• Satellite Sam •

The back end of BLACK KISS oh wait i see what i did there

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:47:11 -0700

The back end of BLACK KISS

oh wait i see what i did there

BLACK KISS 1-6, covers by HVC. Some of the most iconic of his...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:40:35 -0700

BLACK KISS 1-6, covers by HVC. Some of the most iconic of his career.

These things were so filthy, the thinking at the time went, they were shipped in all-black poly-bags.

I tried to get someone to spring for doing that with a SAT. SAM variant and H. was more than game but apparently people want to see the covers before they buy them?

(Sign o the times: Literally every page of BLACK KISS 2 is more filthy, more perverse, more dark, and more obscene than the whole of BK — but it’s not 1986 anymore, is it?)

Walt Disney, maybe, from THE IRON GATE

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:33:49 -0700

Walt Disney, maybe, from THE IRON GATE

Ben Hecht, from THE IRON GATE

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:27:08 -0700

Ben Hecht, from THE IRON GATE

WOW from THE IRON GATE

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:20:37 -0700

WOW

from THE IRON GATE

This CAPTAIN VIDEO is from 1949. 1949! Look what they were...

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:13:58 -0700

This CAPTAIN VIDEO is from 1949. 1949! Look what they were trying to do with this stuff. Then imagine you had to do it EVERY DAY.

The Morning Mollino

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:07:11 -0700

The Morning Mollino

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Mel Graff, from THE IRON GATE.

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:47:17 -0700

Mel Graff, from THE IRON GATE.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 13:40:49 -0700

CAPTAIN VIDEO episode. Suits, ties, and space helmets.

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:33:55 -0700

CAPTAIN VIDEO episode. Suits, ties, and space helmets.

ABC Television Studio 1, Birmingham, AL.

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:27:14 -0700

ABC Television Studio 1, Birmingham, AL.

John Steinbeck, from THE IRON GATE

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:20:44 -0700

John Steinbeck, from THE IRON GATE

Amid midtown Manhattan’s high-rise buildings stands a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:13:52 -0700

Amid midtown Manhattan’s high-rise buildings stands a vestige of old New York. Three 19th century townhouses keep a secret buried deep inside -– the 21 Club.

The club opened as a speakeasy in 1929 and was one of the swankiest of the city’s approximately 32,000 illegal clubs during Prohibition. It’s one of the very few that still exist today.

“Anybody who was anybody who wanted to see and be seen would come to 21,” said 21 Club general manager Bryan McGuire.

Famous faces, like Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra were regulars, and even Hollywood has captured its glamorous appeal over the years in films like “Wall Street.”

But it wasn’t all good times and glamour for 21 Club. Federal agents targeted the bar during Prohibition. In fact, a gossip columnist was banned after he penned a column noting that Prohibition agents had never raided 21. The next day, law enforcement agents decended on the speakeasy and the owners vowed that day in 1930 never again to lose their precious liquor in a raid.

They hired an architect to design an ingenious and intricate system to hide and destroy liquor in case of future raids…

The Morning Mollino

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:07:14 -0700

The Morning Mollino

One of the Good Dead Ones - John Frankenheimer during his days...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:30:54 -0700

One of the Good Dead Ones - John Frankenheimer during his days inventing how live television was made. There are a few exceptional interview pieces with the man about that time; one is on the Criterion Collection edition called THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION (where these were taken from) and the quite-frankly indispensable Archive of American Television, which has a staggering 13-part interview with him there. His patience waxes and wanes with the kid interviewing him, but he’s sharp, funny, vivid and crackling with intelligence.

from REGAL magazine, 1951.

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:01:38 -0700

from REGAL magazine, 1951.

a DuMont kinescope — a film camera aimed at an angled...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:30:36 -0700

a DuMont kinescope — a film camera aimed at an angled mirror that reflects what the video camera shot in the studio. This was how early television was preserved before video tape.

TELL YOUR LOCAL COMIC SHOP TO RESERVE YOUR COPY THIS WEEK •...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:31:29 -0700

TELL YOUR LOCAL COMIC SHOP TO RESERVE YOUR COPY THIS WEEK • PREORDERING KEEPS CREATOR-OWNED COMICS ALIVE

SEX, DEATH, AND LIVE TV: Fraction and Chaykin team up on SATELLITE SAM

This July, acclaimed comic book creators Matt Fraction (Hawkeye,Casanova, Iron Man) and Howard Chaykin (BLACK KISS, AMERICAN FLAGG) will take readers back to the Golden Age of Television, a time when innocence was as manufactured a fiction as the perfect families in the comedies that captivated audiences at home. Their new Image Comics series SATELLITE SAM, debuting in July, takes a look at the darkness behind the small screen when, in 1951, Carlyle Bishop, the star of the beloved serial “Satellite Sam” turns up dead in a filthy flophouse.

Carlyle’s son Michael has a hunch that his father’s death was anything but natural, but the only clue is a box full of photographs of women in various states of undress — and Mike can’t bring himself to stay sober long enough to make any sense of it.

For Fraction and Chaykin, SATELLITE SAM is a chance to tell a murder mystery while simultaneously divesting the 1950s of its mantle of moral purity.

“It’s a detective story, a history of television, and a record of addiction, sex, and depravity during a time when the antiseptic shine off Ozzie and Harriet obscure what was really happening in the world,” said writer Fraction. “And these are just a few of the many joys that come from telling a story about television while it was being invented as a mass medium in New York City.”

The creative team researched television’s early days in preparation for the series, getting a feel for the era and for the people who lived real lives while inventing an idealized — and fictionalized — image of families and relationships.

“We’d been talking about SATELLITE SAM for a while, but what really got it going was a long Winter’s day Matt and I spent wandering New York, feeling the city’s ghosts, its lost and found architecture, ending up at the Paley Center, where we watched kinescopes of long dead men and women, acting out children’s fantasies, while living complex lives off-camera,” said Chaykin. “To say that I’m both having the time of my life collaborating on this project, and getting my ass kicked in the process, is to grossly understate the case.”

SATELLITE SAM is an ongoing black-and-white series. Its first issue can be pre-ordered now from the May issue of Previews and will be in stores on July 3.

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