Vol. 36, No. 4
April 2025
whole number 424
2025 pages 000-xxx
An unofficial index to The Comics newsletter (1990-present)
Volume 36, Number 3
March 2025
whole number 423
2025 pages 017-024
Artist Pierce Rice is the focus of this issue, with a 1942 cover from Harvey's SPEED COMICS up front, inked by Arturo Cazeneuve. Two other unfinished pages by Rice inside, "Congo Jim" and "Liberators", as well as a 1994 letter to Robin Snyder about his career and a review he wrote for Classical America about some art books, also from 1994.
Under The Gun has some more memories of Rice from Robin Snyder, as well as a short note from Rice and some mentions of Rice in some letters from Jerry DeFuccio. Additional letters from Robert Rowe, Sharon Levine and Tim Barnes.
RS also reviews a Creature Commandos book, and there's a very brief 61st segment of Just Imagine, the Paul S. Newman bibliography, with just a single Turok story from 1973.
Volume 36, Number 2
February 2025
whole number 422
2025 pages 009-016
Michael Fleisher featured this issue, with a script for the first page of an unpublished Batman / Jonah Hex crossover he wrote in the early 1980s. The story would have referenced the 1978 "The Last Bounty Hunter" story by Fleisher and Russ Heath. Also included, an unused Sunday page for a proposed Jonah Hex comic strip, circa 1980 by Fleisher and Heath, and a page from a 1978 issue of VAMPIRELLA by Fleisher and Jess Jodloman.
The Carl Wessler bibliography, "Upon Reflection" is up to 1968/1969 in part 61, featuring work for DC, Harvey and Warren.
In Under The Gun Robin Snyder looks at a Lincoln anecdote and how it applies to numbering presidents and grading comics. Letters of comment from Nick Caputo on the breadth of Ditko's career and Joe Frank on Stan Lee's changing story on the creation of Doctor Strange, Jerry Siegel's letters and the enigmatic notations Carl Wessler sometimes used in his records.
The Carl Wessler bibliography, "Upon Reflection" is up to 1968/1969 in part 61, featuring work for DC, Harvey and Warren.
In Under The Gun Robin Snyder looks at a Lincoln anecdote and how it applies to numbering presidents and grading comics. Letters of comment from Nick Caputo on the breadth of Ditko's career and Joe Frank on Stan Lee's changing story on the creation of Doctor Strange, Jerry Siegel's letters and the enigmatic notations Carl Wessler sometimes used in his records.
Volume 36, Number 1
January 2025
whole number 421
2025 pages 001-008
Rodney Schroeter provides the cover collage celebrating 35 of years of the newsletter.
In Under the Gun, Robin Snyder looks back on some memories and highlights of his publishing going back even before the newsletter. Gary Kato's 2024 Christmas card is featured, Stephen Bissette writes in appreciation of some of the recent print-on-demand books featuring Gill/Ditko Charlton reprints and other things, plus outlines some of his future plans. Daryl Coats, Eric Reese and Nick Caputo also write in, and the passings of Steve Erwin and Joy Seligsohn are noted.
Barry Pearl writes about his first hand experience with comics distribution and display in his family's store in the 1960s.
A Steve Ditko essay, "The Exceptional", includes some memories of the creation of the classic AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1 back in 1964.
Part 77 of the Robert Kanigher bibliography, "The Mystery Of The Human Thunderbolt" has a look at some of the members of Easy Company featured in various DC war books from 1957.
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