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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 16:02:09 GMT -5
Classic stuff I have read recently or am currently making my way through...
-the first 2 volumes of the Batman Chronicles with the early GA stuff -the Deadman stories from Strange Adventures collected in the mid-80's Baxter mini -The first volume of the Golden Age Captain America Masterworks -Frazetta's Shining Knight stories collected in the Masterworkks of Comic Art mini issues from DC in the mid-80s -the second Checker volume of classic Alex Raymond Flash Gordon strips from '35-'36 -a handful of Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos issues I picked up late last year and just read through as I was filing them away
and not quite comics but comic related, made my way through Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes for the first time (I had read other Burroughs Tarzan over the years but never the original), and a handful of early (non-Conan) material by Robert E. Howard
I also read my first work by Jacques Tardi from the local library, The Bloody Streets of Paris.
-M
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 20, 2015 22:12:59 GMT -5
Read this....very good story. Had heard it was and that is why I got it and it is up there with ASM The Kid Who Collects Spider-man for one of the more enduring stories I have read from Marvel in the 80's
On a side note...Impossible Man is the most annoying character IMO. No real purpose and just takes the FF to an even cornier level that I just find silly
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Post by badwolf on Jan 20, 2015 22:41:32 GMT -5
Good MTIO issue...been a long time since I've read that one.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 21, 2015 3:38:39 GMT -5
Read this....very good story. Had heard it was and that is why I got it and it is up there with ASM The Kid Who Collects Spider-man for one of the more enduring stories I have read from Marvel in the 80's
On a side note...Impossible Man is the most annoying character IMO. No real purpose and just takes the FF to an even cornier level that I just find silly Great issue of Marvel Two-In-One. I only recently acquired that too...think it was late last summer. Anmyway, it's a really nice story that features the Sandman at his most interesting. As for Impossible Man....yeah, I kinda feel that way too.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2015 4:21:14 GMT -5
Picked up the Ka-Zar and Dr. Doom runs in Astonishing Tales again-read the first 3 issues at the tail end of lat year and then got derailed in my reading of anything in December. Read 4 and 5 this evening. Some great art by Barry Smith on Ka-Zar and Wally Wood on the Doom strip (then Tuska takes over, eh), and I enjoyed the saga of Garokk and Zaladane in Ka-Zar, but the Doom stories are mediocre at best (which is par for the course for Larry Lieber for me). 3 more to go before the Doom strip (and my run of issues owned) ends.
-M
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 21, 2015 7:57:47 GMT -5
Stan's Silver Surfer: Parable was perhaps my favorite Surfer, though I really disliked the art. Dislike Moebius' art? That's comic book heresy! Then burn me at the stake., I thought it was horrible and almost ruined a great Stan Lee story for me.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 21, 2015 7:59:23 GMT -5
and not quite comics but comic related, made my way through Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes for the first time (I had read other Burroughs Tarzan over the years but never the original), and a handful of early (non-Conan) material by Robert E. Howard -M I read Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes last year for the first time, and have several other Burroughs Tarzans sitting on my Kindle, waiting to be read. It was good.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 21, 2015 8:05:20 GMT -5
Silver Surfer #1 from 1982 by Byrne and Lee was quite enjoyable. Good story, great art, I really liked it. I never knew it existed until I stumbled across it while picking through a collection recently.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2015 8:18:33 GMT -5
I have a chunk of his solo series in the 60's and 70's. Of course the later issues are easier to get and much more affordable, but some of those earlier issues are collected in MMWs, and I have quite a few of those. Amazing stuff. But if I had to pick one single writer for Namor, it'd always be Roy Thomas. There are plenty of great writers who wrote him during his solo, but Roy, to me, has heart for Namor. I agree. The first 38 issues are the best. Roy loves his Golden Age characters. I think when Roy starts writing him, that is when Namor gets just a little bit softer. It seems to me that when Stan wrote Namor, he wrote him to be a little too much of a tyrant for my liking. And I mainly disliked how Stan wrote how Namor would speak to Lady Dorma. "SILENCE WOMAN!" is not something you see a ton of later on with Namor. As the character was developed more, and his actual history formed and gathered, we learn how much respect Namor actually has for women, greatly due to his relationship with his mother.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 21, 2015 12:07:19 GMT -5
Read this....very good story. Had heard it was and that is why I got it and it is up there with ASM The Kid Who Collects Spider-man for one of the more enduring stories I have read from Marvel in the 80's
On a side note...Impossible Man is the most annoying character IMO. No real purpose and just takes the FF to an even cornier level that I just find silly
There is one really great Impossible Man story.... it's a New Mutants Annual (or maybe one of the 'Summer Specials', where he does a 'anything you can do, I can do better' battle with Douglock.. it's hilarious. Read a couple old Superman's yesterday... 352 was really awesome... Destiny comes and tell Superman he's being too helpful, and forces him not to save people... he watches as some people save themselves, including Lois. Lesson Learned... I know others (Notably Kurt Busiek) have told a similar story, but it's always a good one when well done.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 21, 2015 12:30:33 GMT -5
There is one really great Impossible Man story.... it's a New Mutants Annual (or maybe one of the 'Summer Specials', where he does a 'anything you can do, I can do better' battle with Douglock.. it's hilarious. That's a good one. I also like the issue of Excalibur where they go to an Earth with alternate versions of all the heroes and villains. And that X-Men annual with the scavenger hunt. Coincidentally, these were all written by Chris Claremont (and two of them drawn by Alan Davis.)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 21, 2015 13:28:15 GMT -5
Sandman and Thing having a beer together? Now that's something interesting to read.
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Post by paulie on Jan 21, 2015 13:39:48 GMT -5
I always liked the Impossible Man story in MTIO #60. Great art from Perez-Day and a funny story. It reminded me of the Supes-Mister Mytzlplk Silver Age tales.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 21, 2015 13:45:29 GMT -5
Sandman and Thing having a beer together? Now that's something interesting to read. The story occurs immediately after Sandman's traumatic bonding experience with Hydro-Man . He decides he's done with the criminal life...but he has to convince Ben.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 21, 2015 13:55:28 GMT -5
Sandman and Thing having a beer together? Now that's something interesting to read. The story occurs immediately after Sandman's traumatic bonding experience with Hydro-Man . He decides he's done with the criminal life...but he has to convince Ben. I'm no Sandman or Spiderman buff, but after reading Byrne's FF back in the 90's when I discovered it, I went through a faze of reading A LOT of Thing's titles, like The Thing, MTIO, Marvel Team Up and other various Marvel titles he was in, (which he seemed to be all over Marvel like Wolverine is/has back then) but that one I've missed all these years. So the recounting of the story will be new to me. And I've liked a lot of the "hanging out" issues that happen in super hero comics. Marvel Fanfare #15 is one of my favorite examples of that type of story.
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