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Post by zilch on Oct 16, 2015 22:34:57 GMT -5
If i remember correctly, AvsJS suffered from having such varying artwork due to the fact it was sort of put together in different formats (6 issue miniseries, later as a graphic novel, then back to a 4 issue mini) and trying to find some one to do the whole thing (and Alfredo Alcola is not suited for super-hero work) and a sorta stop n go pacing...
I always thought that the whole Bruce goes crazy thing was due to what was killing him... and a post-Crisis version of this story using Mister Terrific has always haunted the back of my head...
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Post by zilch on Sept 24, 2015 1:45:59 GMT -5
I was always under the impression that the individual JSA members may not have just quit altogether, but still kept up undercover or still out of the spotlight.
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Post by zilch on Sept 17, 2015 7:51:46 GMT -5
The Atom has married since his last appearance as Al Pratt in The Atom #36. The specific identity of his wife is in some dispute. Although her given name is Mary, this may not be Mary James, Al's college girlfriend last seen in the “Atom” story in Flash Comics #104, as there had been no indication in his earlier Silver and Bronze Age appearances that Al and Mary stayed in touch after college. Indeed, Al is shown dating in Atom #36. According to a chart included in the Graffiti Press hardcover edition of the 1996 Kingdom Come limited series, Al's wife is Marion Thayer, the woman he dated in Atom #36 (though as a post-Crisis publication, nothing in Kingdom Come is binding on Earth-Two continuity). Since both candidates are attractive blondes (though Mary James started out as a brunette in the Golden Age, she had gone blonde before the original “Atom” series ended) and since “Mary” could be considered a diminutive form of “Marion,” there is no evidence that definitively precludes either possibility. This guide makes no attempt to argue either case, instead regarding Mary Pratt as an entirely new character. Post Crisis, the answer is both. Al married Mary James and had a son, who was later named Grant Emerson, AKA Damage. Mary died during childbirth (or was killed, it's sorta vague...) and the child was taken without Al's knowledge, thinking the boy also died. Later, he is set up with Marion Thayer (Thayer is one of Fox's favorite names for incidental characters) and marries. She dies while he is in Limbo with the JSA, as revealed in the terrific, but short lived Justice Society of America series. But, as we say in this thread, this has no bearing on Earth-Two history.
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Post by zilch on Sept 17, 2015 7:38:35 GMT -5
how Savage escaped from the mysterious beings who captured him at the conclusion of the ‘Justice Society of America’ story in All-Star Comics #65... Vandal Savage's origin is recapped in this story with no mention of Earth-Two. Could this be an Earth-One Vandal Savage?
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Post by zilch on Sept 10, 2015 18:24:05 GMT -5
The location of Bahdnisia seems to be something of a movable feast. Later it would be portrayed as an island nation with a vaguely Polynesian culture (although I think that portrayal may be post-Crisis). And Kupperberg's Atlas of the DC Universe put them in the Himalayas i think...
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Post by zilch on Sept 10, 2015 18:20:46 GMT -5
And the thing that gets me about Maneely is he was incredibly fast... i read somewhere that he turned around an eight page inking job overnight... and delivered it to the editor's apartment before the editor got up the next morning!
And these whining little pansy artists we have nowadays can't even keep up a monthly book!
Now 'scuse me... there are some kids on my lawn...
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Post by zilch on Sept 10, 2015 18:08:17 GMT -5
I'm on record as not being a huge fan of Neal Adams but when I see things like the double-page street scene posted above I think that would change if I were exposed to more of the same. Looking at that and some of the covers he did for the horror series like House of Mystery, I think it's his superhero work that leaves me a little cold. I wish he'd done more work in other genres, horror, espionage, whatever - anything where people wore regular clothes rather than skin-tight costumes. I like Steve Rude's work but sometimes it seems a little too self-consciously derivative for me to rank him with the very best. Still, there's no denying he's very good at what he does and it's a shame we don't get to see more of his stuff. Hadn't heard of this World's Finest series before now but I might look at it just for the art, much as I dislike Superman, and even Batman, these days. A lot of that is probably the work of his inkers, like Giordano and his assistants like Terry Austin, who i see in the backrounds.
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Post by zilch on Sept 9, 2015 22:18:52 GMT -5
Just sayin' here, but i would have bought the HELL out of a JSA title by Bridwell and Schaffenberger!
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Post by zilch on Sept 1, 2015 22:14:52 GMT -5
Avengers #142* Champions #2* Daredevil #128 Defenders #30 Doctor Strange #11 Fantastic Four #165 Giant-Sized Captain America #1 (GREAT reprints!!) Giant-Sized Captain Marvel #1 (More Great reprints!!) Incredible Hulk #194 (love me some Grade-C villains!) Inhumans #2* Iron Fist #2* Justice League of America #125* Kamandi #36* Marvel Premiere #27 (always loved the tryout books) MTU #40 Son of Satan #1 Super-Team Family #2 Warlock #10 X-Men #96
*Subscription copies I remember looking at the coupon for ordering and seeing a couple of series that i probably hadn't ever seen before, so ended up getting in on the ground floor on the big Marvel boom from the summer. Almost always got team books for subs, more heroes for the bucks. (Iron Fist being an exception)
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Post by zilch on Aug 6, 2015 1:51:10 GMT -5
GA was showing up in the main story, this was a backup.
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Post by zilch on Aug 6, 2015 1:49:12 GMT -5
Batman Family ..., iirc Detective Detective Comics was combined with Batman Family, but a bit of a back story here... From what i've heard, there were some cancellations at the time and Detective was a poor selling title and was actually cancelled over the course of a weekend, but a lot of back office maneuvering had the better selling Batman Family combined with Detective to save the title for which the company was named.
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Post by zilch on Aug 3, 2015 0:09:55 GMT -5
For August '75...
Amazing Adventure #33 Amazing Spider-Man #150 (Conway and Andru!!!) *Avengers #141 !!!!!!!!!!! Englehart!!!! Pérez!!!!!! Captain America #191 *Captain Marvel #41 (still on a Starlin high...) Daredevil #127 (Brown and Jansen! Great team! Love the Torpedo!!) *Defenders #29 (Guardians of the Galaxy and War with the Badoon! Great Sal Buscema artwork!!) Doomsday +1 (picked this up at a goofy drugstore that stocked mainly Charltons) Fantastic Four #164 (good story and artwork and a Atlas era character!!!) Giant-Sized X-Men #2 (reprinting the Sentinels story... one of my favorite X-Men arcs of all time) *Invaders #3 (diggin' the Thomas/Robbins/Colletta stuff!) Iron Fist #1 (this is by the same guy who did Doomsday?) Iron Man #80 Jungle Action #18 (great story and artwork... can tell the creators were really reaching for something different here... not always hitting all my buttons, but i really appreciate the effort!) *Justice League of America #124 (JLA/JSA team up... and a new JSA comic? WhoooHooo!!!) *Kamandi #35 (Kirby running out the clock... but still fun) Marvel Team-Up #39 Marvel Triple Action #26 (filling in my Avengers run!!) Marvel Two-In-One #12 (Prester John!!) *Our Fighting Forces #161? (was i still getting this???) *Plop #18 (see above) *Shazam #21 (WHY was i still getting this??)
*Subscription copy
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Post by zilch on Jul 29, 2015 9:10:44 GMT -5
And if you look closely, you'll find a Hercules story (with Avengers appearing) around the same era in one of the reprint comics... drove me crazy trying to find it pre-internet for my chronology work (my version of a Marvel calender).
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Post by zilch on Jul 28, 2015 1:50:55 GMT -5
1977 would have been when i was introduced to the comic book fan press... i recall reading about the "Implosion" and such in, i believe, Comic Reader and another larger magazine type book (not The Comics Journal). Maybe it was called Comic Informer or something like that... ... and the cancelled stuff would take YEARS to finally see print, in bits and pieces...
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Post by zilch on Jul 15, 2015 1:55:04 GMT -5
Legion of Super-Heroes w- Jim Shooter a- John Forte
Justice League of America w- Len Wein a- Dick Dillin and Dick Giordano
X-Men w- Chris Claremont a- Werner Roth with a really good inker
All-Star Squadron w- Roy Thomas or Alan Brennert a- Mike Machlan and Jerry Ordway
Doctor Strange w- Roger Stern a- Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin
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