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Context Too!
The industry-history story of U.S. comics is about DC. There’s no history of Marvel, Dell, Fawcett, Archie, and Gold Key, or their related media without DC in place for the bigger context. Read the rest of this entry
Posted by Ron Edwards
I completely missed war comics as a kid, and the reason is easy: the covers scared the shit out of me, the few I found in the pile of comics I’d inherited, e.g. Sgt. Rock, no less than those I’d see on the stands when I started buying comics, like Weird War Tales and War is Hell. Read the rest of this entry →
Posted in Politics dammit, The 70s me
Tags: Archie Goodwin, Blazing Combat, Carmine Infantino, Comics Code Authority, Dick Ayers, Entertainment Comics (EC), Frontline Combat, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby, Joe Kubert, Joe Orlando, Robert Kanigher, Sam Glanzman, Two-Fisted Tales, War is Hell, Weird War Tales
Posted by Ron Edwards
The industry-history story of U.S. comics is about DC. There’s no history of Marvel, Dell, Fawcett, Archie, and Gold Key, or their related media without DC in place for the bigger context. Read the rest of this entry →
Posted in Commerce
Tags: All-Star Comics, Bill Gaines, C. M. Gaines, Carmine Infantino, DC Comics, Detective Comics, Dick Giordano, Entertainment Comics (EC), Fredric Wertham, Gerard Jones, Harry Donenfeld, Independent News, Jack Liebowitz, Jenette Kahn, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Men of Tomorrow, National Periodical Publications, Paul Levitz, Superman, Warner Communications
Real Comics History
Todd Klein on lettering, literature and more
Marvel and DC comics and community