tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post4249972554807885351..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Superpower to the Workers!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-34103305140350516582010-02-28T00:44:38.733-05:002010-02-28T00:44:38.733-05:00I think O’Neil’s recollection dovetails well with ...I think O’Neil’s recollection dovetails well with the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=18evuq_VXXUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA56" rel="nofollow">longer history in the <i>Comic Book Artist Collection</i></a>. But he saw only part of the story—suddenly, as a young man, getting a chance to work on the industry’s most established names. Older writers saw another part of the story, and DC Comics’s management viewed the whole situation in a different light. <br /><br />Given the legalities of assignment writing, no one was truly “fired”—editors just stopped hiring certain writers. Batman fans in particular look back with pleasure at the character’s new direction in the late 1960s, under O’Neil, Neal Adams, and others. But that change might be as much a result of behind-the-scenes corporate politics as artistic choices.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-74470824126195550382010-02-28T00:16:09.354-05:002010-02-28T00:16:09.354-05:00This article from Comic Book Artist Volume 2 gives...This article from <i>Comic Book Artist Volume 2</i> gives a fuller and much different account of the purge at DC in 1968:<br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=18evuq_VXXUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q=&f=false<br /><br />I wouldn't place too much faith in O'Neil's version.<br /><br />I'm surprised Matt Fraction never heard of ACBA! Not that I necessarily expect him to be a scholar of comics history, but it was heavily mentioned in some of the most significant comics published by DC in the early Seventies. It's the sort of thing I'd expect him to have picked up purely by osmosis along the way…Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.com