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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 7, 2023 22:17:22 GMT -5
Does Marvel team-up count?
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 16, 2023 17:54:42 GMT -5
That one JLA issue - I think it was during Len Wein's run - where the League just flat-out fought Spider-man. (Ok, tbf it wasn't Spider-man but it was a dude wearing Spider-man's costume exactly and it was multiple pages. I assume nobody at Marvel was readingDC books or there woulda been a lawsuit....)
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 6, 2023 13:43:47 GMT -5
Shelley Mayer's Power Pack Kubert and Kanigher's Jonah Hex Lee and Ditko's Ghost World
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 3, 2023 11:54:20 GMT -5
Very charismatic. I covered the Todd M panel for CBR circa 2008 or so and left saying "I should buy Spawn" - a thought I have never had before or since.
He was a dick to poor Rob Leifeld at the Image founders panel, though.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 28, 2023 22:08:11 GMT -5
I've been reading reprints of the Stan/Romita Sr/Mooney/J. Buscema Amazing Spider-Man lately, and poor Peter had trouble with a couple non=powered enemies: Man Mountain Marko (although Spider-man later said he was holding back in their first fight because there was "a Lady Present") and a de-aged but otherwise un-powered Silvermane.
Basically if you're in the Mafia and have an on-panel name you can give Spidey a run for his money.
Spider-Man also fought the Kangaroo. I don't remember if the Kangaroo had powers or not despite the fact I read ASM #81 yesterday. Not one of the greatest triumphs from the house of ideas.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 28, 2023 21:42:09 GMT -5
My #1 woulda been the second Circus of Crime (Iron Mask, Doctor Danger, and the Fat Man) from Kid Colt Outlaw.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 28, 2022 17:35:05 GMT -5
Mainstream creators who have worked within the superhero factory system who are both writers and artists? Yes, absolutely.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 30, 2020 15:55:33 GMT -5
Steve Gerber woulda been my # 1.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 11, 2020 5:38:42 GMT -5
Defenders for me. Of the two teams' core quartets (after the Avengers' initial 15 floundering issues), I find Strange, Namor, Hulk and Val a lot more engaging than Cap, Hawkeye, Wanda and Pietro. It occurs to me that in the past 20 years or more, the Avengers has become the Defenders, with virtually every Marvel superhero outside the X-Men franchise rotating in for at least a few issues, but the Defenders went there first. And I always found the premise of the Defenders--a group of comfortable (if not admittedly so) peers--to feel more authentic than the Avengers, whose trappings of formality just never felt convincing to me. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. The Defenders, at least originally, had an interesting and unique conceptual framework. The Avengers tried to argue that being an Avenger was a grand tradition from, like, issue # 3, but the actual comic was just a bunch of people who didn't like each other much who had formed a team because... well because... Obviously the REASON for the Avengers to exist in universe was.... ummmm All commerical art tries to make money, but the Avengers (as much as I like the first few issues!) were an obviously and unabashedly mercenary venture right from the get-go, and all this talk about "The Hallowed tradition of Avengerdom" was a flimsy attempt to lend conceptual gravitas to a big stinkin' hunk of nothin'. And I think the early conceptual flimsiness... And, again, I'd rate the actual first year of the Avengers a solid "A"... has dogged the franchise to this very day. (So why do I like the first couple issues so much? Well among other reasons the original Masters of Evil were one of the most dynamic and conceptually cohesive super-teams in comics. As long as a team book has ONE good team in it, I am happy.) Which is why my favorite "Avengers" runs were from the '00s: the Marvel Adventures title and the Ultimates. Both of those teams have a cogent in-story reason to exist.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 11, 2020 5:17:06 GMT -5
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 11, 2020 5:01:51 GMT -5
I am uncomfortable with the direction of this thread drift. People wanting to read a thread about the first superheroine might not be up for a discussion of porn/porn-adjacent comics.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 11, 2020 2:56:19 GMT -5
The JLA have been great four times - Fox/Sekowsky, Wein/Dillin, GiffenDematties/Maguire, and Morrison/Porter.
The JSA were, bizarrely enough, only great in the '90s.
I have more affection for the JSA as a concept - The JLA are really whomsoever happens to show up this week. "JLA member" is meaningless.
And I love, love, love, love, love Earth-Two.
Yeah, I dunno. These are hard!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 11, 2020 2:51:16 GMT -5
I've got a soft spot for the Silver Age Teen Titans and it's weird experimentation born of desperation. Now we're about social activism! Now we're gothic horror! I don't actually enjoy reading the Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans, but I think they're the perfect team on a conceptual level. I like the FF, but I don't think they ever got out of Kirby's shadow between, say, 1971 and 2009.
Still thinking.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 11, 2020 2:40:49 GMT -5
Other, specifically Fantagraphics. I lived in Seattle and I understand Seattle comics, and I'll always be a little bit outside-looking-in at New York comics.
I'm exactly 50/50 on Marvel/DC.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 5, 2020 11:33:09 GMT -5
One of the earliest comic book pages I’ve seen signed with Romita’s name, Romantic Love #6 (July 1951, Avon Periodicals): Interesting! I saw some of Romita's work on the '50s Captain America and it's good, but it's also a complete stylistic rip-off of Milton Caniff. It's nice to see that Romita was developing his own style on the romance books, even back in the early days.
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