what I hate about roman à clef stories, in comics or elsewhere: I'm only taking in the story with half a brain, the the half being concerned with which character is who in real life, how true is this, etc.
That's basically why I bailed on Hey Kids! Comics! I wasn't interested in any of the characters as characters, only in trying to decipher the "real" stories behind things. That's what I want to read!
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 7, 2023 12:37:31 GMT -5
Awesome! Well, now I wish I could afford to send my kids there.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 8, 2023 13:26:18 GMT -5
Circa 1973, a group of young comics pros decided to leave New York and live among the underground cartoonists in San Francisco. This picture was taken by Clay Geerdes some time between '73 and '76, in Oakland where some of them lived and worked. From left to right: Alan Weiss, Jim Starlin, Frank Brunner, Jan Brunner, Steve Englehart, Tom Orzechowski, and kneeling, Mike Friedrich.  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 8, 2023 14:24:16 GMT -5
Circa 1973, a group of young comics pros decided to leave New York and live among the underground cartoonists in San Francisco. This picture was taken by Clay Geerdes some time between '73 and '76, in Oakland where some of them lived and worked. From left to right: Alan Weiss, Jim Starlin, Frank Brunner, Jan Brunner, Steve Englehart, Tom Orzechowski, and kneeling, Mike Friedrich. Yeah, this cool band photo has already appeared here in this very thread. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 8, 2023 17:30:57 GMT -5
Circa 1973, a group of young comics pros decided to leave New York and live among the underground cartoonists in San Francisco. This picture was taken by Clay Geerdes some time between '73 and '76, in Oakland where some of them lived and worked. From left to right: Alan Weiss, Jim Starlin, Frank Brunner, Jan Brunner, Steve Englehart, Tom Orzechowski, and kneeling, Mike Friedrich. Yeah, this cool band photo has already appeared here in this very thread. Yikes! What a memory you have, Edo! I must have seen that post but did not remember it. Someone sent me the picture yesterday. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 8, 2023 21:37:44 GMT -5
Which explains the constant Deadline Doom, in the 70s.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 9, 2023 1:48:37 GMT -5
Yikes! What a memory you have, Edo! I must have seen that post but did not remember it. Someone sent me the picture yesterday. Not so much a good memory as that photo is memorable. I wasn't entirely sure where it had appeared here before, but assumed it was this thread and it popped up pretty quick when I started searching. |
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Post by tonebone on Aug 10, 2023 8:48:28 GMT -5
Circa 1973, a group of young comics pros decided to leave New York and live among the underground cartoonists in San Francisco. This picture was taken by Clay Geerdes some time between '73 and '76, in Oakland where some of them lived and worked. From left to right: Alan Weiss, Jim Starlin, Frank Brunner, Jan Brunner, Steve Englehart, Tom Orzechowski, and kneeling, Mike Friedrich. Star*Reach has entered the chat. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 10, 2023 9:45:03 GMT -5
Found this on a DC Comics facebook group  |
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