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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 12: Jim Lee’s Comic-Con 2019 Souvenir Book Cover!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 12 Teaser: Jim Lee's Comic-Con 2019 Souvenir Book Cover!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 11: DC Comics in the Swingin' 60s: The Go-Go Checks Gambit!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 10: Marvel Annuals Part 02: 1966-69 …

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COMING SOON! Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 10: Marvel Annuals Part 02: 1966-69 …

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 09: Marvel Annuals Part 1: 1962-65

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 13: 3 of a Kind—THUNDER Agents, Flash Gordon, and The Spirit #1s

Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 13 takes us back almost 60 years to three brand new #1 comic books that appeared on my small town newsstand in the summers of 1965 and 1966, a time when you never knew what you’d find when you visited your local newsstand.
In 1965, THUNDER Agents #1 blew me away with its stellar art and world-building by legendary artist Wallace Wood. The following summer of ’66 delivered the one-two punch of Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon and Will Eisner’s The Spirit. And none of this terrific threesome was put out by Marvel or DC! I take a look at each #1 issue, talk about the famed artists involved, and also how Jules Feiffer’s The Great Comic Book Heroes, published in ...

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 12: Jim Lee’s Comic-Con 2019 Souvenir Book Cover!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 12: Jim Lee’s Comic-Con 2019 Souvenir Book Cover!

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For 14 straight years, Gary Sassaman (that’s me!) edited and designed San Diego Comic-Con’s Souvenir Book, the full-color trade paperback given out to all attendees. In 2019, the book celebrated the event’s 50th anniversary with a once-in-a-lifetime wraparound cover pencilled by superstar artist Jim Lee (with inks by Scott Williams and colors by Alex Sinclair). Join me as I take you behind the ...

Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 12 Teaser: Jim Lee's Comic-Con 2019 Souvenir Book Cover!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 12 Teaser: Jim Lee's Comic-Con 2019 Souvenir Book Cover!

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COMING SOON! Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 12: Behind the Scenes with Jim Lee’s Comic-Con 2019 Souvenir Book cover! For 14 straight years, I edited and designed San Diego Comic-Con’s Souvenir Book, the full-color trade paperbacks given out to all attendees. In 2019, the book celebrated the event’s 50th anniversary with a once-in-a-lifetime wraparound cover pencilled by superstar artist Ji...

Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 11: DC Comics in the Swingin' 60s: The Go-Go Checks Gambit!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 11: DC Comics in the Swingin' 60s: The Go-Go Checks Gambit!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 11 explores the world of DC Comics in the mid-1960s, focusing on the year and a half when Go-Go Checks appeared on the top of each and every DC comic book! DC Comics VP Irwin Donenfeld created the Go-Go Checks to make the publisher’s books stand out on the crowded newsstands. They first appeared right around the time the Batman TV show premiered on ABC, and w...

Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 10: Marvel Annuals Part 02: 1966-69 …

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 10: Marvel Annuals Part 02: 1966-69 …

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! returns with the conclusion of our two-part series on the Marvel Annuals of the 1960s! The Marvel Age of Comics was in full bloom in the latter part of the 1960s. With an infusion of new talent-including writers Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich and artists John Romita, Gene Colan, and John Buscema-the company's 25-cent annuals shifted to all-new material in 1967 and ‘68...

COMING SOON! Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 10: Marvel Annuals Part 02: 1966-69 …

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COMING SOON! Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 10: Marvel Annuals Part 02: 1966-69 …

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! returns in early July with the second of our two-part series exploring the Marvel Annuals of the 1960s! Marvel Comics shifted into high gear in the latter part of the 1960s. With new talent like writer Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich and artists John Romita, Gene Colan, and John Buscema the company's 25-cent annuals shifted to all-new material in 1967 and ‘68. We'll ta...

Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 09: Marvel Annuals Part 1: 1962-65

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 09: Marvel Annuals Part 1: 1962-65

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! returns with our first two-part series as we explore the Marvel Annuals of the 1960s! After the premiere of Giant Superman Annual #1 in 1960, annuals thrived from both DC and Marvel for the rest of the decade. While DC’s version of an annual was a reprint-filled, 80-page, 25-center, often released TWICE a year (in the summer and around the holidays, for Superman and ...

Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episodes 9 & 10 Teaser: Marvel Annuals 1962-1968

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episodes 9 & 10 Teaser: Marvel Annuals 1962-1968

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Coming soon! Our very first Tales From My Spinner Rack two-parter! These two episodes cover the Golden Age of Silver Age annuals featuring the Marvel Annuals from 1962 through 1968 (and even a little bit into 1969), when they featured some-if not all-new material with some absolute classic stories and art. CORRECTION: Around 14;10 in, when I start talking about Fantastic Four Annual #1, I menti...

Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 08: Just Imagine! DC Comics House Ads

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 08: Just Imagine! DC Comics House Ads

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 08, “Just Imagine! DC Comics House Ads,” explores the wonderful world of the ads that sold us comic books, month after month in the 1960s. At DC, these ads were elevated to an art form mainly due to the work and creativity of one man, letterer and designer Ira Schnapp. While Marvel Comics also utilized house ads to promote upcoming and currently on-sale issue...

Tales From My Spinner Rack Episode 07: Marvel Monster Madness!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack Episode 07: Marvel Monster Madness!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 07, titled “Marvel Monster Madness!” is now available for your viewing pleasure! Making its World Premiere at WonderCon 2024 on March 30th, this re-edited and enhanced video version features my nostalgic look back at that limbo-like period of time between Atlas Comics and Marvel Comics when Martin Goodman and Stan Lee’s comic book line existed on a steady die...

Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 06: Captain America #109-116

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 06: Captain America #109-116

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 06 is here! This brand-new episode focuses on a short run of Captain America comics from 1969-issues #109 through #116-which feature a virtual who’s-who of Marvel Comics superstar artists from that period when the company was at its peak: Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, John Romita, John Buscema, and Gene Colan all contributed complete issues during this mini-run, ...

Coming Soon: Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 06!

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Coming Soon: Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 06!

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Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 06 will premiere soon here on RUclips! This brand-new episode focuses on a short run of Captain America comics from 1969-issues #109 through #116-which feature a virtual who’s-who of Marvel Comics’ superstar artists from that period when the company was at its peak: Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, John Romita, John Buscema, and Gene Colan all contributed complete i...