Theagenes Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Great books - both of them! IIRC Blue Ribbon 7 is one of the books we reviewed in the Dead Artists thread. I seem to remember someone comenting that the cover is the best part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 This image is from the cover of what GA cover? Here's another clue. This face should help you. Looks like Top-Notch 8 Congratulations, BB. BZ, I went looking for a scan from an issue five of a golden age comic but couldn't find one I liked. But I found a silver age number five. The Challengers were really a group of five if you count June. Hey, Susan Storm counted and she was invisible. Anyway to boost my ego and celebrate my fifth win (guess), here is a pretty good splash by Kirby and Wood. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 The origin and first appearance of Firefly was in Top-Notch #8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 BZ, That is another nice looking MLJ book. Does your collection include Pep 22? I really like early Montana art. I think his super heroes were great and I like Archie too. I could spend months reading all of the MLJ books. Some I could read again. The Skull stories seemed to be continued forever, like the Joker and Dr. Doom. BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 BB, you've done great in the quizzes since you came on the scene late last year. The only two people who have done better in that period of time are Scrooge with 7 wins and selegue with 6. The winners thus far this year are: 1 - Point Five 2 - MrBedrock 3 - buttock 4 - Scrooge 5 - RyanH 6 - adamstrange 7 - Scrooge 8 - selegue 9 - adamstrange 10 - Scrooge 11 - selegue 12 - selegue 13 - RyanH & Scrooge 14 - RyanH 15 - Scrooge 16 - october 17 - Scrooge 18 - BB-Gun 19 - selegue 20 - sacentaur 21 - sacentaur 22 - RyanH 23 - Point Five 24 - BB-Gun 25 - RyanH 26 - BB-Gun The top three winners this year are: Scrooge - RyanH - selegue - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Black Hand ® Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 (edited) Great books - both of them! IIRC Blue Ribbon 7 is one of the books we reviewed in the Dead Artists thread. I seem to remember someone comenting that the cover is the best part. It is, great cover and Top Notch 8 is a great book with the origin of Roy the Superboy. A great read. MLJ....you gotta love 'em! Edited April 10, 2008 by The_Black_Hand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 I would have done better if I had had time to look at the Top-Notch on the GCD. I went and looked at Zip and Pep then stopped. It did look like a MLJ. Congrats to BB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 BZ, I really like early Montana art. I think his super heroes were great and I like Archie too. I could spend months reading all of the MLJ books. Some I could read again. The Skull stories seemed to be continued forever, like the Joker and Dr. Doom. BB I've only recently begun paying close attention to the MLJ line and I've been pleasantly surprised at how good they are. They had some terrific artists working for them. Earlier you posted the splash page from a Hangman story. Here's another page from the same story to serve as an example of what is in some of those issues. I love it. scan courtesy of goldcomics.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 The top three winners this year are: Scrooge - RyanH - selegue - The other multi winners of this year's Pop Quiz challenges are: BB-Gun - adamstrange - Point Five - sacentaur - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 BB, you've done great in the quizzes since you came on the scene late last year. The only two people who have done better in that period of time are Scrooge with 7 wins and selegue with 6. The winners thus far this year are: 1 - Point Five 2 - MrBedrock 3 - buttock 4 - Scrooge 5 - RyanH 6 - adamstrange 7 - Scrooge 8 - selegue 9 - adamstrange 10 - Scrooge 11 - selegue 12 - selegue 13 - RyanH & Scrooge 14 - RyanH 15 - Scrooge 16 - october 17 - Scrooge 18 - BB-Gun 19 - selegue 20 - sacentaur 21 - sacentaur 22 - RyanH 23 - Point Five 24 - BB-Gun 25 - RyanH 26 - BB-Gun The top three winners this year are: Scrooge - RyanH - selegue - and Gator = ZERO but, congrats to Everyone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 More ERB goodness! Land the Time Forgot was always one of my favorite movies as a kid so this pulp was high on my wantlist. Gotta love U-Boats vs. vs Dinosaurs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 More ERB goodness! Many critics consider The Land That Time Forgot as being one of ERB's best works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I would have done better if I had had time to look at the Top-Notch on the GCD. I went and looked at Zip and Pep then stopped. It did look like a MLJ. Congrats to BB. I started with Zip too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 More ERB goodness! Land the Time Forgot was always one of my favorite movies as a kid so this pulp was high on my wantlist. Gotta love U-Boats vs. vs Dinosaurs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I think the Land That Time Forgot was one of the few ERB novels that I read as a teenager. I love the U-boat vs dinosaurs Amazing cover. I wonder what happened to my edition of the book. Well it probably was not a first edition since I remember it was red (and well read). bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Black Hand ® Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I would have done better if I had had time to look at the Top-Notch on the GCD. I went and looked at Zip and Pep then stopped. It did look like a MLJ. Congrats to BB. I started with Zip too I'm embarassed that I missed that one, must have been over in one of the screaming threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Shifting the spotlight from the world famous Edgar Rice Burroughs to the forgotten, Neil Ronald Jones. According to Wikipedia: The first known use of the term "astronaut" in the modern sense was by Neil R. Jones in his short story, The Death's Head Meteor. "He also pioneered cyborg and robotic characters, and is credited with inspiring the modern idea of Cryonics. Most of his stories fit into a "future history" like that of Robert A. Heinlein or Cordwainer Smith, well before either of them used this convention in their fiction." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 An advertisement for Science Wonder Quarterly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Have you ever wondered who Jerry Siegel's favorite authors were when he was a youngster? What magazines did he read? The letter reprinted below was written by Jerry to the editors of Amazing Stories when he was 14 years old. He was obviously very passionate about writing even at that young age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Thanks, BZ! That's a very thoughtful letter from the budding writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
