Volume 11, Number 7

Vol. 11, No. 7
July 2000
whole number 127
2000 pages 053-070 (18 pages)

Illustration by Jerry De Fuccio and Mark Heike (Front page)

Under the Gun: letter from Jerry De Fuccio (includes a John Putnam illustration)

Happy Birthday by Warren Sattler Greetings to Jerry De Fuccio

Heike by Bill Black piece on Mark Heike

Jerry De Fuccio by Alex Toth

St. Peter and a Few Friends by Jerry De Fuccio includes numerous Golf Tournament illustrations by De Fuccio and Paul Coker, Frank Borth and Warren Sattler

Letter to De Fuccio from Percy Crosby and an original page of Skippy

The "Stolen Art Page"  Problem and the Error of Non-Principled Thinking by Steve Ditko

Essay by Ditko on back page includes cover for the unpublished The Tsk! Tsk! Forum

-- Indexed by: Nick Caputo

Volume 10, Number 12

Vol. 10, No. 12
December 1999
whole number 120
1999 pages 085-092 (8 pages)

Cover: Unfinished Rudolph page by Shelly Mayer circa 1979

Under the Gun: letters from Tim Barnes, Robert Kanigher and Jerry DeFuccio

The Ultimate Disclosure by Jerry DeFuccio: A personal account of student DeFuccio and his journey to New York with fellow students  seeing the giant Superman float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Includes a page by DeFuccio and Mark Heike and the original art to Jack Burnley's page that appeared in the New York Journal American on Nov 24, 1940

Illustrated ad by Ditko for The Mocker

Tsk! Tsk! C # 2 by Ditko "Public Debates" illustrated editorial (back cover)

-- 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).