Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my recent look back at my first-ever freelance writing sale: a history of the 1960s DC Comics series The Secret Six.
I originally wrote and sold that piece to Amazing Heroes in 1984, the first of a few things I wrote for AH, and the first of a bunch of things I placed with magazines over the next few decades. My second Amazing Heroes sale was a speculation about a combined DC and Marvel Comics universe; I'll be reprising that piece as a near-future blog post. I've already shared "Who's...WHO?!," my Amazing Heroes A-Z romp through 26 forgotten DC Comics characters. I've also written a reminiscence of my brief time as an Amazing Heroes freelancer, as well as "Money For Words," an overview of my professional freelance writing career (such as it was). That last piece was written in 2017, at a time when I had ceased doing professional freelancing; I have since returned to doing occasional work (and gratefully cashing those checks).
(And, since I started this whole thing writing about The Secret Six, it's fitting that I also wrote an appreciation of The Secret Six's creator, the late E. Nelson Bridwell, when he was given a posthumous Bill Finger Award For Excellence In Comic Book Writing in 2019.)
But for now, we must answer THE CALL OF THE MOCKINGBIRD! My first-ever freelance writing sale was a history of a DC comic book called The Secret Six, and that's the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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