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Post by Cei-U! on May 9, 2019 22:49:24 GMT -5
I've been reading (and indexing) the pre-Iron Man issues of Tales of Suspense. The giant monster stories drawn by Kirby and Ayers (and occasionally Kirby and Ditko) are always fun and there's usually one of Ditko's quirky 5-pagers in the back. Even the great Reed Crandall and Doug Wildey show up a few times. I couldn't help but notice that the book seems to recycle the same half-dozen plots and the dialogue by Lee and.or Lieber all runs together after a while but these books were never meant to be read one after the other so I don't hold these flaws against them. The two stories introducing It the Living Colossus (ToS #14 and 20) are my favorites so far but, really, any story with a giant Kirby monster going all kaiju on some poor city is guaranteed entertainment.
Cei-U! I summon the trip down Memory Lane!
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 10, 2019 13:08:26 GMT -5
I just finished the new Death and Return of Superman Omnibus. I had never read these before now. There were a few loose ends, like what is Doomsday, and who created him. Far different from the animated takes I had seen on this story. Overall, it was an enjoyable story with mostly mediocre art, which unfortunately seemed the industry standard at the time it came out. It was also around the same time I had stopped reading comics for almost 15 years. The best part of that story was the creation of Steel and Superboy... the actual story with Doomsday was pretty meh IMO.
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Post by Graphic Autist on May 10, 2019 15:43:37 GMT -5
The best part of that story was the creation of Steel and Superboy... the actual story with Doomsday was pretty meh IMO.
I enjoyed the Superboy character as well. I would have liked to know why Supergirl was a shapechanger and involved with Luthor.
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Post by The Captain on May 10, 2019 17:36:37 GMT -5
Having just picked this up at my LCS on FCBD last weekend, I spent the week with Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur Complete Collection.
Even clocking in at just 9 issues, it took a lot of intestinal fortitude to slog through the series. It starts off well enough, with the conflict being centered on denizens of the Valley for the first few issues, but it quickly took a late-era Kirby turn into aliens and AI and all kinds of nonsense like that, then wraps up with a time-travel issue that puts Devil Dinosaur, minus Moon Boy, in the modern-day American Southwest. The art is what one could expect from Kirby towards the end of his active career, owing greatly to his eye issues, and the writing, which The King also handled, is overly-expository and extremely wordy.
I can say I read it, and since it was bought with a gift certificate for only $5, I don't feel too terribly cheated.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 10, 2019 19:32:28 GMT -5
I seem to remember reading that the only reason Devil Dinosaur existed was under pressure from Marvel for a Kamandi type comic. I'm guessing Kamandi sold fairly well for DC.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2019 20:19:32 GMT -5
I seem to remember reading that the only reason Devil Dinosaur existed was under pressure from Marvel for a Kamandi type comic. I'm guessing Kamandi sold fairly well for DC. I had a dear friend that owns and operated a LCS and he told me that Kamandi sold briskly and he had to get more copies from DC Comics and after awhile ... DC Comics sent out another (supply and demand) shipment of comics a week later and that was sold out too in two weeks time.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2019 20:27:42 GMT -5
Superman Archives #1 ... Superman #1–4 I'm taking until the end of Summer to take my time reading all Superman Archives #1 to #8 and enjoy them.
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Post by bor on May 10, 2019 22:56:20 GMT -5
I am working my way through all the complete elf quest volumes. Currently at volume 5. These are just so great.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 11, 2019 10:29:32 GMT -5
One of my projects over the last few years has been to read all the major Marvel super-hero comics from the early 1950s to the point in time where I started reading most of them in 1975 and 1976. Adding in the westerns and stuff like Patsy Walker and Millie the Model was a bit much, but I did include Sgt. Fury and Captain Savage. So, through all the various resources I can find, like online comics, library copies of Marvel Masterworks, Essentials volumes and Epic collections, and the occasional bargain-rate Essentials from eBay, I am getting closer and closer to my goal. (I'm not including titles that started 1970 or later, like Amazing Adventures (with Black Widow and the Inhumans), Conan, the Defenders, Tomb of Dracula, etc. Hopefully, I will get to them eventually.) What I have left are 30 issues of Thor, all of Sgt. Fury after #54, the first 20 issues of Doctor Strange's 1970s title and a few issues of iron Man. I'm working on Iron Man right now. That's why I've been stopping in and reviewing digital copies of "Marvel Masterworks: Iron Man" every now and then. I've read Iron Man #39 to #67 lately, and I just got the MM volume (from Comixology) that has the last few issues that I need to have read every issue of Iron Man (and his Tales of Suspense series) all the way up to about #220 where I stopped collecting it. (I had picked up every issue from #80.) This volume reprints Iron Man #26 to #38 (and a cross-over issue of Daredevil). I've read a few of these, and my impression of these early 1970s Iron Man issues is that they are pretty bad! Since I bought this, I've only read the first two issues, and I'd forgotten that #27 (an early Firebrand appearance) is actually not bad at all. I kind of like it. Firebrand was the villain in the first issue of Iron Man I ever bought (#80) and I've always had a soft spot for him. And I like the Don Heck/Johnny Craig art. So maybe this won't be the exasperating slog I'm half-expecting. Fingers crossed!
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 11, 2019 20:41:40 GMT -5
Having just picked this up at my LCS on FCBD last weekend, I spent the week with Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur Complete Collection. Even clocking in at just 9 issues, it took a lot of intestinal fortitude to slog through the series. It starts off well enough, with the conflict being centered on denizens of the Valley for the first few issues, but it quickly took a late-era Kirby turn into aliens and AI and all kinds of nonsense like that, then wraps up with a time-travel issue that puts Devil Dinosaur, minus Moon Boy, in the modern-day American Southwest. The art is what one could expect from Kirby towards the end of his active career, owing greatly to his eye issues, and the writing, which The King also handled, is overly-expository and extremely wordy. I can say I read it, and since it was bought with a gift certificate for only $5, I don't feel too terribly cheated. I thought Devil Dinosaur was pretty good for the first few issues... having him play Godzilla was dumb, sure, but before that it was pretty unique fantasy I thought.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 14, 2019 9:53:10 GMT -5
Superman Archives #1 ... Superman #1–4 I'm taking until the end of Summer to take my time reading all Superman Archives #1 to #8 and enjoy them. I like those early Superman stories. Supes didn't take any nonsense from anybody. He was the Dark Knight before Batman.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 13:11:01 GMT -5
Superman Archives #1 ... Superman #1–4 I'm taking until the end of Summer to take my time reading all Superman Archives #1 to #8 and enjoy them. I like those early Superman stories. Supes didn't take any nonsense from anybody. He was the Dark Knight before Batman. That's why I'm taking my time reading them ... I loved the first two dearly.
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Post by urrutiap on May 14, 2019 13:28:32 GMT -5
later tonight Im going to read some good old 1960s or 1970s Incredible Hulk stuff.along with some Alpha Flight, Power Pack and old Amazing Spider-man
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Post by Hoosier X on May 14, 2019 19:22:54 GMT -5
later tonight Im going to read some good old 1960s or 1970s Incredible Hulk stuff.along with some Alpha Flight, Power Pack and old Amazing Spider-man Late 1960s to mid-1970s Hulk is just about my favorite thing in comics. From Tales to Astonish #90 to Incredible Hulk #200 is just one awesome adventure after another!
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Post by Icctrombone on May 15, 2019 19:21:07 GMT -5
I just discovered Ibis the Invincible from the Digital Comic Museum. Wow, I never realized how good these comics were. I'm pleasantly surprised.
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