Lotus Land #5 - Been pretty good, almost over may as well finish it.

Man’s Best #1 - Maybe, gonna flip through it. Pets in space.

Dawnrunner #1 - Ram V. All I know, but the cover looks intriguing and Ram V is good

Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees #4 - Perhaps my favorite book out right now, if you’ve been sleeping on this one check out the reprints or trade when it comes out.

Deer Editor #3 - Didn’t see that twist coming, this is the last book in series.

That’s it for me, what’s on your list this week?

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I feel this needs some explanation:

    Back in the day, the editor in chief at DC, Julius Schwartz, had an opinion…

    If you wanted to boost sales on any given comic, put a gorilla on the cover.

    Weirdly, the sales stats seemed to back him up and so throughout the late 50s and 60s, a BUNCH of primate related covers turned up across all of DC.

    “I followed every single magazine that we produced and I was able to see how certain themes would sell. For example, I discovered that gorillas sell. We had gorilla covers on Star Spangled War Stories or Wonder Woman - you name a magazine, we had a gorilla on it. You know what happened? Sales exceeded our expectations.”

    https://screenrant.com/dc-comics-history-gorillas-apes-covers-silver-age/

    “In the period of 1951-1970, Julius Schwartz oversaw a total of 22 ape covers on books he edited, followed by the editor of all Superman titles Mort Weisinger with 18. Jack Schiff, who handled a wide variety of books including Batman (and co-created Batman’s Bat-Signal) oversaw 17 ape covers in this period.”