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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 15:41:16 GMT -5
Correction. The second post was a reprint...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 21, 2018 15:45:53 GMT -5
Correction. The second post was a reprint...
I blame the Dreaded Deadline Doom.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 15:47:24 GMT -5
As always I loved your reminiscing about the comics you read in the 60's. I too was a big DC fan. Marvel was different. It took me awhile to get used to their different style. Still like both of them for different reasons.
Sort of like Curly & Shemp. I love both of them in the Three Stooges even though I prefer Curly a little more than Shemp.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 21, 2018 15:55:39 GMT -5
As always I loved your reminiscing about the comics you read in the 60's. I too was a big DC fan. Marvel was different. It took me awhile to get used to their different style. Still like both of them for different reasons. Sort of like Curly & Shemp. I love both of them in the Three Stooges even though I prefer Curly a little more than Shemp. No mention of Curly Joe. Typical.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 16:18:51 GMT -5
As always I loved your reminiscing about the comics you read in the 60's. I too was a big DC fan. Marvel was different. It took me awhile to get used to their different style. Still like both of them for different reasons. Sort of like Curly & Shemp. I love both of them in the Three Stooges even though I prefer Curly a little more than Shemp. No mention of Curly Joe. Typical. And where does Joe Besser fit in?
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 21, 2018 17:50:01 GMT -5
No mention of Curly Joe. Typical. And where does Joe Besser fit in? I was going to say that he slid in between Shemp and Curly Joe deRita, but that has an awkward sound to it.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 21, 2018 17:53:05 GMT -5
As always I loved your reminiscing about the comics you read in the 60's. I too was a big DC fan. Marvel was different. It took me awhile to get used to their different style. Still like both of them for different reasons. Sort of like Curly & Shemp. I love both of them in the Three Stooges even though I prefer Curly a little more than Shemp. Thanks! I felt the same. Reading too many Stan Lee stories back to back to back was like eating too many candy bars at once. You need to balance that off with some seriously presented DC fare. Not quite like eating your vegetables, but somewhat fibrous, to be sure.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 18:07:02 GMT -5
And where does Joe Besser fit in? I was going to say that he slid in between Shemp and Curly Joe deRita, but that has an awkward sound to it. I liked Besser on the Joey Bishop show. I guess the man child act was his acting "style". I was never a fan of Curly Joe because by then they had "dumbed down" the Stooges act to appeal to kids more.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 18:08:29 GMT -5
As always I loved your reminiscing about the comics you read in the 60's. I too was a big DC fan. Marvel was different. It took me awhile to get used to their different style. Still like both of them for different reasons. Sort of like Curly & Shemp. I love both of them in the Three Stooges even though I prefer Curly a little more than Shemp. Thanks! I felt the same. Reading too many Stan Lee stories back to back to back was like eating too many candy bars at once. You need to balance that off with some seriously presented DC fare. Not quite like eating your vegetables, but somewhat fibrous, to be sure. Good analogy.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 21, 2018 18:53:50 GMT -5
I was going to say that he slid in between Shemp and Curly Joe deRita, but that has an awkward sound to it. I liked Besser on the Joey Bishop show. I guess the man child act was his acting "style". I was never a fan of Curly Joe because by then they had "dumbed down" the Stooges act to appeal to kids more. And I loved him as Stinky with Abbott and Costello, too.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 22, 2018 4:59:04 GMT -5
Yeah, like Michael above, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your rundown of that annual and the way it blew your youthful mind. And yes, so much story was packed into those Marvel comics back then. Your comparison to the big events of more recent vintage reminded me of a favorite from my own youth: Showcase 100. It was sort of like Crisis on Infinite Earths, except the entire story was told in a single, roughly 40-page issue, and it had a happy ending.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 22, 2018 9:00:20 GMT -5
Yeah, like Michael above, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your rundown of that annual and the way it blew your youthful mind. And yes, so much story was packed into those Marvel comics back then. Your comparison to the big events of more recent vintage reminded me of a favorite from my own youth: Showcase 100. It was sort of like Crisis on Infinite Earths, except the entire story was told in a single, roughly 40-page issue, and it had a happy ending.Excellent call! Never thought of Showcase 100 as a dress rehearsal for COIE, but it had many similarities. It was a tall order to pull off a "team-up" of every character and team that had ever been featured in Showcase. It was especially tougher because all of the characters were from the same Earth and timeline and Kupperberg and Levitz did not have the advantage of including Superman or Batman to the proceedings (or even to the cover). It had the same kind of unleashed, chaotic, hellzapoppin' feel to it as "Bedlam at the Baxter Building," which, come to think of it, makes me think of the same riotous pandemonium that was the calling card of the classic 1963 movie hit, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Not that Stan was thinking of that when he wrote "Bedlam," but the "Mad World" formula of featuring a large number of characters intertwining in a crazy plot became a part of the Zeitgeist, and led to a bunch of imitations: "Those Maginficent Men in Their Flying Machines" and "The Great Race" (both of which came out in the summer of 1965) jump to mind.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 23, 2018 13:30:57 GMT -5
A Comic Lover's MemoriesLove Them Annuals, Part Two... By contrast, FF Annual 3 looked like a Jackson Pollock painting: somebody had spilled out every Marvel character he could onto the cover into what looked like a whirlpool that a more sophisticated 21st century 11-year-old might describe as a black hole. The panoply of characters, it seemed, were being spun around and grew ever smaller the closer they came to the vortex... What a great description and wonderful overall post, very evocative as always. My first FF Annual bought in "real time" was a few years later, #6 (Sue gives birth to Franklin); but at some point I bought Annual #3 as a back issue. I bought it at the collectibles store--the one right on my block, yay!--for $1.05 (the guy charged 35 cents for regular comics and $1.05 for annuals/giants. To this day I am a whiz at multiples of 35 ). The amazing cover still mesmerizes me.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 23, 2018 15:46:43 GMT -5
Thanks, Farrar! No matter how many times you see that cover, you find yourself drawn into it, don't you? Really a triumph of design for Kirby that out-Sekowskys Sekowsky, whose ability to arrange so many characters so skillfully in small panels in JLA was legendary. I love the way the viewer's eye is drawn to the impassive, imperious Namor up top, and how the Hulk kind of sneaks up on you out of nowhere. Kirby also uses horizontals to create a circular effect (Reed's arm; the flying Torch with his flaming contrail curving around; Medusa's hair). And the intricacy of the design is great, too. It's a perfect way to capture the chaotic tone of the story with characters overlapping, intertwining, confronting characters in other planes. And I love that Kid Colt and the WW2 version of Fury are just tossed in there for the fun of it. For all the silliness associated with DC in the Silver Age, this kind of thing would not have happened there. Just a great cover. Two questions, though: who is the guy in the brown leather jacket under Reed's outstretched wrist (Bruce Banner, maybe?), and who is the guy in some kind of super-villain headgear under Sue's forearm? There must be a character guide to this somewhere that includes them, but I haven't found it.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 23, 2018 15:52:14 GMT -5
Two questions, though: who is the guy in the brown leather jacket under Reed's outstretched wrist (Bruce Banner, maybe?)... The ubiquitous Rick Jones
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