Neal Adams' work was made to impress and boy did it! I first read his breakout newspaper strip Ben Casey in the Menomenee Falls Gazette and sadly that was also the last time I read it. Due to whatever circumtances this strip has never been reprintable, which is too bad becaus eit was not only very well drawn, but also a very engaging soap opera strip with a little bit of social comentaru thrown in. I am most sad that I never got to read the Sunday only color episodes And collecting them is almost impossible, due to price and lack of supply. So, here is what I had to work with - the first few weeks as shown in the Gazette.
Showing posts with label Ben Casey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben Casey. Show all posts
Saturday, December 02, 2017
Something To Read Over The Holidays
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Neal Adams' work was made to impress and boy did it! I first read his breakout newspaper strip Ben Casey in the Menomenee Falls Gazette and sadly that was also the last time I read it. Due to whatever circumtances this strip has never been reprintable, which is too bad becaus eit was not only very well drawn, but also a very engaging soap opera strip with a little bit of social comentaru thrown in. I am most sad that I never got to read the Sunday only color episodes And collecting them is almost impossible, due to price and lack of supply. So, here is what I had to work with - the first few weeks as shown in the Gazette.
Neal Adams' work was made to impress and boy did it! I first read his breakout newspaper strip Ben Casey in the Menomenee Falls Gazette and sadly that was also the last time I read it. Due to whatever circumtances this strip has never been reprintable, which is too bad becaus eit was not only very well drawn, but also a very engaging soap opera strip with a little bit of social comentaru thrown in. I am most sad that I never got to read the Sunday only color episodes And collecting them is almost impossible, due to price and lack of supply. So, here is what I had to work with - the first few weeks as shown in the Gazette.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Calling Dr. Adams
Neal Adams' Ben Casey was one of the main attractions in the newspaper weekly The Mennomannee Falls Gazette. I have not got a complete collection (I should have gotten them when you couldn't give them away on ebay), but Neal Adams' superb artowrk and the gripping storylines make it a favorite for me. The Sundays were never reprinted and I would certainly appreciate a book like that. Here are a couple of very early Sundays. These may even be the first ones, at least in the paper I was looking at they were. There was one paper missing, so the first one here could be the second one as well. Anyway, it's a nice run. How good would they look in color and cleaned up?
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Calling All Fans
Thursday Comic Strip Day.
I ran into a great run of Sundays of Neal Adam's soap opera tour de force Ben Casey. Older collectors like me, have the complete daily run from the great Menommenee Fals Gazette reprint paper. The Sundays of this strip told a seperate story and are never reprinted, not even in magazine form. One of the reasons may be that thye o not do very well in black and white (except if you have one of th many orginals floating around), because it was colored as richly as it was drawn. The run I have here can get quite muddy sometimes. What makes it to good, is the fact that it is a run (and I can get more, up till the end of the strip in mid 1966) that consists completely of the three tier version. and it's complete, so for the first time in a long time you can actually read the stories.
After clipping a long run of Chris Welkin, Planeteer and iscovering that it was represented in full on www.ilovecomixarchive.com I went to have a look at what they had from Ben Casey. And indeed they did have all the dailies, but only a smattering of Sundays and many two tiers as well. I have represented a couple here, so you can see how much less impressive these two tier versions are. I don't think that was the case with all strip, but sadly many of them suffored that way. Also included here are a couple of tabloid versions of Ben Casey Sundays from Ilovecomix (which I highly recommend if you want to see more), which had one less panel than the three tier, in a unique cutting version I have never seen before. See if you can spot it. So who's doing the 92 page color book and what's the delay?
Thursday Comic Strip Day.
I ran into a great run of Sundays of Neal Adam's soap opera tour de force Ben Casey. Older collectors like me, have the complete daily run from the great Menommenee Fals Gazette reprint paper. The Sundays of this strip told a seperate story and are never reprinted, not even in magazine form. One of the reasons may be that thye o not do very well in black and white (except if you have one of th many orginals floating around), because it was colored as richly as it was drawn. The run I have here can get quite muddy sometimes. What makes it to good, is the fact that it is a run (and I can get more, up till the end of the strip in mid 1966) that consists completely of the three tier version. and it's complete, so for the first time in a long time you can actually read the stories.
After clipping a long run of Chris Welkin, Planeteer and iscovering that it was represented in full on www.ilovecomixarchive.com I went to have a look at what they had from Ben Casey. And indeed they did have all the dailies, but only a smattering of Sundays and many two tiers as well. I have represented a couple here, so you can see how much less impressive these two tier versions are. I don't think that was the case with all strip, but sadly many of them suffored that way. Also included here are a couple of tabloid versions of Ben Casey Sundays from Ilovecomix (which I highly recommend if you want to see more), which had one less panel than the three tier, in a unique cutting version I have never seen before. See if you can spot it. So who's doing the 92 page color book and what's the delay?
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