Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 25th, 2008
It’s A Crime, Chapter 2, A Revitalized Title
(Headline #23 - #25)
In chapter 1 I described Prize’s comics in 1946 as tired. With the arrival of Simon and Kirby things would never be the same for that company. Their effect on Headline is obvious. With issue #23 (March 1947), the title made a sudden transition from an anthology with an emphasis on the […]
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Recreation Vs. Restoration, How Should Reprints Be Done?
Not long ago Daniel Best wrote a post on his blog about art recreations used in Marvel Masterworks (Original Art Stories: Marvel Masterworks Non-Original Artists). The gist of his comments was that he objected to Marvel’s use of recreated art in the Masterwork volumes. Mike Kelleher who does work for Marvel reprints posted a reply […]
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Goodbye Creig Flessel
During my visit with Joe Simon today we got the news of the passing of Creig Flessel. It saddened us both. Joe reminisced about Creig and George Tuska being part of his crew. Joe commented that they both were beautiful people. The three lived close to one another at that time. It is a period […]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
It’s a Crime, Chapter 1, Promoting Crime
(Treasure #10, Prize Comics #63, Frankenstein #7)
Feature Publications, more commonly known as Prize Comics but also as Crestwood, was a relatively small company in 1946. There were five titles in their comic line all of which were bimonthlies; Frankenstein, Headline, Prize, Treasure and Wonderland. It was not just that Prize had a limited number of […]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
A Date Without Romance
Most of the work that Simon and Kirby did for Hillman in 1947 was for previously existing titles. The sole exception was My Date. Despite its title, My Date was not a romance comic (as I discussed previously) instead it is teenage humor and in particular an Archie-clone. Archie first appeared as a backup feature […]
