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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2017 14:09:05 GMT -5
George RR Martin (he of Game of Thrones and Wild Cards fame) wrote the Dr. Weird strip (with art by a pre-professional Jim Starlin) for a comic zine in the late 60s/early 70s. It was collected imnto aone shot special in the 90s when Game of Thrones was first making it big as a novel...  Marjorie Liu was a well established and best-selling young adult and sci-fi author before she started writing for Marvel. Paul Cornell was a well establihed novelist before starting in comics as well. Greg Rucka had published many of the novels in the Atticus Kodiak series before he did White Out with Steve Lieber and then onto DC, Marvel and things like Queen & Country. Then there's Brad Meltzer, who did the Identity Crisis mini and a JLA series for DC, bu he was a mainstream thriller author and best seller before doing so. Jonathan Lethem and Ta-nehesi Coates were well known writers in literary circles before they did anything for Marvel. -M |
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Post by shaxper on Apr 4, 2017 14:17:56 GMT -5
Ellison did Detective Comics #567 and King wrote the introduction for Batman #400. What was the Gilberton Company? I'd love to know more about this. Gilberton was the publisher of Classics Illustrated. Ah, got it. And here I thought they'd actually produced some sort of Platinum Age pulps I hadn't heard of  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 4, 2017 14:54:21 GMT -5
Gilberton was the publisher of Classics Illustrated. Ah, got it. And here I thought they'd actually produced some sort of Platinum Age pulps I hadn't heard of Sorry. Didn't mean to be as big a jerk as usual. Gothic romance: War:   Beefcake: Good girl art:  ![]()  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2017 15:02:42 GMT -5
Does anyone know if Gardner Fox was writing for the pulps before he started writing for comics? I know he did both and published several novels later in his career, but am not sure if he got his start in the pulps or in comics.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 4, 2017 15:28:42 GMT -5
Does anyone know if Garner Fox was writing for the pulps before he started writing for comics? I know he did both and published several novels later in his career, but am not sure if he got his start in the pulps or in comics. -M Gardner (with a d) Fox had fifteen short stories published from the mid-40s through the early 50s that appeared in the SF pulp, predominantly Planet Stories. I'm not sure whether he wasn't prolific because comics took up most of his time, or because his prose wasn't very good (I've not read any of his short stories that I recall). His biggest year was 1946 when he had four short stories published. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 4, 2017 16:30:13 GMT -5
Stephen King's first published work was for comic fanzines in the mid 1960's. 3 chapters of an unfinished story was serialized in Comics Review. In 1966 he revised the story as a complete tale and had it published in Marv Wolfman's fanzine Stories Of Suspense
Harlan Ellison proved some plots and outline writing for a bunch of comics. The story Rock God was published in Creepy Magazine , drawn by Neal Adams. There was a Marvel Daredevil story drawn by David Mazzarelli. The classic Hulk story were he shrinks to a microscopic world and meets Queen Jarella came from a Harlan Ellison idea. Sorry-don't have the issue #s for these
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Post by chaykinstevens on Apr 4, 2017 16:57:05 GMT -5
Harlan Ellison wrote a couple, didn't he? And maybe Stephen King? Ellison did Detective Comics #567 and King wrote the introduction for Batman #400. Ellison also wrote another Batman strip, which Gene Ha drew, in Batman: Black and White #2. According th GCD, King wrote backup strips in American Vampire. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Apr 4, 2017 17:10:41 GMT -5
Harlan Ellison proved some plots and outline writing for a bunch of comics. The story Rock God was published in Creepy Magazine , drawn by Neal Adams. There was a Marvel Daredevil story drawn by David Mazzarelli. The classic Hulk story were he shrinks to a microscopic world and meets Queen Jarella came from a Harlan Ellison idea. Sorry-don't have the issue #s for these Rock God was in Creepy #32. The Daredevil story was in DD #208 & 209, and was co-written by another author, Arthur Byron Cover., and drawn by David Mazzucchelli. The Hulk story was in Avengers #88 and Incredible Hulk #140. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2017 17:33:36 GMT -5
Does anyone know if Garner Fox was writing for the pulps before he started writing for comics? I know he did both and published several novels later in his career, but am not sure if he got his start in the pulps or in comics. -M Gardner (with a d) Fox had fifteen short stories published from the mid-40s through the early 50s that appeared in the SF pulp, predominantly Planet Stories. I'm not sure whether he wasn't prolific because comics took up most of his time, or because his prose wasn't very good (I've not read any of his short stories that I recall). His biggest year was 1946 when he had four short stories published. Didn't have time to look it up earlier, but a quick look at the Speculative Fiction Database shows the Sept 1944 issue of Weird Tales as Fox's earliest published credit, but he had stories in comics as early as Action Comics #2 in 1938, so comics definitely first. Another name to note-Jim Butcher of the Dresden Files has co-written with Mark Powers a handful of original Dresden stories for Dynamite in addition to their adaptations of some of the novels. In a related turn, he did a Spider-Man prose novel called The Darkest Hours. -M |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Apr 4, 2017 17:34:52 GMT -5
Michael Moorcock wrote Michael Moorcock's Multiverse #1-12 and Tom Strong #31 & 32.
According to GCD, Harry Harrison wrote strips in All-American Men of War #8 and Star Spangled War Stories #16. He also wrote Rick Random strips in Super Detective #127, 129, 139 & 143.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 4, 2017 17:37:19 GMT -5
Michael Moorcock wrote Michael Moorcock's Multiverse #1-12 and Tom Strong #31 & 32. According to GCD, Harry Harrison wrote strips in All-American Men of War #8 and Star Spangled War Stories #16. He also wrote Rick Random strips in Super Detective #127, 129, 139 & 143. Harrison also drew a number of stories for EC. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 4, 2017 17:47:47 GMT -5
Michael Moorcock wrote Michael Moorcock's Multiverse #1-12 and Tom Strong #31 & 32. According to GCD, Harry Harrison wrote strips in All-American Men of War #8 and Star Spangled War Stories #16. He also wrote Rick Random strips in Super Detective #127, 129, 139 & 143. Harrison also drew a number of stories for EC. Yes, Harrison started as an artist and was usually paired with Wally Wood   Besides early EC, they started together for Avon Comics. Harrison did the layouts, Wood the inks |
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 4, 2017 20:33:07 GMT -5
Horror author Robert Bloch ("Psycho") wrote a Flash story for his former agent Julius Schwartz in the late '40s but didn't like working in the medium.
Patricia Highsmith, author of such psychological thrillers as "Strangers on a Train" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley," wrote The Black Terror and The Fighting Yank for Ned Pines' comics in the '40s.
Novelists Daniel Keyes ("Flowers for Algernon," made into the 1968 Oscar winner "Charly") and Mario Puzo, both of whom wrote for Martin Goodman's mens magazines, tried writing comics for Stan Lee in the '50s and early '60s but couldn't get the hang of it. Ditto playwright Bruce Jay Friedman ("Steambath").
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Post by kirby101 on Apr 4, 2017 20:40:27 GMT -5
Edmund Hamilton pulp Science Fiction author wrote for DC. He did some Superboy / Legion books I know of.
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 4, 2017 20:57:13 GMT -5
Edmund Hamilton pulp Science Fiction author wrote for DC. He did some Superboy / Legion books I know of. Also Superman, Batman, Superman *and* Batman (in World's Finest), the original Green Lantern, and much, much more. Hamilton paid bills with his comics work, allowing him to craft his serious fiction without worrying about making a living. Cei-U! I summon the Atom Age mainstay! |
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