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Post by lobsterjohnson on Feb 21, 2017 23:34:00 GMT -5
Steve Ditko: The Question I haven't read the Ditko Question stories in a while, but just today I remembered the one where he's fighting some crooks in a warehouse or something, and keeps switching back and forth from Vic Sage to the Question so the bad guys would think they were fighting two different people. That was great. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2017 10:05:11 GMT -5
Gardner Fox : Kothar the barbarian, What? You might say. Who? Is that even a comic? No, it isn't (although one Kothar novel was adapted in the pages of Conan the barbarian). Kothar is the hero of a handful of short novels and novelettes, and they are unapologetically silly and unpretentious. they're also a whole lot of clean and minfless fun, just the way a silly sword and sorcery series should be. I like Kothar better than any other thing Fox has written. If I were Cei-U, I would summon the choice from the left field! Bought this back when dirt was new!  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 22, 2017 10:17:45 GMT -5
Gardner Fox : Kothar the barbarian, What? You might say. Who? Is that even a comic? No, it isn't (although one Kothar novel was adapted in the pages of Conan the barbarian). Kothar is the hero of a handful of short novels and novelettes, and they are unapologetically silly and unpretentious. they're also a whole lot of clean and minfless fun, just the way a silly sword and sorcery series should be. I like Kothar better than any other thing Fox has written. If I were Cei-U, I would summon the choice from the left field! Bought this back when dirt was new! Looks cool!!! My copy is in French. I think it's the only time it was published in the language of Voltaire.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2017 10:23:34 GMT -5
Bought this back when dirt was new! Looks cool!!! My copy is in French. I think it's the only time it was published in the language of Voltaire. I can't read it, but I defend your right to buy it! Mine was from 1969, in the wake of the success of Conan; yours looks more like it's being pitched as sophisticated science-fantasy. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 22, 2017 11:01:11 GMT -5
Yes it was, and as was common with translated works the artist had no idea what the book was about. I'm not sure he even had more than the title to work with!
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2017 11:18:46 GMT -5
Yes it was, and as was common with translated works the artist had no idea what the book was about. I'm not sure he even had more than the title to work with! And where the hell was Kothar on that cover, now that I think of it?  |
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Post by MDG on Feb 22, 2017 12:15:18 GMT -5
I have one Kothar paperback that I picked up because it was Fox and had a good Jeff Jones cover (unlike the one above which, if it is Jones, must be very early). Never read it though; don't care for S&S.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 13:55:11 GMT -5
Jim Aparo - his work on The Brave & the Bold.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2017 13:57:41 GMT -5
Kanigher, anyway. Joe Kubert had so many...  |
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