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Mike Purdy
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Posted: 09 June 2005 at 7:43pm \| IP Logged \| 1

I recently loaned a friend my copies of JBNM. He loved them...so I guess I "triggered" a fan, unfortunately it was 10yrs too late. Anyway, one question he asked kind of stuck in my head. He wanted to know if there were any Action Maxx comics out there. He thought Maxx was a "real" comic book hero, and wanted to see more of him. Action Maxx could have just been a throw-away character, or a parody of comic book heroes designed to show contempt for comics and to show the readers how silly comic books are, but he wasn't. He was a fully fleshed character. And he looked so Kirby-esque!!!

Did you create Action Maxx just for JBNM, or was he bouncing around your head for awhile, waiting for the right book to introduce him?

Thanks,

Mike

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Posted: 10 June 2005 at 4:41am \| IP Logged \| 2

Altho they all appeared for the first time in NEXT MEN, and most of them did not exist at all before I drew them for the first time, by the time I was done with that arc, all the Dollar Comics characters had developed backstories. Somewhere in my brain was a notion that I would con some of my fellow professional into producing an isolated month of Dollar Comics titles, coming in at various points in stories, as if the books had been around for years.

Unfortunately, the industry collapsed before I set this notion in motion.

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Eugene Nylander
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Posted: 10 June 2005 at 6:21am \| IP Logged \| 3

Legends/Dollar Comics month? That would have been
interesting.

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Bill Dowling
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Posted: 10 June 2005 at 7:55am \| IP Logged \| 4

Man, how much would I pay for a Mignola drawn Doctor Trogg comic?

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Brian Miller
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Posted: 10 June 2005 at 7:57am \| IP Logged \| 5

Or a Simonson Action Maxx!!

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Richard Fisher
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Posted: 10 June 2005 at 9:00am \| IP Logged \| 6

Or a Frank Miller Blue Dahlia?

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Brian Miller
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Posted: 10 June 2005 at 10:03am \| IP Logged \| 7

I was gonna say Art Adams doing Blue Dahlia. Frank can write it.

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