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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 1, 2018 2:18:47 GMT -5
Been enjoying the hell out of re-reading some of the later Stan Lee/Steve Ditko issues of Amazing Spider-Man for the umpteenth time. What a hell of a run that was -- these comics never lose their appeal for me. Issues I've re-read over the past few days include ASM #19, #25-27, #37, #38, and ASM Annual #2 and 3. I've also been dipping into a collection of Little Nemo comic strips by Windsor McCay. These are such charming comics with some truly awe inspiring artwork. I read #34 AGAIN not too long ago. It's so simple that it's almost elegant. My favorite Kraven the Hunter story BY FAR!
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 1, 2018 2:40:36 GMT -5
I finished my Golden Age break not too long ago. I completed Futura and the Atomics Knights (both great series!) and I also finished Space Smith (which is pretty bad (and not in the GOOD way!) after Fetcher Hanks leaves).
I'm still reading Wonder Woman, the Gay Ghost and the Wildcat (and sometimes Mr. Terrific) in Sensation Comics. Sensation #20 had a couple of items of note. The Wildcat story featured the first appearance of the Yellow Wasp, a recurring foe for Wildcat. They fought at least three times. And the Gay Ghost story has a Shakespeare angle as the pilots at the base are putting on Hamlet, but the pilot playing Hamlet gets sick, so they decided to ask the eccentric actor who lives in a nearby castle to perform Hamlet one last time for the boys in uniform. (And of course, he's being threatened by Nazi spies who are using the castle as a spy base.)
I'm also reading almost everything in Star-Spangled Comics. There was a Robotman story that was cracking me up. Robotman wears a rubber mask and gloves so that he looks like a regular human, so his nest door neighbors (not knowing his secret) ask him to watch the baby whilst they have a night out. While taking care of the baby, Robotman sees saboteurs or thieves or something in the house across the street, so he leaves the baby sleeping to resume his Robotman identity and investigate. But every time he's about to get the bad guys, the baby cries and he has to go back upstairs! In order to amuse the baby and hopefully get him back to sleep, Robotman removes his arms and throes them around! It's so weird!
Speaking of weird, I also starting reading a couple of the features in Marvel Mystery Comics. In Electro, The Marvel of the Age, a scientist builds Electro, a very powerful robot. The scientist envisions Electro as a force for good, so he starts thinking of ways for Electro to help mankind. He decides he needs a network of operatives to scour the world to help him decide where Electro can do the most good. In order to get these operatives, he uses an employment agency! This is the Marvel Universe, so I'm sure the people at the agency didn't bat an eye when he called! (Also, it was the Depression! Man, being an operative for a crazy old scientist with a giant do-gooding robot was a GOOD JOB!)
And then there's the Ferret! He's billed as Ferret, Mystery Detective, so as not to confuse him with all those detectives who don't like to involve themselves with mysteries. The Ferret is sort of like the Saint or the Falcon or maybe even Nick Charles. He's a private citizen who butts his nose in when the police are baffled by murders and things. And he has a little helper - a ferret! And it's name is Nosey! The ferret rides along in the car with him and sits on his shoulder much of the time. I found it very amusing. The Ferret only appeared four or five times, so I'm going to read them all.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 1, 2018 8:32:22 GMT -5
I remember liking Electro when I read some of the Masterworks I got cheap... not as good as the Angel (which I was really surpised by) but more because there were only a couple stories.. maybe there's more out there later.
BTW, where are you reading this stuff from? Is it on one of those 'comics out of copyright' sites?
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 2, 2018 0:09:06 GMT -5
I finished my Golden Age break not too long ago. I completed Futura and the Atomics Knights (both great series!) and I also finished Space Smith (which is pretty bad (and not in the GOOD way!) after Fetcher Hanks leaves). I'm still reading Wonder Woman, the Gay Ghost and the Wildcat (and sometimes Mr. Terrific) in Sensation Comics. Sensation #20 had a couple of items of note. The Wildcat story featured the first appearance of the Yellow Wasp, a recurring foe for Wildcat. They fought at least three times. And the Gay Ghost story has a Shakespeare angle as the pilots at the base are putting on Hamlet, but the pilot playing Hamlet gets sick, so they decided to ask the eccentric actor who lives in a nearby castle to perform Hamlet one last time for the boys in uniform. (And of course, he's being threatened by Nazi spies who are using the castle as a spy base.) I'm also reading almost everything in Star-Spangled Comics. There was a Robotman story that was cracking me up. Robotman wears a rubber mask and gloves so that he looks like a regular human, so his nest door neighbors (not knowing his secret) ask him to watch the baby whilst they have a night out. While taking care of the baby, Robotman sees saboteurs or thieves or something in the house across the street, so he leaves the baby sleeping to resume his Robotman identity and investigate. But every time he's about to get the bad guys, the baby cries and he has to go back upstairs! In order to amuse the baby and hopefully get him back to sleep, Robotman removes his arms and throes them around! It's so weird! Speaking of weird, I also starting reading a couple of the features in Marvel Mystery Comics. In Electro, The Marvel of the Age, a scientist builds Electro, a very powerful robot. The scientist envisions Electro as a force for good, so he starts thinking of ways for Electro to help mankind. He decides he needs a network of operatives to scour the world to help him decide where Electro can do the most good. In order to get these operatives, he uses an employment agency! This is the Marvel Universe, so I'm sure the people at the agency didn't bat an eye when he called! (Also, it was the Depression! Man, being an operative for a crazy old scientist with a giant do-gooding robot was a GOOD JOB!) And then there's the Ferret! He's billed as Ferret, Mystery Detective, so as not to confuse him with all those detectives who don't like to involve themselves with mysteries. The Ferret is sort of like the Saint or the Falcon or maybe even Nick Charles. He's a private citizen who butts his nose in when the police are baffled by murders and things. And he has a little helper - a ferret! And it's name is Nosey! The ferret rides along in the car with him and sits on his shoulder much of the time. I found it very amusing. The Ferret only appeared four or five times, so I'm going to read them all. A) Freaking love Electro. I've never quite seen comic art like that before, this kind of 2-D almost woodcut style art. B) Marvel was ruined forever when the Ferret was replaced in Marvel Mystery by the loathsome Terry Vance.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 2, 2018 7:28:06 GMT -5
Was Terry Vance the little kid with an animal sidekick? If so, I agree 100%!
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 2, 2018 8:56:54 GMT -5
Terry Vance was a teenage detective, kind of a male Nancy Drew notable for being the first professional work by Bob Oksner. I thought it far superior to The Ferret, a terrible, amateurish strip that stunk up Marvel Mystery during its thankfully short run. Not exactly a highlight of Irwin Hasen's career
Cei-U! I summon the schoolboy sleuth.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 2, 2018 13:36:52 GMT -5
Terry Vance was a teenage detective, kind of a male Nancy Drew notable for being the first professional work by Bob Oksner. I thought it far superior to The Ferret, a terrible, amateurish strip that stunk up Marvel Mystery during its thankfully short run. Not exactly a highlight of Irwin Hasen's career Cei-U! I summon the schoolboy sleuth. No matter how far Marvel goes down the tubes, you will always find SOMEONE to defend it. God, the only think worse than Terry Vance is his stupid monkey.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 2, 2018 15:41:13 GMT -5
Terry Vance was a teenage detective, kind of a male Nancy Drew notable for being the first professional work by Bob Oksner. I thought it far superior to The Ferret, a terrible, amateurish strip that stunk up Marvel Mystery during its thankfully short run. Not exactly a highlight of Irwin Hasen's career Cei-U! I summon the schoolboy sleuth. No matter how far Marvel goes down the tubes, you will always find SOMEONE to defend it. Really? You defend an awful strip like The Ferret but *I'm* the apologist? Wow. I think it's time I take a break from CCF before I say something I'll regret. I'll be back in a few weeks. Maybe.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 2, 2018 15:45:44 GMT -5
So I'm reading some 5YL Legion (I had got them a while back and got too annoyed with the art)... while the art still kinda stinks, the story is defintiely coming together.
I LOVE the part with Tenzil is doing an archeology reality show and they excavate the Bat Cave... priceless!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 2, 2018 17:22:09 GMT -5
No matter how far Marvel goes down the tubes, you will always find SOMEONE to defend it. Really? You defend an awful strip like The Ferret but *I'm* the apologist? Wow. I think it's time I take a break from CCF before I say something I'll regret. I'll be back in a few weeks. Maybe. Nah, I'm joking - I don't actually care that much about 75 year old editorial policy - I'm mostly parodying nostalgic fanboy attitudes about how Marvel stopped being good after a certain point. I'm not saying it was a GREAT joke. ANd, yeah, Terry Vance was probably a better written and (definitely!) better drawn strip, but it signaled a change away from the pulp mish-mash of the early Marvel comics to more sanitized, kid-friendly content. Pretty soon Marvel was all traditional superheroes and funny animals, rather than westerns and jungle lords and war strips and... whatever the hell Electro was. Weirdly, I'm fine with kid GANGs, and I pretty much enjoy all the Kirby strips in that genre.
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Post by james on Feb 2, 2018 18:49:28 GMT -5
Im reading the Barr/Aparo Batman and the Outsiders Dc Showcases. Never read them before but thoroughly enjoying them
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Post by String on Feb 3, 2018 14:06:33 GMT -5
I recently got a stack of issues of Mighty Marvel Western. I've never read much of Marvel's western titles so after I learned of this anthology title, I thought it'd be a good introduction to Rawhide Kid, Kid Colt, and the Two-Gun Kid.
So far, these short stories have been quite entertaining with some fun (if outlandish) elements. Rawhide Kid outdrawing an opponent, managing to time and place his shot so that it hits and deflects his opponent's shot! And if you were operating a rodeo and needed experienced workers, would you hire a guy that always wears a black mask? I liked quite a few of Kid Colt's tales, especially one where two outlaws leave him stranded in a desert and his struggle to cross that desert in order to serve those two outlaws the justice they deserved. Randy, the young sidekick to Rawhide in some stories, brought back many of memory of the various TV westerns that I watched growing up (and still do occasionally).
Man, there was sure was a lot of bushwhacking going on too.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 4, 2018 4:25:19 GMT -5
I recently got a stack of issues of Mighty Marvel Western. I've never read much of Marvel's western titles so after I learned of this anthology title, I thought it'd be a good introduction to Rawhide Kid, Kid Colt, and the Two-Gun Kid. So far, these short stories have been quite entertaining with some fun (if outlandish) elements. Rawhide Kid outdrawing an opponent, managing to time and place his shot so that it hits and deflects his opponent's shot! And if you were operating a rodeo and needed experienced workers, would you hire a guy that always wears a black mask? I liked quite a few of Kid Colt's tales, especially one where two outlaws leave him stranded in a desert and his struggle to cross that desert in order to serve those two outlaws the justice they deserved. Randy, the young sidekick to Rawhide in some stories, brought back many of memory of the various TV westerns that I watched growing up (and still do occasionally). Man, there was sure was a lot of bushwhacking going on too. I have quite a stack of mostly low-grade Marvel westerns from the early 1960s. They are awesome! I used to have a copy of Kid Colt #18 from the early 1950s, before the Code, so it's kind of wild to see Kid Colt riding around killing everybody instead of just shooting their guns out of their hands.
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 5, 2018 19:05:02 GMT -5
Randy, the young sidekick to Rawhide in some stories, brought back many of memory of the various TV westerns that I watched growing up (and still do occasionally). The stories with Randy are reprints from the first Rawhide Kid series - 16 issues in the mid-1950s. When Stan & Jack revived the title in 1960, they created a completely new character in issue #17. But in the 70s they started reprinting the earlier stories with the main character redrawn to look like the Kirby character. Sometimes they redrew him only on the splash page. Sometimes they included a blurb about how the Kid had settled down for a while. I too eschewed Western comics in the 60s and 70s, but have enjoyed them in recent years.
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Post by james on Feb 5, 2018 20:30:17 GMT -5
Decided to go through my Avengers collection and i picked out 281-285 and 211-230.
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