Comments on: The Lineup http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1194 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:49:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Larry Genalo http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1194/comment-page-1#comment-10267 Larry Genalo Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:10:46 +0000 http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1194#comment-10267 I am Joe Genalo's son. I happened to google my Dad's name and found this question about whether or not the person in the line-up is my Dad. It doesn't look like him, but perhaps that is the "license" taken by the artist. You mention a photo that is misidentified as Joe Genalo. If I could see that photo I could identify him (or not). By the way, today would have been Dad's 88th birthday. I am Joe Genalo’s son. I happened to google my Dad’s name and found this question about whether or not the person in the line-up is my Dad. It doesn’t look like him, but perhaps that is the “license” taken by the artist. You mention a photo that is misidentified as Joe Genalo. If I could see that photo I could identify him (or not). By the way, today would have been Dad’s 88th birthday.

]]> By: Stan Taylor http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1194/comment-page-1#comment-8051 Stan Taylor Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:58:46 +0000 http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/1194#comment-8051 Hi Harry, Beautiful cover scans. There was another "lineup" cover,in between the Mortimer, and the Stein versions, and it was on Justice Traps the Guilty #17. It was one of those photo covers that appeared for a short period in the industry. I have wondered for a long time just why comic books started using those tacky, ugly, cheesy looking staged photographs. I can't imagine it was cheaper to hire a photographer than to have an artist draw a cover. The covers weren't (IMO) more dramatic, or eye catching than drawn covers, in fact I find them laughably anti-dramatic. The lineup covers are perfect examples, the drawn covers are way superior. The photos were so cheesy, and low class, that I can't imagine kids being attracted to them. Perhaps the publishers thought that by appearing more like the pulp magazines that more adults would buy them. Harry, has Joe ever talked about those photo covers? and why they were used? Does anyone know what the first photo cover was? Stan Hi Harry,

Beautiful cover scans. There was another “lineup” cover,in between the Mortimer, and the Stein versions, and it was on Justice Traps the Guilty #17. It was one of those photo covers that appeared for a short period in the industry.

I have wondered for a long time just why comic books started using those tacky, ugly, cheesy looking staged photographs. I can’t imagine it was cheaper to hire a photographer than to have an artist draw a cover. The covers weren’t (IMO) more dramatic, or eye catching than drawn covers, in fact I find them laughably anti-dramatic. The lineup covers are perfect examples, the drawn covers are way superior. The photos were so cheesy, and low class, that I can’t imagine kids being attracted to them. Perhaps the publishers thought that by appearing more like the pulp magazines that more adults would buy them.

Harry, has Joe ever talked about those photo covers? and why they were used?

Does anyone know what the first photo cover was?

Stan

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