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Post by driver1980 on Jan 7, 2024 9:11:44 GMT -5
And on that note, I like this art:
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Post by commond on Jan 7, 2024 20:10:27 GMT -5
Here's a treat:
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 7, 2024 20:48:01 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 7, 2024 20:55:19 GMT -5
Found a posting of this on the "Marvel Comics 1961 to 1989" facebook group, it's a comic book vending machine supposedly from 1967    Something tells me that those would have been in very limited distribution. |
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Post by tonebone on Jan 8, 2024 9:55:22 GMT -5
Found a posting of this on the "Marvel Comics 1961 to 1989" facebook group, it's a comic book vending machine supposedly from 1967 That's cool as hell. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 13, 2024 22:15:42 GMT -5
71 year old Image co-founder Jim Valentino is currently hospitalized suffering from pneumonia. Any well wishes or good vibes folks can muster are appreciated. -M |
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 13, 2024 23:14:42 GMT -5
71 year old Image co-founder Jim Valentino is currently hospitalized suffering from pneumonia. Any well wishes or good vibes folks can muster are appreciated. -M Sending good thoughts. 71, makes him about 10 years older than the other Image founders. If you are over 60, get the pneumonia vaccine. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 13, 2024 23:27:20 GMT -5
So this is a piece of Kubert original art I found in a comic shop in eastern Ohio in '18 when we were driving back east to visit my mom. It wasn't for sale, but the owner graciously let me take a picture of it since I was a huge Kubert fan. I was organizing computer files and pics tonight and ran across it again.  -M |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 16, 2024 18:17:17 GMT -5
If anyone follows Pat Zircher on the platform formerly known as Twitter, he has been organizing a fundraiser for homeless and cold-weather shelters, offering original pencil sketches by him and a number of other comic artists who have volunteered to those who show a receipt for a donation of $100 in cash or goods to local shelter.
Some of the artists who have volunteered include Phil Hester, Paul Chadwick, Mikel Janin, Shannon Wheeler, Duncan Roleau, Paolo Rivera, Renae de Liz, Chuck Patton, Neil Edwards, Darrick Robertson, Jerry Ordway, Peter Krause and more. Many have already been claimed, but more artists are joining the list of volunteers still.
You have to message Pat directly and respond to one of his posts to claim one of the sketches and then he will give directions for showing the receipt and provide a time frame for fulfilment (he's doing 36 sketches himself so it could take some time to get them all done), so you have to be on Twitter if you are interested in taking part.
He's raised over $5K for shelters so far.
-M
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 17, 2024 13:09:34 GMT -5
Note today is the last day to get in on this fundraiser. Patch Zircher will stop taking claims for it at midnight tonight.
-M
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 17, 2024 14:04:30 GMT -5
Kryptonite found in the UK:
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Post by MDG on Jan 18, 2024 10:33:23 GMT -5
I'll cop that I haven't watched this whole thing, but the first part is a great look at an early comic shop.
Some of you may want to lay down a tarp for when your head explodes from seeing people handle Gold and Silver Age books that are not even bagged.
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 22, 2024 8:28:10 GMT -5
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Post by MWGallaher on Jan 22, 2024 8:52:49 GMT -5
When I read that DC started doing their own version in about 1970 and stopped after about a year, I thought "that doesn't sound right to me." Checking back, it does appear Evanier was off by a year or so; DC began phasing out the line-wide use of left-corner character images in the summer 1972 issues, around when the "double bullet banner" cover dress started up. The Superman family line continued the practice, as did a few others where the logo left a convenient gap: Korak, Detective Comics, Shazam, Witching Hour, and those four stopped shortly thereafter. It did surprise me that DC's use of the idea was so short-lived, because those tiny images made a big impact on my new-to-comics brain. Being outside the world of big city newsstands, I never saw comics racked in a way that only the left corners would show, so that rationale may have been biased from comics publishers seeing how things were done in NYC. It didn't seem like much of an advantage on spinner racks, which I think had become the primary display mechanism in most of the country in the early 70's. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jan 23, 2024 17:41:58 GMT -5
How about that weird period at Marvel when exclamation points were under strict ration? Amazing Spider-Man #100, September 1971:  |
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