Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
It’s A Crime, Chapter 9, Not The Same
(Justice Traps the Guilty #9 – #12, Headline #35 – #38)
This chapter will cover the Prize crime comics from the period March through November 1949. Both Justice Traps the Guilty and Headline were bimonthly titles. The other nominally crime title, Charlie Chan, had been discontinued after February. Simon and Kirby were also producing Young Romance [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Mort Meskin before Joining Simon and Kirby
Golden Lad #1 (July 1945) “The Heart of Gold”, art by Mort Meskin
Last week I provided some examples of early work by Mort Meskin. Now I would like to do the same for the period from after the war until Mort began working for Simon and Kirby. Actually I am being a little inaccurate by [...]
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Early Mort Meskin
While my main interest in Mort Meskin concerns the art that he did for the Simon and Kirby studio, he also did some great work both before and after that. I thought a brief examination of his earlier efforts might prove interesting. Unfortunately I can only provide a very unbalanced outline of Mort’s initial career [...]
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Happy Birthday Joe!
Today is Joe Simon’s birthday, he is now 95 years old. My original plans were to get a picture of Joe on his birthday and post it late today. However when I talked to Joe he remarked that he had told his family he wanted nothing special to happen on his birthday; no party or [...]
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
French Fly
Strange #6
The French company, Organic Comix, has released a translated reprint of “Come into My Parlor” which was first published in Adventures of the Fly #1 (August 1959). This reprint was originally meant to be released earlier under a license agreement with Archie Comics. The only problem was Archie Comics did not have the copyrights [...]
