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Post by Icctrombone on May 16, 2014 7:04:30 GMT -5
This ones for you Hoosier X First Thundra FF# 129. Buscema/Sinnott
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Post by Icctrombone on May 16, 2014 9:16:18 GMT -5
Thundra in FF #133 Ramona Fradon/ sinnott
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Post by Hoosier X on May 16, 2014 9:44:15 GMT -5
Thanks, icctrombone. I just read these again last night. But that was in an Essential volume, so they were in black and white. It's wonderful to see them in color!
And I still can't get over how great the art of Fradon/Sinnott looks! Wow!
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Post by Icctrombone on May 16, 2014 10:06:01 GMT -5
Thanks, icctrombone. I just read these again last night. But that was in an Essential volume, so they were in black and white. It's wonderful to see them in color! And I still can't get over how great the art of Fradon/Sinnott looks! Wow! I just read # 133, the Fradon issue, and I can't believe the beating Thundra gave Ben.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 16, 2014 10:40:23 GMT -5
Thundra is BADASSSS!
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 16, 2014 11:55:13 GMT -5
icctrombone, so morbid. Birth #1 - The Crypt-keeper, Tales from the Crypt #33 (Davis)
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 16, 2014 12:12:14 GMT -5
Birth #2 - The Old Witch, Haunt of Fear #14 (Ingels)
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Post by Icctrombone on May 16, 2014 12:23:26 GMT -5
Your births are gorier than my deaths.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 16, 2014 12:28:49 GMT -5
Death #10 Blue Beetle buys the farm. Countdown to Infinite Crisis #1
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Post by Icctrombone on May 16, 2014 15:16:03 GMT -5
Death #11- The classic Flash death in Crisis #8. Perez/Ordway
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Post by The Man of Tomorrow on May 16, 2014 16:33:29 GMT -5
Classic Golden Age Archie, such as his debut in Pep...just cannot be beat... Damn! He looks like he was the inspiration for Howdy Doody. There's no way Betty and Veronica would been chasing that loser for almost 70 years now had he stayed that way.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 16, 2014 18:07:45 GMT -5
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 16, 2014 20:59:04 GMT -5
Damn! He looks like he was the inspiration for Howdy Doody. There's no way Betty and Veronica would been chasing that loser for almost 70 years now had he stayed that way. Keep in mind too that Archie was a back-up feature in that issue of PEP Comics. Here is the cover (ca. 1941) with rising sun and swastika, both staples of early MLJ comics:
Such was the popularity of the character that he would soon force PEP's founding heroes like the Shield and the Hangman off the covers and into obscurity. Today, PEP = Archie.
ETA: And there was that weird, thankfully brief period where Archie shared covers with the MLJ WWII heroes:
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Post by the4thpip on May 17, 2014 2:49:24 GMT -5
Your births are gorier than my deaths. Great title for a Peruvian art movie!
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Post by the4thpip on May 17, 2014 2:51:54 GMT -5
Kodak moments #1: Vigilante trying to get Deathstroke all nostalgic and frolic in the snow with him.
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