Comic Book Writer Robert Kanigher

[@Rangersly]

New subscriber here! Great video on Robert Kanigher. In a world where the artist is usually the main attraction, it is always nice to see a writer getting some attention. I appreciate Kanigher as a master plotter who was great at coming up with original ideas, but his dialog was rather repetitive to me. His list of credits at the end is so impressive. Back then, comic book creators were hard workers. Most modern creators cannot keep up with even a single monthly book.

[@jwsoldcomiccorner2104]

Glad you enjoyed it. I agree with you on the dialog. Maybe after doing it so long you can fall into a repetitive motion when dialoging. Sometimes it may be a good thing to let some one else dialog and move on to new issue. I have seen that in the past.

[@lukeyznaga7627]

everyone talks about the marvel writers, but DC had great artists and great writers.

[@jwsoldcomiccorner2104]

You are so right. You will find that quite a few artists and writers came from Dc. Mark waid started with impact comics for dc later did the flash and kingdom come. He now works for Marvel. For me company used to not matter. What was inside each book did. Thanks so much for the comment and watching the videos.

[@Rangersly]

Never heard that Marvel had better writers than DC. It depends on the years I guess. But in general, I would argue the reverse. DC certainly had better writers than Marvel in the Golden Age with proven pulp writers like Otto Binder, Alfred Bester, Gardner Fox, John Broome, Edmond Hamilton, etc. Simon and Kirby were Timely/Marvel's best talents but they managed to chase them off to DC where they created way more pages than they did at Marvel during the Golden Age. * * * The Silver Age started at DC with editor Julius Schwartz and his stable of creators rebooting Golden Age characters like Flash, Green Lantern, Atom, etc. * * * Granted, Marvel was more welcoming to new talents in the Bronze with writers like Doug Moench and Steve Englehart. But Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, and Mike W. Barr got their start at DC. * * * Lets give the credit to Marvel in the Copper Age to have given artists a chance to write their own material which gave us the best runs of thhat period with John Byrne on the Fantastic Four and Alpha Flight, Frank Miller on Daredevil, and Walt Simonson on Thor. * * * But, lets not forget the british invasion of the late 80's with renowned and award winning writer like Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Alan Grant all coming to DC first.

[@jwsoldcomiccorner2104]

I was a big fan of the 70's marvel material. I felt they were at their creative best at that time. Lots of new fresh artwork and writing. Seemed to fade somewhat when jim shooter took over. Don t get me wrong good stuff came out, but a lot was to much of the same type of stuff. I always felt DC had better writers once they hit the 80s, but by then Marvel was king and they seemed unable to compete. Still i loved both the companies and the different directions.

[@Sidy610]

Could you make the bibliography available online also ?? Many thanks.

[@jwsoldcomiccorner2104]

Actually I am not sure how to do it. If you leave and address at [e-mail] i would be happy to send you the hard copy I used to make the one at the end of the video. I hope you enjoyed it. It was real fun learning all about one of DC's Greatest Writers. I learned a lot of stuff I did not know before.