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Guardian7:
Wow. Those are absolutely fascinating.
Great call on those YOC.

The discussion about Flying Models & Model Fun we rather intriguing.
Though I am sure I will be pretty heavily dependent upon the good graces and historical skills of others who have a bit more finesse in that area than I do.

My First primary of doing this sort of endeavor is to center on the Mystery Men (such as Amazing Man, Arrow, Fantom, Blue Lady etc.), Adventurers (like Reef Kindaid, Rocke Wayburn, Chuck Hardy, Jack Strand etc.), Detectives or Agents (like Agent Jack Rhodes, Dean Denton, Inner Circle, Etc.) and move my way down the list (Based purely on my tastes and what interests me). Unfortunately the humor strips are likely to be pushed clear to the back. Amusing mind you. But I am more interested in the heroic stuff.
I wish that Centaur had published a fictional War Comic (like a Sgt. Fury or some such - closest they have so far as I can tell is Duke Collins the Fearless Marine), As I have been finding myself oddly drawn to them or those kind of comics of late. I used to just brush them off as pure soldier fighting crap. But I have since seen some just amazingly well done stories involving regular Joe Soldier types (Well I dunno if there is TRULY anyone REGULAR in comics... but you get my drift I am sure).

I am also having fun with the Detectives and Policemen stuff. Such as the "Wings of Crime" story from DPS 1 with Sgt Lou Donovan and Detective Clem Bowers... It isn't the best laid out comic (as the same perspective is used throughout)... but for some odd reason the story and the characterization REALLY stands out for me. It has such a FORTIES feel to it (Yes I know how that sounds... it was the Forties! HEH!)

BUT... Still... the main focus will be the Mystery Men and Women... then the Adventures, Agents and Detectives.

Thanks.
Any help is as ever. Appreciated!

G7/Les

Yoc:
Glad I could help Les.
Rik Offenberger has/had a Centaur/Mighty Protectors site via GeoCities that is currently down but a direct link in one of those GAC threads leads to the Centaur History texts he's found over the net.  I sent Rik an email telling him it was offline.
http://www.geocities.com/malibuprotectors/centaur.html

GL on the project!
-Yoc

bchat:

--- Quote from: Guardian7 on September 27, 2010, 01:24:29 PM ---The First Comics News MEN OF MYSTERY 83 has an absolutely awesome (If not overtly Marvelized) Cover.

It looks like something that would have appeared if Marvel had indeed produced the CENTAUR Characters.
I am curious. Is 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.
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Tom Scioli did the artwork on the Freedom Force comic.  He also does Godland and runs his own website (http://www.tomscioli.com/).  The artwork on MOM 83 definitely has a Kirby feel to it, but I don't know if Scioli is the artist.  You could always ask him (he has an e-mail address listed) and if it isn't him (there are a few other people that draw in the Kirby style), maybe he could tell you who did draw the Centaur cover.


--- Quote from: Guardian7 on September 27, 2010, 11:57:00 AM ---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).
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I would say your threads over at http://boards.collectors-society.com may help you get images of the stories you want.  That site has a nice group of serious Centaur collectors who seem like they, as a group, have every single comic that company produced.

narfstar:
Bill Black the publisher is one of the best Kirby style artists. I can not make out the signature but it does not look like Black. It looks like he could have done the pencil with some else doing the inks.

bchat:
While poking around the 'net looking for a larger image of Men of Mystery 83 to see the signature better, I noticed that Men of Mystery 81 has an Arrow story, while issue 82 has "Centaur Comics The BLUE LADY, in her debut story from Amazing Man Comics #25" (which is actually her 2nd story, as 24 is her 1st appearance).  Issue 80 has "THREE ultra-rare Centaur Comics stories from the 1930's- AIRSUB DX with "The Conqueror- Part !" (I assume they mean part "1") by Carl Burgos, DAN DENNIS, FBI in "Crime Does Not Pay", by Sam Gilman; and "THE CASE OF THE MISSING HEIR" by Bob Kane".

Just throwing this out there: http://hil-gle.com/hilside1.html.  If anyone was interested in seeing just how messed-up an article about "Centaur Comics" can get, start there.  I found myself going "WHAT?!" more than once.

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