Marvel Mysteries and Comics Minutiae

A place to explore the cobwebbed corridors of comics' past.

Monday, June 11, 2012

More on Big Boy, Brodsky and Lee

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I emailed Stan Lee with a few questions on the NAACP comic, Big Boy and Brodsky's involvement, and while Stan didn't recall if he wa...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Sol Brodsky, Big Boy and Marvel's Unknown 1960s comics (Updated)

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One of the exciting aspects of studying comics are the surprises that one constantly, and often accidentally, discover. While I was adding c...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Development of the Marvel Method

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While we have certain facts that point to when Stan Lee began working Marvel Method with a few artists, there are questions as to when it wa...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

Jack Kirby's interpertation of Spider-Man

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Since my post on the cover to Avengers # 11 received its share of interest I thought I'd follow up with a look at how Jack Kirby drew S...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Avengers # 11 Cover Mystery

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A Few weeks back I looked at some of the interior corrections on The Avengers by Jack Kirby. This time around I thought it would be interes...
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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Pencil and Ink

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There is something of a very personal nature in the ability of an artist to take up pencil and brush and bring images to life on a piece of ...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Jonathan Frid 1924-2012

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                             "Our Revels Now Are Ended..." Dark Shadows # 2, August 1969 Like the comic books, music and mo...
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For 75 Years of Marvel: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen and The Stan Lee Story published by Taschen books I wrote captions, biographies, provided research for the 1960's and early 1970's period and was an editorial consultant. My articles and essays have appeared in Alter Ego, Jack Kirby Collector, Ditkomania, Comic Book Artist, Comic Book Marketplace, Jack Kirby Quarterly, Robin Snyder and Fantaco publications and Marvel's Omnibus and Masterworks collections. I study artist styles and have indexed thousands of entries for the invaluable Grand Comic Book Database http://www.comics.org/
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