Category: Comic Books

Ten Years After

Courtesy of my ol’ pal Denro, this picture was taken almost exactly ten years ago at a comic book convention we attended in New York with Joe Sinnott. It was a happy time, with Joe and Stan hale and hearty and doing great.

Alex Saviuk, Joe Sinnott, Stan Lee

I used David Bowie’s “Five Years” for my Five Years post. What can I do here that’s similar? Oh, I know!

After Disney bought Marvel, Joe’s retirement checks came from Disney, and he’d joke about being a Disney artist. Joe would have gotten a kick from knowing this old photo of himself makes an appearance on Disney+.

Sterankohio

She says it again! Wendy Swick, Public Relations Coordinator for the Butler Institute of American Art, repeats the claim that Steranko was Stan Lee’s right-hand man. I am making inquiries to determine where this erroneous idea originated.

Seduction of the Gullible

The closest thing to TCM on broadcast TV is the Movies! TV Network. Here in Boston it’s found on standard definition sub-channel 17-2. The station recently showed While the City Sleeps (1956), directed by Fritz Lang. On TCM the movie comes without commercials and with Eddie Muller’s always inciteful and enlightening commentary.

Estes Kefauver was a politician with Presidential aspirations, whose Senate committee on organized crime was depicted in The Godfather Part II.

Kefauver saw a connection between organized crime and juvenile delinquency, which the notorious Dr. Frederick Wertham insisted had a direct correlation to kids reading comic books. Which of course it didn’t. This clip is from a TV show that was directed by Irvin Kershner, the director of the first Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back.

By the way, the comic book killer in the movie was played by Drew Barrymore’s dad.