Volume 36, Number 1

Vol. 36, No. 1
January 2025
whole number 421
2025 pages 001-008

Rodney Schroeter provides the cover collage celebrating 35 of years of the newsletter.

In Under the Gun, Robin Snyder looks back on some memories and highlights of his publishing going back even before the newsletter.  Gary Kato's 2024 Christmas card is featured, Stephen Bissette writes in appreciation of some of the recent print-on-demand books featuring Gill/Ditko Charlton reprints and other things, plus outlines some of his future plans.  Daryl Coats, Eric Reese and Nick Caputo also write in, and the passings of Steve Erwin and Joy Seligsohn are noted.

Barry Pearl writes about his first hand experience with comics distribution and display in his family's store in the 1960s.

A Steve Ditko essay, "The Exceptional", includes some memories of the creation of the classic AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1 back in 1964.

Part 77 of the Robert Kanigher bibliography, "The Mystery Of The Human Thunderbolt" has a look at some of the members of Easy Company featured in various DC war books from 1957.

Volume 34, Number 10

Vol. 34, No. 10
October 2023
whole number 406
2023 pages 073-080

Volume 34, Number 8

Vol. 34, No. 8
August 2023
whole number 404
2023 pages 057-064

Volume 33, Number 8

Vol. 33, No. 8
August 2022
whole number 392
2022 pages 057-064 (8 pages)

Lee Goldsmith is on the cover, with a copy of the 1971 play he wrote, ABE (finally staged in 2009 in Quincy, Illinois, and available for production), plus there are short bibliographies of his work in comics and as a lyricist, a sample of his 1960s romance work for DC drawn by Arthur Peddy and the inscription on the copy of ABE he sent to RS.

Goldsmith is one of many passings noted in this issue, including Brian Augustyn, Vivian Berg, Anne D. Bernstein, Orlando Busino, Gerald Forton, Ron Goulart (with a cartoon Goulart drew in a book for RS), Mel Keefer, David Anthony Kraft, John Langton, John Paul Leon, Martin Salvador, Augie Scotto, Tom Veitch and Janice Valleau Winkleman.

Steve Ditko has a 1-page essay, "I Remember", about some of his memories of 1960s at Marvel and how they conflict with the stated recollections of Stan Lee.

"Lee ignores, denies in Excelsior! and other places, how we used to go over every panel of a story until he stopped communicating with me." -- S. Ditko

Only one letter of comment, from Bernard Brannigan on some recent publications.

Volume 33, Number 5

Vol. 33, No. 5
May 2022
whole number 389
2022 pages 000-xxx

Volume 32, Number 8

Vol. 32, No. 8
August 2021
whole number 380
2021 pages 000-xxx

Volume 32, Number 3

Vol. 32, No. 3
March 2021
whole number 375
2021 pages 000-xxx

Volume 31, Number 1

Vol. 31, No. 1
January 2020
whole number 361
2020 pages 001-xxx

Volume 30, Number 3

Vol. 30, No. 3
March 2019
whole number 351
2019 pages 017-024 (8 pages)

A Jack Davis / Harvey Kurtzman page from Mad #1, 1952, on the cover to note the passing of Jack Davis a few years earlier.

For part 57 of "Mystery Of The Human Thunderbolt", the long-running bibliography of Robert Kanigher, Robin Snyder writes about hiring RK in the early 1980s to write for the long-running series Turok from Western, with the script for the first three pages of what was going to be Turok #135.  

On the backcover is a 1955 war comic splash from RK and Irv Novick.

Also, for some reason, a reprint of Ditko's 2000 page "Tsk! Tsk! AP2 - The Unearned", first seen in v11#2.

Volume 30, Number 1

Vol. 30, No. 1
January 2019
whole number 349
2019 pages 001-xxx

Volume 29, Number 2

Vol. 29, No. 2
February 2018
whole number 338
2018 pages 000-xxx

Volume 28, Number 5

Vol. 28, No. 5
May 2017
whole number 329
2017 pages 000-xxx

Volume 27, Number 12

Vol. 27, No. 12
December 2016
whole number 324
2016 pages 000-xxx

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 27, Number 2

Vol. 27, No. 2
February 2016
whole number 314
2016 pages 000-xxx

Volume 27, Number 1

Vol. 27, No. 1
January 2016
whole number 313
2016 pages 001-xxx

Volume 26, Number 9

Vol. 26, No. 9
September 2015
whole number 309
2015 pages 000-xxx

Volume 26, Number 5

Vol. 26, No. 5
May 2015
whole number 305
2015 pages 000-xxx

Volume 26, Number 1

Vol. 26, No. 1
January 2015
whole number 301
2015 pages 001-xxx

Volume 25, Number 12

Vol. 25, No. 12
December 2014
whole number 300
2014 pages 000-xxx