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Volume 31, Number 4

Vol. 31, No. 4
April 2020
whole number 364
2020 pages 000-xxx

Volume 31, Number 3

Vol. 31, No. 3
March 2020
whole number 363
2020 pages 017-024

The cover is by Mel Crawford, from a 1970 issue of THE GOLDEN MAGAZINE which featured Gary Poole and his visit to the White House.

Part 63 of the Robert Kanigher bibliography, "The Mystery Of The Human Thunderbolt" has a quote by RK about the development of Rock and Easy, and the issue includes three pages from a Kanigher/Novick story from 1955 which is the first mention of Easy Company.

Part 13 of the Gary Poole bibliography looks at some of his 1980 work at Western.

Under the Gun has letters from Gary Poole on general topics, Rob Imes on fandom, and Charles Brenner and Gavin Callaghan both on the publication of Down Memory Lane, the last of Ditko's long-running 32-Page Series.

Volume 31, Number 2

Vol. 31, No. 2
February 2020
whole number 362
2020 pages 000-xxx

Volume 31, Number 1

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

Volume 30, Number 12

Vol. 30, No. 12
December 2019
whole number 360
2019 pages 089-096 (8 pages)

Hy Eisman provides a seasonal cover from the Popeye comic strip for which he's long done the Sunday pages for as the latest successor to creator E.C. Segar.

Sheldon Mayer is represented as usual in the year-end issue, this time with a layout page and three script pages from the unfinished "Story of Jesus" comic.

Letters in Under The Gun by Joe Frank on Christmas comics and Gary Poole on Ditko's Konga and his own 1968 King Kong adaptation.

And the year finishes up with an index to all of Volume 30 of the newsletter








Volume 30, Number 11

Vol. 30, No. 11
November 2019
whole number 359
2019 pages 000-xxx

Volume 30, Number 10

Vol. 30, No. 10
October 2019
whole number 358
2019 pages 000-xxx

Volume 30, Number 9

Vol. 30, No. 9
September 2019
whole number 357
2019 pages 000-xxx

Volume 30, Number 8

Vol. 30, No. 8
August 2019
whole number 356
2019 pages 057-064

Robert Kanigher takes the focus this issue with the massive (62 numbered paragraphs) essay "It Was Easy", covering his career in comics. Almost every paragraph could be the launching point for a chapter in the book that RK (presumably) never got around to writing.

"26. If Editor Schwartz  suggests or states that he co-edited any of RK's titles - he is a God damn liar. You can quote me on that."

There really needs to be a collection of Kanigher's writings, maybe packaged with a reprint of the long Comics Journal interview he did in the early 1980s.

Also presented are the first paragraph of a proposed story, "The Lady and the Unicorn", a comparison of RK and Schwartz's memories of DANGER TRAIL and a list of some prototype Rock/Easy stories as part 62 of the ongoing RK bibliography.

The bibliography of the prolific Carl Wessler continues with Part 48, listing work from 1957 for Timely, Harvey, Prize and others.

Volume 30, Number 7

Vol. 30, No. 7
July 2019
whole number 355
2019 pages 000-xxx

Volume 30, Number 6

Vol. 30, No. 6
June 2019
whole number 354
2019 pages 000-xxx

Volume 30, Number 5

Vol. 30, No. 5
May 2019
whole number 353
2019 pages 000-xxx

Volume 30, Number 4

Vol. 30, No. 4
April 2019
whole number 352
2019 pages 000-xxx