Scan from 1964 fanzine called Odd

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, March 7, 2008 10:26 AM | permalink

Pappy, the blogger of "Pappy's Golden Age of Comics" kindly scanned a story from a 1964 fanzine called Odd.

This early fanzine strip is from 1964. In a great little short by Marv Wolfman and artist Dave Herring perfectly captures the Wonder Woman comic. Odd was a fun fanzine, inspired by Harvey Kurtzman and Humbug.

The letters page is funny.

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#1 posted by Mikey Likes BoingBoing , March 7, 2008 10:42 AM

Very cool, thanks for the link. I guess it's a sign either I have a great memory or I am old (I'll run with the former) that I chuckled to myself noticing the giant dinosaur was labeled "Sinclair" and Blunder Woman's invisible jet was labeled "Revell". And BW putting her costume on backwards coz she's invisible to everyone including herself...funny stuff!

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#2 posted by jaykinney

, March 7, 2008 11:41 AM

ODD was the first fanzine for which I did extensive comic art on ditto master, back when I was a teenager. There's more cool material from ODD online at Dave Herring's website at:

http://david.herring.home.comcast.net/~david.herring/

(Dave's site unfortunately eludes Google searches for "Dave Herring", and I had trouble finding it even though I knew it was out there.

Check it out. Great stuff.

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#3 posted by Antinous , March 7, 2008 11:47 AM

Is that mimeographed?

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#4 posted by Takuan , March 7, 2008 12:03 PM

hectographed

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#5 posted by Mark Frauenfelder

, March 7, 2008 1:18 PM

Wow -- thanks for the update, Jay!

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#6 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

, March 8, 2008 9:33 PM

Jay! Good to see you.

Takuan, it could be hekto, but I'm betting it's ditto.

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#7 posted by Takuan , March 8, 2008 9:45 PM

aye, that or potato stamp printing

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#8 posted by jaykinney

, March 8, 2008 10:32 PM

It was ditto. The earliest ODDs (see covers at the link I posted above) were hectograph, but that primitive gel-based repro system wouldn't yield much more than 20 copies (if that). But with either hecto or ditto, the Herring Bros. were absolute masters in getting the best detailed color results.

Hi Teresa! Long time no see. Small world and all that.