Harper College - Halcyon Yearbook (Palatine, IL)

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Wriafwwzi its silents with Barrymore and Chaplin and talkies by Polanski, Cocteau and Renoir. lt's Sesame Street, . , and Soul! and Cr'vilr'zafion, .. 4 s 4- J -en-. -,. Qin' The Electric Company and The Great American Dream Machine. lt's documentaries by Frederick Wiseman and drama from ine BBC, its Eli Wallach. Archibald lVlacLeisn. Kurt Vonnegut and Henry the Eighth . . 4 and Cat Stevens, Woody Allen. William F. Buckley, Jr, Patty Duke and The Last of the Mohicans. Channel 11 is a lot of things to a lot of people... see it all on WTTW, your local public television station. xH ,H X 47

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time record he turned out one Shadow novel every two weeks for eight yearsl or Lester Dent author of 165 of the 181 Doc Savage novels got paid S750 a novel. Both the Shadow and Doc Savage were monthly magazines. A list of some of the better know authors will give an idea of the different types of people that worked in the field. The early work of Tennessee Williams, MacKinlay Kantor, and Paul Gallico, and the regular appearance of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Da- shiell Hammett, Louis l.'Amour, Max Brand H. P. Louecraft, Ray Bradbury, Robert Block, and Robert E. Howard. The pulp magazines were not without their critics. The New York Times lfrom a letter sent by a Connecticut school teacherl based a campaign against the pulps. The school teacher claimed lThe NY Times backing the statement in editorialslthat The mater of pulps constitutes a menace to pupil's morals, English and Mind. More editorials followed and succeeded in little more than stirring up a storm of contro- versy. But the pulps were to decline due to their changing readership. The times were changing, living in American had acceler- ated considerably since the advent of pulps. Pulp publishers looked for new ways to sell their material and meet the times. They discovered the comic book. So the industry had come full circle from Detective Comics into pulp magazines back to changing a number of their pulps into comic titles. The pulp heroes had maintaineda vast readership, had filled an entertainment need in America but their day was over. Still the fact remains that these characters both pulp and comic have become part of our nations- myth-structure. The effect of the comic world on TV, the movies lnotabily Federico Fellinil, slang, mustic, and to a degree the way Americans look at themselves can be seen if one only looks around today. For those of you who have been interested in some aspect of the comic world but never knew where to look or find add- itional information here's place to start. Nostalga material is good business and has stores devoted solely to supplying the ever expanding market. Unlike New York and Los Angeles which abound with these 46 types of stores Chicago has only one: The Acme Book Store located at 414 North Clark Street. Within the last two years one publishing company has appeared with lists of nothing but nostaligic oriented books. Quite amply named! Nostalgia Press. To get a catolog send name and address to Nostalgia Press, Box 293, Franklin Square, N.Y. 11010. Since fantasy and sword 84 sorcery have gained such popularity in recent years a list of this sort would be incomplete without mentioning a good buyingfinfo source on the topic. The Fantasy Collector P.O. Box 550 Evergreen, Colo. 80439 Although Nostaligia Press offers reprints of entire newspaper strips llike Flash Gor- don, Popeye, Terry 84 The Pirates etc.l there is one other place to get old newspaper re- prints. The Comic World published by Memory Lane located at 594 Markham street, Toronto, Ontario. Comic World is a combination of exact reprints and writ- ten history of the earliest newspaper strips. Probably the three best books covering both Comic book impact and history are: The Great Comic Book Heroes by jules Feiffer The Sterciko 4 History of Comics. Vol. 7 by james Sterako All ln Color For A Dime edited by Dick Lupoff 84 Don Thompson The following is the only monthly adver- tisement catalogfmagazine of its sort pub- lished. With an average of eighty pages, every nostalgic item one could imagine is listed. Anything from old radio shows on cassette tapes or listings of old comic books - pulps - SF books for sale to Lone Ranger club pins can be found. Rocieefs Blast Comicolfecror order from: The SFCA 9875 SW 212 Street Miami, Florida 33157 Single copy 65 cents 3rd class Subscription rates iaccording to RBCC No. 671 3rd class 4 issues 52.00 lst 4 53.00 Air Mail 4 H 55.25

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