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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 5, 2023 9:17:35 GMT -5
Or a behind-the-scenes story of the guy who travels with them and literally shines the spotlight on them, in public. I picture a 3 person crew, with the spotlight guy, the sound man, and the electrician/carpenter, to create all of the staging for their numerous press conferences. I see stories about labor strife, with them picketing Avengers mansion, complaints to HR about sexual harassment, after Tigra keeps hitting on one or more (and/or She-Hulk), trying to get equipment working after the Vision has passed through it, and being dragooned into helping Jarvis serve a big banquet. I always appreciate your humour, but don’t be giving Marvel any ideas. That idea is better than what they are producing now.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 5, 2023 9:15:15 GMT -5
I understand that many of the Image guys were influenced by Art Adams. They were, but at the same time they didn't want to be guys who did annuals. They wanted to take a smidging of the energy he brought to a book and put their names out there on a monthly basis. I agree. I salute the artists that put out monthly work. Art Adams and Steranko drew nice pictures but they didn't last long in the trenches.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 5, 2023 9:03:58 GMT -5
I suspect Todd was also influenced by Art Adams' work on Web of Spider-Man Annual #2 which also borrows from Golden. Todd admitted in a 1990 interview that the spaghetti webbing idea came from a black and white portfolio from 1982. However, Todd took things much further than Adams or Golden. He was honest about the fact that he wasn't as good as Adams, but that he was able to get books out monthly. From all accounts, Todd was hugely driven to become a big name, superstar artist, and it's fascinating to watch how that develops over the course of ASM #298-300. Would he have been as successful without Golden and Adams to crib from? Maybe. His work on Hulk had pathed the way for his Spider-Man run and he was already doing fairly radical looking stuff on that book. His mindset seemed to be that if he stood out, people would take notice. I understand that many of the Image guys were influenced by Art Adams.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 5, 2023 5:00:41 GMT -5
I understand that graded books are here to stay but it makes me shake my head when I see really low grades on slabbed books. I started watching a video about the market that tartanphantom posted and in the background there's an early Spider-man on the wall graded at 1.3. Really ? that book must be in pieces. What value could it possibly have? There I said it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 5, 2023 4:54:59 GMT -5
Wear a back pack.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 3, 2023 12:12:43 GMT -5
I like '60s spy Nick Fury best. The original Lee/Kirby stories from Strange Tales are really fun, but my favourite are the later Jim Steranko stories from ST and, of course, the short-lived Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD series by Steranko and various others. Didn’t he have an invisible car in one early tale? Long before Bond had one in 2002’s Die Another Day…He did? I never saw it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 3, 2023 4:44:26 GMT -5
Were they TOD reprints ?
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 3, 2023 4:42:19 GMT -5
I was buying about 3-4 comics a month during the start of 1987. Avengers, WC Avengers, FF were the books I held on to even though the stories were lackluster. It wasn't until Defalco's years in the 90's that I increased my buying. I added Hulk, Silver Surfer, Guardians of the Galaxy, New Warriors and Namor. I enjoyed the 90's, gimmicks and all.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 2, 2023 6:04:28 GMT -5
Rob Liefeld had a company with the name of Awesome so that it could be featured at the front of the Previews catalogue.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 2, 2023 5:59:50 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 1, 2023 17:27:30 GMT -5
How to ruin a rare TPB - paste a stupid oversized green sticker on it because it accentuates the cover artwork
- make sure it doesn't peel off easily because unsightly residue makes the cover look better
- make sure it's about 10x larger than it really needs to me, if it really has to be pasted there
In-store price labels that won't come off properly or won't come off without damaging the item they are stuck to are a real annoyance. In particular, as a record collector, price stickers that can't be removed without damaging the album sleeve are awful. There oughta be a law against them! (First World problems). Is that book rare, though?
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 1, 2023 17:26:02 GMT -5
My wife has an appointment this afternoon to check out a moderately scary medical issue. I just found out that her appointment is with Dr. Carmen Doom. I'm going with her, so after today I'll be able to say that I was face-to-face with Dr. Doom and lived. Assuming that I do live. Good luck. Just don't mention Reed Richards at the appointment.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 1, 2023 10:58:26 GMT -5
Okay. It’s cheating.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 1, 2023 4:18:38 GMT -5
MDG
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 30, 2023 21:15:00 GMT -5
Rags. you have more Id's than Hank Pym.
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