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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 28, 2024 22:51:14 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 28, 2024 16:41:00 GMT -5
I met Bob in person once when he visited Portland. I introduced him to an acquaintance who had done a lot of research on trademark registrations of pre-WWII comic books. Bob had a suitcase full of historical treasures. The two of them talked about lots of obscure and fascinating history; I was mostly an audience.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 28, 2024 16:33:39 GMT -5
Beast
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 28, 2024 13:18:56 GMT -5
I'm running on 4 hours sleep and will be busy all day and all of tomorrow and most of Saturday. So let's go with the suggestion made at the end of last week's contest.
Post a cover penciled or inked by Creig Flessel. My cover from last week is a good example.
Could someone post the usual rules? I'm using my phone here and that much copying & pasting is too much for me.
Thanks, and have a good time. Flessel had a long career and drew some great covers!
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 27, 2024 15:52:12 GMT -5
Holy crap, I'm taken by surprise here - partly because I'm in the middle of a ton of things already and last night my wife fell. Not bad enough to break anything but now I have even more to do. I'll get a new contest up at some point today.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 24, 2024 15:59:45 GMT -5
Comic
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 24, 2024 1:52:52 GMT -5
Special
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 23, 2024 19:03:13 GMT -5
Alexander
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 23, 2024 3:51:00 GMT -5
I have a Wolverine question. In the opening pages of Giant-Size X-Men #1, when Wolverine first appears, one of Claremont's captions says "The agent cipher-known as Weapon X...but better known to us as -- The Wolverine!" My question is, would Wolverine actually have been that well known to your average Marvel reader or X-Men fan on 1975 when that comic came out? I know he had appeared in a couple of issues of The Hulk the year before (#180 and 181), but had he been seen anywhere else prior to Giant-Size X-Men #1? No, he hadn't. There's a note in the GCD's index for Hulk #182 that says Wolvie's next appearance was in Giant-Size X-Men #1. That Hulk issue was on the stands in early September 1974, which was when I started college, and GSXM #1 was in late February 1975, the beginning of my second semester. That's enough time for them to have known that readers liked the character. I know I remembered him when I read GSXM #1.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 23, 2024 2:54:52 GMT -5
Bean
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 22, 2024 10:44:30 GMT -5
Great votes and comments, everyone. It’d be great to read a comment from the person who voted for Suicide Slum, that’s a good choice. That was me. Ideally a Suicide Slum comic would be a Jack Kirby production, letting him tell stories like "Street Code".
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 21, 2024 22:13:51 GMT -5
Cleveland
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 21, 2024 20:58:42 GMT -5
St. Louis
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 21, 2024 9:45:38 GMT -5
Day
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 21, 2024 9:06:19 GMT -5
I'll be driving. Might be able to join via phone.
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