What is your favorite "Did you know?" fact about comics or comic creators? 2 2

[kav]

4 minutes ago, NoMan said:

You'd be perfect because, well, you ruin everything and destroy all threads.You know, you'd fit right in with the kind of girls that say stuff like, "You're always ruining everything!"

No, man!!!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

When Simon and Kirby created Captain America, it was a year before Pearl Harbor.  Americans feelings were mixed about Hitler and the war in Europe, with many Americans sympathizing with Hitler.  So when the first Cap cover came out, with Cap punching Hitler on the jaw, there were death threats made toward Timely comics and Simon and Kirby individually.  The mayor of New York assigned body guards to Simon and Kirby.

Of course a year later, the events of Pearl Harbor solidified the American position against the Japanese, and by extension, Hitler.

[kav]

1 minute ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

When Simon and Kirby created Captain America, it was a year before Pearl Harbor.  Americans feelings were mixed about Hitler and the war in Europe, with many Americans sympathizing with Hitler.  So when the first Cap cover came out, with Cap punching Hitler on the jaw, there were death threats made toward Timely comics and Simon and Kirby individually.  The mayor of New York assigned body guards to Simon and Kirby.

Of course a year later, the events of Pearl Harbor solidified the American position against the Japanese, and by extension, Hitler.

Always listen to Simon and Kirby, folks!

[NoMan]

58 minutes ago, kav said:

No, man!!!

See!

[kav]

Just now, NoMan said:

See!

dang i ruined another one- 

[NoMan]

54 minutes ago, kav said:

dang i ruined another one- 

people probably get less 9.8s cause CGC is just overwhelmed with your foolishness. 

[kav]

7 minutes ago, NoMan said:

people probably get less 9.8s cause CGC is just overwhelmed with your foolishness. 

That makes the 9.8s they give out more valuable!!!!  

[BlowUpTheMoon]

When he was drawing Sea Devils for DC, artist Russ Heath was also the president of the Newark Skin-Divers Club.

 

[kav]

Kav gets called into head grader's office:

[BlowUpTheMoon]

Malibu Comics tried to get Pez to license their characters on Pez dispensers. It never happened, but Barry Windsor-Smith did some cool Rune Pez art.

 

[Aweandlorder]

39 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

When Simon and Kirby created Captain America, it was a year before Pearl Harbor.  Americans feelings were mixed about Hitler and the war in Europe, with many Americans sympathizing with Hitler.  So when the first Cap cover came out, with Cap punching Hitler on the jaw, there were death threats made toward Timely comics and Simon and Kirby individually.  The mayor of New York assigned body guards to Simon and Kirby.

Of course a year later, the events of Pearl Harbor solidified the American position against the Japanese, and by extension, Hitler.

Partially correct, the hatred towards Jack & Joe came from members of the German American Bund who were mostly Nazi sympathizers, not Americans  

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

11 minutes ago, Aweandlorder said:

Partially correct, the hatred towards Jack & Joe came from members of the German American Bund who were mostly Nazi sympathizers, not Americans  

You can say that, but there were Hitler sympathizers then, as even now, among Americans 

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4313922-captain-america-was-punching-nazis-1941-heres-why-was-so-daring

[Aweandlorder]

21 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

You can say that, but there were Hitler sympathizers then, as even now, among Americans 

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4313922-captain-america-was-punching-nazis-1941-heres-why-was-so-daring

No one is saying that there werent Hitler sympathizers then and now, we all know the existence of anti-semitism is real in america. But I cannot see that through the article you provided. This is a more clear and correct angle of the event through 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/16/my-grandfather-helped-create-captain-america-for-times-like-these/

 

[kav]

I say you're both correct, merely looking at the issue from slightly different angles.

[Ken Aldred]

The opening scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark is very similar to scenes taken from two Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge comics.

This article shows the comparison brilliantly...

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/429/

Edited October 26, 2019 by Ken Aldred

[kav]

3 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

The opening scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark is very similar to scenes taken from two Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge comics.

This article shows the comparison brilliantly...

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/429/

Barks should have pulled a Harlan Ellison!!

[Robot Man]

3 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

Green Lantern Hal Jordan was modelled on actor Paul Newman

Captain Marvel (Fawcett / DC) on Fred MacMurray

Elvis Pressley was a big fan of Capt. Marvel Jr and Fawcetts. His childhood collection is supposedly in the attic at Graceland.

[catman76]

Not a favorite, but interesting. Throughout the 1980s and 90s Robert Crumb drew all his comics on the back of old teen comic original art. They stopped making the vellum paper he liked to use in the late 70s and someone gave him a stack of old original art from the the 50s and 60s done on that paper and he drew all his comics on the back of those for years.

[catman76]

5 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

The opening scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark is very similar to scenes taken from two Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge comics.

This article shows the comparison brilliantly...

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/429/

Because George Lucas is a huge Barks fan and a big influence on his creation of Indiana Jones were Uncle Scrooge comics. There's an interview with him in a documentary on comics from the mid 70s where he talks about his love for Barks, specifically Uncle Scrooge. He also owns a lot of original Barks comic art, he wrote a few introductions to Barks collections in the 80s.

[kav]

1 minute ago, catman76 said:

Because George Lucas is a huge Barks fan and a big influence on his creation of Indiana Jones were Uncle Scrooge comics. There's an interview with him in a documentary on comics from the mid 70s where he talks about his love for Barks, specifically Uncle Scrooge. He also owns a lot of original Barks comic art, he wrote a few introductions to Barks collections in the 80s.

His biography "Skywalking" has a lot of interesting tidbits also.