My new Stationery Store source for new comic books proved itself to be valuable even beyond the typical swath of new releases. It also wound up carrying the relatively few remaining Treasury Editions that came out after this point, as well as the new format that DC was expanding into and testing out: digests. The … Continue reading BHOC: DC SPECIAL SERIES #19
All in all, I wound up buying four of the six paperback editions that Tempo Books put out featuring the DC super heroes--though I didn't purchase them all at once. Rather, I wound up picking them up at odd times and in odd places. Because they were paperbacks, they wound up being available in a … Continue reading BHOC: WONDER WOMAN Tempo Paperback
I'm not 100% certain who I borrowed this issue of BATMAN from. it might have been my grade school friend Donald Sims as with most of the books that we've been looking at recently. But I suspect that it was actually my next-door-neighbor Johnny Rantinella. Johnny was a year younger than I was and a … Continue reading BC: BATMAN #257
This issue of WORLD'S FINEST COMICS was another book that I borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims to read. I'm almost certain that it wasn't the lead story that made we want to experience it but rather the back-up reprint story. But we'll get there. At this time, WORLD'S FINEST COMICS had transitioned … Continue reading BC: WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #211
This was another of the assorted comic books that my household ended up with two copies of. Not only did I pick the issue up the week it came out during my regular visit to the local 7-11, but my younger brother Ken also bought his own copy at some later point. I never entirely … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #336
Here's the fifth and final part of our overview of this short hardcover how-to pamphlet authored in 1943 by writer/editor Robert Kanigher. It's a wealth of interesting information about just how comic books were put together back during the Golden Age and what publishers were looking for. The story that Kanigher breaks down here was … Continue reading How To Make Money Writing For Comic Magazines, Part Five
This being the fourth part of our review looking back at writer/editor Robert Kanigher's very early hardcover booklet giving a how-to on writing for comic magazines. It was published in 1943 and is therefore probably the earliest repository for such information. If nothing else, it gives a good sense of what the field was like … Continue reading How To Make Money Writing For Comic Magazines, Part Four
Once again, here's a look at writer/editor Robert Kanigher's 1943 how-to book on writing material for the comic book market. It's a good snapshot as to just what the prevailing wisdom was during the Golden Age of Comics in terms of the material that was being generated. That should cover things for the moment. But … Continue reading How To Make Money Writing For Comic Magazines, Part Three
Continuing our look at editor and writer Robert Kanigher's 1943 volume on writing for the comic books of that era. There's more to come in future weeks as we delve further into this volume.
Even by the year 1943, writer Robert Kanigher considered himself a veteran of the comic book business. He'd been selling stories to various publishers beginning around 1940, and while he considered himself to be a bit too good for the medium he was working in, he was both prolific and always on the lookout for … Continue reading How To Make Money Writing For Comic Magazines, Part One
