Who Are Some Of the Guests At the 2010 Long Beach Comic Con That I Want To See?! (Which Runs Friday October 29th through Sunday Octer 31st - In Long Beach, California) Top Right Photo:  Richard Starkings of Elephantmen - Which Will Be Coming to the Big Screen Near YOU Soon! - Middle Right Photo: Herb Jefferson Jr., of the Original BSG (Battlestar Galactica)! - Bottom Right Photo: Mike Mignola, (Hellboy). Shown with His Family at the Long Beach Comic Con Expo earlier This Year!     - -   -

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3269:

I've already blogged about who will be in Artists Alley at the 2010 Long Beach Comic Con that starts TODAY(!), and runs through Sunday at Blog #3266.

I've also blogged about a few of the panels / programs that are being presented at Blog #3257.

Also, I blogged about guests that will be appearing back on Friday, September 17th, in Blog #3238. However, that list has been updated on the LBCC's own web site since then.

Here's my last blog on the LBCC, before heading up there later today.  That's because the 'Ribbon Cutting Ceremony' is scheduled to start at 12:45 PM, and I want to be there!

The above three photos are ones that I chose to present here, because to me, they are 'Special Guests'!

Each of them have spent time with me at earlier Long Beach Comic Cons, (either the 2009 LBCC or the earlier 2010 LBCC Expo), or in Herb's case...it's about time he appeared at the LBCC!  I usually see him at other cons, and wanted to include him in today's blog, as someone that I recommend YOU stop and see!

Yes, there are many others that are attending, and for the full list, please see this link, which will take you the LBCC's own page for 'guests' at this year's LBCC.

Others on that same web page that I have met before, and suggest YOU make a special effort to see in person would be: Joel Adams, Ray-Anthony Height, Stan Lee (special ticket required), Wilce Portacio, Mark Waid, Marv Wolfman, and Bernie Wrightson! I could suggest more, but even I can't see it all!

Those that I haven't met, but would like to would be: Bruce Boxleitner, Howard Chaykin, Gary Lockwood, Danny Miki, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Joe Rubinstein!

Please Note:  Posting lists like these could always lead to someone getting miffed that they weren't on it.  I'm only mentioning some of those that are on the guests page at the LBCC web site.  There are MANY others that are listed on the Artists Alley Page that I definitely want to see, but this blog was on the 'guests list' persons only.

I'll post new pics here in my blog if I get to meet those named above, and also at my own Facebook Group Page, at Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing.

Which BTW, I'll be mobile Facebooking photos to during the LBCC.  Unfortunately the photos first are uploaded to my personal profile page, which is maxed out at 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan Pages 'Liked', so I can't many more 'Friends Requests'.  Which is one of the reasons why I have a Facebook Group Page!

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My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now over 3,265 total posts in number! I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

Note: Our online comic book shop carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items at the link seen below.  

http://www.comicbookscircus.com/

 

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"Hammering Out the Web For You Since May 12th, 1998!"       Note: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:   Make It So Marketing Inc. PO Box 130653 Carlsbad, CA 92013     ComicBooksCircus.com - It's Under The Big Top Of Comics! Click the Above Circus Tent to See Our Current Listings!

My thanks to those of YOU that have read today's blog post! I do appreciate that! For those of you that didn't know me before today... I first set up as a 'dealer' at the 1972 San Diego West Coast Comic Con (SDCC) at the El Cortez Hotel. So I've been around comic conventions for a little while, LOL!   My wife Tina and I now have an on-line exhibitor (dealer) table at the first "virtual" comic con titled the "Facebook Comic Con" (FBCC)! Plus I have a chapter in a new book coming out in December of 2010, that is pictured above, "Gotham City 14 Miles"! Click here to become a 'Fan' of the GC14M Facebook Fan Page! You can view our dealer table and interact with us there on Facebook by clicking this link, which takes you to our table named: 'Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing'.  So if YOU are a Facebook member, please 'join' our Facebook Comic Con - Make It So Marketing exhibitor table for updates, specials, links to this blog, and other wall comments that we post every day!     Also, if you are a Facebook member and would like to also join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'. Please Note: I have reached the maximum of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so it might be a while before I am able to accept your request. Just send a message along with the invite that you saw my Blog!         ------------------- Talking about comics: if YOU are a comics creator, (writer, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, etc.), OR even a Comics / Magazine Publisher, feel free to contact me regarding YOUR works for a possible mention / review! I've made a special blog post about: "How To Best Submit YOUR Publication For Possible Review!" for those creators / publishers that would like to possibly have their publications mentioned or reviewed. Just click on the link provided in this paragraph! ~Michael @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com   WEB PAGE NOTE:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards. Chrome, Safarai, Netscape, Firefox and the others serve the page up differently, sorry about that! The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer. NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

 

7 More Reasons To Love: 'Gotham City 14 Miles' NOTE: It's The FINAL WEEK For YOU To Pre-Order @ Your LCBS!     -------------- Above Top Photo: This is the Front Cover of the 'Gotham City 14 Miles' Book that YOU Can Pre-Order from YOUR LCBS. Do It Today, As This Is the FINAL WEEK! At the Top Left: One of the Batmobiles Customized by George Barris as shown at the April 2010 Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con! At the Middle Left: Burt (Robin) Ward at the Same Convention! At the Bottom Left: Lee (Catwoman) Meriwether at the Same Convention!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3268:

In Blog #3247, I posted that YOU could start pre-ordering YOUR copy of the upcoming book 'Gotham City 14 Miles', (referred to as GC14M in this post), at your LCBS (Local Comic Book Shop)!

Then in Blog #3265, I stated that being a comic book / graphic novel / books on comics reviewer, I was able to obtain a 'review copy' .pdf of this upcoming book.  I thus posted a 'review blog' on this upcoming book.

As stated in that post, and now here in this post, I am also one of the fourteen contributors to this GC14M book. 

However, this is NOT a 'review blog' today for this book.  It is an 'unabashed plug' for the book, with the '7 More Reasons To Love the Upcoming GC14M Book'!

Of course since I'm a contributor, (Mile Marker #10), as well as a fan of the TV Show, I've been blogging about this book now for what seems quite a while...(Click here for the almost 500 links on Google!)

Enough of the disclaimers, you now know why this book has been on my personal horizon for months now. 

PLUS: I had to run one more blog on this book, as this is the FINAL WEEK for YOU to pre-order the book at YOUR LCBS! So here's my 2nd post on the GC14M book after reading the preview copy: 

As stated before in my earlier posts, this GC14M book is written as a series of fourteen essays.  That's 14 chapters on the TV Series with 14 different topics.  Which was a great marketing tool to use the Mile Marker shown in the TV Series as the title!

I have already posted the first "7 Reasons YOU Should Love the New GC14M Book". Those were MY personal choices to highlight first, and were not meant to slight any of the essayists that contributed. I enjoyed reading all of the 14 Mile Markers.

This ComicBookCollectors.com blog covers far more than most blogs, as it is presented in a web page format, not just a 'blog paragraph' teaser with a link to someone else's article or blog. But I still have a 'space limit' on how much I can post in each blog.  You can see ALL of the 14 Mile Markers & their authors at my Blog #3247.  And No, I didn't post my Mile Marker #10 as one of the Mile Markers being mentioned first in Blog #3265!

Here's those Mile Markers from the 'Table of Contents' in their numerical order that comprise my second '7 Reasons Why YOU Should Love the New GC14M Book'!:

So in summary... The above paragraphs present 7 more of the 14 Mile Markers that I have space to mention here this morning. They are also good reading, and are presented in this second blog post because of space limitations in this blog format.  If you haven't read the earlier blog posts referenced at the beginning of this post, I urge you to do so. 

I'm posting this additional blog this morning, because this is the FINAL WEEK for YOU to pre-order this book from Your LCBS, (Local Comic Book Shop).  That is the way this book will be distributed for 2010.  In early 2011 it will be distributed via a more 'mainstream' venue.  But I wanted YOU to know how to get it earlier!

So this week, when YOU go to your LCBS to pick up your weekly shipment of comics, don't forget to pre-order this upcoming book that is due to arrive at the end of December!

Gotham City 14 Miles / ISBN 9780578064611 / $22.95 MSRP

Also, in the meantime please feel free to check out the Facebook Fan Page for Gotham City 14 Miles and 'liking' it!

PLUS...My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now over the 3,265 total posts in number! I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this Blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app!  I would appreciate that!

Note: Our online comic book shop carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items at the link seen below.  

http://www.comicbookscircus.com/

 

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"Hammering Out the Web For You Since May 12th, 1998!"       Note: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:   Make It So Marketing Inc. PO Box 130653 Carlsbad, CA 92013     ComicBooksCircus.com - It's Under The Big Top Of Comics! Click the Above Circus Tent to See Our Current Listings!

My thanks to those of YOU that have read today's blog post! I do appreciate that! For those of you that didn't know me before today, I first set up as a 'comic book dealer' at the 1972 San Diego West Coast Comic Con (SDCC) at the El Cortez Hotel. So I've been around comic conventions for a little while, LOL!   My wife Tina and I, (both pictured at an early 2000s SDCC), now have an on-line exhibitor (dealer) table at the first "virtual" comic con titled the "Facebook Comic Con" (FBCC)! You can view our dealer table and interact with us there on Facebook by clicking this link, which takes you to our table named: 'Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing'. Plus as mentioned in today's blog...I have a chapter in a new book coming out in December of 2010, that is pictured above, "Gotham City 14 Miles"!  Click here to become a 'Fan' of the GC14M Facebook Fan Page! So if YOU are a Facebook member, please 'join' our Facebook Comic Con - Make It So Marketing exhibitor table for updates, specials, links to this blog, and other wall comments that we post every day!     Also, if you are a Facebook member and would like to also join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'. I am reaching the maximum of 5,000 Facebook Friends soon, and I don't want YOU to be left out!         ------------------- Talking about comics: if YOU are a comics creator, (writer, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, etc.), OR even a Comics / Magazine Publisher, feel free to contact me regarding YOUR works for a possible mention / review! I've made a special blog post about: "How To Best Submit YOUR Publication For Possible Review!" for those creators / publishers that would like to possibly have their publications mentioned or reviewed. Just click on the link provided in this paragraph! ~Michael @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com   WEB PAGE NOTE:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards. Chrome, Safarai, Netscape, Firefox and the others serve the page up differently, sorry about that! The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer. NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

 

My Thoughts On: Back To The Future!   25 Years Later!     - Above Photo:  Michael D Hamersky In Front of the DeLorean Time Machine At Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con 2010! - At the Left: One of the Few Comic Books Printed on the Back To The Future Franchise!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3267:

Yesterday morning while getting ready to pack up and leave for the day, my wife told me that there was a special feature on TV. This was about 8:15 AM.

She was watching the feature on the Today Show, and knew that I would want to check it out...

That's because six persons involved with the 'Back To The Future' (BTTF) were in the feature.

I've copied the segment to share with you here:

Please Note:  The segment is 11:49 in time length.

Anyways, I had already posted my blog yesterday morning before that time... Yet the segment followed me throughout the day as I thought about this Trilogy.

It's been 25 years since the BTTF 1 film was released.  it is one of the few movies that has stood the test of time for me. 

When I say 'the test of time', I mean this is one of the few films that when catching it on TV when channel surfing, I will see a scene and stop to watch the film.  Only a few films, maybe a dozen, have that durability of making me stop to do that. 

I hate catching a film that has already started, or for that matter a TV series that has already aired a few epiosdes or even a season.  I won't watch a TV series that I'm suggested to view, unless I rent a DVD first to catch up!

So yeah, I watched all three of the BTTF Franchise on the Big Screen at my local theaters.  At one point I even had a lot of the 'collectibles' about this show, including of course, 'comic books', like the Harvey Limited Series pictured at the top left of this blog post.  Hey, doesn't every truly successful TV Show Or Film Series have a comic book or comic book series?!  LOL!

It was fun to see the above segement on the Today Show yesterday. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, director Robert Zemeckis and theme song singer Huey Lewis were all there to talk about the film on this, the 25th Anniversary.

It was also fun for me to see the DeLorean at the 2010 Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con. I've included two photos I had Tina snap of me in front of it in this post. 

I have all 3 of the BTTF still on VHS tape. No, I haven't gotten around to purchasing them on DVD.  During the years I've gotten a little tired of buying my favorites in each of the formats that come out, except for my Fantastic Four cartoons, which because of the amount of VHS tapes for the multiple series, grew to too many boxes to easily store.

I still pull the BTTF VHS tapes out every other year to watch once, as re-watching those films remind on how good a film trilogy can be.

If you don't have this film series for your film library, I would suggest picking one up.  And no, we don't sell it in our online store, sorry!  It's stood the test of time for me, and I have shared it with each of my kids as they grew up.  It is a 'Family Fare' film, yet isn't dumbed down.  It truly has stood that 'test of time' I was telling you about above.

My thanks to all of those involved in this film 25+ years ago when it was in development.  And to those six that are featured in the segment above that are currently publicizing the Anniversary.

Also, my thanks to those that have transferred the BTTF to the comic books and magazines, that help those that weren't there at the beginning 25 years ago like I was. 

Here's a link to the two comic book series that Harvey Comics published.

I'm a little short on time this morning, (pun intended!), so will have to get back to those post to add additional links in the future on the other comics / magazines... 
   

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~ Michael D Hamersky @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com

Note: Our online comic book shop carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items at the link seen below.  

http://www.comicbookscircus.com/

 

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"Hammering Out the Web For You Since May 12th, 1998!"       Note: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:   Make It So Marketing Inc. PO Box 130653 Carlsbad, CA 92013     ComicBooksCircus.com - It's Under The Big Top Of Comics! Click the Above Circus Tent to See Our Current Listings!

My thanks to those of YOU that have read today's blog post! I do appreciate that! For those of you that didn't know me before today... I first set up as a 'dealer' at the 1972 San Diego West Coast Comic Con (SDCC) at the El Cortez Hotel. So I've been around comic conventions for a little while, LOL!   My wife Tina and I now have an on-line exhibitor (dealer) table at the first "virtual" comic con titled the "Facebook Comic Con" (FBCC)! Plus I have a chapter in a new book coming out in December of 2010, that is pictured above, "Gotham City 14 Miles"! Click here to become a 'Fan' of the GC14M Facebook Fan Page! You can view our dealer table and interact with us there on Facebook by clicking this link, which takes you to our table named: 'Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing'.  So if YOU are a Facebook member, please 'join' our Facebook Comic Con - Make It So Marketing exhibitor table for updates, specials, links to this blog, and other wall comments that we post every day!     Also, if you are a Facebook member and would like to also join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'. Please Note: I have reached the maximum of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so it might be a while before I am able to accept your request. Just send a message along with the invite that you saw my Blog!         ------------------- Talking about comics: if YOU are a comics creator, (writer, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, etc.), OR even a Comics / Magazine Publisher, feel free to contact me regarding YOUR works for a possible mention / review! I've made a special blog post about: "How To Best Submit YOUR Publication For Possible Review!" for those creators / publishers that would like to possibly have their publications mentioned or reviewed. Just click on the link provided in this paragraph! ~Michael @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com   WEB PAGE NOTE:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards. Chrome, Safarai, Netscape, Firefox and the others serve the page up differently, sorry about that! The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer. NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

 

Who Will Be In Artists Alley At The 2010 Long Beach Comic Con (LBCC)?! Friday October 29th through Sunday October 31st - In Long Beach, California     - Above Photo:  Bernie Wrightson as seen at the February 2010 1 Day Long Beach Comic Con Expo! - At the Left: The Poster for THIS Year's 3 Day LBCC - Make Plans Now!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3266:

I realized that I wasn't going to be able to list everyone individually that is going to be in Artists Alley at the upcoming Long Beach Comic Con at my Facebook Group Page.  So I'm posting the current full list here in my blog today!

Tina and I have definitely booked this last weekend in October to attend this 2nd Annual LBCC.  We suggest YOU check out the links below, both to their Facebook Fan Page, and to their own web site for additional info and costs.  I'll be Facebooking more about this upcoming con in the days to come at my own Facebook Group Page:  Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing. 

This is just an additional notice for you to see who is scheduled to appear in Artists Alley, (subject to change, of course!).  

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Again, this is just the Latest Notice about this upcoming event.  I'll be sure to post more notices at my own Facebook Group Page as the weekend nears. And at least one follow up blog afterwards on the event itself.  Plus any comic books / promos that we pick up at the LBCC from the creators for possible review blogs!

If YOU are exhibiting at this LBCC, feel free to message me on Facebook or send me an email so I can add you in future posts!

My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now over 3,265 total posts in number! I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this Blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app!  We currently have 2,000 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet...I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note: Our online comic book shop carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items at the link seen below.  

http://www.comicbookscircus.com/

 

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"Hammering Out the Web For You Since May 12th, 1998!"       Note: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:   Make It So Marketing Inc. PO Box 130653 Carlsbad, CA 92013     ComicBooksCircus.com - It's Under The Big Top Of Comics! Click the Above Circus Tent to See Our Current Listings!

My thanks to those of YOU that have read today's blog post! I do appreciate that! For those of you that didn't know me before today... I first set up as a 'dealer' at the 1972 San Diego West Coast Comic Con (SDCC) at the El Cortez Hotel. So I've been around comic conventions for a little while, LOL!   My wife Tina and I now have an on-line exhibitor (dealer) table at the first "virtual" comic con titled the "Facebook Comic Con" (FBCC)! Plus I have a chapter in a new book coming out in December of 2010, that is pictured above, "Gotham City 14 Miles"! Click here to become a 'Fan' of the GC14M Facebook Fan Page!! You can view our dealer table and interact with us there on Facebook by clicking this link, which takes you to our table named: 'Facebook Comic Con | Make It So Marketing'.  So if YOU are a Facebook member, please 'join' our Facebook Comic Con - Make It So Marketing exhibitor table for updates, specials, links to this blog, and other wall comments that we post every day!     Also, if you are a Facebook member and would like to also join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'. Please Note: I have reached the maximum of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so it might be a while before I am able to accept your request. Just send a message along with the invite that you saw my Blog!         ------------------- Talking about comics: if YOU are a comics creator, (writer, penciler, inker, colorist, letterer, etc.), OR even a Comics / Magazine Publisher, feel free to contact me regarding YOUR works for a possible mention / review! I've made a special blog post about: "How To Best Submit YOUR Publication For Possible Review!" for those creators / publishers that would like to possibly have their publications mentioned or reviewed. Just click on the link provided in this paragraph! ~Michael @ ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com   WEB PAGE NOTE:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards. Chrome, Safarai, Netscape, Firefox and the others serve the page up differently, sorry about that! The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer. NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

 

My 'Take' On: 'Gotham City 14 Miles' The Upcoming Book That Is Ready For Pre-Order @ Your LCBS!     -------------- Above Top Photo: This is the Front Cover of the 'Gotham City 14 Miles'  Book that YOU Can Pre-Order from YOUR LCBS! At the Top Left: Michael D Hamersky with Lee (Catwoman) Meriwether at the April 2010 Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con! At the Middle Left: Deanna (Anna Gram) Lund at the Same Convention! At the Bottom Left: Yvonne (Batgirl) Craig holding a copy of her book 'From Ballet to the Batcave to Beyond'!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3265:

In Blog #3247, I posted that YOU could start pre-ordering YOUR copy of the upcoming book 'Gotham City 14 Miles', (referred to as GC14M in this post), at your LCBS (Local Comic Book Shop)!

Being a comic book / graphic novel / books on comics reviewer, I was able to obtain an 'advance review copy' .pdf of this book. 

I do need to point something out here, before going further. For those of you that don't know, I am also one of the fourteen contributors to this upcoming book, GC14M.

Of course since I'm a contributor, (Mile Marker #10), as well as a fan of the TV Show, I've been blogging about this book now for what seems quite a while...(Click here for the almost 500 links on Google!)

Enough of the disclaimers, you now know why this book has been on my personal horizon for months now.  So here's 'My Take' / review: 

I have found that reading .pdfs on my laptop is not the easiest way for me to read 'comics', 'graphic novels', and certainly not 'real books'. I prefer the 'hard copy' format, as I am more of a tactile reader.

Saying that, I found that my initial excitement about this book was justified after receiving my 'review copy' via .pdf format.

That's because this book is highly organized, presented well, and written by people who 'know' this TV Series that has been running in syndication since it first left the air in 1967!

As stated before in my earlier posts, this GC14M book is written as a series of fourteen essays.  That's 14 chapters on the TV Series with 14 different topics.  Great marketing tool to use the Mile Marker shown in the TV Series as the title. Kudos to the Editor, Jim Beard, for thinking that up!

I finished reading the GC14M 'book' last night.  Since it is so fresh in my mind, I'm blogging my "review" this morning.  Here are the first 'Seven Reasons to Love the New GC14M Book"! 

Please note:  These are MY personal choices to highlight first, and are not meant to slight any of the essayists that contributed. I enjoyed reading all of the 14 Mile Markers. This blog covers far more than most blogs, as it is presented in a web page format, not just a 'blog paragraph' teaser with a link to someone else's article or blog. But I still have a 'space limit' on how much I can post in each blog.  You can see ALL of the 14 Mile Markers & their authors at my Blog #3247.  And No, I'm NOT including my Mile Marker #10 as one of the Mile Markers being mentioned first here!

Here's those Mile Markers from the 'Table of Contents' in their numerical order that comprise my first 'Seven Reasons To Love the New GC14M Book'!:

Mile Marker No. 2: “Batman — From Comics Page to TV Screen” by Peter Sanderson. Delves deep into “Batman’s” comic book roots. This essay really brought in additional info that I did not know, and presented in such an entertaining way, that it jumped right out at me!  Maybe because it also included histories of Catwoman, Batgirl and Aunt Harriet, but this essay had info I wanted to read about.

Mile Marker No. 4: “Notes on Bat-Camp” by Tim Callahan. An effort to answer that age-old question: “Was ‘Batman’ truly camp?” - I lived through this period when the TV Show was first aired. I enjoyed it, although by Season 3 it was little too 'formulaic' in its presentation.  However, I had never seen an in-depth article on 'Camp' let alone 'Bat-Camp'.  Researched well, and formatted well in this Mile Marker!  

Mile Marker No. 6: “POW! – Batman’s Visual Punch” by Bill Walko. Looks into the impact of the show’s vibrant visual design. Bill hits it right on the money...The Batman TV Show was "...a live action pop-art camp adventure".  Well researched, well written, and presented many facts that I had not known about the TV show.

Mile Marker No. 8: “May I Have This Batdance?” by Michael S. Miller. Very good history presented in this essay! Being a record collector / seller at the early Capitol Records Collector Meet in Hollywood during the 1970's, this essay had special meaning for me.  And I never did get to hear all of the records mentioned in this essay.  Now I have to find them on YouTube or somewhere!

Mile Marker No. 9: “The Best Dressed Women in Gotham City” by Jennifer K. Stuller. Presents a compelling argument for its female denizens and their place in “Batman.” - As you can see from the top of this blog post, I definitely have a fondness for those actresses that had either continuing roles or one-shot features in this TV series! So this essay really was one I had a pre-disposition to want to like. It was well researched, and well written, so I wasn't disappointed!  Neither will be fans of Catwoman or Batgirl!

Mile Marker No. 13: “Jumping the Bat-Shark” by William Patrick Murray. Delves into the third season of “Batman.” -Really good summarization of the third (and last) season of Batman! I had a problem when re-watching all of the series episodes in order to write my own Mile Marker for this book. My wife who watched several with me, and then 'listened' to others when the series became too formulaic, would agree here.  The introduction of Batgirl was fine, but the one episode per week just didn't work for the episodes that were two parters.  I appreciated the extra effort that William put into this essay. It would have been easy to jump on the bandwagon on how bad the third season was, but he didn't.  William really put together some great facts into a well written essay!   

Mile Marker No. 14: “Some Days You Just Can’t Get Rid of a Bomb” by Paul Kupperberg. The legacy beyond its original broadcast.  Quite honestly, I haven't kept up with the Batman mythos in recent years.  I've seen ALL of the Batman theatrical live action films on the Big Screen at local theaters, and rented the animated DVDs of major animated releases.  I haven't watched the several animated series that have been shown on TV, or have been released on DVD.  So it was very interesting to read in this essay on what has been happening since the 1966 Batman TV Show eneded.

The above are 7 of the 14 Mile Markers that I have space to mention here this morning.  (I'm planning on running an additonal post in the future on the other 7.)

I did want to mention here a few other items that are included in this book.

One is the 'Introduction' titled: 'Giant Lighted Lucite Map of Gotham City' by Jim Beard, who is also the Editor of this book.  Now I know why this book came into being!  Thanks for sharing that at the beginning of this book!

Another is an Appendix that wasn't listed on the 'Table of Contents' in the pre-publication .pdf that was sent to me.  I have sent in word on this, hoping that the published book will have that correction.

That is the Appendix: Bat-Discography by Michael S. Miller. Yes, the same author of Mile Maker No. 8!  This is a wealth of info on this subject, the best I've ever seen!  For Batman TV Show fans, this is a list you need to copy off and carry with you to record collector shows!

Last, but certainly NOT least is the 'About the Contributors' section. It was good that all of the Contributors were listed with a little about them.  It could have been worked to have the Mile Marker Number included with the paragraph on them for easy cross reference, but it was good to see what the backgrounds were of each Contributor for those that are picking up the book to possibly purchase it.

So, as you can see...I'm more than slightly prejudiced in favor of this book being in YOUR personal library at home!

Even so, I'm going to give this book a Near Mint (NM) 9.4 out of a 10.0 comic book grading scale. That's because it is well researched, well written, and will be presented for sale in a print format in the upcoming future!

Again, when YOU go to your LCBS to pick up your weekly shipment of comics, don't forget to pre-order this upcoming book that is due to arrive at the end of December!

Gotham City 14 Miles / ISBN 9780578064611 / $22.95 MSRP

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