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/
Saying it’s time for the Baby Boom generation to let go of its political hold requires thinking that those born between 1940 and 1950 are Baby Boomers. The 1950’s is the true Baby Boom decade. There has never been a President who was born between 1950 and 1960, and it seems there never will be.
The updated Washington Post application adds a nifty feature to its comics page. You can swipe back to see the previous six days of strips, as I demonstrate on my Kindle Fire HD 10 tablet.
With the end of my Boston Globe home delivery subscription — along with digital access — just two days away, I will be relying more on the tablet for news. In addition to the Post, I have started subscribing to the Kindle edition of The New York Times. For $20/month there are no ads and, thankfully, no comments. I can read it on the HD 10, but I’m finding the format easier to navigate with the Kindle Paperwhite.
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.
As promised to mih, a few examples of Hal Foster’s 1930’s run on Tarzan.
As you can see, Foster had to adhere to a very rigid panel layout.
This one was obviously intended by Foster to be a try-out for Prince Valiant.
