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Post by Hoosier X on May 20, 2017 12:03:35 GMT -5
Actually I have read enough classic stuff of Avengers, spider man, x Men and the original Thor stuff where the dialogue gives me a damn headache What does "enough" mean? Your description of 1960s Marvel comics doesn't sound like the mid- to late 1960s Marvels at all.
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Post by fred2 on May 20, 2017 14:30:10 GMT -5
I read the Mr. Atom story in Captain Marvel Adventures #81.
Although the comic is 64 pages, the Mr. Atom story is fairly short.
Evil comet creatures from space depart their comet world and arrive in a rocket to Mr. Atom's lead prison buried far beneath the Earth. They plan to use him to conquer the world and then dispose of him later.
Billy Batson learns that the Comet World is unstable and will soon be destroyed.
Mr. Atom and the Comet people escape from his prison. Later the comet people want Mr. Atom to demonstrate his strength. They give a city an ultimatum to evacuate before they destroy the city. Captain Marvel defeats them and Mr. Atom and Comet men escape in their rocket ship.
The Comet world blows up. The comet men despair and reveal to Mr. Atom that they were just using him to conquer the world.
A fight breaks out between Mr. Atom and the comet men on the rocket ship. In the process, they destroy the rocket.
When we next see Mr. Atom, he is in the future in issue #90.
Mr. Atom is basically an atomic powered robot who is strong, invulnerable, smart and has megalomania.
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Post by urrutiap on May 20, 2017 16:14:26 GMT -5
Hoosier, dont argue about it.
Ive read enough of the old original Avengers, X Men and Thor stuff. the dialogue is a pain in the butt to read through. Like I said, long dialogues in old 1960s comics give me a freakin headache
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Post by bor on May 20, 2017 17:40:07 GMT -5
Hoosier, dont argue about it. Ive read enough of the old original Avengers, X Men and Thor stuff. the dialogue is a pain in the butt to read through. Like I said, long dialogues in old 1960s comics give me a freakin headache How much ASM and FF have you read? Not trying to argue but those are the ones I also enjoyed most from the 60s. FF "this man this monster" forinstance. And I am a child from the very late 80s and 90s so it has nothing to do with nostalgic feelings or anything like that.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 20, 2017 18:35:20 GMT -5
Hoosier, dont argue about it. Ive read enough of the old original Avengers, X Men and Thor stuff. the dialogue is a pain in the butt to read through. Like I said, long dialogues in old 1960s comics give me a freakin headache I'm just wondering which you've read. Your original post said "any Marvel comic from the 1960s" as if you'd read a lot of them. I'm more getting the impression that you've only read a handful of Marvel comics, all from the early 1960s. If you don't want to support your general comments by being more specific, that's OK with me. If you'd said "I didn't like the handful of Marvel comics that I've read," then there wouldn't be a problem. Marvel Comics of the 1960s are my favorite comics ever. I love to discuss them. But you can't really have a discussion with someone who's being so vague.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 21, 2017 10:51:39 GMT -5
I'm up to Strange Tales #156 in the #151 to #168 run. Both Doctor Strange and S.H.I.E.L.D are GREAT at this point. Fury has been fighting the new Supreme Hydra for months and in this issue, his secret identity is revealed! {The Supreme Hydra is ... (Click to discover the identity of the Supreme Hydra!)}IT'S BARON STRUCKER!! Also ... Steranko art! Bill Everett is no longer the artist on Doc Strange, which is a little disappointing because I love the way he draws Umar. But he's been replaced by Marie Severin ... and I love her! Umar has been the villain for, like, a zillion issues at this point, but this issue introduces one of my favorite random weird dudes from Strange Tales ... ZOM!
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Post by dbutler69 on May 22, 2017 8:01:08 GMT -5
Inspired by some other posters here, I've been reading the JLA issues between #93-110 that I'm missing, which is over have of them (thanks to Amazon and my iPad). I just finished the crossover with the JSA and Seven Soldiers of Victory. I loved it! I love those JSA crossovers, and the more heroes the better. If I'm being totally honest, I felt that the ending was a bit of a letdown, but the ride was fun and I find that to be often the case with big, epic stories anyway (see Kree/Skrull War). I then read JLA #104 with Hector Hammond manipulating the Shaggy Man. I thought that this was a good one overall, some nice instances of the JLA members working together, however, I thought that we'd left the days of Green Lantern being a dues ex machina behind in the JLA, but I guess not. Also, I missed why Hector didn't want the JLA satellite to crash. He was trying to kill them, right? Still, overall a fun issue. Always fun to see how they'll dispose of the Shaggy Man. In reading those JLA issues, I've taken a break from the Guardians of the Galaxy TPB, which I'm about halfway through and also enjoying (also thanks to Amazon and my iPad).
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Post by dbutler69 on May 22, 2017 8:26:22 GMT -5
For some reason, when I look at Zom, I think of Chewbacca with guns for hands. Which is actually kinda cool, as long as I don't think about how he'd eat, wipe his butt, or do almost anything else other than kill stuff.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 22, 2017 9:06:09 GMT -5
For some reason, when I look at Zom, I think of Chewbacca with guns for hands. Which is actually kinda cool, as long as I don't think about how he'd eat, wipe his butt, or do almost anything else other than kill stuff. I don't know how Zom eats but he doesn't look to me like an entity who worries too much about wiping his butt. Or maybe he just points his weird fire-spouting hand-stumps at lesser beings and orders them to wipe his butt. And this bit of phenomenal rudeness is WHY HE MUST BE STOPPED! Only Doc Strange can end the unearthly menace of Zom ordering people to wipe his butt.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 22, 2017 9:46:55 GMT -5
I AM ZOM!!!! YOU WILL WIPE MY BUTT OR I WILL BLAST YOU WITH MY WEIRD FIRE-SPOUTING HAND-STUMPS!!!! This is why Zom is Doctor Strange's most terrifying enemy! Because if he loses, Doctor Strange will have to wipe Zom's butt!
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 22, 2017 10:16:56 GMT -5
Got some Weird Western Tales with Scalphunter as the star... quite a few of which co-star Bat Lash. I had no idea this was Civil War era! Very cool stuff.. the main issue is the ebay lot I got had most of the even numbered issues, and the stories are mostly 2 parters... I probably going to read them anyway and get the others at some later date.. I did get a couple filled in to finish the Bat Lash related stories... I love how they use a bit of real history (using the first Gatling Gun, for instance). I'm not so sure about Stanton ordering Lincoln killed, but hey, I can go with it. I'll definitely be getting the rest of them at some point when I find them for a good deal.. Got the 12 or so in a lot for like $22.. but them paid $6 and $8 for 2 to fill in.. I like the lot better price wise . I also got some late 70s Superman books (which I'll probably read next), which were cheap and from the same seller.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 22, 2017 13:35:39 GMT -5
Got some Weird Western Tales with Scalphunter as the star... quite a few of which co-star Bat Lash. I had no idea this was Civil War era! ... I love how they use a bit of real history (using the first Gatling Gun, for instance). I'm not so sure about Stanton ordering Lincoln killed ... This sounds great! About Stanton ... I'm not necessarily endorsing the theory that Stanton wanted Lincoln dead, but he was a weird dude and when you look into a lot of the details surrounding the War Department and the assassination, well, they definitely prompt a lot of questions. For example, Lincoln didn't think the guard assigned to him was particularly attentive. When Lincoln asked for more protection form the War Department following a previous attempt on his life, Stanton didn't think it was necessary. And then there's the War Department employee who lived at the boarding house where the assassination was planned. He reported a lot of suspicious activity that was completely ignored by the War Department. And the War Department inquiry into the assassination is still classified.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 22, 2017 14:31:09 GMT -5
Yeah, but not being concerned about it and actively planning it are two very very different things... still, it's not a totally out there theory, and it made for a good comic, that's for sure . I'm definitely going to have to pull out 'the Kents' series to re-read soon... apparently Scalphunter appears there, too (which totally makes sense in the context). I had no idea when I read it who he was though, so it didn't make any sort of impression on me at the time.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 24, 2017 12:42:13 GMT -5
I have a few minutes before leaving for errands so I'm diving into the wonderful world of JLA/JSA team-ups I haven't read. I decided to read the oldest one that I've not read, and that's the one that begins in JLA #55. I only read the first few pages. Mysterious black spheres are attacking regular people and turning them into malevolent super-people! One of them looks like Genghis Khan, there's an evil mod girl, also a British banker who turns into a ... whatever he is, and a former baseball player who is destroying sports stadiums. So ... the JSA to the rescue! I always wonder what it was like to pick which JSA members to use every time they started working on the next team-up. This time around it's newly-inducted Robin wearing a really dumb costume; Golden Age Hawkman; Hourman; Mr. Terrific (I find him incredibly charming because he's so lame. I love any story with good ol' Terry Sloane); and several of my favorites, Golden Age Wonder Woman, Johnny Thunder and Wildcat! There's a scene where they have split into separate teams and are flying away ... and Hawkman is carrying Mr. Terrific on his shoulders. It's adorable!
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 13:07:12 GMT -5
This time around it's newly-inducted Robin wearing a really dumb costume Seriously who at DC thought this hideous costume was a good look for Robin?
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