Your Guide To Comic Books

I'm obviously not the only one sorry to see Photomail go!.
It was great. It's not the same sending pics as attachments, or having friends go to a photo-sharing site/gallery..

I do comic strips/cartoons with my photos and you simply can't do that attaching a bunch of files.

Also with Photomail, you could put the pics in whatever order, whatever size, with whatever comments/captions you wanted.

It was also then automatically available to the recipient as a SLIDE SHOW WITHIN THE EMAIL.

Does FlickR or other program work with Yahoo email that way?? If not, I think more people will switch to GOOGLE's G-MAIL as many of my friends have already done. With the fierce competition between Yahoo and Google etc. I'm a little surprised at this decision.

I hope you can give me some advice as to what would be the closest thing to Yahoo's discontinued Photomail with regard to the features I mentioned.

Check "incredimail", it sounds interesting and has lots of fun features!

Does anyone rememeber a comic book called Cosmic? and it used to feature characters like captain cosmic and sergeant star? was in about 1999 and if they do remember it anyone know where i could get old copies? thanks

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http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?q=cosmic&pubid=&PubRng=&GrdRng=
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I've recently got back on top of my comics collection, but there's a number of issues of the following comics I need

Astonishing Spider-Man
Marvel Legends
Fantastic Four Adventures
Mighty World of Marvel
Avengers United
Avengers Unconquered

I've re-subscribed to all of these, but there are some back issues that Panini don't have anymore. Is there a good site, besides ebay, that sell these?

Hastings. they never sell all of anything and if you are persistent - and dig to the bottom of the stacks you may get lucky for cheap - the one near where I live is selling all pulp for a buck each this weekend, I do not know if it is just a local deal, but I would check if I were you.

If you BUY or READ comic books( manga etc.) answer saying YES.
I want to see how many answers I get.

I definately DONT but I know a guy who does.

I have a bunch of comic books from a long time ago and I was wondering what site I can use to find out their value. There must be a website that many comic book shops refer to in order to set their prices. Anyone know any sites or something? I don't want to visit a local comic shop please.

You should look up completed listings on ebay and find the comics you have and see what people ACTUALLY paid for them, not what some guidebook says they're worth.

Most of the artists did great work and the strips were so large, a full page or two, what stopped this?

There is still great stuff:

http://jaydyke.blogspot.com/
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html

I can find dimensions of bags/boards but am interested in the actual dimensions of comic books themselves from:

The Golden Age
The Atomic Age
The Silver Age
The Bronze age
The Modern Age

Any help would be appreciated.

"The Atomic Age" is not a commonly recognized comics era, it's really just a sub division of the Golden Age. The division between Golden and Silver Age is Showcase Comics #4 (first appearance of the second Flash) 1956. You're also missing the Platinum Age which refers to anything before Action Comics #1. Some more reading here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_comic_book

Silver, Bronze and Modern comics are usually between 10 and 10 1/4 inches tall and about 6 3/4 inches wide. Prior to this there wasn't really a standard and sizes fluctuated between titles and publishers, but they were often larger than these dimensions. I pulled out two quick examples to measure for you: Tales from the Crypt #33 (1953) is 7 1/4 inches wide and 10 1/4 inches tall. My copy of National Comics #18 (1941) is over 7 1/2 inches wide and 10 1/4 inches tall.

When it comes to purchasing bags and boards, it goes like this: A Modern comic bag will fit a modern comic book snuggly, meaning there's no room for the comic to move around. However, if that comic is just a little bit too big (either it's thicker because it's a special issue or maybe it was just printed an 1/8 of an inch too wide) then it won't fit. Silver Age comic bags are about 1/4 wider, which gives a comic room to move, but not really so much that it'll damage it. Myself and many other collectors use Silver Age bags for everything Silver Age and modern, because it's far too much of a pain in the butt to put everything into modern bags, but then grab a silver age bag every time a comic is just a little too big, which is extremely common.

Is the Red Skull more deadly than Hitler in the comic or is he one of his minions?

The Red Skull is one of Hitler's minions and used to admire him, now he wants to replace him and thinks he can do a better job. He is the ultimate Nazi symbol. He's their Captain America. He's not only a symbol of Nazi power, but one of Hitler's proteges and perhaps the next in line after Hitler died to rule the 1,000 year reich. That's what the Red Skull is.

I have always wanted to become a comic book penciler, but I don't know what I need to do or how to contact publishers. I don't care which publisher I work for, I would not mind starting to work for a relitively unknown book, just to get my feet wet. Thanks for the input!

This is actually really hard to do. and if you do find a publisher who is willing to publish your art, it will probably only be a few times then the work will stop. It will not be constant work and not enough to make a living from. But that is how most all comic book artists work, aside from the pros who work at Marvel/DC etc who do it full time.

Go to comic company websites and look for contact info/portfolio requirements. The other thing to do is go to the comic book conventions where they all are and attend the portfolio review sessions (comic-con int'l, wizard world, etc) and they will look at your art and see if you are good enough to work with them.

I have a few real comic book credits but they were like "do 7 pages" and that was it, got a paycheck and I have to try finding another publisher. Actually the way I got published the first time is I was at a comic convention with flyers and business cards and a publisher got one and contacted me and I got my first comic book job. But like I said, it was over after the project was done. I've also done work for free just to get published. Find some anthology publishers, they are always looking for new talent. You probably won't get paid though. At any rate, the more you do that kind of work, the more opportunities will eventually open up. Eventually you will get to the point where you freelance all the time and maybe you end up working somewhere as an artist. This kind of thing takes years, so you'd better have a regular job while you are doing this.

At the same time, start up your own comic on the internet and try to drum up support and fans. That also helps get your name out to publishers because they read online comics too.

My dad doesn't like me on the computer, so he told me he'd take me to the library later to get some books. I'm not sure what to get though. Does anyone have any good suggestions? Preferably books that will open my eyes about something.

Don't suggest anything from Stephanie Meyer or Sarah Dessen, I've read their books already.

Ghost Boy by Ian Lawrence

Seven Deadly Sins series by Robin Wasserman

Naughts & Crosses series by Malorie Blackman

Uglies saga by Scott Westerfeld

The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory

Children of the River by Linda Crew

Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz

The Vampire Diaires by L.J. Smith