Post by Prince Hal on Jul 15, 2015 13:24:03 GMT -5
Comics I remember buying in July, 1965, which I can't believe is 50 years ago. Hell, 50 years before that the Lusitania was sunk!
Adventure 336: The true identity of Starfinger revealed, as DC tires to capitalize on the success of Goldfinger, released earlier that year.
Detective 343: "The Secret War of the Phantom General" had it all: a 24-page "novel" by Broome and Infantino
teaming Batman and Robin with the Elongated Man going against a Nazi villain. What more might we have asked?
Rip Hunter 28: Actually, I think my cousin agave me this one after I read it at his house; I'd never seen or heard of Rip, but wa already a sucker for time travel stories. Too bad this was the penultimate issue. I've been able to round pu almost all of these since, though.
Showcase 58 featuring Enemy Ace: I’d never seen anything like it; even Sgt. Rock et al were tame by the standards of this one. One more example of the interest in World War I.
Sgt. Fury 22, in which our hero throws down with a frequent thorn in his side in those days, the topkick of the Missouri Maulers, Bull McGiveney.
FF Annual 3: Sue and Reed's wedding was one of my first introductions to Marvel Comics superheroes, and I liked the pandemonium and lightheartedness of this story in particular. Sheesh, even Kid Colt was on the cover!
Sgt. Fury Annual 1 The Howlers in Korea was one of those who’d’a-thunk-it? kinds of stories that DC would never do. Loved it and the reprints. It’s the only one of these I don’t have any more. I’ve got to get one soon…
MARS Patrol/Total War 2 Read this at my cousin’s, too. He always had comics that I never saw on the racks in my hometown. Loved this because bad guys actually DIED! Too many skirmishes between Rock and Fury and the Nazis devolved into fistfights. Pretty sure that’s not how it went down at St. Lo. But over at stodgy Gold Key, the Baldies were mowed down like wheat!
My cousin was also an inveterate buyer of Charlton war comics and Sad Sacks, too, so I’m sure I read a batch of those that month as well.
Good pickin’s.
Adventure 336: The true identity of Starfinger revealed, as DC tires to capitalize on the success of Goldfinger, released earlier that year.
Detective 343: "The Secret War of the Phantom General" had it all: a 24-page "novel" by Broome and Infantino
teaming Batman and Robin with the Elongated Man going against a Nazi villain. What more might we have asked?
Rip Hunter 28: Actually, I think my cousin agave me this one after I read it at his house; I'd never seen or heard of Rip, but wa already a sucker for time travel stories. Too bad this was the penultimate issue. I've been able to round pu almost all of these since, though.
Showcase 58 featuring Enemy Ace: I’d never seen anything like it; even Sgt. Rock et al were tame by the standards of this one. One more example of the interest in World War I.
Sgt. Fury 22, in which our hero throws down with a frequent thorn in his side in those days, the topkick of the Missouri Maulers, Bull McGiveney.
FF Annual 3: Sue and Reed's wedding was one of my first introductions to Marvel Comics superheroes, and I liked the pandemonium and lightheartedness of this story in particular. Sheesh, even Kid Colt was on the cover!
Sgt. Fury Annual 1 The Howlers in Korea was one of those who’d’a-thunk-it? kinds of stories that DC would never do. Loved it and the reprints. It’s the only one of these I don’t have any more. I’ve got to get one soon…
MARS Patrol/Total War 2 Read this at my cousin’s, too. He always had comics that I never saw on the racks in my hometown. Loved this because bad guys actually DIED! Too many skirmishes between Rock and Fury and the Nazis devolved into fistfights. Pretty sure that’s not how it went down at St. Lo. But over at stodgy Gold Key, the Baldies were mowed down like wheat!
My cousin was also an inveterate buyer of Charlton war comics and Sad Sacks, too, so I’m sure I read a batch of those that month as well.
Good pickin’s.
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