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Post by dbutler69 on May 12, 2017 14:39:09 GMT -5
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.! I just had to look it up. Take Wikipedia for what it's worth, but according to that site "He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1961 with a BS in Education having majored in history and social science." I think I may have read in a Marvel letters page way back in the day (or maybe it was "Marvel: The Untold Story"?) that he'd majored in History and Engilsh and had been a high school English teacher.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 12, 2017 14:57:29 GMT -5
That Hulk/Thor fight is the best! Awesome splash page. I'm looking forward to it! Of all the comics I remember reading at a friend's house in the 1970s, that Hulk/Thor fight has stayed with me more strongly than most. Well, Hulk #144 (with Dr. Doom and Valeria) is another one I remember vividly. And the second part of JLA #108, but that doesn't really count because I have that in a reprint volume. I'm trying not to read the Avengers/Defenders War too quickly because I remember them better if I take it easy. But I really want to read that next chapter!
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Post by Hoosier X on May 12, 2017 15:03:21 GMT -5
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. There are two series called Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters and they both lasted eight issues. One started in 2006 and ended in 2007. The other started late in 2007 and ended in 2008. I don't know for sure which one I ordered. It doesn't matter, I guess. Once I figure out which one I got, I'll probably order the other series (if I can find the whole series for 99 cents!) even if this one stinks!
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 15:30:31 GMT -5
Congrats! Hopefully you'll enjoy it. There are two series called Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters and they both lasted eight issues. One started in 2006 and ended in 2007. The other started late in 2007 and ended in 2008. I don't know for sure which one I ordered. It doesn't matter, I guess. Once I figure out which one I got, I'll probably order the other series (if I can find the whole series for 99 cents!) even if this one stinks! I thought the 2006 series was better than the 2007 series. You can get the trades of both for about $9 each.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 13, 2017 11:48:01 GMT -5
I'm up to Defenders #10 in the Avengers/Defenders War. Geez Louise! What a great cover! And that Thor/Hulk fight is ... well, pretty awesome in a Bronze Age Bonkers way. If you guessed there was a decisive victor in this installment of the classic struggle between Thunder God and Green Goliath ... I'd guess you've never read a Thor/Hulk fight. This is the issue where everybody figures out they've been duped and it ends with the assembled membership of both groups banded together to face the bad guys ... LO, THERE SHALL COME A RECKONING!
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Post by Hoosier X on May 13, 2017 12:08:34 GMT -5
Here's a couple of highly recommended Golden Age Captain Marvel stories: After I read the JLA/JSA team-up in JLA #135 to #137 (which I discussed in the JLA discussion thread), I was kind of curious about some of the Fawcett villains running around in those pages. So I read the Mr. Atom story in Captain Marvel #78. I had forgotten how whacky these old Captain Marvel stories are. This story is pretty cool. Mr. Atom is a NUT! And then there's King Kull. His first appearance is Captain Marvel Adventures #125 from 1951. He's another NUT and this is another wonderful whacky Golden Age Captain Marvel story, with a very grim and gritty flashback to the dawn of history where Kull and his Beast-Men are hunting and killing and torturing Homo sapiens for the fun of it. So I think Kull should do a little soul-searching about the rebellion and the genocide that has sparked his desire for revenge. The Beast-Men aren't "primitive men" in the sense of cavemen or hunter-gatherers. They had an ancient civilization a ls Atlantis, Thule or Mu, and Kull digs up some of their ancient technology (like a machine that makes the moon grow larger) to destroy the Earth. He's quite the nihilist. Great story! The other villain I'm curious about is The Weeper, from Bulletman and Bulletgirl's rogues gallery (who knew there was such a thing?). He appeared in Master Comics #23 (and his son showed up a few years later fighting Mary Marvel!). I'll be looking at that later today if I have time. I actually remember the Weeper from my childhood. I had JLA #136 (but not any of the other issues of that JLA/JSA team-up) when I was 12 and I definitely remember Earth-2 Joker and the Weeper teaming up and running around and wreaking havoc while Kull was trying to destroy three worlds!
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Post by Hoosier X on May 13, 2017 19:40:45 GMT -5
I'm up to Adventure Comics #352 in the Adventure #350 to #380 run. It's the first appearance of the Fatal Five! The Sun Eater is coming! And the Legionnaires must get all the super-powered beings they can to help fight the awesome menace ... and that means recruiting five of the most dangerous and unpredictable beings in the United Planets! And it's a continued story. Great fun! I've been a fan of the LSH since about 1980 and I've never read this story before.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 17:48:35 GMT -5
Sat down to honour the one year anniversary of the passing of Darwyn Cooke by reading the first part of his DC: The New Frontier series and ended up reading the whole 500 pages of the deluxe edition from 2015.
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Post by Spike-X on May 14, 2017 19:13:59 GMT -5
Sat down to honour the one year anniversary of the passing of Darwyn Cooke by reading the first part of his DC: The New Frontier series and ended up reading the whole 500 pages of the deluxe edition from 2015. That really is a brilliant piece of work. Darwyn Cooke was undoubtedly one of the great creators of the 21st century.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 20:17:15 GMT -5
Sat down to honour the one year anniversary of the passing of Darwyn Cooke by reading the first part of his DC: The New Frontier series and ended up reading the whole 500 pages of the deluxe edition from 2015. That really is a brilliant piece of work. Darwyn Cooke was undoubtedly one of the great creators of the 21st century. Agree 100% on both.
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Post by fred2 on May 15, 2017 22:15:23 GMT -5
In the theme of Mr. Atom. I reread the 8 page story in Captain Marvel Adventures #90. The whole comic is like 64 pages. You got your money's worth in the Golden Age. Mr. Atom is transported to the future and the wizard Shazam sends Captain Marvel there to stop him. Mr. Atom takes over a nuclear reactor, but Captain Marvel defeats him. Mr. Atom lies prone/dead at the end of the story. His next story as stated above will be in the 1970s JLA comic. But his size is too large. In the golden age, he was only 7-10 feet tall. I read this story at the site below that has a lot of good Golden Age Comics. You can find stories for Captain Marvel, Plastic Man, Phantom Lady, Blue Beetle, etc... digitalcomicmuseum.com/Classic Comics Forum is 3 years old now, Congrats!
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Post by urrutiap on May 15, 2017 22:30:21 GMT -5
I read issues 16 to 20 of original Avengers earlier.
Fun issues but some of the dialogue a bit wordy.
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Post by bor on May 16, 2017 1:24:06 GMT -5
Of the classic silver age Marvel the only run that I ever really enjoyed enough to read the entire series has been ASM. There are good issues among FF, DD, Avengers, X-men etc. but the only series I really liked has been Spider-man. There are spectacular issues among the other series, like Galactus in FF, but for my enjoyment only Spidey ever made me read the complete run.
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Post by urrutiap on May 16, 2017 3:53:31 GMT -5
The only annoying thing about the original Avengers is Rick Jones and his stupid boys ham radio team
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Post by bor on May 16, 2017 7:45:29 GMT -5
The only annoying thing about the original Avengers is Rick Jones and his stupid boys ham radio team For me that´s one of those things where its either annoying or endearing depending on what mood I am in.
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