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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 1, 2021 21:16:59 GMT -5
 Got to read a friend's copy of this. Didn't have the comic, but went to see the movie....  Didn't think much of it, even as a little kid. First decent Disney movie I can recall seeing in a theater would be Candleshoe, thought we did see Return from Witch Mountain, which was "okay." Not Disney's finest decade. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jun 5, 2021 14:01:39 GMT -5
Bought later:
Amazing Adventures #8
In the Days of the Mob #1
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Post by Farrar on Jun 10, 2021 15:44:19 GMT -5
on sale in June 1971
DC
Only DC I had off the stands was this one:  You'd think I'd remember owning this comic because of that ridiculous cover, but upon re-reading this issue a few years ago I had no recollection at all of the lead story. The only way I know for sure that I had this particular comic in June '71 was because of this one panel--so striking--from the back-up Rose and Thorn feature.  Anyway, I was out of comics for many decades and when I got back in about 10 years ago, I misremembered this Thorn story as being by Neal Adams--though I did think it was unlikely that at that time Adams would be penciling a back-up feature. When I bought this issue again, I saw it was the great Dick Giordano's work. Back to June 1971: This was the month that DC increased the issue price from 15 to 25 cents (and increased the number of pages to 48, so reprinted stories were included to fill the pages). Yes, that was quite a jump for a then-dependent-on-allowance kid like me (and my friends felt the same way, we all grumbled about it!). There's a note inside by editorial director Carmine Infantino explaining why the price was changed, citing rising production costs, inflation, etc. A couple of months later Marvel similarly raised its single comic price to 25 cents, but a month later Marvel went down to 20 cents, famously undercutting DC (who were forced to stick with the 25 cent price). This would turn out to be the last Lois Lane comic I'd buy new off the stands.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 11, 2021 11:50:35 GMT -5
on sale in June 1971
DC
Only DC I had off the stands was this one: You'd think I'd remember owning this comic because of that ridiculous cover, but upon re-reading this issue a few years ago I had no recollection at all of the lead story. The only way I know for sure that I had this particular comic in June '71 was because of this one panel--so striking--from the back-up Rose and Thorn feature. Anyway, I was out of comics for many decades and when I got back in about 10 years ago, I misremembered this Thorn story as being by Neal Adams--though I did think it was unlikely that at that time Adams would be penciling a back-up feature. When I bought this issue again, I saw it was the great Dick Giordano's work. Back to June 1971: This was the month that DC increased the issue price from 15 to 25 cents (and increased the number of pages to 48, so reprinted stories were included to fill the pages). Yes, that was quite a jump for a then-dependent-on-allowance kid like me (and my friends felt the same way, we all grumbled about it!). There's a note inside by editorial director Carmine Infantino explaining why the price was changed, citing rising production costs, inflation, etc. A couple of months later Marvel similarly raised its single comic price to 25 cents, but a month later Marvel went down to 20 cents, famously undercutting DC (who were forced to stick with the 25 cent price). This would turn out to be the last Lois Lane comic I'd buy new off the stands. I have a real low-grade copy of this that I got with a group of other beat-up Lois Lanes from about the same era. I love crazy Lois stories and I would really like to read the whole Rose and Thorn series some day. |
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Post by Farrar on Jun 30, 2021 17:05:35 GMT -5
June 1971
MarvelAlmost forgot about my Marvels for this month. Here's what I managed to grab off the stands:  Amazing Adventures #8: I'd missed this series since, what, #5? I hated Neal Adams's Inhumans--he made them look so ugly. This was almost like a Thor story rather than an Inhumans story. The only saving grace IMO was the opening splash--Neal does the Avengers! I read into the body language here--there's Wanda leaning into Cap, with a stoic, pretending-not-to-notice-them Vision (aaand my longtime hope for romance would soon be fulfilled in the Avengers comic!).  But Wanda, I'm surprised you don't remember Black Bolt. Weren't you paying attention in Avengers #83 when the Valkyrie/Enchantress chided your fellow Lady Liberator Medusa for hanging onto her precious Black Bolt's "every non-syllable?"  The comic's Black Widow story was forgettable, and according to the letter column, her feature was being discontinued. Avengers #91: FINALLY. Wanda and Vision are shown to be attracted to one another. I'd been waiting a long time for something to happen between them, since #81. This book sorely needed some romance IMO. I could hardly wait for the next issue! Fantastic Four #114: Forgettable story, pleasant art by J. Buscema-Giacoia. Not a ringing endorsement for the World's Greatest Comic Magazine, is it? The die was cast; I was really losing interest in the FF comic.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 1, 2021 14:05:16 GMT -5
  The former was my cousin's, the latter was at the barbershop. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 2, 2021 21:00:48 GMT -5
We're coming up on the 50th anniversary of my initiation into comics fandom, and I'm thinking of starting a review thread looking back at the first 25-or-so comics I bought in 1971, trying to recreate the impressions I had as a newcomer to these things while also incorporating my experienced perspective on the material. It might be too self-indulgent, though...
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2021 22:46:31 GMT -5
We're coming up on the 50th anniversary of my initiation into comics fandom, and I'm thinking of starting a review thread looking back at the first 25-or-so comics I bought in 1971, trying to recreate the impressions I had as a newcomer to these things while also incorporating my experienced perspective on the material. It might be too self-indulgent, though...
Sounds like a great idea to me. I'd like to read that. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2021 7:41:12 GMT -5
We're coming up on the 50th anniversary of my initiation into comics fandom, and I'm thinking of starting a review thread looking back at the first 25-or-so comics I bought in 1971, trying to recreate the impressions I had as a newcomer to these things while also incorporating my experienced perspective on the material. It might be too self-indulgent, though...
Sounds like a great idea to me. I'd like to read that. I really would too. Much as I also enjoy sharing my own memories and thoughts, reading others' personal journeys with comic books including how their "impressionable" early memories were formed (and evolved) is a real treat. I feel like it's a huge bond we all have, regardless of differences in age, geography, tastes, etc. |
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Post by brutalis on Jul 3, 2021 8:31:11 GMT -5
We're coming up on the 50th anniversary of my initiation into comics fandom, and I'm thinking of starting a review thread looking back at the first 25-or-so comics I bought in 1971, trying to recreate the impressions I had as a newcomer to these things while also incorporating my experienced perspective on the material. It might be too self-indulgent, though... Just do it! Sharing is caring. And all of us care about comics and have similar or different reasons for our adoration and collections. Always great to read others habits or thoughts on comic books. That is why we are here, to pursue that "elusive" something special which comics provides. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jul 3, 2021 10:00:33 GMT -5
Bought later:
Batman #235
Captain America #142
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 3, 2021 10:36:11 GMT -5
M. W. and I became comic fans around the same time. I am still only buying Conan at this time, but next month would start reading all the Marvel titles, and some of DCs.
I would eventually buy all this month's Marvel books as back issues.
Checking DC, I bought New Gods 4 and Days of the Mob off the racks.
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Post by berkley on Jul 3, 2021 20:25:09 GMT -5
I'll take a closer look later but at a quick glance, the only comic I remember for sure reading at the time is Hulk #144, "The Monster and the Madman": I remember liking the artwork, which from the images that linger in my memory I would have guessed was Trimpe and Severin but Mike's credits say it was actually Dick Ayers and Severin. Also, I recall Doom coming across in a sympathetic way in this issue, as he is the underdog against the Hulk, trying to defend his land against the invading monster - again, this is all from memory, I haven't read this comic since, so I'm only talking about the impressions that have lingered in my mind after all these years.
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 4, 2021 9:24:20 GMT -5
A wealth of great comics released in July of 1971. Among those I read-- The Amazing Spider-Man #98 - The Lee/Kane drug / Green Goblin / Gwen Stacy's reunion with Peter story reached its conclusion in this issue, with Norman Osborn apparently "restored" to normal. Of course, readers and the characters were never more incorrect when the Green Goblin would return...  EERIE #34 - Two of the standout stories ( "The Sound of Wings" and "Eye of Cyclops!", a darker spin on Harryhausen's The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) were more ironic fantasy than straight horror, though the element of unease was a component of the plots.  In addition to a regular diet of Warren horror, DC was on a roll with their anthology titles being reshaped as horror / springboard comics, as seen with House of Secrets. In issue #92, the Wein/Wrightson introduction of Swamp Thing was short, but so fascinating and tragic, that I became an instant fan.  Fun memories. |
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Post by berkley on Jul 4, 2021 11:13:48 GMT -5
It's striking how much better Boris Vallejo's early covers look to me than his later stuff. Even though they might be crticised as 2nd-rate Frazetta imitations, there's a strength and warmth to them, they come alive in a way the later, more accomplished but over-slick work doesn't.
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