Comments on: Comic Book Legends Revealed History

By: butters911

butters911 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:51:19 +0000

Can you tell me if this is true: I heard the reason House of M came about was that people at Marvel were sick of writers making their characters mutants. It was seen as a lazy way out for writers who couldn’t come up with an interesting way for characters to get powers.

Any truth in that?

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:19:04 +0000

It is an interesting idea…

By: buttler

buttler — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:14:16 +0000

Funny you should mentiion that …

By: Shola A.

Shola A. — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:10:03 +0000

You seriously consider publishing this as an book/ebook/ipad app. This is FANTASTIC.

By: sylar wesker

sylar wesker — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:21:44 +0000

I remember when I started reading these. I was a sub teacher doing glorified babysitting. I learned sooo much from this site while on the job

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:56:14 +0000

Thanks! I have trouble remembering names, titles or serial numbers, especially after my seizure in 1993.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:14:15 +0000

#46

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:20:21 +0000

Could you remind me again as to which entry contains the information on Jarvis’s letter of resignation from that old IRON MAN issue?

By: Alan Meisler

Alan Meisler — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:33:00 +0000

Here is a 1980s legend: Namor, The Submariner, joined the Avengers to keep Jim Shooter from killing him. Can you tell me if it’s true?

I heard this in the mid-80s from a friend who claimed to know Ralph Macchio (the Marvel staffer, not the actor

According to story, Jim Shooter announced he wanted to kill Namor. The writers quickly ad libbed an excuse as to why he couldn’t, namely that they already had plans for him to join The Avengers.

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:34:54 +0000

Here’s a T.V. Legend for you, Steve: there was a T.V. movie that was made in the 1960s but not aired until the late 1980s or early 1990s. It had been shelved because of its controversial subject matter, but was found in a studio vault and finally aired over 20 years after it was first filmed.

By: Machine

Machine — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:12:31 +0000

I have been reading these the past week an thoroughly entertained….thanks. I get a real kick seeing comics I used to have and seeing there were behind the scenes things going on.

But after reading these stories about what happened, I hate editors and really really hate EIC’s. I never realized what power they have and what little power the writers have. To me an editor is someone that corrects mistakes, not dictate policies.

By: Bop da

Bop da — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:00:08 +0000

[...] The way this book quickly moves through the histories of comic book publishing, character creation and comic book story creation is unlike any other book I've read. It feels like a retelling of comic book history through the lens of what almost was, whatstrangely was and what almost never was. Was... [...]

By: Vi nam

Vi nam — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:58:47 +0000

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By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:36:59 +0000

I believe I may have found Carl Pfeuffer, the artist who drew the adventures of Namor the Sub-Mariner for much of the 1940. A brief Intelius search on my part – for I refused to buy any further information from the website – revealed that a “Carl B. Pfeuffer,” age 109, was living in Chicago, Illinois. I could’ve gotten his address at the website, but as I said above, I chose not to go that far. I hope I have started you on the road to finding this forgotten artist or his grave site.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:04:58 +0000

Thanks, Anthony, I fixed the link issue.

And thanks for the book head’s up!

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:52:25 +0000

Just went ahead to the Ottawa Public Library site and tracked down the book from which I read about George McManus’s involvement in the scandal. It’s called THE GREAT COMIC STRIP ARTISTS.

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:31:19 +0000

The link for #328 leads to an entirely different set of legends that the ones that are listed on this page.

By: NotU

NotU — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:21:03 +0000

Thank you for fixing the link to 315.

By: NotU

NotU — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:42:14 +0000

The link for 315 directs you to 314.

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:12:23 +0000

I was just wondering if material from the aborted 1990s CAPTAIN AMERICA animated series was used to create the new movie.

In other news, our computer has been shut down due to an attack from a virus called WINDOWS COMPLETE – hence the different email address above, which is my father’s. This virus, an updated version of a virus called WINDOWS PROTECTOR, poses as an advertisement for a new WINDOWS security program. In the process, it makes the users believe their computer is infected by blocking all access to their files and to the Internet. If the victim opts to purchase the program, the virus apparently steals their personal information; it took several days to get it off our computer in its original form.