CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: DEFINITELY COLLECTABLE

Sunday 8 June 2014

DEFINITELY COLLECTABLE - DYNAMIC CLASSICS #1...

Images copyright DC COMICS

If ever a comic mag lived up to its name, DYNAMIC CLASSICS #1 was certainly one of them. Reprinting the noted BATMAN tale from DETECTIVE COMICS #395 (the very first pairing of writer DENNY O'NEIL and esteemed artist NEAL ADAMS on the crime-fighting character), and #437's MANHUNTER strip (artist WALTER SIMONSON's 'breakthrough' story, written by ARCHIE GOODWIN), this issue was intended to be the first of an ongoing series.

Unfortunately however, as far as I can determine, no subsequent issues were forthcoming, and it remains in splendid isolation as the perfect example of a classic comicbook. This is one that you should Definitely Collect (see what I did there?), so straight on to eBay with you!

2 comments:

Britt Reid said...: The book was cancelled as a result of the "DC Implosion" of 1978.
You can see the unpublished cover for #2 here...
http://jimaparofanclub.blogspot.com/2009/03/unpublished-dynamic-classics-featuring.html
and the stoy of the Implosion itself here...
http://www.fanzing.com/mag/fanzing27/feature1.shtml; 9 June 2014 at 19:00
Kid said...: Thanks for that, Britt. I'm off to read those links right now.; 9 June 2014 at 19:02

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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