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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 5, 2021 12:01:56 GMT -5
So, just looking at things...it appears that Tippy Teen was the most successful of the Tower comics overall. I'd be interested in seeing the actual sales figures of it vs. T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents. But Tippy certainly had a long run for Tower and a number of spin-offs.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 6, 2021 14:40:48 GMT -5
So, just looking at things...it appears that Tippy Teen was the most successful of the Tower comics overall. I'd be interested in seeing the actual sales figures of it vs. T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents. But Tippy certainly had a long run for Tower and a number of spin-offs. And a few years later, Martin Goodman's Atlas-Seaboard company licensed Tippy and published four issues, renaming her "Vicki". A lot of people, then and now, wondered why they licensed Tippy and left the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents on the shelf.
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Post by tonebone on Oct 8, 2021 15:04:41 GMT -5
Earlier there was this in 1968's Avengers Annual #2 (he also drew Roy T., shown here) You know you're too far gone as a comics nerd when you look at something like this and think "Man, I really like those word balloon shapes."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 18, 2021 11:39:06 GMT -5
In the "comics allowance" thread it's been clear for a while that Mad Magazine is not on Mike's Newsstand. It's an odd omission, especially since Famous Monsters is on it.
But it got me thinking about another omission and a magazine that seems to be mostly forgotten in the comics world.
When I was a kid my oldest brother periodically purchased issues of CarToons published by Robert E. Petersen Publication Company. They also published companion magazines of CycleToons and Hot Rod Toons (and apparently SurfToons from 65-69). I definitely remember the magazine that was mostly humorous comic stories about cars and car culture (with maybe some magazine type articles). But I don't know if I've ever seen an issue for sale at a comic shop or really ever heard anyone but me talk about the magazines.
I have to assume that, at least, CARToons was pretty successful. It ran for 185 issues from 1959-1991 which is a pretty good haul. I'd be kind of curious to see how its sales compared to, say, Cracked. Still...over thirty years and 185 issues is a good life.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 18, 2021 11:51:22 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Oct 18, 2021 12:30:18 GMT -5
I vaguely remember reading the occasional Cartoons magazine as my Uncle had a bunch of them. He was into restoring his old Camaro & Chevy pickup truck so he was a bit of a gearhead. Truly cannot remember anything about them at all as visits and reads were few and far between. Should be interesting checking these out.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 18, 2021 12:39:06 GMT -5
Very cool. Thanks. I'm like 95% certain that my brother had the June 1973 issue, which is showing up on the site. I have memories of that cover (which considering I was six or seven at the time is kind of cool).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2021 13:07:37 GMT -5
In the "comics allowance" thread it's been clear for a while that Mad Magazine is not on Mike's Newsstand. It's an odd omission, especially since Famous Monsters is on it. But it got me thinking about another omission and a magazine that seems to be mostly forgotten in the comics world. When I was a kid my oldest brother periodically purchased issues of CarToons published by Robert E. Petersen Publication Company. They also published companion magazines of CycleToons and Hot Rod Toons (and apparently SurfToons from 65-69). I definitely remember the magazine that was mostly humorous comic stories about cars and car culture (with maybe some magazine type articles). But I don't know if I've ever seen an issue for sale at a comic shop or really ever heard anyone but me talk about the magazines. I have to assume that, at least, CARToons was pretty successful. It ran for 185 issues from 1959-1991 which is a pretty good haul. I'd be kind of curious to see how its sales compared to, say, Cracked. Still...over thirty years and 185 issues is a good life. I never saw these as a kid. They never came on my radar as an adult until a few years ago when I went on a big Alex Toth kick. I was never a car guy, but I adore the handful of Toth strips done for these that I've seen (there's a collection of the Toth strips for these called One for the Road but it's out of print and hideously expensive, many more times more expensive than tracking down the originals), and I have been slowly picking up the ones that have Toth stories in them as I find them. As for why Mike's doesn't have Mad, I'd guess because it doesn't interest him much. The site's mission statement originally was to index all the DC books Mike was trying to collect (and Mad wasn't DC property originally as we all know even if it is now), and was expanded to include other comics and comic-related things of interest to him. There are several publishers whose books aren't included there, mostly I would guess because they aren't of interest to Mike and since it's a site about his books of interest and not a comprehensive guide to comics site, I doubt they ever will be. And since stuff like Mad, Cracked, Crazy, National Lampoon etc. aren't there, I am going to go out on a limb and say those types of parody-based humor mags were outside his sphere of interest and so he didn't want to spend his time indexing and entering them into his site's database. I get why a lot of folks here are fans of Mad and the like, but I've never really gotten into them, so I can also understand why Mike may not have included them if he had no interest in them. -M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 18, 2021 13:14:45 GMT -5
In the "comics allowance" thread it's been clear for a while that Mad Magazine is not on Mike's Newsstand. It's an odd omission, especially since Famous Monsters is on it. But it got me thinking about another omission and a magazine that seems to be mostly forgotten in the comics world. When I was a kid my oldest brother periodically purchased issues of CarToons published by Robert E. Petersen Publication Company. They also published companion magazines of CycleToons and Hot Rod Toons (and apparently SurfToons from 65-69). I definitely remember the magazine that was mostly humorous comic stories about cars and car culture (with maybe some magazine type articles). But I don't know if I've ever seen an issue for sale at a comic shop or really ever heard anyone but me talk about the magazines. I have to assume that, at least, CARToons was pretty successful. It ran for 185 issues from 1959-1991 which is a pretty good haul. I'd be kind of curious to see how its sales compared to, say, Cracked. Still...over thirty years and 185 issues is a good life. I never saw these as a kid. They never came on my radar as an adult until a few years ago when I went on a big Alex Toth kick. I was never a car guy, but I adore the handful of Toth strips done for these that I've seen (there's a collection of the Toth strips for these called One for the Road but it's out of print and hideously expensive, many more times more expensive than tracking down the originals), and I have been slowly picking up the ones that have Toth stories in them as I find them. As for why Mike's doesn't have Mad, I'd guess because it doesn't interest him much. The site's mission statement originally was to index all the DC books Mike was trying to collect (and Mad wasn't DC property originally as we all know even if it is now), and was expanded to include other comics and comic-related things of interest to him. There are several publishers whose books aren't included there, mostly I would guess because they aren't of interest to Mike and since it's a site about his books of interest and not a comprehensive guide to comics site, I doubt they ever will be. And since stuff like Mad, Cracked, Crazy, National Lampoon etc. aren't there, I am going to go out on a limb and say those types of parody-based humor mags were outside his sphere of interest and so he didn't want to spend his time indexing and entering them into his site's database. I get why a lot of folks here are fans of Mad and the like, but I've never really gotten into them, so I can also understand why Mike may not have included them if he had no interest in them. -M Not a complaint about Mike or his site, which is excellent. And I remember back when it was almost strictly DC stuff. Just an observation that it's missing when there's so much other stuff he's added. He can do what he wants with his site. And I greatly appreciate that it exists.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2021 13:20:25 GMT -5
I never saw these as a kid. They never came on my radar as an adult until a few years ago when I went on a big Alex Toth kick. I was never a car guy, but I adore the handful of Toth strips done for these that I've seen (there's a collection of the Toth strips for these called One for the Road but it's out of print and hideously expensive, many more times more expensive than tracking down the originals), and I have been slowly picking up the ones that have Toth stories in them as I find them. As for why Mike's doesn't have Mad, I'd guess because it doesn't interest him much. The site's mission statement originally was to index all the DC books Mike was trying to collect (and Mad wasn't DC property originally as we all know even if it is now), and was expanded to include other comics and comic-related things of interest to him. There are several publishers whose books aren't included there, mostly I would guess because they aren't of interest to Mike and since it's a site about his books of interest and not a comprehensive guide to comics site, I doubt they ever will be. And since stuff like Mad, Cracked, Crazy, National Lampoon etc. aren't there, I am going to go out on a limb and say those types of parody-based humor mags were outside his sphere of interest and so he didn't want to spend his time indexing and entering them into his site's database. I get why a lot of folks here are fans of Mad and the like, but I've never really gotten into them, so I can also understand why Mike may not have included them if he had no interest in them. -M Not a complaint about Mike or his site, which is excellent. And I remember back when it was almost strictly DC stuff. Just an observation that it's missing when there's so much other stuff he's added. He can do what he wants with his site. And I greatly appreciate that it exists. It's a great site, and I am not criticizing its omissions or people's questions about it, I just assume whatever is not there is because Mike doesn't have enough interest in it to do the hard work of getting it researched, indexed, and entered. -M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2021 10:55:27 GMT -5
New Alex Toth in Depth is up, I am only a little ways into it so far...
-M
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Post by MDG on Oct 20, 2021 15:40:06 GMT -5
New Alex Toth in Depth is up, I am only a little ways into it so far... -M Relating to a conversation elsewhere, about 50 minutes in, they talk about how there's no good word for the format. Romberger says he doesn;t make "funnies;" he makes "miserables."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 20, 2021 15:42:05 GMT -5
New Alex Toth in Depth is up, I am only a little ways into it so far... -M Relating to a conversation elsewhere, about 50 minutes in, they talk about how there's no good word for the format. Romberger says he doesn;t make "funnies;" he makes "miserables." Maybe we need les miserables.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 20, 2021 17:34:40 GMT -5
Maybe we need les miserables. Or maybe just Les Nessman.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2021 17:46:55 GMT -5
Old time comic fans complain movies and TV can't get super-hero costumes right, yet were willing to accept this... as state of the art super-hero costuming merch, and wear it proudly. -M
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