May 1990
whole number 5
1990 pages 033-040
"An Insider’s Part of Comics History: Jack Kirby’s Spider-Man", by Steve Ditko analyzes the claim that Kirby created Spider-Man, with details about his recollections of the events around the creation of the character. He includes a pictorial guide to the costumes of three heroes: Simon and Kirby’s Captain America, Kirby’s Spider-Man (from memory) and his own Spider-Man. This was later reprinted in AVENGING WORLD [2002].
Under the Gun contains comments by Robert Kanigher and Joe Simon, who adds his remarks to the Spider-Man creation matter and includes a two-panel sequence by C.C. Beck from Simon’s Comic Book Makers.
I Remember Romance part 2: The DC Bibliography, Robin Snyder's early attempt to produce a bibliography of the DC love comics, with a list of the many titles and editors.
A cartoon by Creig Flessel featuring the Sandman and a self-portrait.
King of the Comics Writers, first update, by Robin Snyder, with some quick numbers for some of the most prolific writers of American comics.
Toth/FF, A look back into the 1940s by and with Alex Toth on his early years in comics, specifically Famous Funnies / Eastern Comics from 1943 to 1947, leading up to his stint at DC from 1947 to 1952.
Alex Toth—A Bibliography by Robin Snyder looks at his work from 1945-47
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