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Tue July 12 - PBS' History Detectives features a comic

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Yoc:
And I missed it!  Grrr.
I'll try for the online version later.

John C:
I forgot about the thread, but happened to catch it anyway, coincidentally.

It was a decent story, if a little cut-and-dried.  I guess there's not much to be done when the owner pretty much only wants to know the writer/artist, since someone either knows or doesn't.  Without going off on some enjoyable but expensive tangent, there's not much to be done to pad the story to ten minutes without telling us about all the blind alleys.

Still, it was fun, and produced information that I don't think any of us had before--I see it's waiting confirmation at the GCD.  Plus one of the stories from the comic is posted at Roy's link...

(All said, though, I think the Lindbergh/Sikorsky story was much more entertaining.)

Oh, and if you sit through the credits, DCM has a "thanks to" credit mixed in with the other references.  I can't NOT mention that...

Roygbiv666:

--- Quote from: John C on July 13, 2011, 05:12:42 AM ---(All said, though, I think the Lindbergh/Sikorsky story was much more entertaining.)

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Yeah, that was some nifty detective work.

The show is basically Antiques Roadshow on steroids.

Yoc:
I recall way back when we were approached by the show but the details escape me.

JVJ (RIP):

--- Quote from: John C on July 13, 2011, 05:12:42 AM ---I forgot about the thread, but happened to catch it anyway, coincidentally.

Still, it was fun, and produced information that I don't think any of us had before--I see it's waiting confirmation at the GCD.  Plus one of the stories from the comic is posted at Roy's link...
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I just watched the show and I don't know who Shawn Clancy is, but he doesn't know what Alvin Hollingsworth art looks like. Perhaps Roy Alt wrote some stories for the title that Hollingsworth drew, but the stories they showed from #2 were NOT by ACH. Alt, I can't say.

The very slick first story (were there more than one shown?) looked more like Edd Ashe to me - who was a major presence at Fawcett at the time. Whereas Hollingsworth MAY have drawn an issue of Nyoka in 1951, he has no other credits at Fawcett. It's scary that PBS doesn't ask someone like Hames Ware or John Benson or someone who actually has some art ID "chops" what THEY thought of the Hollingsworth ID instead of taking one man's second hand recollection of what a 90 year old man said about something that happened 60 years ago. Makes me really trust the rest of their "history".

Peace, Jim (|:{>

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