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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 20:34:13 GMT -5
First time I ever came across this Marvel title...while rummaging through the ramparts looking for Mad about Millie.  |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 9, 2016 20:48:57 GMT -5
Oh, cool! That's a reprint of the 1956 Atlas series Melvin the Monster with art by the legendary Joe Maneely. Is there anything that man couldn't draw?  |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 9, 2016 22:10:10 GMT -5
I don't think I'm answering this thread properly because it wasn't a "discovery" so much as a resignation after relentless lobbying, but I dove into Punisher Max this year. This was the first Punisher material I'd HELD, much less READ, without scoffing in many years.  Game-changer. Wow. Let me just say, as the absolute LAST fan to come across this work. . .ALL of you were right, the entire time.  I'm only as far as Volume 3, but after Widowmaker, I'm on pins and needles. Ennis' Punisher = definitive (duh!) |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 22:41:34 GMT -5
 Impact Comics (1991). DC licensed the Archie heroes. I missed out on them at the time because I was really focused on Valiant Comics. |
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Post by berkley on Dec 10, 2016 0:38:09 GMT -5
I realised there were a few more stories in Marvel Comics Presents that I was interested in: some just for the artwork (BWS on Weapon X), some I really want to read, like a Don McGregor written Black Panther story with art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer, and a Steve Gerber thing featuring Jennifer Kale.
I've also started liking Don Newton's artwork more with every new sample I see, so I'll probably read Return of the New Gods, in spite of my reservations about Gerry Conway's writing.
(edit:) I'm more than a little annoyed that the BWS artwork is wasted (for me) on a character I dislike, Wolverine, but since Windsor-Smith's body of work is fairly limited I've decided to put up with it. I think that more and more, my future back-issue hunting is going to be focused on artists such as BWS, Gray Morrow, Alfredo Alcala, Bernie Wrightson, etc. Unfortunately, several of them tended to work on anthology series a lot, so I'll have to put up with buying individual issues that might only contain 4 or 5 pages of story that I actually want.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Dec 11, 2016 9:03:42 GMT -5
I realised there were a few more stories in Marvel Comics Presents that I was interested in: some just for the artwork (BWS on Weapon X), some I really want to read, like a Don McGregor written Black Panther story with art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer, and a Steve Gerber thing featuring Jennifer Kale. Steve Gerber wrote a couple of stories in MCP: Man-Thing: Elements of Terror with Tom Sutton in #1-12 and Poison: Vandals of the Heart with Cynthia Martin in #60-67, but I don't think either of those featured Jennifer Kale. She did appear in a Quasar prologue by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Ryan in MCP #29, shortly before featuring in Gerber and Whilce Portacio's prestige format 2-parter, Legion of Night. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 10:44:12 GMT -5
I was aware of Master of Kung Fu, but never had any interest in it, but I bought the first omnibus on a whim and am really digging it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 16:25:11 GMT -5
I was aware of Master of Kung Fu, but never had any interest in it, but I bought the first omnibus on a whim and am really digging it. As much as I adored Giant-Size Spider-Man #2, which featured MoKF, I don't own a single Shang-Chi comic otherwise. So after all this time I am still unaware of anything in that series. |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Dec 11, 2016 18:34:09 GMT -5
I would have to say Warlock was the one I picked up this year and was very glad to have done so. Now I must struggle to hunt down his other early appearances, not a cheap venture thanks to movie speculation.
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