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Post by Phil Maurice on May 4, 2014 14:35:55 GMT -5
We had a similar thread in the previous locale. Comics with celebrity photo covers were very common during the Atom Age, mainly in the various Romance titles (Personal Love being a great example). Typical, these were anthology series with a breathless text puff-piece in the middle where we "catch-up" with the celebrity during a rare break. Listing these would eat up considerable bandwidth, but I think the general consensus in the prior thread was that these don't count properly as celebrity appearances in comics.
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Post by Crimebuster on May 4, 2014 14:39:20 GMT -5
I particularly like appearances by celebrities who were very much of their time period. Orson Welles is still a celebrity today, and rightly so. But it's a little more difficult to understand how Uri Geller rated an entire issue of Daredevil:  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 4, 2014 15:03:27 GMT -5
I glanced through an issue of DC's Pat Boone comics not long ago. It was odd. Lots of articles. The few comics used less than a full color palate. It was far removed from the normal comic.
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Post by Jasoomian on May 4, 2014 15:06:06 GMT -5
Telekinesis! I particularly like appearances by celebrities who were very much of their time period. Orson Welles is still a celebrity today, and rightly so. But it's a little more difficult to understand how Uri Geller rated an entire issue of Daredevil: |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2014 15:28:59 GMT -5
Someone was curious about the George Carlin bio comic I mentioned in another thread written by Chad Lambert, an acquaintance of mne. this is the cover for it....  There was also a SNL book...  and others. They did a lot of political bio comics as well. -M |
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 4, 2014 15:32:09 GMT -5
More like sleight of hand in Geller's case. The real supernatural talent on that cover is Gil Kane.
I admit I do have an affinity for the work of Uri's daughter, Sarah Michelle. 
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 5, 2014 16:32:13 GMT -5
I've got an issue of Gabby Hayes Western somewhere in the stacks.
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Post by DubipR on May 5, 2014 16:58:02 GMT -5
I have 3 issues of Adventures of Alan Ladd in a long box somewhere...   |
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Post by the4thpip on May 7, 2014 1:42:40 GMT -5
I have 3 issues of Adventures of Alan Ladd in a long box somewhere... Just imagine: Had they gone with the original idea for a private identity for the GA Green Lantern, there could have been two Alan Ladds. Then Roy Thomas woulda revealed in the 80s that the actor is the Earth Prime equivalent of Green Lantern. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 7, 2014 10:22:08 GMT -5
Am I the only one who would like to see a comic featuring Mayor Rob Ford? (Leave variations of your Kingpin or Blob jokes here)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 7, 2014 11:09:02 GMT -5
There was a comic company in the 90s that specialized in celebrity comics.They were called Personality Comics.Might have gone under a second name too.And like Bluewater,they were notorious for hiring struggling young artists at minimum rates and then forgetting to pay them
When comics sales got more challenged,they began doing porn star bio comics which kept the company afloat for awhile. I think they had amail-order arrangement for you to send away and get an autographed copy from the porn star
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Post by DubipR on May 7, 2014 11:16:58 GMT -5
And then there was about 60/70 issues of Rock & Roll Comics which featured musicians. I never read any of those so I don't know if any of them were worth looking at or picking up/
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Post by Dizzy D on May 7, 2014 12:23:45 GMT -5
I have a comic about Bob Dylan (I offered Cronin to buy a copy when it came out, but he declined).
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 7, 2014 13:11:35 GMT -5
In the 1970s,there where these very rich parents with a pre-teen daughter.For a birthday present they hired some professional comic artists (I don't recall their names) to write/draw/letter and color a 32 page comic book about their daughter.They had World Color Press run off about a thousand copies and gave them out to friends and family.It got written up in a fanzine or 2.Guess it was the first comic-vanity book
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 7, 2014 16:07:05 GMT -5
Speaking of Rock and Roll comics - The Steve Gerber penned KISS Marvel Magazine is one of the most sought-after and expensive bronze age Marvels.
I just don't really see Steve listening to Kiss, though. That just feels wrong to me.
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