I had a couple of people rise to the occasion and come back to me with examples of even earlier comic book letters pages than the one that we looked at last week. https://tombrevoort.com/2023/10/21/the-first-comic-book-letters-page/ So I wanted to give these some space here as well, to make sure the record was straight. Comic book historian … Continue reading The First Comic Book Letters Page Redux
It's a fact of comic book publishing that many of the key names of characters have, over the years, been recycled from earlier sources. So while the Marvel Comics Doctor Strange doesn't really have anything to do with his earlier namesake, and while Steve Ditko and Stan Lee were in no way influenced by this … Continue reading The First Dr. Strange Story
There's no question that Alex Schomburg was one of the finest cover artists of the Golden Age of Comics. He cut his teeth at Timely, where he excelled in crafting spectacularly complex images of Captain America, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner battling just hordes of enemy soldiers or criminals or war machines or whatever. … Continue reading (Not So) Great Covers: THRILLING COMICS #57
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