FFF Results Post #221—Reality

On Friday, CR Readers were asked to "Name Five Extended Moments In Comics History You Wish Had Been Documented On Film As They Were Happening." This how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. The Formation of Image Comics
2. Wally Wood's Final Years
3. Formation Of The Comics Code
4. Tundra
5. Michael Fleisher Sues The Comics Journal

*****



Ben Schwartz

1) FDR's first year in office, starring Harold Gray.
2) Pulitzer v Hearst for The Yellow Kid (silent, as directed by Mack Sennett).
3) Todd McFarlane plotting an issue of Spawn.
4) EB White and James Thurber repeatedly sending Thurber's first cartoon down the hall to Harold Ross and Rea Irvin, who repeatedly rejected it and sent it back, until Ross finally gave in and ran a Thurber in the New Yorker about a year later.
5) Joe Franklin's libel suit over Drew Friedman's "The Incredible Shrinking Joe Franklin."

*****



Thomas Scioli

1. Jack Kirby at the drawing board.
2. The 1960s at the Marvel Office.
3. Barry Windsor Smith's alien abduction/time traveling experiences.
4. Steranko's escape artist career.
5. Siegel and Shuster's attempts to find a publisher for Superman.

*****



Frank Santoro

1. Roy Crane's revamping Wash Tubbs and introducing Easy
2. Marvel Bullpen during the "New Universe" era
3. Pat Boyette at Charlton
4. Deadline magazine
5. Toronto comics scene in the '80s

*****



Paul Dwyer

1. Founding to dissolution of Fox Feature Syndicate
2. Founding to dissolution of EC
3. Vince Colletta's inking of Jack Kirby in the '60s
4. The underground comics scene in the late '60s
5. Dave Sim's life from issues 1 to 300 of Cerebus

*****



Michael May

1. The Rise and Fall of CrossGen
2. Marvel explores new genres during the Bronze Age.
3. DC vs. Captain Marvel
4. The Charlton Comics Story
5. The History of Archie

*****



Michael Grabowski

1. Heroes Held Hostage: The Battle over Jack Kirby's Marvel Art
2. Silver Pages: Lee, Kirby, Ditko, and the Rise of Marvel Comics
3. The Making and Unmaking of Big Numbers
4. The Quick Life and Drawn-out Death of Self-Published Comics
5. Shock Successtory: EC Comics in the 50s

*****



Andrew Mansell

1. The plotting of Fantastic Four #48-50
2. Frank Miller selling his vision of The Spirit to the Lions Gate Producers
3. The Editorial Meetings that finalized the TCJ Top 100 of the Century
4. R. Crumb drawing sometime during his 3-month long "Electric haze"
5. The editorial meetings about the Swamp Thing/Jesus Christ cross-over

*****



Stergios Botzakis

1. The series of falling-outs between Alan Moore and DC Comics
2. The first couple years of the Marvel Bullpen
3. Mort Weisinger's treatment of his employees
4. The bull sessions where creators fleshed out characters/back-story for GI Joe and Transformers
5. The Bill Gaines/Harvey Kurtzman/Al Feldstein triangle at EC Comics

*****



Robert Clough

1. R.Crumb's arrival and subsequent rise to fame in San Francisco.
2. The day-to-day grind of the Eisner-Iger shop.
3. Bill Everett, Carlos Burgos, etc doing an entire Torch/Namor comic over one weekend in an apartment, racing to beat a deadline.
4. Gloria Steinem, Terry Gilliam, et al working with Harvey Kurtzman as part of his editorial staff at Help!
5. Any of Mary Fleener's stories of dealing with lunatics, like the recent "The Judge" from Hotwire #3.

*****



Justin J. Major

1. Steve Ditko's Introduction to Objectivism
2. William Moulton Marston's development of Wonder Woman
3. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's pre-war relationship
4. Jim Steranko's time playing guitar in Philly alongside Bill Haley & His Comets
5. Mark Evanier's time as a production assistant to Jack Kirby

*****



Don MacPherson

1) The creative summit that led to the death of Superman
2) The day Jim Lee told his Image partners he was leaving
3) The inter-company collaboration of DC Vs. Marvel/Amalgam Comics
4) The life and death of CrossGen Comics
5) The first meeting leading to the Disney/Marvel deal

*****



Scott Dunbier

1) Winsor McCay's Vaudeville tours
2) EC Comics
3) The formation of Metal Hurlant
4) The early days of Underground Comics
5) The Studio (Kaluta, Jones, Wrightson and Smith)

*****



Mark Coale

1. Teenage Jim Shooter telling his parents about being hired to write the Legion.
2. The first time Steve Ditko read Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead.
3. The history of the Rutland Vermont Halloween Parade.
4. The first Eisner Awards.
5. My first panel I moderated at Comic-Con, because I can't remember everyone who was on it and any of the details.

*****



Danny Ceballos

1. Jim Woodring: the teenage years
2. Robert Crumb reading his first Harvey Pekar script
3. Marvel's lawyers strategy meeting on how to defeat the Kirby heirs
4. Matt Groening meets Lynda Barry
5. George Herriman inking and coloring his last Sunday page

*****



James Langdell

1. Creation of Cerebus issues #1-#300
2. Air Pirates & Disney
3. Stan and Steve creating that first run of Spider-Man issues
4. Planning, pitching, creating, launching the unexpectedly humorous Justice League series
5. Tracking a Sunday page of "Little Nemo" through being plotted, drawn, press processed, printed, delivered as a newspaper, preserved over the decades, through the process of reproducing it in a deluxe 21st century book that would do justice to the original quality.

*****



Tony Collett

1. Siegel and Shuster's creation of Superman to publication in Action Comics #1
2. Marvel Comics in the 1960s
3. Jack Kirby's tenure at DC Comics in the 1970s
4. Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck Lawsuit
5. The direct market from creation by Phil Seuling to becoming a viable market

*****



Buzz Dixon

1. The home life of William Moulton Marston
2. The Pre-MAD EC Bullpen
3. The MAD Bullpen
4. The coalescing of the original underground comix scene in San Francisco
5. David Sim draws Cerebus

*****



Robert Stanley Martin

1. 1986
2. The Rise and Fall of the Undergrounds
3. The Lee-Kirby-Ditko Era at Marvel
4. Behind-the-Scenes with Big Numbers
5. Carole Sobocinski's Tenure as TCJ Managing Editor (including its aftermath)

*****



Jamie Coville

1. The meeting between CMAA and Stan Lee after the Spider-Man drug storyline and the changing of the comics code.
2. Phil Sueling getting charged for selling Zap Comix #4 and the formation of the Direct Market.
3. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko create the House of Ideas at Marvel.
4. Every single time the CCA wanted changes made to a comic book.
5. Jim Shooter. From about 1983 until he left Marvel.

*****



Sean Collins

1. The decline and fall of Bill Jemas
2. Fort Thunder
3. DC Comics under Dan DiDio
4. Fantagraphics 2003
5. The Comic-Con organization deciding whether or not to stay in San Diego

*****
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