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The Davis Crippen CGC FN+ 6.5 copy of Horrific #1 (Comic Media, 1952) is up for auction in the 2024 October 24 – 25 Pre-Code Horror & Crime Comics Showcase Auction #40272 at Heritage Auctions. Horrific #1 (Comic Media, 1952) Comic Media was founded by former Harvey Comics circulation manager Allen Hardy, whose primary artists Don Heck and[...]

Army from 1948-1950, Morosi worked for a wide range of publishers throughout the early 1950s, including Fox, Marvel and Lev Gleason.  His arrival at Comic Media in late 1952, along with friend Don Heck, coincides with that publisher moving on from Iger Studio material and establishing a more distinct identity.  Morisi's cover story Accused for[...]

Legendary comic book artist Don Heck had been working in the Harvey Comics production department when former Harvey Comics circulation manager Allen Hardy brought Heck and fellow Harvey production staffer Pete Morisi in for the launch of the Comic Media brand.  Heck's first published artwork in comics hit newsstands in July 1952 with the launches[...]

Throughout its brief lifespan,  Allen Hardy Associates repeatedly asked for "the unusual" in the comic book market columns of magazines like Writer's Digest and Author & Journalist.  The blurb sometimes further elaborated that the publisher wanted, "Artists and writers who don't have a hackneyed approach to comics." Better known today as Comic Media, Allen Hardy[...]

Comic Media was a fifties comic book publisher owned by former Harvey Comics circulation manager Allen Hardy that mostly published action-adventure, Western, and horror comics, including Johnny Dynamite, created by Pete Morisi.  Morosi and fellow Comic Media star Don Heck had also come from the Harvey Comics production department Heck worked across all the publishers'[...]

They have added Peter Sanderson, Don Heck and Rich Yanizeski, and about time. There are potential spoilers for Loki in the following article because we name characters that turn up in the TV show This article doesn't explain how certain characters appear or their context, but proceed at your own risk. Peter Sanderson and Rich Yanizeski created[...]

On behalf of these parties, attorney Marc Toberoff brought such copyright termination attempts in regard to these properties.  Marvel in turn filed lawsuits against Larry Lieber and the estates of Don Heck, Gene Colan, and Don Rico However, no settlement has been reached in the case of the estate of Steve Ditko, which seeks to[...]

And on that decision hangs many other such cases – including Marvel Comics' sixties characters and so much more. It is noted that when Jack Kirby's estate petitioned the Supreme Court for copyright reversal, that it was then, and only then, that Disney paid out what is reported to be $30-$35 million to settle the case[...]

The full thirteen page Iron Man story by Stan Lee and Don Heck that introduced the "yellow peril" Fu Manchu-like character to Marvel Comics back in Tales Of Suspense #50, the series that featured Iron Man stories The character became the leading Iron Man villain over the years and went through some radical and necessary[...]