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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 3, 2014 19:25:39 GMT -5
One of my top ten Fantastic Four stories was the "Search for Galactus" arc. It was started in FF#204 and finished in # 214. The showdown between The Sphinx and Galactus in # 212/213 was the highlight. Excellent story by Wolfman/ Byrne and Sinnott.
Issue # 212.
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 3, 2014 21:47:36 GMT -5
Element Lad thinks he's top dog despite looking like a ballerina:
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 4, 2014 5:20:32 GMT -5
Fantastic Four # 213 Wolfman/Byrne/Sinnott
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 4, 2014 5:21:12 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 4, 2014 6:23:17 GMT -5
Glory #2 featured the artwork of the now, go to guy, Mike Deodato. Emphasis on the cheesecake.
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Post by the4thpip on Aug 4, 2014 14:21:33 GMT -5
Roy Thomas at his most Just to explain different trunks in an appearance 8 years earlier: Did he even realize how creepy it was to have the villain muse about how well (intimately?) he knew Namor just after the guy stripped the unconscious Namor naked and put a continuity saving pair of trunks on his butt? And the way Cap exchanges his circular shield for the vintage look is not much better earlier on in the same Invaders Annual 1, just without the sexual harassment overtones.
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Post by berkley on Aug 4, 2014 17:10:35 GMT -5
Mike Deodato can be an excellent artist when he wants to be but the pages posted above are painful to look at. Makes me so glad I wasn't reading superhero comics at the time.
Same with the Avengers pages, though in that case it's the story rather than the pedestrian but inoffensive artwork.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 18:41:43 GMT -5
Mike Deodato can be an excellent artist when he wants to be but the pages posted above are painful to look at. Makes me so glad I wasn't reading superhero comics at the time. Same with the Avengers pages, though in that case it's the story rather than the pedestrian but inoffensive artwork. In the 90s when Deodato debuted, you were never sure if you were getting his art or someone in his studio's work when he was credited as artist. The covers were usually him, the interior, usually, but sometimes it got farmed off to a studio member. Usually, but not always the credit read Deodato Studios when that happened, but sometimes...not so much. Don't think it's true anymore, but back then.... -M
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 5, 2014 23:29:28 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 6, 2014 14:58:05 GMT -5
back in the mid to late 90's was the Bad Girl Craze. Here are some ads from Previews Magazine with more Cheescake than Juniors Restaurant.
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Post by the4thpip on Aug 6, 2014 15:26:43 GMT -5
Something more wholesome than that:
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 6, 2014 18:29:02 GMT -5
I just read this issue of Superboy and the Legion Of Superheroes # 215, and I didn't realize that Jim Shooter was slap happy back in the day. Mike Grell Art.
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 6, 2014 18:55:51 GMT -5
Oh Cosmic Boy!
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 6, 2014 19:03:48 GMT -5
Oh Cosmic Boy! He slapped the tears off her face.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 6, 2014 20:20:38 GMT -5
Loki pranks the Avengers in Marvel Double shot #2
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