Talk:Motion Picture Funnies Weekly

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[edit] Unpublished?

How can it be unpublished when eight copies exist? Undistributed, perhaps. As I understand it, there's some debate as to whether the book was distributed or not. 24.176.0.225 06:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Some samples were printed, but that's not the same as being published. For example, book reviewers will get bound galley copies of a book in advance of a book's publication.

I'm interested in reading more about possible distribution, since I've never run across any reference to that. It'd be exciting. Can you post a citation here? -- Tenebrae 15:10, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The real story, but does wiki care?

I made a page proving that motion picture funnies weekly is a fraud but it seems to have vanished. This is part of the article:

For those of you who have a copy of Steranko's History of Comics: Volume 1 (1970), turn to page 59 where Bill Everett tells Jim Steranko how Martin Goodman asked him and Carl Burgos to put together a book with all new characters. Everett also tells how in a story conference, he and Burgos decided on two characters, one of fire and one of water, with Carl Burgos designing the Human Torch first. Everett then decided on his water character, the Sub-Mariner, based on the poem of the Ancient Mariner. This is proof from Bill Everett that MPFW which appeared very conveniently one year AFTER he died was a phoney. Unless you believe that Bill Everett is a liar and deliberately hid the truth from friend, Jim Steranko?

I was careful not to mention the known name of the fraudster or of a certain publisher who I believe has knowingly perpetrated the fraud because he has a copy, but wiki does not seem interested in the truth. A friend (kaneda) will no longer write golden age articles for wiki, for the same reason as many other knowledgeable people I suspect. No one likes spending a lot of time writing a good article then having it threatened with deletion or actually deleted while rubbish and knowledge-free articles are allowed to remain becuse they look pretty. Which is why most of wiki's comic articles look like they were written by someone who started collecting comics in the last several years.