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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2017 21:29:09 GMT -5
From Pep Comics (1940) #1-5 and Shield-Wizard Comics (1940) #1.
Picked collection up for a dollar today. Always interested in Golden Age stories esp ones from publishers other than DC (National), Marvel (Timely) & Fawcett (since I have read a fair # of them). Run of the mill Golden Age material. I did enjoy it. WWII definitely made it popular & with the war ended & Archie taking over it faded away. I'm still surprised Capt America was able to be revived & well received outside of that era. I wonder if Shield had been published by DC if he had been able to be revived in the Silver Age & stayed around.
And I thought DC did a better job with Archie's hero line in modern times than Archie/RedCircle Comics did.
Trivia: first crossover in comics occurred with Pep Comics (#4/5) & Top-Notch Comics (#5/6) with the Shield & the Wizard one month (May 1940) before the Torch/Namor fight in Marvel Mystery Comics (#8/9 June 1940).
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Post by Batflunkie on May 11, 2017 7:44:05 GMT -5
From Pep Comics (1940) #1-5 and Shield-Wizard Comics (1940) #1.
Picked collection up for a dollar today. Always interested in Golden Age stories esp ones from publishers other than DC (National), Marvel (Timely) & Fawcett (since I have read a fair # of them). Run of the mill Golden Age material. I did enjoy it. WWII definitely made it popular & with the war ended & Archie taking over it faded away. I'm still surprised Capt America was able to be revived & well received outside of that era. I wonder if Shield had been published by DC if he had been able to be revived in the Silver Age & stayed around.
And I thought DC did a better job with Archie's hero line in modern times than Archie/RedCircle Comics did. The history of Archie's Superhero line has always been interesting to me, probably moreso in concept than execution. It's a family friendly comic book company that's trying to broaden it's reach with fresh concepts and new ideas, but outside of Sonic, very few of them have had any real staying power That's kind of what irks me so much about Dark Circle, The Shield and The Hangman are amazing but for some reason they take indefinitely longer to come out than Black Hood does. I'm also not that big on Duane Swierczynski, especially considering how badly he botched IDW's take on Judge Dredd
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Post by dbutler69 on May 11, 2017 15:54:42 GMT -5
I've read a couple of random issues of the Freedom Fighters that I picked up in a dollar bin somewhere. I really enjoyed it. I wouldn't mind picking up the whole run. I should be finishing the run soon. It went to #15, and I also have the issue of DC Comics Presents (from 1983) where they appear. When I finish, I'm planning on writing a few paragraphs on the series as a whole. To tide you over until I write about the series, here's an essay I wrote almost ten years ago, based on the Freedom Fighters appearance in JLA #107 and #108, and on their origin in All-Star Squadron. The Freedom Fighters, and how they grewRead Part Two first. There's a reason for that. I just read it. Great article! I agree with you about the aweomeness of the All-Star Squadron, and I enjoyed your descriptions of the original Freedom Fighters. Man, now I’m in the mood to read that JLA/JSA/FF crossover, and hunt down those Freedome Fighter issues!
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Post by Hoosier X on May 11, 2017 16:36:47 GMT -5
I should be finishing the run soon. It went to #15, and I also have the issue of DC Comics Presents (from 1983) where they appear. When I finish, I'm planning on writing a few paragraphs on the series as a whole. To tide you over until I write about the series, here's an essay I wrote almost ten years ago, based on the Freedom Fighters appearance in JLA #107 and #108, and on their origin in All-Star Squadron. The Freedom Fighters, and how they grewRead Part Two first. There's a reason for that. I just read it. Great article! I agree with you about the aweomeness of the All-Star Squadron, and I enjoyed your descriptions of the original Freedom Fighters. Man, now I’m in the mood to read that JLA/JSA/FF crossover, and hunt down those Freedome Fighter issues! Thanks for the kind words on the article. I saw one of the more recent Freedom Fighters series - all eight issues - on an eBay auction and I put in a low bid and I'm a few hours away from getting all eight issues for 99 cents.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 11, 2017 16:50:37 GMT -5
I should be finishing the run soon. It went to #15, and I also have the issue of DC Comics Presents (from 1983) where they appear. When I finish, I'm planning on writing a few paragraphs on the series as a whole. To tide you over until I write about the series, here's an essay I wrote almost ten years ago, based on the Freedom Fighters appearance in JLA #107 and #108, and on their origin in All-Star Squadron. The Freedom Fighters, and how they grewRead Part Two first. There's a reason for that. I just read it. Great article! I agree with you about the aweomeness of the All-Star Squadron, and I enjoyed your descriptions of the original Freedom Fighters. Man, now I’m in the mood to read that JLA/JSA/FF crossover, and hunt down those Freedome Fighter issues! (I was just skimming through the essay and I noticed something else that I should have noticed when I wrote it in 2008: The Japanese didn't have kamakazi pilots in 1941. The kamakazi was a last-ditch tactic much later in the war when the Japanese military was running low on airplane fuel and couldn't waste fuel training combat pilots. So kamakazi tactics were developed to damage destroyers and aircraft carriers and use less fuel. Roy Thomas! Stay after class!)
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Post by Batflunkie on May 11, 2017 19:14:37 GMT -5
Captain America v1 #184-#186
After being preoccupied with so many other things (other comics, books, work, internet stuff, and video games), it was nice to come back to something that left a warm fuzzy feeling in the pit of my soul; Cap
While the previous Serpent Society and Nomad arcs were "okay", they didn't thrill me nearly as much as places like 4chan's comics and cartoons board initially led me to believe, but this Post-Nomad arc did. I'd go so far as to say it almost made the past two arcs worthwhile
The story opens on a new year, a new era. Steve has come after Red Skull for killing Roscoe (a gym hand/trainer) and kidnapping Sam. Roscoe was one of the many pretenders to Steve's throne while he was off playing "Pauper", desperately trying to find his way in a world that he no longer understood nor cared to be apart of; which unintentionally infuriated Sharon and utterly confused Peggy (who had been going through the motions after being in a mental hospital for lord knows how long). It's been six years since Steve and Skull's last real tussle, and Skull plans to ring in the new year with a new order. He is going to totally ruin the U.S., both fiscally and emotionally, by killing off some of the nation's most wealthy representatives of commerce. He also decides to re-introduce two of his former trademarks, Chopin's Funeral March and Death Dust (a blazing crimson powder that kills any person almost instantaneously and leaves their faces a gaunt, lifeless red)
After two or three days, Cap and Sam finally manage to confront Skull, but Skull has one last Ace up his sleeve; Sam was a dupe. Way back when Skull and Cap switched bodies, Skull used the cosmic cube to drastically alter Sam's memories and personality so that he could become Steve's "Brother In Arms".
Yeah, kind of hard to take it all in.....Not only was I dumbstruck by this unprecedented revelation, but with the Cosmic Cube mind-wipe being used as a plot device for both the Cap film adaptations, but also the Secret Empire event......
I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same....
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Post by dbutler69 on May 12, 2017 8:44:55 GMT -5
I just read it. Great article! I agree with you about the aweomeness of the All-Star Squadron, and I enjoyed your descriptions of the original Freedom Fighters. Man, now I’m in the mood to read that JLA/JSA/FF crossover, and hunt down those Freedome Fighter issues! (I was just skimming through the essay and I noticed something else that I should have noticed when I wrote it in 2008: The Japanese didn't have kamakazi pilots in 1941. The kamakazi was a last-ditch tactic much later in the war when the Japanese military was running low on airplane fuel and couldn't waste fuel training combat pilots. So kamakazi tactics were developed to damage destroyers and aircraft carriers and use less fuel. Roy Thomas! Stay after class!) Wow, cool. Thanks for the history fact. By the way, didn't Roy Thomas major in History and English in college? I seem to remember reading that somewhere, I think.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 12, 2017 8:45:31 GMT -5
I just read it. Great article! I agree with you about the aweomeness of the All-Star Squadron, and I enjoyed your descriptions of the original Freedom Fighters. Man, now I’m in the mood to read that JLA/JSA/FF crossover, and hunt down those Freedome Fighter issues! Thanks for the kind words on the article. I saw one of the more recent Freedom Fighters series - all eight issues - on an eBay auction and I put in a low bid and I'm a few hours away from getting all eight issues for 99 cents. Well, if you get it, you'll have to let us know if it's any good or not.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 12, 2017 8:50:06 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words on the article. I saw one of the more recent Freedom Fighters series - all eight issues - on an eBay auction and I put in a low bid and I'm a few hours away from getting all eight issues for 99 cents. Well, if you get it, you'll have to let us know if it's any good or not. I won the auction! Only 99 cents (and $6 postage and handling) for all eight issues. I'll certainly comment on the quality of the series.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 12, 2017 9:29:42 GMT -5
(I was just skimming through the essay and I noticed something else that I should have noticed when I wrote it in 2008: The Japanese didn't have kamakazi pilots in 1941. The kamakazi was a last-ditch tactic much later in the war when the Japanese military was running low on airplane fuel and couldn't waste fuel training combat pilots. So kamakazi tactics were developed to damage destroyers and aircraft carriers and use less fuel. Roy Thomas! Stay after class!) Wow, cool. Thanks for the history fact. By the way, didn't Roy Thomas major in History and English in college? I seem to remember reading that somewhere, I think. Dunno about History but he definitely majored in English. He taught high school English in Missouri before moving to New York to work for Mort Weisinger briefly before Stan brought him onboard at Marvel. Cei-U! I summon my boss' c.v.!
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Post by tingramretro on May 12, 2017 9:39:09 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. I love the Defenders, it was one of my favourite Marvel books as a kid. Still have the entire run, and reread chunks of it more or less annually. I think Steve Gerber's run on that book was one of the best things he ever did. On a vaguely related note, today I acquired Dr. Strange #29, in which Doc and fellow Defender Nighthawk fight my favourite Daredevil villain, the Death Stalker! The book references the Stalker's last previous appearance in DD #152, and also has a totally irrelevant but quite nice scene in which Hank Pym calls Doc to point out that the Black Knight's stone body has gone missing from his basement and attacked the Avengers (in Avengers #157). I miss that kind of continuity in Marvel books, it was a big part of what made me a Marvel fan...
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Post by tingramretro on May 12, 2017 9:41:49 GMT -5
I'm up to #13 of The Freedom Fighters. (Although I think that's the cover for #12, which I like better than #13.) Love that book, too. That particular issue is one of the strongest memories I have of when I was really getting into DC for the first time (along with #11, in which they fought the Renegades).
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Post by Hoosier X on May 12, 2017 9:45:27 GMT -5
I'm up to Avengers #117 in the Avengers/Defender War! The Valkyrie fights the Swordsman in Bolivia. And Cap fights Namor in Japan. (And since its the 1970s, Sunfire must show up!) The next issue (in The Defenders) features a famous Hulk/Thor fight! (Famous to me anyway. I remember reading it as a kid and thinking it simultaneously SILLY AND AWESOME! It's BRONZE AGE BONKERS!)
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 12, 2017 11:35:05 GMT -5
That Hulk/Thor fight is the best! Awesome splash page.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 12, 2017 14:36:45 GMT -5
Well, if you get it, you'll have to let us know if it's any good or not. I won the auction! Only 99 cents (and $6 postage and handling) for all eight issues. I'll certainly comment on the quality of the series. Congrats! Hopefully you'll enjoy it.
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