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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: GENERAL COMMENTS #2
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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 04:33:07 EST
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> From:	fluke!moriarty	(Jeff Meyer)

> A little while ago, Jerry pointed me to an excellent weekly comics journal
> called the Comic Buyer's Guide (or Buyer's Guide or CBG for short).  Well
> worth the subscription rate for many reasons... but specifically, there is a
> reviewer by the name of Dan Thompson whose opinions and reviews are, err,
> well, UNCANNILY like Jerry's and mine.  I mean, it makes you wonder.  Quick,
> is Thompson an anagram of Boyajian?  Or maybe I'm going SCHIZO and writing
> them MYSELF...

That's DON Thompson, but no matter. I know what you mean. There have been a
couple of times that I've been tempted to write to Don & Maggie to say how
downright *scary* it is to see how much Don's opinions and mine coincide. It's
almost a relief when I see us disagree on something.


> STEVE CANYON (Pu-leeze, let us have TERRY AND THE PIRATES!)

Actually, you *can* have "Terry and the Pirates" right this very minute! A
publisher called NBM (Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine) have just started a series
of reprints of T&TP in book form. The first (of 12) volume is out (covering
the first year of the strip). The reprints will be issued quarterly. The 12
volumes will reprint the complete run (by Caniff, that is). The repro is
uneven, mostly because it looks like some of the strips are reproduced from
originals, while other are reproed from newspaper copies, but it's worth
having anyway. I have a hardcover, but I believe that it's also available in
trade paper (it's in a low, wide format, like, say the "Garfield" paperbacks,
with two tiers per page). I don't have the pricing information at hand (you
can get a "subscription", at least with the hardcover), but I do have the
address if you want to write for information:

NBM Publishing Co., P.O. Box 281, Peck Slip Station, New York, NY  10272

If you're feeling really extravagant and want to call them, the number is:

201-332-5153


> By the way, what are the "ages" of comics?  I thought it went this way:
>
> GOLDEN AGE:		30's and 40's
>
> either { DARK AGE: the 50's, and SILVER AGE: the early 60's
> or     { SILVER AGE: the 50's (possibly early 60's) and the BRONZE AGE: 60's
>
> PLATINUM AGE: the 70's
>
> Any nominations for this age?  I'd love to hear them (CRYSTAL AGE?)....

Well, the Golden Age is the 30's & 40's, all right. There is some disagreement
about the start of the Silver Age, but most people set it with the publication
of SHOWCASE #4 (with the Earth-1 Flash) in 1956. As far as ome are concerned,
we're still in the Silver Age, but I would venture to say that the Silver Age
should be stopped at around 1970, when things really started to go down hill.

I think PLATINUM AGE is a perfect term for what we have now.