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What’s wrong is they didn’t disclose they added the stat. How hard is that? Isn’t this theoretical, though? Do they actually sell art?

Bleeding Cool reported on rumors—not confirmed—that DC monthlies would be exclusively digital but trades would still be printed: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/gossip-dc-comics-abandoning-comic-shops-and-comic-cons/. This could be speculation that morphed into rumor, but if floppies are low-margin anyway, DC, under great pressure from corporate parent AT&T, could take out a lot of personnel cost not having to support the floppy business. The question is whether the fan base would remain engaged with only trades and digital. We’ll see, but the current model, selling paper issues of 20 pages for $4 as all other periodicals go digital, and in the middle of a panemic to boot, does seem ripe for retuning.

JLGL’s work on stories, especially in the context of DC in the mid-70s, was pretty dynamic. I don’t know that he earned a place on this list.

My amateur opinion: It looks like the balloons were taped on in production to change the dialogue, like white-out. I don’t mind seeing white-out or blue lines, because they’re part of a comic page’s creation and show activity by the creators. I would leave the tape on.

For those interested in the history: Russ Heath wrote that Whaam! was based on his work (http://comicsalliance.com/russ-heaths-comic-about-being-ripped-off-by-roy-lichtenstein-will-give-you-a-new-appreciation-for-the-hero-initiative/), but, actually, it was based primarily on an Irv Novick panel with only the target plane possibly coming from Heath (http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/the_principality_of_lichtenstein). A BBC article on the issue of whether Lichtenstein was a great artist or a rip-off artist includes a comparison of Whaam! to the Novick panel that starts to read like parody (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130717-pop-artist-or-copy-cat), but the article does contain this jaw-dropping anecdote: “Novick was an officer at the army boot camp where Lichtenstein trained during the Second World War. After spotting Lichtenstein’s talent as a draughtsman, Novick took him off latrine-mopping duty and got him designing signs and posters instead. . . . [T]wo decades later Lichtenstein returned the favour by immortalising one of Novick’s panels as a masterpiece of modern art.”

Middle one is Reno Msad (obviously): https://renomsad.com/

Are you thinking of Irv Novick in Batman or Bob Brown in Detective? I don’t think Dillin did any of those stories. Maybe you’ve hated the wrong guy for 45 years.

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Might the same be true of panel pages having more room to run? Covers and splash pages command such a large premium, and if new buyers who are not pure speculators enter the field, they are likely to start at the low end.