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Post by berkley on May 31, 2022 11:21:04 GMT -5
I just remembered what should have been an obvious one for me since I re-read them only two or three months ago and even mentioned them at the time in the "What Classics have You Read Lately" thread: Tales of Somnopolis, the Mister X back-up stories in the first 4 issues of the Hernandezes' run on that '80s series. They were by Mario and Gilbert and drawn by Gilbert, which of course gave them a very different flavour visually to the main story drawn by Jaime. They added a lot to the texture of the book, making Somnopolis seem like a real place where things had happened and were happening all the time. Very amusing and fun too, in their own right. Like ll good things, I wish there had been more, much more!
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2022 11:23:09 GMT -5
I seem to recall a very brief Jonah Jameson strip. All I can remember is Jameson punching a would-be-mugger who had mocked the Daily Bugle.
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Post by tartanphantom on May 31, 2022 12:16:35 GMT -5
Adventure Comics #431 had one of the great back-ups with Shelly Mayer and Alex Toth's "Is a Snerl Human?" Love this story.
I'm pretty sure that it was an unpublished file story from much earlier, based on the creators, and also on the published job number, which was J-1713.
Contemporary DC Job numbers were well into the 3000's by the time this story was actually published in 1974. However, the Snerl story had never been published prior to this issue.
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Post by MDG on May 31, 2022 12:26:33 GMT -5
Adventure Comics #431 had one of the great back-ups with Shelly Mayer and Alex Toth's "Is a Snerl Human?" Love this story.
I'm pretty sure that it was an unpublished file story from much earlier, based on the creators, and also on the published job number, which was J-1713.
Contemporary DC Job numbers were well into the 3000's by the time this story was actually published in 1974. However, the Snerl story had never been published prior to this issue.
That's likely--Adventure was kind've casting about for a format/anchor under Orlando until the Spectre caught on. Despite being a good story, at the time, the best thing about it from DC's point of view was that it was the right number of pages and already paid for.
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Post by tonebone on May 31, 2022 15:33:53 GMT -5
Kind of wrong on all counts there. It was from Logan's Run #6, and it was written by Scott Edelman and drawn by Mike Zeck (one of his first jobs for Marvel). Well than I stand corrected on all counts. Guess I’ll definitely need to read it again if I’ve forgotten that much about it. While you're at it, read the Perez-drawn Logan's Run main strip. It's quite good.
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Post by berkley on May 31, 2022 18:54:59 GMT -5
Another one I should have thought of right away since I just read them recently: the back-up stories in Mark Schulz's Xenozoic Tales. I don't think it had a name but it was a pretty regular feature, with short stories written by Schulz and drawn by Stiles adding background to the characters and setting of the over-arching narrative of the main part of the comic. Stiles's artwork had a nice feel to it, a bit retro but in a different way to Schulz's.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 31, 2022 20:18:44 GMT -5
Holy Schneikes, how could I have forgotten the excellent "USS Stevens," written and drawn by Sam Glanzman, which ran in many issues of OAAW/Sgt. Rock in the 70s and beyond.
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Post by Farrar on May 31, 2022 20:40:04 GMT -5
I really liked the Rose and the Thorn back-ups in Lois Lane--so much so that I even wrote a letter to DC praising the feature (of course thanks to the then-spotty distribution I never actually saw that my letter had been printed, at least not until decades later when I bought a ton of back issues from that time).
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Post by MDG on Jun 1, 2022 9:20:01 GMT -5
Holy Schneikes, how could I have forgotten the excellent "USS Stevens," written and drawn by Sam Glanzman, which ran in many issues of OAAW/Sgt. Rock in the 70s and beyond. Good call--These stories are starting to be recognized as some of the earliest autobiographical comics. All the more surprising since they're in mainstream, genre titles.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 1, 2022 11:38:26 GMT -5
That's one I don't really think of, as a back-up, as Our Army at War is an anthology; though, granted Rock was the lead feature. I thought of the war comics features; but, as someone mentioned earlier, they were anthologies, so it's hard to say one feature is a back-up, though you can usually point to the lead feature, due to cover status. Some were more like co-leads, like when the Unknown Soldier and Enemy Ace shared Star Spangled War Stories.
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Post by speakerdad on Jun 1, 2022 12:03:19 GMT -5
A few jump to mind. Green Arrow and Aquaman in both Adventure and World's Finest. Elongated Man in Detective. Detached Service Diary, featuring solo stories of the Blackhawks. Tales of Asgard. Manhunter by Simonson in Detective. Whatever Happened To? in DC Comics Presents. Steve Trevor, Kept Man in Wonder Woman. . Not familiar with the Detached Service Diary and Steve Trevor Kept Man, the rest of them are like you read my mind..
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 1, 2022 12:18:06 GMT -5
A few jump to mind. Green Arrow and Aquaman in both Adventure and World's Finest. Elongated Man in Detective. Detached Service Diary, featuring solo stories of the Blackhawks. Tales of Asgard. Manhunter by Simonson in Detective. Whatever Happened To? in DC Comics Presents. Steve Trevor, Kept Man in Wonder Woman. . Not familiar with the Detached Service Diary and Steve Trevor Kept Man, the rest of them are like you read my mind.. Steve Trevor, Kept Man answered many questions about just how Wonder Woman used her magic lasso nights and weekends.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 1, 2022 20:12:41 GMT -5
I was fascinated when I found out about DC's "The Day After Doomsday" backups that appeared occasionally in WEIRD WAR TALES and some of their other anthologies, micro-stories, some of them only two pages long. That was my main motivation in buying the SHOWCASE PRESENTS TALES OF THE GREAT DISASTER.
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