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I realize the "created" date is sourced, but the source is clearly in error. I'm sitting here with the first collection, and it bears a copyright date of 1952... and the copyright page of a second volume can be found
in an Amazon listing, and that, too, is 1952. So I'm removing the 1953 date, even if I'm not sure what date to put in. (I'm betting 1953 was the year it was picked up for national syndication; originally, it was in Catholic Action of the South.) --
Nat Gertler (
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04:57, 10 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I have a potential conflict of interest for this page, as I'm
a publisher considering doing some Speck reprints. (Things I start as research often go that route.) I think I'm doing strict factual coverage, but if anyone thinks any of my edits are improper, feel free to revert and to let me know. --
Nat Gertler (
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19:08, 13 December 2020 (UTC)reply
Additional sources
I am accumulating sources here to use for a possible future requested edit... but if anyone sees anything they want to add, feel free to put it in the article.
The panel retained its original named, An Altar Boy Named "Speck", at least well into its original run, as witness
this 1967 example, or
this 1969 syndicated letterhead. We may need to think about putting quote marks, whether single or double, into the page title.
This
edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.
Two changes, under "Collections":
For the line: An Altar Boy Named “Speck” (Lafayette, LA: Tribune Printing Plant, 1952)[1] - reprinted by
Our Sunday Visitor. please change ending to reprinted by
Our Sunday Visitor and
About Comics. -- the existence of the About Comics edition can be verified at
its Amazon listing -- which should not be used as a reference as it is a sales page, but the book itself is a reference for its existence.
At the bottom of the list of Ahern collections, add:
Speck the Altar Boy: The Collection Compilation (Camarillo, CA: About Comics, 2021) - reprints both Hanover House books as a single volume.
My conflict of interest is that I am the publisher of both of these volumes. However, their inclusion is consistent with the list as it previously existed. --
Nat Gertler (
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19:47, 11 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
HeartGlow30797: First off, per
WP:RSPAMAZON, "Amazon is a reliable source for basic information about a work (such as release date, ISBN, etc.)". As I said, the books themselves serve as reference, as each book describes the history of its content on the copyright page and in the intros -- both of which are included in the previews on the copyright page of the book. If you want something you can link to, the publisher website has pages for both
An Altar Boy Named 'Speck' and
Speck the Altar Boy: The Collection Compilation, and being that this info that these books exist and are reprints of other books are neither unduly self-serving nor exceptional claims, these should be acceptable under
WP:SELFSOURCE. So I'll hope you'll feel comfortable with one of these three sources in adding the information I've suggested. --
Nat Gertler (
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04:03, 14 June 2021 (UTC)reply