The Trouble with Crediting Creators

Some creators and fans crusade for attribution, which is fair, but often nuanced.

How do you credit Adam Strange?

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Nabisco's cereal mascot Buffalo Bee appears, not on a giveaway or boxtop premium, but a regular 10c kids humor comic from Dell.

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Hey Kids! Send your money to us!

Comic book ads in

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The Charlton Lettering

According to https://t.co/6fvnAkTu9u Charlton used a variable typewriter to save money on lettering.

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To appease the scolds, there will be no kissing ... ahem, no kissing...oh for crying out loud, will you two stop before we get a telegram?

Okay. So obviously kissing is still okay in the Silver Age.

But Ixney on the Ounguetay.

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Hey 1990s! You think your "Death of Superman" with a Cyborg Superman was all that and a bag of chips?

The Silver Age has got you beat, complete with Robot Superman, and they didn't wrap their version in black cellophane as a 'collectors item'

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"The leader of a ruthless gang of claims to be The Man Who Killed The Phantom" in Lee Falk's THE PHANTOM No. 8. SilverAge
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The Adventures of Big Boy

Published by the owners of Big Boy and Shoneys, the title began in 1957 and ran 562 issues!!!

Trivia: There *were* 2 Big Boys

Left: West Coast Big Boy
Right: East Coast Big Boy (Extinct)

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And for those fans, Amazing Fantasy 15 was published by Atlas Magazines, Inc, while The Amazing Spider-Man 1 was published by Non-Pareil Publishing Corp. (Kirby/Ditko covers).

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And as for winning a trivia contest - Fantastic Four number 1 (Cover credits: Jack Kirby pencils, George Klein Inks, Stan Goldberg color) was actually published by
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Canam Publisher's Sales Corp

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