Wizard Magazine issue 3, Nov 1991, Kayfabe Commentary
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- This third issue of Wizard Magazine is jam packed with two solid interviews (Erik "Savage Dragon" Larsen and Simon Bisley). Part 1 of a 2 part John Byrne feature about all his plans for his new X-Men gig (even though it only lasted two issues). Slowly but surely Wizard is shaping up to become the magazine we all remember...
Some external links for later viewing:
*A few more modern Erik Larsen interviews!
• Comic Culture with Eri...
• OmniBros LIVE! An inte...
* Thanks Drek Shep for point us toward this piece of first-hand commentary from Bill Wray about his (and Bruce Jones) strip that inspired the film They Live. madaboutcartoons.blogspot.com/...
* A more recent Bisley vid to chomp onto!!
• Simon Bisley - Lobo Pa...
*Firestar's true origin
• Spider-Man and His Ama...
* Alan Moore's Twilight of the Superheroes DC Pitch
archive.org/stream/TwilightOf...
*Comic Book Confidential!
• Comic Book Confidentia...
Stan Lee: • Comic Book Confidentia...
Crumb and the Undergrounders: • Victor Moscoso, Robert...
Charles Burns talks Big Baby: • Charles Burns - Big Ba...
Frank Miller: • Comic Book Confidentia...
*John Byrne talking reinventing Superman
• John Byrne On Reinvent...
*John Byrne drawing Cyclops
• John Byrne Draws Cyclo...
*John Byrne talking about the possibility of returning to X-Men
• John Byrne Answers If ...
* The Phantom Zone comic shop
www.phantomzone.com.au/
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My heart stopped when Piskor called me a KAYFABER at the beginning of the video, I felt almost as if I BELONGED to something? (which at the end of the day is the feeling we all miss when we talk about comic shops and the early 1990s)
Now - as for Crazy John - let me give you an update of what I know, but I am still working on it: I was told he worked for or was associated with one of the local shops over in Livermore (just outside Pleasanton) and that he dealt comics out of his house - which the address given in the add is totally a house in Pleasanton.
The comic shop in Livermore is an old school shop, been there for like 40 years - I am trying to make time to give them a call and see if I can get more info, will do soon and try find out if he is still around and my goal is to find a copy of the "Giant Catalog" at this point. Hell, he may still live at that address. Haha.
There is a comic shop in Livermore called Fantasy Books & Games, is that the shop he has a connection to?
I'd kill to see an Erik Larsen Lobo story! That Lobo/Wizard drawing rules
I had the Bat Signal shaved into the back of my head in '92
...and I'm pretty sure it earned me some flakk from Lesser 7 year olds..
Speaking of movies and comics - we have one of our local shops (not my preferred shop, but whatever) and they team up with one of the large theaters locally - so opening night for any of the new comic books movies they give space in the theater foyer where they get to setup tables and trade/sell comics. The shop owner brings a bunch that are involved with that movie, so like if it Spider-Man he will bring a ton of issues, some CGC stuff, and any other books he may have for sale that deal with the connected characters and storylines.
They do that now for every Marvel/DC movie just for the opening night and I think it is a great idea. They must find value in it also because they keep doing it.
I just realized that issue 3 was my first issue of Wizard...
This show makes me want to take a day off of work and pull out all my old comics from dusty boxes.
Loved this issue! Thanks guys
Great show! Keep it up!
Yellow and red pages, yellow and red sleeves- Love the color coordination, and the show!!!
Just wanna say that I love this series. Thank you for doing it.
Man, this channel is gold, keep up the good work lads! :)
Ron Mann the documentary filmmaker behind "Comic Book Confidential" was a regular fixture at the Silver Snail comic shop here in Toronto, during the 80's and 90's.. You'd see him all the time, walking around Queen Street West. The movie had a big theatrical release here. And there was a promotional comic-book that (I believe) had a Chester Brown cover.. The Charles Burns segment was always my favorite bit.
Yes, that's right, it had a cover by Chester Brown...and the segment of the documentary that depicts a comic shop was filmed (or photographed?) in the Silver Snail.
In a similar vein, of course, was Prisoners Of Gravity (If you guys haven't seen those, Ed and Jim, I think you'd like them - there are a number on CZcams)... Comic Book Confidential always felt like the "higher quality" movie version of the kinds of interviews Prisoners did... just more Sci-Fi/Fantasy in Prisoners.
Prisoners of Gravity was a huge show for me when it was televised. Rick Green from the amazing Canadian Comedy troop, The Frantics.
@@comicKkrakK Prisoners of Gravity is and probably always will be one of my very favourite TV shows. It was absolutely foundational for me at this age (early '90s).
Great ep guys!!... Fun Fact: I hooked Eddie P up with my copy of Wizard #1.. So Glad you guys are putting them to good use.
Punker Mike salutes!!
I think I bought some books off the guy Jim was mentioning around the 25 minute mark. He was all about Hulk #197, with a great Bernie Wrightson Man-Thing cover. The package he sent me even had a sticker of the 197 corner box.
Interesting ranking of artists. Glad to see Silvestri get recognized!
Loved that Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends one-shot...that needed to be a series.
Thanks, this is fantastic! The thing I always remembered about Wizard magazine was that the editor had an ongoing feud with readers over the fact that Iron Man could singlehandedly destroy all of the X-Men. I always thought it was funny how upset readers seemed to get over this.
Hey, Rugg...I dig your Billy Batson sleeves. Lol great Wizard video.
I love that the 2001 doesn't even fit into the screen!
Shout outs to Heroes Arent Hard to Find! Thats my LCS, Shelton runs a great shop.
I think some of the Larsen projects didn't happen because his house burned down. It's mentioned in some of his "Spider-Man" issues, and that's why 2 or 3 of them had backup stories. Please forgive me if this is mentioned in a future ep...I'm a new subscriber.
oh snap! Phantom Zone comics just closed 2 days ago (8th of April , 2019) . Another one bites the dust.
barakaslam I was about to post this
Yup, my store was the Phantom Zone in Newcastle. I moved away but regularly visited when I went home - until last year and it was closed. Massive disappointment.
I did a Wizard fan art cover featuring Ambush Bug at one point. For some reason, it never ran. Always a dreamer...
Sandman Special #1 is reprinted in the volume 6 of the trade paperback collections, Fables And Reflections
Good looks. Thanks
I'm pretty sure I saw that Elektra poster at October Country in New Paltz, NY in the stairway to their basement room of quarter/dollar comics like 5 or so years ago
hello from pittsburgh. i'm really enjoying this series. it's good to draw to. yinz ever think about doing a similar series or just one video on old strips like winsor mccay, george harriman, frank king etc? not many people are really talking about that stuff on youtube, to my knowledge.
Talking about comics capitalising on movies - the first comic I ever read was from a stand in a video store (it was Batman: Faces by Matt Wagner)
hey hey hey, guys! Arma-X is the Spanish version of Weapon-X, actually it's a literal translation. Comics Forum was the marvel comics publisher from around 1981 to early 2000s. It's not Brazilian.
Aw man. Many apologies. My pops brought me a copy of the trade back from Brazil and I made assumption.
@@wimpyrutherford haha. sorry, I didn't meant to sound harsh. Forum was the publisher of my beginnings as a reader and I am a huge fan of those editions. Still collecting them. Good, great podcast! congrats!
@@wimpyrutherford Actually there were multiple editions of BWS's Weapon X in Brazil, also named Arma X (literal translation), the only thing to point is that in portuguese you pronounce it Arma [Sheesh] not [Ecks] 😉
Here's the 1991 edition, digest size as were most comic editions in Brazil at the time:
www.guiadosquadrinhos.com/edicao/grandes-herois-marvel-1-serie-n-35/ghm0301/6129
The 2003 edition, US comic book size:
www.guiadosquadrinhos.com/edicao/wolverine-arma-x/wo01104/20268
The 2014 hardcover edition:
www.guiadosquadrinhos.com/edicao/wolverine-arma-x/wo01104/20268
I own a vhs of Comic Book Confidential! My art teacher showed me this in high school.
"Henry Colonic". Greatest. Name. Ever.
Not sure if mentioned among the comments but the Phantom Zone ad would have been created by Glenn Ford: he was a graphic designer/ad illustrator, and worked for one of our only long-running comic publishers in Australia (Frew Publications), illustrating covers and merchandise for Lee Falk’s The Phantom under King Features license, and also owned Phantom Zone, which had an outlet in LA. Ghost Rider here looks like a couple of the faux-photo real/digital covers he did for The Phantom back in the day. He is currently the co-director of Frew, and edits their comic books. Here’s a little bit on Glenn: www.phantomwiki.org/Glenn_Ford
He’s a good guy to do comics for, very humble guy, and is appreciative of a variety of styles. As an aside, has some neat Kayfabe-style stories about Steranko, Eisner etc. whom he had commissioned to do Phantom illustrations for the first series of Comic book gallery card set in the 1990s.
Can’t wait for Pet of the Month!
I don't know that it was the next project after Challengers of the Unknown, but before Loeb and Sale did their Batman minis they did a mini series at Marvel. Wolverine & Gambit: Victims. Its a fun read if you haven't read it already.
Good to know. Thanks dude!
Y'all should go to MSU Comics Forum. Randall walks around and buys everyone's comics for the museum. EVEN MINE!
We really do want to interview him. Fascinating guy.
@@wimpyrutherford If you ever want to take a nice long drive to Lansing Michigan in the DEAD of WINTER... I'm sure MSU FORUM would love to have it as a panel.
also... I am not being paid by the MSU COMICS FORUM, which is being held on Saturday February 24th, 2019. Free admission.
2001 was a great adaptation. The NM-era Sienkiewicz Dune adaptation was pretty good, although hampered by trying to recreate the movie & script instead of giving Sienkiewicz more room to play around. The Mignolia Dracula adaptation was also very fine.
But my gold standard for movie adaptations has to be Goodwin/Simonson’s Alien adaptation. The only good thing about Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is that it got Fox to rerelease the story thru Titan (as well as an Artist Edition of the work). It’s fantastic and I can’t recommend it enough!
The most noteworthy thing about Cive Barker's Razorline titles is that Lana Wachowski wrote several issues of Ectokid!
Steve Skroce did some art for the Razorline comics. Skroce went on to work with the Wachowski's on the Matrix and then on the Doc Frankenstein comic with Burlyman Entertainment. - Jim
Back in the 90s, in Brazil, I went to see some of the Star Trek movies with the original cast when it was released in theaters. They gave us freebie Star Trek comics, from an ongoing series at the time. I don't go to the movies often at all, I though it was a rather common technique when the thing has a an ongoing comicbook series. But I haven't actually heard of it or stumbled with any other occurrence, now that I think about it. Not even Raimi's Spider-Man 2, which was another movie I went to see, where it potentially could have happened. Although I think comic books had morphed into more expensive forms by the early 2000s, all around 100 pages, soft-cover paperbacks, glossy paper.
Man would have been great to have a mag like Wizard in the 80's.
Amazing Heroes?
Cartoonist Kayfabe - totally missed that, have to dig around, thanks!
Wow, my prime collecting years was ‘82-‘92 and somehow never knew about Amazing Heroes!
34:43 raindrop, droptop
53:05 Angel's wing seems to spring off the top of the page.
Brad Walker oh snap! You’re right.
13:25 Did you say A Space Oddity?
That was supposed to be Marlon Wayans Robin in that movie, haha.
And any chance we can get a class action lawsuit against the 90's comic industry, representing all of us easily manipulated kids who fell for the Collectors Edition Investment Speculation craze and spent our entire allowances on multiple copies of the same 'hot' books that we figured we could eventually sell and retire on the profits!
Looking back, it was actually a BRILLIANT move, and slightly humurous that Marvel/DC were intentionally taking advantage of their young customer base. I recently noticed that many of the #1 issues released in the 90's were re-imaginings of older characters, but the reboots allowed for the release of more 'Collector's Edition #1' issues, and us dumb kids would buy EVERY NEW #1 issue, because of course, all #1 issues would definitely be worth a pretty penny later down the road... I still have a stack of all the #1 issues from 'IMPACT' comics, which I now realize were just trying to ride IMAGE's coat tails, but with weak artwork and even worse writing :) Luckily I only bought 1 of the 'NOW' comic releases (Green Hornet), but the only reason I bought it is because it was a #1, and thought I'd be stupid for not buying it when I saw became worth $1k by now...
In the early 90s, the cosmic Marvel stuff didn't do anything for me (other than Nova but he wasn't pulled into the cosmic stuff as much then). I bypassed Infinity Gauntlet and Silver Surfer. But I was somewhere between Ed and Jim...I bought new comics from the one comic store in town and any stragglers from the gas station, but I bought older comics (70s and 80s) from quarter or 3 for $1 boxes at the flea market, too.
Glenn Fabry is from just before Simon Bisley. Both amazing artists and if anything Bisley would have seen Fabry Slaine as a high water mark. Of course, both of them must bow to Mike McMahon's version of the character but great stufff nonetheless.
Yep it's sad! Before the Internet they were able to get kids to spend $1.99/call to listen to comic book ADVERTISEMENTS! It's analogous to spending money to see pop-up ads, lol
There were a LOT of Bisley clones that filled that gap in 2000ad. Glenn Fabry was NOT one of them. His style is nothing like Bisleys.