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Saturday, September 8, 2012
My Take On: Getting Married and Other Mistakes - by Barbara Slate
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Comic Books - New

                                        

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Getting Married
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3712 -   I received this book a while back, read it, and placed it in my 'To Review Blog' stack.  I've been blogging about comics history this week, and am now back to review blogging comics / graphic novels, so this is the first one I wanted to blog about.

Why this publication?  Well, here is the publisher's promotional piece about this book:

"After having been a good girl and following her mother’s advice to snag a husband before she became a twenty-something spinster, Barbara Slate realized that her Mr. Right was actually Mr. Wrong and that she was living her life according to everyone’s rules but her own. After twelve years of an unblissful marriage, she made her escape.
   Now this accomplished comic artist lets it all out in a savagely funny and emotionally honest fictional narrative. Jo, her stand-in protagonist, is a successful wedding photographer (of all things) who has been dumped by her husband and desperately needs to get on with her life. She follows her friends’ advice to get laid, see a shrink, go out more, and live a little. Nothing works. Eventually she realizes that she must stop listening to what everybody else tells her and follow her own voice instead.
   Jo’s struggle with female guilt and her quest for self-awareness, told in a series of hilarious panels, is the perfect book for any woman needing to take back control of her life, or remembering when she did."

Okay, so what's 'My Take' on this book?

Front Cover:  A nice traditional front cover...  It was also appealing to me, and I opened up the book after seeing this and reading the back cover.

Inside I found that the artwork and the dialogue intrigued me into reading it all in two sittings. Even being a 'guy', I found this book to be heartwarming as well as an interesting read.   And you know what?  With Jo's struggle with 'female guilt' and her quest for 'self-awareness', this book really hit me with the seriousness of the subjects.

I found each page to be very readable, and other than a couple of words, this book is suitable reading for older teens and up.  Plus Barbara's humor shines through the panels, which makes for even better reading!

Indeed, graphic novels are not all about superheroes, and Barbara Slate has done a fine job in presenting this graphic novel for public consumption!

I would give this book a Near Mint (NM) 9.4 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grading scale.

For those of you not familiar with Barbara Slate... She has created, written and drawn over 300 comic books and graphic novels, including Angel Love, Yuppies from Hell, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas, Marvel Comics 'Barbie' and 'Barbie Fashion', among other creations.

Catch up with Barbara at her own web site, BarbaraSlate.com.

There is also a Facebook Fan Page for the book at: Getting Married and Other Mistakes..

You can easily purchase this book at this online seller if it isn't available at your normal place of purchase:  Getting Married and Other Mistakes !

~ Michael

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,712 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 link!  We currently have over 2,772 '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:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly 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:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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Updated: Saturday, September 8, 2012 6:50 AM PDT
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Friday, September 7, 2012
So... Why Are So Many Marvel Comics From The Mid-1970's Cut Up ??
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Book History

                                        

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So... Why Are So Many Marvel Comics From The Mid-1970's Cut Up?
 
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3711 -   Just had an email from a potential customer who asked me to check my comic book before he clicked a 'Buy It Now' link on my comic book listing in my online comic book shop.   That's because he learned the hard way about why so many comics from the 1970s are cut up!

That's right!  If You own a Marvel comic book from the time period of 1974-1976, your comic book may be incomplete !

Why????

Well back in March of 1974, Marvel Comics ran a campaign that enticed readers to cut out a certain portion of each comic!

Every month pictures of its most popular characters, either heroes or villains, were printed onto the Letters Pages section of various comics.  The Letter Page would be where Stan Lee or others of the 'Bullpen' printed either editorials, coming attractions or fan mail.

The pictures appeared in the format of a numbered 'stamp'.  To the chagrin of today's collectors the readers of the comics were encouraged to both "clip 'em and collect 'em".  Yikes !!

Ultimately there were 100 different stamps in the set and those first 100 are referred to as the 'Series A'  group.

Later on that year, in-house ads were printed to entice the reader to send away for a Mighty Marvel Value Stamp Book to place their 'Value Stamps' in.  The cost of the book was just 50 cents.

Unfortunately for collectors, the campaign was so successful that in December of 1975 Marvel produced a second set, referred to as 'Series B'.  This group consisted of 100 value stamps too, but these were really different from the first set.  Each of the stamps was not of an individual character but a single piece that formed one full image, similar to a puzzle.

Once again, in-house printed ads in the comics offered another Mighty Marvel Value Stamp Book to paste them into for the same price of only 50 cents!

So coming to today, a Marvel Comic from this 1974 - 76 era with its Marvel Value Stamp clipped out loses most of its  value.  It is so necessary to stress when listing a comic with the stamp out, that when grading such a comic, there is a term specifically created to identify it, the 'Marvel Value Stamp Flaw'.

I check each of the comics that I list in my online comic shop at ComicBooksCircus.com.  For those of you interested in Marvel comic books we have several of their comics listed in our shop right now!

~ Michael

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,711 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 link!  We currently have over 2,772 '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:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly 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:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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Updated: Friday, September 7, 2012 6:34 AM PDT
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Think You Have What It Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Cons

                                        

 
Think You Have What It Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?
Check it out September 15th - 16th
 
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3710 -   Today's blog is a guest blog from Tina LoSasso!

 


Think You Have What It Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?

Find out at the Comikaze Zombie Apocalypse at the LA Convention Center on Saturday and Sunday, September 15-16.

You've watched the movies, devoured the comics and are probably (like me) in withdrawal from A&E's The Walking Dead, but what have you learned about surviving in a world overrun by zombies? Do you think you have what it takes to beat back the relentless hordes of undead to stay alive?

Now you can test your skills in this zombie survival course packed with 75,000 square feet of brain-eating, head-bashing, flesh-chomping fun!

Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo invades the LA Convention Center on September 15-16. The Zombie Apocalypse Survival Course is an exciting addition this year.

This is your chance to kick some zombie butt. As a Survivor, you'll run, crawl, and climb your way through the long, snaking course infested with zombies at every turn.

Or maybe you want to join the ranks of the undead and eat some brains? YOU CAN BE A ZOMBIE! Professional special effects artists will transform you into a fleshing-eating monster before they turn you loose on the course to terrorize the Survivors. Awesome!

Learn more about the course, times, and ticket information at this link!

NOTE: YOU MUST PURCHASE A COMIKAZE TICKET TO GET INTO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

Learn more about Stan Lee's Comikaze at this link!

~ Tina LoSasso

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,710 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 link!  We currently have over 2,771 '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:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly 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:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
---------------            
      
In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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Updated: Thursday, September 6, 2012 8:49 AM PDT
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
My Take On: Humorama - A Division Of Martin Goodman's Publishing Empire
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Book History

                                        

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents His Take On:
 
Humorama - A Division Of Martin Goodman's Publishing Empire
From the 1950s to the 1980s
 
 
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3709 -   I'm continuing on a 'comics history' kick right now in this blog.  That started when I wanted to share a special photo album at my Facebook Fan Page, titled... "Red Circle Imprint of Lion Books".

The first nine photos shown at that link are from Martin Goodman's company, Lion Books, that published Red Circle Books.  Those pictures were talked about in blog #3706, titled: My Take On: Red Circle Books - From Martin Goodman's Company.

Martin Goodman, (pictured to the left in 1942), was the owner of the magazine house 'Magazine Management Company'.

In blog #3707, I added a little more info on Robert 'Robbie' Solomon, who introduced his nephews Stanley Martin Lieber (aka Stan Lee!), and Larry Lieber to Martin Goodman's publishing empire.

In blog #3708, I blogged about the Timely superheroes revival in the mid 1950s.

In this blog, I'm going to present a small amount of info on the Humorama division of Martin's publishing empire.

First, it was Martin's brother, Abe Goodman, who headed this division. Humorama was actually a line of digest-sized magazines.  Several of these magazines were featuring 'girlie' cartoons by the likes of Bill Ward, Archie's Dan DeCarlo, Bill Wenzel,  Playboy's Jack Cole,  illustrator Jefferson Machamer, Basil Wolverton, Mad's Dave Berg, Belvedere's George Crenshaw and others.

In addition to the cartoons, the magazines also displayed black and white photos of pin-up models, that included Bettie (Betty) Page, Eve Myer, Lili St. Cyr.  Also there were minor actresses, including Joi Lansing, Tina Louise, Irish McCalla, and Julie Newmar that were featured, among many others.

The Humorama magazine line was published from at least the mid-1950s up to the early 1980s. These Humorama titles were thought to be profitable for the company, because the content pages were inexpensive and production costs were minimal in comparison to the more complex full-size magazines published by the company's other divisions.

Indeed, these magazines outgrew the digest sized and became full sized magazines by the late 1970s. For example, 'Popular Cartoons' cover page was subtitled: "Wild Adult Sex And Comedy Magazine".  Yet a lot of the cartoons were 'reprinted' cartoons by that issue...

I don't see a history of this division being written, which is a shame, as there appears to be quite a few magazines that this division published.

Among the titles published by this 'Humorama' division were:  Breezy, Cartoon Parade, Comedy, Eyeful of Fun, Fun House, Gaze, Gee-Whiz, Humorama, Instant Laughs, Jest, Joker, Laugh Circus, Laugh Digest, Laugh Riot, Popular Cartoons, Popular Jokes, Romp, Stare, Snappy, and Zip.

I'm posting a couple of pics from the magazine line here in this blog, and the rest will be posted at this special photo album on my Facebook fan page.

~ Michael

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,709 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 link!  We currently have over 2,770 '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:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly 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:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
---------------            
      
In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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Updated: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 7:31 AM PDT
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
My Take On: The Atlas Comics Superheroes Revival In the Mid 1950s
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Book History

                                        

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents His Take On:
 
The Atlas Comics Superheroes Revival In The Mid 1950s
From December 1953 - October 1955
 
 
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3708 -   Yes, it would appear that I'm on a 'comics history' kick right now in this blog.  That started when I wanted to share a special photo album at my Facebook Fan Page, titled... "Magazine Management Company's History".

The first nine photos shown at that link are from Martin Goodman's company, Lion Books, that published Red Circle Books.  Those pictures were talked about in blog #3706, titled: My Take On: Red Circle Books - From Martin Goodman's Company.

Martin Goodman, (pictured to the left in 1942), who was the owner of the magazine house 'Magazine Management Company', had started Timely Comics in 1939 with Marvel Comics #1.

As you can see from the cover of that first comic book for Timely Comics... It included 'The Human Torch' and the 'Sub-Mariner'.

Those two characters, plus a third, Captain America, that was started in March of  1941 with issue #1, were the three superstars of Timely Comics.

However, by the end of World War II, all three superstars had seen their comic book titles come to an end.

Captain America's comic book title ended with issue #73 in July of 1949.  Two more issues titled Captain America's Weird Tales continued with two issues, ending with issue #75 in February of 1950.  But, other than having his name on the front cover of issue #75, 'Cap' didn't appear at all in the comic book!

The Human Torch's comic book titled 'The Human Torch' started with issue #2 in the Fall of 1940. It stopped publishing with issue #35 in March 1949.

Sub-Mariner Comics #1 started Spring of 1941.  It ended with issue #32 in June of 1949.

So as you can see from the above... 1949 was NOT a good year for the once mighty superstars of Timely Comics!

Yet, there was a Timely Comics / Atlas Comics "super-hero revival” shortly afterwards.  It took place in the mid-1950’s. The revival actually began with a comic book titled:  Young Men #24 (cover dated December of 1953).  

This issue actually had new stories from Captain America, The Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner, all in one comic book!

The writer / editor, Stan Lee, actually used those stories in Young Men #24 - "Back from the Dead", (in which Captain America & Bucky both are resurected), "The Return of the Human Torch", and "The Sub-Mariner Returns" to explain the why that the trio of heroes had returned to comics.

However, this revival hardly lasted a year, except for the Sub-Mariner title, which lasted until issue #42, cover dated October of 1955, due to negotiations on a TV show possibility, similar to DC Comics' Adventures of Superman TV show with George Reeves.  Unfortunately that TV show with the Sub-Mariner never saw air-time.

Plus, even though Showcase Comics #4, from September / October of 1956,  with the Flash is popularly declared as the start of the 'Silver Age of Comics', others have pointed to this mini-period of Atlas Comics superheroes revival as the 'real beginning' of the Silver-Age!

Here are links to the comic books that are included in this Revival of the mid 1950s:

Young Men -  #24, #25, #26, #27, #28. These ran from December 1953 - June 1954.

Mens Adventures - #27#28. These ran from May 1954 - July 1954.

The Human Torch - #36, #37, #38.  These ran  from April 1954 - August 1954.

Captain America - #76, #77, #78.  These ran from May 1954 - September 1954.

Sub-Mariner Comics  - #33, #34, #35, #36, #37, #38, #39, #40, #41, #42. These ran from April 1954 - October 1955.

The above numbered twenty-three issues are all that consisted of this short-lived revival of the Timely / Atlas Comics revival in the mid 1950s.

To collect them all nowadays would cost far more than the thin dime that each cost when first published!

Note:  When reading these twenty-three comic books, you'll notice that the main difference between these stories from the mid 1950s and the Golden Age Timely Comics is that most of these stories had a 'Cold War' theme to them.  This in contrast to the Nazis and Japs from the Timely Comics.  Heck, even the 'Red Skull' was shown working for the Kremlin during the Atlas revival!

BTW, after the Sub-Mariner's final issue dated October 1955, Atlas Comics placed this trio of super-heroes in publishing limbo for the next six years.  It wasn't until  November of 1961 when the 'Human Torch' name resurfaced as a member of the Fantstic Four in issue #1.

Matter of fact, it was also in Fantastic Four, issue #4 of May 1962, that the Sub-Mariner was revived!  Plus in the teenaged Human Torch's feature strip in Strange Tales, issue #114 from November of 1963 that 'Captain America' was brought back! Although this 'Cap' turned out to be an imposter, and actually didn't come back until Avengers issue #4 in March of 1964! 

I myself was very young at this time period, and it wasn't until I saw 'Fantasy Masterpieces' comics from Marvel Comics starting in 1966 with issue #3 of that series, that I came to realize the history of these three Timely / Atlas superheroes!

Thus I present in capsule form this little blog on that time period for your perusal. Plus this link to a special photo album where I show the comic book covers.

Best,

~ Michael

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,708 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 link!  We currently have over 2,770 '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:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly 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:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail 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

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!
---------------            
      
In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!
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