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In this month’s MAGAZINE Section: Make ready for COMIC BOOK CREATOR, the new voice of the comics medium! TwoMorrows is proud to debut our newest magazine, Comic Book Creator, devoted to the work and careers of the men and women who draw, write, edit, and publish comics, focusing always on the artists and not the artifacts, the creators and not the characters. Behind an ALEX ROSS cover painting, our frantic FIRST ISSUE features an investigation of the oft despicable treatment JACK KIRBY endured from the very business he helped establish. From being cheated out of royalties in the ’40s and bullied in the ’80s by the publisher he made great, to his estate’s current fight for equitable recognition against an entertainment monolith where his characters have generated billions of dollars, we present Kirby’s cautionary tale in the eternal struggle for creator’s rights. Plus, CBC #1 interviews artist ALEX ROSS and writer KURT BUSIEK, spotlights the last years of writer/artist FRANK ROBBINS, remembers comics historian LES DANIELS, sports a color gallery of WILL EISNER’s Valentines to his beloved, showcases a joint talk between NEAL ADAMS and DENNIS O’NEIL on their unfor- gettable collaborations, as well as throws a whole kit’n’caboodle of other creator-centric items atcha! Join us for the start of a new era as TwoMorrows welcomes back former Comic Book Artist editor Jon B. Cooke, who helms the all-new, all-color COMIC BOOK CREATOR! 80 pgs. • All-color • Quarterly WHY HAVEN’T IF JACK’S HEIRS KIRBYMADE ONE MEASELY THIN DIME OUT OF THE BILLIONS$ OF DOLLARS GENERATED BY HIS CREATIONS HOLLYWOODIN MOTION PICTURES? IS KING COMIC BOOK CREATOR • Spring 2013 • #1 35 and the Curious Case of the COUNTERFEIT Even after the team of Joe Simon & Jack Kirby suffered the indignity of being cheated out of royalties for their creation of Captain America, insult was added to injury when, CREATORS Secrets Behind the Comics scans courtesy of Javier Hernandez. in 1947, Timely publisher Martin Goodman is publically given credit for originating the “Sentinel of Liberty” by a guy who certainly knew better — Stan Lee! imultaneous to the appearance of his article, “There’s Money in Comics,” in the November 1947 issue of Writer’s Digest, GEE, BUCKY, YOU woulD THINK OUR Stan Lee’s booklet, Secrets Behind the Comics, PUBLISHER would STRIVE TO an inside look by the editor and art director of BE like “honest ABE” HERE Timely Comics on how funnybooks are created, and tell the truth about is published by Famous Enterprises. Included in who created us, right? the 100-page pamphlet is a focus on “exactly how Captain America was created.” Well, not “exactly.” Bizarrely, Timely YOU BET, CAP! publisher Martin Goodman is cited as the YET SOMETIMES that creator of the star-spangled hero and — hasn’t been the case! BUT EVERY RED-BLOODED, surprise! — there is no mention of Cap’s TRUE PATRIOT KNOWS real creators, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. we were created This revisionism is particularly odd because, as any Marvel fan worth his/her salt knows, the author of the tract was hired in his initial comics job by the very ©2013 the respective copyright holder. same Joe Simon (then Timely’s first editor) and Stan functioned as a “gofer” for both Joe and Jack. In 1985, much to Kirby’s chagrin, the Cannon Group lists Stan Lee as creator of Captain America in movie trade publication advertisements (trum- peting the eventually aborted film version). NOT COOL: Variety’s Cannes film festival supplement included this ad which featured an erroneous acknowledge- ment giving Stan Lee credit for creating Captain America. Left: Relettered detail from Captain America Comics #9 (Dec. 1941). Sub-Mariner and omics covers ©2013 Marvel Characters, Inc. Bucky, Captain America, Human Torch, “Secrets Behind the Comics” editorial material ©2013 respective copyright holder. Art by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon. ©2013 Marvel Characters, Inc. Ullor maximusto optatemo ilit landiorum natecto doluptae. Agnis ut alis maios vel eum voluptas ea vene maximus volupta et ea ne porro te vendant magnisi tionem. niatiassi quatur, te pe inimus volupidisti Sa cum eaqui derfero blab ipsustium eos re, sitat id quatia sitatis exernatas et aut acipsa estibust exerest aut quam ventis fugit oditate rest, seque pro velique lique ium voluptatur, illaccae. Ga. 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