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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 2, 2022 19:31:45 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on May 4, 2022 9:51:38 GMT -5
Not long after his Green Lantern issues were published, Paperback Library released two novel compilations, each headlined with the Adams/O'Neil stories. Short list of contents: Paperback 1 reprinted issues #76 ( "No Evil Shall Escape My Sight!"), #77 ( "Journey to Desolation!"), and "S.O.S. Green Lantern" (origin & 1st appearance of Hal Jordan/Silver Age Green Lantern) from Showcase #22. Paperback 2 reprinted issues #78 ( "A Kind of Loving, a Way of Death!"), and #79 ( "Ulysses Star is Still Alive!"). Adams' covers for Charlton's The Six Million Dollar Man magazine and monthly title. Magazine (#1 - July, 1976) and comic (#2 - August, 1976) -
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Post by kirby101 on May 4, 2022 10:50:40 GMT -5
Not long after his Green Lantern issues were published, Paperback Library released two novel compilations, each headlined with the Adams/O'Neil stories. Short list of contents: Paperback 1 reprinted issues #76 ( "No Evil Shall Escape My Sight!"), #77 ( "Journey to Desolation!"), and "S.O.S. Green Lantern" (origin & 1st appearance of Hal Jordan/Silver Age Green Lantern) from Showcase #22. Paperback 2 reprinted issues #78 ( "A Kind of Loving, a Way of Death!"), and #79 ( "Ulysses Star is Still Alive!"). This shows the lie that Adam's GL/GA did not sell well. They were popular enough for a paperback reprint. It was the speculation with fraudulent affidavit returns that doomed this and other fan favorite titles.
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Post by Ricky Jackson on May 4, 2022 14:05:17 GMT -5
Not long after his Green Lantern issues were published, Paperback Library released two novel compilations, each headlined with the Adams/O'Neil stories. Short list of contents: Paperback 1 reprinted issues #76 ( "No Evil Shall Escape My Sight!"), #77 ( "Journey to Desolation!"), and "S.O.S. Green Lantern" (origin & 1st appearance of Hal Jordan/Silver Age Green Lantern) from Showcase #22. Paperback 2 reprinted issues #78 ( "A Kind of Loving, a Way of Death!"), and #79 ( "Ulysses Star is Still Alive!"). This shows the lie that Adam's GL/GA did not sell well. They were popular enough for a paperback reprint. It was the speculation with fraudulent affidavit returns that doomed this and other fan favorite titles. I know I've probably read about it before, but could you elaborate on the speculation and fraud point?
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Post by codystarbuck on May 4, 2022 15:18:25 GMT -5
This shows the lie that Adam's GL/GA did not sell well. They were popular enough for a paperback reprint. It was the speculation with fraudulent affidavit returns that doomed this and other fan favorite titles. I know I've probably read about it before, but could you elaborate on the speculation and fraud point? Newsstand distribution ran (and still runs) on a credit system. New titles are put on the stands and old one are pulled and the destroyed, with affidavits filed reporting the destroyed copies and giving the vendors credit for those unsold copies, which they could apply to the purchase of the newer titles. The distributors then reported the actual number of copies sold to th publishers and the affidavits of those destroyed. It was not an uncommon practice for some unscrupulous distributors and/or vendors to over-report destroyed copies and then turn around and sell them for a bigger profit. By the 1970s, there was a market for used comics and speculation began occurring with the releases of brand new titles, particularly Shazam! #1 and Howard the Duck #1. Speculators bought up large quantities of those titles for resale, later, at higher collector prices. In some cases, they reported quantities as destroyed unsold copies, got a credit, then turned around and sold them at collector prices. There are theories that certain noted titles, which ended up canceled for allegedly low sales, were actually moving more copies, thanks to fraudulent affidavits and unscrupulous dealers hoarding copies then reselling them at collector prices, like Green Lantern/Green Arrow and the Kirby 4th World books. It mat just be conspiracy theory thinking; but, return affidavit fraud in newsstand distribution goes back generations. In some cases, distributors had to provide the covers or mastheads of the titles they stripped and destroyed, though not always. Paperback books were also distributed this way, since they were usually sold on or adjacent to newsstands and sometimes fulfilled by the same distributor. This is part of why paperbacks were sneered at by bigger name authors and publishers, as they were aimed at the "lower classes" and not the literati. Paperbacks were the home to genre fiction, like crime, mystery, romance and sci-fi, as much an extension of the old pulp magazines as comic book were. Mass Market Paperbacks (the smaller size ones) are still sold to bookstores in that method, with stripped covers returned for credit. I used have to do this about every other week, when I ran the receiving department, at Barnes & Noble. We gave titles at least 60 (usually 90) days to sell, after arrival, before returning them to the publishers. Hardcovers and trade paperbacks were returned as a whole unit, while mass markets and magazines were stripped and destroyed, with the covers and an invoice returned for credit. One of our employee benefits was that we were allowed to take single copies of stripped paperbacks and up to 5 copies of stripped magazines. It was a way to expand our product knowledge by being able to sample authors who published in paperback form, without having to purchase them. We could check out hardcovers, leaving the dust jacket in the store, for two weeks and read them, without purchase, provided they were returned in salable condition. Any damage and we had to purchase the book. That's how I first started reading Terry Pratchett, after we had a large display of the Discworld books. We had a ton of extras left, after the promotion ended and stripped the excess. I took about 6 individual books, from the different component series, to sample. I ended purchasing all of his titles. Now, we could not resell those and any reputable second-hand dealer wouldn't touch a coverless book; but, you could find copies out there. That is why there is usually a statement inside, to the affect that if you purchased a copy of the book without a cover, it was sold under fraudulent circumstances and you were urged to contact the publisher with details. That is often how they ferreted out fraudulent vendors and distributors. It was not unknown to find some newsstand distributors selling stripped comics for lower prices. They got credit for the return and the sale of the book, which was usually higher than what their cut would have been for a sold intact book. I've seen a few comics in back issue bins with the mastheads torn off.
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Post by majestic on May 4, 2022 16:36:36 GMT -5
Adams' covers for Charlton's The Six Million Dollar Man magazine and monthly title. Magazine (#1 - July, 1976) and comic (#2 - August, 1976) - Loved these issues.
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Post by majestic on May 4, 2022 16:44:12 GMT -5
It was not unknown to find some newsstand distributors selling stripped comics for lower prices. They got credit for the return and the sale of the book, which was usually higher than what their cut would have been for a sold intact book. I've seen a few comics in back issue bins with the mastheads torn off. Pre LCS I bought many back issues missing the top half of the front cover at flea markets and book sales. I didn't know why the cover was cut off at the time... I was just happy to get a cheap reading copy to fill in issues I was missing. Years later I found out why the top half of the cover was missing...
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Post by kirby101 on May 4, 2022 16:54:09 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on May 4, 2022 19:39:37 GMT -5
As it's May the 4th, here's a Neal Adams Star Wars commission...
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Post by Mister Spaceman on May 4, 2022 22:20:13 GMT -5
Here's another Adams Star Wars piece:
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Post by kirby101 on May 5, 2022 7:49:30 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on May 5, 2022 8:16:10 GMT -5
I saw that too. I rather enjoy Evanier's well-thought blog, and this installment is no different.
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Post by commond on May 7, 2022 16:33:25 GMT -5
Rob Liefeld was on Cartoonist Kayfabe talking about Neal Adams. I know Rob's not a favorite of a lot of people around here, but I really dig Liefeld the comic book fan:
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 24, 2022 2:39:33 GMT -5
Great spotlight on the career of Neal Adams.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 24, 2022 3:42:30 GMT -5
At 7:38 we see Beast falling out of a window, not "down an elevator shaft". About Continuity Associates, I wonder if that still works, they haven't even echoed Adam's death, or taken down his email contact address.
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