Lloyd Jacquet Archives

Wyn, Funnies Inc.'s Lloyd Jacquet, and Lamar himself, generally agreed that the going rate for a comic book script was $2.00 per page, and the going rate for color (meaning color guides) was $0.50 per page.  Lettering was also treated separately here (apparently called "blurbs" in the exchange below), as were title page designs, inside[...]

In the spring of 1940, as the New York World's Fair prepared to open for its second and final season in Flushing Meadows, Queens, by all appearances, it had become a towering success.  Exhibits centered around its theme "The World of Tomorrow" inspired numerous pulps and comic books, as we have discussed here extensively.  While Amazing Adventure[...]

The earliest issues of Amazing Man Comics from Centaur are an obscure but important part of the early Golden Age.   The series features work from Human Torch creator Carl Burgos and Submariner creator Bill Everett, and was on newsstands at the same time as Marvel Comics #1.    Amazing-Man Comics #5 had introduced Burgos's The[...]

The Marvel Comics #1 Pay Copy, one of the most famous individual comic books in vintage collecting circles, has just sold for a record $2,427,777.65 at ComicConnect.  That is by a significant margin the highest price ever paid for this 1939 release, which is the first comic book published by Marvel.  This particular copy of[...]