Volume 31, Number 3

Vol. 31, No. 3
March 2020
whole number 363
2020 pages 017-024

The cover is by Mel Crawford, from a 1970 issue of THE GOLDEN MAGAZINE which featured Gary Poole and his visit to the White House.

Part 63 of the Robert Kanigher bibliography, "The Mystery Of The Human Thunderbolt" has a quote by RK about the development of Rock and Easy, and the issue includes three pages from a Kanigher/Novick story from 1955 which is the first mention of Easy Company.

Part 13 of the Gary Poole bibliography looks at some of his 1980 work at Western.

Under the Gun has letters from Gary Poole on general topics, Rob Imes on fandom, and Charles Brenner and Gavin Callaghan both on the publication of Down Memory Lane, the last of Ditko's long-running 32-Page Series.

Volume 25, Number 5

Vol. 25, No. 5

May 2014

whole number 293
2014 pages 033-040 (8 pages)

On the cover some previously unseen artwork from William Messner-Loebs from his 1980s series JOURNEY.  Inside Rodney Schroeter writes about some of his experiences with Messner-Loebs, including rescuing some his artwork from a storage locker, with some more of that artwork presented inside.

Under the Gun has letters from Batton Lash, Mike Tuz, Stan Bycko and Gavin Callighan.

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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.

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