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The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic books by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The Adventures of Tintin was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, and has been published in more than 70 languages. The comic books have also been adapted to television, theatre, and film. The Adventures of Tintin appeared for the first time on January 10, 1929, in Le Petit Vingtième, the youth section of Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.

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“You were just about the World’s worst mag when you started, but you set yourself an ideal, and, by gumbo, you achieved it!”

The “Game of Thrones” author George R. R. Martin wrote to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, creators of Marvel, in 1963, raving about the the “Fantastic Four” comic book series. In this adorably enthusiastic letter from a teenage Martin, he is blown away by the plot twists and calls Marvel the “world’s greatest comic magazine”:

Dear Stan and Jack,

F.F. #17 was greater than great. Even now I sit in awe of it, trying to do the impossible–that is, describe it. It was absolutely stupendous, the ultimately, utmost! I cannot fathom how you could fit so much action into so few pages. It will live forever as one of the greatest F.F. comics ever printed, ergo, as one of the greatest of ALL comics. In what other comic mad could you see things like a hero falling down a manhole, a heroine mistaking a toy inventor for a criminal, and the President of the U.S.A. leaving a conference that may determine the fate of the world to put his daughter to bed. The epic story, spectacular and exciting as it is, is not all that made this mag so great. The letter column was top-notch, too. I nearly died when I saw Paul Gambaccini’s letter. You’ve really made him change his tune; that letter was a far cry from the one printed in F.F. #9. Then there’s your cover boast–THE WORLD’S GREATEST COMIC MAGAZINE! Brilliant! You were just about the World’s worst mag when you started, but you set yourself an ideal, and, by gumbo, you achieved it! More than achieved it, in fact–why, if you were only half as good as you are now, you’d still be the world’s best mag!!!

George R. Martin
35 East First St.
Bayonne, N.J.

Source: Marvel

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A Young George R. R. Martin Was a Marvel Fanboy appeared first on Witnify.

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American comic book writer Stan Lee talks about the creation of spider-man. Lee explains bringing the idea up and having it shot down as his boss explained that people wouldn’t like spider-man as a character for a number of different reasons.

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Stan Lee, American comic book writer, explains the difference between ‘The Hulk’ on paper and ‘The Hulk’ on the big screen.

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