I view this era of the bullpen as being crucial visual training for the next one. Just as Peter Jackson concentrated on corny monster movies - early on - he prepared himself to place solid heroic characters into his pedal to the metal worlds of scary ghouls. Great work!
Thank you thank you thank you. I too would love to see a large format print edition of Steve Ditko's splash pages from these monster yarns. I would love to get one of those fancy fridge magnets, but alas, I live up in Captain Canuck land. Looking forward to the next one!
😎👍 M is also for Mountainous Menaces Marathon. Love those reprint books! I'm surprised that the creation of a creature feature character called The Hulk never happened sooner because in some Heap stories appearing in Airboy Comics he was sometimes referred to as The Hulk. You would think that someone other than and before Stan would have given some thought to bringing out a book with that title , similar to Charlton's "The Thing " series which was possibly inspired by Phil Harris's hit 1950s novelty song of the same name. Strange Tales #88 is a book I eventually hope to acquire because it features one of my all time favorite stories " Punishment" drawn by Don Heck ; I'm a fan of his 1950s " Horrific" Comics head covers and interiors and his early Marvel work. I read the "Punishment" story in an issue of Fantasy Masterpieces and always hoped to get it in its original book appearance. Overall I enjoyed Ditko's art on stories a bit more than Jack's. I'm one of those who wish the anthology line of books never ended ; a super hero main feature followed by one or two monster / fantasy stories.
Bravo, another great broadcast. I know some of these monsters from my small stack of Fantasy Masterpieces and always dug the short stories. Kirby's 'super power ' of a character reaching out at the viewer seems to have been developed with these ghouls?
By contrast in the UK market in the early 1950s, the comic market was `booming` Top British Comics `Dandy` and `Beano` were each selling over Two Million each week, and other titles such as `Topper` and `Lion` not too far behind. (All British comics are weeklies) and in a population then, less than one third of the States-can`t be bad!
I view this era of the bullpen as being crucial visual training for the next one.
Just as Peter Jackson concentrated on corny monster movies - early on - he prepared himself to place solid heroic characters into his pedal to the metal worlds of scary ghouls.
Great work!
I get so much from these videos. Just fantastic research.
In Ayers bio book part two, he relates how much he hated inking Kirby's monster stories.
Thank you thank you thank you. I too would love to see a large format print edition of Steve Ditko's splash pages from these monster yarns. I would love to get one of those fancy fridge magnets, but alas, I live up in Captain Canuck land. Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks! Episode 8 is coming this week!
Thanks for sharing your love and knowledge of the comic book industry!
😎👍 M is also for Mountainous Menaces Marathon. Love those reprint books! I'm surprised that the creation of a creature feature character called The Hulk never happened sooner because in some Heap stories appearing in Airboy Comics he was sometimes referred to as The Hulk. You would think that someone other than and before Stan would have given some thought to bringing out a book with that title , similar to Charlton's "The Thing " series which was possibly inspired by Phil Harris's hit 1950s novelty song of the same name. Strange Tales #88 is a book I eventually hope to acquire because it features one of my all time favorite stories " Punishment" drawn by Don Heck ; I'm a fan of his 1950s " Horrific" Comics head covers and interiors and his early Marvel work. I read the "Punishment" story in an issue of Fantasy Masterpieces and always hoped to get it in its original book appearance. Overall I enjoyed Ditko's art on stories a bit more than Jack's. I'm one of those who wish the anthology line of books never ended ; a super hero main feature followed by one or two monster / fantasy stories.
As always, another informative and engaging episode.
Bravo, another great broadcast.
I know some of these monsters from my small stack of Fantasy Masterpieces and always dug the short stories.
Kirby's 'super power ' of a character reaching out at the viewer seems to have been developed with these ghouls?
By contrast in the UK market in the early 1950s, the comic market was `booming` Top British Comics `Dandy` and `Beano` were each selling over Two Million each week, and other titles such as `Topper` and `Lion` not too far behind. (All British comics are weeklies) and in a population then, less than one third of the States-can`t be bad!