tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890254836433504587.post3699632644348065825..comments2024-02-16T03:31:38.859-05:00Comments on Silver Age Gold: Joe Kubert Draws the Happiest Space Monster Ever for the Cover of... Strange Adventures #232Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03555047330587368279noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890254836433504587.post-66258898878532262482009-11-11T15:18:48.291-05:002009-11-11T15:18:48.291-05:00I can dig it. Carmine just wants everybody to know...I can dig it. Carmine just wants everybody to know what his bag is and cut down on all the static from the little people who spend their dough on his mag. If it was up to him he'd give the ish away, but the Man would never allow it.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03555047330587368279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890254836433504587.post-81818677673741979192009-11-11T02:19:59.787-05:002009-11-11T02:19:59.787-05:00I also wanted to say this particular issue was a s...I also wanted to say this particular issue was a special favorite of mine...and the nine year olds of 1971 appreciated that a heavy cat like Carmine would let it all hang out and not lay a downer trip on us, because it was a stone cold groove to know where his head was really at, you dig?Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890254836433504587.post-73022840302387301362009-11-11T02:06:26.902-05:002009-11-11T02:06:26.902-05:00My first comics were 12 cents apiece; within two y...My first comics were 12 cents apiece; within two years they went up to 15 cents, and then in two more years it was 25 cents. So it wasn't so much scandalous as it was "what, <i>again?"</i> I'm pretty sure at that point I had to go to my parents and ask them for a raise on my allowance because, after all, my weekly expenses were going up.<br /><br />The format wasn't entirely unprecedented, however, because even when a regular issue was 12 cents both DC and Marvel also published oversized 25 cent reprint editions, and I always considered those a great value. So if all comic books were going to be like that all the time from now on, that was fine with me! Didn't quite work out that way in practice, of course...Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.com