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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 6, 2024 13:25:42 GMT -5
I bought this digest when it came out and was disappointed that the only Kubert art was the cover. I really liked Kubert's Tarzan, and the Manning strip was just too different.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 6, 2024 12:47:30 GMT -5
I have a tradition of singing "Mama Tried" on Mother's Day weekend in at least one of the two weekly online song circles that my wife and I participate in.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 6, 2024 11:02:15 GMT -5
Spider-Man #7; this is where I came in.
I've written about this before; feel free to skip this if you know the story.
In September 1963, I was in my first month of second grade at School #8 in Belleville NJ (the only place I've ever lived that gave schools numbers instead of names). One day that September, I was in the local newsstand/candy store/convenience store on Belleville Avenue with one or both parents. My attention was caught by some colorful little magazines that were placed at eye-level for six-year-old me. Whichever parent it was encouraged me to choose one. I later learned that both of my parents had been comic book readers in their youth. I chose this one, Spider-Man #7. At first I wasn't sure which figure on the cover was the star. Looking at the first half-dozen comic books I bought, I tended to choose covers with wide-open skies as the background.
I read this issue many many times. Every panel in it is familiar. As everyone has said, the story was really good and it left me wanting more. So I started visiting that store regularly with my allowance money and buying more comic books. I still have that copy of Spider-Man #7 that I chose in 1963, although its cover was lost a couple of years later. That ragged, coverless comic book changed my life and I will always cherish it.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 5, 2024 20:16:17 GMT -5
Twilight Zone
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 4, 2024 18:55:20 GMT -5
I love fresh spinach. That canned stuff is just disgustink though. As do I, but I avoid it like the plague due to its extremely high oxalate content-- which the primary component of 90% of kidney stones.
I've had my share of stones over the years, and raw spinach is one of those items (along with black tea) that I simply do not partake on a regular basis for this reason. I guess my metabolism must handle oxalate well. I've been drinking black tea almost all day almost every day for almost fifty years, and I've never had a kidney stone. I would teach your body how to do that if I could, but I think I just have to hope it continues this way.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 4, 2024 16:05:24 GMT -5
Busiek
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 4, 2024 16:04:48 GMT -5
Damn. I was tied up with other things until now. Looking forward to pictures & recaps.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 3, 2024 23:31:31 GMT -5
Good
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 3, 2024 17:43:57 GMT -5
Counselor
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 3, 2024 17:13:18 GMT -5
When I was buying new comics (1972-78), I used to divide artists into two categories in my mind -
- those working in the standard, mainstream superhero/adventure art style (which evolved over time)
- those with distinctive, personal styles; even if they tried to do mainstream superhero work, they transcended it.
Bob Brown was among the best in the first category. So was Sal Buscema.
The second category was artists like Kirby, Adams, Colan, John Buscema, Smith, Ploog, Brunner, Robbins, and Starlin.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 3, 2024 16:56:45 GMT -5
Sound
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 1, 2024 12:07:35 GMT -5
I'm seeing reports that underground artist Larry Todd, best known for Dr. Atomic, is in hospice care. Along with his underground work, he did some covers and stories for Warren and Skywald, and a few stories in Epic Illustrated for Marvel. I enjoyed his work a lot and hope things go as well as possible for him. His GCD credit list: www.comics.org/credit/name/Larry%20Todd/sort/chrono/(there are some errors in this list - ignore the books edited by Larry Stroman and Todd Johnson)
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 31, 2024 11:52:53 GMT -5
aka 11 AM Pacific. I hope to be there.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 31, 2024 10:40:53 GMT -5
Holding
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 31, 2024 10:27:29 GMT -5
Bugs Bunny #29, Feb. 1953, cover by Ralph Heimdahl.
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