More George & Lynne strips not on Facebook!

 

 

 https://www.mediafire.com/file/9o2xp4l9yfz0058/George+and+Lynne+3.zip/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ajjk0ep5z6o0ob2/George+and+Lynne+3.cbz/file

 

 

 

From our fearless leader.

 

 

 

 

 

More Facebook group John M Burns Art.  Strips that didn't make it to Facebook:

 

 https://www.mediafire.com/file/eeulyt2i2mf11t7/George+and+Lynne+Additional.cbz/file

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wkca7b2bdou9ifa/George+and+Lynne+Additional.zip/file 

 The Facebook group John M Burns Art is an excellent source for his art. It is very active with a wide variety of images from many of his projects. It keeps us up to date on the latest developments and publications. If you have not joined this group, you are really missing out. 

I wanted to collect a bunch of the images for easy viewing.

So here is a collection of some of the best.  This is a random bunch just to test this effort out.   They will not be here forever, but I plan to do more if this works out.  Both links have the same content.

 

 https://www.mediafire.com/file/fgif1nou3sier7d/Burns_2.cbz/file 

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/yuobm7isr8dye3c/Burns_2.zip/file 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John M. Burns is an underappreciated comics artist that is not very well known.  So I'm going to see if I can help change that. 

 

First I'm going to run some tests to see if I remember how to use this blog. 

 

First, here are a couple of links to random art from JMB:

 

 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/9hw6g1gbv9768zj/JMB+test+1a.cbz/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/7prcv2d4bgh3fal/JMB+GL1.pdf/file
 

 

 

 

 

Number of Comic Books Published Each Year 1933-2014

Since no one has done much quantitative data analysis of comic books over time, I thought I would post a graph I did last year which is a comparison of three sources that I have.  There are lots of problems with the graph.

Hopefully this will get me to reactivate this blog with more stats.

Click on the image to get a larger version

To be clear, this is the number of comic book issues published each year.  Not the total quantity of comics printed or sold.  For example, Astonishing Comics from Timely had 12 issues published in 1952, numbers 9-20.  So those 12 issues are part of the approx. 3,000 issues that came out in 1952.

The yellow line is data from Dan Stevenson's year by year title listing which was provided to APA-I members years ago.  I do not believe it has been published anywhere.  It is probably the most accurate.

The orange line is data provided by John Jackson Miller on his www.comichron.com web site Research Forum in 2007.  He extracted the numbers from the Standard Catalog of Comic Books database.  I could not find the Research Forum on his ComiChron web site, so he must have taken it down.

The blue line is from Mike's Amazing World Of Comics web site from info I downloaded in Feb 2014.  The numbers have been updated since I took them, so they will be better now.  Note the trailing off of numbers after 2009.  Ignore that.  Obviously the numbers were not up to date.  Visit his excellent web site : http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/index.php.

Stan Lee predicted the Marvel SHIELD TV show back in 1965.

As every Marvel Comic's fan knows, Joss Whedon is writing a S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot for ABC TV set to start in the fall of 2013.  As I understand it, shooting has already started along with a Twitter account.

But, Stan Lee predicted the SHIELD TV show way back in 1965.

In Daredevil #11 (Dec 1965), written by Stan Lee and drawn by Bob Powell, The Organizer is trying to take over the whole city by getting control of the Reform Party political machine.  In doing so, he attempts to blow up the mayor by remote control from an already planted bomb.  But Daredevil (in disguise) is broadcasting the event live via regular TV channels when The Organizer flips the switch. The bomb fails to explode and it results in the following panel on page 10:

Note the man's comment:

There is no other mention of the show, and of course DD defeats The Organizer.

Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD, had just been introduced four months earlier in Strange Tales #135 (Aug 1965), so this was obviously a plug for the new series.  Nobody knew how big a success it would become.

Now I think Agent of SHIELD is a better title than just SHIELD, so I hope they use it for the TV show instead of just SHIELD.  Hopefully they will get a Stan Lee cameo too.

Jerry Bails - Media beginnings

In the New York Times today in 1965, there is an article about the new phenomena of escalating prices of old comic books. 

New York Times, January 30, 1965 pg 31

It was a sequel of sorts to an earlier New York Times article from Dec. 1964.

New York Times, December 6, 1965 pg 141

The first story above is one of the earliest media mentions Dr. Jerry Bails, who of course, is one of the founders of modern comic book fandom.  Soon after this article, Jerry Bails is in the Newsweek of Feb. 15 article about fandom titled "Superfans and Batmaniacs".  The media starts to notice comic books in a different light than as a problem to be solved.

Bill Schelly, in his excellent Golden Age of Comic Fandom book, says that this New York Times article "was reprinted in scores of newspapers across the country".  Unfortunately I couldn't find any other papers that carried the article in Google News Archives or the the online database of New York state newspapers.  I did find other articles later in 1965 and 1966  where you could see how Jerry became a spokesman for fandom.  His professorship at Detroit's Wayne State University made him the voice of authority.

He again was the voice of authority in the newspaper in March.  (Sorry the bottom line is missing)

Watertown NY Daily News, March 24 1965 pg 33

And again in June from an article reprinted from the Los Angeles Times.

Watertown NY Daily News, June 10 1965 pg 4 & 6

Then again in a UPI syndicated story a year later in July of 1966.

News And Courier, July 3 1966 pg 8B (Charleston SC)

At the end of 1966, he was even mentioned in an article about Golden Age artist Jack Binder in the Warrensburg-Lake George News.

Warrensburg-Lake George News, December 8 1966 (New York)

Jerry was a voice of reason and knew how to deal with the media.  He appeared in countless other articles and gave a mature, professional face for comic books.  His stature helped turn around the negative impression of comic books.  He has been missed.