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Post by badwolf on Feb 9, 2015 12:44:38 GMT -5
Does that run have the issue where Spider-Man and Doctor Doom go back in time to the Puritan era? I remember reading that as a kid... must find it again.
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Post by paulie on Feb 9, 2015 13:32:14 GMT -5
Does that run have the issue where Spider-Man and Doctor Doom go back in time to the Puritan era? I remember reading that as a kid... must find it again. I need to find that too. Marvel Team-Up 1-50 are tough to find though. You can't just roll on into the comics shop and pick these up. That issue sounds like a hoot.
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 9, 2015 13:41:29 GMT -5
I've read the first 4 issues of New Mutants. I'm liking it so far. No great foes, but very goo characterization and much better art than I had expected. I haven't read this in decades, but for some reason I didn't expect to like the art very much.
I'm also reading the Marvel Star Trek series via IDW's Star Trek Omnibus. I've read issues 4-10. It's OK, For the most part, the writing is pretty good and is fairly consistent with the 60's TV show (except one or two really bad issues) but I'm disappointed in the art, even though Dave Cockrum has been the penciller for most of the issues. I don't know if it's the pencilling, the inking, or the coloring, but there's something I don't like about the art.
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Post by badwolf on Feb 9, 2015 14:13:49 GMT -5
I've read the first 4 issues of New Mutants. I'm liking it so far. No great foes, but very goo characterization and much better art than I had expected. I haven't read this in decades, but for some reason I didn't expect to like the art very much. Much as I love Sal's and Bill S.'s art later on, I think Bob McLeod was the perfect artist for the book.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 9, 2015 15:50:07 GMT -5
Does that run have the issue where Spider-Man and Doctor Doom go back in time to the Puritan era? I remember reading that as a kid... must find it again. I need to find that too. Marvel Team-Up 1-50 are tough to find though. You can't just roll on into the comics shop and pick these up. That issue sounds like a hoot. Yes, the Puritan-era books are in the group I read yesterday. As for availability, it depends where you live. I just bought a bunch of the issues in the teens a couple of weekends ago for $2 each, and I found a bunch in the 30 - 50 range for $1 each.
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 9, 2015 16:10:56 GMT -5
I've read the first 4 issues of New Mutants. I'm liking it so far. No great foes, but very goo characterization and much better art than I had expected. I haven't read this in decades, but for some reason I didn't expect to like the art very much. Much as I love Sal's and Bill S.'s art later on, I think Bob McLeod was the perfect artist for the book. He even did a great job of inking Sal's work on this series. Sal's art has never looked better!
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Post by badwolf on Feb 9, 2015 16:27:21 GMT -5
Much as I love Sal's and Bill S.'s art later on, I think Bob McLeod was the perfect artist for the book. He even did a great job of inking Sal's work on this series. Sal's art has never looked better! True, I forgot he continued to ink the book.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 9, 2015 17:25:23 GMT -5
Does that run have the issue where Spider-Man and Doctor Doom go back in time to the Puritan era? I remember reading that as a kid... must find it again. That came out when I was in the first months of reading comics regularly. My first issue of Marvel Team-Up was #39 with the Human Torch, and then I got #40 (the second part of the story) with the Sons of the Tiger.
Then I missed #41 and #42 (with the Vision and the Scarlet Witch), the first two parts of a four-part story. (I picked them up a few years later for 50 cents each.) But I got #43 (that's the one where Dr. Doom shows up!) and didn't miss an issue of Marvel Team-Up for years and years!
The story ends in #44 (with Moondragon), but Spidey's cross-time adventures continue for two more issues with Killraven in #45 and Deathlok in #46. (It's an unsettling thought that the "future world of 1991" in the Deathlok story was 25 years ago!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 17:28:36 GMT -5
Does that run have the issue where Spider-Man and Doctor Doom go back in time to the Puritan era? I remember reading that as a kid... must find it again. That came out when I was in the first months of reading comics regularly. My first issue of Marvel Team-Up was #39 with the Human Torch, and then I got #40 (the second part of the story) with the Sons of the Tiger.
Then I missed #41 and #42 (with the Vision and the Scarlet Witch), the first two parts of a four-part story. (I picked them up a few years later for 50 cents each.) But I got #43 (that's the one where Dr. Doom shows up!) and didn't miss an issue of Marvel Team-Up for years and years!
The story ends in #44 (with Moondragon), but Spidey's cross-time adventures continue for two more issues with Killraven in #45 and Deathlok in #46. (It's an unsettling thought that the "future world of 1991" in the Deathlok story was 25 years ago!)
Mine's a similar story, I got 40 (Sons of Tiger), 42 (Vision), 43 (Doom) and 45 (Killraven) off the stands as a kid and tried to piece the story together from the parts I had (which typifies my reading experience of comics as a kid as I rarely managed to get several issues in a row of any title). -M
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Post by paulie on Feb 9, 2015 21:13:27 GMT -5
That came out when I was in the first months of reading comics regularly. My first issue of Marvel Team-Up was #39 with the Human Torch, and then I got #40 (the second part of the story) with the Sons of the Tiger.
Then I missed #41 and #42 (with the Vision and the Scarlet Witch), the first two parts of a four-part story. (I picked them up a few years later for 50 cents each.) But I got #43 (that's the one where Dr. Doom shows up!) and didn't miss an issue of Marvel Team-Up for years and years!
The story ends in #44 (with Moondragon), but Spidey's cross-time adventures continue for two more issues with Killraven in #45 and Deathlok in #46. (It's an unsettling thought that the "future world of 1991" in the Deathlok story was 25 years ago!)
Mine's a similar story, I got 40 (Sons of Tiger), 42 (Vision), 43 (Doom) and 45 (Killraven) off the stands as a kid and tried to piece the story together from the parts I had (which typifies my reading experience of comics as a kid as I rarely managed to get several issues in a row of any title). -M So true. If I had four issues in a row in those days I felt like a champ.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 21:32:00 GMT -5
Just read the 1984 reprint edition of the Archie Goodwin/Walt Simonson Manunter stories from Detective circa '73-'74. I read the trade collections some decade ago and liked it then, but tonight it just struck me how good those stories were, sort of a classic timeless tale that could hold up as great today as it was then. It deserves the rep it has in every way.
-M
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Post by paulie on Feb 9, 2015 22:50:38 GMT -5
Just read the 1984 reprint edition of the Archie Goodwin/Walt Simonson Manunter stories from Detective circa '73-'74. I read the trade collections some decade ago and liked it then, but tonight it just struck me how good those stories were, sort of a classic timeless tale that could hold up as great today as it was then. It deserves the rep it has in every way. -M I always liked the way Archie wrote one of the best stories of the 70s and then brought it to a climax with one of the all-time great Batman stories. Gottdamerung! That '84 reprint is a great way to read the complete story too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 22:57:37 GMT -5
Just read the 1984 reprint edition of the Archie Goodwin/Walt Simonson Manunter stories from Detective circa '73-'74. I read the trade collections some decade ago and liked it then, but tonight it just struck me how good those stories were, sort of a classic timeless tale that could hold up as great today as it was then. It deserves the rep it has in every way. -M I always liked the way Archie wrote one of the best stories of the 70s and then brought it to a climax with one of the all-time great Batman stories. Gottdamerung! That '84 reprint is a great way to read the complete story too. I used to have the Special Edition trade that had the silent story Simonson did after Archie had passed, but it got misplaced in one of the many moves over the years or mistakenly given away/sold in a previous purge of stuff, so when I found the '84 reprint in a dollar bin late last year I snagged it. It was sitting on top of books that I needed to still put away and instead of putting it away tonight, I read through it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I remembered liking it, but couldn't remember any of the details of the story. -M
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Post by spoon on Feb 9, 2015 23:19:50 GMT -5
I'm reading the Charlton Captain Atom stories from the Action Heroes Archives vol. 1 I recently bought. The stories so far are very brief, but I'm enjoying it a lot. At the time, Captain Atom was a feature in Space Adventures. The stories come across as a transition from the sci-fi/monster era when super-heroes were at low ebb to the Silver Age superhero stuff. By that, I mean it doesn't seem completely within the superhero genre. So far there aren't any super-villains. It's more like interesting space stories rather than heroes versus villains.
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 10, 2015 7:00:54 GMT -5
I've read the first 4 issues of New Mutants. I'm liking it so far. No great foes, but very goo characterization and much better art than I had expected. I haven't read this in decades, but for some reason I didn't expect to like the art very much. Much as I love Sal's and Bill S.'s art later on, I think Bob McLeod was the perfect artist for the book. Actually, I love Bob McLeod's work. I'm OK with Sal, but I really, really, dislike Bill Sienkiewicz's art. It will be tough for me to make it through when I get to his issues.
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