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Post by zilch on Nov 29, 2020 11:21:27 GMT -5
Unless somebody I'm forgetting comes to mind... This only happens to me for about 12 days....
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Post by zilch on Nov 28, 2020 15:09:58 GMT -5
How wild could Sub-Mariner be under Kubert? With Wood or Everett inks? Yeowzer!!!
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Post by zilch on Aug 27, 2020 14:02:13 GMT -5
Let's look at some examples...
All-Flash started off as a quarterly (since it featured only one character, which was the standard at the time) With issue #6 (9-10 '42) goes bi-monthly, as sales indicate that it's a good seller... however... By issue #12 (fall '43) wartime paper shortages cause rationing and AA/DC decides it would rather spread out its output, so back to quarterly status #22 brings us completely out of the rationing (4-5 '46) and back to bi-monthly. Returning veterans also give a larger talent pool to work with, along with newer talent begins. All-Flash folds up with issue #32 (12-1 '47-48). With the absorption of AA, DC/National begins to move away from super-heroes and into more kid friendly genres (funny animal, teen (Scribbly gets his own book!) and finding trends like Western and space/SF in the early '50s (pushed by Schwartz and Weisinger, no doubt...)
Action Comics, the big seller, is always monthly, even with wartime rationing.
Detective Comics, a big Batman title, is monthly, even with wartime rationing... ... but sales start to fall off, so becomes a bi-monthly with #435 (6-7 '73), and is nearly cancelled for low sales during the DC Implosion until combined with the better selling Batman Family with #481 (12-1 '78-79) where it becomes a monthly (along with the entire DC line)
Quality Comics vary, some monthly, some 10 times a year (skipping December and another month).
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Post by zilch on Aug 23, 2020 18:52:14 GMT -5
Great work!!!
I'm just kinda browsing through, since i did a lot of this stora research when i was compiling my original Earth-2 timeline back when the series was coming out (nearly 40 friggin' years ago!). That morphed into my DC Universe timeline after Crisis. Which i wrote on WordStar at work.
Keep up the (exausting!) great stuff!
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Post by zilch on Jul 7, 2020 21:39:09 GMT -5
I play this game alot inside the limited hard disc space left inside my brain... WHAT IF....? ... after his distributor went out of business, Goodman said screw the funny books and sold IP to National Comics? Would Stan have followed or stayed behind to work for Goodman's magazine line? ... Joe Manley didn't take a long walk on a short train platform? Would there have been room for a scrounging-for-work Jack Kirby? ... comic book publishers had bit the bullet earlier and kept a larger size comic for the industry standard? Would the anthology book have faded as fast as it did? Would super-heroes stayed longer at National and Timely?? ... what if another publisher had bought the Quality and Fawcett IPs?
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Post by zilch on Jun 29, 2020 19:34:43 GMT -5
Just wondering if anybody knows of a checklist or database of artwork "job numbers"? I know that DC used them, as well as some other publishers. But I'll be darned if I can figure out a method to the madness when it comes to the numbering schemes. I know that some entries on GCD contain job numbers as entered from the book itself, but has anybody compiled a list of them that references specific artists? Okay... here's what i know... (don't get settled, its not a lot!)
Marvel job numbers originally ran from 1-10000, then switched to a letter (A-Z) followed by a number (1-1000?) At some point during the period of just numbers, different editors used their initials at the front such as Stan Lee was SL-XXX, Don Rico was R-XXX, ect. I don't know of any other editors off hand, but i'm sure there are some more. Fantastic Four #1 job number was V-372 and Iron Man's first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39 was X-51, also the number designation for Machine Man!
Over at DC, it was the case of the initial of the editor (or some other designation, Kanigher was R, Kubert was K and Kirby was X) and a number.
Job numbers are handy tools for comic historians, placing when the particular piece was produced versus when it was printed. Marvel's several down-sizing over the '40s and '50s can be traced by job number.
For more on this kinda stuff, visit the Atlas Tales webpage.
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Post by zilch on Jun 11, 2020 22:35:00 GMT -5
Yes, I've always wondered what inspired the creation of Tomahawk, b/c as you say, he long pre-dated the Crockett fad. There had been "frontier' movies like "Last of the Mohicans, "Drums Along the Mohawk," and the epic "Northwest Passage," but the latter two were released seven years before Tomahawk first appeared and none of the "Mohican" movies were world-beaters. In fact, movies set during the American Revolution had and continued to be box office duds. You just didn't see many of them at all. Maybe it was seen as a twist on the traditional Western, and it just happened to hit big. I'd have to look it up to be 100% certain, but I think it was as simple as creator Fred Ray--who was a self-taught expert on the American Revolution--proposing such a series to the DC editorial staff and their signing off on it, presumably in the hopes that readers would find the series as exciting to read as Ray found it to write and draw. The novel Johnny Tremaine (later made into a movie by the Disney Studio) had been a bestseller just a few years earlier, so they must have understood there was a market for such a strip.
Cei-U! I summon the coonskin cap!
Original writer was Joe Samachson and original artist was Edmond Good. Though i wonder about the Samachson attribution tho... the strip replaced Liberty Belle written by Don Cameron and i feel he's a better fit for the strip. But O'Hearn says Samachson, so wadda i know?
Fred didn't show up until #72... but Samachson and Good could have just been filling in until Ray could get to it. France Ed Herron was the writer for alot of the better stories.
And reading anything after the Rangers show up feel like one of Boltinoff stable of writers just wrote scripts and he just stamped "Tomahawk", "Blackhawk" or "Challengers" on them and sent them to Dillin, Ray or Brown and they just changed the look of the characters! (or just sent it to Brown if the other two were busy!!)
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Post by zilch on May 29, 2020 22:17:10 GMT -5
1. According to Ma, i was terribly bored with reading Golden Books and TV Guide, they brought me Harvey stuff, but was thoroughly unimpressed. They started buying me super-hero stuff and i was off! This would be circa '64.
2. I remember becoming aware of storylines, artists and characters around 1968 or so. My first active act of collecting was starting to get back issues of Avengers around #89 or so.
3. Finally quit around December, 2013.
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Post by zilch on May 24, 2020 20:32:18 GMT -5
July 1971...
A large indoor garage sale is held inside Sherwood Elementary School in Arnold, Missouri.
I head in before my Mother and find the seller of:
X-Men #1,2,3 and 8 Hulk #1 Fantastic Four #24 (possibly the coolest FF story ever... well, excluding a whole bunch more!)
... and whatever else i could by with my leftover 40 cents (six books @ 10 cents each!!). She said they had other books there, but she was out of change and wasn't going to break a dollar!
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Post by zilch on May 3, 2020 21:09:18 GMT -5
He also tried to fix Donna Troy origin and made it worse. So did just about everyone else.
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Post by zilch on Apr 8, 2020 21:46:42 GMT -5
I think that the "red skies" events were at chronal "soft points" (where changing the timeline is possible, see Booster Gold V2) for different universes... in 1872, 1944, 30th C and today (1985) for E-1, 1942 and 1985 for E-2... no telling what the soft points were for X, S, 6 ect.
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Post by zilch on Feb 15, 2020 22:09:36 GMT -5
DC Western mags had "letters", asking about various parts of western lore, and Tomahawk had letters asking questions about the Revolutionary War, but no comments about the stories themselves. Some titles also had a "Trading Post" type feature where fans would trade various comics back and forth, probably aiding the nascent comic fandom.
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Post by zilch on Jan 26, 2020 22:36:16 GMT -5
Two letters in The Comic Reader and a reply from George O about Marvel Time and how long has Peter actually been in college (we settled on six years).
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Post by zilch on Jan 26, 2020 0:04:11 GMT -5
Jim Aparo? Contracted every year for 220 pages of artwork PLUS lettering! Sal Buscema? When Jim Shooter was trying to get Marvel's books on schedule, Sal and Bill Mantlo had a book that was secretly called Marvel Fill-In Team-Up (or something like that)! Ross Andru? Drew Wonder Woman and Metal Men forever and didn't go insane illustrating Kanigher's goofy strips!
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Post by zilch on Jan 15, 2020 19:52:49 GMT -5
Cap'n Fear (the pirate) real name is Fero. Quality hero... The Unknown is, well, unknown. Mutant Mesmero, and the X-Men's Ogre are unnamed. Space Cabby?
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