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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 27, 2017 9:50:26 GMT -5
I'm about 1/4 of the way through Showcase Presents: The Brave and the Bold - The Batman Team-Ups, Vol. 1 (Brave and the Bold from Issues 59, 64, 67-71, and 74-87). There's definitely some Silver Age goofiness going on in here. Still, the stories are fun as long as you can suspend your disbelief a bit, and I'm especially looking forward to the Neal Adams stories at the end.
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 27, 2017 9:51:22 GMT -5
Somewhere in the first 20 or so Amazing Spider-Man issues it states Aunt May's actual age. She was in her late 50s, I believe. I wish I'd made a note of it. Does anyone know offhand her stated age? I may have to look for it. I think it may have been 58. I think they draw her to look much older than that, and they often refer to how dang old she is. Well, I recently turned 57. I need to find out if I'm older than Aubt May. That'll be discouraging. Lol Yeah, you'd better make sure your health insurance is paid up!
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Post by brutalis on Feb 27, 2017 10:19:31 GMT -5
I'm not working with a large budget, but I only buy hardback Masterworks because that's what I like, so this could be a plodding process. Then again, I only read maybe an average of one Masterworks or one and a half a month, so I'm about reading at the pace my budget can afford to pick them up at. I wasn't really into the hardbacks due to prices. But lately there have been some very nice price reductions and releases that you can't get in TPB's so i have gone ahead and gotten them. Master of Kung Fu 1, 2, 3 and Deadly Hands of Kung Fu 1, 2 and the upcoming Buscema's Tarzan and Kirby Kamandi are Omnibus Hardcovers i had to get while they are affordable. Several Warren Hardcovers collecting Wrightson, Toth and Ditko as well. Usually prefer buying the TPB's for cost and easier to hold and read. But i have to admit that the Hardcover stuff do like nice on the bookshelf and are so damn purty inside
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Post by Confessor on Feb 27, 2017 12:09:42 GMT -5
Somewhere in the first 20 or so Amazing Spider-Man issues it states Aunt May's actual age. She was in her late 50s, I believe. I wish I'd made a note of it. Does anyone know offhand her stated age? I may have to look for it. I think it may have been 58. I think they draw her to look much older than that, and they often refer to how dang old she is. Well, I recently turned 57. I need to find out if I'm older than Aubt May. That'll be discouraging. Lol Yeah, you'd better make sure your health insurance is paid up! Or know some younger person who is willing to lift a colossal weight off of their back in order to get you your medicine.
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Post by Farrar on Feb 27, 2017 17:53:22 GMT -5
Somewhere in the first 20 or so Amazing Spider-Man issues it states Aunt May's actual age. She was in her late 50s, I believe. I wish I'd made a note of it. Does anyone know offhand her stated age? I may have to look for it. I think it may have been 58. I think they draw her to look much older than that, and they often refer to how dang old she is. Well, I recently turned 57. I need to find out if I'm older than Aunt May. That'll be discouraging. Lol Here's what she says in #18--who knew May had such a sense of humor
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 18:06:38 GMT -5
Cool. Now I'm not sure if she's saying she's 60, or just feels like it.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 27, 2017 18:40:12 GMT -5
No, she's saying that she feels like she's 60 again, meaning it's been some time since she was that young. Of course, assigning a specific age to these immortal characters is precarilus, if not downright pointless. According to a Spidey Annual in the mid-80s, May and Ben first met in the 1920s which would indeed make her 60ish at the time of Spidey's origin, but since Peter is obviously not closing in on 40 in the '80s, that proves and means nothing. Certainly, judging from her appearance, Steve Ditko intended her to be well past late middle age.
Cei-U! I summon the oleaginous octogenarian!*
*Of course May isn't really greasy. I just liked the alliteration.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 27, 2017 19:19:39 GMT -5
Aunt may looked 80 the way Ditko drew her.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 19:26:22 GMT -5
I'm going to have to search those first 20 Amazing Spider-Man issues at some point. I could have sworn Aunt May's specific age is stated in one of them.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 28, 2017 4:20:51 GMT -5
For what it's worth, I've always thought of Aunt May as being in her seventies. I don't know why, other than that's about how old Ditko and subsequent Silver and Bronze Age artists drew her.
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 28, 2017 9:47:23 GMT -5
For what it's worth, I've always thought of Aunt May as being in her seventies. I don't know why, other than that's about how old Ditko and subsequent Silver and Bronze Age artists drew her. Yeah, between her health and the way she was drawn, I'd always figured her in her 70's (or at the very least well into her 60's) too. I guess life was not kind to her.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 12:37:50 GMT -5
Amazing Spider-Man has such a great supporting cast. For my money it's easily the best in comics.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 28, 2017 12:55:51 GMT -5
For what it's worth, I've always thought of Aunt May as being in her seventies. I don't know why, other than that's about how old Ditko and subsequent Silver and Bronze Age artists drew her. Yeah, between her health and the way she was drawn, I'd always figured her in her 70's (or at the very least well into her 60's) too. I guess life was not kind to her. Well, following her eventual "death" in ASM #400 and subsequent resurrection, she seemed to de-age considerably. The Aunt May of the 2000s, for example, during Howard Mackie and J. Michael Strazynski's run, is much more like a 50-something than the septuagenarian of the Silver and Bronze Age. Even in the post-Brand New Day era, May seems a lot sprightlier than she ever used to be. We've seen this de-aging process in spin-off media too, such as the films. In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Aunt May was played by the 70-something Rosemary Harris, but in the recent Spider-Man films starring Andrew Garfield, she is played by the 60-something Sally Field (who, let's be honest, looks more like a 50-something). Myself, I put this down to modern society and the mainstream media's unhealthy preoccupation with youth and attendant over-emphasis on youthfulness.
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 28, 2017 13:37:14 GMT -5
Yeah, between her health and the way she was drawn, I'd always figured her in her 70's (or at the very least well into her 60's) too. I guess life was not kind to her. Well, following her eventual "death" in ASM #400 and subsequent resurrection, she seemed to de-age considerably. The Aunt May of the 2000s, for example, during Howard Mackie and J. Michael Strazynski's run, is much more like a 50-something than the septuagenarian of the Silver and Bronze Age. Even in the post-Brand New Day era, May seems a lot sprightlier than she ever used to be. We've seen this de-aging process in spin-off media too, such as the films. In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Aunt May was played by the 70-something Rosemary Harris, but in the recent Spider-Man films starring Andrew Garfield, she is played by the 60-something Sally Field (who, let's be honest, looks more like a 50-something). Myself, I put this down to modern society and the mainstream media's unhealthy preoccupation with youth and attendant over-emphasis on youthfulness. In the new Marvel version, Aunt May is played by Marissa Tomei, who is 52.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 28, 2017 13:47:39 GMT -5
I don't know. While it's certainly not unheard of for an 18 year old to have a 70 year old aunt, it's almost certainly not the norm. Fifty would probably be more demographically proper. My oldest uncle is probably 32 years older than I am. My youngest is 12. Aunt May was really always more in the age range of a Great-Aunt than an Aunt.
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