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Post by shaxper on Feb 5, 2021 9:19:06 GMT -5
Comics I acquired as an adult published in February 1971:
Amazing Spider-Man #96
Avengers #87
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 5, 2021 13:46:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2021 14:08:47 GMT -5
I owned a lot of Marvel books form this month that I sold off when I sold off most of my Silver Age Marvels. What I still own from this month (all acquired as an adult) is:
Conan the Barbarian #5
Phantom #43
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #137
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 5, 2021 15:03:39 GMT -5
Ok, here's what I have that was on sale in February 1971:
Marvel:
Amazing Adventures #6
Avengers #87
Captain America #137
Conan the Barbarian #5
Fantastic Four #110
Incredible Hulk #139
Iron Man #37
Sub-Mariner #37
Thor #187
DC:
Forever People #2
Green Lantern #83
New Gods #2
Jimmy Olsen #137
I know that Avengers #87 was one of the ones my brother bought. I think he may have bought Captain America, FF, Iron Man and/or Thor also. The rest were acquired as back issues, mostly at cons in the 70s. All of the DCs were bought as back issues. In the preceding months my brother and I had been re-reading my collection, which was 90% Marvel, so he was a Marvel Zombie too.
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Post by berkley on Feb 7, 2021 18:48:58 GMT -5
February 1971:Amazing Adventures #6: I remember finding the Neal Adams art a bit weird-looking in his short Inhumans run in this series, and to this day, though I know this is not an opinion that is widely shared, the only superhero comic I really like his art for is Batman. Don't recall my reaction to the Don Heck Black Widow after all this time.
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Post by Farrar on Feb 22, 2021 17:48:24 GMT -5
February 1971DC: My DCs that month = none! Not a one! Nada! I was still buying back issues however; for DC I concentrated on old issues of Teen Titans, JLA, Wonder Woman, Lois Lane, The Legion in Adventure, Metal Men, and some other titles. Marvel: Got these three off the stands that month:  Avengers #87: After sitting out the action in the last two issues, T'Challa gets what amounted to a solo adventure here. Call me silly, but when I read a team book I want to see many characters interacting, not just a story about one character. The best thing about this issue was its cover; as I'm sure most here will realize, the J. Buscema Vision on this cover was used for many years for the Avengers corner box. Fantastic Four #110: Not a bad issue. One story was ending (Reed--once again--in the Negative Zone) and another subplot (Ben's changed personality) came to the forefront. I liked the story overlaps, it harkened (see what I did there? No? Check the cover!!!) back to the FF's glory years, just a few short years earlier. Can't complain about the J. Buscema art.
Sub-Mariner #37: Okay, so I'd missed a few issues of this series, so when I picked this comic, I couldn't wait to see what was going on regarding the Namor-Dorma-Diane Arliss triangle (I always loved a good soap opera). Anyway, when I got to the last page, with Namor--his feet "leaden" so he was too late to save Dorma--I couldn't believe it. Dorma died!!!! OMG you have no idea how this shocked me back then. I knew (from the Bullpen Bulletins and the like) that she wasn't the first Marvel girlfriend/supporting character to have died, there was Pam Hawley and more recently, Janice Cord--but this was in a book I'd been following, I didn't read Iron Man or Sgt. Fury. I was completely unprepared for this! I was so shaken that I couldn't go to school that day. (That's the romanticized version I came up with later on, when writing about this issue's impact and the "death of the blue-skinned Lady Dorma" for a creative writing class. The truth is, I probably read this Sub-Mariner #37 comic on President's Day, so there was no school that day anyway.)
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Post by shaxper on Mar 1, 2021 9:33:51 GMT -5
Comics I acquired as an adult published in March 1971: Astonishing Tales #6 Avengers #88 Batman #231 Kull, The Conqueror #1 Teen Titans #33, Bob Haney and Robin both returning to the title after a long absence. |
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 1, 2021 10:29:58 GMT -5
Kull the Conqueror #1 is miss identified as 1971 in databases, that is a year early. Creatures on the Loose #10 with the first Kull story was in March 1971.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 1, 2021 14:56:36 GMT -5
Kull the Conqueror #1 is miss identified as 1971 in databases, that is a year early. Creatures on the Loose #10 with the first Kull story was in March 1971. No, Kull the Conqueror #1 was on sale in March 1971, though of course its cover date reflected the date-ahead approach used back then, so its cover date was "June 1971." At its start, the comic had a wonky schedule so there's almost a year between issue #2 (on sale in May 1971) and #3 (on sale in April 1972). And yes, the character Kull first appeared in Creatures on the Loose #10, cover-dated March 1971 but on sale in December 1970. |
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 1, 2021 16:37:31 GMT -5
Kull the Conqueror #1 is miss identified as 1971 in databases, that is a year early. Creatures on the Loose #10 with the first Kull story was in March 1971. No, Kull the Conqueror #1 was on sale in March 1971, though of course its cover date reflected the date-ahead approach used back then, so its cover date was "June 1971." At its start, the comic had a wonky schedule so there's almost a year between issue #2 (on sale in May 1971) and #3 (on sale in April 1972). And yes, the character Kull first appeared in Creatures on the Loose #10, cover-dated March 1971 but on sale in December 1970. That sporadic schedule is what got me confused. Because I remember not buying them until later. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 1, 2021 17:20:28 GMT -5
Astonishing Tales #6
More beautiful artwork from BWS on the Ka-Zar story. I dp't remember the Panther/Doom instalment form this issue at all, but I imagine I wpould have been diosappointed by the change in artwork, with Wally Wood leaving.
Avengers #88
This might have been the last Avengers issue I read for a long time, since I know I missed all the Kree-Skrull War issues and most of the Englehart era until I got back into comis in te mid-70s. I remember finding Psyklop an interesting villain, though I can't remember much about him now apart from the visual design.
Fantastic Four #111
Another of those "Thing turns evil" stories. I liked it at the time, though I imagine it might feel tired to me if I re-read the first 120 issues or so in one binge. I remember the next issue better, where he fights the Hulk, especially the ending.
Incredible Hulk #140
This was the sequel to Avengers #88, wasn't it? Unless I have that totally confused with another issue. Was this the first time Marvel did spmething like this - I mean a two part story spread out over two series with both issues coming out the same month?
Kull, the Conqueror #1
This comic made a huge impression on me at the time and remains a favourite. Love the artwork, credited to Ross Andru with inks or finishes by Wally Wood, it could easily pass for a solo Wood effort, to my eyes. This is an example where the inker's style overpowering the pencils is a good thing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2021 2:42:21 GMT -5
What I currently own that was on sale in March '71
Astonishing Tales #6
Conan the Barbarian #6
DC Special #12 (featuring Viking Prince)
Kull the Conqueror #1
Mr. Miracle #2
Phantom Stranger #13
Tomahawk #134
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Post by Farrar on Mar 2, 2021 18:49:04 GMT -5
...Avengers #88This might have been the last Avengers issue I read for a long time, since I know I missed all the Kree-Skrull War issues and most of the Englehart era until I got back into comics in the mid-70s. I remember finding Psyklop an interesting villain, though I can't remember much about him now apart from the visual design. …Incredible Hulk #140This was the sequel to Avengers #88, wasn't it? Unless I have that totally confused with another issue. Was this the first time Marvel did something like this - I mean a two part story spread out over two series with both issues coming out the same month?
... Yes, Marvel had done this before 1971. In 1966 Iron Man and Sub-Mariner fought each other back in the split books days, with the story starting in Iron Man's feature in Tales of Suspense #79 (Subby shows up in the last panel); the battle royale commences in ToS #80 and concludes in Subby's feature in Tales to Astonish #82. ToS #80 and TtA #82 were published in the same month May 1966. One of the first Marvel comics I ever had was Fantastic Four #73, which evidently was a continuation of events that had occurred in that month's Daredevil #38. Both comics came out in January 1968. Accordingly, FF #73 featured guest-star DD (along with Spidey and Thor). I hadn't read the DD story at the time, but even so I had absolutely no trouble following the FF story. At around that same time I was also following the Avengers and X-Men comics--it was the Marvel team books for me!--and wouldn't you know it, there was a several month-long Magneto crossover arc between these two comics. The story started in the Avengers comic, #47-49...then there was a month off...then the story was picked up over in the X-Men comic, #43-45. X-Men #45 led directly into Avengers #53 (conclusion of this arc), with both issues published in the same month, April 1968. |
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Post by Farrar on Mar 30, 2021 20:14:01 GMT -5
March 1971
Almost forgot about this! 
My DCs fresh off the stands back then:
Adventure #406: First off who could resist that cover? I love it when artists draw a 3/4 face and you get the points of the cheekbones and chin. So much more interesting than a typical comic book facing front face. Bravo Sekowsky! And in the story, Linda finally graduates college and gets a job working for a news operation in San Francisco. Nasty has discovered (in an absurdly easy way) that Linda and Supergirl are one and same, so she makes it her mission to work at the same news operation. So now we have a supporting cast. Teen Titans #33: I was buying back issues of this title and had a lot of TTs from the Bob Haney era, but it had been a year so since I'd been able to actually find a new TT comic at any of my neighborhood candy stores. I was shocked when I came across #33 on the stands! I was pleased to see Lilith and Mal were still with the team. Great art (Tuska/Cardy; Cardy cover) and I liked the Titans' camaraderie.
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Post by berkley on Mar 30, 2021 22:21:05 GMT -5
The Teen Titans cover - is that Nick Cardy? The covers are almost enough to tempt me to read these comics sometime, even though I'm not at all interested in the characters and doubt the writing would be my kind of thing.
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