{"id":5963,"date":"2008-05-15T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:09:02","slug":"heritage-auctions-big-boy-file-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/heritage-auctions-big-boy-file-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage auctions Big Boy file copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: small; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">by John Jackson Miller<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit;\">                      And speaking of advertising and comics&#8230;<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span class=\"DNNAlignleft\" id=\"dnn_ctr990_ContentPane\"><span id=\"dnn_ctr990_MainView_ViewBlog_lstBlogView_ctl01_lblUserName\"><\/span><span id=\"dnn_ctr990_MainView_ViewBlog_lstBlogView_ctl01_lblPublishDate\"><\/span>         <span id=\"dnn_ctr990_MainView_ViewBlog_lstBlogView_ctl01_lblDescription\"> <br \/>\nAbout a decade ago, I interviewed <strong>Manfred Bernhard<\/strong>, the advertising executive who produced the <em><strong>Big Boy<\/strong><\/em>  comics series for the famed restaurant chain \u2014 and there began my  attempts to begin tracking down some of the unusual artifacts of this  series of promotional comics. Now, Hertiage is auctioning a rare gem  indeed: <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.ha.com\/common\/view_item.php?Sale_No=828&amp;Lot_No=41245\"><strong>Bernhard&#8217;s own file copies of Big Boy #1-233<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Filling in a couple of blanks for Heritage&#8217;s listing: The &#8220;Timely&#8221; part of the run isn&#8217;t defined by when <strong>Dan DeCarlo<\/strong>  is working on the series; DeCarlo worked for it well into its run. The  distinction is that before #13 (that&#8217;s the issue, to the best of my  recollection), Bernhard had been contracting with Timely to produce the  comics completely in-house; afterward, Bernhard&#8217;s own W.E.B.S.  Advertising Group managed production, evidently hiring work out to  DeCarlo. I spoke with Stan Lee about it some years back; he recalled  writing the first issue and meeting Bernhard when Timely had the  account.<\/p>\n<p>And there definitely are &#8220;East  Coast&#8221; editions with a blond Big Boy \u2014 redrawn for a splinter group of  franchisees until at least issue #152. No doubt there; I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbgxtra.com\/default.aspx?tabid=42&amp;view=topic&amp;forumid=27&amp;postid=1012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tracking them intermittently here<\/strong><\/a> with <strong>Ray Bottorff Jr.<\/strong>  \u2014 lately, with Ray doing all the work. As noted in the auction, only  the West Coast, or traditional, versions of Big Boy are in these bound  volumes. We had been tracking what Western copies definitely existed,  too; I think we can take it from this auction that all the West Coast  issues did indeed circulate!<\/p>\n<p>Surely a fascinating artifact \u2014 I envy the one who wins it!<span class=\"toggle closed-toggle\"><\/span><\/span>                                         <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Jackson Miller And speaking of advertising and comics&#8230; About a decade ago, I interviewed Manfred Bernhard, the advertising executive who produced the Big Boy comics series for the famed restaurant chain \u2014 and there began my attempts to begin tracking down some of the unusual artifacts of this series of promotional comics. Now, &#8230; <a title=\"Heritage auctions Big Boy file copies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/heritage-auctions-big-boy-file-copies\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Heritage auctions Big Boy file copies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-giveaway-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5964,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}