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Items of Interest from the Stock of Bierman, Heidelberg & Co
1891
Selected pages
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ALAN ALDRIDGE
June 1, 1943 – February 17, 2017
The Guardian
February 20, 2017
How Alan Aldridge made the 60s swing – in pictures
The Guardian
February 22, 2017
Alan Aldridge obituary
Design Week
February 24, 2017
Remembering Alan Aldridge: the revolutionary graphic designer of the “swinging sixties”
The Telegraph
February 28, 2017
Alan Aldridge, Sixties psychedelic illustrator – obituary
Famous Graphic Designers
Alan Aldridge
The Peacock Party (1979)
The Ship’s Cat (1977)
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August 8, 1912
see bottom right-hand corner of page 1562
Rockford Register-Gazette
(Illinois)
August 15, 1912
page 8, column 2: Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.—Life.
San Francisco Chronicle
(California)
April 8, 1917
Cartoonagrams by Charles A. Ogden
Second tier, first panel: Behold a chick getting it’s first liberty. Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
Further Reading
The Big Apple
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Vivian Berg was born Vivian Lipman on January 4, 1923, in New Rochelle, New York.
In the 1930 U.S. Federal Census, the Lipman family resided in New Rochelle, New York, at 43-45 North Avenue. Vivian was the youngest of four children born to Benjamin, a grocery store proprietor, and Mary, both Russian emigrants who arrived in the United States in 1905. Vivian’s siblings were born in Connecticut.
The Daily Argus (Mount Vernon, New York), September 19, 1939, published this item:
Tau Alpha MeetingAccording to the 1940 census, the Lipmans remained in New Rochelle but at a different address, 22 Burling Lane.
Tau Alpha will hold a meeting tonight at the home of Miss Vivian Lipman, 22 Burling Lane, at 9 o’clock.
Women in Comics said Vivian studied at Cooper Union, where she met her future husband Dave Berg.
Women in Comics also said Vivian worked for MLJ (Archie) and Classics Illustrated in the 1940s. Women and the Comics (1985) mentioned Vivian twice. About the publisher MLJ, Women and the Comics said “Vivian Lipman Berg (who edited Archie and inked the art, wrote puzzle pages and text pieces for the company and scripted and drew ‘Three Monkey Teers‘).” Regarding Timely Comics, the book said “Vivian Lipman Berg wrote text pieces for the company in 1942”.
According to Who’s Who in Writers, Editors & Poets, United States & Canada (1995), Vivian and Berg married on March 3, 1949.
The Orangetown Telegram (Pearl River, New York), December 8, 1950, reported the South Main P.T.A. enrollment drive and said: “The kindergarten, registering 113%, had a separate party in the Parish House of St. Paul's Episcopal Church under the direction of the teacher, Miss Vivian Lipman.”
In the 1960s, Vivian was a letterer for DC Comics. Two titles she worked on were Doom Patrol #117 (below) and Superboy #118.
Everywhere, he answers, saying his wife, Vivian, loves to read so she helps with the research. For example, for a “lighter side of modern technology,” she read the book “Future Shock” for ideas. Discussion and the comic followed.MAD’s Greatest Artists: Dave Berg: Five Decades of “The Lighter Side Of…” (2013) has a sample of Vivian and Dave in “The Lighter Side of…Teenage Phases” from MAD #248, July 1984.
At some point, Vivian and her family moved to Marina Del Rey, California.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Vivian was a magazine writer and illustrator according to Who’s Who of American Comics Books 1928–1999.
Vivian’s husband died in 2002. Vivian passed away December 21, 2014, in California.
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Stat Store 1988 brochure of services and prices was designed by Alexander Isley.
Brochure is in the collection of the North Carolina State University Libraries.
Brochure sleeve, front and back
3.5 x 3.5 inches / 8.9 x 8.9 centimeters
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Carl Burgos was born Max Finkelstein on April 18, 1916, in New York, New York. The birth date is based on the Social Security Death Index and his parents’ petitions for naturalization at Ancestry.com.
Burgos’s father was Isidor Finkelstein, a tailor, whose naturalization petition, dated December 13, 1923, said he was born in Moghielev, Russia, on October 25, 1886. (Isidor’s World War II draft card said his birth was October 15, 1886 in Zlobin, Russia.) He sailed on the steamship Merion which departed Antwerp, Belgium, on November 16, 1907. The ship arrived in New York City on November 29, 1907. Isidor became a naturalized citizen February 14, 1927.
Burgos’s mother was Ester Bielin, a dressmaker, whose naturalization petition said she was born in Stressin, Russia, on March 2, 1886. She sailed on the steamship Samland which departed from Antwerp, Belgium. The ship arrived in New York City on April 2, 1907. She married Isidor on August 26, 1911. On the petition, dated June 27, 1941, her first name was spelled Esther. She became a naturalized citizen July 16, 1942.
Burgos’s brother, Rubin Finkelstein, was born March 2, 1912, in New York City. Rubin married Clara Cantor on March 30, 1935 in Manhattan, according to the New York, New York, Marriage Index at Ancestry.com. Clara passed away May 22, 1996. Rubin passed away May 20, 2003.
The 1920 U.S. Federal Census recorded the Finkelsteins in Manhattan, New York City at 191 East 100 Street.
The man responsible for the inflammable fury [The Human Torch] was Carl Burgos. Born in New York in 1917 [sic], his childhood was little different than most others except for his natural artistic talent and unruly imagination. In his early teens he enrolled in the National Academy of Design. “I quit after one year because I couldn’t learn enough,” Burgos says.An overview of Burgos’s comics career is at Who’s Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999. Many of his comic book credits are at the Grand Comics Database. A collection of images from Google is here.
At 17, he took a job with the Franklin Engraving Company which just happened to be the firm that engraved the plates for a line of comic books produced by Harry A. Chesler. For the first time, Burgos was exposed to stacks of original comic art. Whenever possible, he took the time to study the artist’s techniques, their pen styles and brush strokes. He discovered he could draw as well as some and better than a few who already worked in comics. He formulated an idea about becoming a comic artist. What could he lose?
According to the 1940 census, Burgos and his parents lived at 602 West 157th Street in Manhattan. Burgos’s occupation was artist in the newspaper industry. He had completed four years of high school.
Alter Ego #49, June 2005, published “The Privacy Act of Carl Burgos”, Jim Amash’s interview with Burgos’s daughter Susan, a teacher and animation artist. She mentioned her mother, Doris, sister, Linda, grandparents and uncle. Doris’s Social Security application, at Ancestry.com, had her full maiden name. In July 1947 her name was Doris Finkelstein, then in September 1948 she was Doris Burgos.
In 1968 Burgos filed copyright renewals on his creation, the Human Torch. The renewal registrations were published in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 22, Part 1, Number 1, Section 1, Books and Pamphlets, Current and Renewal Registrations, January–June 1968, on page 1256
and in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 22, Part 1, Number 2, Section 1, Books and Pamphlets, Current and Renewal Registrations, July–December 1968, on pages 2761 and 2762.
Burgos’s copyright renewal filings were mentioned in the article “The true story of life at Marvel Comics in the glory days of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee”.
Burgos passed away March 5, 1984, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS file. American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s (2013) said Burgos died on March 7. The Social Security Death Index said Burgos’s last residence was Franklin Square, New York. His wife, Doris, passed away January 2, 2002.
Further Reading
Timely-Atlas-Comics: Happy 100th Birthday To Carl Burgos
Comics Alliance
The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds
The Beat: When Carl Burgos tried to sue for the Human Torch
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
Sub-Mariner & The Original Human Torch, Volume 1
Alter Ego #108, April 2012: “With the Fathers of Our Heroes”
Find a Grave
Lambiek Comiclopedia
Wikipedia
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The New Movie Magazine
May 1933
Greta Garbo
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Old Waldorf Bar Days
With the Cognomina and Composition of Four Hundred and Ninety-one Appealing Appetizers and Salutary Potations Long Known, Admired and Served at the Famous Big Brass Rail; Also, a Glossary for the Use of Antiquarians and Students of American Mores
Albert Stevens Crockett
Aventine Press, 1931
page 117: Ampersand
Two dashes Orange Bitters
One-third Brandy
One-third Tom Gin
One-third Italian Vermuth [sic]
Stir; strain; two dashes of Curacao on top
The American Printer
March 1937
page 44: Re: Ampersand Cocktail
As promised on page 26, we give below ingredients and directions for making the Ampersand Cocktail, formerly a favorite in the barroom of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street....
The ingredients are:
Two dashes orange bitters
One-third brandy
One-third Tom gin
One-third Italian vermouth
Two dashes of Curacao on top
Directions: Put the ingredients into a shaker in the order named, then add cracked ice—shake vigorously and strain into the cocktail glass and serve promptly. The more you shake it, the weaker it gets.
Special Editorial P.S. The one we got at the Ampersandinner must have been shaken early. It was potent!
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
(Next post on Monday: Krazy!)
56 pages plus covers with fold-out order form
Design by Alexander Isley Design
“3SIXTY” title by Mark Gozonsky and John Barth/Opposite Field
Selected Pages
Mailing Wrapper
Punch
April 17, 1869
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Of all the types in a printer’s hand,
Commend me to the Amperzand,
For he’s the gentleman (seems to me)
Of the typographical companie.
O, my nice little Amperzand,
My graceful, swanlike Amperzand;
Nothing that Cadmus ever planned
Equals my elegant Amperzand!
He’s never bothered, like A.B.C.
In Index, Guide, and Directorie:
He’s never stuck on a Peeler’s coat,
Nor hung to show where the folks must vote.
No, my nice little Amperzand,
My plumb and curly Amperzand.
When I’ve a pen in a listless hand,
I’m always making an Amperzand!
Many a letter your writers hate,
Ugly q, with his tall so straight,
x, that makes you cross as a bear,
And z, that makes you with zouns to swear.
But not my nice little Amperzand,
My easily dashed off Amperzand,
Any odd shape folks understand
To mean my Protean Amperzand!
Nothing for him that’s starch or stiff,
Never he’s used in scold or tiff,
State epistles, so dull and grand,
Mustn’t contain the shortened and.
No, my nice little Amperzand,
You’re good for those who’re jolly and bland,
In days when letters were dried with sand
Old frumps wouldn’t use my Amperzand!
But he is dear in old friendship’s call,
Or when love is laughing through lady-scrawl:
“Come & dine, & have bachelor’s fare,”
“Come, & I’ll keep you Round & Square.”
Yes, my nice little Amperzand
Never must into a word expand,
Gentle sign of affection stand,
My kind, familiar Amperzand.
“Letters Five do form his name:”
His, who Millions doth teach and tame:
If I could not be in that Sacred Band,
I’d be the affable Amperzand.
Yes, my nice little Amperzand,
And when P.U.N.C.H. is driving his five-in-hand,
I’ll have a velocipede, neatly planned
In the shape of a fly-away Amperzand.
Hanwell. Scandula Exoluta.
Reprinted in its entirety or in part in many publications
Every Saturday
May 15, 1869
Littell’s Living Age
June 19, 1869
Wit and Humour
(Poems from “Punch”)
Shirley Brooks
Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1875
The Christian Union
October 2, 1890
The Gentleman’s Magazine
November 1892
Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries
November-December 1902
The Song of the Ampersand
T. P.’s Weekly
April 10, 1903
A Song of the &
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
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From the pages of Rocket’s Blast-Comicollector
Comic convention news and advertisements
RBCC 39 (1965)
Academy of Comic Book Fans and Collectors
David Kaler mentioned
RBCC 52 (1967)
David Kaler profiled; Roy Thomas and Denny O’Neil mentioned
RBCC 42 (1965)
New York City Comicon
Phil Seuling mentioned
RBCC 45 (1966)
Gateway Con
RBCC 50 (1967)
The 1967 Houston Comic Convention
RBCC 52 (1967)
Academy Con 1967
Mark Hanerfeld mentioned
RBCC 56 (1968)
Southwesterncon (also printed in RBCC 57)
RBCC 59 (1968)
G.B. Love’s review of the Southwesterncon 1968
RBCC 60 (1968)
SCARP-Con
Phil Seuling and family mentioned
RBCC 62 (1969)
The 1969 Houston Comic Convention
RBCC 62 (1969)
Southwestern Con
RBCC 63 (1969)
Houston Con 69
RBCC 63 (1969)
Southwestern Con
RBCC 63 (1969)
The 1969 Comic Art Convention
Luncheon Photo
Further Reading
1964 in comics
1965 in comics
1966 in comics
1967 in comics
1968 in comics
1969 in comics
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