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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 22, 2016 1:38:27 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 1:50:34 GMT -5
Thanks, I passed along the suggestions, but if anyone else has a possibility, let me know and I will pass it along too.
-M
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 22, 2016 2:17:33 GMT -5
Here's a question that's puzzled me for some time, as my knowledge of 70s DC is rather limited: when did the Golden Age Atom revert back from his "Atomic-Age" costume (head-fin, atomic chest emblem) to his original Golden-Age costume (blue hood, leather waist covering, wrist-bands)? Was a reason given for the change? I don't know that there was ever a reason given. . I suspect it was TOTALLY up to whatever they felt like drawing. but here's a side by side of two ASS/IC issues, both by Ordway, and in the ASS 1983 cover, Atom is in the hood, but in the 1985 IC cover, he's got the fin. so who knows ASS was set in 1941. The Atom never reverted to his original costume; every modern appearance he made from the sixties up until just before Zero Hour featured him in the outfit with the fin. In the short lived Mike Parobeck series he did get a new costume vaguely reminiscent of the original, but that's all.
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Post by MDG on Aug 22, 2016 8:38:53 GMT -5
Trying to help someone out from another forum... The thought is it might have been from a Warren horror mag form the time. They have eliminated the Jaws Super Special that Marvel put out (it was color, the art was definitely b&W). Anyone have any idea what it might be? -M 70s + magazine + over-the-top gore = Fass Publications. Maybe this:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 14:32:02 GMT -5
Thanks MDG, I passed that one along as well, but one of our own-Dr. Cyclops, over there had beaten me to the punch with suggesting Fass Publications.
-M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 8, 2016 21:55:39 GMT -5
I was reading a couple random Marvel Team Ups I have... one of which is Spidey teaming with Kitty Pride. It's in Nov. 1983... a good 3+ years real time after Kitty debuted... and she's still referred to as Ariel. Was she really Ariel for that long? Or was this just written as a fill in and took some time to see print?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 8, 2016 22:11:42 GMT -5
I was reading a couple random Marvel Team Ups I have... one of which is Spidey teaming with Kitty Pride. It's in Nov. 1983... a good 3+ years real time after Kitty debuted... and she's still referred to as Ariel. Was she really Ariel for that long? Or was this just written as a fill in and took some time to see print? She really never was Ariel apart from her appearances in other mags and the graphic novel "God loves, man kills". My guess is that since it was supposed to become her code-name in the near future, she appeared as Ariel in the Marvel Handbook, and other writers just took their cue from that. Meanwhile, Chris Claremont sent her off the X-Men team for a little while before she had a chance to change her name from Sprite to Ariel, and she went straight from there to the Kitty Pryde and Wolverine miniseries where she became Shadowcat. Chris did write "God loves, man kills", but when it was published it was a set a little while afte the then-current events in the main mag. I suppose that when he wrote that, did Chris really meant her to be named Ariel eventually.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 9, 2016 7:25:39 GMT -5
The Handbook thing makes sense... they even have her in the horrendous green 'Ariel' customer in the cover box. That's an interesting 'What if'... I wonder if she would have achieved the same popularity and importance if they stuck with Ariel.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 9, 2016 8:30:13 GMT -5
How pertinent are the other Zero Hour titles outside of Zero Hour Crisis in Time to get the gist of the story? Reading through the lot of comics I bought a few months ago, I got a Rebels #0 and Manhunter #0. Before that I've gotten the Batman family book appearances along with GL and GA because I was wanting those for the series themselves more so than reading Zero Hour itself. But now having about 15 issues in different titles, I started to wonder about the mini series itself since I have not read it. Is it good? Will the mini series itself tell most of the story?
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 9, 2016 8:33:47 GMT -5
How pertinent are the other Zero Hour titles outside of Zero Hour Crisis in Time to get the gist of the story? Reading through the lot of comics I bought a few months ago, I got a Rebels #0 and Manhunter #0. Before that I've gotten the Batman family book appearances along with GL and GA because I was wanting those for the series themselves more so than reading Zero Hour itself. But now having about 15 issues in different titles, I started to wonder about the mini series itself since I have not read it. Is it good? Will the mini series itself tell most of the story? As I recall, while certain events are followed up on in other books (like Hawkman's transformation) you don't really need to read any of those other books in order to understand Zero Hour itself. As for the mini itself, aside from the disgraceful way it dealt with the JSA, I quite liked it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2016 10:28:13 GMT -5
The Handbook thing makes sense... they even have her in the horrendous green 'Ariel' customer in the cover box. That's an interesting 'What if'... I wonder if she would have achieved the same popularity and importance if they stuck with Ariel. I wish she would be referred to as Shadowcat that "Kitty Pryde" stuff always grates on me. . and I loved, loved, LOVED the Art Adams (?) designed Shadowcat costume, and wish they would use it occasionally.
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 9, 2016 10:41:44 GMT -5
The Handbook thing makes sense... they even have her in the horrendous green 'Ariel' customer in the cover box. That's an interesting 'What if'... I wonder if she would have achieved the same popularity and importance if they stuck with Ariel. I wish she would be referred to as Shadowcat that "Kitty Pryde" stuff always grates on me... I have similar problems with "Hey, look-it's the original X-Men: Cyclops, Angel, Iceman, Beast and Jean Grey". As well as "Here come the Titans-Nightwing, Arsenal, Tempest, Flash and...uh...Donna".
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 9, 2016 11:50:03 GMT -5
I wish she would be referred to as Shadowcat that "Kitty Pryde" stuff always grates on me... I have similar problems with "Hey, look-it's the original X-Men: Cyclops, Angel, Iceman, Beast and Jean Grey". As well as "Here come the Titans-Nightwing, Arsenal, Tempest, Flash and...uh...Donna". Well Jean failed to ever marvel me, so .... but I guess she was still a girl though.
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Post by rom on Sept 9, 2016 18:09:13 GMT -5
Hey guys - now that Halloween is coming up, I thought it was a good time to ask this. Anyway, here is my question: Roughly 35-ish years ago (either in the very late '70's or early '80's), I read a creepy, disturbing story in an anthology horror comic - from what I can remember, the plot of the story was as follows - please note it's many years since I read this, so the details are somewhat hazy:
A guy was driving alone late at night in the middle of nowhere. He stopped at an almost-deserted diner to get some coffee and possibly something to eat. As time went on, he noticed some strange things going on in the diner (though I can't remember what they were), and he eventually asked the diner's proprietor about them. The diner's proprietor (a creepy older guy), smiled in a sinister way and said something like, "Don't you know where you are?!". The last panel(s) were of the diner floating in space/limbo (I think). The implication was that the guy was dead?! and that the diner was supposed to be purgatory/hell - at least that's what I remember thinking at the time.
I don't remember which comic book this was in - it could have been in a DC or maybe even a Charlton anthology horror comic - I do remember that these types of horror comics were quite popular at this time, i.e. D.C.'s House of Secrets, etc. I don't think it was a Marvel comic (they didn't have many horror anthology comics by the late '70's/early '80's).
This was definitely a color comic book, not a b&w comic or b&w magazine.
Also, note that this was not the only story in this comic - there were at least 2-3 other stories, but I can't remember what they were - that's the only one that stands out.
Anyway, if anyone out there knows which comic I'm talking about here, please post this here - I would like to track it down so I can read it again. Also, if it's been reprinted anywhere please post this as well - lastly, a link to the comic itself would be much appreciated, also. Thanks in advance for any info. on this!
rom
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2016 18:48:01 GMT -5
hmm. . my first thought is "Weird Mystery Tales"
just a guess.
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