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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 31, 2017 18:45:40 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. I really like Tiger Shark, but its true that many of his appearances have left a lot to be desired as no one ever really developed him into a major threat. I'm not a big fan of Attuma but the poor guys been in a lot of dumb comics. He's good in his multi-issue appearance early in the 1960s to 1970s Sub-Mariner run and I think he's very good and a credible threat in those early issues of SVTU, especially in #3.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 4, 2018 20:50:52 GMT -5
I read the last few issues of Super-Villain Team-Up. Let's see, these issues include a Magneto vs. Dr. Doom story that concludes in The Champions, then a reprint of the Dr. Doom vs. Red Skull stories from Astonishing Tales #4 and #5, then a couple of stories about the Red Skull and the Hate-Monger, who turns out to be ... Adolf Hitler! Those Red Skull/Hate-Monger issues are pretty trippy, with Carmine Infantino art and Arnim Zola and Jewish captives as the Skull and Hitler seem to really like living in concentration camp conditions. And after I finished SVTU, I've moved on to Tomb of Dracula and I'm up to #2!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 4, 2018 22:00:46 GMT -5
And after I finished SVTU, I've moved on to Tomb of Dracula and I'm up to #2! If you haven't read it before, it's pretty weak until Marv Wolfman comes on full-time and has a few issues to get going.
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Post by berkley on Jan 4, 2018 23:58:11 GMT -5
And after I finished SVTU, I've moved on to Tomb of Dracula and I'm up to #2! If you haven't read it before, it's pretty weak until Marv Wolfman comes on full-time and has a few issues to get going. Still a good read even before then, though - and the Colan artwork is fantastic from the get-go. I have especially fond memories of #4 & #5, but that could be nostalgia talking. And yes, it's well into the Wolfman era before the series becomes a classic in every sense.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 5, 2018 2:04:28 GMT -5
If you haven't read it before, it's pretty weak until Marv Wolfman comes on full-time and has a few issues to get going. Still a good read even before then, though - and the Colan artwork is fantastic from the get-go. I have especially fond memories of #4 & #5, but that could be nostalgia talking. And yes, it's well into the Wolfman era before the series becomes a classic in every sense. Vince Colletta inks Colan in issue #2, a very fine inking job from the much-maligned Colletta. This is the team that did the first few issues of the Namor series in Tales to Astonish, which I re-read fairly recently with similar good results. I have read very little early Tomb of Dracula. I think the oldest issue I had ever read was around #13 and I bet I haven't read much more than five issues before #30. I've read most of the issues from around #40 on and I think I've read every issue from #50 on. I'm liking the early issues well enough. That John Severin cover to #2 is great, but not at all spooky or chilling. Severin did so much work on MAD and Cracked (both of which I read prodigiously before I started reading super-hero comics) that I'm on the verge of laughing when I see Severin artwork no matter what the subject matter is. John Severin was one of the first comic book artists whose style I was able to recognize and identify when I saw it in a comic book.
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Post by String on Jan 5, 2018 10:45:32 GMT -5
I read the last few issues of Super-Villain Team-Up. Let's see, these issues include a Magneto vs. Dr. Doom story that concludes in The Champions, then a reprint of the Dr. Doom vs. Red Skull stories from Astonishing Tales #4 and #5, then a couple of stories about the Red Skull and the Hate-Monger, who turns out to be ... Adolf Hitler! Those Red Skull/Hate-Monger issues are pretty trippy, with Carmine Infantino art and Arnim Zola and Jewish captives as the Skull and Hitler seem to really like living in concentration camp conditions. I enjoyed your comments on this series, one that I've never heard of till now. It does sound like Bronze Age fun indeed. However, while looking up info on the title, I came across this: This issue is credited as the first ever meeting between Doom and Magneto. Is that accurate? They didn't meet/fight till '77? I would've thought such an encounter would have happened before then.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 5, 2018 14:03:33 GMT -5
I read the last few issues of Super-Villain Team-Up. Let's see, these issues include a Magneto vs. Dr. Doom story that concludes in The Champions, then a reprint of the Dr. Doom vs. Red Skull stories from Astonishing Tales #4 and #5, then a couple of stories about the Red Skull and the Hate-Monger, who turns out to be ... Adolf Hitler! Those Red Skull/Hate-Monger issues are pretty trippy, with Carmine Infantino art and Arnim Zola and Jewish captives as the Skull and Hitler seem to really like living in concentration camp conditions. I enjoyed your comments on this series, one that I've never heard of till now. It does sound like Bronze Age fun indeed. However, while looking up info on the title, I came across this: This issue is credited as the first ever meeting between Doom and Magneto. Is that accurate? They didn't meet/fight till '77? I would've thought such an encounter would have happened before then. It sounds right to me. Magneto gets around, maybe not as much as Doom does, but he appeared outside of the X-Men comic as early as Journey into Mystery #109. He fought the Avengers in an Avengers/X-Men cross-over during the Silver Age. And getting into the Bronze Age, he appeared in The Fantastic Four and the Defenders and Captain America and probably elsewhere, as well as continuing to face the X-Men in their own comic, and the Beast in his Amazing Adventures series during the X-Men hiatus. But I can't think of when he might have met Doom prior to the SCTU/Champions cross-over.
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Post by Søren on Jan 5, 2018 14:52:20 GMT -5
Eagle Comics Judge Dredd #1 It was a birthday gift from my mum and real surprise since there are no comic shops near me, had to wonder where she found it. She not good with computers either so online buying wouldn't be it either. Anyway it is nice to see a classic in colour, I already had the republished versions in the Complete Case Files format but it was a bit messy, guess with the old print it is hard to reproduce so this made the story a lot clearer. Apparently the US got the colour versions like above where as UK was in black and white.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 5, 2018 17:49:55 GMT -5
That's a great cover!
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Post by Confessor on Jan 5, 2018 20:12:48 GMT -5
Eagle Comics Judge Dredd #1 It was a birthday gift from my mum and real surprise since there are no comic shops near me, had to wonder where she found it. She not good with computers either so online buying wouldn't be it either. Anyway it is nice to see a classic in colour, I already had the republished versions in the Complete Case Files format but it was a bit messy, guess with the old print it is hard to reproduce so this made the story a lot clearer. Apparently the US got the colour versions like above where as UK was in black and white. I bought this issue new when it came out (along with much of the rest of the Eagle Comics series). I am from England and had been reading the adventures of Judge Dredd and others in 2000 AD throughout the early 80s, but like you, the chief appeal of these U.S. reprints for me was that they were colour. As you say, 2000 AD was in black & white back then (apart from two pages of colour in the Dredd strip), so having these stories in colour, even at a reduced size (because UK comics are bigger that American ones) was really cool. Welcome to the forum.
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Post by berkley on Jan 5, 2018 20:54:51 GMT -5
I enjoyed your comments on this series, one that I've never heard of till now. It does sound like Bronze Age fun indeed. However, while looking up info on the title, I came across this: [ SVTU #13 ] This issue is credited as the first ever meeting between Doom and Magneto. Is that accurate? They didn't meet/fight till '77? I would've thought such an encounter would have happened before then. It sounds right to me. Magneto gets around, maybe not as much as Doom does, but he appeared outside of the X-Men comic as early as Journey into Mystery #109. He fought the Avengers in an Avengers/X-Men cross-over during the Silver Age. And getting into the Bronze Age, he appeared in The Fantastic Four and the Defenders and Captain America and probably elsewhere, as well as continuing to face the X-Men in their own comic, and the Beast in his Amazing Adventures series during the X-Men hiatus. But I can't think of when he might have met Doom prior to the SCTU/Champions cross-over. FF would be the most obvious place but I don't remember them meeting there ether. I did read that Magneto + Sub-Mariner story in FF #102-105, or somewhere around there and liked it a lot when I was a kid. Perhaps this is just an indication of how young the MU was back then - they hadn't yet had time to go through all the obvious team-ups and battles between even the more prominent characters.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 21:55:39 GMT -5
Spiderman #88This is one heck of a book and I've just in awe of it for all the right reasons. The cover is out of this world and I was given a copy of this book to read and I have to give it back next Friday! I just got it and can't begin to read it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 6, 2018 2:23:11 GMT -5
Spiderman #88This is one heck of a book and I've just in awe of it for all the right reasons. The cover is out of this world and I was given a copy of this book to read and I have to give it back next Friday! I just got it and can't begin to read it. I read this in Marvel Tales very early on when I started reading comics. It was SO GREAT to follow those great classic Spidey stories regularly by picking up every issue of Marvel Tales as it came out. Great Doc Ock appearance ... but then Doctor Octopus was very lucky in that he was in one great storyline after another for a very long time, well into the Bronze Age.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 6, 2018 2:45:01 GMT -5
I read Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #15 a couple of days ago, so I've finished another series in my Complete Silver Age Marvel Project. (The last three issues, #16 to #18, are reprint issues with a bunch of the old SHIELD stories from Strange Tales #136 to #144. It's been a while since I read those issues, so I might go ahead and read them anyway.) As much as I like the western comics and what little Patsy Walker and Millie the Model I've read, I'm not considering them part of this project. That's a lot of comics! The only comics left from my original conception of this project are Marvel Super-Heroes #20 and Sgt. Fury #51 to about #84. (I'm considering comics dated December 1970 as the end of the Silver Age.) I had forgotten that Marvel Super-Heroes #20 is reprinted in Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #2, which I read back in the 1970s. I think I'm going to read it anyway because I love the reprints in Marvel Super-Heroes. And I'm still making my way through Sgt. Fury ten issues at a time. I've recently noted a couple of titles that I am considering for the project. Not Brand Echh (which ran 13 issues from 1967 to 1969) and Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders (19 issues). I've read a few issues of Not Brand Echh over the decades and I don't think that 13 issues will be hard to get through. I read the first issue last night and it's pretty funny. I've never read Captain Savage but I assume that it's a lot like Sgt. Fury on a boat. Let's hope they're using different stereotypes from the Howlers just for a little variety.
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Post by Søren on Jan 6, 2018 4:39:02 GMT -5
Eagle Comics Judge Dredd #1 It was a birthday gift from my mum and real surprise since there are no comic shops near me, had to wonder where she found it. She not good with computers either so online buying wouldn't be it either. Anyway it is nice to see a classic in colour, I already had the republished versions in the Complete Case Files format but it was a bit messy, guess with the old print it is hard to reproduce so this made the story a lot clearer. Apparently the US got the colour versions like above where as UK was in black and white. I bought this issue new when it came out (along with much of the rest of the Eagle Comics series). I am from England and had been reading the adventures of Judge Dredd and others in 2000 AD throughout the early 80s, but like you, the chief appeal of these U.S. reprints for me was that they were colour. As you say, 2000 AD was in black & white back then (apart from two pages of colour in the Dredd strip), so having these stories in colour, even at a reduced size (because UK comics are bigger that American ones) was really cool. Welcome to the forum. Im new to it all and been reading since mid 2000s and somewhat religiously from 09 onwards So always read the comic in full colour. As great as that is, something nice about being brush marks and mistakes in old colouring styles. and thanks (:
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