[Astaldo711]

I haven't noticed many recent posts by JVJ. Is he still puttering about?

[JonTheScanner]

Jim was in Paris until a week or so back.

[Astaldo711]

Oh, just wondering where he was. I'm used to seeing his bearded face on nearly every post I see and it looked kind of lonely without it.

[JVJ]

I'm here just waiting for some scanners to finish their current batches and get some more.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[JVJ]

Oh, just wondering where he was. I'm used to seeing his bearded face on nearly every post I see and it looked kind of lonely without it.

I'm just REALLY REALLY busy, Astaldo. Right now I'm trying to unravel the mystery of Temerson/Holyoke/Continental/L.B. Cole with Ken Quattro, Jim Amash and Hames Ware, while simultaneously trying to update and define the definitive Matt Baker checklist with Alberto Becatini and Jim Amash. Life goes on (in the key of D, as John Hartford once claimed...)

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[narfstar]

A lot of work Jim but you know you love it  If you have looked at MY DEAL posts by InsertMedia he is writing a theses on comics as art and culture. Matt Baker is a good example of a true artist.

[Astaldo711]

I think he wouldn't need to look any further than Jim. If he picked your brain for 5 minutes I think he'd have his thesis.

[JVJ]

When I think of comics, I don't think of characters or companies or culture. What I think of is a lot of PEOPLE working at creating things. My interests are 100% in the real world, trying to understand just how this medium was created and how the individuals involved interacted with it. I could talk forever on just how (it appears) that Matt Baker wended his way from a talented apprentice in the Iger Shop in 1944 to dashing out sloppy pencils for the Vince Colletta factory in 1960. It's a fascinating story and I hope this upcoming book will do him justice.

Just as fascinating is the story of Ray Hermann, which I hope that someday someone will tell completely. IF anybody can ever figure it out.

So, if you wonder why I'm not here so much, it's because I'm pretty much stuck in the real world.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[John C]

So, if you wonder why I'm not here so much, it's because I'm pretty much stuck in the real world.

Gah, I hate that place!  That's why my new job is hidden inside a lab.  I'm in multiple cocoons of unreality, then escape home.

[narfstar]

Jim I am interested in the GA guys who resurfaced in the SA. I would like to know more about Stanley Morse and Myron Fass and the making of the Milson company. Israel Waldman's story is also of interst to me

[darkmark]

Or, in the case of Fass, maybe you wouldn't.

[narfstar]

Or, in the case of Fass, maybe you wouldn't.

Why not?

[JVJ]

Or, in the case of Fass, maybe you wouldn't.

Why not?

Probably DM means that most of Fass's stuff was pretty lame, narf, if not downright bad. What is it about Milson and/or Morse and/or IW that you find fascinating? Not that I know much about them, you understand. I find them all pretty forgetable.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[narfstar]

I do not find their output quality facinating but their resurgence in the SA. Now I do think that Fatman is a worthy feature. I was primarily a SA collector with a facination with the odd and eclectic. That is my interest in those little companies that popped up. I look at the SA with the eyes of a ten year old. I loved Captain Marvel "split/xam" I loved those crazy Dell horror monster hero books. I even loved Super Green Beret. No matter how bad they may objectively be they will always be fantastic to me.

[Astaldo711]

Same here. I had a couple issues of Fatman, Super Green Beret, Dells "Super Heroes" with the Fab Four and I had Dracula with that stupid purple outfit of his.

[DennyWilson]

I agree, I perfer the older films to the newer ones I'm a little younger than some of you here (41)but I ate the stuff up "Creature Double feature", "Mystery Theater", "Abbott & Costello", "Scifi Movie Theater","Movies Till Dawn" ,etc.

[narfstar]

The reporter in Corman's Night of the Living Dead is Chilly Billy Cardilly the late Saturday night host of Chiller Theater a double feature of cheesy 50's scifi and horror. He would put on skits in between my favorite was a guy who would cause other people to not be able to lie.

[Astaldo711]

Many of the new horror movies seem to be just for the shock value. I remember watching something like Terror Train or Horror Train or something like that. The movie was about a train carrying a big crate with some frozen monster in it. I remember someone trying to draw a cross on it but the chalk wouldn't write on it. I used to watch some horror series on TV with my mom when I was younger. I remember a hand coming up through the ground and a scary voice saying "chiller" or something.

[DennyWilson]

Horror express, with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing!  Excellent PD film!

Yes, It's an Excellent film - PD or otherwise, and I was surprised when I watched it the first time that Telly Savalas is in it!