Comments on: The Quality Companion

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:00:38 +0000

Great review. My wife got this for me for Christmas so can’t wait for tommorow to open it. I always enjoy reading about these characters. Quality, Charlton and Atlas/Seaboard are three companies whose histories I have always been fascinated by.

By: Eric Gimlin

Eric Gimlin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:29:41 +0000

Just grabbed the Digital version of this; I might not have $32+ of interest in it but $11? Sure!

I’m not sure TwoMorrows digital policies would work for the bigger companies, but they’re certainly close to a model for what I like as a buyer: Much cheaper from day one, no special software required, no problems moving from one computer to another.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:07:38 +0000

HuhI may have to check this out, as I’ve been interested in The Ray character since I read the Harris and Queseda mini in the 90s with his son.

I’d also like to see something with Phantom Lady that doesn’t involve her dying too.:) (I’ve only seen the character in 2 stories and both the woman calling herself PL dies)

Is it odd that I always get these characters and the Charlton characters mixed up? Well not in terms of characters, ut who fits with who, etc.

By: Thad

Thad — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:09:29 +0000

Meant to add: I read that Spiegelman was working on a followup to the Cole book, focusing on Lev Gleason Publications and Crime Does Not Pay. He said that the most amazing artifact he’d uncovered as part of his research was Bob Wood’s confession (Wood was convicted of manslaughter after beating a woman to death — I’ve read in some accounts that it was his wife but the details have varied according to different sources).

By: Thad

Thad — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:28:48 +0000

Wow, looks great.

I read Spiegelman and Kidd’s book about Jack Cole and Plastic Man a couple of years back and fell in love with Cole’s work (and with the presentation). This sounds like another great work in the same vein, and I may have to give it a look.

A couple related links:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1999/04/19/1999_04_19_076_TNY_LIBRY_000018012?currentPage=all — Spiegelman’s original New Yorker article that formed the basis for the book I mentioned
http://product.half.ebay.com/_W0QQprZ1924913 — the book itself, cheap! at half.com
And a lot of the old Quality stuff is public domain and available at digitalcomicmuseum.com .