BangZoom Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 Cotton-Top Katie got a whole six-page story. mm According to GCD, Katie appeared in All-Flash, Green Lantern, Comic Cavalcade, All-Star Comics, All-American Comics, and Sensation Comics. And to think I'd never heard of her. Obviously my knowledge about DC's backup features is woefully lacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BangZoom Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 That's very cool. I looked up the magazine The Open Road for Boys on Wikipedia and found this interesting bit of trivia: Cartoon contest A popular Open Road feature was a cartoon contest which showed a drawing of a problem or situation, inviting the magazine's readers to do a follow-up cartoon showing the resolution of the problem. Well known cartoonists, such as Paul Coker, George Crenshaw, Dan Heilman, Eldon Pletcher, Mort Walker, Bill Yates and Bob Zschiesche, saw their first printed cartoons in the Open Road competitions, which also had an influence on illustrators and fine artists, as the painter Wayne Thiebaud noted in an interview with Susan Larsen: I got very interested in cartooning... mostly just the American comics in the newspapers. For a long time, I remember I cut out strips and kept them around. Then I would copy them and so on and got more and more interested. By the time I was maybe 16, I guess, 15, I started sending in cartoons to magazines. They had these contests in a magazine called Open Road for Boys. They would say: "Draw a cartoon in which you would say how this problem is solved." So I did that and I remember having a couple of things published, and I was very excited and so on... I think I got a dollar, a dollar prize. Cover artists included Jacob Bates Abbott, George Avison, Clarence Doore, William D. Eaton and Charles Hargens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 I've always enjoyed reading vintage ads that were used for the selling of comic character products. Here are a few from 1947 and 1948. Pep Comic Buttons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 Dic k Tracy Rapid-Fire Tommy Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BangZoom Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 Superman Jackets and Sweaters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 Anyone else have any other ads they could share? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Bună Ziua I think Katie made the cover of Comic Cavalcade twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 (edited) Ad from superman 8 Edited April 7, 2012 by BB-Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BB-Gun Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 A U238 atomic pistol for kids, Merry Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blink Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I've always enjoyed reading vintage ads that were used for the selling of comic character products. Here are a few from 1947 and 1948. Pep Comic Buttons Might be a cool thread is someone had the toys and the ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 I love that cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 I'd like to find the Buck Rogers and Superman guns for sale cheap at a flea market someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BangZoom Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 Mad #46 (April 1959) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 Scribbly by Sheldon Mayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
