Publisher's Synopsis
WOW WHAT A MAGAZINE #2 S.M. Iger, Editor Stories Include: Fugitive Sheriff Fu Manchu How Popeye Was Created The Winged Mule A Day On The Movie Set and more... Now you can enjoy again - or, for the first time - some of the best in classic comics . As we look at the history of comics, we can all name any number of books that are historically important, starting with Famous Funnies and continuing on from there. And with almost all of them, we can think of classic stories that came out of those runs. But there are a few books scattered here and there that showed up, lasted only briefly, and left without leaving much in the way of classic stories. It's only when you look at the people who worked on the book, or where some of the concepts later developed, that you realize their importance. Wow - What a Magazine! was a short-lived magazine sized (9.5x11.25") title from 1936, extremely early in the history of comic books as we normally think of them. Edited by Jerry Iger, it was a mix of reprint & original material, is noted for early work by a large number creators who went onto great fame. In just the first issue, creators included Dick Briefer, Jerry Iger, Leo O'Mealia, Will Eisner, Bernard Baily, and Lou Ferstadt. Bob Kane and Geo Brenner joined with the 2nd issue and Charles Biro seems to have done some of the gag pages at some point according to Bails' Who's Who site. Behind an Eisner cover #2 is a blend of comics, gags, puzzles, hobby pages along with editorial features on E.C. Sager's 'Popeye' and W.C. Fields. Eisner does 'The Flame', 'Captain Scott Dalton' and 'Harry Karry' a humorous secret agent feature. Perhaps the most visually interesting features of the book 'Tom Sherrill' and 'Puzzle Phun' were done by Don DeConn. Bob Kane does a humour page 'Hiram Hick in New York' in each issue. Kane's earliest works were gag features hoping as all comics artists did to one day to land a newspaper strip of his own. So far we only have a scan of Wow #2. We hope some day to share them all. The comic reprints from ecomicspace.com are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old.