Volume 23, Number 4

Vol. 23, No. 4
April 2012
whole number 268
2012 pages 025-032 (8 pages)

Sheldon Mayer up front and on the back this time, with the front and back cover to an unpublished Ronald McDonald comic book, possibly from a pitch for DC to do some merchandise for the company.  There are at least two full stories Mayer did for that project.

Jim Ivey provides a quick cartoon.

Gary Poole provides a few pages of plot and script for some Witch Hazel / Little Scarecrow / Little Itch stories, which I think primarily ran in the back of Little Lulu comics, plus in the letter column puts Snyder in touch with Bill Harris, who we'll hear more from later. 

There's also a mystery portrait with the artist and subject revealed in a few months.

Additional letters from D. Fenton, Joe Frank and Don Mangus, plus notes on the passing of Ruth Brank-Croal, Vic Herman, John Keel, Bill Rechin and Philip Sturm.

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Volume 20, Number 7

Vol. 20, No. 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

Vol. 20, No. 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.