Should comic book and strip reprints reprint " lesser " things , like advertisments and colorized/edited reprints ?
I just saw a listing on Amazon for Fantagraphics' Mickey Mouse newpaper strip reprints and a Boom! " Walt Disney's Comics And Stories , which would appear to be reprinting Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey neewspaper strips in the versions they appeared in WDC&S in .
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( Foo , I shoulda put Silver Age , etc. , super-hero comic books in the lede of this discussion , not " less wide appeal " ( here ) Disney stuff . I do wish to discuss SA SHs , so.........)
Many reprints of Silver Age and after comic books delete the letter colums , and I have thought that the " what the lawyers said " angle of reprinting old addresses might be a factor there...But , that CLASSIC AVENGERS title Marvel had a couple of years back reprinted the vintage ( Pre-Zip Code however . ) LCs , so.........?
...Don't Marvel's Ommnibuses reprint LCs , " even " the Howard The Duck one , which would post-date when Zip Codes became compulsory ( 1966 , I think ? ) , so would have " still mail-toable " addresses ? The " fashion " genre of comics ( Millie The Model , Katy Keene , et al ) is known for its own unique bit of audience-participation , where they solicit designs for the clothes the characters wear from the readers , and so we see " Millie's fabulous summer frock by JOE GONZALES , of ant Fe..." , etc. , and a few years ago , when Marvel was issuing those Marvel Milestone cardstock-covered reprints of odd things , they issued one which reprinted MILLIE THE MODEL #100's stories from I guess before the Marvel Age started and that I-suppos-e-now-retconned away DEFENDERS issue where an older Millie appears and some Patsy & Hedy fan thanks/credits stuff
...( Note: Once again , this board's occasional wingbat of Edits/additions not going up has struck . Therefore , I continue exactly from where...Well , ya know...)...which , between the Millster and P&H , meant a whole lotta vintage names and addresses !!!!!!!!!
Much reminiscence about vintage funny book advertisments concentrates on the " cute " stuff , the Sea Monkeys and Johnson Smith and tho 100 ( or was it 99 ??? ) dolls for $1 . When more " bigtime " stuff has appeared in comic book ads , like well-known soda or milkshake companies , or major movie studios' movies , or TV networks , perhaps reprinting such ads legally is more a problem . ( See " the lawyers " above . )
Recently , Marvel did run a bunch of vintage ads from the 70s , more or less , in their titles , as nostalgia feature . Did anybody else here gander anyone of them ???
Emerkeith, are you using any adblocking software? I had some functionality issues when I installed mine, but I made an exemption for this board and the problems all went away.
Edited to add: I just checked to make sure I could edit. Turns out I can!
...Okay , Rob , I guess you were talking about editing , and the reference to " adblocking software " had nothing to do ith my subject .
This was meant , kind of , as something asking whether reprints should include things like text pages , lettercols , house ads , paid ads...However , perhaops I got a little off the get-more-attention superhero world track...
And , I was wondering if " inauthentic " reprints such as colorized/edited/cropped newspaper strips...
...Continuing...What about things like comic book reprints of newspaper strips that edited/cropped/colorized ( Maybe even rewrote/condensed the dialogue ? ) the comics , which I guess the Floyd Goittfredson reprints in that " Walt Disney's Comics and Stories " Archive that I was pointing to Boom! planning , they would , presumably , be reprinting the Dell comic-book versions of the Gottfredson MM strips , not the authentic as-in-daily-newspapers that I believe Fantgraphics is promising .
Or , think of things like those SUPERMAN FAMILY issues that had back-up strips of " Krypto " and " Syperbaby " , " Proty " , even . - Old Syperboy , etc. stories with newly-lettered logos . Or the way that for years reprints of Supergirl's origin put in the later-added z" dome " over Kara's home city .
Marvel , for years , ignore the Hulk being grey-skinned in THE INCREDIBLE HULK #1 when it was reprinted , in Stan's " Origin Of Marvel Comics " book in the 70s just the cover was reprinted in grey tones , the story was of " Ol' Greenskin " , with Stan letting us in on the secret of the originally grey Hulk in the text !
Or think of Marvel reprinting their Western Ghost Rider's 1960s stories in the 70s as " Night Rider "...which happens to be a term - Tending towards a complimentary one , in fact . - used to describe members of the Ku Klux Klan !!!!!!!!!!!
...Used by Klan ADMIRERS/semi-nuetral(Sic.) , I mean !!!!!!!!!
In fact , IIRC , I read that Marvel , in the 70s , after a couple issues , realized that/found that out !
I guess it depends on what type of project you're doing , obviously .
More of this later .
I prefer most reprints to be simply the comics and covers, not the ad material. That stuff's an interesting curiosity, but I'd rather someone put it up for free on the internet than to have to shell out money for it.
My reference to adblocking software was in reference to your problems with the edit function on this site, which you mentioned above. I was using Adblocker, and it gave me some functionality trouble with reply box (I couldn't italicize, etc., or edit once I'd posted) until I disabled it for this site. I thought you might be dealing with a similar issue.
...Yes , thank you , that's what I thought the Adblocker ref. was .
Is there anyone who puts up vintage letcols ? Post-Zip Code ones , too , as I said ?????
Marvel's B&W magazines of the " 70s era " had suprisingly elaborate text pieces , especially early on...VAMPIRE TALES , TALES OF THE ZOMBIE , etc. , would have fairly lengthy text pieces , generally dealing with prose and filmed versions of the same genre the comic ( Whoops , magazine - I was correcting myself in the light of how many comics fans draw such a distinction between standard-format comic books and magazine-sized ones - Ya know , when I've seen Golden Age comic books , they're on a much larger page-sidzed format , arguably , they might be close in size to a CREEPY or DRACULA LIVES! than a contemporary comic book , me thinkseth !!!!!!!!! ) dealt in .
The articles were written by Marvel regulars , generally , ad incidentally , they tended to be more fully laid out like a " real " magazine article , not the standard somewhat thrown-away/" tacky " look of comic-book letter/text pages .
I suppose it's likely that the articles'd be copyrighted to/WFH , for Marvel .
They would tend to be illustrated with book cover repros , or standard stills from the films they discussed , probably not that deeply copyrighted in themselves .
I believe even slightly later when Marvel moved towards the color Marvel Magazines , they tended to have columns by writers , " regular/personal " colums , in the Mike Royoko/Jimmy Breslin tradition , say , that didn't have much to do with funnybooks - the Hulk or otherwise .
Around 1968 some DC titles ran a multi-part " History Of Comics " text page , perhaps by E. Nelson Bridwell ???