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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 29, 2019 6:18:46 GMT -5
Oh yeah, you're right. I forgot about the Spider-man work , which is funny since I really liked the PPSS from that era. That book was a good solid read from around 30-100.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 29, 2019 7:04:03 GMT -5
Milgrom was always hit or miss for me. Nice work early in his career but I thought his Avengers work was lack luster. I'm not familiar with his work on Avengers, but I see from Wikipedia that it was roughly the same time that he was working on Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man with Mooney. I thought Mooney's inks really worked well with Milgrom's pencils. Who was inking him on The Avengers? That would be none other than Joltin' Joe Sinnott.
Cei-U! I summon the master brushman!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 29, 2019 8:11:54 GMT -5
Defenders #62-65This is the second time I've read this story arc - the famous (or notorious depending on your point of view) 'Defender for a Day' story. Since codystarbuck already did an issue-by-issue review in his Defenders review thread, I won't go into details here. I'll just say that I've never really understood why this story is apparently rather popular, so much so, in fact, that it was collected and published in a saddle-stitched reprint book (which is how I have it). There are admittedly some amusing bits (like Val and Hulk serving coffee to their unexpected guests), but a lot of it just had me scratching my head and asking 'why?...' Especially that bit at the end of issue #62 and the start of the next issue, in which several of the newcomers, including Black Goliath, Iron Fist and Havoc, decide it's a good idea to try to jump the Hulk because "he's a menace," even though at that point he was sitting the in the bushes minding his own business.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 29, 2019 9:03:10 GMT -5
It was goofy fun the way comics should be.
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 29, 2019 9:31:16 GMT -5
Defenders #62-65This is the second time I've read this story arc - the famous (or notorious depending on your point of view) 'Defender for a Day' story. Since codystarbuck already did an issue-by-issue review in his Defenders review thread, I won't go into details here. I'll just say that I've never really understood why this story is apparently rather popular, so much so, in fact, that it was collected and published in a saddle-stitched reprint book (which is how I have it). There are admittedly some amusing bits (like Val and Hulk serving coffee to their unexpected guests), but a lot of it just had me scratching my head and asking 'why?...' Especially that bit at the end of issue #62 and the start of the next issue, in which several of the newcomers, including Black Goliath, Iron Fist and Havoc, decide it's a good idea to try to jump the Hulk because "he's a menace," even though at that point he was sitting the in the bushes minding his own business. That bit about the Hulk is the Hulk's life story. He's mostly minding his own business when the army, the police, or some other superhero attack him because "he's a menace".
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 29, 2019 17:32:56 GMT -5
Defenders #62-65This is the second time I've read this story arc - the famous (or notorious depending on your point of view) 'Defender for a Day' story. Since codystarbuck already did an issue-by-issue review in his Defenders review thread, I won't go into details here. I'll just say that I've never really understood why this story is apparently rather popular, so much so, in fact, that it was collected and published in a saddle-stitched reprint book (which is how I have it). There are admittedly some amusing bits (like Val and Hulk serving coffee to their unexpected guests), but a lot of it just had me scratching my head and asking 'why?...' Especially that bit at the end of issue #62 and the start of the next issue, in which several of the newcomers, including Black Goliath, Iron Fist and Havoc, decide it's a good idea to try to jump the Hulk because "he's a menace," even though at that point he was sitting the in the bushes minding his own business. I've gotten as far as #61 in collecting but had a real problem finding #62-68 from one seller (because postage), but then I am fussy about really not wanting the direct issue from this time. I thought the dumbest thing in The Defenders had to be the Elf With A Gun 'thing', whatever it was.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 30, 2019 1:02:17 GMT -5
I'm very lucky to be able to access the collection of the Los Angeles County Library. My latest happy find? The Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives, Volume One. According to the Foreward by R.C. Harvey, no less than Harlan Ellison wrote this about the Seven Soldiers: I've only read the first story in the volume, from Leading Comics #1 (Winter 1941-1942), … and I almost hate to say that I see what he meant. Whereas the JSA sat around a table and told stories and fought saboteurs and raised money for was orphans in its early days, the Seven Soldiers of Victory hit the ground running and fought The Hand and his gang - The Needle, Big Caesar, The Red Dragon, Professor Merlin and The Dummy - in its first appearance. It's pretty cool! I especially like the panel where the Crimson Avenger and Wing expose a fake construction site. They notice the workers are actually working, so they can't be real WPA laborers! (That's a little New Deal humor.) I also like Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy fighting the Needle at the Panama Canal, and Vigilante fighting the Dummy in Hollywood. Lots of fake movie titles (that sound read for 1941) in that last story. The story in Leading #4 was written by Bill Finger, so I'm really looking forward to that.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 30, 2019 5:30:05 GMT -5
...Yet only six of the soldiers are pictured on the cover. Poor Stripesy, never gets any respect. And poor Wing never even got counted...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 30, 2019 18:32:13 GMT -5
Femme Noir(tpb 2009; collecting Femme Noir #s 1-4, 2008) By Christopher Mills and Joe Staton A gun-toting blonde vigilante wages a nightly struggle to bring justice to the often lawless streets of Port Nocturne. She not only deals with the usual hoods and gangsters, but also a killer robot and a wayward jungle girl. Mills pays loving tribute to hard-boiled crime fiction of the mid-20th century in these stories, and Staton's art is a perfect fit. Very entertaining.
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 1, 2019 9:53:04 GMT -5
...Yet only six of the soldiers are pictured on the cover. Poor Stripesy, never gets any respect. And poor Wing never even got counted... I always felt for poor Wing. I seem to recall a Bronze Age story where he got laid to rest, bother literally and figuratively. I can't remember if it was a JLA story, or Adventure comics, or maybe All-Star Squadron, and my memories are fuzzy, but I seem to recall that he finally got respect in that story. It was a story which recalled how he died, I think.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 1, 2019 10:38:47 GMT -5
...Yet only six of the soldiers are pictured on the cover. Poor Stripesy, never gets any respect. And poor Wing never even got counted... I always felt for poor Wing. I seem to recall a Bronze Age story where he got laid to rest, bother literally and figuratively. I can't remember if it was a JLA story, or Adventure comics, or maybe All-Star Squadron, and my memories are fuzzy, but I seem to recall that he finally got respect in that story. It was a story which recalled how he died, I think. That would be JLA #100-02, the story that brought the Seven Soldiers back from the Golden Age.
Cei-U! I summon the all-rime favorite!
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 1, 2019 10:51:17 GMT -5
I always felt for poor Wing. I seem to recall a Bronze Age story where he got laid to rest, bother literally and figuratively. I can't remember if it was a JLA story, or Adventure comics, or maybe All-Star Squadron, and my memories are fuzzy, but I seem to recall that he finally got respect in that story. It was a story which recalled how he died, I think. That would be JLA #100-02, the story that brought the Seven Soldiers back from the Golden Age.
Cei-U! I summon the all-rime favorite!
Thanks. I was wracking my feeble brain (or feeble memory, anyway) trying to remember where I'd read that. Wing was able to rest in peace after that, IIRC.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2019 8:24:16 GMT -5
"The Legion of Substitute Heroes" from 1963's Adventure Comics #306. Polar Boy, Night Girl, Stone Boy, Fire Lad, and Chlorophyll Kid feature. I'm quite fond of them already. I think their powers are pretty decent - and perhaps them not being accepted into the LSH is just snobbery on the LSH's part. Okay, making plants bigger isn't the most useful power, although using it in the jungle against wild animals might be useful. Night Girl's powers have time limits, but so do some other people, e.g. Namor being out of water, Hourman, etc. Stone Boy would be useful in a fight if a punch of drunken cab passengers had a go at me. Polar Boy's powers are useful, I think. I admired them for their persistence in the story. They did not give up. And they didn't want credit, either, at least not that much. I need to read more Legion of Substitute Heroes stories!
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Post by brutalis on Dec 3, 2019 8:52:37 GMT -5
All Out War #1. September/October 1979. Stories: Viking Commando, Black Eagle, Force 3. If ever there was a GONZO war comic idea, then Viking Commando is in the Top 5.
This 1st story entitled D-Day for a Viking has Robert Kanigher and George Evans taking a 5th century viking who is carried off the battlefield by a Valkyrie in love with him, only problem is it was before he died. A cosmic storm delivers both into the post D-Day WWII where Valoric the viking pleads with Odin to allow him in continuing his battle against the Hun's of Germany. Odin grants this wish sating he and Fey the Valkyrie shall remain in WWII times until he truly dies. Valoric is seen by U.S. Major Graham who likes what he see's: a ruthless man armed only with a battle ax and sword destroying a Nazi squad. Graham takes him into his unit, provides him military training and sets him upon the German's. Armed with ax, sword, grenades and rifle, the time lost viking does what he does best: fighting the Hun's. The story moves fast, doesn't waste time on the oddity of it all and just goes full head on into the sheer fun of the idea in showing a Viking warrior slaying Nazi's. What's not to like here? A sword and ax wielding warrior who uses grenades and machine guns provides an awesome visual you can only see in a comic book.
Black Eagle tells the tale of a black air-force pilot named Cassius Bannister and his team fighting in Italy as part of the Tuskegee Air Men. The story also includes the Haunted Tank team as they help "save" Black Eagle during a fire fight by taking out one of two German fighter planes which ambush him. Cassius takes out the other plane and makes his way back to his base. In another mission he has the chance to repay the Haunted Tank guys as he helps them by strafing opposing tanks which have the crew trapped and losing a battle. In the end Black Eagle is forced down and the Rebel Tank tows his plane back to base.
Force 3: I really cannot say there was anything special of the story as I don't even remember it this morning.
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 3, 2019 10:01:39 GMT -5
"The Legion of Substitute Heroes" from 1963's Adventure Comics #306. Polar Boy, Night Girl, Stone Boy, Fire Lad, and Chlorophyll Kid feature. I'm quite fond of them already. I think their powers are pretty decent - and perhaps them not being accepted into the LSH is just snobbery on the LSH's part. Okay, making plants bigger isn't the most useful power, although using it in the jungle against wild animals might be useful. Night Girl's powers have time limits, but so do some other people, e.g. Namor being out of water, Hourman, etc. Stone Boy would be useful in a fight if a punch of drunken cab passengers had a go at me. Polar Boy's powers are useful, I think. I admired them for their persistence in the story. They did not give up. And they didn't want credit, either, at least not that much. I need to read more Legion of Substitute Heroes stories! It would only take 23 years (our time) but one of them would finally make it into the Legion - Polar Boy.
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