tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post3394547136075131036..comments2024-03-25T11:21:33.915-04:00Comments on Diversions of the Groovy Kind: R.I.P. Nicola CutiThe Groovy Agenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17466541479854942040noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-86320887861343026802020-03-09T05:19:55.789-04:002020-03-09T05:19:55.789-04:00This was a great time to collect comics. Like man...This was a great time to collect comics. Like many, I was traumatized when Kirby jumped from Marvel to DC.keythd23https://www.blogger.com/profile/00690368680707726203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-8154105613961286802020-03-09T05:12:56.043-04:002020-03-09T05:12:56.043-04:00JO didn't become DCs best selling comic under ...JO didn't become DCs best selling comic under Kirby. Let's keep our history rooted in reality keythd23https://www.blogger.com/profile/00690368680707726203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-85681291225961084032020-03-09T05:11:25.595-04:002020-03-09T05:11:25.595-04:00I loved the Emma Peel phase of Wonder Woman and wa...I loved the Emma Peel phase of Wonder Woman and was sorry to see it go. Sekowsky really cut loose, both as writer and artist (in tandem with Denny O'Neill). Initially it saved the title from cancellation and offered a unique 60s perspective on our Amazon (and loved her mentor/sidekick I Ching).keythd23https://www.blogger.com/profile/00690368680707726203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-33128331968699930942020-03-09T05:05:31.979-04:002020-03-09T05:05:31.979-04:00Couldn't agree more. Those 10 Charlton issues...Couldn't agree more. Those 10 Charlton issues are some of best comics in my collection.keythd23https://www.blogger.com/profile/00690368680707726203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-5581217828431961822020-03-02T15:16:10.416-05:002020-03-02T15:16:10.416-05:00Here's how Mark Evanier tells it in his KIRBY:...Here's how Mark Evanier tells it in his KIRBY: KING OF COMICS: :<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Quote<br />In his first year , Kirby started as writer/artist of Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen. The story that circulated was he'd said, 'Give me your worst-selling book, and I'll make it your best-selling book.' Jack did talk like that, but Jimmy Olsen wasn't their worst selling book.<br /> <br /><br />What did happen what that he was invited to pick up any current comic and do whatever he wanted to it. That was how little the company was committed to anything it was then publishing. Jack gave the line the once-over and didn't see a one he wanted. But then Jack was never comfortable taking over someone else's characters, displacing another voice with his own.<br /><br /> <br /><br />DC insisted, so he said, 'Give me whatever book doesn't currently have someone assigned to it.' He hated the thought of kicking a fellow professional off an assignment, especially if the guy's income might suffer for it...<br /><br /> <br /><br />Evanier also recounts that the larger issue for Kirby at the time was directly related to some of the reasons why he left Marvel: he wanted to avoid the "Marvel Method" working relationship he'd developed with Stan Lee, wherein Jack plotted the book and told the story visually, but the actual dialogue and narrative text blocks were out of his hands. His precondition for coming to DC was that he would only work with a writer who provided a completed -script to work from (i.e., full plot and all the text, including dialogue), or he'd write and draw the book himself. The bottom line is that he wanted his stories to be his, and not corrupted or "inverted", as Evanier puts it, by someone else interpreting the content of his panels.<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-58130218982328643312020-03-02T12:36:25.404-05:002020-03-02T12:36:25.404-05:00JIMMY OLSEN certainly wasn't DC's worst-se...JIMMY OLSEN certainly wasn't DC's worst-selling comic book in 1970, nor did it become DC's best seller once Kirby took over. But it certainly became a must-read comic book during the Kirby years!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15072228259088889810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-74447038723764562612020-03-01T16:59:38.275-05:002020-03-01T16:59:38.275-05:00The cover for Jimmy Olsen 128 looks like pretty st...The cover for Jimmy Olsen 128 looks like pretty standard fare, but who would have guessed that only five issues later that Jack Kirby would leave Marvel and the Fantastic Four to helm this book? <br /><br />Apparently Jimmy Olsen was DC's worst seller and on the brink of cancellation until Kirby took it over, added the Newsboy Legion, Fourth World concepts, photo collage effects, and Don Rickles (!), suddenly making it DC's best selling comic.<br /><br />I suspect it was a nightmare come true for Stan Lee!<br /><br />- NeilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-22464564001603617232020-03-01T08:07:16.848-05:002020-03-01T08:07:16.848-05:00I'm so glad DC canned the powerless Wonder Wom...I'm so glad DC canned the powerless Wonder Woman in a white outfit once Gloria Steinem complained. The desire to try something different is understandable, but it was a bad choice. The only good things that came out of it were two Jeff Jones covers (199 & 200) & an improbable introduction to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd the Barbarian & the Grey Mouser to the world of comics.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Chris A.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-24772736149535085422020-02-29T10:36:20.891-05:002020-02-29T10:36:20.891-05:00That is some BIG head of hair the fella has on Rom...That is some BIG head of hair the fella has on Romita's My Love #5! The girl has nothing on him! Hilariously groovy, baby!<br /><br />- NeilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-66924275942259150662020-02-29T10:29:05.647-05:002020-02-29T10:29:05.647-05:00P.S. Aquaman no. 51 has great Jim Aparo art with c...P.S. Aquaman no. 51 has great Jim Aparo art with classic Neal Adams work on the concluding Deadman three-parter. Neal's covers on B&B, Batman, and Tomahawk are also terrific. Marvel Tales was already reprinting the Amazing Spider-Man no. 33 in 1970 when the original came out in 1966! But it is Spidey's definitive moment of the Ditko era, lifting that impossibly heavy object off of him before the underground room completely floods. What a great era for comics!<br /><br />Gene PooleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-25864738346938205942020-02-29T08:00:23.021-05:002020-02-29T08:00:23.021-05:00Lots of memories in this post!
Kubert's Our A...Lots of memories in this post!<br /><br />Kubert's Our Army at War cover nicely incorporates the Sgt. Rock logo as part of the artwork a la Will Eisner's The Spirit.<br /><br />Seminal O'Neil-Adams-Giordano work on GL/GA 76. I own the entire run, including the four bsckup stories in the Flash. Many completists forget that Neal Adams also drew the cover for Green Lantern 63, besides a few early '80s reprints.<br /><br />The cover for Tower of Shadows 5 is okay, but inside are good Barry Smith and Syd Shores stories and one by Wally Wood with an opening panel which is probably his most-reprinted artwork of the 1970s:<br />http://bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/2009/04/flight-into-fear.html?m=1<br /><br />Gene Poole <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-32511324502761542432020-02-29T07:49:28.319-05:002020-02-29T07:49:28.319-05:00Do yourself a huge favor and try some 70s E-Man. T...Do yourself a huge favor and try some 70s E-Man. There's nothing like it!The Groovy Agenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466541479854942040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897120082101927069.post-88572836715168520252020-02-29T07:10:12.379-05:002020-02-29T07:10:12.379-05:00I remember Nick Cuti's poetic script for "...I remember Nick Cuti's poetic script for "A Martian Saga," drawn by Wrightson for Creepy in 1977. It was so much like the sort of thing Bruce Jones wrote in those days that I did a double take when I saw it wasn't his. <br /><br />As for E-Man I certainly recall it, but never read it. If only Cuti and Staton had trademarked the lettercol: E-mail! And it was the mid '70s no less.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Chris A.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com