I expect that I picked up this issue of INCREDIBLE HULK on my weekly bicycle trip down to my neighborhood 7-11 on Thursday afternoon, which is when the new comic books arrived back in those days. It was a series that I was following, more because it was a part of the larger Marvel Universe … Continue reading BHOC:INCREDIBLE HULK #236
Continuing at our look at CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE, the Xerox-printed compilation of material that DC Comics wrote off in teh wake of the 1978 "DC Implosion" which saw 40% of their line cancelled and a number of staff members laid off. These stories were reproduced in this fashion so that DC could continue to hold … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: PREZ #5
Continuing on with our look at CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2, a xeroxed collection of material that had been spiked due to the DC Implosion and intended to secure copyright to these stories for the company. Only 35 copies of this hand-bound edition were initially made, though over the years others have generated their own copies … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: KAMANDI #61
The most successful of all of Jack Kirby's assorted creations in the decade of the 1970s was undoubtedly KAMANDI, the story of the last human boy on Earth in a future time when animals have become intelligent and walk upright. It was a sort of quasi-spin on the popular Planet of the Apes franchise, but … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: KAMANDI #60
These next couple of years' worth of THOR stories were truly a mixed bag, and as a reader, I had a difficult time remaining engaged--to the point where I dropped the title more than once, only to come back shortly thereafter on a week when I had spare cash and multiple issues were still available … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #284
It's been a while since we dropped one of these on you. So here are more photographs taken over the years depicting practitioners of the medium, both editorial and creators. As usual, there's a lot of Stan Lee. One of the earliest photographs that survives of Jakob Kurtzburg, who would come to be called Jack … Continue reading Comic Creators in the Wild 12
It's no great secret that the relationship between editor and scripter Stan Lee and artist and plotter Jack Kirby had grown fraught by 1969. Having at least co-invented the characters who ad saved the company and done the lion's share of the story work that continued to make the Marvel books he worked on shine, … Continue reading Lee & Kirby: THE TROUBLED BIRTH OF THOR #169
We're almost done with our review of MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED, THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, which uses examples culled from the pages of Marvel comics to illustrate different points of film theory. This was a ubiquitous tome among comic book artists in the mid-1970s. A trio of IRON MAN panels from Johnny Craig lead off this final section. … Continue reading MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Six
We're back with more of this early 1970s reference volume which illustrated points of filmmaking through the use of examples culled from Marvel Comics. I find this chapter interesting, in that it instructs in the use of sound in a motion picture by using examples from a medium that doesn't have any sound. Some George … Continue reading MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Five
Continuing our look through MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, a 1973 release that explained assorted filmmaking techniques and terminology by using visual examples culled from then-recent Marvel comics. A Johnny Craig sequence from IRON MAN opens this chapter. Panels by John Buscema and Jack Kirby Some more John Buscema here. A Barry Smith CONAN sequence … Continue reading MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Four
The Tom Brevoort Experience 