One of #FictionHouse's top artists was #JosephDoolin, who originally providing covers for the pulps before transitioning to the comics. Exceptional at the female form, he would eventually have to leave the comics industry due to CCA restrictions.
Another notable female artist at #FictionHouse was #LilyRenee, who soon became one of its most popular when she helped revitalize the #WerewolfHunters feature in #RangerComics, one of the first regular horror stories and soon the publisher's most popular.
JLA / Avengers #3 (Dec 2003). Cover art by George Pérez. The cover shows a multitude of JLA, Avengers, and other Marvel & DC comic characters.
JLA / Avengers #3 (Dec 2003). Cover art by George Pérez
#MarvelComics #DCComics #JLA-Avengers #JLA #TheAvengers #2000sMarvel #2000sDC #ComicCover #GeorgePérez
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One of the many talented female artists at #FictionHouse was #AnnBrewster, who was so good with female form they put her on their most popular character, #SheenaQueenoftheJungle.
Something notable about #FictionHouse was that it employed numerous female artists, such as #NinaAlbright, #JeanAlipe & #AnneBrewster, which was reflected in it strong female characters.
Fantastic last issue of the first story arc by #TomTaylor & #DanieleDiNicuolo as the children take the fight to the President of the United States, who has been possessed by Modred, along with following up with the surprising connection they have with him.
A doc savage paperback novel. On the cover, an adventurer in a tattered shirt is posed defensively as two red winged figures descend in the background.
Back of a paperback novel with text that reads: To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adven-turers-the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group—he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil-doers. To his fans he is the greatest adventure hero of all time, whose fantastic exploits are unequaled for hair-raising thrills, breathtaking escapes and bloodcurdling excitement. MENACE IN CRIMSON The Red Terrors-they came out of the depths to seize an unsuspecting ship and transport its precious human cargo to their watery domain. There, in a lost sunken world under the sea, they lived securely. Until they sank the wrong ship... and THE MAN OF BRONZE came to call.
DOC SAVAGE #83: THE RED TERRORS
Cover art by Boris Vallejo. This starts a little six book run of Vallejo covers.
#DocSavage #pulp #paparback
It would be #ThurmanT.Scott, #JohnGlenister's son-in-law, who took #FictionHouse into comics with #JumboComics #1 on Sept. of 1938. Much of the content was produced by Eisner & Iger Studios, #WillEisner & #JerryIger's legendary comics packaging company.
#FictionHouse was founded on April of 1921 by #JohnW.Glenister, originally publishing pulp magazines like #ActionStories & #AirStories, which featured works by #RaymondBradbury, #PhillipK.Deck & #GardnerFox.
Our #SupportYourLocalComicShop podcast series continues! This month we're chatting with @comicbooktimmy.bsky.social, owner of Arsenal Comics. And yeah, we're also talking about his hand in bringing an ACTION COMICS #1 to auction. www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/arsenal...
One comic book character, #MLJ's the #BlackHood, would make a jump into pulps in 1943, but would only last for eleven issues, as the 1940's were the downturn of the pulp medium.
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Stephen R. Bissette's TYRANT!
Solid if overly dark Batman read....https://a.co/d/05CS9Bu6
A comic book character who actually got his start in comics was #Ka-Zar, first appearing in "Ka-Zar" #1 on October of 1936 and published by #MartinGoodman, the future founder of #MarvelComics, where he would later reappear in #X-Men #10 on Mar. of 1965.
The success of the #Shadow lead to #Street&Smith to create a new pulp hero with #DocSavage, first appearing in "Doc Savage Magazine" on March of 1933. Written by #LesterDent, he would become a chief inspiration for later comic book superheroes like #Superman, #Mr.Fantastic and #TomStrong.
Pulps would also feature masked vigilantes as stars of their stories, with notable ones being #Zorro & the #Shadow, who combined would a be chief inspiration on #Batman, one of the great comic book characters of all time.
One of the classic pulps was #AmazingStories, the first all science fiction magazine launched by #HugoGernsbach on April of 1926. Credited as the father of #sciencefiction since he coined the term, the #HugoAwards, are named after him.
Future #DC & #Marvel founders, #HarryDonnefeld & #MartinGoodman, got into pulp magazines with books like #SpicyAdventureStories and #MarvelTales, whose risqué covers would get them into trouble with the government more than a few times.
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Day 27 - #ChristopherPriest
Deathstroke #12 textless cover by #BillSienkiewicz
#Deathstroke
Great second issue by #JoshuaWilliamson & #CarmenCarnero that finds #IronMan trying to stop #MadameMasque from creating a new 'Tony Stark' from an idea he actually gave her.
Pulps would be a great innovator of the detective/mystery genre, with #BlackMask giving #RaymondChandler & #DashiellHammett their first breaks. #QuentinTarantino even used 'Black Mask' as the working title for his film #PulpFiction in honor of the magazine.
One of the great science fiction writers of all time, #EdgarRiceBurroughs, made his debut in pulps, with both his classic #Tarzan & #JohnCarter stories first appearing in magazines like #All-Story and #Argosy.
#Pulpmagazines understood a great cover was a great way get new readers attention and #WalterBaumhofer was one of the best. Starting out on #DangerTrail, he would later become famous for his #DocSavage covers, earning the nickname the #KingofPulps.
One of the most popular genres in pulps was westerns, with #WesternStoryMagazine from #Street&Smith reaching up to 500,000 in circulation.
One of the most popular of the pulp magazines was #BlueBookMagazine, which launched on May of 1905. It would feature stories by #EdgarRiceBurroughs and #AgathaChristie, along with art by #AlexRaymond, the creator of #FlashGordon.
The first pulp magazine is considered #TheArgosy, created by publisher #FrankMunsey on October of 1896 as an all-fiction magazine. Called 'pulps' due to the cheap paper they were printed on, they would soon inspire whole genres that are incapsulated in the words #pulpfiction.
Fantastic last issue of the series by #JonathanHickman, #MarcoChecchetto & #DavidMessina as Spider-Man takes his fight to the Kingpin & Mr. Negative while flashing back to the beginnings of his & MJ's relationship.
