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|6.23.05 @ 12:50PM|#
... Mad magazine ... survived because it didn't look like a comic book, so it wasn't a target-which didn't mean children weren't reading it.
Wanna bet?
|6.23.05 @ 1:21PM|#
Gaines did try to continue publishing four-color pamphlets that conformed to the Comics Code, but they didn't sell. Mad was converted to a black and white magazine format and thrived, but two other non-humor B&W mags EC tried died on the stands.
Kevin
|6.23.05 @ 1:40PM|#
Where's my fershlugginer pastrami on rye?
Jeff|6.23.05 @ 2:03PM|#
The success of B&W mags led to the golden age of Warren Publications, which gave us horror books full of, as Alan Moore puts it, "tits and innards." The Warren books mustered up a lot of european artists before Heavy Metal appeared on the scene.
They also gave us Vamperella, a door-length poster of whom still hangs in my studio.
Franklin Harris|6.23.05 @ 3:25PM|#
Vampirella being the creation of Forrest J. Ackerman, of course.
Jeff|6.23.05 @ 3:56PM|#
True, but I believe James Warren used to get co-creator credit.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the exact moment when sentences like that send the comment thread plunging into the geek zone...
Franklin Harris|6.23.05 @ 4:24PM|#
Jeff, that's what we're here for.
Bill|6.25.05 @ 10:13PM|#
Satellite tv
mjke|6.25.05 @ 10:15PM|#
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