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 14, Number 2

Vol. 14, No. 2
February 2003
whole number 158
2003 pages 009-016

Steve Ditko with two pages this issue, with a chapter of his "A Mini-History" series on Spider-Man:

8. "Others, Outsiders (OOs): Complainers and Complaints Against Betty Brant".

He discusses the negative fan-mail reaction to the character of Betty Brant, especially when prospects of a romance between her and Peter Parker were hinted at in the comics, and refers to an extreme story idea he had for her which his editor, he concedes correctly, rejected.  He expands this to a general discussion of the tone of the comic and some other comics, like Iron Man's alcoholism storyline and Captain America's continuing to mourn over Bucky.

Jack Keller's passing is noted, with a short letter, an autobiographical page and a sample of his 1960s Charlton work on TEENAGE HOTRODDERS.

Part 14 of the Carl Wessler bibliography looks at some 1952 work at Timely.  Under The Gun features letters from Don Mangus, Nick Caputo, Jerry DeFuccio, Richard Prosch and Mark McMurray.