Volume 34, Number 3

Vol. 34, No. 3
March 2023
whole number 399
2023 pages 017-024 (8 pages)

This issue features excerpts from Robert Kanigher's 1943 book WHERE AND HOW TO SELL YOUR MANUSCRIPTS, published by Cambridge House, with its list of markets for comic scripts and a sample of a comics script format for "Adam Anthony", which I'm assuming wasn't a real comic.

That book was of course a companion to Kanigher's HOW TO MAKE MONEY WRITING... series, which included HOW TO MAKE MONEY WRITING FOR COMICS MAGAZINES, available in an 80th Anniversary edition.

In Under the Gun Robin Snyder looks at a few other early books about comics and there are letters from Mike Tuz, Nick Caputo and Joe Frank.

Volume 28, Number 9

Vol. 28, No. 9
September 2017
whole number 333
2017 pages 065-072

Mart Nodell is up front, with a 1993 illustration of his Golden Age creation Green Lantern.  

Inside Robert Kanigher, a frequent Green Lantern writer back in the late 1940s after Nodell's time, provides a few manuscript pages of an unpublished Green Lantern story he wrote in 1982.

Over in "Under the Gun", the passings of Vic Donahue, Blanche Fago and Vernon Henkel are noted and there are letters from Robert Rowe, Mike Tuz, Nick Caputo, Joe Frank, Gary Poole, Harry Leeman, Athos Bousvaros, Daniel Tesmoingt and Donnie Pitchford.

"And my favorite 'villain' would have to be the pathetic, infuriating, and maddeningly hilarious Grey Negotiator!" -- Gary Poole (on Ditko's new comics)

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 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.

Volume 24, Number 9

 Vol. 24, No. 9

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