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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jan 13, 2019 10:50:13 GMT -5
I was wondering if anyone here knows the exact year that Mort Weisinger assumed full editorial control of all of the Superman titles following Whitney Ellsworth's departure. Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 11:17:10 GMT -5
According to the comic book database it looks like 1959. That was when he took over the Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane titles.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 11:41:18 GMT -5
Here's an interesting LINK about Mort ... he really one of my favorite person that did Superman. |
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Post by rberman on Jan 13, 2019 16:32:32 GMT -5
Here's an interesting LINK about Mort ... he really one of my favorite person that did Superman. Great story about the “stump the experts” show. People ought to pay more attention! |
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Post by chadwilliam on Jan 14, 2019 18:03:52 GMT -5
According to the comic book database it looks like 1959. That was when he took over the Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane titles. This sounded a little too early to me - Brainiac, for instance debuted in 1958 and I associate him with the Weisinger era - but according to this link: sacomics.blogspot.com/2012/08/1957-58-59-mort-weisinger-superman-era.htmlAction Comics 250 (March,1959) marks Weisinger's debut as Editor. However, the same link contains a link to the Grand Comics Database in which Weisinger is credited as editor as early as Action 230 (July, 1957). Actually, their credit for editor reads as follows for that issue: Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (managing); Mort Weisigner (actual) The link above addresses the seeming discrepancy and is worthwhile reading for anyone following this thread. |
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Post by Farrar on Jan 14, 2019 18:47:19 GMT -5
As an addendum to "all the Superman titles": later on Weisinger took over as editor of World's Finest (from Jack Schiff) starting with World's Finest #141, cover-dated May 1964.
Weisinger wasted no time in making over WF into a Weisinger-Superman type of book: he immediately started using Superman writers like Edmond Hamilton on the main feature and handed over the art reins to Curt Swan.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 15, 2019 13:28:36 GMT -5
Whitney Ellsworth was credited as editor long after he moved to Hollywood to focus on the Superman TV show. The GCD has been doing its best to document who did the actual editing.
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Post by profh0011 on Oct 22, 2019 22:01:52 GMT -5
Whitney Ellsworth was credited as editor long after he moved to Hollywood to focus on the Superman TV show. The GCD has been doing its best to document who did the actual editing. That's kinda funny, considering their attitude toward 1960s Marvel credits...
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Post by chadwilliam on Oct 24, 2019 0:54:25 GMT -5
You know, whenever I read the letter pages of the Superman comics edited by Weisinger and come across letter after letter after letter from readers writing in to comment upon some error or oversight made in a recent issue, I'm struck by Weisinger's somewhat humourous, somewhat fatherly, somewhat instructional, somewhat playful responses in dealing with these "errors" which he would explain weren't actually errors at all.
"How can Superman catch Lois Lane when she falls out of a building when hitting his arms would be like hitting a steel girder? Wouldn't this kill her?"
"It might if Superman wasn't always careful enough to expel a steady puff of super-breath to cushion her fall when acting just as he did in that recent story!"
"In your latest story, you showed Superman vibrating so quickly that he was able to move through a brick wall without damaging it, but when you had him race The Flash, it was stated that Superman couldn't perform this feat due to his super-dense molecules. Admit you goofed!"
"We'll do nothing of the sort! As the story dealt with Superman's exposure to Red Kryptonite, his body no longer possessed the physical limitation mentioned in our August story and he was therefore able to move through solid matter as he did here!"
As fun as it is to read this sort of battle of wits being played out between reader and editor I can't help but wince when I realize that given the sort of person Weisinger was, there must have been hell to pay for his staff.
"WHAT THE F**K DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T KNOW SUPERMAN COULDN'T F**KING VIBRATE THROUGH BRICK YOU F**KING MORON!?!? I COULD WIPE MY A** WITH THIS S**T!!!"
Then he'd open the next letter: "Why was Superman's cape colored green on page seven of your latest story?", type out his "Well you see, Billy, in that issue Superman had just returned from space and..."
response, calmly get up from his chair, head over to the colorist and "WHAT KIND OF MORON DOESN'T KNOW THAT SUPERMAN'S CAPE IS SUPPOSED TO BE RED YOU PEA-BRAINED IDIOT!!!"
Sometimes I feel like I know too much about what went on behind the scenes at DC for my own good.
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