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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 13, 2018 16:18:02 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--Adventure #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. Silver Age Supergirl was one of my favorite runs even BEFORE I ever discovered this storyline. I don't know where it places now. Not up there with Ditko Spider-man or Trimpe Hulk, but not far behind.
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 14, 2018 1:38:02 GMT -5
I and this comic were custom-made for each other. It's disappointing the dream on the cover wasn't told in the book, though.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 14, 2018 5:39:38 GMT -5
I and this comic were custom-made for each other. It's disappointing the dream on the cover wasn't told in the book, though. Wow, with such an involved cover , you would think that the story is featured inside. Are you a big fan of dream interpretation ?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2018 20:47:12 GMT -5
Reread this Justice League Classic One of my favorite in the early days of the Justice League.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2018 20:59:31 GMT -5
Just finished this collection of the original Fighting American stories from the 1950's:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2018 21:04:46 GMT -5
Starting to re-read this series tomorrow:
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 15, 2018 11:04:57 GMT -5
Starting to re-read this series tomorrow: I liked that book a lot when it came out. I wonder how it would hold up to a re-read.
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 15, 2018 16:04:43 GMT -5
I and this comic were custom-made for each other. It's disappointing the dream on the cover wasn't told in the book, though. Wow, with such an involved cover , you would think that the story is featured inside. Are you a big fan of dream interpretation ? More a fan of dream imagery/logic. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Surrealist.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 20:03:37 GMT -5
Just Read -- Justice League of America #14 One of my favorites and I was shocked as a kid when I read it for the first time in the 60's.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 16, 2018 13:57:09 GMT -5
My wife got this strange 2006 graphic novel from the library: The title is misleading; there's no incest in the story, just jealousy, envy and sibling rivalry. Each pair of pages has text on the left-hand page and a full-page drawing on the right. The text is quite sparse; some pages have only a word or two. The drawings are water-colored aquatints, which is apparently a difficult and time-consuming medium. Some of the images are haunting and/or beautiful, but the book is underwhelming. The story is disjointed and rather unpleasant; I'm not sure what the point was supposed to be. Some pages I found online:
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 16, 2018 16:09:19 GMT -5
Wow, with such an involved cover , you would think that the story is featured inside. Are you a big fan of dream interpretation ? More a fan of dream imagery/logic. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Surrealist. I have an very old friend that delved into dream interpretation. She's a bit of a jarhead, so that might be why, among a bakers dozen of other reasons.... I found "The Strange World Of You Dreams" to be very Rod Sterling like in scope, would not be surprised if it helped inspire The Twilight Zone Duragizer - I'm more abstract, because I view life as something of a Rorschach test that desperately needs to be sifted through like a colander. I am not Rorschach from Watchman however, I will never let the madness of life and space time corrupt me
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 23, 2018 19:19:21 GMT -5
I picked up a couple of the "True Believers" reprint comics over the weekend. I've read Fantastic Four #5 a bunch of times over the years, starting with the first time I ever saw it in "Bring On The Bad Guys" in the 1970s. It's … not one of my favorites. I love some of those early issues of the FF, especially #4 and #6, but #5 has a few things that have always bothered me a bit, even the first time I read it when I was 12. I think Doom's plan is idiotic, for one thing. Hold Sue hostage and force the others to go to 1700 (or so) and somehow find and get "Blackbeard's treasure" in 48 hours. Yeah. Easy! And then, it turns out that the Thing is the real Blackbeard! And somehow they have gathered Merlin's gems at random … and passed them out to random pirates! (It bugs me even more now because, as a history buff, I was kind of interested in the history of piracy for a time, and Blackbeard was a real person with a full and fascinating history, one of the more interesting characters of the time.) Reading it in 2018, I quickly got past the eye-rolling phase and enjoyed the Sinnott inking and the many many many cool elements of the story. Reed narrating Doom's background is pretty neat. And the "Thing becoming Blackbeard" segment aside, the pirate episode is actually pretty exciting and fun. I love Johnny being all "Hey! I'm Errol Flynn!" in his pirate outfit. And I'd completely forgotten Doom's tiger! I'm now very worried that the tiger didn't escape the fire and Doom has added tiger negligence to his many crimes! I also got this! I used to have all but a handful of the first few years of Marvel-Two-In-One. I only read the first issue a few months ago when I found it online. So it was nice to be able to add it to my collection for a dollar! It's nice to see the Man-Thing, and the weird history of the Molecule Man gets another weird boost. The Thing is at his loud and irritable best. But the best thing about it is the Gil Kane/Joe Sinnott art!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 24, 2018 1:33:10 GMT -5
I also picked up "The Circle" in Wonder Woman #14 to #17 this weekend. I've decided to start collecting Gail Simone's Wonder Woman and I've picked up a handful of scattered issues between #28 and #44, so it was nice to find a whole storyline ($2 for each issue) at the comic-book store in Pomona. I'm not quite sure I buy the idea that Hippolyta's personal guard is such a bunch of hard-boiled badasses that they think Amazons should be executed for having dolls, or that there is any sensible reason why they should want to kill Hippolyta's daughter even if she is made out of clay and given life by the gods. But just go with it! There is so much to like here! Like Diana's white gorilla army! Or the Secret Society trying to get back together! Or the return of Captain Nazi! Although, really! I don't see why just about every modern Wonder Woman writer has to add SOMETHING to Amazon culture and legends that makes no sense! Either the other Amazon girls are teasing Diana because she's made of clay or the Amazons are a bunch of seducers and murderers or everything that Diana remembers about Themiscyra is a lie because reasons. If Diana has to have a father because reasons, then it's Hercules, not Zeus. Do you know where I got that idea? Wonder Woman #1, Summer 1942, written by William Moulton Marston.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 24, 2018 13:53:13 GMT -5
As I was browsing at the comic-book shop in Pomona, I came across this Night Nurse collection! It was published in 2015 and it reprints the 1970s Night Nurse series, #1 to #4, as well as a much later Night Nurse appearance in Daredevil #80 (from 2006). I've been very curious about Night Nurse for decades! I've always liked what I've read of the woman-focused comics that Marvel put out in the early 1970s (I have all five issues of Shanna and I've read one or two issues of The Claws of the Cat) and we all know I love Lady Cop from DC's First Issue Special! So I was very happy to grab a reprint of the entire Night Nurse series! And it's a glorious series! Although blonde and wholesome Linda is the main character in the early issues, her roommates are also very important characters. There's Georgia, an African America woman who lives just a few blocks away from the hospital, but that short distance is a whole different world in New York City! And then there's Christine, the poor little rich girl with the red hair who has been disowned by her wealthy father because she … gasp … wants to be a nurse! So the first three issues have various medical and romantic and family plots going on. Gangsters dump a dying man in front of the hospital right in front of Linda's eyes! Anarchists plot to blow up the hospital's generator during the summer, when the city is prone to blackouts! Georgia's brother is in trouble with the law … and not getting a fair shake from white man's justice! Linda nurses a handsome businessman back to health and he wants to marry her … but she'll have to give up nursing just to be his wife! (He was such a total douche! I was very disappointed in Linda for crying over that arrogant ass.) Christine's surgeon boyfriend turns out to be a drunk and an embezzler … and a patient dies during some delicate surgery because he's such a loser … and Christine is in trouble for covering for him before she realized how bad the problem was! The fourth issue is about Christine. She's been cleared, but she's under a cloud and she takes a position as a private nurse at a remote haunted house that's hanging over a cliff and is near a haunted lighthouse, somewhere in New England, I think. (If you've read it, you know I'm not joking, no, I'm not even exaggerating!) They brought Night Nurse back for a return appearance in an issue of Daredevil in 2006, and that's reprinted in this issue as well. They don't actually identify her as any of the characters from the Night Nurse series. She runs an all-night clinic and she's known for helping New York City's various super-beings when they need stitches or headache medicine or whatever. It's actually not a bad appearance of Night Nurse at all. But WOW BOYOBOY, did they miss the point of the original Night Nurse! She's supposed to be the focus of the story! It should have gone a little more like this: Linda is walking to her night shift at the all-night clinic when she hears gunfire on a nearby street. She runs to the scene to find Daredevil on the sidewalk with several gunshot wounds! She yells at a surly headset-wearing teen to call an ambulance and later she rides with Daredevil to the clinic. Meanwhile, Georgia is having a personal crisis because it turns out that her youngest brother is the Rocket Racer. He told her he was going straight after that incident with Spider-Man and the Big Wheel, but he's been implicated as being part of the latest collection of NYC masked villains participating in the latest Gang War! And Christine has discovered that her doctor boyfriend has been stealing medical equipment and selling it to fund his research into ways to increase the potential of the brain and has become the new Leader! Then Linda runs into her policeman boyfriend Chet, and they have the same old argument - she has to give up the all-night clinic because she should be happy to be a cop's wife! She sighs and dumps his ass, for good this time! After all, Iron Fist is kind of cute and she's pretty sure he was flirting with her while she was changing Daredevil's bandages. In the next issue, Christine has to get away from New York, so she takes a position as private nurse in a quiet little town in Florida called Citrusville. And so on … It would have been great to see Linda and company in the recent Mayor Fisk storyline.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 24, 2018 13:57:55 GMT -5
I've surpised they haven't used her more to tie in with the TV show version... seems like the sort of thing that happens in the Marvel Universe these days.
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