Heroic Comics #16

$100.00

Only 1 left in stock

Description

This is the actual, vintage Golden Age comic book published by Eastern Color Printing in January, 1943. This 64 page comic is complete, and this 16Th issue of Heroic marked the changeover in cover subjects; the previous 15 issues ran all superhero characters on the covers. Don’t let that fool you, though; this great GA comic features FOUR costumed supercharacters in their own stories: Hydroman, Music Master, Rainbow Boy and Man O’Metal, in addition to several short “true combat adventures” from WWII, and a brief reprint of the newspaper strip Flyin’ Jenny. Artists in this issue include Bud Thompson, Russel Keaton and possibly H.G. Peter on the Man O’ Metal strip, though he is probably inked here by a lesser artist. I am not a professional comic grader, I am simply selling some comics out of my collection, so I’m going to list this books’ defects as best I can. Please check the photos that go with this listing for more details on it’s relative condition. The cover is bright and reasonably supple, though it has seen plenty of handling. The staples are tight, folded slightly toward the front of the book, but with no rust anywhere. The cover itself is still attached, but beginning to tear away at the staples. There are small creases about 1/8″ wide tearing in both directions from the top and bottom legs of each staple. Additionally, their are two small (1/16″) round punctures through the cover (but not the books’ interior below them) right on the spine, one about 3″ up from the bottom, the other 4″ down from the top. Their is minor chipping and a few small tears all along the three trimmed edges of the cover, as well as a crease (showing white ) about 1/2″ in from both top and side at the lower right corner, and several lighter ( NOT showing white) creases running up from the bottom of the cover to the side-trim, across the bottom right 2/3 of the cover. There is a 1/4″ white stain along the cover bottom, just below the head of the fallen Japanese soldier and some small spatterings of some sort of transparent liquid ( long since dried) to the left of the downed soldier, over “Outstanding Heroes of War”, and over the running infantryman’s right hand. It’s only visible when you hold the cover up to the light and view it at an angle; where the liquid has spattered, what cover gloss is on the image is dulled to a matte finish. All four cover corners have some rounding; with a bit of chipping as well at both the top and bottom spine corners. Three smallish (1/4″) slightly darker stains near the right edge of the cover, starting near “No. 16” and running up near the S in “Heroes”, and a faint penciled “W” to the right of the G in “outstanding”. Interior is pretty tight and solid, with very little paper browning. There are some mild creases through the lower right corners though the first 8 pages and a bit at the top corner throughout, and their is a blue-ink stamp at the top of the first page with a previous owners’ name- Harold Kuplinger. All interior corners have a slight rounding, as well. There are no other defects on the interiors. Back cover is clean, slight tearing at the staples (continued from the tears listed on the front cover) ; one 3/4″ tear up from the bottom edge 2 1/2″ from the trim, and fairly heavy creasing along the lower left cover corner where that corner had been folded back about 1 1/2″ up from the bottom running to 2 1/2″ in from the trim. All in all a pretty decent complete and flat copy of a pretty obscure 1940’s book starring four rare costumed super-types.
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Mark G. Heike is best- known for his long association with AC Comics and especially his sexy girl artwork on the famous Femforce long running comic book, as well as comic book art in the 80’s and 90’s for publishers like Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, Big Entertainment, Chaos, Malibu, Top Cow and more, on features like Star Trek, Star Wars, Xena, She-Hulk, X-Men, Mantra, Nexus, Lady Justice, Aliens vs. Predator, TMNT, Bad Kitty, Witchblade and many others.

Stephanie S. Heike is known for Big Bang Comics from Image, Garfield from Boom Studios and 21st Centurions as well as several AC Comics publications

Mark and his wife Stephanie also have lots of other original pages and sketches, both published and unpublished, on a variety of characters- with “good girl art” for AC Comics a specialty. We also have comics including AC Comics comic books. If you’re interested in what else we may have, please ask us!
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AC Comics is an independent comic book publisher! AC Comics is not a comic shop retailer. We sell our brand new comics worldwide through Diamond Distribution and our comic book back issues (from 1983 up to today!) through our website at https://www.accomics.com . We always urge you to support your local comic book retailers to PRE-ORDER and BUY your NEW COLOR AC Comics from them, but if you can't find AC back issues, we have most of them here on our online store. To Order on our on-line store, go to our store page. On our AC Web Store To Order by Mail: List the items you would like to purchase on a sheet of paper and send check or money order to: AC Comics P.O. Box 394 Plymouth, FL 32768-0394 Remember to include appropriate shipping for the total number of items you have selected. If you want to be exact, you can email us. To Order by Phone: Call 407-767-0199 Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time). Note that this is a regular business telephone--NOT a "smart" cellular device--so please leave a message on our answering machine with your name and phone number and we'll get back to you. To Order by Email. Email us about what you want to order. We can weigh the comics at the USPS and email you the price plus shipping. [contact-form][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true" /][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="true" /][contact-field label="Website" type="url" /][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /][/contact-form]

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We always urge you to support your local comic book retailers to PRE-ORDER and BUY your NEW COLOR AC Comics from them, but if you can't find AC back issues, we have most of them here.  Yes, we are SOLD OUT of some of the latest COLOR issues and have priced remaining copies accordingly.

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For Pencillers, Inkers, Letterers and Colorists:

We really love and appreciate getting enthusiastic artist submissions from potential freelancers, including pencillers, inkers, letterers and colorists wanting to do comic books, but please DO NOT send ANY attachments to this email address.

 

If you have your art posted somewhere online on a site that you could send us a link to, that would be great!

Please email links to your artwork posted somewhere online (for example, on a showcase/gallery website  or a dropbox/wesendit/etc.. file  to show off your artwork)  and we'll check them out.

 

We would like you to be able to demonstrate some ability to produce reasonably effective comic book continuity ( Six or seven pages utilizing multiple panels telling a story or sequence of a story) with attractive people/superheroes/superheroines.

 

Ideally, we would like to see four or five of those pages with depictions of mundane everyday scenes to give us an idea of the quality of the comic artwork by itself before we make a decision to move the discussion along.

We are looking for sequential storytelling in comic book art. We've gotten several people sending us "paintings" lately --static, digitally over-rendered  generic straight-on shots of individual characters and being indignant when we've told them "No, this is wrong." We want to see comic book artwork.

While we do not strictly have a "House Style", we do prefer material that will lend itself to "classic American style comic books".  If you can draw attractive people using sequential storytelling , we can probably find a place somewhere your material will work.

  • Pencils: should be sequential and un-inked--if you have  inked samples of your pencils, please include both the inked and the UN-inked pages.
  • Inks: Samples should be sequential pages--if you have  inked samples, please include both the inked and the UN-inked pencilled pages.
  • Color: Color should be directed towards print publication.  We would like to see samples of included of both  finished tones with special FX and preliminary flats.
  • Lettering:  Should have some basic display samples as well as balloon lettering.  Show that you can handle standard comic book dialogue and sound FX. (We do not use lower case fonts unless a character is whispering!)

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For Comic Books:

 

We are also potentially interested in publishing previously established comic book creators and/or established comic book properties as creator owned comics.  That means, if we've heard of you and we like you, we might be interested!

Please DO NOT send unsolicited characters, concepts or comic books. THIS MEANS PLEASE DON"T SEND US ANYTHING,   PLEASE PHONE OR EMAIL AND ASK US FIRST.

Please, no comic book titles, no proprietary characters or anything related specifically to your concept should ever be sent to us at this time.

Contact us directly via email below.: 

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The AC Comics office phone is: 407-767-0199

Our hours are 9AM--5PM weekdays EST (Eastern Standard Time)

(Note: This is a regular business telephone--NOT a "smart" cellular device--so please leave a message on our answering machine with your name and phone number and we'll get back to you.

You can also contact us directly via Mail: AC Comics P.O. Box 394 Plymouth, FL 32768-0394

Submission Guidelines For Comic Books


Submission Guidelines For Comic Books:

We are also potentially interested in publishing previously established comic book creators and/or established comic book properties as creator owned comics. That means, if we've heard of you and we like you, we might be interested! Please DO NOT send unsolicited characters, concepts or comic books. THIS MEANS PLEASE DON"T SEND US ANYTHING, PLEASE PHONE OR EMAIL AND ASK US FIRST. Please, no comic book titles, no proprietary characters or anything related specifically to your concept should ever be sent to us at this time.

Contact us directly via email below.:

[contact-form to="FemforceHQ@aol.com" subject="Comic details"][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="1"][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="1"][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea"][/contact-form]

The AC Comics office phone is: 407-767-0199 Our hours are 9AM--5PM weekdays EST (Eastern Standard Time) (Note: This is a regular business telephone--NOT a "smart" cellular device--so please leave a message on our answering machine with your name and phone number and we'll get back to you. You can also contact us directly via Mail: AC Comics P.O. Box 394 Plymouth, FL 32768-0394

Submission Guidelines: For Pencillers, Inkers, Letterers and Colorists:

Submission Guidelines:

For Pencillers, Inkers, Letterers and Colorists: We really love and appreciate getting enthusiastic artist submissions from potential freelancers, including pencillers, inkers, letterers and colorists wanting to do comic books, but please DO NOT send ANY attachments to this email address.

 

If you have your art posted somewhere online on a site that you could send us a link to, that would be great! Please email links to your artwork posted somewhere online (for example, on a showcase/gallery website or a dropbox/wesendit/etc.. file to show off your artwork) and we'll check them out.

 

We would like you to be able to demonstrate some ability to produce reasonably effective comic book continuity ( Six or seven pages utilizing multiple panels telling a story or sequence of a story) with attractive people/superheroes/superheroines.

 

Ideally, we would like to see four or five of those pages with depictions of mundane everyday scenes to give us an idea of the quality of the comic artwork by itself before we make a decision to move the discussion along. We are looking for sequential storytelling in comic book art. We've gotten several people sending us "paintings" lately --static, digitally over-rendered generic straight-on shots of individual characters and being indignant when we've told them "No, this is wrong." We want to see comic book artwork. While we do not strictly have a "House Style", we do prefer material that will lend itself to "classic American style comic books". If you can draw attractive people using sequential storytelling , we can probably find a place somewhere your material will work.

  • Pencils: should be sequential and un-inked--if you have inked samples of your pencils, please include both the inked and the UN-inked pages.
  • Inks: Samples should be sequential pages--if you have inked samples, please include both the inked and the UN-inked pencilled pages.
  • Color: Color should be directed towards print publication. We would like to see samples of included of both finished tones with special FX and preliminary flats.
  • Lettering: Should have some basic display samples as well as balloon lettering. Show that you can handle standard comic book dialogue and sound FX. (We do not use lower case fonts unless a character is whispering!)

Contact us directly via email : [contact-form][contact-form to='(FemforceHQ@aol.com)' subject='Artist Submission'][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true" /][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="true" /][contact-field label="Website" type="url" /][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /][/contact-form]


For Comic Books:

 

We are also potentially interested in publishing previously established comic book creators and/or established comic book properties as creator owned comics. That means, if we've heard of you and we like you, we might be interested! Please DO NOT send unsolicited characters, concepts or comic books. THIS MEANS PLEASE DON"T SEND US ANYTHING, PLEASE PHONE OR EMAIL AND ASK US FIRST. Please, no comic book titles, no proprietary characters or anything related specifically to your concept should ever be sent to us at this time. Contact us directly via email below.: 

[contact-form][contact-form to='(FemforceHQ@aol.com)' subject='Creator Owned submission'][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true" /][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="true" /][contact-field label="Website" type="url" /][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /][/contact-form]

The AC Comics office phone is: 407-767-0199 Our hours are 9AM--5PM weekdays EST (Eastern Standard Time) (Note: This is a regular business telephone--NOT a "smart" cellular device--so please leave a message on our answering machine with your name and phone number and we'll get back to you. You can also contact us directly via Mail: AC Comics P.O. Box 394 Plymouth, FL 32768-0394

Though Comic Book Stores

We sell our brand new comics to comic stores worldwide through Diamond Distribution. We always urge you to support your local comic book retailers to PRE-ORDER and BUY your NEW COLOR AC Comics from them. Go to your local comic book shop and ask for Diamond Previews. Look under "AC Comics" in the Diamond Distribution Previews catalog. You will see a listing that's an advance order --that's a couple of months ahead of when it will actually ship to the comic shop. Ask the store owner to order the comic book for you. You will then get the comic books in-store in a few months and be able to buy it at cover price or less.