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Post by james on Jun 22, 2023 18:17:41 GMT -5
I started looking through eBay for some first appearances and I thought I’d ask what’s the best anthology series in regards to characters that continue to grow through the years and are forces todaybr]
Marvel Premiere
Scott Lang Ant Man
Man Wolf
Iron fist
3-D man possibly
Warlock
Amazing Adventures
Blue furred Beast
Marvel Spotlight
Moon knight solo
Son of Satan
Ghost Rider
Werewolf by night
My vote goes to Marvel Premeire.
Though how the Beast has remained a constant Amazing Adentures may have to be my pick
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 22, 2023 18:36:03 GMT -5
Special Marvel Edition went from reprints to Master of Kung Fu for three issues and then became MOKF for ten years. Also a movie.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 22, 2023 19:34:07 GMT -5
Marvel Premiere had the best track record, for my money.
Marvel Presents had a pretty wide variety of material, for the magazines, even as it became Bizarre Adventure.
I don't count the reprint titles as anthologies, except where they showcased new material. Marvel Super Heroes is the odd one. It began life as Fantasy masterpieces, with reprints for its 11 issues, then becomes Marvel Super Heroes, with new material, for 9 issues, then all reprints for the remainder of its life, starting out with a mixture, then Daredevil & Iron Man, then Hulk and Namor (reprinting their Tales to Astonish material) then just Hulk.
The above-mentioned Special Marvel Edition started out reprinting Thor, then Sgt Fury, then became Master of Kung Fu. Marvel Super Action started out as Captain America, then became Avengers reprints, after a year. Marvel triple Action featured the FF, then Avengers,
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 22, 2023 23:19:51 GMT -5
The Man-Wolf series didn't debut in Marvel Premiere. It ran in Creatures on the Loose #30-37. The Premiere issues were the stories originally slated to run in CotL #38-39
Cei-U!
I pick the nit!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 23, 2023 2:14:12 GMT -5
The Man-Wolf series didn't debut in Marvel Premiere. It ran in Creatures on the Loose #30-37. The Premiere issues were the stories originally slated to run in CotL #38-39 (...) And, of course, the Man Wolf character debuted in the pages of Amazing Spider-man (#124). But man, I loved that two-issue appearance in Marvel Premiere and I only read the stories that preceded it in Creatures on the Loose rather recently ( about which I wrote at length elsewhere).
As to the question at hand, my vote would probably go to Marvel Premiere as well - not so much because of the major characters who debuted there, but because of the variety once the Iron Fist run ended. Heck, I think issue #32 alone, featuring Howard Chaykin's Monark Starstalker, would be enough for me to give it the nod, but there was a lot of other good stuff besides the two excellent Man-Wolf issues: the Solomon Kane two-parter, Scott Lang's debut as Ant Man, the odd-ball but still fun one-off issues featuring Seeker 3000, Tigra, Paladin, Dominic Fortune, etc. I also have the Black Panther 3-parter (#51-53) to thank for introducing me to the Klan story, so that I went back and found the back issues of Jungle Action to read them (at which point I realized how disappointing the conclusion in the pages of Marvel Premiere is).
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Post by tonebone on Jun 23, 2023 9:07:01 GMT -5
I really loved Savage Tales from the 80's... it featured some really nice work from Herb Trimpe, Wil Jungkuntz, Gray Morrow, Michael Golden, etc.  |
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Post by jason on Jun 24, 2023 22:30:46 GMT -5
If not for the fact that that comic came out in 1985 (and used it for all of the issues), I could have sworn that corner box was some reference to Watchmen.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 29, 2023 10:08:10 GMT -5
Marvel Preview (later Bizarre Adventures) was consistently good. I don't think it helped launch many famous characters apart from Star-Lord, but it had a wide array of stories that were often much better than average. Marvel produced a lot of great B&W magazines in its day; it's a pity that they all folded eventually.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 29, 2023 11:32:57 GMT -5
I agree Marvel Preview was good. But thanks to the MCU and market speculation, my obtaining the whole series has come to a grinding halt. Because I didn't jump on them years ago before all this happened they are beyond what I will pay for a comic. I also agree Marvel had a lot of great B&W magazines that never took off for some reason. I think it's, at least an American thing, to shun B&W when it comes to comics.
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 29, 2023 11:44:40 GMT -5
Epic had the most creative offering IMHO.
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Post by berkley on Jun 29, 2023 14:58:59 GMT -5
Epic had the most creative offering IMHO. Yes, when I hear "anthology comic" I think of a series that had multiple stories (not featuring the same character) in each individual issue, not a series that featured different characters at different times. Like DC's House of Mystery, for example. To me, something like, say, the Deathlok run in Astonishing Tales feels exactly the same as if it had been a Deathlok miniseries or short-lived ongoing that got cancelled, so I don't really think of it as part of an anthology series called Astonishing Tales (even though AT used to feature two separate stories per issue with different lead characters). |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 29, 2023 15:21:31 GMT -5
Epic had the most creative offering IMHO. Yes, when I hear "anthology comic" I think of a series that had multiple stories (not featuring the same character) in each individual issue, not a series that featured different characters at different times. Like DC's House of Mystery, for example. To me, something like, say, the Deathlok run in Astonishing Tales feels exactly the same as if it had been a Deathlok miniseries or short-lived ongoing that got cancelled, so I don't really think of it as part of an anthology series called Astonishing Tales (even though AT used to feature two separate stories per issue with different lead characters). Yes, more like DC's Showcase than an anthology. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 29, 2023 20:26:06 GMT -5
I agree Marvel Preview was good. But thanks to the MCU and market speculation, my obtaining the whole series has come to a grinding halt. Because I didn't jump on them years ago before all this happened they are beyond what I will pay for a comic. I also agree Marvel had a lot of great B&W magazines that never took off for some reason. I think it's, at least an American thing, to shun B&W when it comes to comics. I lucked into a bunch of them, in the early 90s and eventually had everything except the first issue, with the Punisher. My local, when I was stationed in Charleston, SC, had the issue for sale; but, I wasn't going to pay $50 for it (a bargain, today). As it was, Marvel put out a mini-reprint with both Punisher stories, from Marvel preview and Marvel Super Action, and Marvel Preview #20 reprinted the Dominic Fortune stories within those two issues, which were what I really wanted to read, anyway. Also had everything from when it switched titles to Bizarre Adventures. I have digital of them, now, which is how i reviewed them in my Land of the Misfit Stories thread. If you just want to read them, there are on-line sources. |
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Post by Calidore on Jun 29, 2023 21:49:58 GMT -5
Epic had the most creative offering IMHO. Yes, when I hear "anthology comic" I think of a series that had multiple stories (not featuring the same character) in each individual issue, not a series that featured different characters at different times. Like DC's House of Mystery, for example. To me, something like, say, the Deathlok run in Astonishing Tales feels exactly the same as if it had been a Deathlok miniseries or short-lived ongoing that got cancelled, so I don't really think of it as part of an anthology series called Astonishing Tales (even though AT used to feature two separate stories per issue with different lead characters).
Examples of the latter definition include many TV (and radio) shows that feature a completely different story per episode. There are also some series, such as American Horror Story, that tell one independent, serialized story each season.
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