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[The Ghost Man]

Greetings all, just reaching out to the CBP community to see if anyone knows where I might find scripts the artists used in the Golden-Age to create comics from. I've looked all over and so far haven't turned up anything. I'm hoping that a few exist and weren't just rubbished because they weren't considered of any value.

[crashryan]

About physical copies of old scripts, I don't know. But a few places online have examples of GA scripting. Here's an interesting 1947 article about writing comics that Stan Lee (who?) sold to Writer's Digest. It includes a page from a Blonde Phantom story by Al Sulman along with Syd Shores' finished artwork.

https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/stan-lee-1947-guide-to-writing-and-selling-comics

[The Ghost Man]

Thanks Crashryan, this is a great start. To clarify I'm not a collector so I'm just seeking a few sources preferably online for now. However, if a physical version with good content came up, I wouldn't reject it out of hand. If there were any digitized that were used during the seminal Marvel reconstruction in the 60's they'd be cool as well.

I'm pulling this together for both research into my personal vintage comic reformation project as well as making it available to other like-minded content creators at my artists academy blogsite.

[crashryan]

Here's another snippet. It's a (heavily-edited) script page and the corresponding art from a late-1940s Tomahawk comic. I don't know where this material originally came from. This reprint came from one of George Henderson's fanzines of the early 70s.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/535013630738754201/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/535013630738754204/

[The Ghost Man]

Thanks for seeking those out crashryan, those were helpful.

[The Ghost Man]

My outstanding news of the day! Today I was able to secure a Holy Grail in the form of a 5 page script by Gardner Fox for the 1939 issue of Detective Comics #30 "The Return of Doctor Death". Positively over the moon at just uncovering this after so many years of searching for Golden-Age scripts. I'll be happily adding it to the TVIA Library soon.

[Yoc]

That's amazing news!
Congrats on the find GM. 

[BoldVenturePress]

Most of these scripts probably got trashed or burned after publication. New York City winters can be rough, so scripts made good kindle.

Allen Bellman recalled inking Mickey Spillane's first "Jap-Buster Johnson" story. He shook excess ink off the brush and onto the script. He told me if he had any idea how famous Spillane would become, he would have saved the script.