Comic-Book Chatter

[dgriffin]

Great material. I stole a couple and retouched them slightly.

Here's "Delta Lake: After Bobbiez refused to feed Frank."




And here's "Dave stops by to chat with his grooming coach."

[dgriffin]

By the way, where the heck did the name Green Lantern supposedly come from? I barely remember it, but is that the name of the character?

[rickolney]

Jul 31, 2008 6:44:27 GMT -5 @dgriffin said:

By the way, where the heck did the name Green Lantern supposedly come from? I barely remember it, but is that the name of the character?

Yes, the character's name is Green Lantern. The original character was created by the same man that created the Pillsbury Doughboy, believe it or not. That man's name was Marty (Martin) Nodell.

Here is a picture of Marty and his wife, Carrie. I had the pleasure of talking with him a number of times over the later part of his life. I actually was surprised to learn that guys that worked in the comic book industry back in the 1940s and 1950s were ashamed of what and how they made money back then. I guess it wasn't socially acceptable in a lot of circles. Many just explained that they worked in the advertising business. Marty didn't really draw Green Lantern for very long, but the character sold comics so DC kept the property in motion continuously from then to present.

In the later end of Marty's life, he and Carrie discovered just how many fans (of all ages) that he/they had. It was always fun to see them reacting to the appreciation shown him for his creativity so long ago.

I have his autograph on some of my oldest Green Lantern comics. Not on the cover though. That would take away from the grade value of the comic. Marty & Carrie were great people!

[dgriffin]

Some of these guys were characters. They were all hard working. One of our local heroes down here is Joe Sinnott, who inked for Marvel and did the Fantastic Four stuff.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sinnott

Wiki says he still does the Spiderman Sunday strip.

[rickolney]

Hey Dave,
I know Joe. We had him and his wife in Utica back in 1996 at a comic book convention held at the Radisson. Yes, Joe was Stan Lee's artist on the Spider-Man strip featured around the country in newspapers(of class). lol

He's also a huge baseball fan! You can find him at Cooperstown every time there is something going on. He's a gentleman.

[dgriffin]

Yes, I've met him and, although I can't think of who it is at the moment, an acquaintance is married to one of his kids.

[rickolney]

So the general assumption with comic books and old paper items is that they are priceless. That isn't the case. What happened to the hobbies of stamp & coin collecting has happened to comic books.