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Looking for a Victor Fox photo or drawing...
David Lawrence:
Is it "Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour" that we're talking about? It's the most recent book on Baker I can find on Amazon.
Drusilla lives!:
We've all got a little Victor Fox in us to one extent or another. So I'm in no position to judge him, particularly since I didn't know him personally.
I'll just say that after reading the few accounts of the man (and seeing some of the comics he produced), my general impression of him is... if Victor Fox could make money selling Bibles he would, but he couldn't, so he didn't.
And that's it, end of story... that's all there was to the man IMO.
A rather sad, one dimensional character... and an anti-climatic conclusion to my interest in him as an historical figure in comicdom. There are a lot of people like him out in the world... and always will be.
David Lawrence:
I'd say Drusilla hit it on the head. If he could make a buck selling uniforms it was uniforms. It it was stocks it was stocks...even if they weren't legit. If it was comic books or the comicscope, fine. If it was Kooba Cola, all the better.
He was certainly an operator. I think getting his hands of a bunch of confiscated ships...with basically no money down...was a pretty impressive trick.
I'm interested because of the lives and careers he touched. He brought Joe Simon into the industry. He brought in Jack. He was the first client for Will Eisner.
One assumes they would have all found their way in anyway. But not at the same time, not at the same place.
Certainly history would have been very different if Jack & Joe never partnered.
I think what has intrigued me is simply the shortage of solid facts about him despite his presence at key points in comic history...and the fun of trying to unravel a mystery.
Yoc:
I don't begrudge an man making a buck, especially back then in that era - but PAY your artists and suppliers. Praying on rookie artists who didn't know better was despicable.
Fox did give a lot of big names their first breaks but I have the feeling if you could draw a stick figure he would have hired you.
Frankly I've always felt far, far more sorry for 'The Major.' Maj. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in much the same tight spot as Fox, he at least tried to pay his artists and the way he was fleeced out of National Comics was criminal. Perhaps legal but still a moral crime IMO. Fox was no worse than Donenfeld and Liebowitz, just less successful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Wheeler-Nicholson
John C:
--- Quote from: David Lawrence on February 28, 2013, 02:04:58 PM ---I'd say Drusilla hit it on the head. If he could make a buck selling uniforms it was uniforms. It it was stocks it was stocks...even if they weren't legit. If it was comic books or the comicscope, fine. If it was Kooba Cola, all the better.
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Though keep in mind, it's one in a thousand business owners/CEOs that are remotely different. Nobody prior to 1980 started a comic book company with the intent of bringing wonderful ideas to the masses. Very few people start any company with any loftier idea, at the core, than not having to work nine-to-five. And to do that, you go where the money is, wherever it is.
Except Kooba. That was genius. Advertise, and if someone actually orders it, find someone who makes soda or sell the brand.
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