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Post by tarkintino on Feb 12, 2024 16:45:28 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 12, 2024 12:37:05 GMT -5
Action Comics #814
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 12, 2024 12:34:22 GMT -5
Tom and Jerry Comics #100 (November, 1952).
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 12, 2024 12:30:31 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 12, 2024 9:50:41 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 12, 2024 8:23:00 GMT -5
Adventure Comics #180 (September, 1952).
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 12, 2024 8:21:09 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 12, 2024 5:55:39 GMT -5
Romantic Story #17 (July, 1952).
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 11, 2024 17:54:50 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 11, 2024 17:52:52 GMT -5
The Lone Ranger #47 (May, 1952).
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 11, 2024 14:12:53 GMT -5
So much wasted potential here. Overall, the problem with Thomas' creation of The Invaders was the belief that it had the story potential to be an ongoing series like any other team book. Clearly, it did not, and despite reader interest in some Golden Age characters or flashbacks (whether in Fantasy Masterpieces or Captain America's retconned WW2 stories from Tales of Suspense), that interest was in smaller, digestible parts, not full-on main courses every day. Frankly, the best Marvel Golden Age stories (from the Silver - Bronze Age) were any associated with / focused on Cap during WW2, as he--of all Timely/Atlas characters--was given such a compelling new chapter to his revived identity, that one would naturally want to read about that which made him that burdened, weight-of-the-world character in the then-present day. The others (Namor, Human Torch, et al.) simply lacked that kind of character depth as Golden Age characters, and knowing a character's tragic fate (e.g., the Torch and Toro) was no substitute for the demand to make the characters feel whole, instead of...glorified flashbacks. The Invaders should have been a recurring series in a title such as the Marvel Premiere magazine, which would have allowed Thomas to build lengthy, but more adult (for superheroes), one-and-done events from the team's past more closely mirroring the war's events. That, and avoid perhaps the biggest problem of all for The Invaders: inferior artwork that was greatly displeasing no matter how sound the scripts were from time to time.
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 11, 2024 13:49:36 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 11, 2024 13:44:44 GMT -5
Detective Comics #181 (March, 1952).
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 10, 2024 23:53:55 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 10, 2024 23:52:16 GMT -5
Detective Comics #808
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