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

[Ken Aldred]

7 hours 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.

Yup. That’s right.

I thought it was useful to illustrate the similarities with a direct comparison between scenes in the comics and their homages in film.

[Dr Zen]

14 hours ago, Robot Man said:

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

I was in Memphis over the summer and visited the Sun Studios museum. This was on display there...

 

 

[silverweb]

Very cool. Was that under a glass display case? I was there a few years ago and don't remember that.

[Dr Zen]

9 minutes ago, silverweb said:

Very cool. Was that under a glass display case? I was there a few years ago and don't remember that.

Yes, it was in a glass display case upstairs.

[Comics4All]

18 hours ago, NoMan said:

Indiana University has a course in comic writing/drawing run by the Delta Zeta Sorority sisters:

 

This video needs it own thread!!!

 

[Aweandlorder]

Some Frazetta facts

Frank’s Famous Funnies covers inspired George Lucas to create Star Wars 

The cover to Weird Science Fantasy #29 was created, like most of Frank’s drawings and paintings, overnight 

Frazetta had 9 strokes, one which rendered his right arm almost useless, at which point he started painting with his left arm

 

 

 

 

[Jaylam]

On 10/26/2019 at 4:20 PM, kav said:

I see it!

@Ken Aldred Green Lantern Hal Jordan was modelled on actor Paul Newman.

 

[kav]

3 minutes ago, Jaylam said:

@Ken Aldred Green Lantern Hal Jordan was modelled on actor Paul Newman.

 

 

[Domo Arigato]

On 10/26/2019 at 1:23 PM, skypinkblu said:

But when I googled Alec Schomburg, I also found all of this

https://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Arts/The-sad-story-of-Siegel-and-Shuster

Awsome thread and thanks for posting that skypinkblu!!!

The article did have me raising an eyebrow though.

 

An early quote from that article:

"Sadly enough, Siegel and Shuster made nothing out of Superman. They lived in poverty, screwed by the superpowers of pulp fiction and the movies."

Yes, DC acquired the rights to Superman and made a ton of money, but the author of that article must have a very different idea of what "nothing" is than I do. 

 

From later in the article:

"Joe and Jerry each received $130 ($10 a page), for the first issue and, fatally, for the rights to the character, which finished up in the hands of Detective Comics."

"After a few early issues, Siegel and Shuster were paid $500 for each issue."

"By 1946 Joe and Jerry were getting paid close to $100,000 a year ($1,081,318 in 2006 dollars when this article was written.....I wonder how many other people on the planet were making that kind of money in 1946), but they saw DC make millions off their Superman character."

"By the end of the '60s Siegel and his family were starving.  In 1975 the desperate pair made another attempt to sue DC for the rights to Superman. They were unsuccessful yet again, but an embarrassed DC decided to pay them a modest $35,000 a year each for the rest of their lives."

 

BlowUpTheMoon posted some similar information later in this thread:

"Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s famous contract with DC sold Superman for $130, plus a 10-year contract to do the book, plus 32.5% to 40% of net proceeds derived from the newspaper strip, plus 5% of all other licensing.

In 1942 alone, they made $63,776.46 in Superman income, the equivalent of $986,459.35 in 2017 dollars."

 

[Aweandlorder]

While on the topic of s&s action comics 1

the original art for action 1 was destroyed in a warehouse fire. The first reprint edition was recreated from scratch by Albert Deguzman in the 70s after DC bought a mint copy of the comic and had deguzman trace zoomed up xerox copies off it

[Jaylam]

I don't know if this is my favorite factoid, but, being a Doc Savage fan of the paperbacks back in the 70's, I was floored to find this little tidbit.

[KirbyJack]

Stan Lee seemed to live a charmed life. During WWII, Jack Kirby fought under Patton in France. Stan Lee stayed stateside, and was the only man in the US armed forces to hold the job designation of “playwright”.

[kav]

12 hours ago, Jaylam said:

I don't know if this is my favorite factoid, but, being a Doc Savage fan of the paperbacks back in the 70's, I was floored to find this little tidbit.

I loved the Doc Savage movie when I was a kid.  Due to that when I got older I also exercised 6 hours a day!!

[speedcake]

On 10/25/2019 at 10:40 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

I think the last thing that I remember finding out by accident was the guy from Law and order was Thor in Adventure's in Babysitting!

“The guy from law and order”  

[Old_Man_Adam]

10 hours ago, speedcake said:

“The guy from law and order”  

And now he’s Wilson Fisk .. er... late to the party on me 

Edited October 30, 2019 by Old_Man_Adam
Repeat

[Old_Man_Adam]

On 10/27/2019 at 11:14 AM, comics4all said:

This video needs it own thread!!!

 

Honey , I think I’m going to go back to school - how’s Indiana sound ?