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davidh777 09-23-15 11:18 AM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
Now I want that Shazam 100-pager.

davidh777 09-23-15 11:19 AM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 

Originally Posted by Trevor (Post 12596011)
Today we have Paul Ryan and one of my favorite comic book writers, PAD.

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Trevor 09-26-15 12:30 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
^ Ha!

The 24th was Jim Henson and Marc Guggenheim.
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Trevor 09-26-15 12:57 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
September 25th includes the indie creator Paul Pope, who had some interesting work on today's theme, Batman.
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Trevor 09-26-15 01:00 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
And the late great critic, publisher, and fanboy comic book letter writer Kim Thompson.
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Trevor 09-26-15 01:00 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
Artist, writer, editor, and Valiant co-founder Bob Layton.
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Trevor 09-26-15 01:13 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
Today is the publication anniversary of the first Tintin!
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Trevor 09-26-15 01:18 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
And the creator of another all-time classic comic, Little Nemo, Winsor McCay.
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Trevor 09-26-15 01:24 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
Happy birthday to one of the Veitch brothers, Tom, who I guess is most famous for his Star Wars books.
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Trevor 09-26-15 01:29 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
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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PhantomStranger 09-26-15 04:09 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 

Originally Posted by Trevor (Post 12599076)
Artist, writer, editor, and Valiant co-founder Bob Layton.
http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/a...sb8uyyte1.jpeg

Layton always had the best grip on Iron Man. I enjoyed his Valiant stuff a great deal.

Trevor 09-27-15 06:35 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
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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Trevor 09-27-15 06:37 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
And weird indie stuff like Charles Burns.
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Trevor 09-27-15 06:40 PM

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And big time mainstream like Jim Shooter.
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Trevor 09-28-15 08:41 AM

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Personal favorite, comic editor/historian Michael Eury.
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Trevor 09-28-15 08:56 AM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
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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davidh777 09-28-15 04:22 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 

Originally Posted by Trevor (Post 12599075)
And the late great critic, publisher, and fanboy comic book letter writer Kim Thompson.
http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/a...saocpx2xc.jpeg

Thanks for including Kim. I still talk to his widow regularly, and I miss him. :(

Trevor 09-29-15 06:42 AM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
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.
Tim Vigil
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Trevor 09-29-15 06:48 AM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
One of the last still living legends, Russ Heath.
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And this is cool, even if you're not familiar with his comic work, if you're over 35 you've probably seen the ubiquitous toy advertisements that he often drew for the backs of comics.
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davidh777 09-29-15 12:58 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
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.

Dimension X 09-29-15 03:38 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
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.


Originally Posted by davidh777 (Post 12601965)
Ha, I guess even Heath had to pay the bills.

The sad thing is real artists like Russ Heath were reduced to just "paying the bills" while Roy Lichtenstein stole Heath's and other artists' work and became famous and made millions (because irony, or something :rolleyes: ).


Originally Posted by davidh777 (Post 12601965)
I always wanted to order those kinds of sets but never did. They were probably garbage anyway.

I've read that they were two-dimensional. Cut out of flat sheets of plastic.

Trevor 09-29-15 04:25 PM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
Yep, I bought at least one of those sets. They were cheap flat pieces of plastic, looked nothing like the art b

Trevor 09-30-15 08:55 AM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
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.

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Trevor 09-30-15 08:58 AM

Re: Today in Comic Book History
 
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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