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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 31, 2024 14:49:05 GMT -5
Picture Stories from World History #1, Spring 1947-- School Comics, Inc. (EC)
cover art by Allen Simon
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Post by berkley on Jul 31, 2024 15:43:24 GMT -5
Someone's gotta do it..... Not An Entry!Heath said he got $50 and a lot of hate mail for that ad. That ad with the Roman soldiers drawn by Russ Heath has so much resonance for fans of a certain age, you'd think some writer or editor in the 80s or 90s would have suggested doing a series or book set in ancient Rome for him to draw. |
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Post by Farrar on Jul 31, 2024 17:14:50 GMT -5
Classics Illustrated, The Last Days of Pompeii. Cover by H. C. Kiefer Notable because Jack Kirby provided the interior art, inked by Dick Ayers. ... No, Kirby did not illustrate the 1947 issue with the Kiefer cover; Kiefer did the interior art. www.comics.org/issue/515145/You must be thinking of the 1961 edition (with a different cover). Kirby and Ayers did the art for that issue. |
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 31, 2024 19:20:03 GMT -5
Classics Illustrated, The Last Days of Pompeii. Cover by H. C. Kiefer Notable because Jack Kirby provided the interior art, inked by Dick Ayers. ... No, Kirby did not illustrate the 1947 issue with the Kiefer cover; Kiefer did the interior art. www.comics.org/issue/515145/You must be thinking of the 1961 edition (with a different cover). Kirby and Ayers did the art for that issue. I did my research a$$ backwards. I looked for the Kirby book first. Then I saw the the two covers, and I picked one. Then I looked up the cover artist. I will change to the cover of the one with the Kirby art. Thanks for the correction Farrar. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 31, 2024 19:43:44 GMT -5
Someone's gotta do it..... Not An Entry! Heath said he got $50 and a lot of hate mail for that ad. Why the hate mail ? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 31, 2024 20:31:23 GMT -5
Heath said he got $50 and a lot of hate mail for that ad. Why the hate mail ? Because kids would buy the toys and they looked nothing like the pictures (they were a single color and almost two-dimensional). Now, how that mail got to Heath is another question, but that was his claim. |
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Post by Jeddak on Jul 31, 2024 20:32:20 GMT -5
Shame about that no orgies bit. There's a Xxxenophile cover that . . . oh well. Let's try this one Adventures of Bob Hope #89, Oct. 1964  |
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Post by james on Jul 31, 2024 23:58:23 GMT -5
Someone's gotta do it..... Not An Entry!Anyone on here ever buy these? |
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Post by foxley on Aug 1, 2024 3:16:21 GMT -5
Shame about that no orgies bit. There's a Xxxenophile cover that . . . oh well. Let's try this one Adventures of Bob Hope #89, Oct. 1964 The 'no orgies' thing was a suggestion rather than a rule.  |
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 1, 2024 9:18:49 GMT -5
 The Roman Holidays #1. Everyone needs another Flintstones rip-off. Yep, and that's Hanna-Barbera's nature, whether they ripped of their own Flintstones, or Scooby-Doo, they were pretty shameless with the self-swiping! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 1, 2024 11:28:50 GMT -5
Someone's gotta do it..... Not An Entry!Anyone on here ever buy these? These, no, but a friend of mine sent away for one of the other sets this company sold. They are tiny, in size, flat as a pancake, and as cheap a plastic as possible. Here's what the Roman soldiers looked like.......  I did send away for the game, Task Force, which was advertised in the 70s and early 80s. It said you got tanks and planes, pillboxes and such; and, yes, you did get those, but they were about the size of a dime. You got a plastic sheet with a landscape map, laid out in a grid and two opposing forces and you basically played Battleship. For the same money or less, you could buy a bag of Army Men at the usual size, which was at least twice, if not more, than this junk. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 1, 2024 11:29:48 GMT -5
ps I suppose technically, I could have made that an entry, since it was usually the back cover of many comic books!
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Post by DubipR on Aug 1, 2024 11:39:06 GMT -5
The Roman Holidays #1. Everyone needs another Flintstones rip-off. Yep, and that's Hanna-Barbera's nature, whether they ripped of their own Flintstones, or Scooby-Doo, they were pretty shameless with the self-swiping! At least it's the designs for the Roman Holidays were different compared to the Flintstones. It could've been another Scooby-Doo Iwao Takamoto designed cloned series like Josie & the Pussycats, Funky Phantom, Inch Eye Private Eye, Clue Club etc etc. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 2, 2024 10:59:15 GMT -5
First one I thought of:  |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 2, 2024 11:03:01 GMT -5
But this one also came up:  |
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