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STAR TREK - the James Blish novelizations
Started this discussion. Last reply by Emerkeith Davyjack on Tuesday. 12 Replies 0 Likes
Recently, I bought a 70s printing of the very first STAR TTEK book - the first of the Bantam mass-market novelizations by James Blish of all 79 of ST's episodes in short-story form This was an 18th printing, from the 70s - Obviously, it sold A LOT.…Continue
Comics Shops That Lie About Non-Existence Of Product?
Started Jun 15 0 Replies 0 Likes
What about the often-told ~ favle?? ~ of comics shops that deal with not wanting to order something little-known by simply teeling you that something that is published and available is not available, does not exist? Has anyone here ever run into…Continue
Avengers IV thread (No spoilers)
Started this discussion. Last reply by The Baron Apr 30. 2 Replies 0 Likes
It's a couplish days till AVENGERS: ENDGAME fully opens in North America. To-day, there will be a stunt of a number of theaters running all 22 MCU movies in order in mega-MEGA-mega marathon...and, after it being announced as bring in only 3…Continue
The Graphic Mueller Report?
Started this discussion. Last reply by JD DeLuzio Apr 20. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Now that the Mueller Report is out, do you think a comics-style version of it - or versions - could be viable? I suppose it could combine comics-style dramatization and comics-style illustrated text. There was a comics-style adaptation of the…Continue
AWA Comics and James Murdoch's Dosh
Started this discussion. Last reply by Emerkeith Davyjack Apr 19. 1 Reply 0 Likes
A new comics publisher start-up involving Bill He as and Axel Alonzo, AWA Comics (stands for Artists Writers and Artisans), whose announced beginning had escaped my attention - got said attention when it was, more recently, announced that James…Continue
Comics Kingdom unreadable
Started this discussion. Last reply by Richard Willis Apr 6. 1 Reply 0 Likes
King Features Syndicate's COMICS KINGDOM has changed its page layout, and the effect on my phone is that the strips are too small to read and, unlike the way it was before, I can't stretch the size of the on-screen image to make it readable. There's…Continue
" WONDER PARK "
Started Mar 31 0 Replies 0 Likes
I was the Nickelodeon animated feature - and TV series pilot - " WONDWR PARK ". I Enjoyed it,, though the critical response appears not to have been great. The " cute zombies " that are the villains could perhaps break out, like the Despicable Me…Continue
Joe Sinnott's last inks! Jolting!
Started this discussion. Last reply by PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod Apr 6. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Joe Sinnott's last inks before his retirement (I assume) appeared in the Sunday papers this last weekend. Not in the Saturday last new SPIDER-MAN strip but the Sunday MUTTS!:-$ I can't link. Please?Continue
" Calvin " pee on Big D for Confederacy
Started this discussion. Last reply by The Baron Mar 28. 4 Replies 0 Likes
In the Dallas, TX, suburb of Kemp, a billboard has appeared on a public highway in Calvin from CALVIN AND HOBBES peeing on the Dallas skyline as a protest against the removal of Confederate Memorial. I'm not absolutely sure it's Calvin, the…Continue
Remake/Remodel?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Emerkeith Davyjack Mar 28. 6 Replies 0 Likes
How about comic book stories being re.ade by new regeimes, or the same one, after the original version? The most famous here might be Mort Wesinger's remakes of earlier Superman stories. Did this practice on Superman predate Mort's tenure? The…Continue
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"You know, I'd sure like to see Spidey stay with Marvel Films, but Sony is a business and Spider-Man is their biggest property. They're not about to hand him/it over. Maybe something will materialize down the road, but I'm not counting…"
"...The Daily Mail.com picked up the story - again, with " creator ", not , " co- ", I believe...and Stan as " behind the Marvel collection "!!"
"...Taking this further into shining commentary. TMZ commenters are accusing J.C. not just of bring overly fond of spending her father's money, but in and out of jail. in rehab right now. and physically abusing Stan! Stay classy."
"Emerkeith, thanks for bringing this up.
Here's the TMZ internet article:
https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/22/stan-lee-daughter-sony-disney-spiderman-marvel/"
"...To-day - perhaps it is a trifle perverse/glum/Edward Gorey-Raquel for me to revive this thread to put this in, but hey, K pea rice thread conservation - As do we all!!!!! ' and it mentions Lee family members, hey ' But. in the wake of…"
"...Another Trek can book of old was titles STAR TREK LIVES! Wikipedia mentioned that the rights have reverted to the one surviving author, but she can't line up the rights with other's estates to reissue it.
For legal fan fiction…"
"I still have all my Blish adaptations, too. There were several episodes I read long before I saw them on TV. Certain ones just didn't seem to come into rotation in syndication in my market. One of the last episodes I saw was "Space…"
"I don't think there's a Trekker (personally, I've always detested the term Trekkie) from the late 60s-early 70s who doesn't have those books too.
VIA WIKIPEDIA... a list of all the Bantam books!
Star Trek 1-12, adapting the…"
"Oh, man, I've got those books too!. I've read The Trouble with Tribbles so much, I practically have it committed to memory."
"Number me among the Legionnaires who read the James Blish books when they came out. I really enjoyed them, especially as the reruns in my area were spotty. (I must have seen Arena about 30 times, but there were some that never seemed to get rerun.)…"
"...Yes, exactly, Clark. Novelizations got technolovk ally outmoded - maybe people are in the habit of reading fiction less. now, in the 10s. also.
Doctor Who, of course, had an rven more elaboratete novelization scheme! Even if a touch commercially…"
"I read some of the James Blish novelizations back when I used to care about Star Trek. I found them pretty enjoyable.
I doubt that. I would surmise that Paramount doesn't even think about novelizations, and if it did, it might question…"
"I have and thoroughly enjoyed the Blish adaptations, as well as the entire Alan Dean Foster collection of the animated series.
Both should be re-released at some point, although a golden (no pun intended) opportunity was missed not doing so for the…"
"...Thsnk you. Richard. I remembered that " Spock Must Die! " as the only original Trek novel for a long time. The bac'vover copy for this first book plays up Janice Rand. not considered one of the major characters, only mentioning…"
"I still have my copies of all of these from when I was a kid."
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- At 10:56pm on March 9, 2011,
Cavaliere (moderator emeritus) said…
Hi, Emerkeith. You may not be aware of it but I'm one of the moderators for this site. I denied your submitted blog post because it wasn't an essay but merely a topic starter. If you had discussed the subject then it might have been approved. With the exception of the weekly shipping lists, our blogs are essays where the author discusses the topic they wish to examine.
You're quite welcome to post what you wrote in the discussion forums and I encourage you to do so.
Towards the future...
Jeff Alan Polier
Captain Comics moderating team
- At 2:23pm on March 10, 2011,
Emerkeith Davyjack said…
- ...I hadn't had time to go into it before my time ran out .
- At 9:40pm on September 13, 2011,
Philip Portelli said…
- I'm not that clever or knowledgeable, Emerkeith! He's just the Golden Age Terrfic Whatzit!
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