C.K. Phone Home

Sorry about yesterday. Spent all my words elsewhere. I'm sure i'll dig up some more for today.
But, first - a quick reminder of life in 1978 - 40 years ago, Superman had a land line* to his Fortress Of Solitude...



...and the president of Tri-State Bell had what even the President didn't have - Kal El's phone number!

panels by Curt Swan and Frank Chiaramonte from Superman #328 (1978)

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*(For younger readers, a "Land Line" refers to an ancient practice wherein phone signals actually traveled along a physical wire. This required a "Phone Line" to be in place connecting both ends of the conversation. Whether strung along a series of poles or buried underground, it was referred to either way as a "land line".)  

Un-Teaser

I've come to the conclusion that we haven't run enough Un-Comics lately. (Un-Comics is what we call comics that come from sources other than comic books) Fortunately, we can do that and continue the teaser from the previous post.

Oh - before i forget, let's get this out of the way...

That'll answer questions that may arise further down the page.

So, anyway - this cool old paper i used to enjoy not only provided excellent posters, they also covered comics. In fact, occasionally the two overlapped, like with this centerfold poster -

Not only did they cover comics on a regular basis, they routinely ran their own short strips - usually two pagers. And they drew in some top talent along the way - note some of the names in the credits below - Brunner, Byrne, Starlin, and Wolfman, to name just a few...

So, the Kong pic at the top of page only kinda partially answers questions that might have arisen from the intro to The Sacrifice. Allow us to further elucidate...

Okay. I know Rip knows this old paper - how about the rest of you?
I promise - we'll actually name names next time.

comics by Dave Gibbons, John Byrne, Frank Brunner, Jim Starlin, Martin Pasko, Bruce Jones, Berni Wrightson, Greg Theakston, Marv Wolfman, David Izzo, Rich Buckler, John Simons, Steve Hickman, Gil Kane, Steve Ditko, Roacho Rizzo, Tom Armstrong, and Dez Skinn (1971ish)