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Top 5 Tuesday!
The five non-comicbook books of my childhood. What are yours?
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mmm… candy!
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Over the weekend at the amazing Denver Comic Con I was asked by Martin Pierro of Cosmic Times about my infamous comic collecting “record book”. This book, which was mentioned on CGS occasionally, contains a detailed list of all the comics I’ve purchased over the years, when they were purchased, where they were purchased and the total amount I spent each time. I told him I would take a picture of it to show him - so here it is.
The picture above is the first record book (I’m midway through a second volume), including the first page, the first actual dated entry and a sideways view of opened pages.
The first undated entries are from around the end of 1985 or the beginning of 1986 with a mix of current comics of the time and back issues (such as Ronin 1, Night Force 1, Hunger Dogs graphic novel, etc). The first dated entry - March 15, 1986 - features comics that were purchased off the stands at that time of their initial release. If I compare my record book with the Newsstand feature on the resourceful Mike’s Amazing World of Comics website I can see which comics were new at that time and which were picked up as back issues.
It’s just something I do - no real reason other than tradition (or maybe a little OCD). It’s a nice inventory of all the books I’ve obtained over the years and it gives me an interesting historical perspective on some of my comic book reading.
“Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us… In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Does that answer your question?
Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.”
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Marc Tyler Nobleman interviews your childhood!
Hey! You! Read! This!
Marc Tyler Nobleman, author of Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman (2008) and an upcoming book on Batman/Bill Finger (2012), has gathered information, pictures and interviews on some of the greatest ’70s and ’80s comic book and cartoon related pop culture! In his own words:
One of my favorite questions is “Where are they now?”
One of my favorite periods in entertainment is the 1970s and 1980s.
And so begins a massive, often startling, and at times eclectic series I have been working on in between and around since December 2009: an oral history of (mostly) superhero entertainment of the 1970s and 1980s. It consists of 99 interviews with the people who were there, spread over 71 posts, including introductions to each of the 10 subseries.
Technically, not all 99 kind souls in this feature can be called “lost,” but most have no other interviews online and nearly none of the photos and images you’ll see have been published before. I wanted the focus to be superhero/cartoon performers you remember but have read little to nothing about. This includes actors, writers, musicians, and even water skiers. Some of their recollections are laugh-out-loud funny. Others are heartbreaking.
Go to his blog RIGHT NOW and you’ll read stories and interviews with Super Friends voice actors, writers and production staff; Scooby Doo voice actors and theme song singers and producers; actors from Superman the Movie; and so so many more.
What a treasure of information. Read more here:
http://noblemania.blogspot.com/2011/07/super-70s-and-80s-original-interviews.html
