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Post by rberman on Apr 19, 2020 8:56:14 GMT -5
Comics spinners should have gone in Blockbusters and video game stores.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2020 23:45:27 GMT -5
Back issue hunting in the 1970s... (courtesy Robert Beerbohm's FB feed) -M
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Post by beccabear67 on Apr 20, 2020 0:37:15 GMT -5
^ they were using orange boxes the way I used B.C. apple boxes, two rows of comics fit nicely in a box.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 20, 2020 7:37:04 GMT -5
Reminds me of my 1st local Science Fiction convention the summer of 1979. Small, compact with everything cramped into about 8 rooms and a very small dealer/vendor room filled with wall to wall boxes of unbagged comic books to dig through. And the funny part: most of the dealers had no clue as to what was inside most of the boxes they brought and would actually be surprised when you pulled something out that they felt shouldn't have been in there but had to give you the cheap price they had the boxes marked at. Oh those were the days before greed took over the hobby...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2020 23:43:04 GMT -5
If you are on facebook and don't follow Bill Sienkewicz, you should. He's always posting new pieces, but recently he posted a pic he took of himself posing for a panel reference and challenged fans and fellow artists to use it to create their own pieces of art inspired by it, and the results range from the ridiculous to the sublime... First the pic Bill posted (behind a spoiler because well it might be NSFW...) you can get the gist of the pic from looking at the submissions if you don't want to see behind the spoiler curtain... and then a few examples of the results... from Steven Cobb... from Mike Avon Oeming... from Joe Phillips... from Gregg Hinlicky... from Pep Zapata... from Richard Clark... Yuan Twins... from Guiomar González Fernández... from Max Rugers... from Dave Whelen... and one more (but there are plenty more to see on Bill's feed)... from Joseph D'Esposito I love seeing exercises like this-where a number of creators start from the same prompt and then bring their own vision and creativity to it. Some are amazing pieces, some are hysterically funny (I left off most that could have acted as political cartoons in addition to entries in this exercise to honor the avoid politics policy when unnecessary policy here), some are insightful looks into the creative policy and some distinctly show the difference between amateurs and professionals, but all are wonderful in their own right. -M
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2020 2:38:53 GMT -5
Must be a 1940s version of me...checking out the competition and about to ask the seller for the comic which has Superman lifting a car on the cover and promising him a whole quarter for it.
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Post by rberman on Apr 24, 2020 8:57:46 GMT -5
If you are on facebook and don't follow Bill Sienkewicz, you should. He's always posting new pieces, but recently he posted a pic he took of himself posing for a panel reference and challenged fans and fellow artists to use it to create their own pieces of art inspired by it, and the results range from the ridiculous to the sublime... First the pic Bill posted (behind a spoiler because well it might be NSFW...) you can get the gist of the pic from looking at the submissions if you don't want to see behind the spoiler curtain... There's a story behind his choice of this particular pose. Sienkiewicz caught flak for his Black Widow cover below of Natasha in the so-called "brokeback pose" in which a character (almost always a woman) is posed so that both of her buttocks and both of her breasts are somehow visible simultaneously.
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Post by The Cheat on Apr 24, 2020 13:40:39 GMT -5
Thought that Steven Cobb one was Namor before I read first part of the post for context.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2020 19:30:07 GMT -5
Sharing this for one of my local dealer friends, Jim & Dan organize the quarterly cons I frequent and run an excellent shop in West Alexandria, Ohio. They are looking to buy comics form anyone in Ohio or Indiana looking to sell their collections... I know we have some folks from those parts here, and not sure if they are looking to sell off anything during this time (unemployment can create unwanted choices at times) or know people looking to move a collection, so I am posting this as an FYI for them. Not 100% sure which thread or forum to post it in, but the classic section will get the most eyes on it so I chose this thread as the least inappropriate. -M
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Post by Chris on May 19, 2020 1:52:34 GMT -5
The third Monday of May, the 18th in particular, is almost over and no one has mentioned Miracle Monday? Elliot S Maggin wrote this in DC Comics Presents Annual #2, which featured his character Kristin Wells. "I wanted to mention one more interesting thing about my novel, Miracle Monday, if you don't mind. This is something I never really made much of or told anyone about, but for me, at least, Miracle Monday is a real holiday. In the book it's the third Monday of every May. On that day, according to the book, resort owners on the glaciers of Uranus raise ski-lift tickets for the influx of tourists. Teamsters driving slow-moving cargo transports to Earth from mining operations in the asteroid belt get drunk and silly like sailors crossing the Equator for the first time. In honor of Superman's chosen profession, even journalists can spend the holiday with their families. There are laughter, reflection, public celebration with barbecues and holographic light shows all over the solar system, merriments of all sorts. It's a big holiday. As it happens, here in the real world, I received my first copy of Superman: Miracle Monday in the mail from my editor at Warner Books on May 18, the third Monday in the month of May, 1981. It was a special day, totally coincidental, and I've never really told anyone that before. Considering what Superman did in the book on that day, it was a holiday worth celebrating for a long time, so along with my birthday, Einstein's birthday and the first day of summer, Miracle Monday is a day that I will probably continue to set apart." I read the novel back in the late 80s, liked it well enough.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 19, 2020 9:48:50 GMT -5
The third Monday of May, the 18th in particular, is almost over and no one has mentioned Miracle Monday? Elliot S Maggin wrote this in DC Comics Presents Annual #2, which featured his character Kristin Wells. "I wanted to mention one more interesting thing about my novel, Miracle Monday, if you don't mind. This is something I never really made much of or told anyone about, but for me, at least, Miracle Monday is a real holiday. In the book it's the third Monday of every May. On that day, according to the book, resort owners on the glaciers of Uranus raise ski-lift tickets for the influx of tourists. Teamsters driving slow-moving cargo transports to Earth from mining operations in the asteroid belt get drunk and silly like sailors crossing the Equator for the first time. In honor of Superman's chosen profession, even journalists can spend the holiday with their families. There are laughter, reflection, public celebration with barbecues and holographic light shows all over the solar system, merriments of all sorts. It's a big holiday. As it happens, here in the real world, I received my first copy of Superman: Miracle Monday in the mail from my editor at Warner Books on May 18, the third Monday in the month of May, 1981. It was a special day, totally coincidental, and I've never really told anyone that before. Considering what Superman did in the book on that day, it was a holiday worth celebrating for a long time, so along with my birthday, Einstein's birthday and the first day of summer, Miracle Monday is a day that I will probably continue to set apart." I read the novel back in the late 80s, liked it well enough. Best depictions of Superman and Luthor, in any medium!
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Post by chadwilliam on May 19, 2020 14:01:12 GMT -5
I'm currently listening to Scott Gallinghouse's commentary for the 1946 film House of Horrors which features future Batman Robert Lowery in a significant role and came across this tidbit: "Lowery's real name was Robert Larkin Lowery Hanks. His great-grandfather was Louis Larkin Hanks who was the brother of Nancy Hanks. Nancy was the mother of Abraham Lincoln." Gallinghouse goes on to note that just prior to filming House of Horrors, Lowery inherited law books from his Grandfather which once belonged to Lincoln himself. Weird to think that Lincoln's law books were passed down to Batman.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2020 1:44:22 GMT -5
From Robert Beerbohm's FB page... -M
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Post by electricmastro on May 21, 2020 2:11:25 GMT -5
Possibly the first cyborg superhero in comic books.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 21, 2020 5:30:24 GMT -5
I like how they say 1970 is 20 years after the second World War. Thank goodness that prediction didn't come true!
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