Volume 36, Number 3

Vol. 36, No. 3
March 2025
whole number 423
2025 pages 017-024

Artist Pierce Rice is the focus of this issue, with a 1942 cover from Harvey's SPEED COMICS up front, inked by Arturo Cazeneuve.  Two other unfinished pages by Rice inside, "Congo Jim" and "Liberators", as well as a 1994 letter to Robin Snyder about his career and a review he wrote for Classical America about some art books, also from 1994.

Under The Gun has some more memories of Rice from Robin Snyder, as well as a short note from Rice and some mentions of Rice in some letters from Jerry DeFuccio.  Additional letters from Robert Rowe, Sharon Levine and Tim Barnes.

RS also reviews a Creature Commandos book, and there's a very brief 61st segment of Just Imagine, the Paul S. Newman bibliography, with just a single Turok story from 1973.

Volume 27, Number 5

Vol. 27, No. 5
May 2016
whole number 317
2016 pages 033-040

Sixty years of the Flash (Barry Allen) celebrated with the classic cover designed by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Carmine Infantino and Joe Kubert.

Natalie Kirsten (aka Natalie Krigstein) has a short autobiography about her time writing comics for Timely, National, Prize and others from 1949 to 1954, with a bibliography of her known work, including stories with publications not yet identified.  A script page from such a story, "Skin Deep", is included.

Part 4 of Gary Poole's bibliography looks at 1967 and part 38 of Carl Wessler's "Upon Reflection" looks at 1956 and work for Timely.

Steve Ditko's "A Wider Context" provides an alphabetical list of characters he worked on outside of the four years from 1962-1966 that most concern "CBFs" (comic book fans).

The passings of Jeremy Dale, Greta Gattel and Jay Maeder are noted and letters from Gary Poole, Robert Rowe, Sharon Levine, Thomas W. Scott III, John Wells, Dave Sim and Chet Cox.

Volume 15, Number 9

Vol. 15, No. 9
September 2004
whole number 177
2004 pages 065-072 (8 pages)

"The Avenging Mind" was a three part essay by Ditko presented across six consecutive issues of the newsletter in 2004. This issue concludes it, with the third section of part 3, "The Anti-Ditko Mentality".

The series actually began in the March 2003 issue, while Ditko was still in the middle of his "Mini-History" series about Spider-Man, but that first chapter was revised and reprinted in the April 2004 issue after the "Mini-History" wind-up.

"Another part of that question was answered in a letter I received after an early published Mr. A story. The writer said he would be afraid to walk down a dark alley and see Mr. A. What did he reveal, confess?" -- Steve Ditko

Despite the title, this was not included in The Avenging Mind [2008], and the series has not so far been reprinted outside the newsletter.

Also this issue, part 16 of "The Riddle of the Sphinx" bibliography of Robert Kanigher takes a look at his 1979 work, almost all for DC's various war comics (with one mystery story). Two pages of an unpublished Jerry Grandenetti story by RK, a "Force 3" story intended for All-Out War #7 (it was cancelled with #6 in 1980), are also featured.

Under the Gun letters from Daniel Sorenson, Nick Caputo, Tom Gill, Nathan Isaacs, Sharon Levine, Robert Rowe and Jeff Jatras.

Some passings are briefly noted are Bernard Baily, E.E. Hibbard, Chest Jon Koziak, Arthur Peddy, Kin Platt, John Saunders, Marty Taras, James V. Taurasi and George A. Ward.