The Black Hand ® Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Think there were any Action 1's in that room? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Rescuing this thread from the second page, here's a pic of what Bonnett's looked like circa 1941 Great picture!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffman_Comics Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Rescuing this thread from the second page, here's a pic of what Bonnett's looked like circa 1941 Wouldn't mind betting that's a young BangZoom strutting the aisle to the right of that pic, picking up a few "forget-me-nots" as he strolls the back issue bins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 here's a pic of what Bonnett's looked like circa 1941 WOW!! I never imagined Bonnetts was so huge. Incredible photograph, Scrooge. Bonnetts is still located at the same address. If anyone wants to go armchair sightseeing, go to: http://maps.google.com/ and check out Bonnett's neighborhood: 502 E 5th St 45402 (click on "Street View"). There's a Goodwill across the street. Scrooge, do you have any more photographs like that one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouseofComics.Com Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Sweet photo. If only we had a photo of Pop Hollinger's to go with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 Think there were any Action 1's in that room? My Spidey sense tells me that there's a NM copy on the table in front of the boy who is leaning on his elbow. There's also a dogeared copy under a table in the far back of the room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 I was deleting photos from our camera's memory card and noticed I have a bunch of images I've never posted. They're mostly close-ups of various pages. Mandrake the Magician (King Comics) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 Johnson Smith Company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 Schwinn Bicycles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 Daisy Air Rifle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 Ad for Batman #2 (Action Comics #29) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 Superman Splash (Action Comics #29) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forbush-Man Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 So recently I broke down and ordered John Locke's Pulp Fictioneers - Adventures in the Storytelling Business, a collection of articles from the pages of writers' magazines such as Writer's Digest, The Writer, ... The articles selected were written by writers of the time and discuss the profession. I should have bought it sooner as I am enjoying the heck out of it only halfway through it. Apparently, he has another volume or two left, this time focusing not on the writers but on the articles written by editors. Be that as it may, my local library's collection of Writer's Digest goes a little further back than what John was able to assess. So, here's an example of the article one can find in the magazine. This one is from November 1928. I enjoyed it, you also may ... - I've ordered a copy for myself, should be an interesting read. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Was this an early response to Wertham's critic of comics? bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 (edited) Superman Splash (Action Comics) BZ, I saw your splash and I went looking for old Superman stories in the Golden Age boxes. I found this splash in Action 40 but then I noticed that we missed someone's birthday last week. Happy 67th Birthday Star-Spangled Kid. He is even older than me. bb Edited August 11, 2008 by BB-Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Black Hand ® Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 HBD ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted August 11, 2008 Author Share Posted August 11, 2008 Happy 67th Birthday Star-Spangled Kid. I didn't remember the Jerry Siegel connection. Thanks, BB. Here's a few panels from Star Spangled #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 BZ, Thanks for a glimpse of the giant robot panels. I liked the robot but I think Shuster could have done better. I wonder why DC chose to separate the talents of Jerry and Joe? Any logic in breaking up the team which was so successful in producing Superman. Joe had his hands full with the Superman comic and the newspaper comics but by this time he had a lot of people producing the art and didn't need to do it himself. I guess they had already started working separately when the Spectre appeared and DC was going to continue to milk what they could out of Siegel. bb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 V man seemed a little gruesome and the Banshee looked like a cool strip. bb And Nagana had some cool headgear. bb Unfortunately these strips didn't last very long but they gave it a good shot while they were out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 BZ,Thanks for a glimpse of the giant robot panels. I liked the robot but I think Shuster could have done better. I wonder why DC chose to separate the talents of Jerry and Joe? Any logic in breaking up the team which was so successful in producing Superman. Joe had his hands full with the Superman comic and the newspaper comics but by this time he had a lot of people producing the art and didn't need to do it himself. I guess they had already started working separately when the Spectre appeared and DC was going to continue to milk what they could out of Siegel. bb Jerry as a writer was able to create characters / storylines faster than Joe could draw/manage given his eyesight problems and it appears from Men of Tomorrow that Jerry did not think highly of Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
