POP-A-LOOZA: The Comic Book Telephone Pitches, Part 1

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 the first of two reminiscences about the times I dialed up comic book companies and tried to get work, "The Comic Book Telephone Pitches, Part 1."

Although I've sold prose fiction to the good folks at AHOY Comics, I never did get around to writing comics professionally. Some of my abortive attempts to do so have been examined on this blog: DC Comics, Marvel Comics, The Green Hornet (a teaser blurb and some initial script pages), and my own character Jack Mystery. Getting back to prose, I wrote a Batman short story, the start of a Wonder Woman short story, a DC Comics Crisis fantasy called "The Loveable Lunkhead Returns," and the first five chapters of an original novel, Eternity Man! And, of course, there are the connected short stories I've sold to AHOY: "The Last Ride Of The Copperhead Kid," "The Copperhead Strikes!," and "The Copperhead Affair," plus the recently-published "Chaos At The Copperhead Club," discussed here but not yet available to share on the blog. For humor, there's also my foul-mouthed sci-fi rock 'n' roll farce "Guitars Vs. Rayguns," and a bunch of unsold stories: "Home Of The Hits," "Pop Friction," "Sword Of The Chosen One," "Montie Pylon Finds His Holy Grail," "The Greatest Thud Never Heard," and "Dreaming Deadly."

"Chaos At The Copperhead Club," illustration by Ed Catto

For now, we turn the clock back a few decades to the first of a couple of stories about me calling comic book people and saying, "HIRE ME!" "The Comic Book Telephone Pitches, Part 1" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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