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Post by Hoosier X on May 16, 2019 12:30:12 GMT -5
I'm still working on 1970s Iron Man. And I'm still slowly making my way through the Atlas reprints in the back of the Agents of Atlas compilation. And I also bought a digital copy of Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Mystery Tales, Volume Two, which reprints MMT # 5 to #8. So I read a few of the stories in that. This morning, I realized that I haven't looked at Comic Book Plus for a while, so I started browsing and came across Young Romance, from Prize Comics, the comic that started the romance-comics craze. Some prime Kirby/Simon work here! I read the first issue years ago in a reprint, so I started with Young Romance #2. Old romance comics are fun! The Kirby art is awesome! And that flirty little niece is kind of wonderfully awful! She slaps her aunt at one point and I don't know why her aunt didn't slap her back!
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Post by Rob Allen on May 16, 2019 12:38:11 GMT -5
I would tell you what I am reading, but I don't know. Bear with me. In the early 90s, Fleetway had the licence to reprint Superman stories here in the UK. One title that was published was The Adventures of Superman, reprinting two US issues per issue. I bought some of these comics at a jumble sale recently. Unlike previous licensees, Fleetway hasn't provided a bibliography in each issue, all I know is that the stories I am reading are early 90s. You might be able to find the original issue numbers by using a Story Title search at the GCD. The default search at www.comics.org is 'Everything', but there's a pulldown menu that allows you to focus on certain fields; Story Title is one of them.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2019 12:41:12 GMT -5
Thank you, Rob, I didn't know there was a "search story title" feature.
Obviously, the reprints can be read on their own merits, but it'd be cool to see original covers. Because DC reprint titles would reprint 2-3 US issues per one UK issue, they could only showcase one cover.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 16, 2019 14:15:51 GMT -5
I am reading through all of the Legions and ave finished Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #257. This is a pretty good story where the Legionnaires try to figure out the mystery behind RJ Brande's missing fortune. The bachup story is somewhat more forgettable (sorry, not a fan of the Ditko art) starring Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 18, 2019 15:44:59 GMT -5
I read Godzilla #17 & 18, starting the story where he gets shrunk. I'm looking forward to him taking on the Fantastic Four and Devil Dinosaur! Oh, and I like that in #17 Gabe Jones refers to Hank Pym as "more schizo than the rest" of the Avengers.
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Post by spoon on May 18, 2019 22:07:19 GMT -5
I'm continuing to read through my later Essential Hulk volumes. I just finished Annual #9, drawn by Steve Ditko. Blasphemy alert: I was stuck in the middle of that story for a few days because I was a bit busy and it was tedious. I only have 5 more issues to read (#244-248), and then I'll be done with Essential Hulk vol. 7, the last of the Essentials.
That leaves me with a choice. I bought three TPBs that reprint Incredible Hulk #269-313, but I haven't bought all the issues in the gap (#249-268) between TPBs yet. Now, I have a choice. Do I keep reading the issues that I have to binge-read with gaps? Do I hastily buy all the missing issues online regardless of price so I can binge again after a short wait? Or do I start reading something else and maybe come back to it later?
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Post by Duragizer on May 19, 2019 2:55:37 GMT -5
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Post by Cei-U! on May 19, 2019 8:16:29 GMT -5
Tediously plotted and scripted, perhaps, but the Kirby/Wood art in Challengers #4-8? Glorious!
Cei-U! I summon the dream team supreme!
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Post by Icctrombone on May 19, 2019 8:22:58 GMT -5
This shows the extent that good art can keep you engaged in a book , even if the story is crap. See? I have an excuse why I still have my large collection of Neal Adams Continuity comics...
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Post by Graphic Autist on May 19, 2019 11:31:26 GMT -5
I am about nearly finished with the Marvel Epic Collection: Daredevil - Brother, Take My Hand (1968-1970.)
The stories aren’t all that great, but I really like the art by Gene Colan. Especially appealing are the odd panel layouts used in the late 60s and early 70s compared to the all-rectangle panels we primarily had when I was a kid in the 80s, which was when I did most of my comic book collecting.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 19, 2019 12:38:39 GMT -5
I'm getting ready to start reading the Lee-kirby run on Fantastic Four. Hearing the Challengers of the Unknown were a sort of proto-FF, I figured I'd read the twelve stories Kirby worked on with them first. "Look Out! Rocky's experimental flight into space has given him strange, menacing powers!" Why, almost Fantastic you might say?
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Post by Icctrombone on May 19, 2019 13:06:21 GMT -5
I'm guessing from the 10 cents price that this predated FF # 1.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 19, 2019 17:23:13 GMT -5
I am about nearly finished with the Marvel Epic Collection: Daredevil - Brother, Take My Hand (1968-1970.) The stories aren’t all that great, but I really like the art by Gene Colan. Especially appealing are the odd panel layouts used in the late 60s and early 70s compared to the all-rectangle panels we primarily had when I was a kid in the 80s, which was when I did most of my comic book collecting. Does this have the Jester storyline? And Starr Saxon? I always thought those were some pretty solid Silver Age storytelling. Not as good as the Mike Murdock era that preceded it. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
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Post by Graphic Autist on May 19, 2019 18:04:01 GMT -5
Yup! Starts out with DD battling Jester, and then Saxxon gets in the mix. Reading this reminded me of how much comics characters would talk out loud to themselves...weird.
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Post by The Captain on May 19, 2019 18:32:37 GMT -5
I'm continuing to read through my later Essential Hulk volumes. I just finished Annual #9, drawn by Steve Ditko. Blasphemy alert: I was stuck in the middle of that story for a few days because I was a bit busy and it was tedious. I only have 5 more issues to read (#244-248), and then I'll be done with Essential Hulk vol. 7, the last of the Essentials. That leaves me with a choice. I bought three TPBs that reprint Incredible Hulk #269-313, but I haven't bought all the issues in the gap (#249-268) between TPBs yet. Now, I have a choice. Do I keep reading the issues that I have to binge-read with gaps? Do I hastily buy all the missing issues online regardless of price so I can binge again after a short wait? Or do I start reading something else and maybe come back to it later? If this were me, because I have done this many times, I would wait until I picked up all of the missing issues. I'm a continuity junkie, and the idea of missing something, particularly in a gap of 21 issues, would drive me nuts. Case in point. I have the first six Daredevil Masterworks, which gets up to issue #63, and I have a floppie of #64. Beyond that, up until last weekend, I had every floppie from #66 to #512. Guess who read the first 64 issues a couple of years ago, then put the series aside because he was missing one measly issue in the gap? Yeah, I'm sick, and I know it.
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