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Graphic Story Magazine #14
TBG #11, 1972 |
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| Fanzine with Basil Wolverton art. |
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| Fanzine with Kingpin art by John Buscema. Also art by Roy G. Krenkel, Vaughn Bode, Steve Ditko. |
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Collector's Bookstore
TBG #13, 1972 |
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| Superman, Batman, EC, Popeye hardcover books. |
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Flashback 1: Wood & EC
TBG #13, 1972 |
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| DynaPubs was TBG publisher Alan Light's company. It frequently published reprints of old comic books. |
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| Marvel Comics characters. Art by Craig Russell & Dan Adkins. |
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| Fanzines from Opar Press on artists Frank Frazetta & Burne Hogarth. |
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The EC Collector Illustrated #1
TBG #15, 1972 |
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Graphic Illusions #1
TBG #17, 1972 |
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| Fanzine with art by Al Williamson, Wally Wood, Roy Krenkel, Steve Ditko. Also an ad for Guts fanzine. |
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| Fanzines with art by Frank Kelly Freas, Milton Caniff, Gene Colan, John Romita. |
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Sense of Wonder #12
TBG #21, 1972 |
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| Fanzine edited by William Schelly with art by Russ Manning, Roy G. Krenkel, Wally Wood. Schelly is still active today writing books on the history of comic fandom. |
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| Fanzine featuring EC comic book covers. |
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Comix East Catalog
TBG #31, 1973 |
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| Catalog featuring EC reprints, Harvey Kurtzman's Help magazine, The Monster Times newspaper and other cool stuff that costs lots more today. |
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Bill Everett obituary
TBG #33, 1973 |
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| Article by TBG columnist Martin Greim on the death of the creator of the Sub-Mariner, Bill Everett. |
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EC Portfolios
TBG #38, 1973 |
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| Russ Cochran's latest EC art portfolio. The large Wally Wood drawing is the cover to a Weird Science issue. I saw Russ Cochran buy it for $7,000 at the San Diego Con in the early 1980s. |
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EC Portfolios
TBG #39, 1973 |
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| Russ Cochran EC art portfolios. Also portfolios for Frank Frazetta's Thunda & Untamed Love. |
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Inside Comix #1
TBG #39, 1973 |
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| Editor of ephemeral fanzine Inside Comix Joe Branticelli fancied himself to be the Woodward & Bernstein of the comic book industry. Other fanzine editors found his journalistic judgement seriously lacking. How does James Warren rank #2? How did Sol Brodsky even get on this list? |
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The World of Fanzines
TBG #40, 1973 |
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| Dr. Fredric Wertham campaigned against violent comic books in the 1950s, but in 1973 he wrote a positive book about comic book fanzines. TBG columnist Don Thompson reviewed the book in another issue. |
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Ye Olde Fanzine Shoppe
TBG #40, 1973 |
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| Ad for fanzine catalog from G.B. Love of the S.F.C.A and the publisher of The Rocket's Blast - Comicollector. Features Frank Frazetta and Virgil Finlay fanzines. The ad says 50,000 fanzines in stock. Who has them now? |
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Clint's Bookstore
TBG #43, 1973 |
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| Ad for EC comics. They don't sell for these prices anymore. |
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Favorite Funnies
TBG #46, 1973 |
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| Features reprint strips of a 1950s newspaper comic strip Skymasters by Jack Kirby and Wally Wood. This strip as been reprinted various hardcover books in recent years. |
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Supergraphics
TBG #50, 1974 |
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| Supergraphics was the publishing company founded by former Marvel artist Jim Steranko. |
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Joe Branticelli ad
TBG #52, 1973 |
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| In TBG #39 the editor of Inside Comix Joe Branticelli had an article "The Ten Most Powerful Men In Comics." Marvel Comics editor Roy Thomas questioned or challenged some of the claims made in the article and so Branticelli paid for a full page ad in this TBG issue to call Roy Thomas a liar. TBG publisher Alan Light later ran a full page apology to Thomas. |
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Martin Greim rebuts Joe Branticelli
TBG #52, 1973 |
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| TBG columnist Martin Greim shared Roy Thomas's doubts about Joe Branticelli's journalistic conclusions about the most powerful men in the comic book industry. |
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Superman #1 up for bid
TBG #53, 1974 |
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| The owner ran this ad in this fanzine read all over the country for people bid on his Superman #1. But he prefers "an in-person cash transaction." Who wouldn't prefer that? Did he think the winner was going to drive hundreds of miles to Gary, Indiana and put the cash in his hands? |
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