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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: Guardian7 on September 27, 2010, 11:57:00 AM
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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).
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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
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Where can I find the most concise history of the company itself?
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
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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.gif)It 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.jpg)Anyhow 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
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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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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
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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
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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.
Tom Scioli did the artwork on the Freedom Force comic. He also does Godland and runs his own website (http://www.tomscioli.com/ (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.
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).
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.
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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.
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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 (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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Case of the Missing Heir is a real gem of a story to me.
In part because it is done by Bob Kane... but also because it is a decent story.
I actually colorized the main character and his girlfriend... I think the Butler too.
Yeah it really isn't hard if someone isn't doing the research or asking the right people to unintentionally screw up a historical aspect of that mystifying comics group.
Did you post anything for them to make the proper corrections to the article Bchat?
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Just so everyone knows... I love Kirby emulators... I see absolutely nothing wrong with admiring a style so much that your style becomes similar to the person you admire. Especially if it makes the artist feel good (and of course how could fans not appreciate it?).
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Yes my CSC post is bearing a little fruit. I am sure when time permits for some of the guys they were lend an even greater hand. They certainly have helped in showing posts or articles concerning the history. Which is pretty whirlwind at best.
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Rik Offenberger is a great artist. From the moment I saw his stuff on the cover of the first FF I knew I was going to like his stuff and designs. Very talented artist. The Comic aspect beginning of FF is a pure joy to watch.
I will have to check out his site when I get some time.
Again... and I know I say this a lot.
Thanks for all the help guys!
Les or G7...
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Yeah it really isn't hard if someone isn't doing the research or asking the right people to unintentionally screw up a historical aspect of that mystifying comics group.
Did you post anything for them to make the proper corrections to the article Bchat?
Honestly, I don't feel it's worth the time trying to contact them to tell them how wrong everything they said regarding "Centaur Comics" is. Placing Bob Kane as the head of Centaur when all he did was one story for Mahon & Cook before going-on to work for Wheeler-Nicolson shows me that they don't really care too much about being accurate in any way. It seems likely to me that they repeatedly use Kane's name for "keyword" purposes, so that their site will show-up in results when people are searching Google & other search engines.
The problem I see with a lot of "The History of Centaur Comics" articles I've seen is that people are simply repeating what someone else has already written without doing any research of their own. In the case of the Hillman site, they didn't even appear to do that, and instead just started making stuff up to suit their needs. It's kind of pointless for me to try to correct them when they don't seem to care to begin with.
Just so everyone knows... I love Kirby emulators... I see absolutely nothing wrong with admiring a style so much that your style becomes similar to the person you admire. Especially if it makes the artist feel good (and of course how could fans not appreciate it?).
I don't think there's anything wrong with drawing in Kirby's style at all, as I'm sure most (if not all) artists start-out copying someone else's style before finding their own way of doing things.
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Well that is said that they would simply drop Kane's name just for a "Keyword" or "Tag" just for Google or whatever search engine they are using.
There certainly are MORE artists worth "tagging" than Kane (and that is by no means any sort of insult - As stated previously I LOVE "Case of the Missing Heir" by Kane). But he only did one story by all my research... and that doesn't make him a strong contributor to Pre-Centaur or Centaur.
I still think you should send some sort of memo to them stating that maybe they should at least read this incredibly accurate article by Howard Keltner. Who as stated by others did a great service with this life long project..."
http://www.twomorrows.com/alterego/media/Golden%20Age%20Index.pdf
Well repeating what others say about the "The History of Centaur Comics" is not bad. Just so long as who they are quoting is accurate.
Not familiar with the Hillman site by simple name. But if they are continuing to mire and ink blot the "True" history of Centaur. Then that is a damn shame and likely VERY important historical aspects will be lost or caught behind the garbage they spew if indeed they are simply making stuff up to suit their needs. Plus... they should care. Someone at one time worked very hard on the stuff they are causing possible misdirection with... AGAIN... Damn shame!
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I have a tendency to somewhat emulate Byrne and Perez. If I could completely emulate either of them I most certainly would. but as you say a person's own style starts to show through.
Kieth Giffin was a GORGEOUS Kirby emulator (at his career beginning). His Defenders (Marvel) issues are my ALL-TIME Favorites in that series run. Plus it didn't hurt that he had the ever talented Klaus Jansen on the inking helm! Just beautiful stuff!
Phil Jimenez is a perfect example of a Perez emulator who went one step further. I actually think that Phil renders faces better than George.
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Well that is it for now.
Other than...
Still plugging away at working on the Centaur website and my Online Centaur Comic.
I am still working on an Intro to my Centaur Site and the History section is likely going to have to wait while I mire my way through the maze that IS the History of Centaur.
I have most of the Amazing Man profile done up with some nice word balloon/story box-less pics (Though I still haven't decided if I want to do a complete listing of all of his villains off his profile or do a separate "BRING ON THE BAD GUYS!" thing... which is standard).
Blue Lady's profile is close to complete. only because I felt Centaur needed a female representative and since she is Centaur's pretty much stand out alone Heroine that I should spotlight her first above others (NOTE: Super-Ann is basically costume-less and more stumbling across adventure and being less of an actual crime fighter).
The site will likely spotlight the characters I absolutely know first. Unfortunately with characters like Arrow, Fantom, Masked Marvel and a few obscure ones. I do not at this time have what I feel is enough accurate info to do a full profile (as I do with characters like Airman, Amazing Man, Blue Lady etc). Though they will get one and it will list the basics (Such as I do have Arrow #1 & #3 so I do know the character). I would just hate to miss something important that got lost in the shuffle of me not having certain stories. I do not have a lot of stories by them, so I would rather stay dry accurate then enthusiastically wrong.
I have all of the comics names listed and their dates. Though I doubt I am going to do a Cover section (as I can just refer them to GCD - for the record I do have all the covers on disk just in case a site like GCD folds - "doubtful!").
I have a decent Host site so that is good.
Plus likely when I get my Centaur Online Comic going I will probably make a duplicate site dedicated to the heroes in my features and the changes/alternations I have made or had to make to them. Which will be listed in Bold Lettering that I made said changes and that they are my own and not historically a part of the character (Such as the Protectors stuff from Malibu is) That way NO ONE in their right mind takes what is on that site as fact in relation to the ACTUAL history of whatever PD character I decide to use. Because unfortunately some modifications to stories are going to have to be done in order for it to make a bit of sense (Such as a less destroyed New York from the Shark feature or a retrofitting of the Amazing Man story where Pearl Harbor is destroyed - at the time of the story's writing... Japan wasn't our enemy... and even up until they surprise attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec 7 1941).
All of that is of course something for an entirely different post. Which I should at least get a comic online before I start blatting about it.
So that's it for now.
Cya
G7/Les
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I still think you should send some sort of memo to them stating that maybe they should at least read this incredibly accurate article by Howard Keltner. Who as stated by others did a great service with this life long project..."
I'ld be more interested in spending my time helping someone who wants to get it right, rather than waste time with people who simply don't care.
Well repeating what others say about the "The History of Centaur Comics" is not bad. Just so long as who they are quoting is accurate.
The problem is that people are quoting the same stories over and over. They see something somewhere, write an article, that article gets quoted (or misquoted) on a website, which in turn gets quoted somewhere else and the whole thing spirals out-of-control without anyone along the way saying "this piece of information right here might not be right, maybe I should check this out". For example, anytime I see the name "Fred Gardner" noted as being the owner or co-owner of Centaur, I know someone didn't do any homework at all and are just repeating what they read somewhere else.
Not familiar with the Hillman site by simple name. But if they are continuing to mire and ink blot the "True" history of Centaur. Then that is a damn shame and likely VERY important historical aspects will be lost or caught behind the garbage they spew if indeed they are simply making stuff up to suit their needs. Plus... they should care. Someone at one time worked very hard on the stuff they are causing possible misdirection with... AGAIN... Damn shame!
To be fair, I hit upon the Hillman site on (something like) page 20 of a Google search, so they're not popping-up right away when people are looking for info on the Centaur group of books.
I have a tendency to somewhat emulate Byrne and Perez. If I could completely emulate either of them I most certainly would. but as you say a person's own style starts to show through.
Kieth Giffin was a GORGEOUS Kirby emulator (at his career beginning). His Defenders (Marvel) issues are my ALL-TIME Favorites in that series run. Plus it didn't hurt that he had the ever talented Klaus Jansen on the inking helm! Just beautiful stuff!
Phil Jimenez is a perfect example of a Perez emulator who went one step further. I actually think that Phil renders faces better than George.
Giffen sprang to my mind when I was thinking of Kirby-like artists, although he's far removed from that style now. Jimenez, Perez & Jose Garcia-Lopez all have a simlar enough style that I couldn't tell them apart with only a quick glance.
Still plugging away at working on the Centaur website and my Online Centaur Comic.
Looking forward to seeing both.
I am still working on an Intro to my Centaur Site and the History section is likely going to have to wait while I mire my way through the maze that IS the History of Centaur.
I'm sure someone out there knows more than I do, but if there are any questions you have that I could answer, I'ld be happy to help-out a little.
Blue Lady's profile is close to complete. only because I felt Centaur needed a female representative and since she is Centaur's pretty much stand out alone Heroine that I should spotlight her first above others (NOTE: Super-Ann is basically costume-less and more stumbling across adventure and being less of an actual crime fighter).
Don't forget "Jane, The Magician From Mars", the company's first superheroine, appearing in the early issues of Amazing-Man Comics 7-11. Martin Filchock, Super-Ann's creator, seemed (to me at least) to be geared more towards light-hearted adventure. Perhaps had he been able to continue working on Super-Ann for a few more months or another year, she would have progressed into more of a crime-fighting sidekick of Mighty Man.
I have all of the comics names listed and their dates. Though I doubt I am going to do a Cover section (as I can just refer them to GCD - for the record I do have all the covers on disk just in case a site like GCD folds - "doubtful!").
The GCD is ok for covers, but you could easily provide better images by using the Heritage auction site or grabbing pictures from eBay auctions, the Collector's Society's Centaur thread and DCM's files. My thought is that if people are going to go to this site because it focuses on Centaur, they might want to see a decent cover gallery, too, without being directed away to another site.
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I find Jane the Magician from Mars to be insanely erratic... and I have a hard time getting through it (I have mind you).
I don't consider her to be a deep part of the Heroic side of Mystery Men as I see her more as a Alternate Earth kind of... whatever she is... Sci-Fi chick. Aside from the fact that she is (X-MEN: Phoenix level) over powered.
She is my LEAST favorite Chara from the Centaur line and though I will do a profile on her (as I have her entire story run)... She is not high on my list for getting at. Super-Ann will appear before her and I'd likely put Dopey Day up before her. HEH!
I actually have to say Magician from Mars is probably in my opinion the worst series to appear in all of Centaur books.
The Iron Skull seems to bounce around from the future 50s back to the Forties. Which is odd... but I will do the best I can with him. He I think had THE BEST and most diverse villains.
Well... for some reason my Helvictia font has disappeared from my computer and I can't seem to read the Golden Age Index I have... dunno what happened to it... Odd that!
G7/Les
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I like The Magician from Mars (who predates all of comics' superheroines, by the way). The only thing I don't like is the fact that her story was never finished. I also find her story to be a more interesting character than a fair amount of what the company offered.
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I also find the Magician From Mars fascinating, and would love to see her story wrapped up somewhere. There's just something fun about her that overcomes, at least for me, the odd logic lapses in her overall story. And her powers are actually closer to Firestorm's than Phoenix', since she can reorder matter, but seems to have no telepathic abilities at all. It's characters like Phoenix, who always knows what everyone is thinking, or Franklin Richards, who added precognition to his reality altering abilities who are grossly over powered--Jane Gem-35 can be surprised or caught off guard, and that keeps her from being unstoppable.
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In the case of Jane Gem-35 (Magician from Mars). I guess it is you say tomato I say tomato. lol
She just plain isn't to my liking is all, I suppose. But I do recognize that she is the FIRST female Super-Heroine... I think.
ANYHOW...
Just a bit of an update on both the CENTAUR WEBSITE and my CENTAUR COMIC thing.
Took me a bit longer to figure out exactly how I wanted to do a Centaur Site and even longer on how I was going to configure it or have the layouts appear (especially considering I am using a free site, Which means I actually have to be stuck with in some cases some uncreative layouts).
I Have got the initial stuff done and prepped. Hoping to have at least 20 characters listed on it before I hand out the website addy.
I think I modified the Amazing Man page about six times, before I finally landed on a design that I liked.
I am still writing the history bit on Centaur and it is also taking quite a while (It seems kinda complex to me for some reason). Kinda hard not to sound like everyone else that has done a write up on Centaur.
With this site I want to focus on the characters and not so much the creators except in the history part (and then again not so strongly) I don't have time to do write ups on all the Golden Age Writers and Artists (Though I do think there is a site that does indeed list many of the Golden Age creators that I might just ask permission to put links too - Which I can't see being a problem).
It is difficult to write on some of the characters.
Like Amazing Man, Fantom, Arrow etc... has a pretty full history with Aman at least or minimal of 33 stories that I am aware of. So listing his every adventure is kinda hard and would likely take a personal site dedicated to him - But who knows... maybe as time goes on. I can just simply expand on it once I am satisfied with the vast array of characters that appear in the other Centaur Features.
Whereas doing a write up on Blue Lady or characters with less stories (Electric Ray, Rainbow, Solarman etc) is pretty simple (Blue Lady appeared in the final three issues of Amazing Man Comics #24-26).
I will do stuff on the characters I have visuals for first. Which is plenty... but I would never turn down an offer of seeing more or all of them - the last post listed some Characters, Places or possible events that sound interesting.
The Making of this Centaur Site is competing with doing my comic on Centaur Characters. Which is the primary reason I haven't posted here in a bit (So sorry for the lack of a status update).
My Comic is going to be an Anthology of stories (just like actual Centaur Comics was) and I will try to fit in shorter stories of the happenings of other heroes besides which every two I decide to feature in the longer running ones (likely 12 pages for each lead - 5 to 7 for back up features).
Status on that is:
1) Amazing Man is partially designed and written (still tweaking it though - Lots of big ole brawling in it).
2) Solarman story is completely written and all the thumbnails are ready to be laid out on actual pages.
3)Black Panther and Blue Lady appear in a feature together (called AMAZING TEAM-UPS!) and that is completely written and most of the thumbnails are done.
I am having a bit of a internal battle with the 4th feature. As I have several stories all ready to go.
Likely contender is going to be Vapo-Man (just cause he has a bad ass costume!... plus his Golden age story was never completed).
The 5th feature may well be a Villain feature (Which I have been strongly considering). Likely short (3-4 pages). but there are so many Centaur Heroes that need to see the light of Day (such as one of my personal favorites - Plymo the Rubber Man, Shark, Mighty Man (with Super-Ann), Minimidget, Iron Skull... blah blah blah... lol).
BUT... with only Five features (plus whatever pin-ups I decide to do),. that only leaves so much room.
Anyhow that is an UPDATE of sorts.
Cya
G7/Les
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GL with the project Les!
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I am anxious to see it Les. You may want to see if AC Comics wants to publish some or all of it. They may not pay but may give you some exposure using it as fillers.
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Yoc - Thanks!
I am very surprised at all the assistance I have gotten about setting up not only a website.
For the Online Comic I have also had a lot of decent people pointing me in various avenues to explore. So... Still looking for a host site. But As long as I start uploading by the end of the month. I should be okay.
Narfstar - AC Comics is interested in stuff like that?
I wasn't aware they took new submissions on Golden Age Stuff. Interesting.
Maybe I will post the first issue and then send them a Heads up... see what they think.
Insofar as the Comic goes... I am not one of those guys that is going to post 1 page at a time. I will post complete stories at one time and if it can be done the entire Anthology at once. Which likely means a Comic only appearing once a month... but that is pretty standard.
I also have some experimentation I am going to try to make it more web/reader friendly.
Cya guys.
Les/G7
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If they could use it free they might want to include a chapter with their reprints.
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AC Comics hasn't published a lot of new GA superhero stories recently, but they did publish two issues of a Green Lama series in 2007-08 by James Ritchey (with a "0" issue done by Bill Black), so it would seem that they aren't against publishing new stories.
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Again I will most certainly check it out.
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Well I just finished my image snatch from every single Centaur that I own.
So Every character, villain and extra has a clear image of them (Some I had to tamper with to clear up colors or partial body shots. But I only used the original artist's strokes to make any alternations (using a cut and paste method). Plus as possibly stated previously... there are no word boxes or balloons in any of them. just the characters, objects or places.
That at least gives me a full image selection for a decent web page (without the word balloons breaking it up).
Cya
G7/Les
Anyone have a bead on a possible upload of FUNNY PICTURE STORIES v1 1 or AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES v1 #4?
for Centaur? Just curious.
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Sorry about the extreme delay on any sort of an update on my CENTAUR projects. BEEN pretty busy.
Still hammering away at the comic when I can... but actually haven't had a lot of time to put into it recently (and unfortunately).
Still searching out a host site for the Online Comic... haven't really found any that really grab my attention. Though it was suggested that I possibly use wordpress.com, As they have a decent site.
I have thought about either using Bravenet or 50Megs for the Comic as well. Which will likely host my Website as well. 50Megs gives me a lot of room to put at least quite a bit of images on there. But I might have to make a new Website for each comic if the page count keeps growing like it has been (So far I have at least 12 stories I want to tell about separate characters - Not including the continuing adventures of the characters - biggest factor is still remaining as true to the characters as they were presented in the comics they originally appeared in).
The CENTAUR Website (none of my artwork will appear on it. It will only be original artwork from the strips of the characters) is up... I just haven't posted it yet... kinda working on the bugs. Only have Three feature Characters on it so far (Amazing Man, Blue Lady and the beginnings of the Centaur Clock), A listing for the books from Centaur, an A-Z listing of characters I wish to eventually feature and for the moment an invisible History and Links page until I can find enough links (such as this place) to post in it... I am not exactly happy with my intro page. So I want to do something a bit more colorful. Thought about a image montage. Not sure yet.
So that is that. Still plugging away... dunno why I thought it would be easier... lol
Cya
Les/G7