Archive for April, 2008
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
New York Comic Con, Joe Simon and Much More
The organizers of the New York Comic Con seemed to have learned some lessons from their previous shows which frankly had problems with crowd control. This year they had an indoor area for the waiting line and entry to the show was a lot quicker. I hope the organizers continue to make improvements but happily [...]
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
“The Ten-Cent Plague” by David Hajdu
I have just finished reading David Hajdu’s new book “The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America”. Hajdu is not a comic book historian; most of his previous writings have concerned music. I have always meant to read his “Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, [...]
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
The Art of Romance, Chapter 5, New Talent
(Young Romance #9 – #12, Young Love #1 – #4)
Young Romance #12 (July 1949) “The Man I Kept on a String”, art by Bill Draut
As discussed in the previous chapter, Bill Draut became the most prolific contributor to the Simon and Kirby romance titles within the period from Young Romance #9 (January 1949) through Young [...]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Joe Simon’s Opinion on “Combat Photographer”
A couple of weeks ago in my post “More Obscure Simon and Kirby” I presented “Combat Photographer” (Real Fact #2, May 1946) which I attributed to Joe Simon. Last week I was able to show Joe this piece to get his opinion. Although he did not remember doing it, Joe was certain that it was [...]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
The Art of Romance, Chapter 4, An Explosion of Romance
(Young Romance #9 – #12, Young Love #1 – #4)
As I discussed in my previous chapter other publishers did not fail to notice Prize’s success with Young Romance. Three competing romance titles had appeared with cover dates of September and October 1948. It is understandable that competitor publishers may not have fully understood what a gold [...]
