I am more with Ray on this - the DC pages were closer to 2/3 than half.
I have two late silver age DC pages in my collection like this.
The typical image length on a page in this era was 15 ins. The image length on
these two are 9.5 ins.
I have one 'twice up' DC page like this and it has an image length of 12 ins
vs. 19 ins for a typical twice up page.
Miki A
On 01/26/2021 10:24 PM Jim Ottaviani <comicart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently read (or rather, skimmed…see below) a run of late 1960s Flash
comics, and to me it looks like their end-of-chapter/end-of-story pages are
indeed half pages. So I’d say this wasn’t just Marvel.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think those books hold up. At all. Not that
Marvel of the era was necessarily great literature — except for the Lee/Ditko
Spider-Man run, obviously… :) — but the characters and plots are at least 2D.
The characters in the Flash books I read are barely one-dimensional, and the
stories are, well, barely even lame most of the time.
They do feature some excellent interior art and a bunch of truly
memorable and fun covers, though!
Jim
> > On Jan 26, 2021, at 20:13, RAYMOND CUTHBERT <
rcuthber@xxxxxxx mailto: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
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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 mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;> wrote:
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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
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