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Help and Support => Links and References => Topic started by: Yoc on August 29, 2011, 04:20:51 PM
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Hi Gang,
Tilliban asked if there were any good links for comic publishers histories.
Here's what I've collected over the years. NOTE I can't guarantee the accuracy of the content of any of these.
First there's this fun article on 50's non-EC horror publishers at this following link: The Other Guys (http://wertham.webs.com/history/other_guys.html)
You'll also want to read likely everything on Richard Boucher's old 'Greats of the Goldenage' site which includes articles on several GA publishers including a two part one on Ace, Great Comics, Gernsback and Worth Publishing, Elliot/Green and Rural Home, Holyoke, Comic Magazine Company Inc., Novelty Press, Star Publications, Centaur, Chesler Pt.1
http://mysterymen.tripod.com/greats/past.htm (http://mysterymen.tripod.com/greats/past.htm)
You can find links to ALL of the old PR Publications site on their home page here - http://mysterymen.tripod.com/ (http://mysterymen.tripod.com/)
Very much worth checking out though several of the links are now dead. Richard goes by the name 'MrGoldenage' here on DCM.
Comicartville has an article section with some Fantastic reading available including a two part history of St.John and another two part one on Fox among many other fascinating features.
http://www.comicartville.com/lib.htm
Steve Rogers amazing old Golden Years site has histories for Centaur and Better/Nedor/Pines here - http://home.insightbb.com/~GoldenYears/History.html (http://home.insightbb.com/~GoldenYears/History.html)
All things MLJ are found here - http://www.mightycrusaders.net/ (http://www.mightycrusaders.net/) which includes a history of MLJ/Archie here - http://www.mightycrusaders.net/history.htm (http://www.mightycrusaders.net/history.htm)
For artist bios (comics and otherwise) you can't beat our JVJ and his great page devoted to them here -
http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm#illustopage (http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm#illustopage)
A history of Canadian superheroes can be read here - http://tinyurl.com/d4ha3b (http://tinyurl.com/d4ha3b)
Tilliban is a big horror comic fan and the best blog devoted to them (IMO) is here - http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/ (http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/)
I'll add more links as I think of them.
Enjoy!
-Yoc
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Here's one I forgot above -
Richard Wolfe's "A Brief History of Crime Comics"
Essays, articles, and excerpts
relevant to the history of crime
comics of the 1940s and 1950s.
Richard shares 3 essays on crime comics and includes a gallery.
http://www.crimeboss.com/index.shtml (http://www.crimeboss.com/index.shtml)
-Yoc
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Friardale is an essential resource for British storypapers and some comics, particularly Billy Bunter and his creator Charles Hamilton. But there are some complete issues of a weekly anthology, which will give a flavour of the comics available here well before American comics were distributed. :-
http://www.friardale.co.uk/Knockout/Knockout.htm
On the same page there is a complete annual from 1955 and it's worth a look also. These comics and the annual were a mix of humour and adventure strips and stories.
Also on the site there is a copy of an old Union Jack storypaper, with a rare team-up of Sexton Blake and Nelson Lee, 2 of a pile of British detectives.
http://www.friardale.co.uk/ESB/The%20Mystic%20Cipher%20by%20Edwy%20Searles%20Brooks.pdf