Comments on: Last Sunday’s Outing

By: Teebore

Teebore — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:52:02 +0000

Huh. Me thinks I may have to track down some Tarzan issues too. Can’t say no to good Buscema art.

By: Alvin

Alvin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:14:51 +0000

I never read Spoof #1 but I had a copy of #2 All in the family I can remember the cover but not the inside so much. Hey! I was at that show with Dick Sprang there had been a three part Batman story about a Batman comic that ran in Detective comics, Dick Sprang did the covers for those issues He signed them for me, oh… the good old days, when I got to meet the artist and didn’t kill myself lugging boxes of comics around, anyway, I’ll be at the Portland show , Sunday the 9th. Thanks for the nod Greg.

Alvin, Secret Fortress Comics

By: Lynxara

Lynxara — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:26:46 +0000

When you get away from urban population centers, “comics” and “cards” are still pretty much welded together at the hip. Even the local college towns can’t support a store that sells only comics, but a store that sells comics, trading cards, geeky board games, and tabletop role-playing supplements has a shot at survival. The main thing that differentiates the local shops is what gets emphasized by the owner.

By: Agent_Torpor

Agent_Torpor — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:10:36 +0000

WOW! That Shang-Chi #107 was the very first comic book I ever bought. I remember sneaking that into class and taking peeks at it during silent reading.

Kudos on the awesome score, dude.

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:52:45 +0000

Why is the word â€œcardâ€ still included in the name of this event?

The boring answer is probably that it’s the name on all the permits and rental agreements and so on. The show’s been happening at Seattle Center since at least 1991, my first time going; that was when I met Dick Sprang.

But there are some specialty-card and gaming dealers, and even some actual card artists, attending as well. Seattle’s still a pretty big Magic town, I think; Wizards of the Coast started here, after all.

I don’t care for the card end of things either, so I don’t write about them– although I will say that the Wizards artists that have attended in the past have been just as nice to my kids as any of the other attending professionals. But yeah, cards are not my thing either, so I tend to slide over that part. They’re still a presence at the show, though, as are toys and games.

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:12:34 +0000

Why is the word “card” still included in the name of this event?
I thought the shotgun marriage of comic and card collectors imposed during the Dark Ages of the 1990s was long over.
Cards are representative of the collector/speculator mentality that came so close to ruining everything (or actually did, some may argue), being objects that exist solely for collecting purposes, without even the (admittedly sometimes theoretical) inherent enjoyment value of a comic, which you can (ideally) actually, you know, read.
Sorry, kind of a digression, but seriously: fuck cards.

By: Matt Bird

Matt Bird — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:01:38 +0000

Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu characters should enter the public domain at some point, right? (and given how little value Fu Manchu has a 21st century character, you would think that trademark would lapse at some point, too, if it hasn’t already)

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:38:48 +0000

I suppose I must be a Marvel historian….

Now that you mention it, probably most of us around here qualify for that title on some level.

By: Perry Holley

Perry Holley — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:46:32 +0000

It really is hard to go wrong getting back issues of MOKF, and it’s a shame, that it’s so unlikely that we would ever see any form of collection of the run any time soon.

By: Hannibal

Hannibal — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:53:58 +0000

Have to agree with you on Englehart’s Captain Marvel, as a follow on to Jim Starlin he was an excellent choice and I loved Al Milgrom’s artwork. As for the MOKF, it is one of the great joys that I have almost every issue from the point Doug Moench began writing them – definitely the last hundred or so. Gene Day was a tremendous artist as was his brother and his short tenure brought back memories of the awesome Paul Gulacy early seventies issues. I can also remember owning the Tarzan titles and John Carter, yet more comics that bought the dust when I first left home.
Ah well.

By: RAB

RAB — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:16:43 +0000

I suppose I must be a Marvel historian, in that I remember Spoof from when it was published. The second issue (which came out something like two years after the first issue) had an awfully clever "All In The Family" parody that made a big impression on me at the time. Subsequent issues had some early work by Steve Gerber. Also, seconded on the Englehart Captain Marvel run, though I'd quibble with the phrase â€œEverything you know is wrong!â€ being used here. I'd say instead it exemplified one of Englehart's signature moves: starting from the premise that nothing you know is wrong. He would take all the past lore and show how it all fit together in some unexpected way not apparent at the time. (Alan Moore later used this same tactic in books such as Swamp Thing.)

By: Matt Bird

Matt Bird — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:24:15 +0000

Buscema inked by McLeod = gorgeous. Thanks for the tips. I should track down those Tarzans. And those John Carters. And those Captain Marvels. I think Englehart’s Silver Surfer run is massively underrated, so I’d probably like those too.