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Post by brutalis on Mar 7, 2017 8:04:51 GMT -5
You need to sit yourself down and read some Silver Age fun in Superman, Batman, Metamorpho, Doom Patrol, Legion of Superheroes, Atom, Hawkman, Dial H for Hero, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and X-Men and other such wonderful stuff. Without the insanity and creativity found within the Silver Age there would be no current age! Yes there were lots of turkey's even as there are the same today but when it is good boy oh boy is it very good.
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 7, 2017 10:52:32 GMT -5
You need to sit yourself down and read some Silver Age fun in Superman, Batman, Metamorpho, Doom Patrol, Legion of Superheroes, Atom, Hawkman, Dial H for Hero, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and X-Men and other such wonderful stuff. Without the insanity and creativity found within the Silver Age there would be no current age! Yes there were lots of turkey's even as there are the same today but when it is good boy oh boy is it very good. Oh, I love Silver Age Marvel, it's just Silver Age DC that I have problems with reading Kirby's run with Cap in Tales Of Suspense is hands down my favorite take on the character When I was around 8 or 9 found a VHS tape with a couple of episodes of the 1966 cartoon serial on it and that's what started my love affair with Cap. When I read the comics, I still hear Sandy Becker as Cap, Carl Banas as Bucky, and Paul Kligman as Red Skull
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Post by brutalis on Mar 7, 2017 11:05:27 GMT -5
Oh, I love Silver Age Marvel, it's just Silver Age DC that I have problems with reading Kirby's run with Cap in Tales Of Suspense is hands down my favorite take on the character Yeah, I do realize that Silver Age DC is an acquired taste and not to everyone's liking due to the extremely sillier fantasy aspects of many of their stories. Marvel seemed to have a subtler aspect of zany to their Silver Age antics and kept to more tolerable if not overly believable sensibilities
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 7, 2017 11:22:12 GMT -5
Yeah, I do realize that Silver Age DC is an acquired taste and not to everyone's liking due to the extremely sillier fantasy aspects of many of their stories. Marvel seemed to have a subtler aspect of zany to their Silver Age antics and kept to more tolerable if not overly believable sensibilities It's not so much the "silliness", but rather the stories themselves that I feel have no real meat to them and often seem fairly formulaic and repetitive in nature Trust me, if I didn't like "silly", the majority of my favorite comics would rapidly shrink in number
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 7, 2017 18:01:04 GMT -5
For good Silver Age DC stories, look for a couple of writers - John Broome and Arnold Drake. Their stuff holds up better than most, IMHO.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 19:23:37 GMT -5
For good Silver Age DC stories, look for a couple of writers - John Broome and Arnold Drake. Their stuff holds up better than most, IMHO. I've read all the Golden and Silver DC have in my possession up through 1963 in the last year and a half (Marvel too for that matter). The Silver DC that stands up best is the bulk of the early Flash stories (there are some stinkers, but on the whole they are the cream of the crop). The Green Lantern stories are a mixed bag, the good ones are really good, the not so good are bad though. The rest are what they are, somewhat silly and formulaic. I haven't read it all, but I have read large chunks of Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Adam Strange, Martian Manhunter, Atom, Hawkman and JLA from the Showcase collections Chronicles volumes and the new Silver Age softcover editions DC has been doing. . The early Marvel stuff is no less formulaic, it's just a different formula and there are some DC level silly bits in a lot of the early stories from '62 and '63, especially Journey into Mystery with Thor, Tales to Astonish with Hank Pym and Strange Tales with Torch, but some of the stories rise above that-thy are however more exception than rule in those first 2 years. The Marvel stuff seemed to hit its stride a bit more late in '63 moving into '64, but there were still a lot of Silver Age silliness and Cold War paranoia silliness in those books, and a lot of formulaic storytelling still. -M
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Post by Farrar on Mar 8, 2017 23:05:21 GMT -5
I was just about to post this! But I start the great days of the FF from #36. The Frightful Four in #36, #38, #41 to #43, then that great Doctor Doom story in #39 and #40. #37 is a very odd story, but I've always liked it anyway. And I used to find the Vince Colletta inks in #40 to #43 more than a little disappointing, but it's grown on me over the years as I've read those issues a bunch of times. I think the Colletta inking on the Frightful Four issues in #41 to #43 really fits the mood of the story. And then, yeah, you get to #44, with the Inhumans and Joe Sinnott, with Galactus, the Silver Surfer and the Black Panther waiting in the wings, and you're reading some of the best comics ever! I just finished FF 40. It's really getting great! Does your volume also contain FF Annual #3, Sue and Reed's wedding (in between issues #43 and #44)? That's also inked by Colletta. I'm a Vinnie fan and loved his work on Thor and Tales of Asgard; and also his inks on Big John's pencils in Avengers #44.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 8, 2017 23:15:17 GMT -5
I just finished Showcase Presents: The Brave and the Bold - The Batman Team-Ups, Vol. 1 (Collecting The Brave and The Bold #59, #64, #67, #69-71 and #74-87). Some fun stuff with Zaney Bob Haney, but the highlight for me were the Neal Adams stories. The art was, of course, great, and even the writing seemed improved. Plus, I finally got to read my first comic with the "I Ching" Wonder Woman. It was groovy, man!Not a bad introduction to the mod WW. The WW-Batman B & B story was written by Sekowsky (and of course illustrated by him and inked by Giordano), so the visuals and characterizations for Di and Ching were spot-on and consistent with WW's own book. It was almost like an issue of WW. Sekowsky did a nice job in that story with Bruce/Batman, too.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 9, 2017 10:29:50 GMT -5
I started reading Crisis on Infinite Earths for the first time last night.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 9, 2017 10:33:52 GMT -5
Just finished up The Blue Lotus by Hergé for my Tintin review thread and I also read Fantastic Four Annual #3, the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm. Man, that annual does not let up! It's balls-to-the-wall action from start to finish. A breathless rush of Silver Age superheroics. Great stuff!
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Post by brutalis on Mar 9, 2017 11:11:52 GMT -5
Almost finished reading the 1st collected Elfquest from Darkhorse. Read 3 issues last night: would be issues/chapter's 14, 15 and 16. Winnowill has just been "defeated" and Lord Voll awakened and wants to join the quest alongside Cutter and his tribe immediately. So consumed with returning to the castle of the High One's that when Cutter refuses to go as winter is coming and his tribe is tired and needs rest Voll then "captures" Cutter and his children. Voll thinks this will force the wolf riders into following and the quest will continue but Voll is killed by troll's. The wolf riders are fighting the troll's and slowly losing with one of the riders being killed and Cutter wounded and dying. Leetah kills for the 1st time to save her son. They are saved by another tribe of elves calling themselves the G0-Backs who are riding deer and Leetah heals Cutter with the aide of Rayek (who has been presumed dead) and Cutter realizes that his dream of uniting the elves is likely to be a task for his entire lifetime.
Wonderful writing and art by the Pini's as always and a true treasure to read again after so many years.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 9, 2017 13:08:45 GMT -5
I started reading Crisis on Infinite Earths for the first time last night. I read the first six issues when it first came out. And I got kind of bored and didn't finish until two or three years ago when I got the collected edition out of the library. The art's great! You get your money's worth just looking at the art. And there are some very nice little short sequences sprinkled throughout. (And I remember liking the villains' issue a lot.) But overall ... I'm not a big fan. It's so contrived, and the characters created for the series are straight from central casting, generic cosmic beings.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 14:10:00 GMT -5
I started reading Crisis on Infinite Earths for the first time last night. Nice. I really need to read that myself.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 15:55:02 GMT -5
I started reading Crisis on Infinite Earths for the first time last night. I've been slowly rereading the series for the first time since around 2000.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 9, 2017 17:07:33 GMT -5
I started reading Crisis on Infinite Earths for the first time last night. Wow. The first time? I feel so old.
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