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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2016 19:59:07 GMT -5
Saw most of these in a quarter bin today and was debating on picking them up. I didn't. I'm sure they will still be there next time if I decide to get them. I have enough books to read anyway. I will send you it when I am done reading it. 😃
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Post by brutalis on Nov 28, 2016 10:13:29 GMT -5
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Omnibus 1 arrived Friday carrying the 1st 20 issues of black and white hand chopping foot kicking chop suey goodness. Read through the 1st issue taking me back to the days of yore when i were but a teen amidst the summer kung fu glory of the late 70's.
Really good job of scanning and i was worried that there might be a loss of clarity in the downsizing from magazine size but the larger omnibus printing and the gloss paper allows the splendid b/w line work to really snap. Looking forward to digging into the articles as i read the comic's because remembrance from my faded memory many of the articles were very well done for the time.
Can't wait to see Rudy Nebres artwork on the later Shang Chi and Iron Fist stories. Very glad to have this finally reprinted as i have as many of the old magazines (well read and loved) as i could find affordably. This is one series deserving of the omnibus treatment and hope everyone will get it while the getting is good cuz it can only become more expensive as you wait...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2016 14:22:25 GMT -5
Just recently read Fantastic Four #107-118. My goal is to read all of the John Buscema run. A lot of these issues I have not read before, so far I am amazed at how good they are. Really liked the Over-Mind storyline, Hulk vs. Thing & of course the Dr. Doom team-up. Was fairly bored with issue #117, 118 though.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 28, 2016 17:49:11 GMT -5
Just recently read Fantastic Four #107-118. My goal is to read all of the John Buscema run. A lot of these issues I have not read before, so far I am amazed at how good they are. Really liked the Over-Mind storyline, Hulk vs. Thing & of course the Dr. Doom team-up. Was fairly bored with issue #117, 118 though. Fantastic Four after Kirby left was still pretty good for a long time. Up to #200 at least. Yeah, you can point to a few stinkers here and there (but you can do that for the Kirby issues as well!) but overall, it's great.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2016 19:13:59 GMT -5
Just recently read Fantastic Four #107-118. My goal is to read all of the John Buscema run. A lot of these issues I have not read before, so far I am amazed at how good they are. Really liked the Over-Mind storyline, Hulk vs. Thing & of course the Dr. Doom team-up. Was fairly bored with issue #117, 118 though. Fantastic Four after Kirby left was still pretty good for a long time. Up to #200 at least. Yeah, you can point to a few stinkers here and there (but you can do that for the Kirby issues as well!) but overall, it's great. After #200 we had those wonderful Wolfman/Byrne issues #209-214 & a few other random issues just prior to Byrne's "Back to Basics" approach. For me the FF ended it's greatness shortly after Byrne's classic run...I just never connected with FF fully after this.
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Post by Gene on Nov 29, 2016 0:19:40 GMT -5
I read Detective Comics 27-38 and the lead story from Batman 1 over the past few days. It was definitely an interesting read. Kane's lack of development of character is pretty apparent early on, as it reads like he and Bill Finger (okay, mostly Finger) were figuring him out as they went. At least for me, Batman doesn't really gel until Robin shows up and he has another character to work off of. It'll be interesting to see how he continues to develop as I get into year two of the character.
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 29, 2016 10:43:24 GMT -5
I've started reading the 1977 Ms. Marvel series. I'm enjoying it far more than I thought I would. A shame it didn't last longer.
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 29, 2016 10:45:56 GMT -5
Just recently read Fantastic Four #107-118. My goal is to read all of the John Buscema run. A lot of these issues I have not read before, so far I am amazed at how good they are. Really liked the Over-Mind storyline, Hulk vs. Thing & of course the Dr. Doom team-up. Was fairly bored with issue #117, 118 though. There's a big gap in my FF ownership and readership. I've not read most of the issues from #73-157. Shame on me!
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Post by brutalis on Nov 29, 2016 11:00:21 GMT -5
Yeppers, the FF is good reading all the way through Byrne and after. Once he left it becomes sketchier finding the good amidst the bad. Fantastic Four and Avengers were my collector's drug in the late 70's when the comic book shops 1st began to appear in town. I cannot tell you how many blissful hours i spent in moldy, dusty and dark dilapidated used book stores burrowing through grocery bags of comics digging for discounted and cheaply affordable $2-5 issues of both.
It is my pride and joy to have complete sets of both including annuals up through the 80's until their original series/numbering was discontinued. So much entertainment and childhood memories wrapped up in those i will never part with either collection (and i do have requests from the local shops almost every time i go in if i want to sell yet) no matter how much i am offered.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 29, 2016 11:25:09 GMT -5
I read Detective Comics 27-38 and the lead story from Batman 1 over the past few days. It was definitely an interesting read. Kane's lack of development of character is pretty apparent early on, as it reads like he and Bill Finger (okay, mostly Finger) were figuring him out as they went. At least for me, Batman doesn't really gel until Robin shows up and he has another character to work off of. It'll be interesting to see how he continues to develop as I get into year two of the character. I feel compelled to point out that the Batman stories in Detective #29-34 are written by Gardner Fox, not Bill Finger. Initially, Kane hid Finger's involvement in the strip so DC assigned it to Fox. It's Fox who gives us Dr. Death, The Monk, Julie Madison, the Batarang, and the Batgyro/Batplane. (Note that none of Fox's stories feature Commissioner Gordon.) Only after Kane fessed up did Finger get the series back. Cei-U! I summon the Bat-backstory!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2016 13:24:38 GMT -5
Just recently read Fantastic Four #107-118. My goal is to read all of the John Buscema run. A lot of these issues I have not read before, so far I am amazed at how good they are. Really liked the Over-Mind storyline, Hulk vs. Thing & of course the Dr. Doom team-up. Was fairly bored with issue #117, 118 though. There's a big gap in my FF ownership and readership. I've not read most of the issues from #73-157. Shame on me! Ha, same with me, started reading FF in the mid to late 70's and read most of the Kirby issues (through back issues or reprints) but always had that unread gap. I am rectifying that now. From what I have read so far I highly recommend it, Lee/Buscema run so far is excellent! I still need to read a bit past the Lee/Buscema run to fully catch up.
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Post by Farrar on Nov 29, 2016 15:04:17 GMT -5
Just recently read Fantastic Four #107-118. My goal is to read all of the John Buscema run. A lot of these issues I have not read before, so far I am amazed at how good they are. Really liked the Over-Mind storyline, Hulk vs. Thing & of course the Dr. Doom team-up. Was fairly bored with issue #117, 118 though. This line-up sure brings back memories! I remember buying all these 3 off the newsstands back then (at the time each was published). I bought #116 was when we were on vacation upstate, and I recall being very surprised it was 25 cents, up from 15 cents the month before***. My allowance was very meager so this was a most unwelcome development. It was probably a combination of worsening distribution in my neighborhood plus my growing lack of interest in comics and some other factors, but I'm pretty sure #116 was the last FF issue I read at the time it was pubished. I had #117 back then too but I think I bought it as a back issue a few months after it was published. Then a few months later we moved to another neighborhood, so I no longer had easy access to the collectibles store where I'd been buying back issues. Never read any FF after #117 until a few years ago, thanks to the wonderful worlds of Essentials, Masterworks, etc. ***Part of Martin Goodman's famous master plan to increase the price for one month, then down to 20 cents the next month, sticking it to DC...
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 3, 2016 13:54:14 GMT -5
I was flipping through the Comixology digital comics catalogue, looking for some intriguing 99-cent comics, and I got three issues of Flash from the early 1970s. This is from the period where they had 48 pages for 25 cents, so you get some combination of new stories and reprints, sometimes weird reprints. So, yeah, a great deal for 99 cents! So I was reading Flash #211 over coffee this morning. Barry is late to the roller derby, which Iris is covering for the newspaper. But Barry finds the seats ... and Iris isn't there! He looks around ... and there she is, in the rink, leading the pack. Iris is in the roller derby! I had forgotten Iris was such a freak. There should be more roller derby in the comics. But what would be the point if Irv Novick isn't with us any longer to do the art? He's pretty awesome here. The rest of the story is Bronze Age Bonkers. Pretty awesome in its way but still bonkers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2016 17:44:46 GMT -5
So odd that you posted about Flash because I was just reading about Irv Novick earlier today. I always liked Irv Novick on Batman but never really knew until today that he drew a lot of the older Flash comics. He also drew a lot of the old Wonder Woman covers. Back in the 70's I was mainly reading Batman, Detective Comics, World's Finest & Justice League of America, so my DC reading list was rather short.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 3, 2016 18:50:09 GMT -5
I was never much of a Flash fan. But my brother read it for a while in the mid- to late 1970s, so I read a bunch of issues from around #240 to #260. (Plus he had quite a few issues from the late 1960s and early 1970s because back issues were so cheap.) That's how I came to like Flash's rogues gallery so much. And I loved the Secret Society of Super-Villains because there were so many Flash villains.
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