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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2022 11:05:21 GMT -5
No votes for me, the knives were in my back.
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 6, 2022 11:23:49 GMT -5
Not to be a slightly cynical supercat, but methinks many a vote “may” at times go to the “lady of the week”, and oh yeah, with an object from the theme.
Matt Baker isn't bad, he just draws that way...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2022 11:42:52 GMT -5
Not to be a slightly cynical supercat, but methinks many a vote “may” at times go to the “lady of the week”, and oh yeah, with an object from the theme.
Matt Baker isn't bad, he just draws that way...
Lol, ain't that the truth. Supercat must also concede your winning selection may have had a "wee bit" of pure artistic merit as well. I was just taking a jab. Making a point. Cutting up. Spreading the butter. Ok, I have no idea where I'm going at this point...
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 6, 2022 11:45:47 GMT -5
Thanks for all the votes of confidence in Mr. Baker's handiwork... I look through his output, and it really is remarkable. Anyway, new contest is up HERE.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 6, 2022 12:01:55 GMT -5
Thanks for all the votes of confidence in Mr. Baker's handiwork... I look through his output, and it really is remarkable.
Anyway, new contest is up HERE. Any submarines?
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 6, 2022 12:12:15 GMT -5
Thanks for all the votes of confidence in Mr. Baker's handiwork... I look through his output, and it really is remarkable.
Anyway, new contest is up HERE. Any submarines?
Sadly, I haven't found any yet... the closest thing I've seen on a Matt Baker cover would be described euphemistically as "Torpedoes".
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 8, 2022 16:54:29 GMT -5
@bert, I know that you are Jewish, so I don't know if you're familiar with the story behind that book. But myself having been raised in the Southern Baptist Church, David Wilkerson's original book (and the film, starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada as "Nicky") were used everywhere in the youth group ministries. They used to give those comics away at inter-denominational "youth rallies". I saw and read tons of Spire books as a pre-teen. I remember the story of Nicky Cruz very well. I still have a copy of that comic book floating around in my collection. This is a late reply; I'm still catching up with everything I missed. The Cross and the Switchblade tells the story from the minister's point of view, but Nicky Cruz wrote his own book, Run Baby Run, and it was adapted to comics twice. The first was in 1971, done by Al Stenzel for the David C. Cook Company's weekly PIX series, which was (and maybe still is) distributed to Protestant Sunday schools. The second one came directly from the book's publisher, Logos International, as part of their short-lived attempt to compete with Spire comics in 1974. They hired Tony Tallarico to produce comics adaptations of some of their best-selling books. Run Baby Run was the second of the four comics they produced. The Logos comics are among the most obscure comics of the 70s. These are the best images I could find. First, the PIX issue, then the Logos comic.
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 8, 2022 17:43:39 GMT -5
@bert , I know that you are Jewish, so I don't know if you're familiar with the story behind that book. But myself having been raised in the Southern Baptist Church, David Wilkerson's original book (and the film, starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada as "Nicky") were used everywhere in the youth group ministries. They used to give those comics away at inter-denominational "youth rallies". I saw and read tons of Spire books as a pre-teen. I remember the story of Nicky Cruz very well. I still have a copy of that comic book floating around in my collection. This is a late reply; I'm still catching up with everything I missed. The Cross and the Switchblade tells the story from the minister's point of view, but Nicky Cruz wrote his own book, Run Baby Run, and it was adapted to comics twice. The first was in 1971, done by Al Stenzel for the David C. Cook Company's weekly PIX series, which was (and maybe still is) distributed to Protestant Sunday schools. The second one came directly from the book's publisher, Logos International, as part of their short-lived attempt to compete with Spire comics in 1974. They hired Tony Tallarico to produce comics adaptations of some of their best-selling books. Run Baby Run was the second of the four comics they produced. The Logos comics are among the most obscure comics of the 70s. These are the best images I could find. First, the PIX issue, then the Logos comic.
I remember the first one from childhood, but I don't have a copy. However, I do own a copy of the Logos edition.
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 8, 2022 19:28:52 GMT -5
This is a late reply; I'm still catching up with everything I missed. The Cross and the Switchblade tells the story from the minister's point of view, but Nicky Cruz wrote his own book, Run Baby Run, and it was adapted to comics twice. The first was in 1971, done by Al Stenzel for the David C. Cook Company's weekly PIX series, which was (and maybe still is) distributed to Protestant Sunday schools. The second one came directly from the book's publisher, Logos International, as part of their short-lived attempt to compete with Spire comics in 1974. They hired Tony Tallarico to produce comics adaptations of some of their best-selling books. Run Baby Run was the second of the four comics they produced. The Logos comics are among the most obscure comics of the 70s. These are the best images I could find. First, the PIX issue, then the Logos comic. I remember the first one from childhood, but I don't have a copy. However, I do own a copy of the Logos edition.
You're one up on me, then! I don't have any Logos comics, even though my father worked for Logos at the time and I was one of the first people outside the company to see their first two comics. I thought they were terrible and didn't keep any copies. My parents were in a "born-again" phase at the time, in which I did not join them (and, to their credit, they didn't pressure me). That probably contributed to my aversion to the Logos comics. I've seen some scans in recent years, I think in one of Scott Shaw!'s Oddball Comics pages, and they didn't look as bad as I recalled.
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