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Comment on Nick Cardy Double! by S.Mallette

S.Mallette — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:01:17 +0000

Nick Cardy covers were my favorites when I read comics as a kid.
I prefer them to even the ones by Neal Adams who was considered the best cover artist of the late Silver and early Bronze ages.

I knew comic book creators recycled old ideas all the time (even the great Kirby himself did so quite often), but the short time span between these two covers and the absence of even the tiniest changes in design is rather embarassing…

Good post Allan!

Comment on Nick Cardy Double! by Richard

Richard — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:04:06 +0000

The most likely explanation in light of the volume of covers Carmine designed every month is that he inadvertently came up with the same composition twice and never realized he was repeating himself.

(Just a couple of days ago, I came up with a great turn of phrase for a story I’m working on, and when I pulled out my notes for the story to record this particular gem…I found the exact phrase was already written there from several weeks earlier. I had the same brilliant idea twice. So, I suspect, did Mr. Infantino.)

Comment on Ad Wonderland by Allan

Allan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:15:11 +0000

As fancy as they are, I think collected editions of comics really miss something by not including the ads. To someone growing up in a country where distribution was spotty at best, the ads were a window into an exotic world of comics I’d never see.

Comment on Ad Wonderland by Martin Gray

Martin Gray — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:45:31 +0000

Just wonderful memories, thank you! I can almost smell the newsprint.

Comment on 100-Page Bargain! by Allan

Allan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:26:30 +0000

I loved the Steranko History of Comics when I read the two volumes in the ’80s. Really must dig ‘em out for a re-read one of these days. The text for a third volume was completed but never published, sadly.

Comment on 100-Page Bargain! by NealP

NealP — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:37:38 +0000

If it hadn’t been for these 100 pagers, I don’t think I would have become a comic book collector. Seeing stories from the 30s, 40s, and 50s made me realize how much comics had evolved, and I wanted to learn more. I talked my dad into buying me a copy of The Steranko History of Comics, and I was off to the races.

Comment on 100-Page Bargain! by Allan

Allan — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:52:44 +0000

As far as I recall, the very first 100-page super spectacular I ever owned was one of the Our Army at War ones. It had Sgt Rock, Gunner & Sarge, Johnny Cloud, etc. as well as a story featuring some chick I was convinced was called Millie Marie… And, in an amazing piece of synchronicity, the first 100-pager I bought as a back issue was one of the Archie Goodwin Detectives. His and Simonson’s Manhaunter remains a firm favourite to this day.

Like you, the first Simon & Kirby strips I read were those fine reprints in the back of the Fourth World books—though in my case I didn’t get those until the early-1980s once I had my own money and access to comic shops.

The From Beyond the Unknown and Strange Adventures 48-pagers are stunning books full of magnificent strips—including a near-complete, cheap, reprinting of the entire Adam Strange oeuvre.

Comment on 100-Page Bargain! by S.Mallette

S.Mallette — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:37:22 +0000

I was a Bronze Age baby as well and those cool DC giants were the only way we could afford to discover those Golden Age and Silver Age gems.

Back then, way before the blessed modern days of Archives edition, Omnibuses and other hardcover collections, I could never have afforded the original issues of Simon & Kirby’s BOY COMMANDOS, NEWSBOY LEGION, SANDMAN, and MANHUNTER. Luckily, we could sample them in those nifty Fourth World 48 pagers.

I hunted down Batman giants in the hope I could discover some classic Dick Sprang gem. Funny you should mention Archie Goodwin because his Detective Comics run was among the first DC giants I bought

And I don’t know if this is the same case for you, but I discovered those amazing Julius Schwartz Gorilla stories in giant STRANGE ADVENTURES and FROM BEYOND THE UNKNOWN sci-fi anthologies.

Comment on Hey There, Cardy Gal by NealP

NealP — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:15:37 +0000

Amen to the apostrophe comment! Thanks to the internet, we live in a world where everyone is a writer, but so few actually learn how to write.

Comment on Shocking Tales by Allan

Allan — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:39:49 +0000

Some of the Harvey material was reprinted over here in the late-50s/early-60s, though not by Class as far as I know. But as he printed so much over the years, anything is possible!