Friday, October 23, 2015

One Springboard for Two Stories

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As EC's publisher, Bill Gaines would read at home as much as he could to bring in "springboards" to story conferences with edi...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Binder Records: Timely--Link to Art Lortie's Transcription

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Art Lortie has transcribed Otto Binder's pay records, separating them by company. The first list he's posted is Binder's work fo...
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Saturday, October 3, 2015

Girls' Romances 101-120 Artists

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This is Jack Miller's first run on Girls' Romances ; he returns after Barbara Friedlander edits the title. I picked this run becaus...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Dr. Varsag's Experiment 2.1

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The story "Dr. Varsag's Experiment" in DC's Plop! 12 (May/75) loosely adapts a pulp prose story published over 30 yea...
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Friday, September 18, 2015

A 70s Marvel Artist's First Stories at Timely (UPDATE: Well, One of Them)

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In 1948-49 as Timely started moving away from superheroes, their new crime and horror books had talky scripts and bland art; many of t...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Star Spangled War Writers Before Kanigher

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Star Spangled War Stories was the one DC war comic not edited by Robert Kanigher at the start, so there are no records extant for its firs...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

The Dinosaur Island Artist on Sub-Mariner

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The "Dinosaur Island" artist (1946-48 at DC), Paul Cooper, works on Sub-Mariner at Timely before moving over to Batman. He has m...