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Post by Hoosier X on May 3, 2014 14:03:46 GMT -5
Who is the artist on that Trial of Tellowjacket scan? Is Joe Sinnott the inker? Al Milgrom drew that page inked by Sinott. It ran from Avengers 213-232 and had several artists. Bob Hall , Greg Laroque were some of the others. I collected The Avengers from #144 up to about #280, and I remember The Trial of Yellowjacket very well. (I don't have those issues any more.)
I thought the penciller might be Milgrom, but I thought I must be mistaken because I remember Milgrom on West Coast Avengers (which I didn't read that much) a lot more than the regular Avengers title.
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Post by Pharozonk on May 3, 2014 14:35:31 GMT -5
From Tales to Astonish #35  If you can't tell, I've become a little Hank Pym obsessed over the past few days. I think he soon might be one of my favorite Marvel characters. |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 3, 2014 14:44:14 GMT -5
If you can't tell, I've become a little Hank Pym obsessed over the past few days. I think he soon might be one of my favorite Marvel characters. He had the most adorable rogues gallery. The Porcupine, Egghead, the Hi-Jacker, the Black Knight, the Scarlet Beetle, the Human Top (who looked like a radish), the Wrecker, the generic Communists.
I love that issue where the Giant-Man Fan Club shows up, and they're all dressed up as Giant-Man villains! (I think that's the one where Hank is hanging around, wearing most of the costume BUT NO MASK as he entertains the fan club. If you can't trust your own fan club, who can you trust?)
(I think it's hysterical that he has a fan club. Who does he think he is? Conrad Birdie?)
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 3, 2014 14:46:40 GMT -5
Only a couple years old, but eff it, this King City bit never fails to get a chuckle:  |
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Post by Pharozonk on May 3, 2014 14:53:02 GMT -5
If you can't tell, I've become a little Hank Pym obsessed over the past few days. I think he soon might be one of my favorite Marvel characters. He had the most adorable rogues gallery. The Porcupine, Egghead, the Hi-Jacker, the Black Knight, the Scarlet Beetle, the Human Top (who looked like a radish), the Wrecker, the generic Communists.
I love that issue where the Giant-Man Fan Club shows up, and they're all dressed up as Giant-Man villains! (I think that's the one where Hank is hanging around, wearing most of the costume BUT NO MASK as he entertains the fan club. If you can't trust your own fan club, who can you trust?)
(I think it's hysterical that he has a fan club. Who does he think he is? Conrad Birdie?)
I agree with pretty much everything you said. I actually had never looked into Marvel's sci-fi/horror stuff before, but this Ant Man run has inspired me to look into other stuff here. Anyone have any suggestions along those lines? |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 3, 2014 15:17:37 GMT -5
He had the most adorable rogues gallery. The Porcupine, Egghead, the Hi-Jacker, the Black Knight, the Scarlet Beetle, the Human Top (who looked like a radish), the Wrecker, the generic Communists.
I love that issue where the Giant-Man Fan Club shows up, and they're all dressed up as Giant-Man villains! (I think that's the one where Hank is hanging around, wearing most of the costume BUT NO MASK as he entertains the fan club. If you can't trust your own fan club, who can you trust?)
(I think it's hysterical that he has a fan club. Who does he think he is? Conrad Birdie?)
I agree with pretty much everything you said. I actually had never looked into Marvel's sci-fi/horror stuff before, but this Ant Man run has inspired me to look into other stuff here. Anyone have any suggestions along those lines? There's a trade paperback from years back called Monster Masterworks that had quite a few of the important pre-hero Marvel monster stories. Maybe you can get that for a decent price.
There's also stuff like Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish, Strange Tales available as Marvel Masterworks or Omnibus. But these are expensive.
Also, these were reprinted in the 1970s in books like Where Monsters Roam and Where Creatures Dwell, and I bet those are still affordable on eBay or mycomicsshop.
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 3, 2014 15:32:41 GMT -5
Now delving back further, with one of my favorite openers:  |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 3, 2014 15:42:45 GMT -5
One of my friends had a copy of OMAC #1 when I was a kid. It blew my mind! I never read another issue of the Kirby version of OMAC but I never forgot that first issue just from reading it once.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2014 16:54:24 GMT -5
From Tales to Astonish #35 If you can't tell, I've become a little Hank Pym obsessed over the past few days. I think he soon might be one of my favorite Marvel characters. I'm totally with you on Pym. Since his days as Giantman in the early Avengers issues, I was a big fan. I was broken Hearted when He was made a wife beater and I felt he was abused more so than Hal Jordans deconstruction. |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2014 16:59:55 GMT -5
This thread needs an appearance by maybe the most reviled JLA member- VIBE. ( Break Dancing included at no extra charge) JLA # 233 Art by Chuck Patton and Bill Anderson. |
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Post by the4thpip on May 3, 2014 17:09:08 GMT -5
Golden Age Batman was always trollin' poor Robin. I don't think it got much better in the modern age.  Bottom lotion indeed. |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 3, 2014 17:10:51 GMT -5
This thread needs an appearance by maybe the most reviled JLA member- VIBE. ( Break Dancing included at no extra charge) JLA # 233 Art by Chuck Patton and Bill Anderson.I love Justice League Detroit! Vibe was very unpopular with a lot of fans at that point, but I think Gypsy was more hated in general. (This is my impression from the letters pages of the time.)
So many comics have slipped through my hands and disappeared into the maw of time, but I still have all the Justice League Detroit issues! Such wonderful Chuck Patton art! And I love that George Tuska three-parter with Amazo as well! (It's the only storyline I've ever read with Amazo (well, I read his first appearance last year when I got JLA Archives #1 out of the library).)
During that time from 2004 to 2011 when I didn't read hardly any comics, I did get the last three parts of a four-part story about Justice League Detroit. It was a series called Justice League Secret Files or Justice League Classified or something like that, and they were fighting the Royal Flush Gang. Both Royal Flush Gangs, actually!
Anyone is free to diss the JLD. It was kinda stupid, I admit. But I found it fun, despite its flaws. And they definitely didn't deserve the massacre in the last few issues.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2014 17:16:24 GMT -5
This thread needs an appearance by maybe the most reviled JLA member- VIBE. ( Break Dancing included at no extra charge) JLA # 233 Art by Chuck Patton and Bill Anderson.I love Justice League Detroit! Vibe was very unpopular with a lot of fans at that point, but I think Gypsy was more hated in general. (This is my impression from the letters pages of the time.)
So many comics have slipped through my hands and disappeared into the maw of time, but I still have all the Justice League Detroit issues! Such wonderful Chuck Patton art! And I love that George Tuska three-parter with Amazo as well! (It's the only storyline I've ever read with Amazo (well, I read his first appearance last year when I got JLA Archives #1 out of the library).)
During that time from 2004 to 2011 when I didn't read hardly any comics, I did get the last three parts of a four-part story about Justice League Detroit. It was a series called Justice League Secret Files or Justice League Classified or something like that, and they were fighting the Royal Flush Gang. Both Royal Flush Gangs, actually!
Anyone is free to diss the JLD. It was kinda stupid, I admit. But I found it fun, despite its flaws. And they definitely didn't deserve the massacre in the last few issues.
There was a movement in the 70's -80's to try and copy the Formula that made the New X-men so popular. JLD was just another team trying to cash in on that formula. I remember liking the Luke Mcdonnel artwork, but not much else about the run. It was so unpopular that they killed most of the characters off by the cancellation of the run. |
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Post by Pharozonk on May 3, 2014 17:27:36 GMT -5
From Tales to Astonish #35 If you can't tell, I've become a little Hank Pym obsessed over the past few days. I think he soon might be one of my favorite Marvel characters. I'm totally with you on Pym. Since his days as Giantman in the early Avengers issues, I was a big fan. I was broken Hearted when He was made a wife beater and I felt he was abused more so than Hal Jordans deconstruction. I thought the Trial of Yellowjacket storyline was pretty good since he at the end he had a moment of both redemption and badass awesomeness when he took down Egghead and his cronies. |
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Post by the4thpip on May 3, 2014 17:33:00 GMT -5
Two Lightning Ladies:  Kirby's original, from Captain Victory.  James Fry's 1993 version from the only released issue of what was supposed to be a 4 issue Silver Star mini series at Topps Comics, written by Kurt Busiek. Kurt got to re-visit the characters a couple of years ago with the Kirby Genesis project. |
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