Saturday, January 28, 2012

Journey Into Minutiae - Undocumented Ditko Thor

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Every once in a while its nice to write something deserving of the "Minutiae" title, and this post achieves that. A few months bac...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Attention Paid: The Lettering skills of Artie Simek and Sam Rosen

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An essential component of Marvel Comics’ distinctive appearance in the 1960s was the interior and cover lettering of Artie Simek and Sam Ro...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Monsters at my Window or Why Pre-Hero Marvel's Matter

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Since the Marvel Masterworks –Atlas Era Tales To Astonish Vol 4 comes out this week, which includes my essay on those stories (I hope you’...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD! MY AFFAIR WITH ROMANCE COMICS! ("As Told to Nick Caputo")

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I don’t recall when I purchased my first romance comic book; it might have been Our Love Story # 5, with a Steranko story, at a convention...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

A Kirby inking Kirby Addition

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I added another Kirby inked cover to my Kirby inking Kirby post: Strange Tales Annual # 1. Take a look and see if you agree with my assesmen...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Farewell to Joe Simon

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We are losing the pioneers of comics at an alarming rate. Jerry Robinson passed away on Dec 7th, and now Joe Simon. The comics industry rest...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Who Authored Ditko??

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This essay, an investigation on Ditko's Timely-Atlas Fantasy stories, was originally published in Ditkomania # 71. It's been update...
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