CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: 'ON THE SCENE'

Thursday, 19 July 2012

'ON THE SCENE' - WITH BATMAN & ROBIN...

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Back in 1966, the WARREN PUBLISHING COMPANY issued a mag called On The SCENE Presents SUPER HEROES. It featured articles on BATMAN, The PHANTOM, SUPERMAN, FLASH GORDON ("I'll come quietly officer" - little joke there), CAPTAIN AMERICA, and CAPTAIN MARVEL. It also had ex-clusive photos of the new BATMAN movie with ADAM WEST and BURT WARD, to boot.

I thought there might be some people out there in Bloggerland who'd be interested in seeing its contents, so - starting now - is the first in an occasional series, beginning with the opening article of the magazine. Future posts will feature each article in sequence - and who knows? I may even throw in some of the ad pages - they're worth a look all by themselves. Click on any image to enlarge, then click again for optimum size. And don't ever say I'm not good to you.

Click here to read Part Two - The PHANTOM!

5 comments:

baab said...: Many thanks for this.
Never seen it in full before,really looking forward to the posts.
I really liked the wooly haired robin character when i first saw him,many years ago in some sci-fi publication.
I noted the reverse photograph of Robin, cute.

Nearly forgot you had posted it though.
Many articles this week.; 21 July 2012 at 15:59
Kid said...: Just call me Mister Prolific. Glad you enjoyed the post.; 21 July 2012 at 16:05
Anonymous said...: I don't know if "On the Scene" was an ongoing magazine series, or a one-shot. I never saw another issue besides this one. Obviously, Warren was jumping on the super hero bandwagon and trying to cash in on the Batman fad (along with everyone else in 1966). Most of the articles were reprinted from Screen Thrills Illustrated, but the one on the Batman feature film must have been new.; 20 August 2012 at 18:20
Kid said...: I think it was only a one-shot. I haven't seen any further issues either.; 20 August 2012 at 19:48
Barry Pearl said...: Kid,

The Phantom is having a bit of a renaissance here in the US. In the last three years three different “lines” of hardcover books have come out featuring him. First were the daily strips, another for his Sunday and another for his comic books. This series has the Gold Key, Charlton and King comics.

Oh, check out
http://forbushman.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-discovery-of-golden-age-part-7-dc.html

And go down a little to see “Can we back up a bit!”

And On the Scene was a one shot.; 28 January 2013 at 19:33

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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