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Post by brutalis on May 14, 2020 20:38:35 GMT -5
Not bitter but perhaps old man grumpy as to say kids today got it easy. When I was a kid I had to walk all over town for a month just to find a current issue. When I was a kid I had to suffer through years of not knowing how amazingly incredible hunk-man issue # 147 was just a fill in between issues 146 and 149 AND DONE BY ANOTHER WRITER/ARTIST and it was better than the regular teams issues! When I was a kid you didn't subscribe to a series because it came folded in half and never delivered on time so I would end up buying the dang comic off the rack months before my mail order arrived! LOL
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Post by Calidore on May 14, 2020 21:11:21 GMT -5
Not bitter but perhaps old man grumpy as to say kids today got it easy. When I was a kid I had to walk all over town for a month just to find a current issue. When I was a kid I had to suffer through years of not knowing how amazingly incredible hunk-man issue # 147 was just a fill in between issues 146 and 149 AND DONE BY ANOTHER WRITER/ARTIST and it was better than the regular teams issues! When I was a kid you didn't subscribe to a series because it came folded in half and never delivered on time so I would end up buying the dang comic off the rack months before my mail order arrived! LOL
All over town? Only a month? You were lucky! I had to walk all over the state looking for the next issue, and by the time I found it, it was the last issue and in the backstock box at a markup.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 15, 2020 6:47:33 GMT -5
Wow. It's a good thing that items are easier to find. You guys sound bitter that the consumer has it easier these days. Nah. Personally I like being able to find things, but still, there is the thrill of the hunt, looking through box after box to find that hidden gem. As far as music, while the digital stuff is cool, I do prefer the physical CD. I guess it's like comics, where I like to have the physical object. I've read that in Japan, CD's are still more popular than digital music, because the Japanese value the physical, collectible object. I can empathize with that. This is almost going off-topic, but the same thing applies to me for comics. Physical>>Digital.
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Post by MDG on May 15, 2020 8:53:19 GMT -5
Wow. It's a good thing that items are easier to find. You guys sound bitter that the consumer has it easier these days. Nah. Personally I like being able to find things, but still, there is the thrill of the hunt, looking through box after box to find that hidden gem. Yeah--if there's a specific book you want, you can usually find it through the internet or a dealer, etc., if you want to pay. But there's definitely a different feeling finding something you've been looking for in an unsorted dollar box.
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Post by MDG on May 15, 2020 8:58:32 GMT -5
Starred reading the essential Marvel order listed on cmro.travis-starnes.com/essentials_order.php?list_type=2&page=1&limit=100, and these were the first 15 I read: November 1961 - Fantastic Four (1961) #1 January 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #2 January 1962 - Tales to Astonish (1958) #27 March 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #3 May 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #4 May 1962 - Incredible Hulk (1962) #1 July 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #5 August 1962 - Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15 August 1962 - Journey into Mystery (1952) #83 September 1962 - Journey into Mystery (1952) #84 September 1962 - Tales to Astonish (1958) #35 October 1962 - Journey into Mystery (1952) #85 November 1962 - Strange Tales (1951) #102 November 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #8 December 1962 - Tales to Astonish (1958) #38 The biggest highlight for me was probably seeing the Fantastic Four attempting to stop Namor from destroying all of New York in Fantastic Four #4: If you're interested, there's a weekly podcast that is going through all of the Marvel superhero books. It's okay for a casual listen, but:
1) The theme song is fannishly embarrassing 2) Insularity: The fact that Marvel published books that don't have superheros is barely mentioned
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Post by brutalis on May 15, 2020 9:45:32 GMT -5
Nah. Personally I like being able to find things, but still, there is the thrill of the hunt, looking through box after box to find that hidden gem. Yeah--if there's a specific book you want, you can usually find it through the internet or a dealer, etc., if you want to pay. But there's definitely a different feeling finding something you've been looking for in an unsorted dollar box. EXACTLY! The thrill of the hunt, so therefore the importance and remembrance are lost thanks to one click shopping. Not that having internet shopping is a bad thing, just easier and less memorable. And just think: One day you can tell the grand-kids how you used to shop online for back issues instead of having all the comics you want instantaneously downloaded from a central hub into your brain.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 15, 2020 12:22:28 GMT -5
Captain America #307-#309 Basically my whole entire read through of Volume 1 has been leading up to this. With Steve still in England after being summoned by Captain Marvel's suit, it's up to Jack/Nomad to clean up crime. His first target is the mysterious prince of mirth and mayhem, Madcap, who I really like the design of. Seems like something pulled straight out of the 60's Basically Madcap has this bubble gun that he got from a comic book ad that turns people as looney as he is and it makes Jack have breakdown where, like the cover of 307, he's slowly becoming Cap. He wants desperately to become his own man and make his own way in the world and that means taking down Madcap after losing his job as a grocery store clerk after trying to show up Bernie. And he succeeds just as Cap makes his way back to New York after a quick stop in the stately manor of the West Coast Avengers. Nomad and Cap part ways Honestly, I'm kind of sad to see Jack go, he was a great character and side kick to Steve. Something about him leaving so soon though strikes me as something that Gruenwald wanted to do first thing once he took over the book, but hey, I could be wrong. It wasn't unnatural and Gruenwald had been editing the book for a while and could have made that decision at anytime during his tenure
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Post by dbutler69 on May 15, 2020 15:14:15 GMT -5
Started reading the essential Marvel order listed on cmro.travis-starnes.com/essentials_order.php?list_type=2&page=1&limit=100, and these were the first 15 I read: November 1961 - Fantastic Four (1961) #1 January 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #2 January 1962 - Tales to Astonish (1958) #27 March 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #3 May 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #4 May 1962 - Incredible Hulk (1962) #1 July 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #5 August 1962 - Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15 August 1962 - Journey into Mystery (1952) #83 September 1962 - Journey into Mystery (1952) #84 September 1962 - Tales to Astonish (1958) #35 October 1962 - Journey into Mystery (1952) #85 November 1962 - Strange Tales (1951) #102 November 1962 - Fantastic Four (1961) #8 December 1962 - Tales to Astonish (1958) #38 The biggest highlight for me was probably seeing the Fantastic Four attempting to stop Namor from destroying all of New York in Fantastic Four #4: That's cool. I've thought about doing that as well.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 1:49:22 GMT -5
Private Secretary #1 from Dell. The Robert McGinnis-looking cover drew me in. I've been checking out a lot of the public domain comics at Comic Book Plus since shaxper brought it to my attention and while this one isn't my usual cup of tea, it was a interesting read.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 16, 2020 4:26:57 GMT -5
Private Secretary #1 from Dell. The Robert McGinnis-looking cover drew me in. I've been checking out a lot of the public domain comics at Comic Book Plus since shaxper brought it to my attention and while this one isn't my usual cup of tea, it was a interesting read. That got me thinking that I'd love to see a comic book story drawn by McGinnis.
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Post by MDG on May 17, 2020 9:55:39 GMT -5
Private Secretary #1 from Dell. The Robert McGinnis-looking cover drew me in. I've been checking out a lot of the public domain comics at Comic Book Plus since shaxper brought it to my attention and while this one isn't my usual cup of tea, it was a interesting read. I imagine they recycled the cover from a paperback. Didn't know this existed, but would love to find it now.
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Post by Farrar on May 17, 2020 14:07:48 GMT -5
^^^ Yes, and here it is, from 1961, from Dell from Amazon
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2020 16:58:42 GMT -5
Started reading the Brubaker/Lark run on Daredevil which started in 2006 (14 years ago now) and finished the first arc-The Devil in Cell Block D (#82-87) picking up the threads of Bendis run which left Matt in prison. This is one of the few Brubaker runs I haven't read all the way through. I picked up the first few issues as it came out, but got overwhelmed with freelance deadlines in 2006 and didn't read much leading into the 4-5 year hiatus form comics I took from '07 to early '12. I liked the few issues I read but never got around to getting or reading the run in any format. Something put a bug about this run in my ear so I pulled up the first issue on Marvel Unlimited and dove in. I really enjoyed the first arc. I snapped up each successive issue as soon as I finished the previous one as I was hooked and invested in the story. Lark's art is brutally gorgeous and his visual storytelling is magnificent. His fight choreography is exceptional as well. And Brubaker's pedigree as a crime/noir writer shines through in this arc. Well worth checking out if you are a fan of Bru's work elsewhere, or if you like the crime genre. It's dark, but a riveting read.
-M
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Post by berkley on May 17, 2020 18:17:36 GMT -5
I read Fantastic Four #105-106, a two-part story that I think was one of the better FF stories in a while. Crystal has to go back with the Inhumans because our pollution is killing her, Reed is trying to change the Thing back into Ben (again) and Sue is trying to contain an energy "creature" that's rampaging through those oft-rampaged through streets of Manhattan. #104 ends with a great cliffhanger, as Reed has to choose between Ben and Sue! This and the preceding Sub-Mariner/Magneto story mentioned a little earlier were favourites of mine as a kid. I liked those early post-Kirby issues in both the FF ad Thor - looking back, it almost feels like they were running on the momentum left over from the Kirby run, because in both cases the quality seemed to peter out after a while.
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Post by electricmastro on May 19, 2020 2:11:29 GMT -5
Private Secretary #1 from Dell. The Robert McGinnis-looking cover drew me in. I've been checking out a lot of the public domain comics at Comic Book Plus since shaxper brought it to my attention and while this one isn't my usual cup of tea, it was a interesting read. Great site, and Dell’s Four Color series, which turned up over 1000 issues, has quite a number of public domain comics as well, such as Little Rascals and Three Stooges, which apparently weren’t renewed on time. comicbookplus.com/?cid=1409
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