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SCI FI COMICS PT. 2
Famous Funnies
is an American
publication of the 1930s that represents what popular
culture historians consider the first true American
comic book, following seminal precursors.
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_Funnies
This Startling Comics cover [above left]
by renowned comic book artist Alex
Schomburg appears to have had a significant influence on the design of
Futurama’s robotic bugbear, Bender Bending Rodríguez.
MORE: http://thedw.us/post/127689189/from-the-archives-this-startling-comics-cover-by
http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/asuper_war.html
Science
fiction comics
began as early as the 1930s in US newspapers. They have since spread to many
countries around the world, with the two largest publishers of this comic genre
today arguably being the United
States and Japan.
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction_comics
MORE: http://furycomics.com/viewer/6/
 
Dell Comics was the comic
book publishing arm of Dell
Publishing, which got its start in pulp
magazines. It published comics from 1929 to 1973. At its peak, it was the
most prominent and successful American company in the medium.[1]
In 1953 Dell claimed to be the world's largest comics publisher, selling 26
million copies each month.[2]
The company formed a partnership in 1938 with Western
Publishing, in which Dell would finance and distribute publications that
Western would produce. While this diverged from the regular practice in the
medium of one company handling finance and production and outsourcing
distribution, it was a highly successful enterprise with titles selling in the
millions. Comic book historian Mark Carlson has stated at its peak in the
mid-50s "while Dell’s total number of comic book titles [was] only 15% of
those published, it control[ed] nearly a third of the total market. Dell [had]
more million-plus sellers than any other company before or since".[4]
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Comics
 
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=284994
The end of Four Color in 1962 coincided with the end of
the partnership with Western, which took most of its licensed properties and its
original material and created its own imprint, Gold
Key Comics.[1]
While most of the talent who had worked on the Dell line
continued at Gold Key, a few creators like John
Stanley stuck with Dell and its new line. Also Dell drew new talent to its
fold, such as Frank
Springer and Lionel
Ziprin.
Dell Comics continued for another 11 years with licensed television
and motion
picture adaptations (including Mission:
Impossible, Ben
Casey, Burke's
Law, Doctor
Kildare, Beach
Blanket Bingo) and a few generally poorly received original titles.
Among the few long lasting series from this time include the teen-comic Thirteen
Going on Eighteen (29 issues, written by John Stanley), Ghost Stories
(37 issues, #1 only written by John Stanley), Combat (40 issues), Ponytail
(20 issues), Kona
Monarch of Monster Isle (20 issues), Toka
the Jungle King (10 issues), and Naza
Stone Age Warrior (9 issues). Dell additionally attempted to do
superhero titles, including Nukla,
Fab
4, Brain
Boy, and a critically ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal
Pictures monsters Frankenstein,
Dracula
and Werewolf
that recast the characters as superheroes.
Dell Comics finally ceased publication in 1973, with a few of
its former titles moving to Gold
Key Comics.
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Comics
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
is a 1960s American science fiction television
series based on the 1961 film of
the same name. Both were created by Irwin
Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special
effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the
television series. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the first of Irwin
Allen's four science
fiction television series. The show's main theme was underwater
adventure.
Voyage was broadcast on ABC
from September 14, 1964 to March 31, 1968, and was the decade's longest-running
American science fiction television series with continuing characters. The 110
episodes produced included 32 shot in black
and white (1964–65), and 78 filmed in color (1965–68). The first two
seasons took place in the then future of the 1970s. The final two seas
ons took place in the 1980s. The show starred Richard
Basehart and David
Hedison.
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Bottom_of_the_Sea_(TV_series)
The time seems ripe for a Don Heck reappraisal. To
paraphrase Roy Thomas, a colleague at Marvel, Heck was a non-superhero
artist who worked in the great superhero renaissance of the Silver Age. Bad
luck, that.
His non-superhero style suited Gold Key just fine. In this sea yarn of
spiritual possession, Heck subtly develops his characters; defining them
with shadow and perspective: Admiral Nelson - increasingly haunted and
driven. Commander Crane – grim and determined to do his duty. Throughout,
Heck’s brushwork with ship and water is a pure joy.
MORE: http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/11/voyage-to-bottom-of-sea-jonah-cruise-of.html
Charlton Comics was an American
comic book
publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1986, having begun under a
different name in 1944. It was based in Derby,
Connecticut.
A division of Charlton Publications, which published
magazines (most notably song-lyric magazines), puzzle books and, briefly, books
(under the Monarch and Gold Star imprints), and had its own distribution company
(Capital Distribution), Charlton Comics published a wide variety of genres
including crime,
science
fiction, Western,
horror,
war,
and romance
comics, as well as funny
animal, and superhero
series. The company was known for its low-budget practices, often using
unpublished material acquired from defunct companies and paying comics creators
among the lowest rates in the industry. Charlton Comics were also the last of
the American comics to raise their price from ten cents to 12 cents in mid 1962.
It was also unique among comic book companies in that it
controlled all areas of its company, from editorial to printing to distribution,
rather than partnering with any outside entities as most other publishers did,
and that it did so all under one roof, at its headquarters in Derby.
The company was formed by John Santangelo, Sr. and Ed Levy in
1940 as T.W.O. Charles Company, named after the two publishers’ sons,
both named Charles, and became Charlton Publications in 1945. The name Charlton
Comics first appeared on Marvels of Science #1 (March 1946).
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Comics
Disney comics are comic
books and comic
strips featuring Walt
Disney characters.
The first Disney comics were newspaper strips appearing from
1930 on. In 1940, Western
Publishing began producing Disney comic books in the United States. The most
notable American Disney comics books are Walt
Disney's Comics and Stories and Uncle
Scrooge. In recent decades, Disney comics have seen a lack of popularity
in their country of origin.
In the rest of the world Disney comics have been very
successful, especially in Europe,
where stories are produced and also printed in the pocket format (see Donald
Duck pocket books).
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_comics
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