comic courier ENCORE
A multi-zine
celebration of the 50+ year
anniversary of Comic Courier.
This undertaking has been 5 years in the works (so far!), and over 75 comic fans (many of them "first fans" from that seminal generation of Comics Fandom) are represented with contributions, new and old. The joy of creating comics and story with fine folks like this is what Fandom was (and is) all about.
These are FANZINES. All content (by amateurs and pros alike) is freely contributed (and occasionally ripped-off.) The zines themselves are edited, designed, typed, laid out, printed, hand-folded, hand-stapled, stuffed in envelopes and hand-addressed by Yours Truly (Mark Ammerman.) A labor of love, they are a heckuvalot of work and a heckuvalot of fun! Please enjoy! And please let your friends and family know how to find these pages and purchase these zines. Thank you!
This Black Terror illustration to the left is a bang-up bit of Billy Fugate artwork (previously unpublished) from 1970.
HERE BELOW are the FANZINES
of the COMIC COURIER ENCORE PROJECT (so far!)
MARVEL WEST #1 is the first of the fanzines in the Comic Courier Encore project. It features Kid Colt, Outlaw and his principal artist Jack Keller. Original articles and art by Will Murray, John Mozzer, Marie Severin, Mark Marderosian, Mark Ammerman, Arto Heino, and more. Includes a classic 5-page "Sheriff of Tombstone" comic drawn by Jammin' Jack Keller. Profusely illustrated with examples of Western comic art by the best of the Marvel West bullpen of old. All that and a bag of buffalo chips.
The cover here above is a previously unpublished Kid Colt comic cover rough by Marie Severin (the final published cover was penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Joe Sinnott.)
8.5 x 11, wrap-around, saddle-stiched, b&w
48 pages (and a poster!)
AVAILABLE NOW
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for
$10 for one copy
($18 for two)
Order through PAYPAL at ccencore,
or mail a check to:
Mark Ammerman
1324 S. Duke Street
Lancaster, PA 17602.
Make sure you tell me where to mail your zines! The price tag includes tax and postage (and a few surprises.)
MARVEL WEST #2 is a saddlebag full of story and art (old and new), comics and commentary (reprinted and previously unpublished), reviews and reminiscence by a rough-ridin' remuda of old hands from the Golden Age of Comics Fandom (and a couple of greenhorns): Paty Cockrum, Steve Green, Gary Kato, Mark Marderosian, James Murray, Marie Severin, Steve Shipley, Dave Simons, Tulio Vilela, Duffy Vohland, Mark Wheatley, Rick Williams, and Ye Ed (Mark Ammerman.)
The cover here above was penciled by Mark Ammerman and inked by Rick Williams, with finished color and layout by Ammerman. The illustration was originally published (with an alternate color scheme) as the cover of Jim Mains fanzine *PPFSZT! #49 (March 2019.)
Multitudinous pages (and a poster!)
COMIC COURIER #1 will be reprinted for the Comic Courier Encore project, with the first 50 orders receiving their copy complete with the actual original printed cover (there are 50 copies of the original 1969 photo-offset cover still left, printed on beige cardstock.) After those covers are gone, the reprint's cover will be newly printed on a heavy beige paper instead.
CC #1 features a Wildfire comic installment, "Captain America's Film Career"; "Would You Believe... Captain Action?"; a Marvel Western comics article; "DZ Kid vs. Marbell"; "Fandom Reproductions" (featuring amateur heroes from other fanzines); a Bowser comic installment, "Praise, Prose and Prophecy" (poetry, short fiction, commentary on the comics scene at the time), and more.
This one is sittin' and waitin' for its companion zine ENCORE to roll off the presses (sometime before Jesus returns, Lord willin' and that trumpet don't blow.)
40 pages of classic fanzine fun!
ENCORE #1 reprises all the features of 1969's Comic Courier #1, with all new art and story by so many old fans (and a few newbies) that we can't even name them all (but we've tried... and you can find that list on the home page of this site.)
The Wildfire cover here above (an unfinished piece as yet) is a collaboration between Doc Boucher (initial pencil layouts), Mark Ammerman (finished pencils and colors... though this is a b&w version), and Mark Marderosian (digital inks.)
More pages than a Silver Age DC Giant! Packaged with a reprint of Comic Courier #1: two zines for the price of one-and-a-half. (And a poster!) Available sometime after Marvel West #1 and Marvel West #2 have both been published and I've recovered from the shock of becoming a Big Name Fan at last (well, maybe I'll just have to recover from the shock of turning 70 while all this transpires!)
GOLDEN STREET #1 includes articles, stories, reminiscences, art, photos, and interviews with folks from the days of the Golden Age of Comics Fandom (1961-1972.) Major interview with the (recently) late Johnny Souza (who passed away at 92 in January of 2023); Johnny was the editor/publisher of the one-shot fanzine Yesteryear (1969) which spotlighted the comics of the Golden Age which Johnny bought new off the newsstand when he was a young comic collector and budding artist.
The cover here above (not quite finished... but worth gaping at here in the meantime) is a collaboration between John Onoda (initial pencil layouts), Mark Ammerman (finished pencils and unfinished tones), and Ken Meyer Jr (inks: traditional brushwork.)
A whole lotta pages goin' on (and a poster)! Scheduled (well, "scheduled" is a very loose term!) for publication following Encore #1.
SALUTE! #1 honors several beloved fans who are no longer with us (all former Comic Courier contributors, some who went on to professional careers in comics and cartooning): Jim Chrislip, Bill Fugate, Mike Graycar, Chris Gubelman, Alan Hanley, Dick Kulpa, Dave Simons, Duffy Vohland, and Rick Williams.
Photos and memorial comments from friends and family members, as well as art and text (reprinted and formerly unpublished) by each of these men.
The cover here features Christopher Jay Gubelman at the easel, and that's his art--previously unpublished--in the foreground. This will be a full-color cover when published.
Plenty big (plus a poster). The final zine of the Comic Courier Encore project.