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Purchase Comic Book Art. Comic Book Art Communities. Raquo; Comic Book Art Communities. Comic Book Art Communities. Comic Book Collecting Association. The CBCA is an association of comic book collectors and dealers who strive to foster fellowship, education and ethics within the comic book collecting community. Comic Art Community is a super resource for great images of comic artwork, with an extensive gallery sorted by comic artist. Comicartville, touting itself as the. Need a comic book?

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The Comics Detective: March 2011

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The Spectre and the Almost Man, Part 1. This project has been long in development. I would like to thank the following kind individuals for their contributions, patience and help. I couldn't have done this without them:. His work appeared in some of the most important comic books in the history of the medium. His comic studio was the breeding ground of legends. He drew some of the most memorable covers of the 1950s. He was an artist, a writer, an editor and a publisher. As the no...

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The Comics Detective: July 2011

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Saturday, July 9, 2011. Mr Gleason, are you now or have you ever been? Was he or wasn't he? Like many of his peers in comic book publishing, Lev Gleason was a staunch supporter of liberal, even leftist, causes. Unlike most of them, though, he was suspected of having been a full-fledged Communist Party member. Those same peers mostly came from hard-scrabble, immigrant Jewish beginnings. Gleason’s upbringing was the polar opposite. But he still had his eye on those Communists. The teachings of Communism ar...

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The Comics Detective: Josette Frank: Alone Against the Storm, Part 4

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Monday, February 10, 2014. Josette Frank: Alone Against the Storm, Part 4. Once again he was testifying as an psychiatric expert, this time in an obscenity trial. He had appeared as a defense witness for a murderous cannibal, an Oedipally-wrought, matricidal teenager and now on the side of a nudist magazine publisher. Ilsley Boone, a Baptist minister from Mays Landing, New Jersey, was founder of the American Sunbathing Association and editor of its monthly magazine, SUNSHINE AND HEALTH. January 23, 1948.

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The Comics Detective: September 2012

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012. OWENS v. AMERICAN STEREOGRAPHIC. This is the third and final installment of my investigation into the litigious back story of 3-D comic books. To get a full understanding of what follows, it is best to have read both of my previous posts, " Two Views of 3-D Comics". And "Tale of the Tape". Unheard in the courtroom, but very much in the minds of the participants, chosen portions of the tape are interspersed throughout this article. OWENS v. AMERICAN STEREOGRAPHIC. If your Hono...

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The Comics Detective: July 2012

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Sunday, July 29, 2012. Mystery of the Radio Spirit - Solved! Announcer] In the previous episode, our intrepid detective was last seen staring at his computer screen, intently pondering the puzzle before him. His decades long search for information about the fabled Spirit. Karl, a brilliant radio historian and writer, happened to read of my request for information regarding the legendary Spirit radio show on an old-time radio chat list. Not long after, he emailed me. Nov 1, 1940]. Amazing. My years of...

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The Comics Detective: Josette Frank: Alone Against the Storm, Part 1

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Friday, February 7, 2014. Josette Frank: Alone Against the Storm, Part 1. The history of modern American comic books is haunted by one person. Much anger has been directed at and much written about Dr. Fredric Wertham and his almost monomaniacal crusade against comics. But what of the other side of the controversy? For there to be a controversy in the first place there had to be two sides. Who spoke up for the comic book medium? It's about time to meet Josette Frank. I have made every attempt to make sur...

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The Comics Detective: January 2013

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Thursday, January 24, 2013. Sincerely Yours, Busy. I am enclosing a memorandum with some tear sheets and would appreciate having you tell Lou to make the costumes of both The Ray and The Black Condor the same each month. Everett M. "Busy" Arnold (smiling). Will Eisner (at drawing board). As reprinted in THE ART OF WILL EISNER by cat yronwode]. Arnold was both Will Eisner's business partner (in The Spirit. SMASH COMICS #15 (Oct. 1940), pg. 4. The same sort of build up should be given to The Black Condor a...

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The Comics Detective: Josette Frank: Alone Against the Storm, Part 2

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Friday, February 7, 2014. Josette Frank: Alone Against the Storm, Part 2. March 10, 1942. The Most Reverend John F. Noll, D.D.,. Bishop of Fort Wayne,. Fort Wayne, Ind. It has been called to my attention that our most recent publication, "Sensation Comics", is included in the N.O.D.L. listing - Classification for March, 1942. For condemnation. While the comic's title was likely troubling in itself, it was its star that led to to the ban. You will no doubt recall a visit made to you the latter part of Aug...