Weird Love #1
Written by: Joe Gill and Various Writers
Drawn by: Vince Colletta, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (credited under Logar), Norman Nodel, Alberta Twerks, Sam Citron, Ogden Whitney and Art Peddy
Inked by: Dick Beck, Bernard Sachs and Various Inkers
Published by: Idw Publishing andYoe Books
Weird Love #1 certainly lives up to its title. It’s not that the stories themselves are frightening, although some of them were clearly intended to be morality tales to scare young people straight and start washing behind their ears before Bolshevism took root in their impressionable young minds. No, the stories simply reflect a very different time and place, or at least how the Comics Code Authority wanted the world to appear. There isn’t a common thread that unites these stories, beyond the fact that they’re all sort of…out there. One story is about communism and the perils of falling in...
Written by: Joe Gill and Various Writers
Drawn by: Vince Colletta, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (credited under Logar), Norman Nodel, Alberta Twerks, Sam Citron, Ogden Whitney and Art Peddy
Inked by: Dick Beck, Bernard Sachs and Various Inkers
Published by: Idw Publishing andYoe Books
Weird Love #1 certainly lives up to its title. It’s not that the stories themselves are frightening, although some of them were clearly intended to be morality tales to scare young people straight and start washing behind their ears before Bolshevism took root in their impressionable young minds. No, the stories simply reflect a very different time and place, or at least how the Comics Code Authority wanted the world to appear. There isn’t a common thread that unites these stories, beyond the fact that they’re all sort of…out there. One story is about communism and the perils of falling in...
- 5/15/2014
- by Zeb Larson
- SoundOnSight
Ditko Monsters – Gorgo!, stories drawn by Steve Ditko, written by Joe Gill, designed and edited by Craig Yoe. YoeBooks!/Idw Publishing. 224 pages, $34.99 retail hardcover.
I realize I’m jeopardizing my Geekcred here, but when I was a kid I never was much of a monster movie fan. After I got past James Whale and Ishirô Honda, it was pretty much “if you’ve seen one slimy green tail, you’ve seen them all.” Of course, this was prior to the proliferation of porno. My pathetically mature attitude kept me away from Marvel’s monster comics prior to Fantastic Four #1 (the first one). That changed with Fin Fang Foom and Strange Tales Annual #1, and it changed with Steve Ditko’s Amazing Adult Fantasy. (Memo to self: define “adult.”) It became impossible to pass up any Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko effort, be it superhero or monster. Hell, I even bought Ditko’s Hogan’s Heroes adaptations.
I realize I’m jeopardizing my Geekcred here, but when I was a kid I never was much of a monster movie fan. After I got past James Whale and Ishirô Honda, it was pretty much “if you’ve seen one slimy green tail, you’ve seen them all.” Of course, this was prior to the proliferation of porno. My pathetically mature attitude kept me away from Marvel’s monster comics prior to Fantastic Four #1 (the first one). That changed with Fin Fang Foom and Strange Tales Annual #1, and it changed with Steve Ditko’s Amazing Adult Fantasy. (Memo to self: define “adult.”) It became impossible to pass up any Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko effort, be it superhero or monster. Hell, I even bought Ditko’s Hogan’s Heroes adaptations.
- 4/8/2013
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
In the latest of our comprehensive series of reviews of DC Comics' 52 relaunched titles, we take a look at Captain Atom #1. Who's it by?
Captain Atom #1 is written by Jt Krul (Green Arrow) and drawn by Freddie Williams II (Jsa All-Stars). What's the history?
Captain Atom was created for Charlton Comics by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko in 1960's Space Adventures #33. Allen Adam was a man vaporised in an exploding experimental rocket only to reform himself and gain superpowers. The property was one of those obtained by DC (alongside others including Blue Beetle and the Question). Re-introduced in 1987 by DC, Captain Atom was now Nathaniel Christopher Adam, a Us Air Force officer framed for a crime he did not commit. Sentenced to death, he was offered the alternative of participating in a dangerous experiment with an (more)...
Captain Atom #1 is written by Jt Krul (Green Arrow) and drawn by Freddie Williams II (Jsa All-Stars). What's the history?
Captain Atom was created for Charlton Comics by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko in 1960's Space Adventures #33. Allen Adam was a man vaporised in an exploding experimental rocket only to reform himself and gain superpowers. The property was one of those obtained by DC (alongside others including Blue Beetle and the Question). Re-introduced in 1987 by DC, Captain Atom was now Nathaniel Christopher Adam, a Us Air Force officer framed for a crime he did not commit. Sentenced to death, he was offered the alternative of participating in a dangerous experiment with an (more)...
- 9/27/2011
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
It is with profound personal regret that I report comics legend Dick Giordano died this morning.
The man who guided two comics companies, Charlton and then DC, to greatness and served as collaborator, friend and mentor to more people than I'd have capacity to recall in a week – Neal Adams, Dennis O'Neil, Jim Aparo, Joe Rubinstein, Terry Austin, Steve Ditko, Frank McLaughlin, Klaus Janson, Al Milgrom, Bob Layton, Steve Skeates, and every young artist, writer and editor who passed through Continuity Associates and DC Comics during his tenure at those companies, to name but a very few. His own gifts as an editor and artist were nothing short of breathtaking.
Dick always defended creative freedom and aesthetic opportunity, sometimes putting him heads-on with management powers, often representing not his own work but that of the editors in his charge, most certainly including myself, for which I will be forever grateful.
The man who guided two comics companies, Charlton and then DC, to greatness and served as collaborator, friend and mentor to more people than I'd have capacity to recall in a week – Neal Adams, Dennis O'Neil, Jim Aparo, Joe Rubinstein, Terry Austin, Steve Ditko, Frank McLaughlin, Klaus Janson, Al Milgrom, Bob Layton, Steve Skeates, and every young artist, writer and editor who passed through Continuity Associates and DC Comics during his tenure at those companies, to name but a very few. His own gifts as an editor and artist were nothing short of breathtaking.
Dick always defended creative freedom and aesthetic opportunity, sometimes putting him heads-on with management powers, often representing not his own work but that of the editors in his charge, most certainly including myself, for which I will be forever grateful.
- 3/27/2010
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
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