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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 21, 2017 4:22:46 GMT -5
After thinking about it over the last few hours, I remembered how BRONZE AGE BONKERS the SVTU series is, what with Namor and Doom and guest appearances by the Fantastic Four and the Avengers and the Ringmaster and the Circus of Crime and then the Shroud!
And eventually Krang, the Red Skull, Magneto and the Hatemonger!
And ... Henry Kissinger! (Definitely a super-villain if there ever was one!)
And I think I'm going to read the whole SVTU series before moving on to Tomb of Dracula.
(And this is despite the weird Trimpe-inked-by-Mooney art in #4.)
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 23, 2017 3:29:58 GMT -5
I'm up to SVTU #5, and I don't see any reason to stop now! Doom has hit Namor with a ray that changes his body chemistry so that the blue leather suit doesn't work any more! But Doom had an antidote that Namor must take every 24 hours so he can breathe underwater. Namor goes to the FF but it's no soap! He's going to be enthralled to Doom for a while. This is the last issue with the blue leather suit for a long while. Johnny says the blue suit makes Namor look like a gang-leader from the Bronx. Also, this issue is the first appearance of the Shroud!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 24, 2017 12:53:41 GMT -5
I saw an advertisement for Giant Superman Annual #2 in Detective Comics #286 and thought it looked pretty cool and luckily found the whole issue scanned online. So far, I've just read "The Invulnerable Enemy" but the whole issue looks great, one awesome story after another.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2017 10:27:37 GMT -5
I've just read this book and I consider this is a classic crossover ... Epic Cover, Great Story, and loving every page!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 26, 2017 12:20:03 GMT -5
I've just read this book and I consider this is a classic crossover ... Epic Cover, Great Story, and loving every page! I read the Batman/Hulk cross-over earlier this year, and I have a much-later reprint of the second Spider-Man/Superman cross-over, and I read that every once in a while. They are so much fun! The first Spider-Man/Superman story was a huge deal when it came out. I bought it the second I saw it and I remember how much fun it was! But I haven't seen it for decades. I remember Lex getting a piggyback ride from Doc Ock when they broke out of prison together. Maybe I'll check it out soon online.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2017 14:32:57 GMT -5
Hoosier X ... You should and I really missed those crossovers and I really want them (DC and Marvel) to start reviving these and I loved them all!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 27, 2017 2:40:03 GMT -5
I'm up to Super-Villain Team-Up #8. There have been times when I've been reading these issues of SVTU and wondering why I liked it so much back in the 1970s. But then I'll come across a sequence where I remember "Oh yeah! That was so cool!" I'd forgotten that it was kind of up and down. #8 is really good! From here, there's a cross-over going into Avengers #154 and then SVTU #9. I'm looking forward to reading that again after close to three decades because I remember that as being pretty cool as well. Getting back to #8, the new super-hero known as the Shroud has killed Dr. Doom and freed Namor and they are trying to hide out from the Latverian authorities by blending in with the Circus of Crime, which is touring Latveria because things had gotten too hot in the US. It's BRONZE AGE BONKERS but it's still pretty neat. The part I really like is the bit with Dr. Doom, who's not really dead. The Shroud threw him off a cliff and he landed in the river. He wakes up in an underwater craft operated by the green-skinned water-breathing humans of Hydro-Base, and they are being led by Tamara and Namorita! That's the part I like best. Tamara and Namorita are pretty tough and not the least bit intimidated by Dr. Doom. And they don't buy Doom's story that Namor was his guest and it's all been a misunderstanding caused by that big fat liar Reed Richards. Still, Namorita and Tamara realize that Doom is a scientific genius who might be able to cure the Hydro-Base humans! Despite losing so many supporting characters - Dorma, his father, Betty Dean Prentiss - Namor at this point still had some interesting characters in his cast ... but not for too much longer. Namorita didn't quite disappear but you didn't see her that much. I'll have to look up what happened to Tamara.
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 29, 2017 0:52:48 GMT -5
Been encouraging myself to try and read Danny Keitch era Ghost Rider and Darkhawk
Both have me wondering why Marvel had so many "street-level" teenaged heroes/heroines in the 90's
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 29, 2017 1:38:35 GMT -5
I'm up to Super-Villain Team-Up #11. Dr. Doom is still around, and so is Namor, but the focus has swiveled to the conflict between Doom and the Red Skull. (They're not teaming up, despite the title of the series.) Captain America and the Shroud are still around too. There was a bit of a digression as Avengers #154 continued into Super-Villain Team-Up #9 and then back again into The Avengers #155 and #156. I read all of them over the last few days. I was a big Avengers fan when these books came out so of course I read them before ... but it's been a while! It's good stuff! It holds up really well.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 29, 2017 7:03:38 GMT -5
Been encouraging myself to try and read Danny Keitch era Ghost Rider and Darkhawk Both have me wondering why Marvel had so many "street-level" teenaged heroes/heroines in the 90's I guess they stumbled onto a formula that worked back then. I had a TPB of that Ghost Rider, it was okay.
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 29, 2017 13:05:30 GMT -5
I had a TPB of that Ghost Rider, it was okay. First time I tried to read it, I barely made it past issue one. Danny was just a very unlikable character to me when compared to Johnny, but then I tried to think of the book as more of a supernatural equivalent to the Punisher and not a Ghost Rider book, and that's helped greatly
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Post by sabongero on Dec 29, 2017 15:46:20 GMT -5
Sometimes I think this is the best Superman story if not in the top three. They even had an episode of this in Justice League Unlimited.
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Post by cellardweller on Dec 29, 2017 16:48:21 GMT -5
I Had some spare time today, and reread a few random issues of JLA, about the time Firestorm first joined the team.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 30, 2017 2:40:00 GMT -5
I'm up to Super-Villain Team-Up #13. And since this is the last issue that featured the Sub-Mariner, I'm done with following Namor through his regular series in Tales To Astonish #70 to #101 then through his own series for 72 issues and finally into Super-Villain Team-Up. Its been a lot of fun with all the ups and down you'd expect from close to 120 issues of Namor adventures. Doom and Namor travel to Atlantis because Doom has agreed to find a way to revive the comatose people of Atlantis, who have been in suspended animation because of nerve gas since around issue #60 of The Sub-Mariner. But Atlantis has been taken over by an army of undersea rogues and rebels and malcontents, the minions who at various times followed underwater villains like Byrrah and Attuma and Warlord Krang. And here is the man himself, Krang, at the head of this surly soggy throng of scum and villainy. Well, it's actually a pretty cool idea for a storyline ... but they wrap it up in 17 pages. Krang and his minions are defeated and Doom cures the people of Atlantis and Namor takes the throne again as Namor, the Avenging Son, the Prince of Atlantis! And that leaves the Hydro-Base subplot and Namorita and Tamara just sort of floating around. I'm not sure where Namor's adventures went from here. He was no longer a regular in the Defenders and he wouldn't be in the Avengers for quite some time. I guess it was just guest spots from time to time. There's a few more issues of SVTU, which published four more issues over the next three years. Let's see, there's Doom, the Red Skull, some early Bronze Age reprints, Magneto, a cross-over with The Champions, and the Hate-Monger! I decided to keep reading. These short-run Bronze Age comics are kind of fun to read from start to finish.
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Post by maskedavenger on Dec 31, 2017 16:04:12 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. I'm currently trying to get through this series, I've always been fascinated by the character of Namor. I can't say I've been a fan of this series for the most part. I just hate how they try to push Tiger Shark as some sort of serious threat, the more he appears the lamer he gets really. I want to see more Attuma, he just disappeared after the first 2 issues. I really enjoyed #25 though, I see future Aquaman stories took a more than a few pages out of that one.
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