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Oct 17 13 10:42 AM
Osgood Peabody wrote: As the days of the "Old Look" dwindled:"The Mystery of Madcap Island"Writer: Bill FingerArtists: Sheldon Moldoff & Charles Paris
Osgood Peabody wrote:...the Dynamic Duo made one last foray into Wonderland.
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Osgood Peabody wrote: Very sad to see the Batman era on which I was raised winding to a close. But are you implying that Batman had made previous trips to Madcap Island?
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Oct 18 13 12:34 AM
stanbrown wrote:Why would a shop owner used a marked dime to start up his jukebox, and then later take that particular dime back from the coin box? Why does it matter which dime he took back?
While I'm at it--on a different point that has confused me since I was a kid: Superman's key to the Fortress of Solitude being disguised as an airplane direction marker. Are there or were there ever such things as airplane direction markers in the arctic?
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Oct 18 13 8:25 AM
alizarin1 wrote:While you're on the subject of Batman in 1963, here's a rarely seen piece that I don't believe has been posted on this site before. It's a four page article from Screen Thrills Illustrated #4 cover dated April 1963, by Warren Publishing Company which traced the history of the character on the silver screen up to that time. Too young to have known about the earlier 1940s serials (and this was even before they were shown in select movie theaters as "camp" entertainment around 1965), I was stunned to see these images back in 1963.
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Oct 18 13 10:09 AM
stanbrown wrote: Why would a shop owner used a marked dime to start up his jukebox, and then later take that particular dime back from the coin box? Why does it matter which dime he took back?
lelak wrote:...our neighborhood theater featured a "Summertime Fun Show" series for kids one year (I think it was in 1963, but it may have been 1964). Admission was 10c and for that you received a box of popcorn, and got to see a couple of cartoons, a short subject, a feature film and one chapter a week of the 1943 Batman serial. I loved every minute of it.
Oct 18 13 11:19 AM
lelak wrote:The only Batman titles I regularly bought were the Giant Annuals. I never really cared for the monthly issues, probably because of the editorial direction and weird/space opera slant of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
He had ghosts and we all knew it. People used to complain about it. Jack Liebowitz would fight with him. I heard some of the arguments, “We’re paying you all this money!” Well, they did pay him well... [But he] would get back at them by just hiring these bad ghosts and doing bad work. He did a lot of bad work for years and the character kept selling because everything was selling but it wasn’t as good as his early stuff.
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Oct 18 13 12:32 PM
Osgood Peabody wrote: "The Mystery of Madcap Island"Writer: Bill FingerArtists: Sheldon Moldoff & Charles Paris
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Oct 18 13 4:42 PM
seattleguy wrote: May I add that I also was one back then who would look forward to the Batman annuals and that I preferred them with their great Dick Sprang stories to the then current stuff that was published in Batman and Detective.
Oct 18 13 6:34 PM
Quote:In 1953, Moldoff became one of the primary Batman ghost artists who, along with Win Mortimer and Dick Sprang, drew stories credited to Bob Kane, following Kane's style and under Kane's supervision. While Sprang ghosted as a DC employee, Moldoff, in a 1994 interview given while Kane was alive, described his own clandestine arrangement: I worked for Bob Kane as a ghost from ' 53 to ' 67. DC didn't know that I was involved; that was the handshake agreement I had with Bob: 'You do the work don't say anything, Shelly, and you've got steady work'. No, he didn't pay great, but it was steady work, it was security. I knew that we had to do a minimum of 350 to 360 pages a year. Also, I was doing other work at the same time for [editors] Jack Schiff and Murray Boltinoff at DC. They didn't know I was working on Batman for Bob. ... So I was busy. Between the two, I never had a dull year, which is the compensation I got for being Bob's ghost, for keeping myself anonymous. Kane and Moldoff co-created the original Bat-Girl as well as the novelty characters Bat-Mite and Ace, the Bat-Hound. All three were largely phased-out in 1964 after a change in editors. Moldoff was let go by DC in 1967, along with Golden Age artistts George Papp and Wayne Boring.[end quote]
In 1953, Moldoff became one of the primary Batman ghost artists who, along with Win Mortimer and Dick Sprang, drew stories credited to Bob Kane, following Kane's style and under Kane's supervision. While Sprang ghosted as a DC employee, Moldoff, in a 1994 interview given while Kane was alive, described his own clandestine arrangement:
I worked for Bob Kane as a ghost from ' 53 to ' 67. DC didn't know that I was involved; that was the handshake agreement I had with Bob: 'You do the work don't say anything, Shelly, and you've got steady work'. No, he didn't pay great, but it was steady work, it was security. I knew that we had to do a minimum of 350 to 360 pages a year. Also, I was doing other work at the same time for [editors] Jack Schiff and Murray Boltinoff at DC. They didn't know I was working on Batman for Bob. ... So I was busy. Between the two, I never had a dull year, which is the compensation I got for being Bob's ghost, for keeping myself anonymous.
Kane and Moldoff co-created the original Bat-Girl as well as the novelty characters Bat-Mite and Ace, the Bat-Hound. All three were largely phased-out in 1964 after a change in editors.
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