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Anonymous doesn’t mean that nobody wrote it

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  comics, Marvel Comics, my writing    Posted date:  May 17, 2011  |  1 Comment


Those Bronze Age Babies are at it again. Yesterday, they were talking up the character synopsis blurbs that used to appear on top of Marvel splash pages, and today they wrote about house ads and other comics ephemera. Which, though anonymous, also had authors.

And sometimes that author was me.

I’ve mentioned before how I wrote the Bullpen Bulletins page for a couple of years (save Stan’s Soapbox, of course), as well as a set of Marvel Slurpee cups, but I also wrote a whole bunch of house ads. Here are just three of them, plucked from a portfolio I assembled when I started looked for a publishing job outside of comics.

And as for who drew that illo in the last ad, well … I don’t have to tell you, right?





Comment for Anonymous doesn’t mean that nobody wrote it


Edo Bosnar

Been following your blog for some time now without commenting, but now that there’s all this co-mingling with Bronze Age Babies, I feel compelled to de-lurk.
Anyway, I remember that Crazy ad in particular – probably my favorite aspect is the nonsensical use of SAT words. Great stuff. I think my other favorite house ad was that subscription ad that has the old lady knocking down a guy at a newsstand in subway station because he stole all the comics…



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