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Post by Ozymandias on May 26, 2023 12:12:14 GMT -5
Kirby's portrayal of women wasn't as good as Romita's, but it wasn't as bad as Ditko's.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 26, 2023 12:06:35 GMT -5
Source, scroll to the bottom, it's a large page.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 26, 2023 10:18:30 GMT -5
the traffic going home was terrible so I pulled off the highway in queens and stopped at Royal collectibles. They had dollar boxes on the sidewalk and more inside , so I picked these up- I remembered Crimebuster podcast about it and figured the book was so bad it was good. Had to buy a few more. That's a logical, almost unavoidable sequence of events.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 26, 2023 10:10:19 GMT -5
Spiderman Life Story had Peter age in real time if I'm not mistaken. But I am curious, Did Franklin and Valeria, for example age in real time and if so when did they stop aging? Franklin was back and forth all the time in the 80s. The most jarring anomaly was when he appeared in Power Pack, little more than a toddler younger than Katie Power when he should have been around Jack's age. No explanation but I think there's a fan theory that it's his reality altering powers at work and so no one in the stories notices. Almost no one. tolworthy mentions exceptions in his webpage. I haven't read it all, but I caught the names of Dr. Strange and She-Hulk. Wasn't that added retroactively several decades after the fact? Certainly, it was added taking advantage of the wiggle room the stories allowed. There was no mention of the summer vacations between grades 10 and 11, or 11 and 12. Just the one after graduation (ASM 28) and before the aforementioned start of college. So he could've been 17, or 16 or 15. Given that, back then, a Marvel Year was a real year, they went with 15, which suited them better for the sliding scale to be applied later.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 26, 2023 8:00:36 GMT -5
Peter Parker being in his late teens in 1963 He was 15 in AF 15. Went to college in ASM 31 (three years later) and graduated in '78 (ASM 185). And no, he didn't miss any scholar year. He just missed a lot of years altogether, so he was 23 or 24.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 26, 2023 4:34:13 GMT -5
how often do we mention years? Mostly births, marriages, gravestones and newspapers as well. Following your own suggestion: Alternatively:
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Post by Ozymandias on May 26, 2023 0:58:33 GMT -5
That reminds me of something tolworthy wrote: The latest time reference I see him mentioning in FF was 1980. Besides, after the 80's, Marvel had kind of done a silent reboot. Wondering about late 80's time references.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 23, 2023 12:29:38 GMT -5
Earth-19529
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Post by Ozymandias on May 22, 2023 11:41:31 GMT -5
That's Earth-200111, I was thinking of good old 616.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 22, 2023 10:33:01 GMT -5
I thought most time references in Marvel comics stopped in the 70's, but I'm reading Owsley's PM&IF and so far I've found two instances in two different issues placing the action in: 1985!
The way I see it, this is a clear case of defiance against editorial mandate. For how long did it go? what's the last date reference to be found on a Marvel comic?
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Post by Ozymandias on May 21, 2023 8:48:28 GMT -5
Unless we use Pym particles, of course! And here you had me thinking you'd missed the whole point.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 21, 2023 0:53:33 GMT -5
As for real humans, this is the biggest guy (not just tallest) I've seen moving around like a normal person. Arvydas Sabonis in the early to mid 80's was a wonder:
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Post by Ozymandias on May 21, 2023 0:30:10 GMT -5
This is the tallest primate ever to exist, it could reach 10 feet on two legs, which seldom did. Like bears, it's not feasible to support all that weight vertically:
In any case, like MWGallaher mentioned, so basic powers as strength and invulnerability are most likely closely interrelated, yet are presented as separate for variety purposes. Otherwise characters would look pretty much alike. One notable exception is Luke Cage, who has a measure of invulnerability in proportion to his strength, when pitted against Spider-Man, the contrast becomes telling. How do they explain this away, with the muddy concept of "durability".
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Post by Ozymandias on May 16, 2023 9:27:58 GMT -5
ChatGPT doesn't find much via synopsis. I tried it a couple of times, it was useless... Well, I tried it once and turned to reddit. Had my answer in 5 minutes.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 16, 2023 7:03:00 GMT -5
ChatGPT doesn't find much via synopsis.
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