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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 22, 2016 20:15:34 GMT -5
Seeing all these 1970s Marvel reprint covers vs. the originals cements my distaste for them
Even when drawn by a favorite artist like Gil Kane or Starlin or whomever, they are so crowded and so busy. The logos seem to take over 33% of the cover and the rest of the space has the characters mouthing off unnecessary dialogue that I can swear it was written by Roy Thomas with left over yappings from his other assignments. Can't they just shut up and pose?
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 22, 2016 21:03:24 GMT -5
Seeing all these 1970s Marvel reprint covers vs. the originals cements my distaste for them Even when drawn by a favorite artist like Gil Kane or Starlin or whomever, they are so crowded and so busy. The logos seem to take over 33% of the cover and the rest of the space has the characters mouthing off unnecessary dialogue that I can swear it was written by Roy Thomas with left over yappings from his other assignments. Can't they just shut up and pose? LOL !  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 23, 2016 5:11:59 GMT -5
I can't believe that Sable was popular enough to warrant a reprint series.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 23, 2016 5:17:37 GMT -5
I can't believe that Sable was popular enough to warrant a reprint series. Yeah, they reprinted the first 10 issues when it had that TV series that lasted, I believe, one year |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 23, 2016 5:27:25 GMT -5
Yes, I remember that series. I wanted it to succeed but boy, was it lousy.
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Post by Farrar on Aug 23, 2016 11:28:50 GMT -5
This is a sentimental favorite for me. Although it doesn't depict any of the actual reprinted stories, having all the characters charging on the cover has always been cool to me.  Oh I loved this particular cover (and comic)! It was so exciting to see this on the stands as I was a regular reader of the current Avengers and X-Men comics, so this issue seemed heaven-sent. Unfortunately my jubilation was quickly halved as by the next issue MSH no longer included Avengers reprints. However it still contained X-Men reprints, and so I of course continued to buy this title for the X-Men--loved the early Lee-Kirby issues, also loved Reinman and Stone on the inking. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 23, 2016 16:27:29 GMT -5
Tony Isabella has written about his days on staff at Marvel - he describes hearing screams of anguish from assistant editors who had to remove two pages from a classic story to fit it into a reprint book while keeping the story coherent.
A lot of Marvel's "horror/monster" reprint books of the 70s had new covers.
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Post by Farrar on Aug 23, 2016 19:39:27 GMT -5
  And here's an example of an addition to the original story rather than an excision; I had 1961's Lois Lane #27 as a back issue and later on, when I bought LL #95 (a Giant issue) I was surprised to see this additional sequence in the reprint:  The above panels were not in the original story. I get why these were added to the reprint (to explain how Lois's hair would return once her head reverted to its original size)...but the additional panels undermined the main drama of the story, which was the great lengths Lois went to in order to avoid being seen by Superman. I guess though by 1969 readers were demanding more realism in the formerly fairy tale-ish LL stories and DC realized the audiences' expectations had changed. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 23, 2016 20:23:49 GMT -5
^^
I think Lois is the friend in need. Superman's a friend indeed.
Nice detective work, Farrar!
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 23, 2016 21:56:15 GMT -5
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Post by Farrar on Aug 23, 2016 22:13:55 GMT -5
^^ I think Lois is the friend in need. Superman's a friend in deed. Exactly--that would make a lot more sense, wouldn't it? The additional dialogue is sloppy. The new panels stuck out like a sore thumb. I remember I was on vacation with my family when I got this Lois Lane Giant, and I couldn't wait to get back to the hot sticky city and back to my comics so I could compare the Giant to the original issue. Purist that I was (am), the new panels really bothered me! Here are the pages in question--you can see that the words in the reprint's last panel also make no sense, as she's thinking she can now "go home and face Superman"--but they just saw each other two panels earlier!   |
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 23, 2016 22:31:40 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 23, 2016 22:35:31 GMT -5
This is a sentimental favorite for me. Although it doesn't depict any of the actual reprinted stories, having all the characters charging on the cover has always been cool to me. Oh I loved this particular cover (and comic)! It was so exciting to see this on the stands as I was a regular reader of the current Avengers and X-Men comics, so this issue seemed heaven-sent. Unfortunately my jubilation was quickly halved as by the next issue MSH no longer included Avengers reprints. However it still contained X-Men reprints, and so I of course continued to buy this title for the X-Men--loved the early Lee-Kirby issues, also loved Reinman and Stone on the inking. Conversely I was saddened when this issue came out because it meant the end of original stories in the Marvel Super-Heroes series. Previously it was the Marvel version of Showcase, a try-out title for potential new starring-characters. I looked forward for it's arrival, wondering what Marvel would try out next. In addition, this was the series they reprinted golden-age stories. Alas, I walked away from this book for I already owned or read the stories they were reprinting |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 24, 2016 3:52:30 GMT -5
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