Before Wizard magazine there was Comics Scene - Kirby, Barks, Byrne, Judge Dredd, Wally Wood - 1982
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2022
- Comics Scene magazine 2: 1982 - Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Carl Barks, John Byrne, Judge Dredd, creators rights, royalties + contracts, and fandom. Comics Scene was a big part of my comics education and chronicled the early days of comics' Direct Market. Comics were changing in the 1980s and Comics Scene was there.
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Wow, so many fond memories now for this Gen-Xer; I recall reading Comic Scene during study hall in high school back in 1982. 😊👍🏻
Comic scene! Yes, this, Blip, Starlog, Dynamite and a few others (and letter pages and editorials and the tv show Entertainment Tonight) were my internet back in the day. Flipped through lots of them, bought very few and of those, most a year or two old since yard sale finds. Even lucked out and had a library with a few of these regularly. Had they been cheaper I would've gotten lots of them just for the cover alone, with the rest being gravy. Roy Thomas' Alter Ego and various TwoMorrows companion/history books are my go to now a days ( other than internet and youtube...sometimes even ahead of those two)
Entertainment Tonight, back in the 1980's, when it had serious coverage of the tv and movie industries and Leonard Maltin's movie reviews.
Thanks so much for this! I adored this magazine back in the early 80s, this is really formative stuff for me.
I have all the copies I bought of Comics Scene. I can still remember how excited I was to find a magazine about comic books. Found my first copies at The Little Professor Book Store in Forest Hills.. 👍
I’m live that early two part issues with the inkers, Janson, Palmer, Layton & Rubinstein being interviewed
I still have the Frank Miller Daredevil Comics Scene issue. Oh man.
Now we're talking! This and Comics Buyers Guide were my go to comics publications during the '80s!
This issue was my intro to Judge Dredd and British comics. I was (and still am) captivated by the weekly tabloid format. I wish we'd had that here in the states.
It's how I learned about The Crow.
Things I learned about from the original run of Comics Scene: Doc Savage, pulp magazines, Roy Crane and Capt. Easy, the Air Pirates, underground comics, and there’s probably a ton more.
Others: Howard Chaykin and American Flagg, Dave Stevens, the Dark Phoenix saga, the X-Men graphic novel, First Comics etc.
The interlude music for your comics promo is perfect! Sounds like something out of "Everything is Illuminated"
The weekly Comics Buyers Guide is the “Internet of comics before the internet.” Well said! Along with the weekly Toy Shop News, these two hobby weekly periodicals made you race to the mailbox so you could be the first to purchase the back issues / rare-used toys being advertised. 🙏🏻
Comics Scene was my jam. Thanks for this.
There was another magazine at newsstands and Waldenbooks around the same time called Comics Collector, from Krause Publications, that heavily promoted direct sales comics and comic book stores. Early Starlog issues had comic history articles by Ron Goulart. It was definitely a great new time to be a comics fan.
There was another low-profile how to draw booklet that came out around this time. As a young aspiring artist I sent some cowboy drawings to Charlton and received some pretty thoughtful commentary back, along with the "Comic Book Guide for the Artist-Writer-Letterer" by Nick Cuti with art by guys like Tom Sutton and Joe Staton. It's pretty good nuts and bolts stuff and the first place I ever saw mention of an Ames Guide. Charlton also gave it away as a premium with subscriptions. And now you can get it Print on Demand over at the Indy Planet site.
I like the ad break music
I didn't know where it was coming from for a hot 30 seconds
that concertina music for the promo part really caught me off guard! well played.
Super dope!
I picked that up several years ago. It’s the only issue I have. I bought it for the Kirby interview, but the whole thing was interesting. Some great thoughts from Kirby. I didn’t realize it was the first time Byrne did his cog in the machine line, though.
Comics scene was my magazine I would flip through at the book stores in the mall, I remember this issue because I loved Captain Victory and his Galactic Rangers . Good job finding this mag. I also was introduced to Judge Dredd in this issue, couldn’t wait to go to the flea market to find a lot of the independent comics I would see in these mags.
Comics Scene was my first exposure to direct distributed comics outside of newstand Marvel and DC. Fed my curiosity for books I couldn't get, and pushed me to order books by mail. I was disappointed to see the first volume cancellation at #11, I entered the reader's poll contest not knowing there would never be an issue #12. About a year after publication ceased I received a nice letter from DC with a copy of Star Raiders that I still have. DC honoured the reader's poll winners, which was a surprise. There were 6 Star Raiders prizes, 12 subs to Thriller and some other unmentioned "goodies".
Holy heck I remember that magazine!
Wes Craven's Swamp Thing movie was the reason why Alan Moore had a title to write. The second Swamp Thing comic series that was revived after the run that Len Wein and Wrightson started, was launched as a movie tie in.
Good Morning!
That ad makes me laugh since I'm from Duluth. What about us indeed.
What strikes me looking at the first few pages is how closely they mimicked The Comics Journal of that era. The idea seems to have been "let's to the Comics Journal but for people who like superheroes, want to see them celebrated."
True. It was way more literate and insightful than it had to be and it might even have been the best magazine that Starlog published at the time (depending on how you felt about Classic Fangora). But because it was published by Starlog you could maybe get it at your local newsstand while Amazing Heroes (Fantagraphic's actual 80's era magazine for those that didn't loathe Super Hero comics) and TCJ you could only buy at an LCS.
I loved them. You’d see these sporadically all over where I grew up. Had a few but none of them survived past high school. It was a great time killer at the grocery store waiting on my parents to wrap up the grocery shopping.
David Stevens didn't illustrate an issue in the main series of Master of Kung Fu, it was him inking a What If issue about MoKF, #16, and before then #8 about the world knowing Daredevil was blind and #11 with Kirby.
Thanks for taking out the bell! I listen to Kayfabe with my dog and it would bother him
I still have that "Villains" Starlog in the ad on the back!
Please do the “Masters of Comic Book Art” commentary. It is a total treasure.
The First Swamp-Thing Movie was actually the genesis of the Alan Moore series. Swamp-Thing was not running at the time and Wein and Berger revived the series to coincide with the release of the movie. The second movie came after the Moore series
You guys should present some no prize awards
Comic Scene #17 is the issue where I first discovered Jim Lee's artwork. Was blown away on his amazing art skills!
I just read about The Muppets newspaper strip. It eventually got published in 660 newspapers in 80 countries.
I absolutely love this channel for issues/ books that invariably I’ve missed! What does everyone use now as their news for up and coming comics?
Im a simple guy. I see Kirby, I click.
Totally forgot this existed
The first Swamp Thing movie is way better than it should be. I was surprised when I watched it for the first time a few months back.
Lol. Ed, do you realize you point at objects/pages with your middle-finger versus your index-finger? Subliminal messaging? 👌😎
Can anyone tell me what comic that fish on the right side of the screen is from?
I absolutely love the intermission music for the plug please keep it
I think I had this very issue, in fact, as bought things like this and actual Movie magazines, not starlets but essays about Welles and Fellini, to show my pop that in fact it wasn't a treehouse, or a garage, but an actual business. He was convinced it was animal house , if not worse, so I would try to say I was doing something adult in all of this, but he saw it all as an off shoot of pornography anyway. And it was Kirby, a hack he couldn't stand, as he thought Stan Lee was nothing but a shill, he disliked both,God bless him, by the way, which he shared with Marv Wolf-man, who'd I meet in my sisters office in the Pittsburgh Art Institute when I went there, but I was no fan of his either. I see Kirby as a squatter on the tragedy of Siegle and Shuster, as he elbowed his way, as usual, with shyster charm to take some of the pathos from the boys who created Superman, who Playboy showed then were delivering sandwiches to dc Chrsitmas parties, while this blowhard was playing Funky against Carmine, but you guys are fun and good guys, and I wont get into all of that. Or Jim Shooter neither. Seeing another DC Implosion un a bad winter of stagflation , I go back to Janette days, wonder if I should send in my Roman superman again as did when I was 15, ...but doubt it.
Gen of Hiroshima was adapted into an anime called Barefoot Gen you should check it out
Siegel and Schuster... not hicks by any stretch.
‘Fred Hembeck Destroys The Marvel Universe’
Minor brag but I found a stack of about 15 Gay Comix for very little cash in a charity shop in Leeds - a real treat
I know for sure there was at least one more of those workshop books and it contained a section written by John Byrne. That was the first time I ever saw that grid he draws for mapping out his perspective in each panel. At the time of that Comic Scene issue, I was already reading those Titan Books reprints of Bolland's Judge Dredd comics. Good printing of primo Bolland art.