Monday, May 31, 2010

Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos 1964


Here is the 1964 letterhead for the letters page of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. Notice that on this one, taken from issue #13, they write that Marvel comics tried to reply with a postcard to all who wrote in to them. But they couldn't keep up so they had to stop. Marvel seemed to be very considerate of their readers during the Silver Age. No wonder they grew so fast to become DC's main competation. Other companies should keep that in mind today.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Steel The Indestructible Man 1978


A lot of comic books quickly came and went in 1978 due to economics and other stumbling blocks of the time. Most of those series were pretty good and Steel the Indestructible Man was one of them. Here is the letter page letterhead for that series.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Giant Size Super-stars 1974


In the 1950's the comic book companies cutback on their pages. They use to be 52 pages in length. From time to time one of the companies have tried to get back to include more pages. Usually they would have one original story and the rest were filled with pin ups and reprint stories. This is from Marvel comics 1974 attempt from the book Giant Size Super-stars. It featured the Fantastic Four and the Hulk in the first issue.