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Post by MDG on Sept 26, 2023 9:04:01 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Sept 26, 2023 8:54:09 GMT -5
That ol' radical, Slam_Bradley
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Post by MDG on Sept 23, 2023 9:41:03 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Sept 23, 2023 8:03:53 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Sept 23, 2023 7:56:45 GMT -5
Showcase #4 was explained as an expansion of the mythos by creating the Earth-1/Earth-2 construct, not a reboot since the older events were still part of ongoing canon. I like to think Flash 123 didn't create the Earth 1/Earth 2 concept as much as reveal it.
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Post by MDG on Sept 22, 2023 10:38:19 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Sept 21, 2023 16:35:45 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Sept 21, 2023 13:19:12 GMT -5
I was gonna do a parenthetical joke along those lines, but wanted to see if anyone would take the bait. Well...
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Post by MDG on Sept 21, 2023 10:21:44 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Sept 21, 2023 10:04:46 GMT -5
Hm, good question. I did specify mice, but it seems like folks are stretching the definition a bit. However, I don't feel like policing the thread and this is all supposed to be in good fun anyway. I considered and rejected a few rat-centric covers, but I tend to be pretty literal. Next thing you know, they'll be letting gerbils in.
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Post by MDG on Sept 20, 2023 16:08:41 GMT -5
{I'd've gone with this if it were a real cover}
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Post by MDG on Sept 20, 2023 14:43:03 GMT -5
I never really followed characters--maybe Superman and Batman as a kid. I was more interested in genres and later creators.
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Post by MDG on Sept 20, 2023 14:40:44 GMT -5
A Sailor's Story - This is the collection of Sam Glanzman's two graphic novels. I have the originals, but this was a good price and means I don't have to dig them out to read them. $8.25 That's a frikkin' bargain for a great book.
It's interesting how DC seemed more comfortable with the idea of auteur creators earlier than Marvel. Besides Glanzman, there was Robbins writing and drawing Batman on a few stories, Sekowsky on WW (as seen in the ongoing thread), Kane on Captain Action, Kirby on his various books, and I'd guess that Ditko could've been writing the "words" on Creeper and Hawk & Dove if he'd wanted to. The only example I can think of at Marvel is Steranko (and they may have felt a little burned by that experience).
(And I should also mention Shelly Mayer on Sugar & Spike.)
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Post by MDG on Sept 20, 2023 14:27:42 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Sept 20, 2023 14:25:15 GMT -5
I'm not sure but I believe a number of people had hit, or were nearing, retirement age (Julius Schwartz was well past it, Curt Swan, Kurt Schaffenberger, and E. Nelson Bridwell were all right around it), so I'm guessing some retired and others DC "asked" to retire, clearing the way for a lot of new people. Well Curt Swan held on for dear life, continuing to pick up odd jobs at DC and publicly calling the company out in interviews for not giving him more work, so there's at least one instance of a pretty forceful "ask" to retire. I can't speak on the rest. In 1980 at a con, Mike Grell told me that Swan had a deal (maybe just a "handshake deal"), that he would be the highest paid artist at DC, and he didn't care if it was only a dollar more a page, that's what he wanted. I guess that worked for a while, but I'm sure pretty soon after that he wasn't as valuable to DC as he was in the 70s. I don't know how much he had to keep working into the 80s (remember that Johnny Romita wrangled himself the "Art Director" title at Marvel mainly so he could get benefits). And (IMO) Swan remained a welcome presence in specials and annuals.
But the industry in which DC dominated for 30+ years had changed drastically, and I get the feeling that Jeanette Kahn (along with Giordano and Levitz) had to drag the company kicking and screaming into the 80s.
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