Over at Jim Shooter’s website, the writer has posted a series of Superman comic strips that appeared in The Chattanooga News in 1939. It’s a great look at comic book history, and worth a look.
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See the simplicity of of a few well drawn and placed panels, plus a bit of dialog, equals 20 minutes of film to tell a visual story!
This is why comic strips were turned into comic books.
(I hope that this is THE Jim Shooter!)
I noticed the “McClure Newspaper Syndication” on the last panel.
They had a very solid printing history in all kinds of books and comic strips.
This is solid gold.
Of course it took a week to have all the strips appear to tell the “escape” story in full, so 20 minutes of film seems like a quicker method of story telling ;)
I always find it fascinating/amusing to see all the differences in naming/stories over the years. I don’t mean that sarcastically, either. It’s genuinely cool.
For instance, I love, in the original Fleischer cartoons, where Ma and Pa Kent don’t even exist, and the intro talks about how he grew up in an orphanage.
Didn’t Jim Shooter die of cancer back in the 80’s? I must be thinking of someone else right? Then again it is comics and no one stays dead in comics…….except Kirby.
Didn’t Jim Shooter die of cancer back in the 80′s? I must be thinking of someone else right?
Given that Shooter founded Valiant, Defiant and Broadway Comics in the 1990’s, you must be. Though I honestly can’t figure out whom…
Archie Goodwin passed in 98, due to cancer. He was Marvel EIC before Shooter (though maybe not RIGHT before…)
by modern standards, those four panels would be a two-issue story leading up to a limited series.