Stan, Jack, and Steve - The 1950's. (1956) Separating the Men from the Boys PART ONE 1 1

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Matt Slade Gunfighter #3 (cover by John Severin) - Stan Lee wrote a Western filler story for Matt Slade Gunfighter #3 with artist Dick Ayers. All four issues of Matt Slade would use the partial picture frame cover style.

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[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Back to Gunsmoke Western #37, we get another JACK DAVIS story (again the LEAD story), this time with writer Joe Gill... so Gunsmoke Western #37 had TWO JACK DAVIS stories...!

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

JACK DAVIS also did a story for Journey Into Unknown Worlds #50 (Bill Everett cover) - he wasn't there long, but he sure made himself useful!

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[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Millie the Model #71 - by Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo. My Girl Pearl also had a story in each issue...

 

Edited July 11, 2022 by Prince Namor

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

A Date with Millie #1, is another Millie the Model title, that featured one page gags, fashion pages, and even.... a coloring page...

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

And Stan and Dan DeCarlo's Sherry the Showgirl #2 was also out for June... almost identical to the Millie formula... (did I say 'almost'?)...

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Journey Into Mystery #39 (Bill Everett cover) - Guess who else came over from EC this month? WALLY WOOD! He'd also do a couple of stories, this first one from  Journey Into Mystery #39... strangely enough its the last story in the comic! Writer Unknown. 

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Mystic #52 (Bill Everett cover) - WALLY WOOD's other story that month was in Mystic #52, with writer Carl Wessler. It was the LEAD story.

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Mystery Tales #45 (Sol Brodsky cover) - Steve Ditko would again do two stories for Atlas/Marvel in June, the first is this 3 pager from Mystery Tales #45. This is another story that appears in 2019's Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko #1 Omnibus, when clearly Stan didn't write the story - in fact it was written by Carl Wessler.

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Strange Tales #50 (Bill Everett cover) - Steve Ditko's second story of the month would be this 4 pager from Strange Tales #50. This is yet another story that appears in 2019's Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko #1 Omnibus, when clearly Stan didn't write it. Stan didn't sign his name to any of these stories, and wouldn't until around 1961, when some of the Ditko stories started getting letters from readers asking for more stories like Ditko's. Suddenly Stan became the 'writer' and started signing his name. You'll see specifically when this happens, but that's still a few years off....

This also appears to be one of the earliest appearances of the Osborn hair style!

Edited July 11, 2022 by Prince Namor

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Jack Kirby did 4 covers for Harvey Comics for the month of June. Even though the 9 year reign of Romance Comics was starting to taper off, Harvey Comics was giving it their best shot!

First Love Illustrated #67

First Romance Magazine #41

Hi-School Romance #54

True Bride-To-Be Romances #19

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Young Romance #84 - Jack Kirby did the writing, penciling, the cover and most of the inking on all four stories in Young Romance #84.

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Edited July 11, 2022 by Prince Namor

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

The second story in Young Romance #84 is one of my favorite Romance stories by Jack Kirby. Kirby's romance work always has a 50's motion picture feel to it and his characters always seem to sound to me as if they're speaking in that style - making them more realistic. 

[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Young Love #72 - Again Jack Kirby did the writing, penciling, the cover and SOME of the inking on all four stories in Young Love #72, but Joe Simon inked the cover and most of the stories inside.

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[Prince Namor]

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Al Feldstein took over the Editor in Chief duties with Mad Magazine #29, released in June of 1956. Harvey Kurtzman, who'd been a HUGE part of making Mad what it was, asked for a HUGE part of the ownership of the magazine (51%) and Gaines turned him down. He quit and Gaines immediately hired Al Feldstein back and it became his project to run...

So what did a prolific writer like Al Feldstein do in his short time off from working for William Gaines...?

Coming up in Part TWO

[shadroch]

On 7/11/2022 at 3:10 AM, Prince Namor said:

ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1956

Back to Gunsmoke Western #37, we get another JACK DAVIS story (again the LEAD story), this time with writer Joe Gill... so Gunsmoke Western #37 had TWO JACK DAVIS stories...!

good stuff