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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 25, 2017 7:54:29 GMT -5
Not a hoax! Not a dream! Not an... No, no wait. Actually it was a dream. THis is the only DC comic I can remember where the cover is from a dream sequence. Booo! FROM THE LETTER PAGE: Letters I would think were obviously fake if they didn't get Krypto's gender wrong dept: Dear Editor:
I have twp children a girl, 7, and a boy, 5. Their favorite character of all your magazines is the super-dog KRYPTO. They love her humorous antics, and every time you publish a story featuring KRYPRO, I have to read the story alound, at least five times. As a result, I am way behind in my homework. So could you please print less stories about KRYPTO so that I won't have to spend so much time reading her adventures to my children?
Mrs. TIllie Burke, Lancester PA.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 25, 2017 8:24:29 GMT -5
3 Stories. 1. Superboy gets turned into an idiot by Red Kryptonite* and gangsters convince Supes to bring them a bunch of poppies from China so they can make opium. The most explicit-references-to-hard-druggy Silver Age DC story I have ever read. * Not really! Superboy was just foolin'. The Red K actually gave him an extra finger on each hand. 2. Superbaby story! So infant Lana Lang's father is gonna spank her for shutting off the power. But he grabs the wrong kid (because it's dark!), whales the crap outta 'em, and hurts his hand. (Because he grabbed Clark Kent/Superbaby.) He then goes around convinced his infant daughter has super-powers. This is the most sensible part of this story. 3. Oh Lord. So Superboy get a new Super Dog named Swifty.* Krypto freaks out, decides he is being replaced and that his master doesn't love him any more, and flies off into space.** "Those giants with DOG-HEADS are fastening LEASHES on the children and feeding them. I get it! On this planet, CANINE-BEINGS are the masters and humans are the pets!" * This is the first of two Swifty stories. I don't have the other one which introduces Bizzarro Swifty. Me am very happy! Me no want to read that at all! ** (A) He is wrong, and (B) Krypto is always, always, always doing crap like this. Silver Age Krypto is the emo-est character in comics. SA Krypto makes Morrisey look like John Wayne. FROM THE LETTER PAGE - DC Editors were salty as $%^ dept: Dear Editor: In Superboy No. 103, in the story, "The Amazing Tots of Smallville," you make it look like Chicago was and still is the Mecca of Crime. This is not so, and since your publication is read all over the world, this story will only help blacken the image of Chicago to the world.
Harry Dickson, Chicago Ill.
(Sorry, but we refuse to "brainwash" our readers. The facts about Chicago's sordid criminal past during the Roaring 20's is a matter of historical record..... Rather than request us to suppress the truth about Chicago, you should point out with pride that the good people of this great city supported their law enforcement officers and got rid of the corrupting criminal influences in their midst. -- ED.)
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 25, 2017 8:40:48 GMT -5
Krypto spends the first few pages whining about how he is so ugly and he never gets girls. (So. Emo. SOOOOOo. FREAKING. EMO.) Some criminals make him think that he is a "handsome collie" as part of an extremely convoluted scheme to rob a bank. Then Kryto flies into space, actually gets transformed into a collie-dog. A female collie-dog. Then Kryto gets super pregnant and has puppies. This is the greatest comic ever. FROM THE LETTER PAGE - DC Editors think their readers are really stupid dept: Dear Editor: Your recent story, "The Kryptonite Kid", was fine except at the end where he is "turned good" by Red K. How is thus possible when the different kids of Kryptonite only affect the people of Krypton?
Allen Holett Jr., Long Beach Calif.
(Our full explanation for this phenomena would be too technical to understand. Suffice it to say that the Kryptonite Kid's metabolism underwent drastic changes as a result of having gone through the original Green Kryptonite cloud. Hence, when he was exposed to the Red Kryptonite cloud, his physiological functioning reacted similarly to the way a survivor or Krypton would have been affected. -- ED.)
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 25, 2017 19:02:22 GMT -5
Like you say, his blocky style works better there than some other places. In OMAC it gives the book almost a sense of unease, especially with the build-a-friend dolls, which does suit the book rather well OMAC was my first introduction to Kirby during my tweens in the early to mid two thousands and was probably not the best way to get into his work. It was very jarring for me then, but at least it left a distinct impression, even if it wasn't necessarily a good one
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 25, 2017 21:52:20 GMT -5
I really should read more Krypto stories... that's a lack in my catalog... and those letters! awesome stuff.
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Post by spoon on Nov 26, 2017 17:58:50 GMT -5
I read the Iron Man: Stark Wars TPB from the Epic Collection. It reprints Iron Man #215-232 and Annual #9. The latter part of TPB is the Armor Wars storyline (also known as Stark Wars). Surprisingly, I liked the earlier part of the TPB better. I generally knew what the Armor Wars storyline was about, and I didn't find reading the storyline much more interesting than reading a synopsis of the storyline. The tension seems manufactured.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2017 18:15:39 GMT -5
I really should read more Krypto stories... that's a lack in my catalog... and those letters! awesome stuff. That's one area that goes double for me ... and more Streaky too.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 26, 2017 22:43:52 GMT -5
Captain America #243 This issue was one of the dozens that I received in my Captain America Value Grab Bag from mycomicshop for my birthday, and it's quite a doozy. After a long abscence from the book that was left in relatively good hands without him, McKenzie makes his return in a manner that probably hasn't been seen since Kirby's own homecoming. A group of thugs have located the whereabouts of the Master Matrix (the device responsible for the creation of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s L.M.D.s) and have stolen it away to an unassuming building, Cameron Electronics, where a man seeks to defy God himself by using the Master Matrix to make his aged body immortal The plot is, like I said, very Kirby-esque with a bit of intrigue and espionage to spice it up. I also love how McKenzie describes Cap in an almost poetic fashion
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 27, 2017 10:33:41 GMT -5
I read Journey into Mystery #123, which was a very good issue. The Absorbing Man takes on Odin himself. He seems to be a major threat to the almighty Odinfather, with his ability to absorb the powers of anyone or anything. Loki then shows up and takes Odin's sceptre of power, which The Absorbing Man decides should really be his, even though it was Loki that gave him his powers and instigated him to battle Odin. They then fight over the sceptre, when Odin explains that the sceptre itself has no power - the power it supposedly had resides in Odin. Odin then summarily dispatches Loki and the Absorbing Man into the cold vacuum of space. Good riddance! Oh, Thor had shown up during the battle with the reporter who discovered his secret ID, but the Thunder God basically wasn't needed. Thanks for showing up.
I also read Journey into Mystery #124, which is basically a buildup issue. Thor reveals his identity to Jane, again, but this time she believes him. She makes him promise not to leave her again (typical selfish comic book girlfriend) and Thor keeps his promise...for a few pages.Hercules sets off for earth for the firth time in centuries, and Thor heads off to east Asia to confront the Demon. A decent issue.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 27, 2017 13:43:56 GMT -5
I read Journey into Mystery #123, which was a very good issue. The Absorbing Man takes on Odin himself. He seems to be a major threat to the almighty Odinfather, with his ability to absorb the powers of anyone or anything. Loki then shows up and takes Odin's sceptre of power, which The Absorbing Man decides should really be his, even though it was Loki that gave him his powers and instigated him to battle Odin. They then fight over the sceptre, when Odin explains that the sceptre itself has no power - the power it supposedly had resides in Odin. Odin then summarily dispatches Loki and the Absorbing Man into the cold vacuum of space. Good riddance! Oh, Thor had shown up during the battle with the reporter who discovered his secret ID, but the Thunder God basically wasn't needed. Thanks for showing up. I also read Journey into Mystery #124, which is basically a buildup issue. Thor reveals his identity to Jane, again, but this time she believes him. She makes him promise not to leave her again (typical selfish comic book girlfriend) and Thor keeps his promise...for a few pages.Hercules sets off for earth for the firth time in centuries, and Thor heads off to east Asia to confront the Demon. A decent issue. This is such a great run! From he first appearance of the Absorbing Man and then the return bout, to Hercules, and Thor battling to save him from the hordes of Hades, then the storyline with the Colonizers and the Recorder and the Black Galaxy (I love Tana Nile so much! What a whacko, that girl!), and the High Evolutionary and the Knights of Wundagore! I'm not sure when it stops. The Enchanters are a bit of a letdown, but they bounce back pretty quickly with Ulik and then the first Mangog storyline.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 27, 2017 16:23:48 GMT -5
I'm kind of busy with other things so I'm not reading these series online as quickly as I was. I used to read two or three comics online pretty much every night before going to bed, and frequently I'd read two or three during the day before breakfast or before lunch or before going to work. Now I still usually read one before going to bed but I hardly ever read any during the day. I put aside Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (the 1968 series) for a few days. I'm also reading Sgt. Fury #41 to #50, and it was just a bit too much Nick Fury. But at this point, I only have #50 left, so I'll read that soon and get back to the 1968 series very soon. My next war series will probably be Star-Spangled War Stories, I think it's #151 to #160, when Unknown Soldier started and was running with Enemy Ace for a while. And I'm liking Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol enough to stick with it, but I am thinking of taking a break to read the first ten (or so) appearances of the Silver Age Doom Patrol. Which brings us to The Sub-Mariner, which I've been reading for months, starting with Tales of Suspense #70 and reading up to TTA #101, then into "Iron Man and Sub-Mariner" #1 and Namor's own series of the Silver Age and early Bronze Age. I am enjoying this series more than anything I'm reading right now and I'm up to #63, which I haven't finished yet because I don't really like the Tales of Atlantis back-up, despite the whacky art, Howard Chaykin inked by Joe Sinnott. I also stopped reading because I wanted to say a few words about Hydro-Base before moving much farther along in the series. Does anybody else remember Hydro-Base, from Marvel's Bronze Age? I saw it in a few issues of Super-Villain Team-Up when I was buying comics as a kid, and then in a few old (but not THAT old) issues of The Sub-Mariner. (And maybe Hydro-Base was in an issue of Avengers when there was a cross-over with SVTU. I remember a few of the Sub-Mariner supporting cast showing up, but I can't recall if Hydro-Base was part of it.) When I was a kid, it just seemed like normal weird super-hero stuff. But I'm now reading the earliest Hydro-Base stories, most of which I've never seen before, and it strikes me that Hydro-Base is pretty weird and I'm not sure the whole Hydro-Base situation was ever cleared up. (I just looked it up and The Comic Book Database says they were eventually cured by the Thing and the Inhumans.) Hydro-Base was a floating island masterminded by Dr. Hydro. He was a crazed environmentalist who thought that the human race should go back to the sea. So his minions were hi-jacking airplanes and flying them to Hydro-Base where the passengers were subjected to a gas that turned them into green-scaled, water-breathing mer-people. And as they needed a place to live, Dr. Hydro decided they didn't need to build their own city; they would just conquer Atlantis and live there. Among the humans abducted by Dr. Hydro were Betty Dean Prentiss, Namor's 1940s girlfriend. She was much older and had become a mother figure to Namor's cousin Namorita. Dr. Hydro was eventually defeated, but there was no cure for the process by which he had turned the humans into water-breathers, called Hydro-Men. So there they were, the Hydro-Men, living on Hydro-Base (as I recall) and showing up here and there in the Marvel Universe for a few years. It looks pretty weird to me these days. A bunch of humans, thrown together by strange Marvel Universe fate, now green and scaly and breathing in the water, and every once in a while, Namor or the Thing shows up and says "Hey. How's it going? Have you seen Stingray? He seems to have disappeared." A little research reveals a Marvel-Two-In-One issue (#71) with title "The Cure!", so I'm guessing it was in this issue. The guest star is Mr. Fantastic, and he seems like a likely character to show up and help in a situation like this. I was reading Marvel Two-In-One sporadically at this point, so I might have read this and forgotten it.
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Post by Jesse on Nov 28, 2017 3:28:37 GMT -5
Uncanny X-Men #146"Murderworld!" written by Chris Claremont with art by Dave Cockrum I read the first part of this story arc as a kid in an reprinted issue of X-Men Classics and I'm just now getting around to reading the rest of the story arc and wow is it excellent. A team of X-Men led by Storm have been captured last issue by Dr. Doom and Arcade. In this issue a second team made up of Banshee, Polaris, Havok and Iceman attempt to rescue their teammates and other hostages. They immediately get separated and have to fight their way through various traps set specifically for them just like the other X-Men. Meanwhile Storm has been frozen in carbonite by Doctor Doom and her subconscious has unleashed an epic storm. Elsewhere Cyclops who previously quit the team becomes shipwrecked and has lost his ruby quartz sunglasses as he's also being effected by Storm's out of control powers. The second team manage to escape from their traps and find the hostages but are forced to leave without the original team of X-Men. At the end it looks like Nightcrawler has managed to teleport of of his trap. I really can't wait to read the conclusion!
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Post by Jesse on Nov 28, 2017 3:41:46 GMT -5
Sub-Mariner #55"The Abominable Snow-King!" by Bill Everett The art in this run has been incredible and this issue is no exception. Namor says farewell to his cousin and then later he stumbles across shipwrecks being perpetrated and then looted by marine life. He notices a survivor on a life boat trying to radio for help and decides to look for the rest of the survivors. He follows the trail to an underwater cavern and and is confronted by a giant hairy monster named Torg. I really liked their epic fight in this and the conclusion was pretty exciting. I especially loved the campy monster design.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 28, 2017 11:34:30 GMT -5
Sub-Mariner #55"The Abominable Snow-King!" by Bill Everett The art in this run has been incredible and this issue is no exception. Namor says farewell to his cousin and then later he stumbles across shipwrecks being perpetrated and then looted by marine life. He notices a survivor on a life boat trying to radio for help and decides to look for the rest of the survivors. He follows the trail to an underwater cavern and and is confronted by a giant hairy monster named Torg. I really liked their epic fight in this and the conclusion was pretty exciting. I especially loved the campy monster design. I read that last week. It is so nice to see Everett producing such great work so late in his career.
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 28, 2017 15:19:35 GMT -5
I also stopped reading because I wanted to say a few words about Hydro-Base before moving much farther along in the series. Does anybody else remember Hydro-Base, from Marvel's Bronze Age? I saw it in a few issues of Super-Villain Team-Up when I was buying comics as a kid, and then in a few old (but not THAT old) issues of The Sub-Mariner. (And maybe Hydro-Base was in an issue of Avengers when there was a cross-over with SVTU. I remember a few of the Sub-Mariner supporting cast showing up, but I can't recall if Hydro-Base was part of it.) When I was a kid, it just seemed like normal weird super-hero stuff. But I'm now reading the earliest Hydro-Base stories, most of which I've never seen before, and it strikes me that Hydro-Base is pretty weird and I'm not sure the whole Hydro-Base situation was ever cleared up. (I just looked it up and The Comic Book Database says they were eventually cured by the Thing and the Inhumans.) Hydro-Base was a floating island masterminded by Dr. Hydro. He was a crazed environmentalist who thought that the human race should go back to the sea. So his minions were hi-jacking airplanes and flying them to Hydro-Base where the passengers were subjected to a gas that turned them into green-scaled, water-breathing mer-people. And as they needed a place to live, Dr. Hydro decided they didn't need to build their own city; they would just conquer Atlantis and live there. Among the humans abducted by Dr. Hydro were Betty Dean Prentiss, Namor's 1940s girlfriend. She was much older and had become a mother figure to Namor's cousin Namorita. Dr. Hydro was eventually defeated, but there was no cure for the process by which he had turned the humans into water-breathers, called Hydro-Men. So there they were, the Hydro-Men, living on Hydro-Base (as I recall) and showing up here and there in the Marvel Universe for a few years. It looks pretty weird to me these days. A bunch of humans, thrown together by strange Marvel Universe fate, now green and scaly and breathing in the water, and every once in a while, Namor or the Thing shows up and says "Hey. How's it going? Have you seen Stingray? He seems to have disappeared." A little research reveals a Marvel-Two-In-One issue (#71) with title "The Cure!", so I'm guessing it was in this issue. The guest star is Mr. Fantastic, and he seems like a likely character to show up and help in a situation like this. I was reading Marvel Two-In-One sporadically at this point, so I might have read this and forgotten it. The thing I mainly remember Hydro-base for was it being the Avengers' headquarters when the government took away their flight clearance, I think in the mid 80's. At least, I think it was Hydro-Base, and Stingray was the previous occupant. I've been slowly reading through The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe, and I did read the Hydro-Base entry. All I really remember was that Dr. Hydro had built it. I think they may have mentioned the Hydro-Men, but I don't remember what they said. Now that you mention it, I do vaguely remember the Hydro-Men appearing somewhere, and it was probably in Marvel-Two-in-One that I saw them (I do have #71), but I don't remember it all that well.
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