It Seems that Tomahawk and his Rip-Roaring Rangers had to cope with a Frankenstein monster even during the American Revolutionary War. This version of the monster from 1966 is a giant.
In the mid 1960's DC comics put those groovy checks across the top of their books. Those “Go-Go Checks” were the creation of onetime DC Editorial Director Irwin Donenfeld. In an interview published in TwoMorrows’ COMIC BOOK ARTIST, and quoted at Oddball Comics, Donenfeld explains,
“In those days, comics were on the newsstands with vertical slots for the magazines. I wanted to have something that showed DC Comics were different than anything else. So I worked it out with Sol Harrison and (put) out that checkerboard across the top. So wherever these magazines were displayed, you could always see a DC comic from way back. It was to distinguish us from anybody else.”
Comic Book Spinner Rack tells us what the go-go checks are and where we can find them:
Known as Go-Go Checks, the checkerboard pattern that ran across the top of every issue for a year and a half was not simply a reflection of the era’s pop-art movement. Since some newsstand racks displayed comics vertically, revealing only the upper portion of a book, the pattern was intended to make DC’s comics stand out and thus, theoretically, increase sales. “What a ridiculous thing,” Carmine Infantino declared. “It was the stupidest idea we ever heard because the books were bad in those days and that just showed people right off what not to buy.” But Donenfeld disagreed: “I was trying to find a way of making DC Comics pop out on the newsstand. It wasn’t a bad idea; it just didn’t work the way I wanted it to. It didn’t add anything, but I thought it might.” In fact, total sales for the entire DC line during this period were at their peak for the 1960s, sales for Batman-related titles increased dramatically, and DC was outselling all of its competitors. The checks were most likely cancelled as a waste of precious cover space, and interestingly, sales did begin to stall about a year later.
art @ DC Comics
In the mid 1960's DC comics put those groovy checks across the top of their books. Those “Go-Go Checks” were the creation of onetime DC Editorial Director Irwin Donenfeld. In an interview published in TwoMorrows’ COMIC BOOK ARTIST, and quoted at Oddball Comics, Donenfeld explains,
“In those days, comics were on the newsstands with vertical slots for the magazines. I wanted to have something that showed DC Comics were different than anything else. So I worked it out with Sol Harrison and (put) out that checkerboard across the top. So wherever these magazines were displayed, you could always see a DC comic from way back. It was to distinguish us from anybody else.”
Comic Book Spinner Rack tells us what the go-go checks are and where we can find them:
Known as Go-Go Checks, the checkerboard pattern that ran across the top of every issue for a year and a half was not simply a reflection of the era’s pop-art movement. Since some newsstand racks displayed comics vertically, revealing only the upper portion of a book, the pattern was intended to make DC’s comics stand out and thus, theoretically, increase sales. “What a ridiculous thing,” Carmine Infantino declared. “It was the stupidest idea we ever heard because the books were bad in those days and that just showed people right off what not to buy.” But Donenfeld disagreed: “I was trying to find a way of making DC Comics pop out on the newsstand. It wasn’t a bad idea; it just didn’t work the way I wanted it to. It didn’t add anything, but I thought it might.” In fact, total sales for the entire DC line during this period were at their peak for the 1960s, sales for Batman-related titles increased dramatically, and DC was outselling all of its competitors. The checks were most likely cancelled as a waste of precious cover space, and interestingly, sales did begin to stall about a year later.
art @ DC Comics
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