{"id":27966,"date":"2021-08-05T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=27966"},"modified":"2021-08-05T16:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T20:48:55","slug":"let-otto-binder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/05\/let-otto-binder\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Otto Binder show you how the mid-’60s comic book sausage was made"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two more treasures found in my late sister-in-law Ellen Vartanoff’s collection \u2014 mid-’60s scripts by the extremely prolific comics writer Otto Binder. Wikipedia claims he wrote 4,400 stories under his own name \u2014 and 160 more under the pen-name Eando Binder. But how many survived?<\/p>\n

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One was published in Mighty Samson<\/em> #6 (June 1966) …<\/p>\n

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… the other in Creepy<\/em> #6 (December 1965). <\/p>\n

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His story in Creepy<\/em> adapted of one of the 10 stories he wrote for Amazing Stories<\/em> with his brother Earl Binder (under the pen name Eando Binder) about the intelligent robot Adam Link.<\/p>\n

Someday I’ll scan and share the entirety of both scripts, but for now, here’s a comparison of the first page of the Mighty Samson<\/em> one, as well as the published page, with art by Frank Thorne — who’s perhaps best-known for his work on Marvel’s Red Sonja.<\/p>\n

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And here’s the script for one of Binder’s many Adam Link adaptations. This was the third of eight published by Warren \u2014 with art by Joe Orlando \u2014 who also drew Adam Link adaptations for EC’s Weird Science-Fantasy<\/em>. Note the opening journal entry was heavily cut to fit the space.<\/p>\n

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Plus here’s a P.S. to prove everything’s interconnected: I own a sketch of Adam Link by Joe Orlando, which I asked him to do for teen me when we met at the 1972 EC Fan Addict Convention, years before he became my editor on such comics as Welcome Back, Kotter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Two more treasures found in my late sister-in-law Ellen Vartanoff’s collection \u2014 mid-’60s scripts by the extremely prolific comics writer Otto Binder. Wikipedia claims he wrote 4,400 stories under his own name \u2014 and 160 more under the pen-name Eando Binder. But how many survived? One was published in Mighty Samson #6 (June 1966) … […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[923,493,924,507,922],"class_list":["post-27966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam-link","tag-ellen-vartanoff","tag-frank-thorne","tag-joe-orlando","tag-otto-binder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27966"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27981,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27966\/revisions\/27981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}