December 2009
whole number 240
2009 pages 000-xxx
An unofficial index to The Comics newsletter (1990-present)
Volume 20, Number 7
July 2009
whole number 235
2009 pages 049-056 (8 pages)
Bob Cavanaugh has the second part of his "Remembering Whitman Publishing Co.", with a focus on his time working on the photo shoots for the TV comics, mostly westerns, that they were publishing, including stories of Roy Rogers, Jock Mahoney, Dick Simmons (Sgt. Preston), Gordon Scott (Tarzan), Duncan Renaldo (Cisco Kid) and others. A photo cover of Sgt. Preston is shown on the back cover.
Part 31 of "Just Imagine", the bibliography of Paul S. Newman, finishes up 1962 and moves on to 1963, mostly work for both sides of the Dell/Western split. 1962 comes up to 281 stories, 2030 pages.
In Under the Gun, notes on the passing of Lynn Carp and William Overgard, Steve Ditko has some brief comments on Robert Kanigher's previous dissection of a Sgt. Rock script, and notes from Richard Prosch, Gavin Callaghan, Gary Kato and D. Fenton
Volume 20, Number 4
April 2009
whole number 232
2009 pages 025-032
Stephen R. Bissette leads off the issue, with the long first part of his 3-part autobiographical essay "Moving Day", originally published on his blog in 2005 and a Center For Cartoon Studies commencement speech in 2008. It's about his journey to becoming part of the first class of the Joe Kubert School in 1976, and thus dedicated to Muriel Kubert. This chapter covers Bissette's background and how his time at Johnson State College led him to take a leap of faith on this fledgling new school opening up in Dover, New Jersey:
"In 1976, the thought of anyone, much less a hick from Duxbury and Waterbury, making a career in comics was a reckless, delusional undertaking -- I mean, comics weren't a profession, they were a hobby." -- S. R. Bissette
(said fledgling school is still around, now fully accredited, and having trained many professionals since the first class Bissette attended)
The on-going task of listing "The Works Of Carl Wessler" (later titled "Upon Reflection") hits part 24, and is only up to 1952, when he was writing a lot of comics for Timely, all over their crime, romance and horror lines. Also some work for Lev Gleason, including one amusingly titled "The End of Johnny Morrow", presumably no relation to the publisher John Morrow...
Long "Under The Gun" letter column, with Joe Frank, Mark Fuller, Matt Murphy, D. Fenton, Sandeep Atwal, Gavin Callaghan and Stan Goldberg.
Volume 20, Number 3
March 2009
whole number 231
2009 pages 017-024
Steve Ditko's "The Ever Unwilling" essay leads off this issue. Ditko had put to rest the oft-repeated claim that he left Spider-Man over disputes about the identity of the Green Goblin years earlier, but it kept being repeated, so he states it even more directly here. Spoiler alert, it still didn't take and is still repeated...
"I knew from Day One, from the first GG story, who the GG would be. I absolutely knew because I planted him in J. Jonah Jameson's businessman's club." -- Steve Ditko
Also this issue, part 23 of the Carl Wessler bibliography lists work from 1951 and 1952, working for Timely, Lev Gleason, Ziff-Davis and others.
Notes on the passing of six artists: Mar Amongo, Bob Bindig, Wayne Howard, Al Scaduto, Howie Schneider and Elmer Wexler.
There's a long Under The Gun with some discussion of Ditko's recent work and other topics by Daniel Tesmoingt, Bill Fields, Samuel Catalino, Joe Frank, Frederick A. Utech, William Parker, Dave Varine, Nick Caputo, Robert Rowe and Gavin Callaghan.
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