Cool—
Thanks Ray!
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On Jan 26, 2021, at 20:13, RAYMOND CUTHBERT <rcuthber@xxxxxxx> wrote:
The half-pages were only at Marvel.
DC always had more pages of story than Marvel although DC would use the
bottom third of a "chapter" or at the end of short stories for ads.
Best wishes!
- Ray Cuthbert
From: "Mark Nevins" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "comicartl" <comicartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: comic-art@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 6:59:41 PM
Subject: [comicart-l] Re: Gene in January, Day Twenty Five
Sean, I’ve been mostly lurking on this mailing list for a long time.
You are posting the best posts ever seen here in my time, and second place
ain’t close. Please collect these posts into a booklet!
As a fellow Panel Page Guy I will say I own no half-pages but I am fascinated
by them. (Did DC do them too?)
Mark Nevins
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On Jan 26, 2021, at 15:00, zzutak <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gene in January, Day Twenty Five
Captain America #137 page 12 by Gene Colan and Bill Everett
https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1697821
There was a period of a year or two when Marvel published 19 page stories
instead of 20-pagers, by slicing one full story page in half and running ads
on the bottom of each half page of art (check out additional images, below).
This is one such page, and laughably enough, it's not the only one in my
collection!
Some collectors only buy covers and splash pages. Lacking both the self
respect and the stock portfolio of guys like that, I am quite delighted to
collect panel pages. If one of these half pagers comes along, I'll collect
the heck outta that, too! Laugh, clown, laugh, but there's n̶o̶ not much
paralyzing, emotionally crippling shame in my game.
This delightful Colan/Everett half-pager is one I was outbid on at an ebay
auction many years ago. I later discovered that the winner was one of our
hobby's good guys, who was attempting to reunite Cap #137 in original art
form. Had I known that, I wouldn't have bid at all, because there is no
greater calling in life than to help a fellow collector reunite a
Colan/Everett story, as there is no greater satisfaction than the feeling of
accomplishment and overall well-being that you experience after
selling/trading me your Colan/Everett Black Widow art.
Over a few years I was lucky enough to assist Cap #137-Guy in sourcing
several more pages from this issue for his collection. Collectors who attempt
to reunite stories are a curious breed, and we can usually recognize one
another across crowded rooms by an Ahab-like quality in the eyes. When Cap
#137-Guy decided to put the tiller to starboard and let the white whale slip
away, he was gracious enough to drop me a line.
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my
soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of
mountains, under torrents’ beds, unerringly I rush! Naught’s an obstacle,
naught’s an angle to the iron way!
Pax,
Sean
