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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 25, 2019 20:17:01 GMT -5
Last night I read some old Amazing Spider-Man # 33 to 42. Some good decent stuff I love ASM #34 so much! And you're up to the part where there's two or three pages of Pete and his pals (especially Gwen and MJ!) saying mean things to each other in almost every issue! I love that bit where MJ is supposed to be helping Aunt May with moving and Anna May Watson notices how useless MJ is and says "try not to get in the way too much, dear."
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Post by urrutiap on Jun 25, 2019 23:29:59 GMT -5
yep.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 26, 2019 17:30:31 GMT -5
After a few months of inactivity reading comics, I've recently gotten the bug again and have finished a few classics. I'm still working my way, chronologically, through Marvel's Silver Age and I'm now almost done with September 1964. What a month. This is certainly the most impressive month so far and it has to go down as one of the most important in Marvel history.
For starters, you have Kang's first appearance in Avenger's #8, Daredevil's first adventure with Spider-Man in Amazing Spider-Man #16, the FF get a new classic villain in Diablo (FF#30), FF Annual #2, featuring the origin of Doctor Doom, still stands as one of the greatest and most important Marvel annuals of all-time, Hawkeye makes his debut in ToS #57 and most important to me (and I'll go out on a limb and say objectively the most important event up until this point) the return of the Hulk as a regular Marvel feature in TTA #59 (technically TTA #60, but Marvel made it a point to advertise it with a Kirby pinup-style page).
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Post by urrutiap on Jun 26, 2019 19:38:24 GMT -5
Im actually enjoying old Amazing Spider Man more than Avengers.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 26, 2019 19:55:34 GMT -5
Just finished Fantastic Four #25-26, their first major two parter in which they take on the Incredible Hulk AND meet The Avengers. Super ambitious and tremendously exciting. I just wish Reed's random illness had been more meaningfully connected to the rest of the storyline, and that Stan and Jack weren't downplaying Sue's abilities once again. They just built her up a few issues back with the whole force shield thing!
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 26, 2019 22:04:29 GMT -5
Im actually enjoying old Amazing Spider Man more than Avengers. Early Avengers, like the X-Men, is a rare example of Stan and Jack coming up with an idea that was drastically improved upon by later creators. Conversely, its debatable if anyone ever improved on Spider-Man, the FF or Thor. (In this case I of course mean Roy Thomas, John Buscema, Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum and John Byrne.)
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Post by urrutiap on Jun 26, 2019 22:06:55 GMT -5
Even though Betty Brant gets on my nerves where she internally freaks out over Peter because of what happened to her brother or her ex fiance, shes not that bad where she calms down in some issues. That and the silly thing going on between Peter and Ned Leeds.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 28, 2019 11:31:43 GMT -5
Just finished Fantastic Four #25-26, their first major two parter in which they take on the Incredible Hulk AND meet The Avengers. Super ambitious and tremendously exciting. I just wish Reed's random illness had been more meaningfully connected to the rest of the storyline, and that Stan and Jack weren't downplaying Sue's abilities once again. They just built her up a few issues back with the whole force shield thing! This is my second favorite comic-book storyline. I first read it in a Marvel Treasury Edition about 1976. I usually include it with Avengers #1 to #4 and I call the arc "GET THE HULK!"
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 28, 2019 11:53:51 GMT -5
I finished Avengers #1 to #10 and I got busy and forgot about it. It's been a week or two, so it's not fresh in my memory, but I wanted to mention that I've never been a big fan of #9 and #10. But #9 has grown on me, I guess, because this time, I read it slowly and it's actually a pretty good little story! My main objection to some of the stories in this period is how ineffectual the Master of Evil are most of the time, despite having the Executioner and the Enchantress on the team! These two are Asgardians! And yet Zemo's Masters of Evil just sort of flail around with dumb schemes against the Avengers. Wonder Man's sacrifice is pretty cool, though. Avengers #10 is the hot mess I've always remembered. (And I love that Immortus shows up as a talking head in #16, where he says "I'll not rest until the Avengers are defeated!" even though his fight with them never happened (because of the Enchantress's time-reversal spell) and as for not resting, he doesn't appear again until way into the 1970s. Oh Immortus! You are hilarious.) I noticed something this time around that I can't stop thinking about. Immortus brings back several people from way back in history, and they fight either the Avengers or the Masters of Evil. And this includes people like Attila the Hun, Goliath, Sampson and Merlin. And that's fine, even if the historical existence of some of these entities is doubtful. But he also conjures up Paul Bunyan. Did you catch that? PAUL BUNYAN is a historical figure in the Marvel Universe! Somebody needs to exploit this bizarre factoid right away!
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 28, 2019 12:37:48 GMT -5
According to later lore, Paul Bunyan and the others were either Dire Wraiths (the original Official Handbook) or Space Phantoms (Avengers Forever) forced by Immortus to assume those shapes.
Cei-U! I summon the multiple choice continuity!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 28, 2019 12:51:37 GMT -5
According to later lore, Paul Bunyan and the others were either Dire Wraiths (the original Official Handbook) or Space Phantoms (Avengers Forever) forced by Immortus to assume those shapes. Cei-U! I summon the multiple choice continuity! I much prefer the idea that Paul Bunyan is a historical figure who will run into Wolverine in a series set in the 1880s.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 28, 2019 13:44:33 GMT -5
According to later lore, Paul Bunyan and the others were either Dire Wraiths (the original Official Handbook) or Space Phantoms (Avengers Forever) forced by Immortus to assume those shapes. Cei-U! I summon the multiple choice continuity! I much prefer the idea that Paul Bunyan is a historical figure who will run into Wolverine in a series set in the 1880s. I much prefer the idea that Wolverine isn't immortal, and doesn't have a ridiculous healing factor that allows him to survive absolutely anything.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 28, 2019 15:05:54 GMT -5
Last night I read some old Amazing Spider-Man # 33 to 42. Some good decent stuff I love ASM #34 so much! Really?Ok, so the Ditko Spider-Man is my favorite superhero comic run ever, (That or Plastic Man. Or Enigma) but by # 34 it had 75% lost me. I alway flip languidly through the boring Spider-Man sequences looking for the parts with Gwen Stacy in them.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 28, 2019 15:11:19 GMT -5
I prefer Spider-Man before Ditko completely took over the plotting (up to about issue #28). When I reread the Amazing book, I tend to skip past the last five Ditkos and go straight to Romita's debut.
Cei-U! His Dr. Strange, though, is good to the last drop!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 28, 2019 15:28:14 GMT -5
I prefer Spider-Man before Ditko completely took over the plotting (up to about issue #28). When I reread the Amazing book, I tend to skip past the last five Ditkos and go straight to Romita's debut. Cei-U! His Dr. Strange, though, is good to the last drop! (A) I thought Ditko was the sole plotter earlier, like issue # 20? (20-28 is my favorite stretch.) (B) I... fine. I'll just say it. I'm not that huge on the 4-part "This Be My Destiny" either. DitkoSpidey works best for me when it mixes comedy, drama, and human interest, and the Doc Oc Master Planner issues were good, but they weren't funny, so they weren't "best of all time" level good.
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