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Comic And Book Related => Blog and Site Links => Topic started by: gregjh on May 10, 2020, 02:58:57 AM
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A really cool youtube series that deserves more attention than it's received yet. Videos are made to a high standard. The first one I discovered was "Golden Age Ghost Rider" and it may have been that video that led me to discover this wonderful site I'm posting on right now. Love me some Tim Holt Ghost Rider!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQdtO4ybk4VwU77ZD69v63Q (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQdtO4ybk4VwU77ZD69v63Q)
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Gregjh, hi. Sounds like this might be your first post?
We usually greet people on their first post, so greetngs. Thanks for the link. An excellent resource. Now you can read the comics that the videos talk about. At least most of them. Some golden age publishers are not PD,[Public Domai] so their works are not on this site.
Welcome!
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Hi Greg - good to meetcha!
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Thanks for the tip, Greg. There's some lovely stuff on FizzFop1's site. Just don't believe all you hear on it, particularly some of the stuff about Mick Anglo and Miracle Man. It's all really well done, just inaccurate in a couple of places, but easy to get wrong, as "experts" have written the same nonsense. Miracle Man/Superhombre was nothing to do with Mr. Anglo, having been created in Spain for Editorial Ferma Barcelona in 1958 by Joan Llarch and Emilio Giralt Ferrando. It was this Spanish title that was translated into English and re-titled Miracle Man for Top Sellers in '64/'65. Well, not quite nothing as it is possible that Mr. Anglo was involved in the re-packaging of the Top sellers English reprint. Not that I can find much info. on that particular item.
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Gregjh, hi. Sounds like this might be your first post?
We usually greet people on their first post, so greetngs. Thanks for the link. An excellent resource. Now you can read the comics that the videos talk about. At least most of them. Some golden age publishers are not PD,[Public Domai] so their works are not on this site.
Welcome!
Hi there, I was here a few months ago and donated a very small amount but I lost my password and couldn't get in! My schedule is usually crazy anyway but with this lockdown I've had some quality time available to catch up on GA Ghost Rider and re-register here.
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Thanks for the tip, Greg. There's some lovely stuff on FizzFop1's site. Just don't believe all you hear on it, particularly some of the stuff about Mick Anglo and Miracle Man. It's all really well done, just inaccurate in a couple of places, but easy to get wrong, as "experts" have written the same nonsense. Miracle Man/Superhombre was nothing to do with Mr. Anglo, having been created in Spain for Editorial Ferma Barcelona in 1958 by Joan Llarch and Emilio Giralt Ferrando. It was this Spanish title that was translated into English and re-titled Miracle Man for Top Sellers in '64/'65. Well, not quite nothing as it is possible that Mr. Anglo was involved in the re-packaging of the Top sellers English reprint. Not that I can find much info. on that particular item.
Noted, and thanks for the tip. I'm just watching the "Phantom Lady" video at the moment, it seems a bit sleazy which is not what I want from my comics so I might pass on it but it's still interesting to learn about the history.
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Some years back for my blog, I did some very nice clean-ups of a pile of GHOST RIDER covers, and later, attempted to do the same with the entire run of TIM HOLT / RED MASK covers.
https://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2011/09/ghost-rider.html
Few things annoy me the way it does when Marvel fans refer to the 1967 series as "the original Ghost Rider", when apart from the identical costume and the same artist involved (Dick Ayers), they have no connection, as editor (and sometimes dialogue writer) Roy Thomas created entirely-different (and terribly-boring) characters for the new version. Magazine Enterprises editor Vincent Sullivan actually threatened Marvel publisher Martin Goodman with legal action over it, resulting in the title being cancelled abruptly, the name of their western character being changed (more than once), and a brand-new BIKER character called "Ghost Rider" being created, just so Goodman could happily continue ripping off character names from defunct publishers.
Looking back, I would have much preferred if their early-70s supernatural horror biker book had been called "JOHNNY BLAZE"-- or "HELL RIDER".