zilch
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Post by zilch on Mar 1, 2016 8:57:17 GMT -5
Avengers #146* (back to our regularly scheduled program...)
Champions #6*
Defenders #36*
FF Annual #11 (no Invaders this month, but a lot of GA goodies in other titles!)
Hulk #200 (always a sucker for anniversary issues!)
Inhumans #5*
Iron Fist #5*
Iron Man #87 (love Blizzard!)
Marvel Premiere #30 (Long Live the (Liberty)Legion!)
Marvel Presents #5*
Marvel Team-UP #46 (loved this 4 part story!)
Metal Men #46 !!!!!!!
Superman #300 (got this one while waiting at the dentist office!)
X-Men #99
*Subscription copies!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2016 10:41:43 GMT -5
Bought off the stands (i.e. had when I was a kid...)
Adventures on the Planet of the Apes #6
Amazing Spider-Man #157
lots more now, but those were what I had at the time they came out.
-M
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Post by MWGallaher on Mar 1, 2016 11:00:30 GMT -5
First, the Chan Count:
Ernie "Chua" Chan is credited as penciling 12 out of 30 DC comics covers this month, but I'll eat my hat if he's not responsible for detailed layouts on Action Comics 460 (Oksner) and Superman 300 (Swan/Oksner). Neither of those guys did that kind of lumpy musculature that makes the characters look like the Remco Archie superhero toys of the 80's. I've got a suspicion that Chan also laid out a few more covers this month, which have a lot of minimal backgrounds (Kung Fu Fighter, Metal Men, Brave & Bold for example).
It looks like DC might be starting to reduce its reliance on Chan for covers, with Giordano and Garcia-Lopez doing three each, and Dominguez doing four.
I'm starting to really resent Chan's dominance of DC's covers in the 70's. I think they were detrimental to the appeal of the line. At the time, I'd grown to pretty much ignoring the covers, myself, realizing that they were rarely indicative of the quality or content of the interiors.
And now, my purchases in March, 1976:
DC:
Brave & Bold 127 I wasn't thrilled to have Wildcat again, but it's B&B...always good!
Hercules Unbound 5 This book had so much potential. It was starting to lose focus, though.
Kobra 3 Inconsistent, but different enough to be attractive.
Metal Men 26 I got sold on the Metal Men reprints I'd seen, and kept buying this to the end.
Plastic Man 13 Same as with Metal Men. I could tell that this didn't compare well to Jack Cole's originals
Superboy & the Legion 217 Loved the Legion!
Swamp Thing 23 This series' decline was starting to make me very sad...
Marvel:
Champions 6 New super-teams were an easy sell.
Defenders 36 Automatic buy for me.
Doc Savage 4 This B&W series was Doc's best run in comics. Very much like the pulps.
Fantastic Four Annual 11 The FF and the Invaders? This was what passed for an "event comic" back then!
Inhumans 5 Never a great book, but it kept me hooked.
Marvel Chillers 5
Marvel Premiere 30
Marvel Presents 5
Marvel Spotlight 28
Marvel Teamup 46
Marvel Two-In-One 16 - It was an exciting time for new features at Marvel, with Tigra, Liberty Legion, Guardians, and Moon Knight. Marvel's team books kept drawing my interest even though I never really loved them. Seeing Deathlok in MTU was nice, and I always kind of liked Ben's guest star Ka-Zar, who was in MTIO this time around (I wasn't consistently buying Ka-Zar's solo title, though, since I skipped it this month).
Planet of the Apes 20 POTA was always an unquestioned buy.
Son of Satan 4 I was waiting for it to get as good as the first installments. It disappointed.
Super-Villain Team-Up 6 Oddball enough to be irresistible.
Tomb of Dracula 25
Warlock 13
X-Men 99 Marvel was really shining with these three titles, genuine standouts.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 1, 2016 13:42:27 GMT -5
Purchased at the time...
Marvel Team-Up 46 (I had no idea what was going on)
Shazam 24 (I suspect the TV show had a lot to do with this purchase)
Have since read a whole passel. But that's what I bought at the time.
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Post by berkley on Mar 1, 2016 18:28:19 GMT -5
comics I bought at the time and remember something about:
Avengers #148 - love the Englehart/Perez run and still regret it didn't continue longer.
Captain America #198 - Kirby's underrated Madbomb saga continues
Conan the Barbarian #63 - the Amra multi-part story isn't a favourite of mine but CtB was never less than solid
Daredevil #134 - not a great period for this series, but there were a few good issues here and there; this wasn't one of them, AFAIR.
Defenders #36 - Gerber's Headmen multi-issue story was probably the peak of his Defenders run, which is saying quite a lot.
Inhumans #5 - decent series but not as good as an Inhumans series should have been
Marvel Presents #5 (Guardians of the Galaxy) - more Gerber; remember enjoying this at the time but not much in the way of detail has stuck with me.
Marvel Spotlight #28 (Moon Knight) - still think they should go back to the Don Perlin MK, evn if just as a variation from the Batman-style cloak
Tomb of Dracula #45 - it's sad that the movie versions of both Blade and Hannibal King are so inferior to the ones Wolfman & Colan gave readers in the comics
Warlock #13 - the Star-Thief two-parte was a pause between the Magus and the Thanos epics.
X-Men #99 - early days of the Claremont X-Men;
Doctor Strange #15 I missed because it never came to our area - distribution was a killer back then.
I think the same is true of some or all of the following:
Amazing Spider-Man #157
Black Goliath #3
Champions #6
Doc Savage #4
Ka-Zar #16
Swamp Thing #23
because I know I was reading all those series at the time but none of this month's covers rings a bell. It's possible I read some of them and they just haven't left an impression after all these years.
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Post by JKCarrier on Mar 2, 2016 0:01:00 GMT -5
Bought at the time:
Action Comics #460
DC Super Stars #4
Fantastic Four #171
Fantastic Four Annual #11
Flash #242
Incredible Hulk #200
Inhumans #5
Justice League of America #131
Limited Collectors' Edition C-44
Limited Collectors' Edition C-45
Marvel Premiere #30
Marvel Presents #5
Metal Men #46
Plastic Man #13
Shazam #24
Super-Team Family #5
Superboy #217
Superman #300
Superman Family #177
Wonder Woman #224
World's Finest Comics #238
Bought as back issues:
Avengers #148
Captain America #198
Defenders #36
Doctor Strange #15
Kobra #3
Marvel Chillers #5
Marvel Double Feature #16
Master of Kung Fu #41
Super-Villain Team-Up #6
Swamp Thing #23
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Post by Action Ace on Apr 1, 2016 20:04:26 GMT -5
back to a very busy month for me APRIL 1976Bought back in the day... Avengers #149 Batman #277 (first Batman comic) Captain America #199 (first Captain America comic) Hulk #201 (first Hulk comic and the only issue of Hulk I've ever bought) Marvel Tales #69 Secret Society of Super Villains #2 Superman #301 World's Finest #239 I now own... Action Comics #461 Adventure Comics #446 All-Star Comics #61 Amazing Spider-Man #158 Batman Family #6 Brave & the Bold #128 Captain America Annual #3 DC Super Stars #5 Detective Comics #451 Fantastic Four #172 Four Star Spectacular #3 Freedom Fighters #3 Invaders #7 Joker #8 Justice League of America #132 Spidey Super Stories #17 Superboy #218 |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 1, 2016 20:59:58 GMT -5
Off the spinner rack back in Apil 1976.
Batman 277
Defenders 37
Joker 8
Marvel's Greatest Comics 64
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Post by JKCarrier on Apr 1, 2016 23:03:23 GMT -5
Bought at the time:
Action Comics #461
Adventure Comics #446
All-Star Comics #61
Batman Family #6
Blackhawk #247
Captain Marvel #45
Daredevil #135
DC Super Stars #5
Fantastic Four #172
Four Star Spectacular #3
Freedom Fighters #3
Invaders #7
Justice League of America #132
Marvel Super-Heroes #58
Marvel Team-Up #47
Marvel Two-in-One #17
Secret Society of Super-Villains #2
Superboy #218
Superman #301
World's Finest Comics #239
Picked up later:
Amazing Adventures #37
Avengers #149
Defenders #37
Doctor Strange #16
Eternals #1
Howard the Duck #4
Joker #8
Jungle Action #22
Marvel Feature #5
Master of Kung Fu #42
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 0:27:47 GMT -5
Bought off the racks in '76...
Amazing Spider-Man #158
Invaders #7
Secret Society of Super-Villains #2
lots more gotten later..
-M
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Apr 2, 2016 13:15:26 GMT -5
First, the Chan Count: Ernie "Chua" Chan is credited as penciling 12 out of 30 DC comics covers this month, but I'll eat my hat if he's not responsible for detailed layouts on Action Comics 460 (Oksner) and Superman 300 (Swan/Oksner). Neither of those guys did that kind of lumpy musculature that makes the characters look like the Remco Archie superhero toys of the 80's. I've got a suspicion that Chan also laid out a few more covers this month, which have a lot of minimal backgrounds (Kung Fu Fighter, Metal Men, Brave & Bold for example). It looks like DC might be starting to reduce its reliance on Chan for covers, with Giordano and Garcia-Lopez doing three each, and Dominguez doing four. I'm starting to really resent Chan's dominance of DC's covers in the 70's. I think they were detrimental to the appeal of the line. At the time, I'd grown to pretty much ignoring the covers, myself, realizing that they were rarely indicative of the quality or content of the interiors. I agree. And the DC covers had weak pastel colored backgrounds that made them even more unappealing. And I think they had the single DC logo in the center of the masthead which I didn't like and they had some kind of Bi-Centennial logo also. I wasn't buying any regular comics at this time because most of my favorite artists had left. I was probably buying Warren mags at this time. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 4, 2016 15:25:40 GMT -5
The Chan Count: Ernie "Chua" Chan is credited penciller for 11 out of 33, a full one third of DC covers in April 1976, and as inker for another (Giffen's Claw the Unconquered #8). And I'll eat my hat if he didn't lay out Action #461 (supposedly by Oksner) and Superman 301 (Garcia-Lopez & Oksner), as well as a few others, such as Giordano's Blackhawks cover and Garcia-Lopez's Tarzan #251. Others may like Chan's work, but I'd bet at least of few of his covers--such as this month's JLA #132--actually cost the book a lot of sales. Justice League of America vs. zoo animals?
I bought these from DC off the spinner rack:
Action Comics #461: Aparo Aquaman--done deal!
All-Star Comics #61: JSA--easy sell!
Brave and the Bold #128--Aparo draws Mr. Miracle, my favorite of Kirby's characters!
Freedom Fighters #3--I was a sucker for new super-teams and Golden Age revivals
Joker #8--It was far out to have this guy in his own comic!
Plop #22--I could tell it was winding down.
Secret Society of Super-Villains #2--another weird super-team.
World's Finest #218--Guest starring Gold of the Metal Men...hunh?
From Marvel, I bought:
Astonishing Tales #36--cool, cool Deathlok!
Captain America Annual #3--Kirby!
Defenders #37--every month!
Eternals #1--I was hyped for this, and loved it.
Howard the Duck #4--On board for the full run of this one...
Omega the Unknown #3--...and this one...
Planet of the Apes #21--...and this one...
Skull the Slayer #6--...and this one!
Tomb of Dracula #46--once I got on board, this is one series that never, ever let me down.
COMIC OF THE MONTH: Brave & Bold #128: I loved this cover, these guest stars, this artist, and this series. This was one of the best issues in months.
COVER OF THE MONTH: Kid Colt Outlaw #208: A new Gil Kane western masterpiece with Colt lying gunned down in the street
COMIC I'D MOST LIKE TO OBTAIN: Ringo Kid #28: Another new Gil Kan cover, almost as good as Kid Colt's. I've developed a big appreciation for Marvel's western reprint series, and this one reprinted work by John Severin, so I'd be confident of getting some satisfying artwork.
COMIC WTF: Walt Disney's Moby Duck #23: I don't remember ever knowing about the existence of this member of Disney's Duck Family, but he had his own series for (at least) 23 issues?!
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Post by zilch on Apr 5, 2016 1:23:03 GMT -5
All-Star Comics #61
Amazing Adventures #37
Astonishing Tales #36
Avengers #149*
Captain Marvel #45
Defenders #37*
Fantastic Four #172
Invaders #7*
Kamandi #43
Marvel Super-Heroes #58
Marvel Team-Up #47
Marvel Two-in-One #17
Marvel Triple Action #30
Omega the Unknown #3
Secret Society of Super-Villains #2
Skull the Slayer #6
* Subscription
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 5, 2016 8:46:55 GMT -5
This month contains the first (or second?) superhero comic I ever bought - Fantastic Four #172!
In addition, I'd picked up Avengers #149 (in a trade with a friend back in the late 70's), Superboy #218 and JLA # 132 (both as back issues at the LCS probably around 1979 or so)
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Post by The Captain on Apr 5, 2016 11:02:38 GMT -5
Currently Own:
Amazing Spider-Man #158
Avengers #149
Captain America #199 & Annual #3
Conan the Barbarian #64
Daredevil #135
Defenders #37
Doctor Strange #16
Fantastic Four #172
Howard the Duck #4
Incredible Hulk #201
Invaders #7
Iron Man #88
Jungle Action #22
Marvel Team-Up #47
Marvel Two-In-One #17
Master of Kung Fu #42 & Annual #1
Power Man #33
Skull the Slayer #6 (just bought this three weeks ago)
Thor #249
Tomb of Dracula #46
Werewolf by Night #39
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