Lee & Ditko & Orlando & Rockwell: Another New Discovery in the Multiple Car Crash of TALES TO ASTONISH #61

Here's some more new business building on old business that has just cropped up. It's been a number of years now since I first wrote about the catastrophic journey of getting the Giant-Man story that saw print in TALES TO ASTONISH #61 to print: https://tombrevoort.com/2020/10/31/lee-ditko-orlando-rockwell-the-multiple-car-crash-of-tales-to-astonish-61/ And also a few years since Dick Rockwell's unused splash … Continue reading Lee & Ditko & Orlando & Rockwell: Another New Discovery in the Multiple Car Crash of TALES TO ASTONISH #61 →

CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: SHOWCASE #106

We're continuing our trek through the pages of CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2, a collection of material intended to be published by DC in the late 1970s but which got spiked from publication due to the DC Implosion that saw 40% of teh line cancelled. The two issues of this series were hand-copied and distributed to … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: SHOWCASE #106 →

CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: SHADE THE CHANGING MAN #9: The Odd Man

Continuing our dig through the second issue of CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE, the hand-printed collection of material whose mainstream publication had been squashed by the DC Implosion that saw the company's line slashed by 40%. This time out, we're dealing with what would have been the back-up series in creator Steve Ditko's SHADE THE CHANGING MAN … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: SHADE THE CHANGING MAN #9: The Odd Man →

CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: SHADE THE CHANGING MAN #9

Continuing on through the second of the two hand-copied volumes of written-off material put together by DC in the wake of the DC Implosion that saw their line cut down by 40%, today we're looking at another book that was intended to be completed but which wouldn't see the light of day for decades yet. … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: SHADE THE CHANGING MAN #9 →

BHOC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN POCKET BOOKS Volume 3

As a kid, I didn't really have any way to get information about what new comic books and related publications would be coming out when. I was dimly aware of fanzines, but I never tried to purchase any on the regular--my meager funds were needed to buy actual comics, after all. So I had no … Continue reading BHOC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN POCKET BOOKS Volume 3 →

5BC: Five Attempts to Replicate Spider-Man

It was clear early on that the most important and successful new super hero character introduced during the Silver Age of Comics was Spider-Man. The work that Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and John Romita had put into the series had paid dividends, and the wall-crawler was soon a worldwide icon able to stand shoulder-to-shoulder against … Continue reading 5BC: Five Attempts to Replicate Spider-Man →

MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Six

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 →

MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Four

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 →

MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Three

Continuing on with our survey of this long-lost volume that uses examples from comic books to illustrate points of filmmaking theory. A Don Heck panel there on the lower right. Some Gene Colan here. More Gene Colan. A Steve Ditko panel on the right. A Gil Kane Spider-Man panel. More Gene Colan and a Dick … Continue reading MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Three →

MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Two

Continuing back with our look at this 1973 release that explained elements of filmmaking storytelling and composition by using visual examples selected from contemporaneous Marvel comic books. This was a volume that could be found in many an artist's drawing space during the 1970s. A sequence illustrated by Larry Lieber. Here are two sequences by … Continue reading MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Two →