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Post by commond on Mar 18, 2024 18:50:33 GMT -5
Man, you guys aren't kidding about Kull. Just read issue #2 and it was fantastic.
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 18, 2024 18:54:40 GMT -5
The one time I met Marie Severin I told her that she and John produced the best sword-and-sorcery art to ever appear in a comic book. I meant every word, and I still believe it today.
Cei-U!
I summon the very definition of classic!
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Post by berkley on Mar 18, 2024 19:06:40 GMT -5
The one time I met Marie Severin I told her that she and John produced the best sword-and-sorcery art to ever appear in a comic book. I meant every word, and I still believe it today. Cei-U! I summon the very definition of classic! If only their run had lasted a hundred issues instead of just ten or so. |
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Post by zaku on Mar 19, 2024 7:36:57 GMT -5
He was in the Bruce Wayne Idle Playboy Club (Bruce Wayne, Founder) for decades, but he lost his fortune to a guy named John DeLeon (Ponce's brother?) as related in JLA 75. ![]()  Not sure what he did to get by after that. Mooched off of Black Canary maybe. After losing his fortune, Oliver Queen worked as a columnist for a Star City newspaper. (This was during his run as a backup feature in Detective Comics.)
After moving to Seattle, he worked for Dinah in her store (the brilliantly named Sherwood Florist), mostly as a delivery driver.
Didn't he have a brief stint in advertising too? |
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Post by foxley on Mar 19, 2024 7:58:02 GMT -5
After losing his fortune, Oliver Queen worked as a columnist for a Star City newspaper. (This was during his run as a backup feature in Detective Comics.)
After moving to Seattle, he worked for Dinah in her store (the brilliantly named Sherwood Florist), mostly as a delivery driver.
Didn't he have a brief stint in advertising too? That's ringing a vague bell, but I can't remember when that was.
He also ran for mayor of Star City.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 19, 2024 10:57:37 GMT -5
The one time I met Marie Severin I told her that she and John produced the best sword-and-sorcery art to ever appear in a comic book. I meant every word, and I still believe it today. Cei-U! I summon the very definition of classic! If only their run had lasted a hundred issues instead of just ten or so. In a sense I'm glad it didn't. It remains a unique gem of a run that was strong to the end. I enjoyed the first issue by Mike Ploog that followed it, but immediately thereafter the Kull book degenerated into an ungainly succession of unrealized prophecies, retcons, abrupt changes of direction and anticlimactic resolutions. From the pinnacle of S&S comicdom, it became another Claw the Unconquered. Mind you, script-wise, the following volumes from the '80s are very good indeed (especially the Alan Zelenetz issues). |
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 19, 2024 13:11:20 GMT -5
Great post MRP, but wrong thread
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 19, 2024 13:14:46 GMT -5
Great post MRP, but wrong thread sorry I deleted it and pasted it into a new post in the correct thread -M |
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Post by zaku on Mar 20, 2024 5:05:22 GMT -5
Didn't he have a brief stint in advertising too? That's ringing a vague bell, but I can't remember when that was.
He also ran for mayor of Star City.
Right now I'm googling like there's no tomorrow. I HAVE TO FIND OUT. |
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Post by zaku on Mar 20, 2024 5:30:43 GMT -5
That's ringing a vague bell, but I can't remember when that was.
He also ran for mayor of Star City.
Right now I'm googling like there's no tomorrow. I HAVE TO FIND OUT. Ok, before being a columnist, he was self-employed as a freelance promoter/public relations man! It happened in Action Comics #421 (1973) I haven't thought about it in... I don't know... literally decades? |
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Post by foxley on Mar 20, 2024 5:36:32 GMT -5
That's ringing a vague bell, but I can't remember when that was.
He also ran for mayor of Star City.
Right now I'm googling like there's no tomorrow. I HAVE TO FIND OUT. I'm wondering if it might have been during his run as a backup feature in Action Comics, before he moved over to World's Finest, which I now remember where he first became a columnist. |
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Post by zaku on Mar 20, 2024 5:37:24 GMT -5
Right now I'm googling like there's no tomorrow. I HAVE TO FIND OUT. I'm wondering if it might have been during his run as a backup feature in Action Comics, before he moved over to World's Finest, which I now remember where he first became a columnist. Exactly! I think it was literally his first job after losing his fortune. EDIT and it seems he did this job for a least five years. It's bizzarre that in the various profiles of him I found online only his job as a columnist is mentioned! |
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Post by foxley on Mar 20, 2024 6:55:33 GMT -5
I'm wondering if it might have been during his run as a backup feature in Action Comics, before he moved over to World's Finest, which I now remember where he first became a columnist. Exactly! I think it was literally his first job after losing his fortune. EDIT and it seems he did this job for a least five years. It's bizzarre that in the various profiles of him I found online only his job as a columnist is mentioned! Excellent detective work! |
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Post by berkley on Mar 20, 2024 11:40:15 GMT -5
The one time I met Marie Severin I told her that she and John produced the best sword-and-sorcery art to ever appear in a comic book. I meant every word, and I still believe it today. Cei-U! I summon the very definition of classic!
What else did you talk about? I'd be curious to know what her own favourites were of her own and others' work, artists and writers, etc, etc. |
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Post by zaku on Mar 20, 2024 12:51:52 GMT -5
Exactly! I think it was literally his first job after losing his fortune. EDIT and it seems he did this job for a least five years. It's bizzarre that in the various profiles of him I found online only his job as a columnist is mentioned! Excellent detective work! Thank you! By the way, his solo stories were published literally everywhere!!! Without the internet, how could an Emerald Archer fan figure out where his next story would be published? |
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