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Post by Farrar on Aug 2, 2016 16:58:03 GMT -5
Bought as back issues back in the day (in other words, I didn't get these particular issues from a newsstand; I bought them from a collectibles store a few years after their 1966 publication): - Avengers #33 (cover of this issue has gained some notoriety as it includes the Scarlet Witch--who doesn't appear in this issue's story-- instead of the Wasp or Black Widow, both of whom actually appear in the story). - Fantastic Four Annual # 4 featuring the original Human Torch. 
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Aug 2, 2016 17:17:17 GMT -5
World's Finest 160 is one of my all time favorites. I bought it at the drug store to read on a vacation trip to St. Louis to visit my cousins. I still have this one and recall the scene where the Batmobile is chasing Dr. Zodiac and goes over a draw bridge. HOLY BAT-CHUTES!
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Post by berkley on Aug 2, 2016 20:24:09 GMT -5
Bought as back issues back in the day (in other words, I didn't get these particular issues from a newsstand; I bought them from a collectibles store a few years after their 1966 publication): - Avengers #33 (cover of this issue has gained some notoriety as it includes the Scarlet Witch--who doesn't appear in this issue's story-- instead of the Wasp or Black Widow, both of whom actually appear in the story). - Fantastic Four Annual # 4 featuring the original Human Torch. Did this bikini version of the Scarlet Witch's costume become the standard for awhile or was it just a colouring mistake? |
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 2, 2016 21:05:55 GMT -5
I think that's a coloring mistake. Don't ever recall seeing any costume like that again until Perez & Busiek's run post-Heroes Reborn. Wasn't born until the following month...      back issues - Amazing Spider-Man, Detective reprints - Daredevil, Strange Tales |
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Post by Farrar on Aug 2, 2016 21:21:15 GMT -5
Did this bikini version of the Scarlet Witch's costume become the standard for awhile or was it just a colouring mistake? In a few issues of the Avengers back then her costume was colored as shown on #33's cover. Not always though; it was very inconsistent. Background: When Wanda first appeared over in the X-Men book, she wore a big wide belt in her midriff; the belt was colored the same as the rest of her leotard/"bathing suit." But when she moved over to the Avengers, Don Heck's rendition of the belt (starting with Av.#17) seemed less structured, so maybe that confused the colorists (or whoever was creating the color guides), maybe they couldn't tell it was a belt--in any event, her midriff coloring became inconsistent. So you'll see in some Kooky Quartet issues back then that her midriff was pink (same color as her tights) and it indeed looked like she was wearing a bikini/two-piece bathing suit, as you said. But other times her midriff was colored fuchsia (same as her leotard), which gave the appearance of a one-piece bathing suit. By #36 Heck streamlined her look by discarding the big headdress and belt/midriff design-decoration. |
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Post by berkley on Aug 2, 2016 21:25:32 GMT -5
I think that's a coloring mistake. Don't ever recall seeing any costume like that again until Perez & Busiek's run post-Heroes Reborn. Too bad, it looks better than the regular one-piece, which always felt too overpoweringly red to me, especially when they gave her pink tights to go along with the red suit, red cape, red headdress, and even red hair. Umar had a good character design, I always thought. By Marie Severin, I presume? This is one of the very few female Marvel characters that would be on the level of male figures like Thanos or Odin or of course Dormammu in terms of power and awesomeness (in the old, non-colloquial sense of the term), and as such is a creation I think Marvel should take better advantage of. |
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 2, 2016 22:09:34 GMT -5
Maybe with Doc Strange's stock in the upswing, we'll see more Umar
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 3, 2016 1:31:18 GMT -5
Umar had a good character design, I always thought. By Marie Severin, I presume? Bill Everett. He drew and inked that cover and the story inside, which introduced Umar. |
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Post by brutalis on Aug 3, 2016 17:00:07 GMT -5
August 1966 i was only 4 years old and yet to begin my comic book adventures.
But as a teenager i tracked down and own:
Adventure Comics #349
Avengers #33
Brave and the Bold #68
Fantastic Four #56
FF Annual #4
Hawkman #6.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2016 17:40:22 GMT -5
The only book on sale this minth I currently own in comic form (not in a trade collection) is Star Spangled War Stories #129 with that glorious Kubert cover.
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Post by simayl on Aug 20, 2016 4:20:59 GMT -5
Just Detective Comics #356 this month.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 22, 2016 15:03:12 GMT -5
Not a big month for me, but I've bought a good number of both DC and Marvel comics from this month since then. Definitely bought and devoured this excellent Batman Annual:  And I read this one at my cousins' house:  The first cover I thought of for this week's contest, too! And of course, this:  |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 1, 2016 16:37:39 GMT -5
It's time once again to head back to the GO GO Checks era... SEPTEMBER 1966own the original Action Comics #343 Adventure Comics #350 Flash #165 Justice League of America #49 Superman #191 Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #70 World's Finest #162 own in reprint format Amazing Spider-Man #43 Aquaman #30 Avengers #34 Batman #186 (Happy 50th Birthday GAGGY!) Detective Comics #357 Fantastic Four #57 Justice League of America #48 Metamorpho #9 Plastic Man #1 Tales of Suspense #84 Tales to Astonish #86 (Hulk only) Teen Titans #6 Wonder Woman #166 not on my list, but Happy 50th Birthday wishes also go out to this guy...  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 23:14:23 GMT -5
I never had the original, but I did have the Modern Comics reprint edition of Captain Atom #83 with the Blue Beetle back up. Lots of sweet Ditko action here.
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Post by simayl on Sept 3, 2016 6:58:18 GMT -5
Action Comics #343
Adventure Comics #350
World's Finest #162 - I first encountered this story in a British DC Annual from the early seventies, may have been Superadventure or DC Comics Bumper Book. If anyone remembers please let me know. Anyway the story has stuck with me for over 40 years so it must be good, right? You bet it is!
Superman and Batman travel back to the age of Camelot via some sort of time mist devised by some purple aliens. I found out they were purple when I tracked the original comic down about 5 years ago, my annual was mostly black and white with some strange colouring thrown in on various pages for no apparent reason. The aliens convince our heroes to overthrow Camelot but they end up fighting the real King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table not the aliens posing as the King and his Knights. Keep up, it is DC Silver Age after all! Superman is shocked to feel the force of King Arthur's Excalibur and Batman is wounded (gasp!) by an enchanted spear used by Sir Galahad.
Eventually the real King Arthur and his Knights, all with enhanced powers courtesy of Merlin: Sir Lancelot (invulnerable armour and super strength), Sir Kay (invisibility and growth), Sir Galahad (magic spear), Sir Bohart (super speed) and Sir Bors (ring of fire, I am not making this up!) join up with the World's Finest team and defeat the aliens. King Arthur ends up knighting Superman and Batman and our heroes return home.
This tale was written by 14 year old comics wunderkind Jim Shooter, who as we all know became Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, drawn by the legendary Curt Swan and George Klein and edited by the great dictator himself, Mort Weisinger.
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