Ijiwaru Sensei Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Just found out my mom used to work for Ziff Davis in the 1950's. My mom kept copies of Ziff-Davis's in-house 8 page glossy company newsletter called ZD Mirror. (Vol. 1, issues 1, 2, and 3--Oct. 1951, January 1952, and March 1952 respectively) One issue shows a pic of Bert Lahr reading an Amazing Fantasy. The same newsletter has a picture of the first issue of Fantastic on its first page. Each newsletter devotes a small section to Ziff's comics division. Would these newsletters be of any interest to GA folks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouseofComics.Com Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Definitely. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Absolutely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijiwaru Sensei Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 I can post scans of them if anyone would like to see them. It won't be until next weekend though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I can post scans of them if anyone would like to see them. It won't be until next weekend though. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inaflash Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Please post the scans. Thanks. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijiwaru Sensei Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 I'm a little tardy, but here is the first newsletter: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozer Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Very interesting -- thanks for going to the work of scanning and posting it! gozer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telerites Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 What a bit of history - thanks so much for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plady69 Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Great stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Ditto, great stuff! Thanks for the scans! If there was ever an newsletter article about Jerry Siegel (I believe he was the ZD comics editor around this time?), I'd really enjoy seeing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijiwaru Sensei Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 I didn't see anything about him, but I'll post the other two newsletters a little later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijiwaru Sensei Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 Thanks everybody for the kind words. I'm glad you're enjoying these. Here's the second newsletter: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_comics Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Good stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijiwaru Sensei Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 The last one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijiwaru Sensei Posted June 8, 2009 Author Share Posted June 8, 2009 Details: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickamabob Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 What kind of a name is Ziff, anyway? And why isn't it in continued use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I posted this in another thread but I scanned it for this thread. Sorry about the double post. Nice stuff here. Love the Bert Lahr phot and the story line of his show. Who is the cover artist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 I went ahead and forwarded (via the care of Roy Thomas) these cartoons to Herb Rogoff the cartoonist. Here's his reply: "I enjoyed seeing them again, though I had completely forgotten I had ever drawn them. Seeing the cartoons made me think about the house organ which Z-D published. I think there were only two issues. [scrooge Note: more in fact since we just saw 3]. I do recall that Jerry Siegal was still at the company and was the editor of the comics division and that I was upset when the company Table of Organization was printed in one of the editions. It appeared that they listed me as assistant editor instead of associate editor and this riled me quite a bit. I was 25 years old then and perturbed by what I thought (and knew) to be a misstatement of my position. I informed the editor of the house organ (whoever that person was) and was assured that the next issue would print a correction. There never was a "next issue." ... so thanks for posting the newsletters and I sent a link to them to Herb (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijiwaru Sensei Posted July 14, 2009 Author Share Posted July 14, 2009 I went ahead and forwarded (via the care of Roy Thomas) these cartoons to Herb Rogoff the cartoonist. Here's his reply: "I enjoyed seeing them again, though I had completely forgotten I had ever drawn them. Seeing the cartoons made me think about the house organ which Z-D published. I think there were only two issues. [scrooge Note: more in fact since we just saw 3]. I do recall that Jerry Siegal was still at the company and was the editor of the comics division and that I was upset when the company Table of Organization was printed in one of the editions. It appeared that they listed me as assistant editor instead of associate editor and this riled me quite a bit. I was 25 years old then and perturbed by what I thought (and knew) to be a misstatement of my position. I informed the editor of the house organ (whoever that person was) and was assured that the next issue would print a correction. There never was a "next issue." ... so thanks for posting the newsletters and I sent a link to them to Herb (thumbs u Cool! Roy Thomas--one of my childhood heroes, still a big fan! Glad Herb enjoyed seeing the drawings again. The organization chart is in one of the issues, but I didn't scan it because it was rather bulky and hard to read. I don't think it will scan well, but I'll look to see who's on it if anybody is interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
