Michael D Hamersky On Comics Mentions That...   It's A Holidays Season Sale... Going On Right Now!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3760 -   This blog originally started off as an eBay Blog back in September of 2007.

I haven't been posting that many blogs to or about my eBay online comic book shop this year, (even though the photos contain links to that shop).

So when eBay sent me an email yesterday that all of my listings for this week would be 'Free'... I immediately starting listing more comics / graphic novels / DVDs, etc. yesterday.

I still have more to list today, and probably tomorrow, auction style!

However all of the auction style listings will end next Tuesday, December 18th, so that buyers can pay, and I can finish shipping them on Thursday, December 21st.  So no, the odds are that the packages won't arrive in time for Christmas...

However... There are other 'fixed price' store listings that are available right now for purchase, and I can ship those out right away.

Please note:  My eBay comic book shop will close as of Tuesday night, December 18th, so that I can ship out all the sales on Thursday.  As we are on a vacation on Friday!

Here's the link to my online only comic book shop where you can see what I currently have listed for sale:

ComicBooksCircus.com

Plus:  There is a 'special' shipping rate for comic books only.  It's only $3.95 S&H for 1 - 25 comic books in combined shipping. (Only comic books, no graphic novels / DVDs / etc., just comic books! Non-comic books are still combined, but at a higher shipping & handling rate.)

Thanks for reading this blog post...

And a Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays Season to you all!

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,760 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!   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 'Local' 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! !     

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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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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Remembers...   John Buscema!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3759 -   I'm noticing that several of my archived blogs with John Buscema's name in them are seeing some activity the past 18 hours.

That's because John' Birthday would have been today... As he was born December 11th of 1927 in Brooklyn, New York.

So John, had he lived on, would have been 85 years old today...

Sad to say, John passed away on January 10th of 2002...

The above top right photo is from the 1960's Marvel 'Bullpen' Days, which is where I first got to 'know' John via his work.

John had earlier attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan.

After John started working professionally, he was influenced by the art of the famous illustrators of the '40's and '50's, such as Al Dorne, Norman Rockwell and Robert Fawcett

John had a great relationship with Stan Lee during the years. Indeed, John's last published work was for DC Comics on 'Just Imagine Stan Lee with John Buscema Creating Superman'.

John was actually a long time artist with Marvel Comics, first starting there in 1948, when it was known as 'Timely'. He stayed on staff there for about a year and half. He later came back in the mid 1960's when Stan Lee needed more artists for comic book expansion. He retired from active comics drawing in 1996.

A little over ten years ago, I met John for the first time at the 2001 SDCC, (San Diego Comic Con Int'l). It would be the first and only time John made it to that gathering of fans of the comic arts where he spoke.

John spoke gruffly at his spotlight program and made fun of his superhero work at Marvel.  That included the Fantastic Four, Nova, Sub-Mariner, the Incredible Hulk, and of course the Mighty Thor.

Indeed, he said while the cameras were running that were filming the program, that his work on Conan the Barbarian  was among his favorite works.  However in the early years of Conan, Marvel could not afford his page rate for that comic. It was only after Barry Smith, who worked for less when first starting out, brought Conan's circulation numbers up that Marvel could afford to have John do the artwork!

John tried to come across as a gruff old guy during this spotlight program and other panels he attended that week, but all the audience could see that he was like a big teddy bear. The comic book industry lost a great man when he stopped drawing...

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,759 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!   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 'Local' 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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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Reviews...   Giant Monsters A-Go-Go Issue One!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3758 -   Back to comic book reviews!

Here's another comic book that I found at the recent 2012 Long Beach Comic Con in Long Beach, California.

The title is 'Giant Monsters A-Go-Go' Issue One.

I'm always interested in this genre, especially if the front cover is a cool one, which this one is!

The inside front cover is about the creators, Rafael C Gonzalez, and Mark Rivers.

The splash page is the first page of the first story title:  'The Life and Death of Talos The Bronze'.  With Rafael Gonzalez doing the story and art, and Philip Clark doing the script and letters.

The Splash page shows an art style that I immediately like, and turning the page I start enjoying the story line.

Twelve pages in... The story ends...

There is a pin-up page, and then an early design sketches page for Talos.

Following that, there is a ten page story on the second character shown on the front cover, the one-eyed being.

There isn't a splash page, or title, or credits to this story... Why?  I don't know.

The story is an interesting one, and when reading it, I figured that this was Mark Rivers contribution to the issue.  Mark is shown at the top right of this blog post, holding the comic book. 

I have previously review blogged one of Mark's own comics, Freaks, Mutants, and Monsters #1.

Then there is the inside back cover page, an in house print ad for Ka-Blam printing.

Then the back cover page, samples of art shown at Rafael's and Mark's Deviant pages.

So... Here's my comic book grade for this comic...

A Very Fine Plus (VF+) 8.5 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grading scale.

You can contact Rafael at his Deviant page to find out where you can purchase this comic book, as I don't see it on IndyPlanet or elsewhere.

My thanks to Mark Rivers for bringing this comic book to my attention at the recent LBCC!

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,758 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!   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 'Local' 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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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Mentions That Today Is...   Army versus Navy... On The Football Field!   For the 113th Time!     So Here Are a Few Comic Book Covers To Get Us In The Mood For Some Football!

TODAY'S BLOG IS #3757 -  Okay... As many of you know, I'm a Navy Brat!

So today is one of the days of the year that I have to drop everything that I'm doing... And watch TV for some Football!

Army versus Navy Football that is!   The Black Knights versus the Midshipmen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania!

Above are some comic book covers from comic book publishers with either the Navy or the Army on the cover...

Enjoy!

And check out the football game on 12 PM Saturday, December 8th on CBS!

Gooooooo Navy....   Beat Army!

(Note:  For the history of the Annual Game and stats, see the Wikipedia entry here!) 

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,757 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!   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 'Local' 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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December 7th, 1941...     Michael D Hamersky On Comics Remembers This Date, In History...     WAR!   As Declared In Comic Books!     Just a few comic books with the WWII theme on the front cover, from  the Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos title from Marvel Comics!

TODAY'S BLOG IS #3756 -  Comic Books are an American pop culture creation. At times they have been used for promotional purposes to sell cars, or burgers, or to introduce a company itself to the general public.

Other times they have been printed to get a point across to the reading public, such as during the 'Cold War' when comics warning about the 'Red Menance' were seen.

Well, back in the 1941 era, many comic book covers had a call for patriotism because of what happened on this date back in 1941.

So comic books also went to war!

There are hundreds of comic books from that era that were published.  In previous years in this blog, I've chosen several to present on this date.

For this year, I've chosen to present seven standout issues from the Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos title from Marvel Comics from the early 1960s!

I'm not old enough to remember that day.  My dad wasn't old enough to serve yet either.  However, 'war comics' were an early part of my growing up reading and then collecting comics. Possibly because I was a 'Navy Brat', and war comics were at the Navy Bases in relatively larger numbers in the barbershops and Navy Exchanges.

Not to glorify war, but the comic book covers shown at the top portion of this blog post helped to make this war known in the 1960s to younger children when the comics were first published.

I just wanted to remember this day, now 71 years ago...

The sacrifices that our servicemen and servicewomen gave during that time period are the reasons why we are able to have the freedom that we still have today.

My thoughts go out to those that lost family or friends during that 'Day of Infamy', and in the days and years that followed until World War II ended... I may have not been there during that time period, but I still 'Remember Pearl Harbor' each year in this blog... 

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,756 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!   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 'Local' 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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