Archive for September, 2008
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
The Art of Romance, Chapter 10, The Peak of the Love Glut
(January - April 1950: Young Romance #17 - #20, Young Love #7 - #8)
Number of Romance Titles 1947 - 1950 (the period covered in this chapter shaded in blue)
This chapter will cover the period from January to April 1950. This is the height of the love glut and the beginning of the decline in romance […]
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
A Leonard Starr Group at Yahoo
Last week I posted about the Mort Meskin group so now I would like to promote one for Leonard Starr. Starr has had a long and successful career and he is most famous for his syndication work for On Stage and Little Orphan Annie. Before that he was a comic book artist for a number […]
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Stan Lee Talking About Joe Simon
I mentioned Stan Lee’s statement about Joe Simon when I wrote about the 2008 New York Comic Con but I recently came across a short clip of it.
This was presented by YouTube user AstonishingTale’s. He also has a couple of other videos from the same Living Legends panel. One is a clip with Jerry Robinson […]
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
It’s A Crime, Chapter 8, The Chinese Detective
(Charlie Chan #1 - #5; June 1948 to February 1949)
During the period covered in last chapter of It’s A Crime, Simon and Kirby were also producing another title, Charlie Chan. This title was not a pure crime genre comic but instead was based on a successful movie character. Deriving a title from the movies was […]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
The Art of Joe Simon
I continue to reorganize my serial posts for easier sequential reading. My blog is truly a work in progress. By no means am I writing simply based on previously attained knowledge. Although I had studied Simon and Kirby for some time before I began blogging, my posts are based on either a new review of […]
