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Post by tarkintino on Apr 24, 2024 6:09:12 GMT -5
Thanks for the votes, folks! This week's contest focuses on the Greenskin Goliath at his most teeth-gnashing, eyeball popping, senses-shattering best, so pick a cover fitting that smashing theme. Good luck!
Starting off with The Incredible Hulk (May, 1978). Cover by Bob Larkin.
• Post one, and only one, classic cover that fits the theme of the contest.
• Your cover must be from a published comic book or collected volume published before April 2014.
• Please include the title and the issue number of the comic, preferably in bold, in case some posters cannot see your image.
• Covers must be posted before voting begins.
• Voting takes place on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, beginning at 12:01 am PST and ending at 11:59 AM PST.
• Vote by posting the name of the poster whose cover best fits the theme or that you simply like the most in bold.
• The winner of the contest is the entrant with the most votes after the voting period ends.
• The winner gets to choose the theme for the next week's contest.
• If you don't think the cover fits the theme, don't post disparaging remarks about it. Just don't vote for it.
• If a cover is more recent than the classic time frame, kindly point it out to the poster, who may then choose an alternate before voting begins
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 24, 2024 5:42:42 GMT -5
Thanks for the votes, folks. New contest up today!
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 22:10:12 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 22:04:56 GMT -5
Four Color #1173
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 22:02:54 GMT -5
Heavy Metal Vol.24 / #2 (May, 2000).
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 17:42:41 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 17:39:16 GMT -5
Four Color #1171
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 17:37:41 GMT -5
Batman #573 (January, 2000).
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 17:21:58 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 7:37:56 GMT -5
Four Color #1169
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 7:19:46 GMT -5
foxley.
Honorable mention: Farrar and Rags.
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 23, 2024 7:11:18 GMT -5
Batman: War on Crime / DC Treasury #2 (November, 1999).
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 22, 2024 20:54:43 GMT -5
What would you folks say are the best parts of the first Marvel series? I have read much of it. I've read just an issue or two past the issues that adapted the first movie, but I may be interested in checking other stuff out. I posted this up thread, but I believe the Goodwin/Infantino period was the title's best part (and most successful) for a number of reasons, one being that it thoroughly lived up to the Space Fantasy the original Star Wars film had been referred to--it felt like a perfect mix of the galaxy-spanning sci-fi war drama and the sweeping fantasy epic, a style the film franchise used to excel at (pre-Prequel and Sequel trilogies). The Goodwin/Infantino team built visually rich, strong character-driven arcs of their own, not content to ape the film over and over again, something that would become something of a problem as the Marvel monthly wore on, particularly in the post-The Empire Strikes Back era of comic.
Post Return of the Jedi, the creative tank quickly dried up, with plots that were trying to play up the Luke angle, only it was only going to fail without the gravity of his familial conflict from the films.
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 22, 2024 17:53:02 GMT -5
The Comics Journal #215 (August, 1999).
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 22, 2024 16:29:21 GMT -5
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