May 2023
whole number 401
2023 pages 033-040
An unofficial index to The Comics newsletter (1990-present)
Volume 34, Number 4
April 2023
whole number 400
2023 pages 025-033 (8 pages)
Great issue for the landmark 400th, with a focus on Sheldon Mayer in his birthday month. Up front is an unpublished single page Sugar & Spike comic from circa 1960 that even I had never seen before (and I have a list of some 300 pages of unpublished S&S material by Mayer).
Inside is a sample daily strip of Mayer's circa 1980 comic strip proposal for Sugar & Spike and four pages of an unfinished Rudolph the Reindeer story "Easter Parade", from the late 1970s and inked by Tenny Henson. The backcover goes back to 1949 for a look at the cover of SCRIBBLY #5, with a classic Mayer gag.
Also this issue, RS notes the passing of Neal Adams in 2022 with some words on his work and influence.
Volume 34, Number 3
March 2023
whole number 399
2023 pages 017-024 (8 pages)
This issue features excerpts from Robert Kanigher's 1943 book WHERE AND HOW TO SELL YOUR MANUSCRIPTS, published by Cambridge House, with its list of markets for comic scripts and a sample of a comics script format for "Adam Anthony", which I'm assuming wasn't a real comic.
That book was of course a companion to Kanigher's HOW TO MAKE MONEY WRITING... series, which included HOW TO MAKE MONEY WRITING FOR COMICS MAGAZINES, available in an 80th Anniversary edition.
In Under the Gun Robin Snyder looks at a few other early books about comics and there are letters from Mike Tuz, Nick Caputo and Joe Frank.
Volume 33, Number 12
December 2022
whole number 396
2022 pages 089-096 (8 pages)
Up front is part 72 of the Robert Kanigher bibliography, "The Mystery Of The Human Thunderbolt", featuring his character creations from 1947 to 1963.
Also featured are two pages from the Sheldon Mayer and Nestor Redondo unpublished "The Story Of Jesus" for DC, in both Mayer script/layout form and finished art by Redondo for the "Life In Bible Days" features.
Also featured are two pages from the Sheldon Mayer and Nestor Redondo unpublished "The Story Of Jesus" for DC, in both Mayer script/layout form and finished art by Redondo for the "Life In Bible Days" features.
There's a letter by Joe Frank "Under The Gun" and the yearly index to Vol. 33, 2022.
Volume 33, Number 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.
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