Thank you! I enjoyed writing it. In fact, it's been a questing beast for some time, and it was good to pin it to the board. Discussion with you and other commenters helped bring it together, so much thanks back to you all!
Amazing post as usual. The list of how creators slide into darkness is fascinating to me. I've seen it happen to ... oh, probably 80% of the creators I've followed over the years. They get that taste of illicit thrill and start chasing it. It's how we wind up with the really dark corners of various fandoms. I never went that way because 1. I'm accountable to God for everything that comes out of my mouth and pencil, and 2. I want a body of work that I'm proud to put on my shelf, and not something I frantically try to purge from the internet ten years from now. I've seen that happen, too. Stuff comes back to bite people in the butts late in their careers and it's neeeeeeever a good thing.
Thank you! They moved early to get Walt Disney and Warner Brothers adaptations rights as these properties grew in popularity on the screen, and Dell/Gold Key/Top kept them through much of the 1960s. Tarnishing Dell's reputation would have meant tarnishing the reputation of their customers. That would have likely lost them one or more big names and significant sales.
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This was an astounding amount of work!
Had to get it out of my head. ;-)
Great work.
Thank you!
I've really enjoyed this series, Atom. Thanks for writing it.
Thank you! I enjoyed writing it. In fact, it's been a questing beast for some time, and it was good to pin it to the board. Discussion with you and other commenters helped bring it together, so much thanks back to you all!
Amazing post as usual. The list of how creators slide into darkness is fascinating to me. I've seen it happen to ... oh, probably 80% of the creators I've followed over the years. They get that taste of illicit thrill and start chasing it. It's how we wind up with the really dark corners of various fandoms. I never went that way because 1. I'm accountable to God for everything that comes out of my mouth and pencil, and 2. I want a body of work that I'm proud to put on my shelf, and not something I frantically try to purge from the internet ten years from now. I've seen that happen, too. Stuff comes back to bite people in the butts late in their careers and it's neeeeeeever a good thing.
Thank you! Yes, same here...saw the negative results way too often.
Great essay really liked the ending, never heard of Dell Comics, sounds like they did everything right.
Thank you! They moved early to get Walt Disney and Warner Brothers adaptations rights as these properties grew in popularity on the screen, and Dell/Gold Key/Top kept them through much of the 1960s. Tarnishing Dell's reputation would have meant tarnishing the reputation of their customers. That would have likely lost them one or more big names and significant sales.
Bravo for a much-needed reminder from pop culture history!
Thank you, Sir!
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