Writers / Artists: Gil Kane
Profile of Bernie Wrightson by Bruce Jones, profile of John Stanley by Don Phelps, auto-bio by Frank Thorne, article about the annual costume parade by Jim Burns.
Green Lantern history, interview with Mart & Carrie Nodell, interview with Jack Mendelsohn, interview with Betty Tokar ("the woman who probably inspired Betty Cooper"), letterer Abe Kanegson, interview with Rudi Franke, more.
Feature on Asterix, Gary Groth interviews Gil Kane.
Roughly 8 × 10¾"
"Maus and Other Topics" by Harvey Pekar, interview with Mark Evanier, Robert Crumb and Gil Kane in discussion.
A few artists are unidentified: Daredevil on p. 30, Submariner on p. 32, Thor on p. 34, Batman on p. 35
Contents include an interview with Dave Sim and tributes to Burne Hogarth and Jerry Siegel.
Contains a one-page Harvey Kurtzman/MAD tribute comic by David Tosh and Mark Stokes.
Scheduled guests included Forrest J. Ackerman, Sergio Aragones, Mike Allred, Clive Barker, Daniel Clowes, Mark Evanier, Ray Harryhausen, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Joe Linsner, Scott McCloud, Julius Schwartz, Mark Schultz, Reed Waller, Larry Welz, Al Williamson, Bill Willingham, Jim Woodring, Bob Burden, Brian Biggs, Steve Englehart, Gary Groth, Hanther, Denis Kitchen, Jeff Rovin, David Spurlock and many others.
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Interviews with Mike Kaluta, Vaughn Bode, Tom Sutton, John Severin, Bernie Wrightson, and Jeff Jones. Strips by Steve Hickman, Jim Miller, Vaughn Bode. “The EC Answer to Comic Book Originality” by Meade Frierson III.
The second image is simply a color scan of the original cover painting.
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Interview with Len Wein & Marv Wolfman, interview with E. Nelson Bridwell, 1975 Comic Art Convention report, more.
Editorial features include:
Cover by Gil Kane.
Debut of CRITIQUE fanzine and comix review column, with reviews by James Van Hise, Mark Burbey, Andy Warner and Jack Reid.
“PULPS — ERA OF ADVENTURE” by JVH and Robert Weinberg.
“RBCC INFORMATION CENTER” by Raymond Miller.
“COMIC COLLECTOR’S COMMENTS” by Howard P. Siegel, including a FANDOM PROFILE of Bob Overstreet, and a salute to Don Newton who had recently turned pro.
“THE CLIFFHANGERS” by Earl Blair, Jr.
“THE WILLIAMSON COLLECTOR” by JVH and Larry Bigman.
“THE KEYHOLE” by Hamilton Benedict.
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS.”
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CAPTAIN BILJO PRESENTS #2
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FANDOM ANNUAL #3
FIGHTING HERO COMICS #14
FINDER KEEPERS #1
FUNNYWORLD #14
GHOST RIDER POSTER by Frazetta
GOLDEN AGE #7
MONSTER MANIA Frazetta Poster
PHASE #1
PLG COMICS #1, 2 and 3
Steranko’s THE HISTORY OF COMICS #1
ROCKET’S BLAST SPECIAL #7
TARZAN POSTER by Burne Hogarth
THE BUYER’S GUIDE FOR COMICS FANDOM
THE COLLECTOR #26
THE GOLDEN AGE COLLECTOR #1
THE MONSTER TIMES
VOICE OF COMICDOM #17
Editorial features include:
“RBCC: The Return” by James Van Hise. “Steve Ditko in the 1950s” by JVH. “The EC Fanzines: The Second Generation” by JVH. “Sea of Blood” (comic strip) by Ron Wilber. “The Art of Comics” by Gil Kane. “Orson Welles: Pulp Writer?” by JVH, Nils Harden, Sam Moskowitz. “Highlights on the Shadow: A Folio of Art by Edd Cartier from the Shadow Pulp Magazine.”
Articles illustrated with art by Jack Davis, Steve Ditko, Reed Crandall, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, John Severin, Wally Wood, John Fantucchio, John Pound, Al Feldstein, Gil Kane, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, Burnets Hogarth, Rudy Nebres, and Margaret Brundage.
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RBCC Vol. 2, #2
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THE FANTASTIC WORLD OF H.P. LOVECRAFT
WALLY WOOD - THE SKETCH BOOK (Vanguard)
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Ads from comics sellers:
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The second scan is an insert that came with #1 promoting four-issue subscriptions.