Talk:Clock (character)

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Missing word

"Despite the sale to Quality, the company to reprint old Clock stories."

- this sentence doesn't make sense so I've removed it from about halfway down. Is it meant to read "...the company continued to reprint..." maybe?

Yeah, that's what it should have said. Thanks for catching that. Postdlf 23:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Influence on The Spirit

This part needs expanding, but until I have my references in fromt of me, I won't tinker with it. 24.176.0.225 05:52, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is the relevant paragraph from The Spirit entry, but I don't want to put it on the main page till it's better sourced:

In late 1939, Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, publisher of the Quality Comics comic-book line, began exploring an expansion into newspaper Sunday supplements, Aware that many newspapers felt they had to compete with the suddenly burgeoning new medium of American comic books. Arnold compiled a presentation piece with existing Quality Comics material. An editor of The Washington Star liked George Brenner's The Clock, but not Brenner's art, and was favorably disposed toward a Lou Fine strip. Arnold, concerned over the meticulous Fine's slowness and his ability to meet deadlines, claimed it was the work of Eisner, Fine's boss at the Eisner & Iger studio, from which Arnold bought his outsourced comics work.

24.176.0.225 05:52, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Comics naming conventions are that this should be Clock (comics). I'll move it some time if there haven't been any serious objections. (Emperor 23:58, 11 September 2007 (UTC))[reply]

"The" is properly part of the character's name; you'd never just say "Clock." Postdlf 02:14, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well in much the same way we have Joker (comics), you could indeed find yourself saying "Damn you Clock you've foiled my plans again!!" The naming guidelines are pretty clear on this Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)#The (and they are based on the broader Wikipedia naming conventions). (Emperor 04:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC))[reply]

No, you'd say "Damn you, The Clock!" It's like The Cheat. : ) At any rate, I don't oppose the addition of the parenthetical "comics," since there is also The Clock (film). Postdlf 14:44, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest The Cheat needs changing too. ;) I'm just flagging this issue on all the other Archie characters with a similar issue and will get back to this in a day or so in case there is something I've missed. Especially in this case that there might be other Clocks in comics and this should go to "Clock (Archie Comics)" so I want to make sure I have that angle sorted out first before doing the move here. (Emperor 17:43, 12 September 2007 (UTC))[reply]

"Archie Comics?" How so? Postdlf 20:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good point - I've done slightly too many of these recently and thought I'd stumbled across it via the other Archie Comics character category but I arrived via Centaur. Anyway the point is moot as I can't find anything similar so (comics) should be fine. (Emperor 21:25, 12 September 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I don't know why this hasn't been gotten to in more than nine years — probably since the character is so obscure — but Clock (comics) is absolutely proper per MOS, just like Hulk (comics), Joker (comics) Spirit (comics), etc. --Tenebrae (talk) 07:03, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate version addition?

Erik Larsen confirmed that The Clock will be featured in the next installment of the Next Issue Project December 2010 (with the headline Crack Comics #63) source: http://twitpic.com/2spodd and http://twitter.com/ErikJLarsen/status/25839326665 Non twitter source: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=10858 and http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/allred/?frames=n;read=86368&expand=1

For those unaware, the Next Issue Project takes public domain comic characters and continues in a golden age anthology style using contemporary creative staff to write out the next issue of a golden age title. Characters already done include golden age characters such as Stardust abd Daredevil. --8.22.136.8 (talk) 14:52, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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