If you can wade you way through the faux-Stan-Lee patter (complete with Don Adams shtick), you'll see it's the self-illustrated story of a young would-be artist (Sam Viviano, who now illustrates for Mad magazine, among other things) who paid a visit to the DC offices in September of 1968. He got to meet Carmine Infantino and others in what was apparently a real "gee whiz" experience for him.
The sequence spans two pages, and I can't imagine that it was very interesting even then, but this closing panel caught my attention:
What the heck happened on July 16, 1969?
Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, launched that day. Rain Pryor was born on that day.
I thought it might have been the first official Comic Art Convention in New York, but Wikipedia says that was held on Independence day.
This was a little before I was involved in fandom, so although at that time (this would have been the summer after 7th grade, I guess) I still lived in Brooklyn, I have no idea what this is referring to.
Anyone?
2 comments:
My guess is that maybe DC had an "Open House" and gave guided tours to anybody who showed up, that day only?
I wondered about this even back in the day -- well, at least I assume I did, since I had that comic off the stands and remember reading this in total incomprehension -- certainly I wondered about it years later when I understood the concepts involved. My best guess has always been what David C suggests: some sort of open house or portfolio viewing at the DC offices intended for that date, though I never heard anything else to confirm that.
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