tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post1276074446581709146..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 2230: Fobidden Worlds: Earthworm digs to dangerPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-75099917293483919462018-09-14T12:24:58.613-07:002018-09-14T12:24:58.613-07:00Daniel, I'm not sure how many titles Richard H...Daniel, I'm not sure how many titles Richard Hughes eventually wrote stories for, but there was a time when he had four supernatural titles going simultaneously, all of them authored by his pseudonyms. I remember he used one pen-name, Robert Standish, and I phonied up a school report in 9th grade on what career I would like when I grew up. I chose freelance writer by writing a pretend interview with "Bob Standish." I thought it was pretty good. Got a B+ on it, so the teacher might have smelled some fakery, but it got me through the assignment.<br /><br />One thing I have wondered about Hughes is how many scripts he wrote in his lifetime? He was active from the early forties as an editor/writer (Nedor) through the ACG years. If it were possible to count every story he wrote over the years he might have been one of the most prolific comic book scripters of all time. Not to mention what stories by other writers he had to edit and perhaps rewrite.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-52804899103979297432018-09-14T12:14:01.155-07:002018-09-14T12:14:01.155-07:00Darci, good point. Makes for a rhetorical question...Darci, good point. Makes for a rhetorical question: Would you rather die from a virus to which your immune system has no defenses, or blown to atoms instantly by an H-bomb? For me I would fudge and say I would rather die in my sleep, but we most often don't get choices, do we?Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-29807742378669608072018-09-11T13:50:51.129-07:002018-09-11T13:50:51.129-07:00Postscript: Dropping the H-bomb didn't save t...Postscript: Dropping the H-bomb didn't save the upper world, because the Professor, Gloria, and Jeff were all contaminated by the underground germs (to which they had no defense). Our only hope would be if they all died before that military operation returned to its base on the mainland.Darcihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598465647270663106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-9066228511579546282018-09-07T02:34:11.308-07:002018-09-07T02:34:11.308-07:00I recently reviewed a self-published book on Amazo...I recently reviewed a self-published book on Amazon whose author unthinkingly presumed that ichthyologists could simply become geophysicists. That wasn't the worst thing about the book, but it was pretty bad. <br /><br />It seems that Lands that Time Forgot must always have creatures of four sorts — saber-toothed cats, brontosaurs, tyrannosaurs, and pterodactyls. <br /><br />Perhaps when <a href="https://www.comics.org/" rel="nofollow">the Grand Comics Database</a> is more fully realized, we will be able to do simple searches that will tell us how many problems were solved by nuclear bombs, how many Lands Time Forgot, and how many boring machines tunneled through the Earth (and especially into Fort Knox). <br /><br />As it is, though I don't want to spend time on research right now, I'm rather curious about how many stories Hughes wrote at his most active. Surely some part of the explanation of how haphazard his stories were lies in the volume of stories that he were generating. Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com