Famous Stars
#2
(1950)
Ziff-Davis,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
- Brand
- A Ziff-Davis Comic
- Editing
- Jerry Siegel (director comics division)
[no title indexed]
Hollywood Quiz / activity / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sid Couchey (signed)
- Inks
- Sid Couchey (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Synopsis
- Guess who the actors are by identifying different parts of their bodies.
Indexer Notes
On inside front cover.
Laugh, Betty, Laugh
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Inks
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Duffy ?
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- bio of Betty Hutton
Hollywood Wants You
comic story / 4 pages
- Synopsis
- Talent scouts look for new faces for the movies.
Indexer Notes
Art formally attributed to John Prentice. Email from Jim Vadeboncoeur calls the artist "Little Al" because he drew most of the strips for this title under Ziff Davis. He has yet to identify him.
What's with the Crosbys?
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Everett ? (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Bing Crosby; Dixie Lee; Paul Whiteman; Larry Crosby; Mr. O'Melveny; Al Rinker; Mildred Bailey; Gary Crosby; Philip Crosby; Dennis Crosby; Lindsay Crosby; Charley
- Reprints
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in The Bill Everett Archives (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #2 - Heroic Tales (September 2013)
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Indexer Notes
Everett signature appears on the splash panel in the lower left, vertically, next to Bing's elbow.
This story recounts the life of Crosby from his earliest days until the present, with his marriage difficulties with Dixie Lee interspersed around and through it.
A Star Looks Heavenward
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Inks
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ed Hamilton
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- bio of Colleen Townsend
No Swan Song for Swanson
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney ?; Irv Novick ?
- Inks
- Sy Barry ?; Jim Mooney ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- bio of Gloria Swanson
Indexer Notes
Art identification per email from Jim Vadeboncoeur. Formally attributed to John Prentice.
Stunts That Made Stars
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Bill Everett ? (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Stunts that actors did to get hired or recognized to obtain parts in motion pictures.
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Full page illustrated ad (one panel has Matt Baker art) for Romantic Marriage.
[no title indexed]
activity / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Inks
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Synopsis
- Contest to name the film actor whom you would nominate as Hollywood's Most Beautiful Hunk of Man.
Indexer Notes
On back cover.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[no title indexed]
Hollywood Quiz -
2.
Laugh, Betty, Laugh
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3.
Hollywood Wants You
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4.
What's with the Crosbys?
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5.
Hollywood's Cinderella Girl
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6.
A Star Looks Heavenward
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7.
No Swan Song for Swanson
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8.
Stunts That Made Stars
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9.
[no title indexed]
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10.
[no title indexed]
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- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Mike Nielsen
- Richard Smith
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- David Wilt
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