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Monday, January 5, 2009
Noel Neill Will Be At The Phoenix ComiCon 2009!
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Cons

 

 

Click here to see our current listings of the SUPERMAN FAMILY Graphic Novels, Comics, Magazines, and other Pop Culture Items!

 

   

Noel Neill

(Lois Lane On The Superman TV Show Series)

Will Be At The Phoenix Comic Con!

January 23rd thru 25th, 2009!

Click Here to see all of our Superman listings for sale! For those that haven't seen Noel Neill... and live within driving of the Phoenix ComiCon, this may be your opportunity!

I was fortunate to see Noel at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con International. I learned a lot more about her during the special program that the SDCC held and blogged about it.

Click here to view that archived blog post!

For those that may be able to make this con, here are the details for the Phoenix Comic Con:

Where:  Phoenix Comicon 2009 is being held at the Mesa Convention Center. The Mesa Convention Center is a full-service event facility located in the heart of downtown Mesa, Arizona. The Center is conveniently located just 20 minutes from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, and is easily accessed via the Loop 202, Loop 101, and US 60.

When: January 23rd thru 25th

Cost:

Full 3 Day Membership Purchased At The Door $35

Friday Single Day Membership $20
Saturday Single Day Membership $25
Sunday Single Day Membership $15

For additional details:  phoenixcomicon.com

 

There are also others who will be present at the Phoenix Comic Con, including Jeff Mariotte (click here for our blog about Jeff)!

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention'  here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts,  and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store

Thanks for reading this blog post today, and please join us again for more!  BTW, besides blogging, we have over 472 Reviews that Tina and I have placed in our eBay Reviews Section. Just click here to see our latest reviews!

We were VERY pleased that our blog received its' 300,000th visitor before the end of 2008... Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!

~ Michael and Tina
        
Click Here to see our World !             

Note From Make It So Marketing:

To the left is a photo of Michael and Tina at the 2007 SDCC - San Diego Comic Convention International. Click that photo to see 'Our World'!
                 
Each comic / comics book. Graphic Novels or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded by Michael, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale!    
               
We attend several  Pop Culture Conventions and Comic Cons during the year to replenish our comic books and other pop culture inventory for resale!  
               
If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store 'Just for You' to purchase!

 

Now Celebrating the 10th Year On The Web!

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

Click Here to see our Reviews on Comics, TPBs, Graphic Novels, & DVDs! 

Note: If you 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 review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc
PO Box 130653
Carlsbad, CA 92013

   
     

 

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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Something I've Never Forgotten....
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Comic Books - New

 

 

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Something I've Never Forgotten...

Every Comic Book Can Be Someone's FIRST Comic!

Earlier this morning I posted a blog on the fact that today would have been Chic Stone's 86th birthday... and I published a photo of the cover of Journey Into Mystery #105 which was inked by Chic Stone.

Shortly after that I had a FaceBook Friend comment on my post as follows:

Dave Simons said "I think that issue of JIM was the first Marvel comic I ever read. Bought it coverless at the local store when I was about 7 years old."
This only goes to show that no matter how much continuity or issues a comic book title has, it can still be someone's FIRST comic book, which may or may not lead them to pick up another, and maybe another after that!
 
Comics are not readily available in many places today. This was brought to my attention again when we vacationed in Northwestern Arizona during the Christmas Week Vacation. 
 
Even Flagstaff doesn't have a comic book store anymore, and this with many University students living in the town!  Matter of fact, shortly before we left for our trip, we shipped a run of Green Lanterns to a student in that area.  Bookman's Exchange is the closest store to where you can pick up back issues, and Tina and I wiped them out of collectible comics/mags this past trip!
 
So why this blog post today?  Well, Dave's comment reminded me of the first comic book that made me a 'collector' of comics, instead of just a 'reader' of comics.  That comic led to the comic industry's getting multiple thousands of dollars from me over the ensuing decades!
I blogged about it before, but it's been a while... Here is the archived blog post reprinted here, because of the many new readers to our Blog:
 

This Is The Publication That Got Me Collecting Comic Books!

The publication  was 'Journey Into Mystery' #72 from Atlas Comics, (Atlas evolved into what we know as Marvel Comics today).

Before I was given this comic book, all I had been reading were 'funnybooks' with an occasional National (Superman) comic book thrown in.

Journey Into Mystery #72 was cover dated September 1961, which would have made me nine years old.  The title had started with issue #1 in June of 1952, which would have been a month older than I was.  

What made this one issue stand out enough to make me start collecting comic books???

It was the artwork that did it for me. It was when I first truly realized that it was real people that drew these comics, in this case they were Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, who signed their work 'Kirby/Ayers'. 

Before this comic, all that I was aware of were the 'cookie cutter' artwork in funnybooks of Chilly Willy, Woody Woodpecker, Mickey Mouse, etc.  The art from one artist to another was almost indistinguishable, and no one signed their names to the artwork...

However the artwork of this Journey Into Mystery was so far different from what I was used to, that I immediately looked for more by the Kirby/Ayers team and kept the book in better shape!

I didn't have too long to wait... as Kirby drew Fantastic Four #1 for the November 1961 cover date, which I picked up after seeing Fantastic Four #3 from March 1962 where the FF wore costumes for the first time!

It was unusual that this comic was given to me as it was a 'monster' comic, which probably would have been thought to give me 'nightmares', but I am glad that it was given to me and that it started my lifelong collecting bug of collecting comics!!!

I was fortunate to meet Jack Kirby at the SDCC before he passed away, and to have met Dick Ayers at Wonder-Con and the SDCC a few times through the years.  They were definitely the great guys I thought them to be when I was a kid!!  Thanks Jack and Dick for the memories !!

For those interested in seeing more Jack Kirby comics, we have several in our eBay Featured Store!  Thanks for reading !!

 

So the above blog post shows that in my individual case, the comics industry had a few times to make me more than a casual reader.

However with the cover price of comics today, and the current competition by video games, card games, wii, ipod music, DVDs etc., the chances of someone getting 'hooked' into comics is slimmer than years ago.

Some of the comics I pick up now don't help a new reader get involved with the character, as that issue is part of a 'story arc' that is meant to be compiled in a trade paperback as a complete story. A brand new reader is going to look at that issue and wonder if it is worth the price to continue the story.  And brand new regular sized comics are hitting the stands at $3.99 this year from some companies! 

I am looking forward to attending several cons this year, and will be blogging about what we see and hear at them. Tina and I usually meet many new comic con attendees standing in the lines for programs and thus keep 'current' with what attendees are looking for and talking about!

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we also have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention'  here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts,  and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store

Thanks for reading this blog post today, and please join us again for more!  BTW, besides blogging, we have over 472 Reviews that Tina and I have placed in our eBay Reviews Section. Just click here to see our latest reviews!

 

~ Michael and Tina
        
Click Here to see our World !             

Note From Make It So Marketing:

To the left is a photo of Michael and Tina at the 2007 SDCC - San Diego Comic Convention International. Click that photo to see 'Our World'!
                 
Each comic / comics book. Graphic Novels or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded by Michael, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale!    
               
We attend several  Pop Culture Conventions and Comic Cons during the year to replenish our comic books and other pop culture inventory for resale!  
               
If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store 'Just for You' to purchase!

 

Now Celebrating the 10th Year On The Web!

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

Click Here to see our Reviews on Comics, TPBs, Graphic Novels, & DVDs! 

Note: If you 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 review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc
PO Box 130653
Carlsbad, CA 92013

   
     

 

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Posted by makeitsomarketing at 11:19 AM PST
Updated: Sunday, January 4, 2009 11:40 AM PST
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Chic Stone Would Have Been...
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Book Artists

 

 

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Chic Stone Would Have Been 86 Years Old Today

Celebrating The Birth of Charles Eber 'Chic' Stone 

On January 4th, 1923!

I have been thinking about the great time we had last year... attending several comics conventions and picking up new items to read or reread and possibly resell, as I don't spend all my time in the Cons' programs rooms!

I picked up some more early Marvel Comics recently where Chic Stone was the inker on Jack Kirby's pencils.

That reminded me that Chic was one of my favorite inkers on Jack's works, which also included the inkers Dick Ayers and Joe Sinnott.

I haven't mentioned Chic in these blogs much, because one, I never met him, and two, he passed away July 28th 2000, before we started blogging.

Chic had started in comics back in 1939 with the Eisner & Iger Shop. He went on to work on Captain Marvel for Fawcett, and Boy Comics for Lev Gleason Publications, which were before my time when I first started reading comics in the mid to late 1950's.

My first real knowledge of Chic began with Marvel's credits on their splash pages. Chic was an outstanding inker on Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four issues #28-38, which was my favorite series, and he was also great on the Mighty Thor strip in Journey Into Mystery!

(Chic had worked for Timely Comics, Marvel's original 1940's name, on the Blonde Phantom strip, and other features in All Select Comics and Kid Komics. I found those years after they had been first published.)

Chic had left the comics industry for a while during the 1950's to work in the magazines industry. Before working on Kirby's pencils, he had come back to comics drawing in the ACG Group's comics, including the 'Adventures Into The Unknown' title.

When ACG reluctantly jumped on the 'superheroes bandwagon', Chic drew several stories with the character 'Nemesis' that I enjoyed.

Chic did some freelance work for DC Comics and Archie Comics in the 1970's and 1980's.

Chic is another unsung hero from the comics industry. Although his work continues to be reprinted, just try finding a photo of him to run with a blog post!

Thanks Chic Stone for the memories!

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention'  here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts,  and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store

Thanks for reading this blog post today, and please join us again for more!  BTW, besides blogging, we have over 472 Reviews that Tina and I have placed in our eBay Reviews Section. Just click here to see our latest reviews!

~ Michael and Tina
        
Click Here to see our World !             

Note From Make It So Marketing:

To the left is a photo of Michael and Tina at the 2007 SDCC - San Diego Comic Convention International. Click that photo to see 'Our World'!
                 
Each comic / comics book. Graphic Novels or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded by Michael, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale!    
               
We attend several  Pop Culture Conventions and Comic Cons during the year to replenish our comic books and other pop culture inventory for resale!  
               
If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store 'Just for You' to purchase!

 

Now Celebrating the 10th Year On The Web!

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

Click Here to see our Reviews on Comics, TPBs, Graphic Novels, & DVDs! 

Note: If you 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 review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc
PO Box 130653
Carlsbad, CA 92013

   
     

 

Thank You For Being One Of This Blog's

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If you are a Facebook member and want to join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'.

 


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Saturday, January 3, 2009
While Waiting For The New TV Season To Start...
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: TV Shows

 

 

Click here to see our current listings of HoRRoR & MoNSTer Graphic Novels, Comics, and Magazines!

 

   

While Waiting For The New TV Season To Start...

...Tina And I Broke Out The Pilot Episode Of 'The X-Files' To View!

Click Here to see all of our X-Files listings for sale! Last night there just wasn't much on for us to view on TV... And we had already seen 'The Spirit' at the theater and had no others we wanted to see on the Big Screen!

So I went through our old VHS tapes that we haven't yet listed in our online stores, and found the Pilot Episode of 'The X-Files'...

Tina and I both felt that the recent X-Files Theatrical Film was a little lacking, (click here for our reviews), and thus thought why not see the first epsiode of the show that we both watched before we were married.

Both Tina and I realized it was the chemistry between Scully and Mulder that made the TV Series work, and last so long.

Below is an archived blog post that I blogged two years ago this month. It still holds true today:

Gillian Anderson.... As Agent Dana Scully of the X-Files... 

... is one of the main reasons that the TV Show lasted so long, and was sucessfully transferred to comic book format in my opinion.

Gillian was born in 1968. She moved to New York when she was twenty-two, and started her career in theater.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1991, spending a year auditioning. Although she had once vowed she would never do TV, she ended up on a few shows including the Class of '96.

As a result of her guest appearance in Class of '96, Anderson was sent the script for The X Files at the age of 24, by Chris Carter.

The TV series eventually ran for nine seasons, and included one theatrical film.   

Her role as Dana Scully kept the show 'grounded' in my opinion, so as to keep it interesting for a more mainstream viewing audience. Sometimes these sci-fi shows garner too much of a cult following that turns off the mainstream viewership and ends up withe show having a shortened run.

I remember the first X-Files Convention held in San Diego, the comic book was a very hot commodity and hundreds were signed as conventioneers stood in line for those signatures! 

For those interested in the X-Files Comic Books, we have several of those comics listed in our eBay Featured Store.

 

(End of archived blog post.)

Tonight we'll be watching one of the Wild Card Football Games, of course it's the San Diego Chargers vs the Colts! And tomorrow we've got Tina's Philadelphia Eagles vs the Vikings. So I won't have to go through our video box for the rest of this weekend, LOL!

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention'  here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts,  and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store

Thanks for reading this blog post today, and please join us again for more!  BTW, besides blogging, and listing thousands of items for sale in our online store, we also have over 472 Reviews that Tina and I have placed in our eBay Reviews Section. Just click here to see our latest reviews!

We were VERY pleased that our blog hit its' 300,000th visitor last week while we were on holiday vacation in Sedona, Arizona... Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!

~ Michael and Tina
        
Click Here to see our World !             

Note From Make It So Marketing:

To the left is a photo of Michael and Tina at the 2007 SDCC - San Diego Comic Convention International. Click that photo to see 'Our World'!
                 
Each comic / comics book. Graphic Novels or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded by Michael, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale!    
               
We attend several  Pop Culture Conventions and Comic Cons during the year to replenish our comic books and other pop culture inventory for resale!  
               
If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store 'Just for You' to purchase!

 

Now Celebrating the 10th Year On The Web!

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

Click Here to see our Reviews on Comics, TPBs, Graphic Novels, & DVDs! 

Note: If you 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 review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc
PO Box 130653
Carlsbad, CA 92013

   
     

 

Thank You For Being One Of This Blog's

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Spotlight on Jay Fife !
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Book Artists

 

 

Click here to see our current listings of DC Graphic Novels, Comics, and Magazines!

 

   

Spotlight On

Jay Fife!

Jay Is A Portrait, Pin-up, Cover and Fantasy Illustrator Based In The Upper Ohio Valley!

Click Here to see all of our SHE-HULK listings for sale! One of the great things about having a FaceBook Network... Is that I am able to view several works by artists and writers that I wouldn't even have found otherwise without it! After all, Tina and I can't attend every comic and pop culture convention out there!

Jay Fife recently became a new 'Facebook Friend', and of course I had to check out his artwork.

Imagine how pleased I was when I came across several superheroines including Wonder Woman pictured at the very top of this post, and She-Hulk that he is holding in the photo above!

(Long time readers know I like to post photos of Con attendees dressed up as Wonder Woman!  Plus Tina was finally able to get a photo of me with the best She-Hulk we've seen yet, who was at the 2008 SDCC and now another one of my FaceBook Friends!)

Both of those above creations by Jay are just the tip of the vast body of artwork seen at his personal web site and another gallery for artists web site.

Jay has drawn from a variety of influences and has also created portraits of television and film stars. He is a portrait, pinup and fantasy Illustrator from the upper Ohio Valley, just outside of Pittsburgh, PA.  The following is from his brief bio:

"A lifetime of interest in art with training in portraiture accompanied with a life long love of comics and old fashioned monster movies came together to help produce an interesting gallery of images. Working primarily in pencil, Jay creates realistic yet stylish images of well known characters or original creations. Jay has been featured in publications such Bad Place Productions Safe Words and Zonetrooper as well as cover art for the Victorian Horror Magazine The Willows and the comic from Pickle Press, Dare."

You can see more of his artwork at the following websites:

comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=5301

jayfife.com

Thanks Jay for sending me the links to your works, and to much more additional success for you in this New Year!

(Please Note: A complimentary copy of any work for this blog mention was NOT provided by the artist.)

For those of you that are new to our blog today, we have an ongoing 'Comic Con and Pop Culture Convention'  here at "Make It So Marketing Inc.", what with our daily blog posts,  and new listings of items for sale in our online eBay Featured Store

Thanks for reading this blog post today, and please join us again for more!  BTW, besides blogging, and listing thousands of items for sale in our online store, we also have over 472 Reviews that Tina and I have placed in our eBay Reviews Section. Just click here to see our latest reviews!

We were VERY pleased that our blog hit its' 300,000th visitor last week while we were on holiday vacation in Sedona, Arizona... Thanks again to all of YOU reading our current and archived blog posts!

~ Michael and Tina
        
Click Here to see our World !             

Note From Make It So Marketing:

To the left is a photo of Michael and Tina at the 2007 SDCC - San Diego Comic Convention International. Click that photo to see 'Our World'!
                 
Each comic / comics book. Graphic Novels or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded by Michael, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale!    
               
We attend several  Pop Culture Conventions and Comic Cons during the year to replenish our comic books and other pop culture inventory for resale!  
               
If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store 'Just for You' to purchase!

 

Now Celebrating the 10th Year On The Web!

"Hammering Out the Web
For You Since May 12th, 1998!"

Click Here to see our Reviews on Comics, TPBs, Graphic Novels, & DVDs! 

Note: If you 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 review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc
PO Box 130653
Carlsbad, CA 92013

   
     

 

Thank You For Being One Of This Blog's

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

 

If you are a Facebook member and want to join my Facebook Network, feel free to send a 'friend request' to 'Michael D Hamersky'.

 


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