The Sunday pages of Stan Lee and Joe Maneely's Mrs. Lyon's Cubs are very hard to come by. For my article in Alter Ego #150 I had to borrow a couple of coor scans fro Michael Vassallo, who is luck te have a few. Last yera I found an onlibe source for the microfiche version, in bacl and white.
Showing posts with label Joe Maneely. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Maneely. Show all posts
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Hits and Mrs.
Sunday Repeating Day.
The Sunday pages of Stan Lee and Joe Maneely's Mrs. Lyon's Cubs are very hard to come by. For my article in Alter Ego #150 I had to borrow a couple of coor scans fro Michael Vassallo, who is luck te have a few. Last yera I found an onlibe source for the microfiche version, in bacl and white.
The Sunday pages of Stan Lee and Joe Maneely's Mrs. Lyon's Cubs are very hard to come by. For my article in Alter Ego #150 I had to borrow a couple of coor scans fro Michael Vassallo, who is luck te have a few. Last yera I found an onlibe source for the microfiche version, in bacl and white.
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Man Oh Man
Friday Comic Book Day.
In the second week of December Alter Ego #150 will be available in shops and as a download from the website of it's publisher Twomorrows. It's a special issue celebrating the 95th birthday of Stan Lee. Not only does it have a new and rare interview with The Man himself, there is also a huge article by me about Stan's efforts to get out of comics between 1956 and 1962. It is based in part on his correspondence with his agent Toni Mendez, which has been at Ohio State University for about thirty years. I could not use any actual quotes from many of the correspondence, but I paraphrased averything that was important. And Stan himself gave us permission to use his own letters, as well as a report hij wife Joan did for his newspaper strip Mrs. Lyons' Cubs. The history of that strip, as well as Willie Lumpkin is described in the article, with many new art samples from various different sources. There are also samples of newspaper strips that did not make it, including the synopsis of a soap opera strip Stan tried to do with Vince Colletta. And to top it all, I found an unknown selfpublished book at yet another university.
Stan's partner in Mrs. Lyons' Cubs was Joe Maneely, who like Stan was trying to find new jobs when all around them the comic industry seemed to collapse. Here is one of the few stories Joe Maneely did for DC, not long before he accidentally fell of a commuter train between New York and Philadelphia and died far to young. Stan tried to continue Mrs. Lyons with Al Hartley, but that never really got off the ground.
In the second week of December Alter Ego #150 will be available in shops and as a download from the website of it's publisher Twomorrows. It's a special issue celebrating the 95th birthday of Stan Lee. Not only does it have a new and rare interview with The Man himself, there is also a huge article by me about Stan's efforts to get out of comics between 1956 and 1962. It is based in part on his correspondence with his agent Toni Mendez, which has been at Ohio State University for about thirty years. I could not use any actual quotes from many of the correspondence, but I paraphrased averything that was important. And Stan himself gave us permission to use his own letters, as well as a report hij wife Joan did for his newspaper strip Mrs. Lyons' Cubs. The history of that strip, as well as Willie Lumpkin is described in the article, with many new art samples from various different sources. There are also samples of newspaper strips that did not make it, including the synopsis of a soap opera strip Stan tried to do with Vince Colletta. And to top it all, I found an unknown selfpublished book at yet another university.
Stan's partner in Mrs. Lyons' Cubs was Joe Maneely, who like Stan was trying to find new jobs when all around them the comic industry seemed to collapse. Here is one of the few stories Joe Maneely did for DC, not long before he accidentally fell of a commuter train between New York and Philadelphia and died far to young. Stan tried to continue Mrs. Lyons with Al Hartley, but that never really got off the ground.
Saturday, January 07, 2017
Clueless Joe
Friday Comic Book Day.
Timely/Atlas star Joe Maneely did not always or only work for Stan Lee's outfit. He started at Street and Smith, where he worked alongside his hero Edd Cartier. In Alter Ego #105 (Roy Thomas' unmissable fanzine) African-American artist Cal Massey talks about Maneely and how he had a studio in the same building as the Hussian Art School he went to. Massay did some work (actually quite a lot) for an lesser known comic book publisher called Cross, mainly for their crime book The Perfect Crime. I have shown some of it in an earlier post. W In the interview Massey mentions that he also recommended Maneely to go to St. John's but I haven't found any of his work there yet. Was he misremembering Maneely's sale to The Perfect Crime?
Timely/Atlas star Joe Maneely did not always or only work for Stan Lee's outfit. He started at Street and Smith, where he worked alongside his hero Edd Cartier. In Alter Ego #105 (Roy Thomas' unmissable fanzine) African-American artist Cal Massey talks about Maneely and how he had a studio in the same building as the Hussian Art School he went to. Massay did some work (actually quite a lot) for an lesser known comic book publisher called Cross, mainly for their crime book The Perfect Crime. I have shown some of it in an earlier post. W In the interview Massey mentions that he also recommended Maneely to go to St. John's but I haven't found any of his work there yet. Was he misremembering Maneely's sale to The Perfect Crime?
Monday, September 05, 2016
How Much Wood Would A Woodcut Cut?
Friday Comic Book Day.
Michael (Doc) Vassallo told me that Joe Maneely started at Street and Smith before joining the crew at Timely and becoming Stan Lee's favorite artist in the fifties. Since the copyright status of the Street and Smith books is unsure (as many of their titles have copyrighted characters such as The Shadow and Doc Savage), most of these stories are unseen. But here are a couple that are safe to share. Together with a story by sf illustratort Edd Cartier, whose woodcut style was a huge influence on Maneely.
Michael (Doc) Vassallo told me that Joe Maneely started at Street and Smith before joining the crew at Timely and becoming Stan Lee's favorite artist in the fifties. Since the copyright status of the Street and Smith books is unsure (as many of their titles have copyrighted characters such as The Shadow and Doc Savage), most of these stories are unseen. But here are a couple that are safe to share. Together with a story by sf illustratort Edd Cartier, whose woodcut style was a huge influence on Maneely.
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