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Post by Hoosier X on May 3, 2017 13:12:54 GMT -5
I finished the SGT FURY run from #11 to #20. The eighteenth issue features the death of Fury's girlfriend Pamela Hawley. I don't know if it's considered a key issue anymore but I've always considered it a major blind spot in my Silver Age Marvel reading because I had never read it until a few days ago. Pamela Hawley first appeared in SGT FURY #4, and she appeared in most of the issues from #4 to #10. And then she was only in #13 and #17 before her death in #18. (I guess the Howlers were so busy howling that they didn't have any time for furlough to London, where Pamela was a military nurse). In #18, Sgt. Fury decides to ask her to marry him. He buys a ring that he carries on a necklace around his neck. The Howlers get back from a mission and Fury finds out that Pamela was killed when the Nazis bombed the hospital. It's very touching and sad. In the next issue, Fury and the Howlers go and get revenge on the unit that killed Pamela. They're supposed to be on furlough, but with the surreptitious aid of the other armed services, they make it to Holland where they find the Luftwaffe guys who bombed the hospital and Fury gets personal revenge against the Nazi general who ordered the raid. It's a little off-the-rails, but still kind of cool for all that. The Nazi general was a WW I flying ace and his old Fokker biplane is on the airfield, ready to go. He wounds Fury with a pistol and then decides to run him down with the Fokker! But Fury dodges the propeller and jumps on the wing, and an epic battle in the sir ensues as the general tries to fight off Fury's fury and Nick finally manages to gain control of the craft. The general eventually falls to his death because he didn't have time to fasten his seat belt. WA-HOO! And #20 features the return of Baron Strucker's Blitzkrieg Squad! I love those guys! Pamela's mistake was in saying "yes" to Nick. That's surely the kiss of death for a supporting character! Part of the tragedy is that he never asked her to marry him. He bought the ring and then got sent a mission and she was dead by the time he got back.
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Post by Spike-X on May 3, 2017 17:49:19 GMT -5
I love and deeply respect Jack Kirby, but Stan Lee had an incredible run on Amazing Spider-Man that Kirby had not a thing to do with. But Steve Ditko certainly did.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 3, 2017 17:50:12 GMT -5
I just recently read an interesting tidbit about issue #18. Dick Ayers drew most of it but Stan got Jack Kirby to draw the page where Nick gets the news about Pamela. I have no idea where I read that - it may have been here on CCF. Edit: it wasn't here, it was in the "late 1960s" volume of the American Comic Book Chronicles from TwoMorrows, the same series for which Cei-U! is now writing the 1940s volumes. In fact, the copy I'm reading is borrowed from Cei-U!.
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Post by The Captain on May 3, 2017 18:14:02 GMT -5
Not as far back as some of the Silver Age you guys are reading, but I just started reading Thunderbolts this week. I'd put the entire run together a few years ago but never got around to picking it up.
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Post by Web Slinger on May 3, 2017 18:22:25 GMT -5
I've been reading The Uncanny X-Men to decide if I like it enough to invest in the series of omnibus they've been putting out. I've never read it before, but things seem to take off around the time Claremont takes them to the streets of New York to celebrate Christmas.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 3, 2017 21:27:49 GMT -5
Green Lantern v3 #56- Was really nice to try and get to know Kyle (trying to read GL chronologically, can be a bit of a pain). After the events of Zero Hour, he returns to Earth and gets an upstairs apartment from a cafe owner named Randu, who reminds me an awful lot of Ratz (The bar keep of the Chatsubo from Neuromancer)
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Post by dbutler69 on May 4, 2017 8:41:52 GMT -5
Pamela's mistake was in saying "yes" to Nick. That's surely the kiss of death for a supporting character! Part of the tragedy is that he never asked her to marry him. He bought the ring and then got sent a mission and she was dead by the time he got back. Yeah, that's even worse. Pretty sad.
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Post by shiryu on May 4, 2017 16:19:01 GMT -5
I'm now nearly at the end of the Black Panther Epic Collection volume, covering BP's origin and the Panther's Rage storyline. It's a long (12 parts!) story I had never read and towards the final third it definitely starts dragging on. At its best, it offers a bunch of new and graphically-interesting villains, an epic journey for the Panther and a very insightful look into the struggle of ordinary Wakandans to depart from their old ways and accept technology, something that wasn't really touched upon either in Fantastic Four or Avengers. Unfortunately at times it gets too wordy and philosophical at the expense of clarity and immediacy. I'm also not sure it's the best saga to introduce the Panther to new readers, as he actually doesn't shine all that much throughout. But, for those who already know and like the character, I'd recommend it.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 4, 2017 18:07:45 GMT -5
Green Lantern v3 #56- Was really nice to try and get to know Kyle (trying to read GL chronologically, can be a bit of a pain). After the events of Zero Hour, he returns to Earth and gets an upstairs apartment from a cafe owner named Randu, who reminds me an awful lot of Ratz (The bar keep of the Chatsubo from Neuromancer)
I LOVE Kyle... my old review thread is around somewhere.. you should check it out... maybe you can motivate me to get back to it . edit: Here you go.. feel free to comment on anything in there.. I was just past Final Night. classiccomics.org/thread/783/kyle-rayner-reviews-beginning-wildfire?page=1&scrollTo=42487
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Post by Batflunkie on May 4, 2017 18:45:09 GMT -5
Green Lantern v3 #56- Was really nice to try and get to know Kyle (trying to read GL chronologically, can be a bit of a pain). After the events of Zero Hour, he returns to Earth and gets an upstairs apartment from a cafe owner named Randu, who reminds me an awful lot of Ratz (The bar keep of the Chatsubo from Neuromancer)
I LOVE Kyle... my old review thread is around somewhere.. you should check it out... maybe you can motivate me to get back to it . Randu's talk with Kyle reminds me a lot of the first scene of Neuromancer where Ratz calls Case "Herr Artiste' Of The Slightly Funny Deal"
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 4, 2017 18:51:54 GMT -5
I always really liked how Kyle had a coffee shop hang out... it worked really well for him, I think.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 4, 2017 18:57:12 GMT -5
I always really liked how Kyle had a coffee shop hang out... it worked really well for him, I think. It fits him like the glove of "Ferris Airfield" did for Hal for decades and as something of an "Herr hunger artiste'" myself, I can appreciate Kyle's need to find some kind of solace in a cafe'. It feeds him, not physically, but emotionally.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 6, 2017 12:47:31 GMT -5
I'm still reading Avengers #98 to #120 and I'm up to the eve of the Avengers/Defenders War! Which means a littler side trip from Avengers #115 to The Defenders #8! I'm really looking forward to this. When I was a kid in the 1970s, I picked up #115 and #116 as back issues, and I also remember being at a friend's house and reading the issue of The Defenders with the Hulk-Thor fight. I've been wanting to read the whole thing for almost 40 years! The best thing about Defenders #8 is Valkyrie. Because I used to read The Defenders - from about issue #30 to #40 - and I always liked the Valkyrie. A few years ago, I got the second Essential Defenders volume from the library and it was great to read so many Valkyrie stories I'd never seen. So that's a big plus for the Avengers/Defenders War that I'd forgotten about.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 6, 2017 14:29:47 GMT -5
The Avengers/Defenders War is great... I have it (IIRC) in the Defenders Masterworks... I sorta consider it the last great Silver Age team up (even if it's sort in the Bronze Age).
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Post by james on May 6, 2017 18:04:53 GMT -5
Just finished Spiderman Essentials 3. Issues 52-65. Now starting Essentials 4 66-89. I have never read the early issues of Spider man. Im really enjoying them.
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