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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 19, 2015 20:01:18 GMT -5
It looks like Iron Man has ovaries on that cover.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 19, 2015 20:03:47 GMT -5
How does anyone interpret this cover? I interpret it as an artist getting paid for a full cover but only drawing the left or right side and then copy/pasting a mirror image. Very smart and yes, high on Orange Sunshine
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Post by batlaw on Dec 19, 2015 20:44:41 GMT -5
How does anyone interpret this cover? Dang that's crazy and ugly. Pretty colors though. But ugly to me personally.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 19, 2015 20:46:37 GMT -5
Tony Stark always has the best peyote.
Cei-U! Wealth has its privileges!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 19, 2015 20:50:48 GMT -5
It looks like Iron Man has ovaries on that cover. -t Now that I look more closely there is a lot of sexxy-type imagery on that cover. I'm not saying I don't LIKE it; I'm all for Marvel moving towards Moscoso style trippy psychadelica and I really hope that Pink Kiss Rabbit IS a member of the Avengers now - just.. wow. That's a lot of vaginas.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 19, 2015 21:14:31 GMT -5
How does anyone interpret this cover? Iron Man, if it were an HR Giger sculpture.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 20, 2015 23:23:08 GMT -5
Am I correct to assume that there are only 2 surviving members of the EC comics staff-specifically from the 1950 to 1955 period?
And these 2 are Jack Davis-artist and Marie Severin-colorist
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Post by MDG on Dec 21, 2015 9:27:25 GMT -5
Am I correct to assume that there are only 2 surviving members of the EC comics staff-specifically from the 1950 to 1955 period? And these 2 are Jack Davis-artist and Marie Severin-colorist Russ Heath did at least one story for Kurtzman's MAD.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2015 9:37:40 GMT -5
ultimatejezebel, that got to be the weirdest cover that I ever seen in my life and the most bizarre one indeed. I just can't believe Marvel Comics published this! ... I'm totally lost for words trying to describe it!
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 21, 2015 16:05:00 GMT -5
Thanks for the responses. I usually (but not always) avoid reprints but the completist in me wants all those 100 pg Batman issues. I'm also looking at GHOSTS and UNEXPECTED. Might avoid Tarzan though, never been too keen on that title One reason why I dislike reprints, they sometimes don't print the whole original story. I had this one for years and really liked it...and then realised it doesn't actually reprint the whole of Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine 2. A quick google describes the somewhat glaring omissions. Pages 1 & 2 and pages 45 & 46 have been condensed to one page each. Pages 4,5,8,9,10,11,17,21,23,24,27-29,33 and 36 were not reprinted. Page 22 panels 2 & 3 and page 25 panels 3-5 are not reprinted. Why the short-change? I don't ever recall seeing DC do that, but Marvel certainly did. Yes, I felt ripped off too when I found out. Some of the Marvel had some new material, if only a few pages at the front or back to help frame the story. I remember in particular some gorgeous early Starlin work on Giant-Size Defenders.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2015 16:12:13 GMT -5
Marvel reprints were often "shortchanged" because the page count of the standard comic book had changed form the time the original appeared and the time it was reprinted.
Silver Age Marvels had I think 22 story pages, but for much of the middle of the Bronze Age standard monthly comics only had 17 story pages. So somethings had to be omitted to make the story fit within the confines of a single issue of the era it was reprinted. SO books like Marvel Tales, World's Greatest Comics, Marvel Super-Heroes, Marvel Triple Action, etc. had to cut and edit pages to fit within the 17 page format.
DC stories on the whole tended to be shorter-books often had back ups, anthologies had several shorter stories, etc. something Marvel rarely did, so DC had shorter stories to pick form to fit whatever page count they needed for a particular issue. Marvel reprinted stories form books in order so couldn't take the buffet approach DC did to reprints picking stories to fit the page count, they had to make existing longer stories fit the page count instead.
In the case of ASM Annual #9-2 issues of the magazine contained more pages than could fit in an annual, so to make it fit into a single issue, they had to cut out pages, otherwise it wouldn't have been reprinted at all.
-M
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 21, 2015 19:39:26 GMT -5
DC did sometimes trim pages from Justice League reprints in their 80 Page Giants of the Sixties.
Cei-U! I summon the weed whacker!
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Post by realjla on Dec 22, 2015 17:27:01 GMT -5
Two examples I can think of: Giant Size Spider-Man # 5 reprints an early Spidey/Torch team-up, but leaves out the second page of the story(which establishes that Spider-Man is trying to catch the Beetle before the Torch does, in a bid to show up Johnny in front of his girlfriend. Amazing Spider-Man Annual # 12 reprints an early-70s two-parter from ASM #s 119-120, guest-starring Hulk. A reference to the "Aunt May is staying with Dr. Octopus" subplot(established in Ock's last appearance and resolved in the next one) is omitted. Some issues of Marvel Tales chopped up stories by printing parts of two ASM issues in one edition of MT.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 22, 2015 20:19:02 GMT -5
Yeah, all the reprint books - Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel Superheroes, Marvel's Greatest Comics did the same thing as Marvel Tales.
(I wonder if it ever made the stories better?!)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2015 20:40:57 GMT -5
Yeah, all the reprint books - Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel Superheroes, Marvel's Greatest Comics did the same thing as Marvel Tales. (I wonder if it ever made the stories better?!) I always wondered why Marvel Double Feature, which reprinted Cap and Iron Man stories form Tales of Suspense, featured a Cap story from one issue and an Iron Man story from a different issue-wouldn't it have made more sense and been easier just to reprint all of the TOS issue they took the stories from modified for modern page counts? -M
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