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Post by coke & comics on Dec 12, 2015 13:45:32 GMT -5
Cei-U! I have a question. Some of these old comics don't do credits so well. I've got some collections of Wally Wood sci/fi stories for example. The GCD doesn't seem to know who scripted most of them.
I'm assuming someone else did the scripting, but how to tell. Anybody know? Wood ever do his own scripting back in the 50s?
EDIT: While still curious, no urgency as the question won't affect my list. I think I've settled on my new 12th.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 12, 2015 14:55:05 GMT -5
Cei-U! I have a question. Some of these old comics don't do credits so well. I've got some collections of Wally Wood sci/fi stories for example. The GCD doesn't seem to know who scripted most of them. I'm assuming someone else did the scripting, but how to tell. Anybody know? Wood ever do his own scripting back in the 50s? EDIT: While still curious, no urgency as the question won't affect my list. I think I've settled on my new 12th. If I can use his work on T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents as a basis, it would seem that Wood was often heavily involved in the development of the stories but did not ever write them himself. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 12, 2015 18:49:56 GMT -5
Aaaagggh!!! I had forgotten some other dude did the scripting for Shade the Changing Man! I think with a reluctant heart, and despite my contention he did the heavy lifting on my favorite works of his, I am going to let Steve Ditko go. Blast, I thought I had my list all settled. But he did write the deathless prose in Static!  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 12, 2015 19:22:11 GMT -5
I think with a reluctant heart, and despite my contention he did the heavy lifting on my favorite works of his, I am going to let Steve Ditko go. Yeah, he needed Stan Lee... |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 12, 2015 19:29:51 GMT -5
I think with a reluctant heart, and despite my contention he did the heavy lifting on my favorite works of his, I am going to let Steve Ditko go. Yeah, he needed Stan Lee... That's just not true! Denny 'O Neil, Joe Gill and Michael Fleisher, among others, did a good job covering up Ditko's unbelievably terrible dialog. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 12, 2015 19:44:09 GMT -5
Aaaagggh!!! I had forgotten some other dude did the scripting for Shade the Changing Man! I think with a reluctant heart, and despite my contention he did the heavy lifting on my favorite works of his, I am going to let Steve Ditko go. Blast, I thought I had my list all settled. But he did write the deathless prose in Static! That amount of prose would even give Don McGregor pause. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2015 23:04:16 GMT -5
'Twas the Night Before the 12 Days of Christmas,
and all through the short boxes, not a comic was stirring, not even those with a mouse.
So he made his list, checked it twice, and gave it a final pass,
leaving off some greats, he felt like a louse.
He read, reread, picking and choosing though hands were wrung
the particular cartoonists he chose with care
ordering from bottom to top like a ladder rung
thinking how to state their particular flair
panels, pages and graphic novels
words and pictures he searched through
not word of those on list he tells
until the word is given by Cei-U
It' almost time he does cry
On the morrow the first reveal
to state our favorites and let them fly
to see and with delight to squeal
It's the Classic Comics 12 Days of Christmas
Our favorite time of year
don't miss out lad and lass
we await your choices never fear!
Bring it on Cei-U!!!!
Woot!
-M
apologies for that bit of doggerel, I couldn't resist.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 13, 2015 0:14:38 GMT -5
Antsy to get my # 12 posted tomorrow
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Post by berkley on Dec 13, 2015 0:17:47 GMT -5
Aaaagggh!!! I had forgotten some other dude did the scripting for Shade the Changing Man! I think with a reluctant heart, and despite my contention he did the heavy lifting on my favorite works of his, I am going to let Steve Ditko go. Blast, I thought I had my list all settled. I'm having a similar problem with a few of my favourite artists - e.g. Ditko, Barry Windsor-Smith, Wally Wood: the works I like best were collaborations rather than solo efforts. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 13, 2015 0:56:01 GMT -5
Wood isn't really that hard. He did full chores on about a half-dozen Two-Fisted Tales. The Wizard King was all his. According to Craig Delich he did full work on four or so stories in Weird Fantasy. And between a half dozen to a dozen stories for Warren.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2015 0:58:39 GMT -5
Barry Windsor-Smith did a lot of writing starting in the mid-late 80's with the Weapon X feature in Marvel Comics Present, then with stuff for the Malibu Ultraverse (Rune), Valiant (Archer & Armstrong), and his own Storyteller series( Young Gods,Freebooters, et. al) and Ad Astra in Africa. He had a few minor writing credits before that according to the GCD, but the bulk of his comics writing was in the 90s.
-M
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Post by MDG on Dec 13, 2015 10:49:13 GMT -5
Yeah, he needed Stan Lee... That's just not true! Denny 'O Neil, Joe Gill and Michael Fleisher, among others, did a good job covering up Ditko's unbelievably terrible dialog. He had me at "A = A." |
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 13, 2015 13:32:16 GMT -5
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 13, 2015 13:33:37 GMT -5
This is definitely a theme I would see repeated in 5 or 10 years time. The classics rule was a huge cut on my choices. So many of my favorite all-in-one creators are quite modern and more than half my list would change in 10 years time.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 13, 2015 17:24:26 GMT -5
Am I the only one who doesn't get his pictures and write up ready till the day of?  No, I'm the same. I have my list worked out in advance, of course, but I write each post and get pictures off 'tiniternet the very same day I post it. Always have done. |
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