Marvel Mysteries and Comics Minutiae

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

Friday, August 30, 2013

Marvel's Most UNUSUAL 1960's Annual

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As summer winds down, my thoughts often drift to childhood, circa the mid-late 1960's, specifically July and August, when school was a d...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Patsy and Hedy No More!

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As noted in my previous post, by the mid-1960's Marvel's "Girl Line" was dwindling down. Patsy Walker, who originated in ...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Missing credits in Marvel's humor and soap-opera comics

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One area of comic’s research that is lacking are credits on Marvel’s Soap Opera and humor line of the 1960's and early 1970's. Ther...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

New Splash Pages in Marvel Reprints

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In the 1970's Marvel published a great many reprint comics, and along with the superhero material that appeared in Marvel Tales, Marvel ...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The OTHER Kirby Rawhide Kid cover

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Following up on my last post I've found  another alternate Jack Kirby western cover, this time featuring the Rawhide Kid. Kirby and Le...
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Monday, June 10, 2013

Jack Kirby's unknown Kid Colt cover

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Over the years I've discovered instances where foreign comics reprinting american stories were provided original stats from publishers. ...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Easy Reader Says: "This Blog Is Easy To Read"

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In my frenzy to index every comic book I get my hands on for the GCD, I recently borrowed issues of Spidey Super Stories from Barry Pearl (...
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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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