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Matthew Hansel
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Groo got 8 issues from Pacific (I think), 120 from Marvel, 12 from Image, and about 8 or 12 from Dark Horse (in the form of mini-series).
What about a book published, I think, by DC where the two principal characters were a fox and a crow (I think it ran for a LONG time and was mostly done by the same guy), but I can't remember the title--I think it might be called FOX AND CROW (I remember hearing about it from Chuck Dixon in a column or on his website or someplace like that).
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Derek Cavin
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Roger, you are correct, Larsen did go back and re-do that issue.
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Ande Parks
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The vastly under-rated Jesse Marsh did Tarzan (pencils, inks and letters) for over 150 issues.
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Jack McCarthy
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Bendis and Bagely I think are supposed to break the Marvel Lee-Kirby record within a few months on Ultimate Spiderman.
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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I don't think that Larsen should get a record for Savage Dragon...are we talking about monthly runs?
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Elliot Smith
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Seems like Stan and Jack still hold some kind of record for the longest run of comic books... that were actually good.
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Kurt Anderson
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Larsen can get "a" record, it just may not be the same record as Sim.
Babe Ruth's records have been broken, but they're contested because of the differing circumstances of the times. You can hit more home runs, but it doesn't make you Ruth.
Sim will always be the guy that made the record that others had to break.
It's like Lee and Kirby... you can stay on a title for a hundred issues, but can you do it as well as they did?*
*simultaneously posted with Elliot.
Edited by Kurt Anderson on 23 August 2006 at 10:31am
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Greg Waller
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Jack McCarthy: >> Bendis and Bagely I think are supposed to break the
Marvel Lee-Kirby record within a few months on Ultimate Spiderman. <<
Perhaps... but isn't Bendis largely cribbing from something that already
exists? He's not exactly creating anything wholecloth... and he took
several issues to tell a story that Lee + Ditko did in one (although I'm not
sure if this method of writing ("decompression") held true for the rest of
USM).
On the purely physical level of producing a monthly comic book, this is a
respectable run... but on the basis of truly "creating" a comic book (ala
Lee + Kirby on FF), not so much. My opinion, anyway.
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Matt Linton
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When it comes to creating, I don't think anyone comes close to Lee and Kirby. With Bendis and Bagley it's definitely a qualified record-breaking. Taken on its own, especially in this day and age, and with a couple of years producing 18 issues, it is impressive.
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Elliot Smith
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I will say that the first 150 issues or so of "Cerebus" were incredibly good; smart, funny, and entertaining stuff. If Dave Sim had stopped there, it would be an impressive run. The second 150 issues of total crap really tarnishes the whole thing.
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Derek Cavin
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Is Savage Dragon still published monthly?
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Brandon Carter
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Savage Dragon is still a monthly comic, though after Erik Larsen became publisher of Image Comics there was about a year where only a handful of issues came out. He seems to be getting it back on track now. I think Savage Dragon is up to around issue 128 or somewhere close.
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