Introduction to BONE!

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I noticed that there are almost no posts here for Jeff Smith's brilliant BONE. There were a few on the old scans_daily, but on the new one, there's only been one post so far ( Here it is). Well, we can't leave it at just that, because BONE is seriously one of the best comics ever. and deserves lots and lots and lots of exposure.

For those of you who don't already know, BONE is/was an independent comic, first published as a black-and-white bi-monthly comic, later on collected in several trades -- both black-and-white and colorized. Despite the somewhat dirty-sounding name, it's an all-ages book... It's been described as "Bugs Bunny meets Lord of the Rings," though the influences of Carl Barks and Walt Kelly (especially Walt Kelly) are extremely noticeable as well.

I'm going to be posting scans from the original black-and-white comic. The color editions are absolutely gorgeous and well worth checking out as well, but the black-and-white was where it all began. So I've posted select pages from the first trade, Out From Boneville, which collects the first six issues and introduces most of the main characters.

Don't worry, mods, the post may seem large, but I stay well within the page limits for this.

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Golden Age Letter Columns

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Letter columns were not all that widespread during Golden Age. Most of the publishers either didn't have them or had them very sporadically. Out of all the defunct publishers, Novelty Press is one of the few that had letter columns in most of the titles it published. Looking at them, one gets a very interesting perspective on what kind of people read comics during the Golden Age and what sorts of things they wanted in their comics. And so, I would like to post a small sample of the letter pages that I've come across during the course of my research.

This letter column is one of the earliest Novelty Press letters pages I found. It was originally published in Target Comics #2 (Volume 2), which was originally published

( A reader gives his thoughts on the political subtext of one of the features and another offers insight into the title's international readership. )

The next letter column was published in Blue Bolt Comics #2 (Volume 2). It was released in July 1941.

( Readers praise realistic heroes and complain about characters that are too fantastic )

The next letter column appeared in Target Comics #5 (Volume 2), which was published in October 1941. In the previous issue, the readers were asked whether of not Spacehawk should be canceled.

( And the readers responded )

In the next letter column, we jump forward to November 1947. It appeared in Young King Cole #4 (Volume 3).

( Here, we see some Golden Age shipping and a reader explains why he likes Toni Gayle so much )

And finally, we have a page from Guns Against Gangsters #1 (Volume 2), which was published in the fall of 1949.

( The editor lectures readers about gun control and a female reader explains why Toni Gayle is such a great role model. )

Tune in next time as I delve into the days of the original scans_daily and repost the first appearance of the weirdest Golden Age patriotic hero of them all - Yankee Doodle Jones.

Batman: How I Join The Justice League.

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Seriously, it's like 40+ pictures

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Young Justice Episode 8 - "Downtime"

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Way back in 1980-ish, after the first major story arc of "The New Teen Titans" was over, Wolfman and Perez did something in issue 8 which was more or less unheard of at the time, an issue devoted to the characters in their off duty lives, especially new characters we're not familiar with.

For legality, the cover of that issue.



Episode 8 of Young Justice (which others have noted is more Teen Titans anyway) tries more or less the same thing.

( Can Young Justice pull off the same trick? (Also, HEAVY SPOILER within) )