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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 9, 2018 20:16:18 GMT -5
I had a lot of '60s Actions, including some great Supergirl 80pg. Giant issues before she moved to Adventure. It was a very sporadic run I managed to put together though, missing about two thirds of the issues, so I never found out how Superman recovered from Kryptonian Leprosy as I only had part one for that. The oldest Action I ever had featured a "battle of the super-pets" on the cover between Krypto and Streaky. The second oldest would've been #285. Lesla Lar is an LL I seem to have forgotten if I ever knew her. I do remember Black Flame as a villainess though. JFK made a cameo appearance in Action #309, February 1964. I figured it must've been close to being on the stands when he was killed. The Black Flame is another one I would bring back if I was writing Supergirl.
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Post by String on Jul 10, 2018 20:39:12 GMT -5
Sandman #1-8
Sometimes you get drawn back to a title for some unknown reason. I haven't read this set of issues for many moons. '24 Hours' is still as disturbing and frightening as I remember while 'The Sound of Her Wings' remains a delightful introduction to his sister.
Aces High #1-2
Hm, first EC comics that I've ever read. Very interesting even if it's a slightly romanticized view of aerial warfare.
Excalibur #45-50
Who says Alan Davis can't do cosmic? The skillful way that he ties up some dangling plot threads here (some dating all the way back to #2) is amazing. He even finds a way to ret-con the Possession one-shot special in a sensible way that only re-enforces his own core storylines. Brilliant.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 12, 2018 7:29:33 GMT -5
I re-read the first bits of Sandman and Aces High not too long ago! Small world.
I liked Aces High... sure, it's very romanticized, but the art was really good and the stories had a fair amount of variety for all being the same time period. I was impressed overall.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 12, 2018 14:27:59 GMT -5
Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon #1 mini from 1992 Larsen really captured lightning in a bottle with this and it's easy to see where Lobdell got his influences for Red Hood & The Outlaws. It's also above and beyond anything else from early Malibu Image, though that's a subjective opinion that I doubt many others share.... I do like Witchblade, The Darkness, Whiplash, Spawn, and Shadowhawk, but only really in concept. Wetworks is on another level of devilishly delicious machismo though and what can you say about the Maxx that hasn't already been said a trillion times over?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 19:01:15 GMT -5
Batflunkie -- I just love Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, glad you've liked it.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 12, 2018 22:06:32 GMT -5
Batflunkie -- I just love Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, glad you've liked it. Oh, I've always liked it to an extent. Larsen's current output just seems to be simply for drawing unwanted attention from twitter users by putting naked women on top of Dragon's son. But maybe that's the point? By mocking a society so far gone that anything that isn't part of the solution is part of the problem?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 22:11:15 GMT -5
Just read the hardcover collection of Eisner's Hawks of the Seas strip from the 30s... It's prototypical pirate high adventure with a slight twist (Hawk is not a pirate but a freedom fighter fighting against the slave trade), but it's well done and a ripping adventure. -M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2018 7:52:26 GMT -5
Batflunkie -- I just love Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, glad you've liked it. Oh, I've always liked it to an extent. Larsen's current output just seems to be simply for drawing unwanted attention from twitter users by putting naked women on top of Dragon's son. But maybe that's the point? By mocking a society so far gone that anything that isn't part of the solution is part of the problem?
I've totally forgot about that ... thanks for the clarification. You are right.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 13, 2018 8:54:02 GMT -5
Just read the hardcover collection of Eisner's Hawks of the Seas strip from the 30s... It's prototypical pirate high adventure with a slight twist (Hawk is not a pirate but a freedom fighter fighting against the slave trade), but it's well done and a ripping adventure. -M Love this strip. Not terribly well known, but a lot of fun, with some great early Eisner artwork.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 13, 2018 9:40:08 GMT -5
Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon #1 mini from 1992 Larsen really captured lightning in a bottle with this and it's easy to see where Lobdell got his influences for Red Hood & The Outlaws. It's also above and beyond anything else from early Malibu Image, though that's a subjective opinion that I doubt many others share.... I do like Witchblade, The Darkness, Whiplash, Spawn, and Shadowhawk, but only really in concept. Wetworks is on another level of devilishly delicious machismo though and what can you say about the Maxx that hasn't already been said a trillion times over? You're not the only one who loves SD. I have the entire collection except the infamous sex issue from a few months back.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 13, 2018 9:55:30 GMT -5
Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon #1 mini from 1992 Larsen really captured lightning in a bottle with this and it's easy to see where Lobdell got his influences for Red Hood & The Outlaws. It's also above and beyond anything else from early Malibu Image, though that's a subjective opinion that I doubt many others share.... I do like Witchblade, The Darkness, Whiplash, Spawn, and Shadowhawk, but only really in concept. Wetworks is on another level of devilishly delicious machismo though and what can you say about the Maxx that hasn't already been said a trillion times over? You're not the only one who loves SD. I have the entire collection except the infamous sex issue from a few months back. Another fan here. I used to get the single issues but then after several moves and missing issues I began ordering up the Archives in black and white. Sold the singles for a nice price. Erik's Dragon has the sense of 1960[s Marvel universe "inzanity" where anything and everything bad that can happen to a guy does. Larson also captures the "essence" of Kirby in several ways. His artwork along with throwing in various characters at a moment's notice for no reason at all and every issue usually having some type of new villain design being beaten by Dragon in a few panels or a recurring villain/character you hadn't seen in awhile appears and is then forgotten until needed for the ongoing story.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jul 13, 2018 10:49:12 GMT -5
As I make my slow journey through The Marvel Age of Comics, I recently read Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 featuring the first appearance of the Sinister Six. While FF annual #2 is my all-time favorite annual story, the first Spidey annual might be the pound-for-pound greatest annual ever published given the feature story, the info on Spidey's powers and the hilarious "How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man" wrap-up.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 13, 2018 15:21:56 GMT -5
As I make my slow journey through The Marvel Age of Comics, I recently read Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 featuring the first appearance of the Sinister Six. While FF annual #2 is my all-time favorite annual story, the first Spidey annual might be the pound-for-pound greatest annual ever published given the feature story, the info on Spidey's powers and the hilarious "How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man" wrap-up. It's my favorite comic EVER!
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Post by Farrar on Jul 13, 2018 15:56:11 GMT -5
... This amazing storyline ran through Action Comics #278 to #285, but as that's a lot of comics for an 80-Page Giant, it's edited down a bit in Action Comics #360. ... This is perhaps my all-time favorite comic book, for sentimental and other reasons. I know I've mentioned this before here at CCF and elsewhere, but I saw this cover in the house ads when I was a kid and I was absolutely mesmerized by it. I thought the board game motif was such a great cover concept. This made the comic seem like more than an ordinary comic, you know? But I never actually saw this comic on sale at any of my neighborhood candy stores. Flash forward a few years (after its publication)to a beautiful summer day--much like today, come to think of it--my father was taking us kids to a big neighborhood park. En route there was a long-haired guy, probably no older than 15 or 16, selling comics on the street. One of the comics was--you guessed it--Action #360. I BEGGED my father to buy it for me. The guy was selling it for more than a quarter, for maybe what? 50, or 75 cents?--but that still would have been a luxury for my family back in those days. My dad bless his heart bought it for me and I was beyond thrilled. Best comic I ever had a a kid! As for the story in the comic, well, I'd never read such a long saga or so many connected stories in one single issue before. I loved the theme of the arc: Supergirl trying to find her place in the (Earth) sun. Something we all want to do, right? But a journey that's especially appealing to a kid. Anyway, I was blown away by this epic, this saga, this story of someone going through rituals and hardships and finally emerging victorious. It was a meaningful and touching coming of age story, one to which I could relate. This comic still remains one of my most cherished comics from childhood.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 13, 2018 16:01:26 GMT -5
Great story , Farrar.
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