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Yoc:
Thanks for keeping us informed Narf.
Stanley P. Morse of course did some of the most notorious pre-code horror books in the 50s.
He's quoted by David Hajdu in The Ten-Cent Plague as saying “No one complained, so we gave the people what they wanted until they started complaining about it.” and this one that really paints him a bad light - “I don’t know what the hell I published. I never knew. I never read the things. I never cared.”
bchat:
--- Quote from: Yoc on January 04, 2012, 09:18:27 AM ---and this one that really paints him a bad light - “I don’t know what the hell I published. I never knew. I never read the things. I never cared.”
--- End quote ---
I don't think that "paints him in a bad light", it simply makes him seem like a businessman, which is what he was. Today's comic industry could use a few people like him.
Yoc:
The way today's industry has been run I'd have guessed they were all like him bc. IMHO
John C:
I don't see why it'd be so bad. Happy customers and happy employees? That's where everybody wants to be. A statement like that usually comes from someone who runs things by sales number and probably by knowing the personalities of his people.
To me, I see the decline in quality (and readership) as being related to when the businesspeople start referring to themselves as fans. I suspect it's hard to think rationally about a title when your favorite character might need canceling.
Yoc:
Comic book writer and artist Marv Levy has passed away:
http://mikelynchcar toons.blogspot. com/2012/ 01/marv-levy- 1925-2012. html
Jerry Bails' Who's Who says he inked
Captain America around 1943
and he worked for Lloyd Jacquet later in the '40s.
http://bailsproject s.com/bio. aspx?Name= LEVY%2c+MARV
-Yoc
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