Then It's Finally The Premiere Episode Of The '24' TV Show We've Been Waiting For!

 I was reading another +FeedBack from a buyer who received their Jack Bauer 24 Card Game from us this week... Their +FB comment was: "Fast Shipping Great Item Thank You!".

Well, we were happy to 'Make It So' for this “24” fan, who could at least play the card game until the 2009 Season finally arrived this coming Sunday Night!

With An Opening Reception:

January 14th, 2009!

 I have to admit... a fondness for the Harvey cartoons and comics that were produced during the 1950's - early 1960's!

After all, those Harvey Comics and the Dell FC Comics were among the ones I first started receiving as gifts growing up as a young child in the mid 1950's and learning how to read!

So when I was informed about the above running program at MoCCA, I just had to blog about it!

This exhibition is being shown at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA! - It is a visual history of one of the most popular comic book publishers of all time, Harvey Comics!

The Title Of the Exhibition is:  

'From Richie Rich to Wendy the Witch:  The Art of Harvey Comics' - "which celebrates the art and characters created and/or popularized by Harvey, including Casper, The Friendly Ghost; Wendy, The Good Little Witch; Richie Rich, The Poor Little Rich Boy; Hot Stuff, The Little Devil; Sad Sack; Joe Palooka; Little Dot; Little Audrey; Little Lotta; Little Max; and many more."

I have not yet seen this exhibition, which started on the West Coast in the Bay Area. However I have been to MoCCA and viewing their other collections alone are more than worth the price of admission!

Is Taking Place On January 11th, 2009!

 My Facebook Friend Vyxsin Fiala,(pictured at the left)... sent me an invite to this Con the same day I received a flyer for it in our PO Box!

Kynt and Vyxsin of the CBS TV Series 'Amazing Race' fame will be at this convention. They will be appearing in the autograph area. If you are a fan of theirs and can't attend, then check out their Facebook pages for additional photos if you are a Facebook member! 

Also there will be Rhona Mitra (pictured at the top left of the blog post in armor), and Kevin Grevioux attending. They are the stars of the Third 'Underworld' Film, 'Rise Of The Lycans', that will be previewed at 12:00 PM on January 11th. I am seeing several commercials on TV for this soon to be released film.

Plus there is the World Premiere Exclusive of 'Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight', which will air on the CW4KIDS Television Network.  Attendees at this con will meet the directors and several of the stars who will be on stage at 2:00 PM. The program is intended to give you a 'behind the scenes look' at the series.

Details for this Con:

Where: SHRINE Auditorium Expo Center, 700 West 32nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007

When: Sunday January 11th, 10am to 5pm

Cost: $8.00, (5 Years and under are Free)

More Details at:  comicbookscifi.com

For those of you that are new to our blog today and can't go to the above Con, we also have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention'  here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts substituting for con programs,  and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store! 

But Only In Select Bookstores So Far!

 Griffin Waldau... one of my newest Facebook Friends informs me that the latest issue of Dapper Chap Quarterly was just released!

Griffin states that the 64 page black & white issue, (with a color cover), sports brand new works from Alex Hemming, Mike Freiheit, Raymond Sohn, Jason Estrin, Stefanie Schrank, Tim Sinaguglia, and Neil Iannone and of course Griffin Waldau.

This issue is called "The Music Issue". It is a comics anthology, and there is an opportunity to view a few pages prior to buying it.

You can check out the preview pages at:

www.wondersmitten.com/store_dapper_chap_preview.html 

This issue's cover price is $7.00; if bought online there is an additional $1.50 for handling and shipping.

Comics anthologies are usually a little harder to keep published on an ongoing basis. So I try to encourage more readership to the ones that I am made aware and find of interest.

Ask about this issue at your LCBS, or you can purchase it online from Griffin. The distribution is not yet nation-wide, so far only in NYC and Brooklyn and also in Asheville, North Carolina, thus online ordering may be your best opportunity to obtain a copy. The preview page has a link to online ordering using PayPal.

Reissued By Author Thomas G Lammers!

 One of the best references I have seen regarding the Atlas Comics 'Implosion'... was an article that originally appeared in Alter Ego #49 (June 2005)!

Why do I bring this up in our Blog? Because the mainstream public that also reads this Blog doesn't really know that much about 'Atlas Comics', even though 'Easter Eggs' like the issue of Mystery Tales #40 seen above, was placed in an episode of last season's 'Lost' TV Show. (Click here for that blog post.)

With all the 'Marvel' Films now being released, most mainstream viewers are thinking that 'Marvel' is basically a superheroes publishing company.  Well, years before Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four and others were created in the Marvel Universe, the company was known as 'Atlas Comics'.

Among the Atlas Comic Books that hit the newstands from Publisher Martin Goodman and Editor Stan Lee were: Strange Tales, Dippy Duck, Patsy and Hedy, Yellow Claw, Homer the Happy Ghost, Sherry The Showgirl and many more. What happened to make "Atlas Comics", a publisher with scores of titles in all types of comics genres, into what is known as 'Marvel Comics' today?

The answers were printed in a privately published book, "Tales of the Implosion: A History of the 1957 Atlas Implosion". The book was a revised and expanded version of the printed article, "Atlas shrugged. A detailed look at the 1957 'Atlas Implosion' and its effect on comics," which appeared in the magazine Alter Ego (vol. 3) 49: 45-67  in June of 2005.

This book was originally published in 2005, went OOP, and is now re-issued and available once again at the original price, $12 postpaid to any USA or Canada mailing address.  To order this book, e-mail Tom Lammers at tlammers @ new.rr.com if you cannot find it at your usual sources.

Some reference materials never go out of date, but they do sometimes go out of print (OOP)... so this re-issue is a blessing for those that want to know more about the mid-decade of what is now known as 'Marvel Comics'!