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Friday, April 12, 2013
Attending the 2013 Comic-Con International? Need Parking?
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Cons
                                        
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2013 Comic-Con International
 
Make A Note of This Date & Time:  April 19th, 2013 at 9:00 AM PST
  
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3831 -    I want to mention that if YOU are attending the upcoming Comic-Con International in July of 2013... AND need parking...  You better be ready on Friday, April 19th at 9:00 AM to buy your prepaid parking lots!

The scan at the top right is what I found on the Ace Parking web page.

And it does say that:  "Only Convention Center is available for vendor pre-sales".  So you have to be a vendor at this time to purchase your pre-paid parking voucher.

But on Friday April 19th... It will be Your time to purchase!  So be aware of this important date!

My fingers will be punching away at that time also! 

~ Michael

 

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,831 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!     

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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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Fun Facts About Jim Lee from WonderCon 2013
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Book Artists
                                        
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Fun Facts About Jim Lee from WonderCon 2013
 
On Saturday, March 30th, 2013 Panel:
Spotlight On Jim Lee!
 
(Photos:  Above Top - Sketch by Jim Lee on overhead projector.  Top Right - Jim Lee talking while illustrating.  Bottom Right - Jim Lee packing to leave the panel.)
  
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3830 -   Fun Facts About Jim Lee from WonderCon 2013 - Guest blog by Tina LoSasso.

Some random facts we learned about Comic Book Artist Jim Lee from the man himself.

The always gracious Mr. Lee answered fan questions and drew (no Marvel requests please!) for 45 minutes despite being 15 minutes late for his Spotlight panel at WonderCon Anaheim 2013. Here are some tidbits we learned that made us smile:

As a kid, Jim loved Jonny Quest! So did we:)

Jim de-stresses from the challenges of the business-side of comics by spending time with his family - especially watching romantic comedies with his wife - her choice! He's seen them all -- "The Vow" and "The Notebook", but when he took his wife to see Iron Man, she feel asleep!

He did not like drawing Spider-Man because the webbing is hard to do and takes a while. If you get it wrong, you have to start all over!

If there were a movie of his life, he'd want Steven Yeun (Glenn, The Walking Dead) to portray him.

His first encouragement to draw was in school. A substitute teacher caught him sketching and grabbed the paper. About to ball it up and throw it away, she took a quick look ... and hung it on the classroom board.

He likes Best Buy.

--Tina LoSasso!

 

Note From Michael:  Jim's photos from this panel and another panel I caught him at, can be found at my special photo album titled:  WonderCon 2013 Saturday

When the videos from the two panels are uploaded, they will be found at my YouTube Channel, HamerskyOnComics.

Also, Jim Lee was the featured cover artist for the 2013 WonderCon Program Book, as seen to the left.  I'll be posting a few of these for sale at my online comic book shop soon, (at ComicBooksCircus.com)

 

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,830 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!     

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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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Under The Dome: CBS summer replacement series based on Stephen King novel.
                                        
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Under The Dome:
CBS summer replacement series based on Stephen King novel
 
Season Premiere is June 24, 2013
 
 
(Photos:  Above Top - At The 7PM Panel Room 300AB. Top Right - Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight), and Neal Baer (Law & Order: SVU). Bottom Right - Neal Baer, Jack Bender (Lost) and Brian K Vaughn (Lost & comic books).)
  
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3829 -    Under The Dome: CBS summer replacement series based on Stephen King novel - Guest blog by Tina LoSasso.

What happens when an impenetrable dome suddenly, inexplicitly descends over a small town trapping all within?

Pop culture fans got a hint at WonderCon's panel for the new CBS summer replacement series Under the Dome.

CBS brought out the big guns for their UTD panel: stars Dean Norris (Breaking Bad, Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight, Life on Mars), LOST creative alums Jack Bender and Brian K Vaughan (who has strong Con cred as writer of Y, The Last Man and Ex-Machina), along with showrunner Neal Baer (ER, Law & Order: SVU).

With Under the Dome, CBS will face tough summer genre competition from TNT's Falling Skies and SyFy's Warehouse 13 and Defiance.

The 1,000-page Stephen King novel is a treasure trove of source material for writer Brian K. Vaugh, an admitted King fan. Vaughn promised to deliver the themes of the book while mixing up the story, hopefully over multiple seasons (instead of the few days of the book).

Unlike other productions based on King's work, King has been hands-on with the series, visiting the set, approving casting and scripts, and hanging in the writers room.

Throughout the panel, Vaughn and Bender patiently answered numerous questions from the moderator and fans about how the show compared to LOST. Will we see flashbacks? (NO!) Will there be cameos by LOST cast members? (Probably not.) Note for LOST fans: Jeff Fahey (Frank Lepidus) plays the good-guy sheriff of Chester's Mill. Seriously, LOSTIES (and I was one), don't expect a lot of guest cameos in a show where the town has been covered by an impenetrable dome!

The show will explore how the good (and some evil--this is Stephen King after all!) people of a small town cope when they are cut off from the rest of society. Showrunner Beal explains that he sees the season as divided into 3 F's: Faith (Why did this happen?), Fear (What are we going to do?, and Facism (How do we maintain order when the food runs out?).

Producers compared the gore in this Stephen King story to others adapted to the screen saying that it would be light. In that case, the sometimes bloody and menacing trailer that aired at WonderCon was very misleading. Despite the gore, we're intrigued and will give Under the Dome a try. Vaughn promised us that there is an ending in mind. (Sounds like Stephen Covey is coaching TV writers from the great beyond. "Begin with the end in mind.") And, former pediatrician Baer said there is real science behind the show mechanics. Fans will be able to learn all about the dome and its capabilities on the show blog.

We'll be tuning in to Under the Dome in June on CBS. How about you?

--Tina LoSasso!

 

(Note from Michael:  Here are a few links for you to check out the Under the Dome TV Show:  Facebook Link for Under the Dome TV ShowWikipedia entry for the TV Show, Wikipedia entry for the book.   Plus I'll be uploading videos to my YouTube Channel soon from the panel.   I have already uploaded the pics from the panel at my Facebook Fan Page.) 

 

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,829 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!     

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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Monday, April 8, 2013
Passing of Annette Funicello... At Age 70
Mood:  sad
Topic: Comic Book History
                                        
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3828 -    This afternoon I was running errands when I was 'tagged' on Facebook by my wife, Tina LoSasso.

Her tag was about the fact that Annette Funicello had passed away earlier this morning.   Tina was mentioning Annette just recently, as I had sold a lot of my Annette Funicello collection before we got married.   I had to downsize my collections as we moved into her smaller condo when we first got married almost twelve years ago.

Anyways... Tina had always wondered why I had an Annette Funicello collection...

Well, it had to do with the fact that Annette was on the original 'Mickey Mouse Club' when she was only twelve.   Then she went on to do Disney serials, and on to do the Beach Party musicals with Frankie Avalon.   Of course she was on the front cover of comics also!  As seen at the top right of this blog post, she was in Zorro, the TV Show and the comic book

I also enjoyed listening to her 45s and LPs.   I had almost a complete collection of her recordings at one time...

Also her books, photos, etc. 

She was one of a few females whose stuff I collected... But hers was the biggest collection I had of female stars.

I wish I could post a link to the comic books that she was in, but there doesn't seem to be one.  Here's a Google link for 'Annette Funicello' +'Comic Books'.

Here is her Discography, for those of you wondering how much she recorded:

Albums
Mono albums

    Annette – Vista BV-3301 (1959)
    Annette Sings Anka (#21) – Vista BV-3302 (1960)
    Hawaiiannette (#38) – Vista BV-3303 (1960)
    Italiannette – Vista BV-3304 (1960)
    Dance Annette – Vista BV-3305 (1961)
    The Story of My Teens – Vista BV-3312 (1962)

Stereo albums

    Annette's Beach Party (#39) – Vista BV-3316 (Mono)/STER-3316 (Stereo) (July 1963)
    Muscle Beach Party – Vista BV-3314/STER-3314 (April 1964)
    Annette On Campus – Vista BV-3320/STER-3320 (1964)
    Annette At Bikini Beach – Vista BV-3324/STER-3324 – (September 1964)
    Pajama Party – Vista BV-3325/STER-3325 (November 1964)
    Something Borrowed Something Blue – Vista BV-3328/STER-3328 (1964)
    Annette Sings Golden Surfin' Hits – Vista BV-3327/STER-3327 (July 1965)
    Annette Funicello – Vista BV-4037 (1972)
    Annette Funicello Country Album – Starview 4001 (1984)
    Best of Annette – Rhino RNDF-206 (1984) (also released as a picture disk on Rhino RNLP-702)
    Annette: A Musical Reunion with America's Girl-Next-Door – Vista 60010 (1993)
    A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes – Time/Warner 520564 (April 16, 1995)
    The Best of Annette – Vista (August 14, 1991)

Singles

    "How Will I Know My Love"/"Don't Jump To Conclusions" – Disneyland 102 (1958)
    "That Crazy Place In Outer Space"/"Gold Doubloons and Pieces of Eight" – Disneyland 114 (1958)
    "Tall Paul" (#7)/"Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me" – Disneyland 118 (1959)
    "Jo Jo the Dog Faced Boy" (#73)/"Lonely Guitar" – Vista 336 (1959) (later pressings feature "Love Me Forever" as the B-side)
    "Lonely Guitar" (#50)/"Wild Willie" – Vista 339 (1959)
    "Especially For You"/"My Heart Became Of Age" – Vista 344 (1959)
    "First Name Initial" (#20)/"My Heart Became of Age" (#74) – Vista 349 (1959)
    "O Dio Mio" (#10)/"It Took Dreams" – Vista 354 (1960)
    "Train of Love" (#36)/"Tell Me Who's The Girl" – Vista 359 (1960)
    "Pineapple Princess" (#11)/"Luau Cha Cha Cha" – Vista 362 (1960)
    "Talk to Me Baby" (#92)/"I Love You Baby" – Vista 369 (1960)
    "Dream Boy" (#87)/"Please, Please Signore" – Vista 374 (1961)
    "Indian Giver"/"Mama, Mama Rosa (Where's The Spumoni)" – Vista 375 (1961)
    "Hawaiian Love Talk"/"Blue Muu Muu" (#107) – Vista 384 (1961)
    "Dreamin' About You" (#106)/"Strummin' Song" – Vista 388 (1961)
    "That Crazy Place From Outer Space"/"Seven Moons (Of Batalyre) (By Danny Saval & Tom Tyron) – Vista 392 (1962)
    "The Truth About Youth"/"I Can't Do The Sum" – Vista 394 (1962)
    "My Little Grass Shack"/"Hukilau" – Vista 400 (1962)
    "He's My Ideal"/"Mr. Piano Man" – Vista 405 (1962)
    "Bella Bella Florence"/"Canzone d'Amoure" – Vista 407 (1962)
    "Teenage Wedding"/"Walkin' and Talkin'" – Vista 414 (1962)
    "Treat Him Nicely"/"Promise Me Anything" (#123) – Vista 427 (1963)
    "Merlin Jones"/"The Scrambled Egghead" – Vista 431 (1964)

Duets with Tommy Kirk

    "Custom City"/"Rebel Rider" – Vista 432 (1964)
    "Muscle Beach Party"/"I Dream About Frankie" – Vista 433 (1964)
    "Bikini Beach Party"/"The Clyde" – Vista 436 (1964)
    "The Wah-Watusi"/"The Clyde" – Vista 437 (1964)
    "Something Borrowed, Something Blue"/"How Will I Know My Love" – Vista 438 (1965) (B-side is  a new version of Annette's first recording)
    "The Monkey's Uncle"/"How Will I Know My Love" – Vista 440 (1965) (A-side features Annette with The Beach Boys)
    "Boy To Love"/"No One Else Could Be Prouder" – Vista 442 (1965)
    "No Way To Go But Up"/"Crystal Ball" – Vista 450 (1966)
    "What's A Girl To Do"/"When You Get What You Want" – Tower 326 (1967) (Annette's name is misspelled on both sides as "Annettte")
    "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes"/"Merlin Jones" – Vista 475 (1970)
    "(Together We Can Make A) Merry Christmas"/"The Night Before Christmas" – Pacific Star 569 (1981)

Duets with Frankie Avalon

    "The Promised Land"/"In Between and Out Of Love" – Starview 3001 (1983)

Here is her Filmography:

    The Shaggy Dog (1959)
    Babes in Toyland (1961)
    Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law (1962) (compilation of episodes from Wonderful World of Color serial)
    The Horsemasters (1962) (compilation of episodes from Wonderful World of Color serial)
    Beach Party (1963)
    The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
    Muscle Beach Party (1964)
    Bikini Beach (1964)
    Pajama Party (1964)
    Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
    The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
    Ski Party (1965) (Cameo)
    How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
    Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) (Cameo)
    Fireball 500 (1966)
    Thunder Alley (1967)
    Head (1968)
    Back to the Beach (1987)
    Troop Beverly Hills (1989) (Cameo)

Since I can't find a listing of the comic books she was in... I'll post the ones I can find and upload to a special photo album at my Facebook Fan Page, titled 'Annette Funicello In Comic Books'..

I for one am a little shocked at her passing... I just blogged the passing of two others last week here in this blog, and mentioned a third person on my Facebook Fan Page.

My condolences to her family and friends.

Thank you, Annette, for what you did during your lifetime...  You were a good person to idolize and emulate.  BTW, It was due to your Skippy commercials in the 1980s that I changed peanut butter brands! 

~ Michael

 

 


NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On ComicsMy thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,828 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!     

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: Monday, April 8, 2013 3:57 PM PDT
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Our Take On: The Complete Steve Canyon On TV Volume 1 DVD
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Topic: TV Shows
                                        
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Our Take On: The Complete Steve Canyon On TV Volume 1 DVD!
 
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3827 -    At the recent WonderCon 2013, held in Anaheim, California... There was a panel titled 'The Business and Hobby of Collecting Comics', which I already blogged about, #3822.  

At that panel, one of the panelists, John Ellis, waited for someone to mention the secret phrase.   When he spoke up about it, my wife, Tina LoSasso, said 'Steve Canyon'!   Then repeated it with vigor, 'Steve Canyon'!

John gave her the copy of the DVD shown at the top right of this blog, 'The Complete Steve Canyon On TV Volume 1'.  

Afterwards, John, myself, Greg Koudoulian, another, and Tina went out to a quick bite of dinner at the Marriott bar.   There I found that John was working on Volume 3 of the DVD set, which would be the last of the 34 episodes of the 1958-59 TV Series, which ran for one season only!

This is a labor of love for John, which you can read about at his blog, SteveCanyonOnDVD at Blogspot.

The character, Steve Canyon, has its own Wikipedia entry at this link, with a section on the TV Show.

I'm going to post a couple of mini-reviews from our watching the 1st DVD this weekend. (Well, actually disc 1 of the 2 disc set in Volume 1.

First, Tina, who won the DVD, had this to say about watching the DVD: "I thought that this show was written very well for a 1950s genre TV show.  The male characters were well written, while the female characters were very stereotypical for the late 1950s.  I would give this a 7.5 (Very Fine Minus) for the episodes that we watched.

As for myself, (Michael) , I wanted to say this:   I've read Steve Canyon in the newspapers while it ran.  Up until the 1970s.  Of course I knew who Milt Caniff was.  However I had not even seen this TV show mentioned, let alone watch an episode before viewing this DVD!  I took a look at the 1958-59 TV Season schedule and saw that it was up against The Lawrence Welk Show and the Gale Storm show.  Well, we watched the Lawrence Welk show for sure, as we only had one TV set in the family, LOL!

I thought that the half hour episodes we watched were pretty darn good.  I liked the pacing of the episodes, and also seeing TV stars in their early years, including Marion Ross (later of Happy Days!), Larry Pennell (later a lead actor in Ripcord), Russell Johnson (later the Professor in Gilligan's Island), and Philip Abbott (later of the F.B.I. TV show), just to mention a few.

The DVDs covers have a cartoon Steve Canyon shaking hands with Dean Fredericks who played the character role in the TV Show, as seen in the top left photo of this blog.  Dean's Wikipedia entry can be found here.

I found this DVD set to be a fun one to watch, and was amazed at the cigarette commercials that were included, as Chesterfield King sponsored the show!   Also found the ABC lead ins for their other ABC shows to be fun to view.  Please note that the Steve Canyon show aired on NBC, and re-runs were aired on ABC.

The package the DVD set came in was very well thought out.  With liner notes for each episode, and with a note on the added extras inserted in each episode

I would give this DVD set a Very Fine / Very Fine Plus (VF/VF+) 8.25 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grading scale.

Here is my son Vinnie's review:

This previous Saturday night I watched the first 6 episodes of the one-season Steve Canyon tv show that originally aired back in 1958. It was a show about a man, Steve Canyon, in the United States Air Force, with episodes revolving around Steve flying jets in differing situations and circumstances. Due to the time it aired, all the episodes were filmed in black and white.

As a teenager who hasn't heard of Steve Canyon, I started viewing these episodes uninformed. I have previously heard the name "Milton Caniff" (who is the creator of the Steve Canyon comic strips which this show is based on,) but I never knew who he was or what he did. I had also never heard of the actors and actresses present on the show, however, my father was picking out a few of them and saying what they were otherwise known for or where they've appeared.

The show itself was quite an enjoyable experience. Each episode was 30 minutes of high-flying tales with their original advertisements, just how they aired.

I thought the acting was done quite well and the stories were mighty interesting. The actors portrayed the characters well, and they had developed a strong personality by the end of the episode, clearly displaying how their character acts, and how he or she interacts with each other. The stories were presented with a clear storyline. The topics were intriguing and relative to the characters and the show's intended "character".

All in all, the show was quite enjoyable, even for the difference in time from it's original airing and today. It's a shame the show only lasted for one season, a total of 34 episodes.

I would give the "Steve Canyon" dvd set a comic book grade of Very Fine Plus (VF+), an 8.5 out of 10.0 grade scale.

Thanks, Vinnie, for a comprehensive review!  It is surprising to me that he gave it such a high grade, for someone who had not read the Steve Canyon comic strip before. So it would appear that this show would be okay for all age groups to view today...

Here is the link to where you can purchase the first two DVDs of this three DVDs set.

My thanks to John for providing the DVD as a prize at the panel, and to Tina for winning it! 

~ Michael

 

 


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