tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post1434143564835714890..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-86746347936415818352010-06-29T17:08:39.317-07:002010-06-29T17:08:39.317-07:00Marshall McLuhan critiqued something Stan Lee wrot...Marshall McLuhan critiqued something Stan Lee wrote in 1951? That in itself is fascinating.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-6912163334683163082010-06-29T14:16:08.516-07:002010-06-29T14:16:08.516-07:00Mark,
Over at the Yahoo Timely/Atlas group the co...Mark,<br /><br />Over at the Yahoo Timely/Atlas group the consensus is that although Stan Lee edited a lot of books in the fifties, he only wrote the stories he signed and signed nearly all stories he wrote. I did an article on Lee's writing and writing style from the early forties to the late fifties in a recent issue of Alter Ego.Ger Apeldoornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-59074172423845666392010-06-29T09:05:55.143-07:002010-06-29T09:05:55.143-07:00Hmm...
Some of those links seem to have gotten cl...Hmm...<br /><br />Some of those links seem to have gotten clipped when I posted the above comment. Perhaps the blogging software does this to links that don't have an html or htm at the end.<br /><br />Oh well. The Adelaide Comics and Books link is complete. Just look for the Stan Lee link on that page, halfway down the column on the far-right column.<br /><br />And the page with the Writer's Digest cover can be found by doing a search for "Writer's Digest" in the search box at the top of this, Pappy's blog.Mark Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13687605795028679735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-79388361546309704382010-06-29T08:57:22.066-07:002010-06-29T08:57:22.066-07:00I found a downloadable pdf of the article:
http:/...I found a downloadable pdf of the article:<br /><br />http://www.adelaidecomicsandbooks.com/Lee%20article.pdf<br /><br />It's a scan of the original article. The site that put up the pdf is:<br /><br />http://www.adelaidecomicsandbooks.com/articles.html<br /><br />(The link to the pdf is halfway down the far-right column, under "Articles of Interest"--"Stan Lee (via Thomas Lammers))<br /><br />And of course, for others out there that may be reading this, Pappy put a scan of the cover of that issue of Writer's Digest, with a photo of a young Stan Lee with pipe and a head of hair, at:<br /><br />http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/search/label/Writer%27s%20Digest<br /><br />http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_64jRVt1CleE/SDQuITPqkDI/AAAAAAAABv8/McZSSfgXKyQ/s1600-h/STANLEE-wd1947.jpg<br /><br />In fact, it was that cover scan you put up that prompted me to do a Google search for the article. So, I have to thank you, Pappy, for pointing me in that direction. I might otherwise had never found the article.Mark Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13687605795028679735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-82602030860500451262010-06-29T08:26:57.940-07:002010-06-29T08:26:57.940-07:00Thanks for the synopsis of the article, Mark. I ha...Thanks for the synopsis of the article, Mark. I have known of it (it was critiqued in <i>The Mechanical Bride</i> by Marshall McLuhan back in 1951), but I have never read the <i>Writer's Digest</i> article.<br /><br />Lee's ideas for a good script could apply to any fiction in any form.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-11790586959723067372010-06-28T15:23:00.332-07:002010-06-28T15:23:00.332-07:00Two days ago I read Stan Lee's 1947 Writer'...Two days ago I read Stan Lee's 1947 Writer's Digest article "There's Money In Comics!" These five stories are a "timely" follow-up.<br /><br />Seems clear these stories had conventional scripts. I don't suppose that the Marvel Method (doing pencils from plots, and adding dialogue between penciling and inking) developed until the 1960s.<br /><br />Don't know whether Lee wrote some, all, or none of these five stories. But he at least edited them. And, all these stories have a Lee feel to them.<br /><br />The factors making up a good script that Lee mentions in the Writer's Digest article are:<br />1. Interesting Beginning.<br />2. Smooth Continuity.<br />3. Good Dialogue.<br />4. Suspense Throughout.<br />5. Satisfactory Ending.<br /><br />He sums it up with the statement, "It has always been my own conviction that a strip with an interesting beginning, good dialogue, and a satisfactory ending, can't bee TOO bad, no matter how many other faults it may have."<br /><br />One can see Lee's formula at work here.<br /><br />One aspect of the formula that isn't mentioned in the Writer's Digest article is the fact that the covers and the story titles probably preceded the scripts. The story titles were probably the story ideas--or at least the starting point from which story ideas were developed.Mark Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13687605795028679735noreply@blogger.com