Everything about His Name Is Savage totally explained
His Name is... Savage is a 40-page, magazine-format
comics novel released in 1968 as a precursor to the modern
graphic novel. Created by the veteran
American comic book artist
Gil Kane, who conceived, plotted and illustrated the project, and writer
Archie Goodwin, who scripted under the
pseudonym Robert Franklin, the black-and-white magazine was Adventure House Press, and distributed to newsstands.
Publication history
His Name is... Savage #1 (June 1968), the sole issue published, was the first full-length comics story in a non-
comic book format since 1950, when
St. John Publications issued the digest-sized
hardboiled detective novellas
It Rhymes with Lust and
The Case of the Winking Buddha. Like them,
Savage was also sold on newsstands rather than in book stores.
Marvel Comics, shortly after
Savage appeared, published the first of a two-issue comics magazine,
The Spectacular Spider-Man, starring
that titular superhero. Like the similar,
anthological comics magazines of the time, such as
Creepy,
Eerie and
Vampirella,
Savage and
Spider-Man cost 35¢, whereas a typical comic book cost 12¢ and double-size issues 25¢.
Background
Gil Kane in the 1960s was a well-established comic-book artist who had co-created the modern versions of the
DC Comics superheroes
Green Lantern and
the Atom. He was additionally an early and outspoken advocate of creators' rights in an industry that at the time didn't offer character ownership or
royalties. Circa 1963, Kane set up a studio on East 63rd Street in
Manhattan,
New York City,
New York, and for five years worked sporadically on both
His Name is... Savage and a project that would become the
paperback comics novel
Blackmark. Kane in 1996 said the actual drawing of
Savage "was done, from beginning to end, in 30 days. That last page was inked at the printer while they were getting the book ready".
Kane conceived the character Savage, an
espionage agent and troubleshooter, and developed the story and art. He based his protagonist visually on actor
Lee Marvin, whom Kane had seen in the movie
Point Blank. Though Kane would alter the character's face for reprint editions, he said in 1996, "We never had any trouble from Lee Marvin — obviously he never saw the goddamn thing. We never had any trouble from anybody".
Manny Stallman, a comic-book artist and Kane colleague, introduced Kane "to printers and sales representatives, and it was through Manny that I met the people who ultimately allowed me to turn out
His Name is... Savage," Kane said.
Kane entered into an arrangement with the large newsstand-distribution company
Cable News, who jointly published the magazine with Kane under Kane's imprint, Adventure House Press, Inc.. Kane said in 1996 that Cable paid the printing and manufacturing costs but no art or editorial fees.
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