Finally -- a PROFESSIONAL Comics Magazine! COMICS SCENE 1, January 1982

[@douglasdavis1612]

The Brothers Hildebrandt established a reputation working on the Lord of the Rings calendar in the mid-seventies, in 1977 the brothers were approached by 20th Century Fox to produce poster art for the UK release of Star Wars.

[@gregorygo4]

27:33 Might be referring to God Loves, Man Kills, which Adams was going to draw originally.

[@stegron]

Came here to say the same thing. Neal drew a handful of pages, they're out there if you look for them!

[@badnewdays8728]

Dudes, I love that you guys don't do reportage and go the full depth that the art deserves! It's the shop talk that I love. I'm a theatre director and creator, and I learn so much about making my own work while listening to you guys talk! Easily my favourite youtube channel of any art form talking about the art.

[@asadkhan6971]

I loved Comic Scene. It was so different from anything I’d seen at the time and opened my eyes to so much. I think issue 4 had four inkers, Janson, Rubinstein, Layton and Palmer inking over Zeck’s Hulk and talk in great detail about their approach. I managed to get a chance to speak to Janson and the late palmer about that interview.

[@kerry-j4m]

WOW. Didn't know Tom Palmer had died,he was 81 yrs old ??? I didn't know he was that old either. He was a very-GOOD-inker tho.One of the best in the biz. RIP; Mr Palmer

[@theswan1852]

103:00 Paul Levitz is interesting. I hope you do a show on him. One of the first things he did was to give Bill Finger an advance before he died, and Levitz got in shit for that. For a long time I thought he was the bad guy in all the Alan Moore vs. DC stories. I saw an interview with him once. He wears, like, a Superman shirt with a Batman tie, squeeky-nerdy voice, glasses and a pornstar mustache. The interviewer asks a question that's a little too political and Levitz's eyes go dark, like he's the devil, and he starts hissing "That's not my job." Levitz was responsible for the DC gratuities program, where he gave creators "love cheques" for their ideas being used in movies and such. He gave Adams and O'Neil $100 grand apiece for using Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins. He didn't have to do it. He just did it because it was right.

[@thisisowen]

I don’t know about Corto Maltese being unreadable, I thought Ballad of the Salty Sea was very well done.

[@rosspearsall1021]

Thank you for covering this! I had every issue of Comic Scene, even had a subscription. I loved it.

[@portland-182]

UK comics were mainly black and white, or limited color, anthology books. 'Whizzer and Chips', 'Dandy' and 'Nutty' were weekly humour comics. 'Tracy' was a weekly girls comic. 'Victor' and 'Warlord' were weekly war comics.

[@jwsjourney]

The Brothers Hildebrandt put out Lord of the Rings calendars in the 70"s. They were beautiful

[@scorpiosteele1230]

Bert Christman also co-created, with Gardner Fox, the Golden Age Sandman.

[@steelbat54]

Bought this when it came out. Still have it. I was so excited to see a magazine that was dedicated to comic books..

[@bradfrederick1135]

I was into the Sega Genesis Spider-man game from 1991.

[@Gootie29]

I remember Comic Scene being on the shelf next to Starlog and Fangoria, and I used to get those as well. Definitely catering to the geek culture

[@1971thedoctor]

This magazine introduced me to a lot of independent titles, I still have the Jack Kirby issue featuring his Captain Victory title

[@ultramagneticlion2147]

I got my comic history through various Comics Scene issues. There was an extensive one about the Comics Code that left a big impression on me. I was reading these mags front and back while still avoiding my reading homework for Elementary school.

[@ericd.5206]

Fun fact, Love Death + Robots, headed by David Fincher and Tim Miller, was originally intended, back in the early 2000s, to be a "reboot" of Heavy Metal. Through a lack of funding and then the movie rights for Heavy Metal getting snatched up by Robert Rodriguez in the early 2010s, the project languished until Fincher and Miller got a greenlight through Netflix.

[@eduardoteixeira2479]

Sorry Ed, you are wrong on Corto Maltese, I know lots of people that like Corto Maltese for the story and the art. I suspect there are some cultural differences between american and europeans when it comes to comics. While in France and Belgium BD is regarded as books, not having a disposible stigma periodicals might have like comics in mainstream america. I find BD oriented to an older audience have a more literary style than american comics. Corto Maltese is a good example of that. I don't find this makes them better or worse than american comics, from a storytelling point of view; just different, but I understand the american audience might find them pretentious.

[@erikwirfs-brock2432]

the first Corto Maltese volume made some french list of best novels of the century :) It's not at all the sort of prog rock space opera comics that Heavy Metal was publishing, which for sure could be kind of unreadable

[@koskazoli2841]

I think that Corto Maltese stories are better literary comics than Sandman. But I also feel most of the franco-belgian comics writings are not really that strong and Corto Maltese is an exception.

[@prof_werneck]

I didn't understand that comment either. Hugo Pratt was one of the greatest writers in comics, ever.

[@prof_werneck]

Ed, you really need to think twice before shitting on people's religions before you talk. On a single video you managed to anger Hugo Pratt fans, Star Trek fans and Black Sabbath fans. Time to reconsider some life choices, my man.

[@noodlesbad]

I encountered Frank Robbins art in the 1970s, when I was still int he single digits, and was entranced. Looking back (via the recent Invaders Omnibus), I really get the impression he's a black and white guy working in a colour world with all the black on the page.

[@andrewp_cc]

Loved this - looking forward to the next issues

[@containercore6832]

Hearing from Sy Barry is actually pretty interesting. The Phantom was the big comics anthology in Sweden and Sy Barry was usually considered one of the hands down best Phantom artists. Read tons of his work not realizing they were originally strips lol.

[@LeoLoikkanen]

Just dropping a line here to say that issue and some issues after this are available as digital versions on the internet archive.

[@JosephDickersonUX]

The Micronauts toys were discontinued by Mego in 1980, and the same year they started transitioning the title to direct sales only. So, yeah... There were no toys to promote.

[@yo_itsjw]

You guys should chat with Kagan McCloud from infinite king fu

[@Just.Jamie.Comics]

"Defenders of the Earth" in slept on!

[@tombrown2045]

Someday Ed and Jim will make a comic together and I’m gonna buy the piss out of it! Hurry up

[@krsj5124]

Can't wait to see you guys at Big Apple! Wish Tom Scioil was coming too.

[@JimStafford]

I only picked up a couple of issue in '93 (30 years ago? Jeez) but looking at them now, it was pretty darn good. Great interview with Scott Lobdell, a big piece on Kirby's Topps comic work, an interview with Marc Hempell? Pretty good stuff. They just weren't as 'cool' as Wizard, so I switched over.

[@aglcomics]

It is still true today of the BIG TWO, what Kirby said about creators's rights back in 1981/2. But to each his or her own. Today, of course, a comics creator can create and self publish his or her own comics magazines online:-) And even have it printed at a fraction of the cost, it would have cost back in those days...There are a multiplicity of options to get their comics creations out to the world at large...Kickstarter and Indiegogo, to name just two options online...Why would comics artist work for the BIG TWO for a page rate that has not changed in 30 or 40 years? But then again, creating stories of their childhood superheroes, is probably why...? A fan's dream, of course:-) AGL

[@FarelDalrymple]

Oh yeah! Comic scene was great!

[@RaymondRich]

I had a crap ton of Micronauts toys. Y'all missed out.

[@apexcomix3200]

Oh Yeah! 😂 I loved how Ed discovered big bitties and bush in the Heavy Metal movie, & imagine his parents entering the room. Excellent video on Comics Scene.

[@FWACATA]

COmic Scene was a lot of times way better than WIZARD to TCJ jsu because it wasn't that stupid or a bummer, respectively. Then again I boosted all my copies or got them in the dumpster in the back without covers so....

[@hsatin20]

I am not sure that Conan comics in the 80s were made for 11 year olds