Once upon a time, the mighty Warner Entertainment was known as Warner Bros. and it wasn’t so mighty. In fact, in 1968, it was sold to Steve Ross’s Kinney National Company, a small conglomerate consisting of a Hollywood talent agency, parking lots, cleaning companies, and funeral homes for $64 million.… Read the rest
Continue reading about Obscurities: Look, Up in the Sky…It’s Super-Kinney!
In the 1980s, Ehapa, the publisher to which DC Comics licensed its German (other other countries) reprints, was asking DC Comics for as much new Superman material as the company could provide. At the time, Superman was appearing in Superman, Action Comics, DC Comics Presents, and World’s Finest, but there was apparently an insatiable appetite for more Man of Steel for this part of the European market.… Read the rest
I’ve finally had it. I just can’t take it anymore. Effective immediately, there’s some online comics columnists I’m deleting from my bookmark and reading lists.
It’s not that I don’t agree with their points and positions; in many cases, we’re actually on the same page on matters creative, social, and political.… Read the rest
Continue reading about Don’t Believe Everything You Read, Part II
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| “Some days you can’t get rid of a bomb!” |
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| The Dynamic Duo and the Jaunty Jew |
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| Ready to take off aboard the Batcopter! |
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| With artist and DC VP/Art Director, Mark Chiarello |
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| Mark Chiarello, Captain Action Enterprises’ Ed Catto, and cartoonist/letterer Rick Parker |
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| And speaking of Captain Action |
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| Writer and one-time DC Comics’ production manager, Bob Rozakis |
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| Lee Meriwether, Catwoman in the 1966 BATMAN movie, autographs the Batcopter from the same film |
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| My pal (and collaborator) Jim Beard, editor of Sequential Arts’ GOTHAM CITY 14 MILES, to which I contributed an essay |
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| Golden Age great and DONDI creator, the inimitable Irwin Hasen |
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| Artist and one-time DC production artist, Steve Manion, with Papercutz editor/publisher Jim Salicrup, and Una McGurk |
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| “Rest easy, citizens!” |
Continue reading about Images from a New Jersey Comicon (NJ Comic Expo, Teaneck NJ)
I’ll be a guest at this weekend’s upcoming NJ Comic Expo and Batvention, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Batman TV show at the Teaneck Armory, Teaneck NJ, November 12 – 13.
Also appearing are a beevy of fabulous femmes from the Batman TV show, including Catwoman Lee Meriwether, Terry Moore, Sherry Jackson, Donna Loren, and others.… Read the rest
A fine time was had by all! Met friends old and new, talked some business, took some pictures:
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| Me and the cover to the first LIFE WITH ARCHIE collection at the Archie Comics Booth |
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| Power Girl and me |
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| Me and Supergirl |
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| Me and Plastic Man |
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| From left to right: letterer extraordinaire John Workman, DC writer/production whiz Bob Rozakis, me (kneeling), DC writer/editor Jack C. |
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