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Post by MDG on Mar 30, 2024 14:19:29 GMT -5
Well, I could mention that I used to own the original cover for this: But I'll pull down something that is literally on a top shelf: Got it (and more stuff) signed at Ithacon in '84.
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Post by MDG on Mar 30, 2024 11:05:25 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 29, 2024 20:39:41 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 29, 2024 19:13:59 GMT -5
I don't know, but he was obviously a fan of Norm Saunders' ugly stickers from Topps.
I will always be floored by the width of your knowledge!!! And it's all so incredibly useful 😉
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Post by MDG on Mar 29, 2024 14:11:08 GMT -5
BTW, if you want to give yourself a treat, look up some of Flessel's sketches/commissions he did in the 2000s. Really nice stuff!
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Post by MDG on Mar 29, 2024 9:53:31 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 29, 2024 9:49:08 GMT -5
Compared to most modern comics, some of those characters have real potential. The Melter in particular catches my eye!
good thing Disney hasn't found these and laid some stupid IP claim on them.
I wonder how old Ian MacRae of Ottawa was at the time - Canada's centennial was 1967, was he a young kid who became fascinated with the word from hearing it so often that year?
I don't know, but he was obviously a fan of Norm Saunders' ugly stickers from Topps.
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Post by MDG on Mar 28, 2024 19:09:17 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 28, 2024 15:33:15 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 28, 2024 11:48:12 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 28, 2024 8:48:39 GMT -5
While I appreciate Conan and I’m a fan of Howard’s writing, I’m of the opinion that the biggest thing Conan had going for him is that he caught the eye of a big name SF writer in L. Sprague de Camp and Howard’s estate had a very aggressive literary agent in Glenn Lord. Barring either of those and it’s likely that Howard and Conan are as nearly forgotten as Seabury Quinn and Jules de Grandin. People don’t seem to realize that Weird Tales had a pretty low circulation for a pulp and was viewed as being barely better than the “shudders.” Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser did just as much to codify sword & sorcery as Conan, and did it in magazines with a much larger circulation. Yeah--during this conversation, I was thinking that, if you were to ask a "civilian" to name an S&S character who's not Conan, what you would get. On the whole it's not a popular genre.
Also, there was a 60s bump in sales by folks buying the Conan paperbacks for the Frazetta covers.
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Post by MDG on Mar 28, 2024 8:44:04 GMT -5
Slam's link isn't working for me at the moment so he may have already answered the question, but I did notice that the cover for Superman #157 also has an early Superman image placed under the price on its cover (I believe it's the same iconic image used for the back cover of Superman #1). I suspect that this was due to Superman's approaching silver anniversary. The link demonstrates it was to keep the trademark alive on the image, which had been used previously and was used for an alternate cover, in the early 8os (or very late 70s). More specifically, it was done to keep the "Superhombre" name in trademark. They did it again in a 1985 variant to renew the copyright.
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Post by MDG on Mar 27, 2024 20:12:25 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 27, 2024 9:54:02 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 26, 2024 12:18:52 GMT -5
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