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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 29, 2016 14:35:38 GMT -5
Yes. They ended with Warlock vol. 1 about a year and a half back. Atlas Era Heroes (vol. 1) would have been next. (Yay, Bill Everett!) That was by far my favorite format for Marvel Reprints, and I have almost all of 'em. That is very sad to learn. I am liking Marvel's new epic collections, but you get a certain completeness with Masterworks. And I pretty much always prefer paperback. Yeah! They go in FREAKING order! None of this jumping around! I just love the format of the Masterworks TPBs in general. I'm actually kind of indifferent to color, but I liked the size of them - Honestly, even MY attention span for Silver Age stuff is not, always, enough for me to make it through Essential and even Epic volumes - and I really, really, really like the introductions in the beginning. I also liked the repainted covers and the little picture on the spine. Just a good product all 'round. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 29, 2016 15:11:52 GMT -5
Yes. They ended with Warlock vol. 1 about a year and a half back. Atlas Era Heroes (vol. 1) would have been next. (Yay, Bill Everett!) That was by far my favorite format for Marvel Reprints, and I have almost all of 'em. We are, like, Everett buddies. Even if we never were to agree on anything else in the comic world, at least we both agree that Everett was the best thing ever. Or something close to it. Yay! I'm reading his biography "Fire and Water" right now. Nicely designed book with lots of cool art. (And, uh, a surprisingly little amount of text, which is annoying.) Not to keep harping on this, but I really hope that Marvel (specifically) puts out more of Everett's stuff in relatively cheap TPBs. It's all buried in 50-60 dollar Masterworks. Which is better than no reprints, but it feels like doing the work a disservice. And another thing! He was really, really good on the '50s Horror Books. Like, "as good as anyone at EC good, IMO."  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 30, 2016 19:28:21 GMT -5
OK CCFers answer me this one
You buy a brand new comic and at home you page thru it and notice one of the inside pageshas a corner thats folded within the book
So you unfold that corner and see that there is a printing defect because that pages' corner winds up being bigger than the others and now sticks out like an amoeba. It goes against every instinct you have to take a scissor and trim the corner so you fold it back in and curse that you can never get that book properly slabbed.
In my entire comics experience I never saw a customer return a book over that defect. In fact my question is..
What Is The Proper Name For That Defect? Or Maybe What Should It Be Called?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2016 19:52:43 GMT -5
OK CCFers answer me this one You buy a brand new comic and at home you page thru it and notice one of the inside pageshas a corner thats folded within the book So you unfold that corner and see that there is a printing defect because that pages' corner winds up being bigger than the others and now sticks out like an amoeba. It goes against every instinct you have to take a scissor and trim the corner so you fold it back in and curse that you can never get that book properly slabbed. In my entire comics experience I never saw a customer return a book over that defect. In fact my question is.. What Is The Proper Name For That Defect? Or Maybe What Should It Be Called? A conjob. I wouldn't accept it as a return because the dumbass used a scissors on it. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 30, 2016 20:21:50 GMT -5
OK CCFers answer me this one You buy a brand new comic and at home you page thru it and notice one of the inside pageshas a corner thats folded within the book So you unfold that corner and see that there is a printing defect because that pages' corner winds up being bigger than the others and now sticks out like an amoeba. It goes against every instinct you have to take a scissor and trim the corner so you fold it back in and curse that you can never get that book properly slabbed. In my entire comics experience I never saw a customer return a book over that defect. In fact my question is.. What Is The Proper Name For That Defect? Or Maybe What Should It Be Called? A conjob. I wouldn't accept it as a return because the dumbass used a scissors on it. But would you exchange it if he returned it as is? Is it just called a trim defect or something else. I'd call it a stickee outee |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2016 20:31:10 GMT -5
Like a belly button!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 30, 2016 20:31:43 GMT -5
OK CCFers answer me this one You buy a brand new comic and at home you page thru it and notice one of the inside pageshas a corner thats folded within the book So you unfold that corner and see that there is a printing defect because that pages' corner winds up being bigger than the others and now sticks out like an amoeba. It goes against every instinct you have to take a scissor and trim the corner so you fold it back in and curse that you can never get that book properly slabbed. In my entire comics experience I never saw a customer return a book over that defect. In fact my question is.. What Is The Proper Name For That Defect? Or Maybe What Should It Be Called? I have returned books to my LCS and they've taken it back with no questions asked. ( of course, I didn't use a scissor on it). |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 30, 2016 20:33:06 GMT -5
Here's a question for the Aquaman fans.
I just finished the Aquaman story in Detective Comics #294 and there's a bit where Aquaman commands albatrosses. (Several of them are grabbing a rope and he grabs the other end of it and they carry him around in the sky.)
Is this a regular thing that Aquaman can do? Can he command sea-birds on a regular basis, or is this an anomaly, a relic of the days when continuity was a word in the dictionary that writers didn't think too much about? Can Aquaman talk to ducks and penguins and puffins and ospreys and other such birds of the sea?
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 30, 2016 20:37:13 GMT -5
(I turned the page on Detective Comics #294 and right after the Aquaman story, the splash page of the J'onn J'onzz story shows the Martian Manhunter fighting a gigantic yellow rhinoceros ... WITHOUT HIS POWERS! Stay tuned. I have a feeling I'll be writing a few words about this story on the "What classic comics have you read lately?" thread.)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 30, 2016 20:55:59 GMT -5
Can Aquaman talk to ducks I'd break down and buy a comic that has an Aquaman-Donald Duck teamup |
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Post by realjla on Jan 30, 2016 21:07:19 GMT -5
Here's a question for the Aquaman fans. I just finished the Aquaman story in Detective Comics #294 and there's a bit where Aquaman commands albatrosses. (Several of them are grabbing a rope and he grabs the other end of it and they carry him around in the sky.) Is this a regular thing that Aquaman can do? Can he command sea-birds on a regular basis, or is this an anomaly, a relic of the days when continuity was a word in the dictionary that writers didn't think too much about? Can Aquaman talk to ducks and penguins and puffins and ospreys and other such birds of the sea? I'm going to guess that it's a flukey lapse of continuity, and inconsistency about Aquaman's powers, and strength level. Some writers would put Aquaman in Namor's strength class(He's bulletproof; He'd kill you underwater, and once on land, you'd have to hope he'd tire out, or hit the 'one-hour limit'.) Others would limit him to 'telepathic orders to a school of fish'-type action. During the 'Detroit JLA' era, Gerry Conway had a few instances (one involving Steel) where Aquaman used telepathy against humans to 'end an argument', which suggests that his telepathy isn't limited to marine life, but readers of that book complained that 'his powers aren't supposed to work like that'. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2016 21:17:57 GMT -5
We are, like, Everett buddies. Even if we never were to agree on anything else in the comic world, at least we both agree that Everett was the best thing ever. Or something close to it. Yay! I'm reading his biography "Fire and Water" right now. Nicely designed book with lots of cool art. (And, uh, a surprisingly little amount of text, which is annoying.) Not to keep harping on this, but I really hope that Marvel (specifically) puts out more of Everett's stuff in relatively cheap TPBs. It's all buried in 50-60 dollar Masterworks. Which is better than no reprints, but it feels like doing the work a disservice. And another thing! He was really, really good on the '50s Horror Books. Like, "as good as anyone at EC good, IMO." Yessss! Everett eyes and mouths. Best ever. <3 He could sure make something look creepy as HELL. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 30, 2016 22:36:52 GMT -5
Have the Bill Everett fans seen this one?:  It's from Menace #5, an Atlas comic of the 1950s. I guess it's been reprinted in Marvel Masterworks fairly recently but I saw it in a 1990s reprint called Curse of the Weird #4, which is probably still pretty cheap. P.S. I checked eBay and you can get Curse of the Weird #4 for $2 or $3 or the whole four-issue mini-series for $10. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2016 1:31:32 GMT -5
That Everett Zombie story was also reprinted, somewhat edited and in black and white, in the first issue of Tales of the Zombie. They gave that zombie his own series, and worked the older story in as part of his origin.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 31, 2016 1:36:27 GMT -5
As originally introduced, Aquaman's telepathy let him command *any* form of animal life that lived in or near the oceans: mammals, birds, reptiles, crustaceans, coelenterates, mollusks, plankton, etc. An albatross, which spends much of its life over open water, would thus be subject to his commands.
Cei-U!
I summon the clams and scallops because yum!
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