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Post by sabongero on Jul 22, 2020 16:23:12 GMT -5
Hi chadwilliam it's always cool to drop by your Golden Age Spectre thread and read your posts regarding his Golden Age comic books appearances. Perhaps you would be the best to ask this question instead of asking in the CCF Question thread. Since the Spectre's powers are considered limitless, could he in your opinion have defeated the Anti-Monitor during the Crisis on Infinite Earths big even of the mid 1980's? I know he couldn't at the maxi-series, but that was because of the DC Editorial decree and changing of direction of the then DC Multiverse collapsing into one Earth to streamline their direction at the time.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 22, 2020 16:17:00 GMT -5
In history, The "Dark Ages" is a historical "period-ization" traditionally referring to the Middle Ages (c. 5th–15th century) that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.
In comic book history, we are now in the modern age. In your opinion what are the years that comprised the "Dark Ages" of comic books and please feel free to express your opinion why? Thanks.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 22, 2020 16:06:49 GMT -5
Being a child of the 80s, my first purple crush was: I preferred Princess Ardala
I can't believe I've forgotten her. For some reason when I see Flash Gordon (1980's movie) on TV once in a blue moon when it pops up in cable, the princess of that movie reminds me of the princess in the Buck Rogers TV show. And then for some reason I can't even gather thoughts and I'd just end up staring and blanking out on the TV screen.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 22, 2020 16:02:41 GMT -5
Being a child of the 80s, my first purple crush was: Holy smokes I forgot about how hot she was. And was slightly let down from her looks on Buck Rogers to Silver Spoons. But still hot.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 22, 2020 15:40:32 GMT -5
Thanks for the great compiled lists gentlemen. I hope I get to read some of the ones I am not familiar with. I always thought if the person behind the written work and the illustrations were the same person, that what he or she was trying to convey would come across more so than a collaborative team of writer and illustrator, even though there has been some great creative teams over the decades.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 22, 2020 15:36:14 GMT -5
I really appreciate the information regarding my Hawkman inquiry everyone. In fact looking at the Geoff Johns run, I came across Hawkman #27, a single issue collaboration by Brubaker and Phillips of the "Criminal" crime noir fiction collaboration. And it was just ... WOW !Thank you for the information you provided brutalis, Michael, Cei-U!, zaku, and chintzbeatnik. They were very helpful. I look forward to reading some of the ones you have suggested. At least I have a direction to go on now with that character.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 22, 2020 15:26:59 GMT -5
I remember during the first Gulf War and President Bush suddenly stopped the offense, ordering General Norman Schwarzkopf to halt after re-taking Kuwait and taking half of Iraq. I just happened to pass by the deli store which had a comic book rack. By this time I had stopped reading comic books for about three and a half years. But when I saw this comic book on the rack, I remember really being shocked. At the time I didn't know it was just a temporary team for the series for only a few issues. But at the time seeing at the rack, I was blown away by the cover and it piqued my interest then, thinking the series was going on a new direction. Unfortunately, I never picked up another comic book until the summer of 2006, part of an almost 18-year hiatus of reading comic books.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 21, 2020 23:21:44 GMT -5
I just wanted to ask CCF readers of Hawkman. What Hawkman writers did you like whether from a couple of decades ago or as current as a couple of months ago, and what direction did they go with the Hawkman character in their stories? Thanks. I just want to get to know more about this character, as I am only familiar with him in guest appearances in other characters' solo series. Thanks.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 19, 2020 22:54:13 GMT -5
Hi. Does anyone here know of a single person writer and illustrator of comic book issues?
The only person I know of this was Walter Simonson during his Thor run in the early to mid 1980's. And I am not sure but I thong John Byrne in his Fantastic Four run in the 1980's.
Are there others that you know of?
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Post by sabongero on Jul 16, 2020 16:42:21 GMT -5
Does anyone know if Superman had a relationship with Lana Lang (not as Superboy) and what Superman run or Action Comics run was it handled, if any ? A couple of years before the Post-Crisis Reboot, Lois Lane had broken up with Superman and the latter (as Clark Kent) started a relationship with Lana Lang. Yes, Superman's eternal girlfriend left him and no one noticed. This makes it clear how much his comics were popular at the time. Thanks. It was just before the Crisis on Infinite Earths maxi-series correct? Would it be in the 1970's or the early 1980's?
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Post by sabongero on Jul 16, 2020 10:20:31 GMT -5
Does anyone know if Superman had a relationship with Lana Lang (not as Superboy) and what Superman run or Action Comics run was it handled, if any ?
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Post by sabongero on Jul 10, 2020 19:58:17 GMT -5
My apologies if my thread title's pun has anybody thinking this is a wrestling thread. It is not. Instead, what I hope to see is all of you internet picture browsing maniacs who love to post pictures taking the ball and running for the touchdown in showing pictures from all the great (and not so great) comic book artists showing off their own individual and unique art style specifics. Inspired from talk in another thread about how artists have their own shorthand or way of drawing things which is instantly recognizable as to knowing who the artist is that drew it, I thought this might make for an interesting subject. Since I cannot post images (thanks to my hospital's incredibly strong blocking/protection system) I shall throw out occasional thoughts and replies while the rest of you post magnificent images showing examples of artistic flair (woooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh). To start you all off, I have several suggestions but feel free to explore and express your own findings! Ditko: his wild and crazy jazz hands for characters, his rubber bandy legged poses, his fantasy/magical/other worldly scenarios and so forth. Kirby: who doesn't know and love Kirby Krackle? Squared fingers, imaginative machinery which nobody but the King knows what it does if anything, Kirby monsters and more. Gil Kane: the upshot face/head staring into the nostrils of the soul, heroically powerful posing (wrestlers must study Kane), the impact and follow through flow of a spectacular punch utilizing the entire body, Kane clothing and other such. Infantino: the lunge forward with fists/arms ready to strike, the falling backwards run/stop posture, angular faces, emptied/shaded city background with only windows showing, futuristic cityscapes and more. This is just the tip of a Titanic Iceberg (yes I went there) of artistic endeavors in which ALL artists drawing comic book/sequential art will adapt and stylize. Every artist from the early days of newspaper strips and through today's comics and graphic novels have their own unique sense of design, style and anatomy which so many of us can easily or not so easily identify, even when the artists name isn't there. Whether you like or loathe (yes, even the so called "bad" artists have traits we can recognize (looking at you Liefeld no feet in the panel) and can talk about. So let the image posting and discussions begin! Enter the fun... The first thing that popped up in my mind when I read the topic was ... WOOOOOOO !!! Ric Flair. Here's my two-cents for the thread: Michael Turner: His illustrations of all his characters comes out as super models. Ed McGuinness: His illustrations has everyone bulked up to the max on steroids and HGH. John Romita Sr.: You just look at his illustrations of women, and the women's faces you just fall in love with them as a teenager (i.e. Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy).
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Post by sabongero on Jul 10, 2020 19:52:54 GMT -5
More Romita goodness--from the Spider-Man newspaper strip. As Romita recalls it, Lee wanted to launch a daily strip as early as 1970, and with Romita, produced two weeks' worth of strips for the proposal, as seen in the following samples-- --but it failed to be picked up. Lee would revisit the idea again in 1976, agreeing to write the strip, but Romita--by that time Art Director at Marvel--was not so enthusiastic about taking on such a job: Romita: "I wanted to keep my job. I was a 9 to 5 art director. I was also doing other things - covers, and designing toys and things like that. I didn't want to give up my job because I thought of the syndicate thing as a long shot, and with not much duration and expectation." After coming around, Romita initially only wanted to illustrate the dailies, or the Sunday strip, but ended up taking on all seven days of the strip, which launched in January of 1977. The following are samples from The Rattler storyline from June of 1977 run-- ...The Kingpin arc from July of that year-- Around this board, there's been a good amount of discussion about the quality of classic artists' work during their years in comics, including when or of their work changed (for better or worse) as time moved forward. Looking at Romita's 1970 proposal pages, then comparing it to his work from '77, its pretty clear that he did not lose his powerful edge or approach to delivering stories. The style of certain characters changed to update their look to then-contemporary times, but the quality of his art was holding strong. More to come from Romita's run on the Spider-Man daily strip. For some reason that's always been the facial illustrations of Mary Jane Watson and Peter Parker that I associate with those two characters. Perhaps as a kid in the 1980's and I've been a buyer of the Marvel Tales comic book reprints of the 1960's Amazing Spider-Man, that's what settled in my subconscious. Just like Superman in the Super Friends cartoon series is the facial illustration I associate with Superman instead of the mid 90's Superman TAS and 2000's JL and JLU.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 10, 2020 19:31:11 GMT -5
This visual from Thor # 300 blows me away. Holy smokes. Other than the Beyonder in Secret Wars II, this seemed to me the most powerful gathering of powerful beings on planet Earth at one time. I've got to look up this issue somewhere online hopefully just not too expensive as I just want to read the issue story behind this picture.
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Post by sabongero on Jul 10, 2020 19:28:54 GMT -5
Wasn't there a particular Thor issue where there was a pantheon of gods from all various mythologies (Greek, Egyptian, Native American, etc.) in that one issue? Has anyone ever came across that and would you happen to recall what issue number that was ?
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