Welcome to Friday’s fantastic, friendly neighborhood, fun loving, Daily Mega Comics Group Updates!

Friday! Whew! 😀 What a week! Paper work! That’s about all we’ve done this week!

So we decided to take a little break and browse some old favorite covers. We enjoyed our little stroll down memory lane so much we decided to share some of our findings with you. Enjoy the gallery! You will find Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Gene Colon, Jim Steranko, John Romita, Wally Wood, Bill Everette, Joe Sinnott, Frank Giacoia, Don Heck, Vince Colletta and Neal Adams classic work that was the foundation of Marvel Comics back in it’s heyday in the 1960’s! Over all it was the Silver Age of Comics but it was called by Stan Lee, who wrote most of the scripts for these milestone issues, the Marvel Age! I think Roy Thomas wrote one or two as well. 😉 These are the writers and cartoonists that most influenced us, but there were others as well, and we’ll share those one day soon.

Next week! We are still officially on sabbatical but should have some noticeable improvements to the site next week. Keep your fingers crossed and we might even have a preview or two of our new titles too. So bear with us a little longer please.

Have a nice weekend! Other than Basketball there’s not a lot going on this time of year. Most of the country is still enveloped in the icy grip of a very long Winter but Spring is just around the corner so hang in there. So much for Global Warming, eh? 😉 Remember Y2K!

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.

Click the images for today’s web comics updates.

CU Next Week!

Marvel’s Greatest Covers #1

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Like the Man said, “’nuff said!”

Welcome to Friday’s favorite, fan requested, fat free, Daily Mega Comics Group Updates!

Friday? What happened to the week?! 😀 Well, things have not exactly come off on schedule this week. We had hoped to have another post for you this week but we just couldn’t do it. We did finally get all our 2008 bookkeeping out of the way and now it’s in the accountants hands to get it ready for Uncle Sam. Whew! We’re glad that’s over.

Everyone loved the 60’s Marvel cover gallery we put up last week we decided to do it again. We give you more reasons why Marvel was such a success in the 1960’s! Again brought to you by  Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Gene Colon, Jim Steranko, John Romita, Wally Wood, Bill Everette, Joe Sinnott, Frank Giacoia, Don Heck, Vince Colletta, Steve Ditko, Chic Stone, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, Gil Kane, John Severin, Maria Severin, Herb Trimpe, Jay Gavin, George Tuska and Neal Adams. Without these talents there well may not have been a Marvel Comics! Marvel today owes all it is to these founding fathers who along with Stan Lee and Roy Thomas gave us the Marvel Age of Comics!

In the day, covers were designed to maximize the attention of buyers at newsstands. It was not as much about the art as it was selling that issue! Some were more like ads than covers. Early on Stan Lee populated the covers with word balloons and all manner of hyperbole. The covers themselves had to tell a story enough to entice the customer to pick it out from among all the other choices. As the 1960’s rolled on less words were on the cover, often just the title logo and maybe the name that issues story. So take another stroll with us down memory lane and see how Marvel, the small upstart of that day, got there foot in the door to make the sale.

Next week! We will start back to posting more often as we get back on schedule. We’ll clue you in on what’s been going on behind the scenes and start getting you prepared for the debut of our new titles.

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.

Click the images for today’s web comics updates.

CU Next Week!

More Reasons For Marvel’s Success Cover Gallery:

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Have a nice weekend!

Welcome to Friday’s Daily Mega Comics Group Updates!

Have you ever felt overwhelmed? Have you ever felt like you have got so much to do and so much more you have promised you would do that it looks like there is just no way to get it all done? That’s where we are now! We are approaching our second anniversary here at the Mega Comics Group virtual offices and frankly we’ve done a lot! We have posted about 300 pages of comic book story and art. We use to know the exact number but we’ve forgotten now! 😉 We’ve also put up about the same number of blogs plus page by page commentary and info on each page of comic art plus a whole slew of sketches, concept drawings and whatnot, not to mention all the industry news and tributes! A new reader of this site could literally spend days reading all the material we have posted here. But don’t get the idea we are tooting our own horn here! Perish forbid! But then since it is our horn who else would toot it? 😉 So whats the point of this little bit of braggadocio? Just a little reminder to ourselves and whoever else might be interested that even though we may be just a tad bit behind schedule we are far from done! We are in the process of trimming out the fat and getting to the meat of what we want to do here with Mega Comics Group! We’ll borrow a phase from our esteemed Publisher-In-Training and Creator of Catch Phrases, Mark Poe and say we will “Begin Again!” Yeah, whenever you feel overwhelmed with obligations, don’t give up, just stop, reorganize and “Begin Again!”

Next week! We will start a new little feature we want to call Archives Spotlight. This is something we’ve had in mind for several months actually but had not thought of exactly how to do it. As we said in the above introduction, we have somewhere around 300 pages of comic art on this site. It takes more than half a gig to hold it all on our server and yet we don’t think we have utilized it to it’s fullest. For that short sightedness we apologize. But we hope to make amends with the Archives Spotlight. Too often once comics on a web site are posted initially it’s like the  work goes into the archive limbo never to be mentioned again. That should not be. So, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays we’ll put the spot light on our archived titles and re-present them as we did when we first posted them. We realize everyone does not like re-runs but we do have new readers coming in all the time so they may appreciate our spotlighting what’s in the archives. Some older readers will enjoy seeing them again.

Also Next Week: We’ll give you the lowdown on just what ol’ Stan “The Man” Lee is doing these days and it has nothing to do with Marvel Comics.

And to set the stage for our Archives Spotlight… While this is not our comics it is  one of the tributes to our heroes who inspired us to attempt publishing comics in the first place! We are doing a re-posting of the 150 Reasons Marvel Comics Succeeded cover gallery we posted about a year ago. Enjoy!

Everyone loved the 60’s Marvel cover gallery we put up last week we decided to do it again. We give you 150 reasons why Marvel was such a success in the 1960’s! Again brought to you by  Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Gene Colon, Jim Steranko, John Romita, Wally Wood, Bill Everette, Joe Sinnott, Frank Giacoia, Don Heck, Vince Colletta, Steve Ditko, Chic Stone, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, Gil Kane, John Severin, Maria Severin, Herb Trimpe, Jay Gavin, George Tuska and Neal Adams. Without these talents there well may not have been a Marvel Comics! Marvel today owes all it is to these founding fathers who along with Stan Lee and Roy Thomas gave us the Marvel Age of Comics!

In the day, covers were designed to maximize the attention of buyers at newsstands. It was not as much about the art as it was selling that issue! Some were more like ads than covers. Early on Stan Lee populated the covers with word balloons and all manner of hyperbole. The covers themselves had to tell a story enough to entice the customer to pick it out from among all the other choices. As the 1960’s rolled on less words were on the cover, often just the title logo and maybe the name that issues story. So take another stroll with us down memory lane and see how Marvel, the small upstart of that day, got there foot in the door to make the sale.

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.

150 Reasons For Marvel’s Success Cover Gallery:

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Have a nice weekend! CU Monday!