By Bill Watterson
Zounds! Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous guy, the ferocious tiger Hobbes, and the remainder of Calvin's riotous mind's eye are all integrated in The Days are only Packed. Calvin, the irrepressible pint-sized tyrant, is often bursting with power. And the volume's outsized 12-by-9 inch layout offers Calvin's outrageous fantasies room to blow up. Dozens of Sunday strips are lavishly reproduced in colour for The Days are only Packed, besides Calvin's a laugh weekday adventures.
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In due time, World War II caught up with the comics industry. Art shops and publishing houses emptied as writers and artists were drafted into service. At Timely and elsewhere, older artists, women, and others who were exempt from wartime duty came on board to pick up the slack. Comic books had long been leading the charge against the “evil Japs” and Hitler’s Third Reich. Now, the business enjoyed a circulation boost from sales to the millions of young men on military bases who were tackling those menaces for real.
Goodman gathered all of his comics titles under one banner: Timely Publications. The name stuck. Although he employed dozens of other company labels in subsequent years, Goodman’s comics-publishing ventures during the 1940s are generally referred to as Timely comics. , and paid him $12 per page to draw comics directly for Timely. The son of a tailor, Simon had worked as a newspaper illustrator and photo retoucher before hopping on the comics bandwagon in 1939. While freelancing for Goodman, Simon also became the editor in chief of Fox Publications, earning a handsome salary of $85 per week.
Superman and Batman were still pulling the ship at DC, while other companies found success with characters such as Captain Marvel and Plastic Man. Still other publishers ventured into uncharted waters, testing out genres ranging from teenage titles (Pep Comics) to literary adaptations (Classic Comics). Artists such as Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Mac Raboy, Reed Crandall, and Lou Fine 03 (019-034) chapter 3_03 (019-034) chapter 3 7/28/11 4:00 PM Page 29 Stan Lee, Playwright 29 stretched the art form in new directions, incorporating bold cinematic techniques, exploding and reassembling the grammar and syntax of comics, and reinvigorating the field’s sense of purpose.