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Post by brutalis on Dec 5, 2017 13:25:51 GMT -5
The Spider-Man appearances are great though. #10, the sheer insanity of #14, and that two-parter in #18 and #19 is one of my favorite Spider-Man storylines. I don't think the Enforcers as a group ever fought Daredevil. They should have. I do faintly remember Daredevil facing Ox of the Enforcers and a quick search through Mikes Amazing World confirmed my memory hasn't totally failed me. Ox is on the covers of #6 and #15 but I have no clue if the rest of the gang are there.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 5, 2017 18:34:01 GMT -5
Nah. The Ox showed up solo at least once after that as well.
Apparently DD did fight the Enforcers solo in DD 356, but I haven't read it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 6, 2017 20:16:51 GMT -5
I just finished reading a run of Master of Kung Fu from 57-69. In one of the arcs, Shang Chi and the supporting cast find themselves fighting to stop a Pirate named Hogar from getting crates filled with info enabling the possessor to built a smart bomb. Lots of Kung Fu action and a nice love triangle thrown in for good measure. I've had the complete MOKF run for years and I'm finally reading it. Good stuff.
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 7, 2017 9:50:04 GMT -5
In one of the arcs, Shang Chi and the supporting cast find themselves fighting to stop a Pirate named Hogar from getting crates filled with info enabling the possessor to built a smart bomb. Lots of Kung Fu action and a nice love triangle thrown in for good measure. I've had the complete MOKF run for years and I'm finally reading it. Good stuff. I'm jealous!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 10:56:00 GMT -5
I just finished reading a run of Master of Kung Fu from 57-69. In one of the arcs, Shang Chi and the supporting cast find themselves fighting to stop a Pirate named Hogar from getting crates filled with info enabling the possessor to built a smart bomb. Lots of Kung Fu action and a nice love triangle thrown in for good measure. I've had the complete MOKF run for years and I'm finally reading it. Good stuff. I had the complete run for a while before I got around to reading in 2014-2015 as well. It's one of the few Marvel runs I hung onto when I purged a lot of stuff earlier this year. -M
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Dec 8, 2017 20:00:37 GMT -5
Recently picked up and just read this Very happy to have in my Spidey collection. A nice early Punisher tale. I also kinda laughed that the reprint in the issue was Dr. Strange #179 (which itself is a reprint of ASM Annual #2 according to the GCD). Why not just source the original? Why says its a reprint of a reprint? I declare Reprintception!
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 8, 2017 22:10:21 GMT -5
Some time ago, I bought the 2nd Marvel Archie Digest, which featured the Avengers (always really liked the idea behind Digest books, really wish that they hadn't died out). Anywho much like the Spider-Man one before it, I wasn't expecting all that much except for the three Roger Stern issues (#235-#237). As I've said before, I've always been rather picky about team books, only really being able to count a slim handful as my personal favorites, but there was just something about those issues that I really liked even if I couldn't put my finger on it exactly... So, I decided to start reading Stern's run from the beginning and his first issue is pretty damned excellent. I think I liked Pym's jail-cell confession the most, as he recounts his lengthy and storied history with the Avengers and how it all went wrong Also, that cover is pretty tops too, almost kind of reminds me of an old style carnival poster
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 11:07:31 GMT -5
I just (Marvel Masterworks) read Tales of Suspense - Vol 1 to Vol 4 this past 10 days and enjoying the stories back then.
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Post by antoine on Dec 11, 2017 13:38:39 GMT -5
I just read Snowpiercer (Le Transperceneige) for the first time. It's a science-fiction tale of survival and what I see as a critic of modern society and its social class. The art is beautiful, the first 2 english volumes being in black and white and the third one, who was written 30 years after the first 2 I think, has colour. Highly recommended. It's originally a French comic, but it's available in English from Titan
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 11, 2017 14:22:29 GMT -5
I just read Snowpiercer (Le Transperceneige) for the first time. It's a science-fiction tale of survival and what I see as a critic of modern society and its social class. The art is beautiful, the first 2 english volumes being in black and white and the third one, who was written 30 years after the first 2 I think, has colour. Highly recommended. It's originally a French comic, but it's available in English from Titan It also made for a good movie.
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Post by antoine on Dec 11, 2017 15:13:28 GMT -5
I just read Snowpiercer (Le Transperceneige) for the first time. It's a science-fiction tale of survival and what I see as a critic of modern society and its social class. The art is beautiful, the first 2 english volumes being in black and white and the third one, who was written 30 years after the first 2 I think, has colour. Highly recommended. It's originally a French comic, but it's available in English from Titan It also made for a good movie also. I probably watch less than 10 movies per year, but if you tell me it's good I'll add it to my Netflix list! Thanks!
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Post by antoine on Dec 12, 2017 9:12:39 GMT -5
I just read Snowpiercer (Le Transperceneige) for the first time. It's a science-fiction tale of survival and what I see as a critic of modern society and its social class. The art is beautiful, the first 2 english volumes being in black and white and the third one, who was written 30 years after the first 2 I think, has colour. Highly recommended. It's originally a French comic, but it's available in English from Titan It also made for a good movie also. I watched it last night and didn't really liked it. It was ok, nothing more. The movie has nothing to do with the comic, except the train part. That is in no way a reason why I didn't liked it. It seemed just like a reason to show extreme violence, with no story plot whatsoever.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 12, 2017 17:49:12 GMT -5
I'm up to The Sub-Marnier #71 and Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #4. Only one more issue to go and I'll be done with Namor's Bronze Age series. From here his adventures flowed into Super-Villain Team-Up, and I'll be reading the first few issues of that series because I didn't start reading it until #4 or #5. Namor's blue costume of the mid-1970s never bothered me before, but reading the issues where he first got the costume and then the issues since then has given me a bit of a dislike for it. These issues have been a little disappointing, to say the least. I'm getting through this series very slowly. I'm not sure why. I've been a little busier than usual, so I'm not reading as many online comics as before, and lately I've been a lot more likely to read the next issue of The Sub-Mariner or My Greatest Adventure than anything else. Nick Fury #4 has an awesome Steranko cover! The interior art is by Frank Springer. The story is a re-telling of the Nick Fury/SHIELD origin story from Strange Tales #135. I liked it well enough.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 20, 2017 14:53:25 GMT -5
I'm up to Super-Villain Team-Up #3! After Namor's Bronze Age series was canceled as of #72, he was "teamed up" with Dr. Doom in a series called Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up (which lasted two issues) and then in all but a few issues of regular Super-Villain Team-Up. (I put "teamed up" in quotes because for much of the series (as I recall), Namor was a slave to Doom's whims because Namor had to take a water-breathing potion (or something like that) at intervals or he would die. In any case, it wasn't always a voluntary team-up.) My first issue of SVTU was #3, and I haven't read it in years. Decades, probably! It was great fun to read through it last night, remembering the various clashes as Namor and Doom fought Attuma, Tiger Shark and Doctor Dorcas for control of Hydro-Base. It's such a great cover! How could I resist when I saw it on the spinner rack?! The interior art is pretty cool too, George Evans, inked by Jack Abel. I missed #4 (and still have never read it, a hole in my Bronze Age reading I plan to rectify very soon), but I got every issue from #5 on and pretty quickly got hold of both the issues of Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up as well as regular SVTU #2. The first Giant-Size has two reprints (The Sub-Mariner #20 and Marvel Super-Heroes #20) and the second has a full-length battle as Doom's android workers turn against him and Namor helps defeat him. The reprints are pretty good (especially if you've never seen them before), but #2 is kind of disappointing.) The regular series starts off with a three-part storyline about Attuma, Tiger Shark and Doctor Dorcas taking over Hydro-Base. Doom wants Namor to join him in a alliance, and he helps Namor take on the triple threat to show Namor his good faith in wanting this alliance. (HAH!) The first issue is pretty bad, but it gets a little better in #2 (with Sal Buscema art) but they kill Berry Deam Prentiss at the end of #2, and I think it's a huge mistake to make so much drama fodder out of Namor's supporting cast. Dorma, Namor's father and now his 1940s girlfriend have all been wiped out. Supporting characters are what make a character interesting, and it's always nice to have a few supporting characters who have been around for a while. (Of course, the death of Betty meant nothing to me when I first read it because I had never seen her before.) So it's with #3 that the series really gets going! I'm looking forward to reading #4 for the first time! I don't think I'll keep going except to maybe finish the storyline. I want to move on to something else after reading Namor from Tales to Astonish #70 to #101, and then in his own mag for 72 issues and then the first few issues of SVTU. I'm thinking of reading Tomb of Dracula from start to finish.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 14:56:40 GMT -5
^^^ That's one of my favorites Hoosier X for the reasons that you've stated.
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