For Your Consideration: DC’s Showcase Presents: Amethyst Vol. 1 SC
Showcase Presents: Amethyst Vol. 1
Robert Greenberger and his daughter, Kate, discuss DC’s Showcase Presents: Amethyst Vol. 1 and why this collection is a must for your collection.
Robert Greenberger and his daughter, Kate, discuss DC’s Showcase Presents: Amethyst Vol. 1 and why this collection is a must for your collection.
KC COLUMN: Title Lost In Previous Continuity
Zero Hour SC
KC Carlson talks about the creation of DC sliding timeline as part of Zero Hour.
For Your Consideration: Creeper By Steve Ditko
by Robert Greenberger
Much has been written and explored about Steve Ditko’s time at Marvel and people to this day wonder why he left Amazing Spider-Man. We know he bolted from Marvel and returned to Charlton, resuming his work on Captain Atom and creating The Question but the Action Heroes line never achieved success on the newsstands. When Carmine Infantino invited Editor Dick Giordano to come to DC Comics in 1968, it spelled the end of the heroic titles and the beginning of a new era for DC, which was struggling to remain relevant against Marvel’s meteoric rise.
For Your Consideration: Jet Scott
by Robert Greenberger
In the early 1950s, science fiction was all the rage. Space age technology was the next big thing and the movies were filled with aliens, flying saucers, and other worlds. Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers continued to ply the space lanes but the Tribune Syndicate thought the galaxy large enough for one more feature. They reached out to budding screenwriter Sheldon Stark, who was already ghost writing Inspector Wade for them, to co-create the strip to be called Jet Scott. For the art, they turned to a veteran of the comic books, Jerry Robinson. “We carved out a particular niche, which was science fiction but just what’s in the immediate future. That was an area that hadn’t been explored before. We didn’t have people flying around in spacesuits. The hero of the strip, Jet Scott, was the head of the office of the Scientifact, a government agency,” Robinson recalled in Arie Kaplan’s Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed!
For Your Consideration: The Waiting Place GN
by Robert Greenberger
Fellow Westfield subscribers may have discovered Sean McKeever when he was writing Gravity at Marvel or later, when he did a nice run on DC’s Teen Titans . I, on the other hand, first discovered him in 2001. When attending a convention, I wander the publisher booths, seeking out interesting looking series, usually not involving spandex and super-powers. That summer, I found The Waiting Place at the Slave Labor Graphics table and bought a few issues. I was hooked by Sean’s work and bought every issue until the series ended just months later.