Friday Fun BIG APPLE COMIX "Man Without a City!"

To a New Yorker, there's no fate more frightening...

...than to be forever exiled from the Big Apple!

I speak from first-hand experience.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, I went to high school in Manhattan and lived there after graduating college until 1999, when I began commuting between NYC and Chicago, eventually settling in Chi-town full-time in 2006.

Only taking occasional trips back to the Land of My Birth to see clients and family helps me keep my sanity!

Lord knows what condition I'd be in if I were exiled like the story's protaganist!

Written by Marvel's main production person for several decades, Stu Schwartzberg (who was also a Shazam Award-winning scripter of Crazy Magazine), penciled by Stu and the multi-talented Marie Severin and inked by Marie, this never-reprinted tale from Big Apple Comix #1 (1975) perfectly captures the "Noo Yawker" love-hate dichotomy!

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Reading Room NOT BRAND ECHH "King Konk '68"

You might have heard there's a new movie coming this weekend...

...and before it arrives, we thought we'd take a look at an earlier tale about the big guy...sorta...

There's lots of then-topical references to people and events of the late 1960s, so those not old enough to remember them might want to Google some the subjects.
The protagonists are Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the Brangelina of the 60s-70s.
Many references are to their movies together like Butterfield 8 ("Butterfield Ape")
Other celebs include Hugh Hefner and Hubert Humphrey.
There are also cameos by now-obscure comics characters like Phantom Eagle and Blackhawk.
Written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by Tom Sutton (with a cover and celeb caricatures in the story by Marie Severin), this mini-classic was hidden in comics collectors' longboxes for over 40 years until Marvel finally reprinted it in a Not Brand Echh Masterwork.

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Reading Room TALES TO ASTONISH "Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp!"

Last week, a mini-series debuted...

Art by Francesco Francavilla

...featuring Marvel's heroes and heroines vs monsters from the company's pre-superhero "Atlas Comics" days in the 1950s!

So, what we're going to do over the next few Fridays for the run of the title is present the first appearance of the cover-featured monster!

Art Adams

(Yes, the first issue was last week, but we had a different bloated orange swamp monster to deal with that Friday!)

So let's play "catch up" with..."Monstrom!The Dweller in the Black Swamp!

This story from Atlas' Tales to Astonish #11 (1960) by writer Stan Lee, penciler Jack Kirby, and inker Dick Ayers has been reprinted a number of times, almost always as the cover feature...

Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers

Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, and Marie Severin

Ron Wilson, Mike Esposito, and Frank Giacoia

Monsters Unleashed looks like a lot of fun, so get it at your local comic shop...NOW!

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Frankenstein Reading Room: NOT BRAND ECHH "Frankenstein Sicksty-Nine!"

As we said earlier...

...the Frankenstein Monster made a number of...untraditional...appearances in 1960s comics, including this saga from Marvel's Not Brand Echh #12 (1969)!

Let's see what lurks under this kool Marie Severin cover...

Almost always, the Monster's 1960s comic appearances were humorous rather than frightening due to the fact the Comics Code Authority limited how such creatures could be used!

(B/w magazines like this weren't affected by the Code!) 

We'll be presenting a couple more of the wilder ones before the month is over!

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