selegue Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 No Siegel and Shuster story in #9 according to GCD. Maybe DC's lawyers advised against it. Good thinking... that is very easy to believe. Mid-1947 is just a year before S&S's ten-year contract with DC would be up, and their disputes over Superboy had probably picked up steam already. Wouldn't it be funny if the letter was planted by Siegel or Shuster? I wonder why the editor chose to print it. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 No Siegel and Shuster story in #9 according to GCD. Maybe DC's lawyers advised against it. Good thinking... that is very easy to believe. Mid-1947 is just a year before S&S's ten-year contract with DC would be up, and their disputes over Superboy had probably picked up steam already. Wouldn't it be funny if the letter was planted by Siegel or Shuster? I wonder why the editor chose to print it. Jack I'm curious if the -script was written and the art completed before the story was canceled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 I just now noticed the above letter. I wonder if there were actually any collectors actively seeking back issues, trying to complete runs at that early date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 "Sorry, but National Comics Publications publishes no reprints." Guess they found some flexibility on that later on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I noticed this Hollywood newstand from Wonder Woman. I don't think you mentioned this one yet. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 And I found a few more ads too. bb They used that scene for a later Showcase issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 BZ, Did you have any original art for Little Nemo? I am amazed at the quality of the work and happy that it is being reprinted and scanned. from GA.UK (photo from Michael Vance). I never found any newspapers with original cartoons by WM. Perhaps they were saved or passed on to other relatives. I found a lot of other pre-1940 newspaper comics which are now crumbling in my closet. The Flash Gordons seemed to have survived in good condition. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 BZ, Did you have any original art for Little Nemo? I am amazed at the quality of the work and happy that it is being reprinted and scanned. I have hundreds of original Little Nemo Sunday pages but not any original artwork. They were always too expensive for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 I found a lot of other pre-1940 newspaper comics which are now crumbling in my closet. The Flash Gordons seemed to have survived in good condition. I'd love to see some of your Flash Gordon strips. I love Raymond's work from that period but never owned many examples myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 I noticed this Hollywood newstand from Wonder Woman. What a wonderful ad. Thanks, BB. What issue is that from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I noticed this Hollywood newstand from Wonder Woman. I don't think you mentioned this one yet. bb Now THAT is cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ft88 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I was looking through an old comic and discovered this neat ad for Flash Comics #1. There's another one in a More Fun (Basketball cover, issue 50 I think) that looks very similar. It is dated prior to Flash 1 (as I'm sure this one is) which makes it kind of cool. Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 BZ, Did you have any original art for Little Nemo? I am amazed at the quality of the work and happy that it is being reprinted and scanned. I have hundreds of original Little Nemo Sunday pages but not any original artwork. They were always too expensive for me. Nice bound volumes BZ (thumbs u I bid on some of the comic bound volumes in the last heritage auction but was outbid. I used to have quite a few, only two in the collection now. I think they are a cool way to have comics collected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 Nice bound volumes BZ (thumbs u I bid on some of the comic bound volumes in the last heritage auction but was outbid. I used to have quite a few, only two in the collection now. I think they are a cool way to have comics collected. Thanks, Bill. It is pretty nifty having them bound. It makes it a lot easier to store and read the strips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 I'm always surprised at the large number of girls listed as contest winners in old comic books. Were girls just as likely as boys to be reading Danger Trail, or did a higher percentage enter contests, or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 (edited) I found a lot of other pre-1940 newspaper comics which are now crumbling in my closet. The Flash Gordons seemed to have survived in good condition. I'd love to see some of your Flash Gordon strips. I love Raymond's work from that period but never owned many examples myself. The problem with presenting the newspaper strips is that my scanner is for 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper and the Sunday pages are 60 cm by 46 cm. I purchased two digital cameras for my daughter and she took them to South Carolina. My digital camera that I purchased for the computer was dumped when I upgraded last spring. Perhaps I will buy another and take photos of the Sunday papers. My favorites are the Raymond and Crane full pages but the Superman and Tarzan halves are pretty good too. I would like to obtain more King pages but haven't seen a lot of those. And as I said before, they are hard to take care of and store. bb Edited March 6, 2009 by BB-Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Or the boys submitted their sisters names to double their chances of winning. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 I found a lot of other pre-1940 newspaper comics which are now crumbling in my closet. The Flash Gordons seemed to have survived in good condition. I'd love to see some of your Flash Gordon strips. I love Raymond's work from that period but never owned many examples myself. While I am working on those Flash Gordon Sunday page scans, I thought I would post some scans from the comics. I don't have any originals. Just old newspapers and a few beat up comics.I tried to reduce the size of the scans in photoshop. If they are still too large, then ad a note and I will delete them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Perhaps it is better to scan the Sunday pages one panel at a time. bb This kind of looks like the Big Little Book version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 (edited) I was working on those Flash Gordon pages but I got a little distracted. I heard that parents are outraged about the latest tattooed Barbie. But then I looked a little closer at the tattoo and it seemed familiar. Edited March 6, 2009 by BB-Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
