Ken Meyer Jr.’s Ink Stains 19: Toth, Adams, Buckler, Byrne and Much More!

If you’re a fan of fanzines, then you’ve got to check out Ken Meyer, Jr.’s monthly column Ink Stains.  Each month Ken (who is an amazing artist) posts… well, let’s let Ken explain…

I have a collection of over 200 fanzines from the 60’s-80’s that I plan to scan and talk about, one at a time. I hope to have some of the participants answer a few questions. Many of those participants are established comics professionals now, while some have gone on to other things. I will show a few snippets from each zine and give you a link to download a pdf of the whole thing, which I hope all of you will do!

For Ink Stains 19, Ken took a look at CPL 11 from 1974.  Edited and published by Robert Layton [aka Bob Layton of Iron Man fame].

CPL was a quarterly fanzine published by Bob Layton and it was one of the high water marks of comic fanzines.  CPL always had art from pros as well as soon to be pros and you could tell that the writers and artists for CPL loved comics.

CPL 11 featured a cover by Alex Toth, full page illos from Rich Buckler and spot illos from Neal Adams, John Byrne, Don Maitz, Jim Starlin, Gil Kane, Clyde Caldwell, and Dan Adkins.  Let’s not forget the writers of CPL 11: Steve Gerber, John Byrne, Roger Stern and CC Beck. Oh, and there’s a Rog 2000 strip by Stern and Byrne.

Ah, the memories of the glory days of fanzines.  Thanks to Ken Meyer, Jr. for making these available!