A Couple of Notes of Historical Interest

* The cartoonist Russ Maheras lets the database-impaired among us know how to find the World War II service records of cartoonists and comics folk in a thread at The Comics Journal's message board. That war and the service it required of many founding industry members plays such a huge role in the history of the comics art form in the 20th Century that it's great to have a way to access some of that information.

* Through comics proto-blogger NeilAlien comes a brief discussion of a specific-focus historical book on the collapse of the distribution opportunities for Martin Goodman's comic book publishing company in early 1957 that created the primordial stew from which modern Marvel Comics would later emerge. I could have sworn the book, Tales of the Implosion by Thomas Lammers, has been out for a couple of years, but I still haven't read it, so it's like a brand new book for me, at least.
 
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