The DC Comics Time Capsule: October 1964
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.”...
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Marvel, DC, yeesh! You old timers are terrible! How the hell did you pass up Betty and Veronica over at Archie comics??? What's the matter with you? No love for the ladies. Late 1950's and 1960's were...
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Not much love on these boards for Dell comics either, but then, I never read them, and I don't know who did. However, this one looked pretty cool over on Mike's Time Machine.
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No love for DELL? Wrongo, at least in my neck of the woods! Loved Walt Disnet's Comics And Stories each month. And Little Lulu and the companion comic Tubby were also must reads. My guilty pleasure...
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The Teenage Music International Show was filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium fifty years ago in 1964 on October 28-29. It featured such performers as Jan & Dean, Chuck Berry, Lesley Gore,...
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sterlling wrote:Marvel, DC, yeesh! You old timers are terrible! How the hell did you pass up Betty and Veronica over at Archie comics???dlc320 wrote:But, my very favorite was TARZAN! Each issue...
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I liked Space Mouse that Dell published a couple issues of and I wish that Gold Key had published more than one issue of the "Gallant Men" comic book based on the TV war series.
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No doubt due in part to the innocence of the time, The T.A.M.I. Show is my absolute "group" favorite concert film ever. Far outdistancing Woodstock or Montery Pop. And I suppose my love of the James...
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No Dell. . . No Archie. . . Why? NO SUPERHEROES!! I was all about superheroes (still am, I guess). That's why I bought comics. If it weren't for The Fly and The Jaguar, I would never had had an Archie...
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Well, another month has flown by...thanks again to everyone who chimed in... For a preview of what's coming next month, tune in here. I'm leaning toward a review of Aquaman... if anyone else would...
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dlc320 wrote: I suppose my love of the James Brown and the Famous Flames segment is by now well known....Saw James Brown live way back in the day. Amazing show.
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sterlling wrote:Well thanks to Martin's bad choices (not all his fault) Marvel or the MC company as they were known back then was downsized to a more minor player in the late 50's/early 60's. Jack...
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We touched on it a little bit last month, but this month is the 50 year anniversary of the Bantam books revival of Doc Savage, which was the gateway drug for my generation to rediscover the joys of...
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This ties in nicely with our earlier discussion of DC vs. Marvel in the '60s. By the time I was in high school I was already trolling the paperback book racks looking for cool stuff. The James Bama...
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Excellent analogy, dearlenbaugh. And I guess Charlton would have been the RKO Pictures counterpart in that scenario.I started reading the Doc Savage book I ordered on Kindle and I thought the writer...
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Yossarian wrote:I remember 50 years ago learning that the pulp writers got paid by the word, and my reaction was, "Well, that explains why they wrote that way." Example?
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dearlenbaugh wrote:This ties in nicely with our earlier discussion of DC vs. Marvel in the '60s. By the time I was in high school I was already trolling the paperback book racks looking for cool...
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Hepcat wrote:Yossarian wrote:I remember 50 years ago learning that the pulp writers got paid by the word, and my reaction was, "Well, that explains why they wrote that way." Example? “The first of...
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Yes. I see he certainly stretched out the descriptive narrative. Never use one word when four will do.
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Bantam Books reissue of the Doc Savage pulp magazine stories was an impressive financial success for the publisher; the first eleven paperbacks alone in the series sold a remarkable 2.2 million...
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alizarin1 wrote:Producer George Pal's later 1975 film adaptation of Doc Savage, The Man of Bronze unfortunately reflects too little of his earlier creativity and was a major disappointment. Although...
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