Waukesha Daily Freeman from Waukesha, Wisconsin • Page 19

Remember adventure comics? in print again Jerry Sink (right) lays out pages for the next comic book issue with the assistance of Mike Tiefen- bacher. By JOHN ENGELBERT Freeman Staff MENOMONEE FALLS is cold-blooded murder! You would let a man die to satisfy your greedy? got nothing, Doc! Not a plug nickel! But the banks on Mars. if they turn over a measly million to help me out. a million never miss. their greed that will kill your Lester! Mars space control has agreed! The money is on its Flash! let that creep get away with Remember the comic books, the comic strips, in particular those adventure strips that ran in newsapers the story line kept alive day-to-day? Two young men remembered Jerry Sinkovec, 24, of N85-W16505 Mary Court, and Mike Tiefenbacher, 20, of W141- N5434 Van Buren Drive, because most publications have abandoned the adventure strip, the two decided to do something about it.

They are publishing their own comic books, a lot of them classic reprints from the mid late 1930s and early 1940s. The dialogue that opens this piece is taken from the Aug. 21-26 issue of the Falls Gazette, published by There he is, an updated The life of friend Kenoma is in danger. He needs medical care at an hospital. But the villain Lester has hijacked spacecraft, which is a different twist but the price is fairly familiar, $1 million.

Tiefenbacher and Sinkovec have taken the strips for an entire week of any given comic strip character, and printed it on one page. There are adventure strips for 16 comics, each an entire week in that Sty? Mrnomonpr Jffalla THt lKTc.rtM»TIONAi. NkWSPAft.it FOK COMIC AKT FANS Mfut 21-36 GARTH by Steve Dow ling, John Allard Jim Edgar issue, and they include the and Publication for fans of the art, (Sinkovec estimated there are 5,000 in the country and market is already began in December last year. Among their acquisitions through syndicates are four English and one Australian cartoon. and also grace these pages.

The pair, Sinkovec is editor, bacher associate editor, have tripled their subscription list to 780 since going into business, and foresee 1,000 as the break-even point. Sinkovec said there have been qustingly few sales in the news Ixit they get out a weekly mailing to 47 states, 10 foreign countries, Midway Island and Puerto Rico. Sinkovec, by admission, does most of the work, but both of them on a Saturday are in basement office (complete with bed) from noon to 4 a.m. Sunday getting most of the work out. That 1,000 circulation figure has another import.

When reached, Sinkovec hopes to add another four strips as a to early subscribers and, more important, make it a time job for himself. Now he works second shift at American Paper and Plastics in Milwaukee. Tiefenbacher is a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee art student. Of comic books Tiefenbacher said, got a lot of criticism in the past. People look at you and say, and still reading comic But if still reading them at 20 they think there might be something in them they Sinkovec has a collection of 20,000 comics, including some of the long out- of-print Little Tiefenbacher said he is a and gave an example.

He found there are about 150 bottling plants for a certain soft drink. (FrMimn Staff Photo) Location of the plant and the year of bottling are molded into the soft drink bottom. So, he started collecting. He reached 140, including one from Juneau, Alaska, when he was forced to call a halt. Things were getting cluttered in the area he works in at the UWM library.

had 5,000 baseball cards by the time I was he said. About that time he started collecting comic books. Tiefenbacher and Sinkovec met each other in 1969 through a letter Sinkovec had written to an adventure story publication. else in Menomonee Falls had that Tiefenbacher gave Sinkovec a call and an enterprise was bom eventually. They are into another venture in the same area.

Street (ST) enterprises (the and coming from the first letters of the surnames) gets out a 32-page monthly section devoted to one character which it buys from a syndicate. The August issue was devoted to Valiant in the days of King That issue is from February, 1937. And in a comic called is the time of hardening cherry seeds. far and near the tribes come Ogalalas, Hunkpapas, Mini- conjous, Sans Arcs, Santees, Yank- tonais, Brules, Cheyennes, Ara- pahoes. is the time of the Sundance.

The drumming and chanting continue throughout the long day. the Hunkpapa medicine man, dances on, eyes forever toward the blazing sun. Spirit, send a vision. The sun is like white-hot knives in the eyes of Bull. he seems to see a shape in the .1 see a bird.

great iron bird. .1 see a vision. a great iron bird. in its belly is a tall white-eye with yellow will come among our airliner lands at Chicago airport. Anxious to learn how it comes out? Sinkovec and Tiefenbacher hope you are.

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