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Now I want that Shazam 100-pager.
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^ Ha!
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September 25th includes the indie creator Paul Pope, who had some interesting work on today's theme, Batman.
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And the late great critic, publisher, and fanboy comic book letter writer Kim Thompson.
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Artist, writer, editor, and Valiant co-founder Bob Layton.
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Today is the publication anniversary of the first Tintin!
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And the creator of another all-time classic comic, Little Nemo, Winsor McCay.
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Happy birthday to one of the Veitch brothers, Tom, who I guess is most famous for his Star Wars books.
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And last one for today, one of our greats, model for one of the most famous DC covers of all-time, creator of Power Pack; Louise Simonson.
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Artist, writer, editor, and Valiant co-founder Bob Layton.
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Pretty good spectrum of talent born today; first let's remember that some good stuff comes from overseas, like great Disney work from Romano Scarpa.
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Personal favorite, comic editor/historian Michael Eury.
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I'm a bit too young to have enjoyed the heyday of Li'l Abner by Al Capp, but really should sample it someday. His comic strip was so huge that he was a staple of The Tonight Show, made the covers of Time and Newsweek, and was a friend of multiple Presidents.
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And the late great critic, publisher, and fanboy comic book letter writer Kim Thompson.
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This guy maybe isn't "big enough" to get a mention here, but I think he was local to me back when he started in comics and I might have met him. Or maybe I'm confusing details, but at any rate, I remember a local shop prominently featuring his early books and many thinking he'd be the next big thing. I own that Grips book, and maybe some of his stuff at Caliber, but nothing else by him iirc.
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One of the last still living legends, Russ Heath.
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Ha, I guess even Heath had to pay the bills. I always wanted to order those kinds of sets but never did. They were probably garbage anyway.
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I'd long read (first, I think, in the letters pages of DC's war comics) how particular Russ Heath was about the accuracy of the weapons, planes, tanks, etc, he drew, and when I saw him at Heroes a few years back, I'd brought along an old G.I. Combat for him to sign, and one of the first things he said after quickly leafing through his story was "Man, I spent hours working on those jets." After signing it, he told me that he hadn't seen that issue in years, and he asked me if I minded if he looked at it closer. As far as I was concerned it was his, he could've taken all day and read it if he wanted.
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Ha, I guess even Heath had to pay the bills.
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I always wanted to order those kinds of sets but never did. They were probably garbage anyway.
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Yep, I bought at least one of those sets. They were cheap flat pieces of plastic, looked nothing like the art b
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I'm reaching today...
The rights to the somewhat popular and interesting publishing-history-wise T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents was owned by John Carbonaro for a few decades. He managed to get them published here and there for quite awhile. http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/a...sue1ej1ca.jpeg |
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And former comic publisher Deni Loubert, known for once being married to Dave Sim, publishing stuff such as the best comic book character of all-time Flaming Carrot, and being scolded by Steve Ditko.
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