Another old comic book pro, Tom Palmer, has passed away. There aren’t too many names left from the 60’s. Palmer arrived to the business later in the decade, earning immediate recognition, especially for his inking on Neal Adams’ run on X-Men. Those issues are among my most all-time favorite comic books.
https://www.cbr.com/tom-palmer-avengers-xmen-tomb-dracula-obituary/
Following up on yesterday’s post about Sid Jacobson, I wasn’t certain if he edited Harvey’s horror comic books in the 50’s. His family confirms it in this remembrance of their late father.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/sidney-jacobson-obituary?id=35995758
This is Wendy the Witch that the Harvey comic books were based on. Wendy enacts a scene from The Red Shoes.
Wendy was quite a change from the Harvey witch comics Jacobson worked on in the 50’s.
DC and Marvel weren’t the only comics I enjoyed reading and collecting as a kid. Dennis the Menace from Fawcett, the original publisher of Captain Marvel, was a favorite. Harvey had the Casper line of characters.
Harvey’s titles included Richie Rich and Wendy the Good Little Witch. If it’s possible to have a crush on a cartoon character, Wendy was my age-appropriate alternative to Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched.
Sid Jacobson was the editor and writer behind many if not most of those comic books. Thanks in part to a graphic novel he wrote about 9/11, Jacobson has an obituary in The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/arts/sid-jacobson-dead.html
Mark Evanier has these thoughts about Jacobson.
The audio from my copy of THE VOICES OF MARVEL flexi-disc is being featured on Boing Boing. Sadly, everyone who is heard on the record is now gone.
https://boingboing.net/2022/07/12/listen-to-a-rare-flexi-disc-record-of-stan-lee-jack-kirby-and-the-voices-of-marvel-from-1964.html
The scripted and rehearsed recording was made in 1965, during Wally Wood’s brief stint working for Stan. Steve Ditko was still at Marvel, but he isn’t heard. Jack Kirby later regretted participating, despite his apparent enthusiasm at the time. Joe Sinnott didn’t return to the Bullpen until a few months later.
I know that one of my audio transfers was used for the video shared on Boing Boing, because of the “thump” heard while artist Don Heck is talking. The audio was captured lovingly and with careful attention to detail, using high-quality audio equipment, as I explained here fifteen years ago.
Johnny Storm’s reaction to Reed Richards showing him the first Webb Space Telescope images.
A too-short interview with J. David Spurlock who, among doing other things, manages the Wally Wood estate. (Yes, he’s related to documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.) It’s assumed you know a lot about Silver Age comic books and artists.
