Volume 26, Number 11

Vol. 26, No. 11
November 2015
whole number 311
2015 pages 081-088 (8 pages)

The cover to SHOWCASE #51 from 1964 by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson on the front, an issue featuring reprints of the 1950s DANGER TRAIL series.

Part 44 of the Robert Kanigher bibliography features a list of essays, commentaries and sketches, mostly from previous issues of this newsletter.

Athos Bousvaros, Hilarie Staton and Joe Staton write about some medical comics for all ages that they and others had worked on over the years (such as this).

Good Under The Gun column with several long letters from Jerry DeFuccio on some of his (often uncredited) work for EC, including a list of stories and fillers he wrote for Kurtzman. Also letters from Mike Tuz, Al Salton, Barry Pearl and Gary Kato.

The backcover is a page of the DeFuccio story "Carl Akeley", drawn by Wallace Wood at EC, which he talks about in detail in one of his letters.

Volume 23, Number 1

Vol. 23, No. 1
January 2012
whole number 265
2012 pages 001-008 (8 pages)

A cover of Archie's STEEL STERLING from 1984 on the cover, idea by Robert Kanigher, art by Carmine Infantino and Eduardo Barreto.  Inside are some commentary by Kanigher on cover design from 1983, plus part 30 of the ongoing bibliography of Kanigher, "Mystery Of The Human Thunderbolt", looks at 1989 and 1990, which are mostly reprints, plus some commentary on his work by Mike Esposito and Joe Kubert.

Under The Gun this time marks the passing of Jack Adler, Gene Colan, Del Connell and Peter O'Donnell.

Letters of comment by Stan Goldberg, Stephen Bissette, Bob Heer, Michael Barrie, S. Bycko, D. Fenton, Joe Frank, Nick Caputo and Paul DeVinny.

Hy Eisman provides the back cover, a celebration of the new year courtesy of Popeye.

Volume 11, Number 6

Vol. 11, No. 6
June 2000
whole number 126
2000 pages 043-052 (10 pages)

   

Flash and the Carrots by Robert Kanigher essay by RK on writing the Flash Gordon comic strip

Occupying Chambersburg panel by Fred Ray

Under the Gun: letters from Manuel Auad, Fred Ray, Nick Caputo, Carmine Infantino, Don Mangus, Daniel Tesmoingt, Tom Christopher, Link Yanko, Tim Barnes and Jerry De Fuccio. Includes an illustration and comment by Irwin Hasen

Tomahawk original art page by Fred Ray

A Tribute to Fred Ray by Jack Burnley

The Story of the Alamo Illustration by Fred Ray

A Fred Ray Civil War Index by Don Mangus includes Gettysburg illo

The Comics Mail Order page includes cover for the never-published The Tsk! Tsk! Forum by Ditko

Static promo (back page)

-- Indexed by: Nick Caputo

Volume 8, Number 1

Vol. 8, No. 1
January 1997
whole number 85
1997 pages 001-006 (6 pages) 

Cover Millie the Model OA page by Stan Goldberg

Under the Gun: Letters from Dan Barry, Bob Heer, Carmine Infantino, John Benson, Jack Burnley, Jerry DeFuccio, Alex Toth and a poem by Robert Kanigher. Illustration of Batman and Robin tackling the Penguin by Jack Burnley and a repro of a Burnley All Star page. 

The Last Word by Andre LeBlanc: a tribute to Dan Barry on his passing.

The Comics: Mail order (back page)

-- Indexed by: Nick Caputo

Volume 1, Number 13

Vol. 1, No. 13
December 1990
whole number 13
1990 pages 095-102 (8 pages)

The first year of the newsletter ended up with 13 issues, before settling down to consistently monthly (with one issue missed in Vol. 3).

Steve Ditko's "Identity, Identification" opens the issue, continuing his thoughts on comics and the definition of art. This is reprinted in AVENGING WORLD [2002].

A discussion on the creation of the Flash (the Barry Allen version), including comments from Joe Kubert and Carmine Infantino, with an Infantino sketch.

Ernie Colon has a long memorial post about Jim Miele, a long-time contributor to Harvey Comics and creator of Wendy the Good Little Witch.

A lot of letters in Under the Gun, including Mark Heike, Joe Simon, Tim Truman, Frank Doyle, Bob Haney, Nick Caputo, Bob Palin, Jerry Nagel, Pete Morisi, Rich Morrissey, Murray Boltinoff and John L. Goldwater (including corrections he sent in to an article about Archie Comics in the New York Times).