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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 13, 2021 23:09:23 GMT -5
You’re almost up to my first issue of Green Lantern. By the late 1970s/early 1980s, I had gotten kind of bored with a number of my regular longtime Marvel series and I quit reading several of them. I started reading a few DCs that I hadn’t had much interest in before, notably Detective Comics, Batman and Legion. And all of a sudden, much to my surprise, I was a Green Lantern fan for a few years, starting with #151!
Oh that crazy Hal Jordan and whacky old Carol Ferris!
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Post by spoon on Mar 13, 2021 23:43:30 GMT -5
You’re almost up to my first issue of Green Lantern. By the late 1970s/early 1980s, I had gotten kind of bored with a number of my regular longtime Marvel series and I quit reading several of them. I started reading a few DCs that I hadn’t had much interest in before, notably Detective Comics, Batman and Legion. And all of a sudden, much to my surprise, I was a Green Lantern fan for a few years, starting with #151! Oh that crazy Hal Jordan and whacky old Carol Ferris! I think my first issue of Green Lantern was #190. I'm getting towards more issues that I've actually read before. The vast majority of issues the from around #35 to #145 (except for the O'Neil/Adams run are issues that I'm reading for the first time during this beinge. I've read these upcoming issues leading up to Hal's exile from Earth before. Then, I've read a little bit during the period in space before, but a good bit from when Hal returns to Earth. Then, from when John replaces Hal through the end of the series (#224), I've probably read all those issues at least once.
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Post by spoon on Mar 14, 2021 0:03:16 GMT -5
I forgot to mention that I'm pretty sure Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #1 is the first Green Lantern comic that mentions there are 3,600 members of the Corps. Although Hal's sector number (2814) seems to imply that there would be a thousands of GLs, it wasn't explicitly stated that there is one GL per sector. One Silver Age issues even stated there were "dozens" of Green Lanterns in the Corps.
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Post by TEALProductions on Mar 15, 2021 7:57:20 GMT -5
I've been reading along with the Make Ours Marvel podcast and this weekend read through the Marvel books on sale in December 1966.
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Post by MDG on Mar 15, 2021 8:08:01 GMT -5
A new podcast called "Voice of Latveria" just launched, planning to go through all of Doc Doom's appearances in order. The first three have been interesting and thoughtful (I think all the guests so far have been PhDs, but also fans.) tolworthy 's FF analysis gets a call out toward the end of one episode.
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Post by Graphic Autist on Mar 15, 2021 14:15:04 GMT -5
This past week I read Thor #s 195-216 via the Marvel Epic Collection "Into The Dark Nebula." This covered the period of 1972-1973, and the stories were written by Gerry Conway and mostly drawn by John Buscema.
The stories read well, and John Buscema is probably my favorite comic artist ever, so I definitely liked the artwork.
One thing that puzzles me: Thor's hammer can't be lifted by anyone but him. But when Thor is rendered unconscious while holding the hammer, it seems people have no problem carrying Thor while the hammer is still on his person. Did Marvel ever explain how that works?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 15, 2021 14:38:26 GMT -5
This past week I read Thor #s 195-216 via the Marvel Epic Collection "Into The Dark Nebula." This covered the period of 1972-1973, and the stories were written by Gerry Conway and mostly drawn by John Buscema. The stories read well, and John Buscema is probably my favorite comic artist ever, so I definitely liked the artwork. One thing that puzzles me: Thor's hammer can't be lifted by anyone but him. But when Thor is rendered unconscious while holding the hammer, it seems people have no problem carrying Thor while the hammer is still on his person. Did Marvel ever explain how that works? I don't think so, but it's akin to the question asked in the movies: if you put the hammer in an elevator, can it be lifted? I would try to get a no-prize by suggesting that it's not about the hammer being heavy (although it must be!) but about a spell that allows only someone worthy to lift it. If Thor is carrying the hammer and someone is carrying Thor, then the spell is happy. Those issues were my introduction to Thor... and heretical as it may sound, I still like them better than the classic Lee-Kirby ones! I still wish Hildegarde and Hogun's relationship had been a thing. (It was promptly forgotten, I believe. I'm not even sure Hildegarde was around much after Conway left).
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Post by MDG on Mar 15, 2021 15:29:53 GMT -5
I don't think so, but it's akin to the question asked in the movies: if you put the hammer in an elevator, can it be lifted? I would try to get a no-prize by suggesting that it's not about the hammer being heavy (although it must be!) but about a spell that allows only someone worthy to lift it. If Thor is carrying the hammer and someone is carrying Thor, then the spell is happy. Yeah, I never got it as a weight thing--if Thor put's the hammer on a bridge table, it's not going to collapse.
I see it more as no one but Thor can lift the hammer from what it resting on. But if, for example, the hammer was on one side of a seesaw and you pulled down on the other side, it would go up. But you wouldn't be able to get it off the seesaw.
I also assume if Thor left it in his supermarket cart while he went into another aisle, you could roll that sucker outta there (and maybe up a ramp into the back of a truck) but never get it out of the cart.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 15, 2021 17:49:03 GMT -5
I've been reading along with the Make Ours Marvel podcast and this weekend read through the Marvel books on sale in December 1966. I've been listening to it also, I'm up to episode # 92. They hosts have chemistry. Welcome to the forum !
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 15, 2021 19:18:23 GMT -5
Captain America #318-#320
Been reading some Cap after binge reading Thor. It's really great to see Gruenwald fully in his element with both this and Serpent Society storyline. There's a lot of layers to to it which I like
Basic gist is that a mysterious person known only as "Scourge" is killing off super-villains and is throwing them into a panic and of course Steve (who's now roving around the country as true "Hero of the people") is the only one that can stop it
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Post by james on Mar 16, 2021 3:40:26 GMT -5
Taking a break from Peter David’s Hulk. (Right now old gray jaws is roaming New Mexico with Clay Quartermain and Rick Jones trying to find some gamma bombs) and I’m about to start WCA’s VISIONQUEST. IFANBOY is about to bo a booksplode about it so figured instead of taking out my single issues I’d grab a copy at the library. It’s been several years since I read it so I’m hoping the story holds up
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 16, 2021 9:54:43 GMT -5
About 2/3 of the way through a re-read of Sweet Tooth. Only the first half of the book meet the criteria as classic for this site...but whatcha gonna do.
I haven't read these since they first came out, so roughly ten years ago. I remember the broad strokes of the book and certain characters, but the details were largely gone. The one thing I had forgotten is that while it starts out looking like science fiction it takes a turn to the fantastic about half-way through.
Still a very good book by Lemire and one I'm glad to re-read.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 16, 2021 12:09:57 GMT -5
I read Iron Man #74, as Black Lama's supervillain war picks up again. Iron Man gets stuck in the middle in a battle between MODOK and the (Mad) Thinker. We end with an irate MODOK (in a giant robot body!) crashing through the (Mad) Thinker's secrey lair, with an unconscious Iron Man in hand! Not a perfect issue, but it does have me anxious to pick up #75! Oh, and the roller skates built into his armor are hilarious. So 70's!
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 17, 2021 12:03:07 GMT -5
I read Iron Man #75. No roller skates this issue, but the War between the Super-Villains is heating up! MODOK is apparently killed by Yellow Claw! The Mad Thinker has Iron Man in his clutches! Some hints about the Black Lama's real plans! I forgot to mention in my post on #74 that some of the big supervillains, who "belong" to other heroes, such as Doctor Doom and Fu Manchu, were explained to have blown off the Black Lama when he approached them with his proposal. That's too bad, as a big supervillain war would have been cool, but of course it's not too surprising. Assuming Friedrich even asked for permission to use more supervillains, I'm assumig he was answered with a "no".
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 17, 2021 12:27:21 GMT -5
Tuska's artwork reminds me of something that you would see in like wildlife brochure or even a coloring book
Now here's some work Tuska did before he became a Marvel regular... from 1963-- BUCK ROGERS! And here's one from 1962...
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