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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 4

Vol. 27, No. 4
April 2016
whole number 316
2016 pages 000-xxx


Volume 27, Number 3

Vol. 27, No. 3
March 2016
whole number 315
2016 pages 000-xxx

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 12

Vol. 26, No. 12
December 2015
whole number 312
2015 pages 000-xxx

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 26, Number 10

Vol. 26, No. 10
October 2015
whole number 310
2015 pages 000-xxx

Volume 26, Number 9

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

Volume 26, Number 8

Vol. 26, No. 8
August 2015
whole number 308
2015 pages 000-xxx

Volume 26, Number 7

Vol. 26, No. 7
July 2015
whole number 307
2015 pages 000-xxx

Volume 26, Number 6

Vol. 26, No. 6
June 2015
whole number 306
2015 pages 000-xxx

Volume 26, Number 5

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