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CENTAUR and such...
Guardian7:
I thought having a space on here to discuss Centaur stuff as a whole is a decent idea (instead of a bunch of little posts - nothing wrong with that mind you - FEEL FREE! LOL).
I have also been thinking of making a Website dedicated to CENTAUR COMICS (Centaur Publishing and Comics Magazine Company, Inc.).
Since this is the second Golden Age PD area I discovered I figured I would also post this here. As this site and the downloads that have only helped continue to fuel my interest in this long lost company.
I think I will start this off with a question of...
Where can I find the most concise history of the company itself?
Have one of the Posters here done something on that?
May I quote them? (I will acknowledge any and all who I quote and detail the source of the information).
I am not as UP on the "actual History" of the company as I probably should be. Doing this I aim to correct that.
If anyone can give me a heads up and a point in the right direction... I would be eternally grateful.
I am also looking for some missing characters and in some cases stories to fill the historical gaps of some of the Centaur Characters (many of which I now know - primarily because of this wonderful site).
Okay. Well this works for an intro.
There will be more you can be sure.
Cya guys!
G7 or Les (take your pick).
Guardian7:
Okay. Here is more.
These are the Centaur Characters or Stories of Interest.
Images, back-stories or even scans of these would be appreciated.
If you can point me in the right direction that would be of just as much help.
Anyhow... here is I think the shortlist (Wait til I get to the Detectives, police and Agents!)
COMIC (plus v=volume #=Issue Number) - Character or Story.
AMAZ ADV FUNNIES #2 - Sand Hog (reprinted)
DET EYE #2 - Don Rance and the Mysticape
MASKED MARVEL #1 - Gentlemen of Misfortune
MASKED MARVEL #2 - Kardo, the Monster Maker (reprinted)
MASKED MARVEL #2 - The Vampire (reprinted)
FUNNY PICTURE STORIES v1 1 - The Floating City (also appears in AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES v1 #4).
FANTOM #3 Zomba [hero gorilla?]
FUNNY PAGES v2 #5 - The Case of the Millionaire Playboy, Solved by The Master Mind.
FUNNY PAGES v4 #35 - Pluton the Great, the Earth Driller
COMIC PAGES v1 #2 - The Monster
Man
COMIC PAGES v1 #5 - Jay Douglas, in a Prehistoric World.
Jay Douglas also appears in reprint AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES v1 #4. It is also wholly possible the Jay Douglas stories that appeared in AMC may be broken up reprints.
COMIC PAGES v1 #6 - The Isle of Mystery
FUNNY PICTURE STORIES / COMIC PAGES v3 #4 - In Quest of the Zozosaurus
STAR COMICS v2 #7 - Jungle Queen
KEEN DETECTIVE FUNNIES v2 #4 - The Master Mind (Possible this is a reprint from FP v2#5)
AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES v2 #10 - Crime tracking Televisor
KEEN KOMICS v2 #1 - Bob Phantom (I assume this is a comedy thing... but you never know. The Clock didn't have a huge page count when it ran in Funny Pages).
KEEN KOMICS v2 #2 - The Forbidden Idol of Machu Picchu
MASKED MARVEL #2 - Kardo, the Monster Maker
Sorry if I replicated anything in the above list. just go with the flow people.
ANY and all help is appreciated.
Then hopefully I can get as definitive of a CENTAUR Web-site going as I can.
Thanks people!
Keep it Four Colors always!
G7/Les
Roygbiv666:
--- Quote from: Guardian7 on September 27, 2010, 11:57:00 AM ---
Where can I find the most concise history of the company itself?
--- End quote ---
I stumbled across this site:
http://mysterymen.tripod.com/greats/centaur.htm
you might find useful (or not). Probably a good place to start, they list their references on http://mysterymen.tripod.com/good_guys/ref.html .
I'm not sure how much you'd need to Google to get to something good:
http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=14642
http://muttermumblegrumblegripe.blogspot.com/2010/01/aka-centaur-comics.html
Guardian7:
Wow.
The Richard Boucher Centaur History and the MODM article are pretty detailed.
The history reads like a jigsaw puzzle.
About how accurate are they?
How accurate could they possible be 65+ years later?
I would hate to put something in a historical section that was inaccurate (sorry... kinda weird that way! Heh!).
The First Comics News MEN OF MYSTERY 83 has an absolutely awesome (If not overtly Marvelized Cover).
http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/MOM83.gifIt looks like something that would have appeared if Marvel had indeed produced the CENTAUR Characters.
I am curious. I the Cover Artist to that Issue of MoM#83 the same guy that did the illustrations for the PC Game Freedom Force? Such as this one from the Image Comic.
http://i17.tinypic.com/6q1zvde.jpgAnyhow Roygbiv666. Great stuff. If you think of more please let me know. As I am not always sure who might be (as before) accurate with the historical information.
Thanks
Yoc:
Hi Les,
There were some thing talked about on GAC's forum that might interest you as well as some links.
http://tinyurl.com/24fomn7
http://tinyurl.com/2uk5x7y
http://tinyurl.com/2elh38w
You might have seen these already but if not they are worth a read.
-Yoc
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