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Post by hondobrode on Aug 8, 2016 12:21:26 GMT -5
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 8, 2016 13:26:06 GMT -5
Bought at newsstand: Tweety and Sylvester #62
I don't think I actually bought any superhero comics this month. I was 7 and only just beginning to collect comics, and my purchases were still very sporadic at this point.
Purchased as a back issue in the late 70's or early 80's: Avengers #153 Avengers Annual #6 Fantastic Four #176 Justice League of America #136 Superboy #221
Purchased within the last 10 years: Four Star Spectacular #5 Marvel Treasury Edition #11 Master of Kung Fu #46
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 9, 2016 17:35:43 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Aug 9, 2016 18:38:27 GMT -5
Amazing Adventures #39 (Killraven) : end of the McGregor/Russell Killraven; I remember Russell's artwork looking a bit scratchy this issue; it felt like this saga could have continued for some time, so maybe it was a rush job all around due to a sudden cancellation?
Avengers Annual #6: I liked Perez's arwork but don't recall much about the story. Conway's writing never clicked with me and I found his Avengers even more dull than his usual stuff. I missed the regular book's issue this month.
Captain America #203: great artwork but AFAIR this wasn't one of the better stories of Kirby's 70s run, falling between much superior issues before and after.
Conan the Barbarian #68: bit of a disappointment with Buscema's art looking a bit sketchy, as it often did, to my eyes, when he had to ink an entire issue himself; and a wasted opportunity for the CtB team of Thomas and Buscema to show what they could do with Kull; instead we had Conan predictably getting the better of the earlier REH hero and a forgettable story all round.
Daredevil #139: can't remember much about this one; Wolfman's DD run never really got going, IMO, though in fairness he was hampered by competent but average artwork that did nothing to make these issues memorable.
Defenders #41: nice stand-alone issue with Gerber bringing back on old Doctor Strange villain from the early Ditko days
Defenders Annual #1: finale to one of the best multi-issue superhero epics of all time, and for once the ending lives up to what came before; come to think of it, I'm surprised the Headmen Saga isn't mentioned more often along with more acclaimed examples like the Celestial Madonna, or the Korvac Saga or the Kree-Skrull War, to both the last two of which it is far superior, IMO.
Eternals #5: our first sight of the Eternals' Olympia and the introduction of Zuras, Thena, and Makarri; Thena is another of those very well-conceived female Marvel characters I always say Marvel should make better use of instead of continually turning out female versions of established male heroes.
Fantastic Four #176: nice Perez artwork, though a little subdued by Sinnott's inks; but I always found the Impossible Man annoying, one of those "can-do-anything" characters that leaves the writer too many easy options.
Howard the Duck #6: much as I loved Brunner's art I think the Colan/Leialoha team one of the best to ever work in comics, at least in this series (I think I recall a DD issue where they didn't look nearly as good, but maybe that was just a blip).
Jungle Action #24 (Black Panther): McGregor's last issue, a solid stand-alone story; I remember really liking Keith Pollard's very clean artwork this issue.
Omega the Unknown #5: great series, far ahead of its time; Mooney's art was no more (but never less) than serviceable but Gerber was always one of those writers whose stories so engrossed me that I wasn't too bothered if the artwork was only average.
Savage Sword of Conan #15: a favourite issue of this series with one of Vallejo's best covers and a long, classic Buscema/ALcala story; also Walt Simonson't art in the back-up series is some of my favourite by that artist.
Skull the Slayer #8: can't recall much except that the story had by now strayed a bit from the promising set-up of the first few issues; but Skull is a concept that should be revived by some modern writer, maybe Ellis the next time he's looking for something to do for Marvel.
Strange Tales #188: reprints of the Ditko/Lee Doctor Strange; the Pincers of Power was a rare misstep for the Ditko/Lee Strange, with Dormammu being defeated far too easily.
Thor #253: nothing much to the main story but the back-up by Kraft and Marcos was far better; reviving Tales of Asgard was a great idea, though marred by the low page-count at the time of only 17 pp per issue.
Thor Annual #5: was this the one where Thor got involved in the Trojan War? I don't have my copy to check; I never liked the Buscema/deZuniga team much and the art here looked particularly tired, as I remember it.
Tomb of Dracula #50: the Silver Surfer guest-stars, which shouldn't have worked but Wolfman and Colan make it work; the Surfer shows how out of place and really un-scary Dracula would be in the world of superheroes, with his power dwarfed by the cosmic might of the Surfer; later on, the role played here by the Surfer would be taken by Janus, the angelic son of Dracula and his wife Domini.
Werewolf by Night #41: end of "the Three something-I-forget" story which I recall liking at the time though the details escape my memory. The Three whatever-they-were-called were very strange and appropriate to a supernatural series. I loved the Moench/Perlin WtB, especially once Perlin started inking his own pencils
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simayl
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Post by simayl on Aug 20, 2016 4:32:43 GMT -5
Marvel
Amazing Adventures #39 Avengers #153 Captain America #203 Captain Marvel #47 Fantastic Four #176 Howard The Duck #6 Marvel Classics Comics #9 Dracula Tomb of Dracula #50 Werewolf By Night #41
DC
Blackhawk #249 Superboy and The Legion of Super-Heroes #221
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 22, 2016 15:19:41 GMT -5
God, did DC have crappy covers then!
But then we all know that. This was the Slough of Despond for DC, and the end was not in sight.
At this point, I was buying DC stuff for one of three reasons: (a) reprints; (b) habit; (c) encouraging something new that seemed the tiniest bit promising; (d) I liked it.
Those reasons often weren't enough.
All-Star (c, d) Batman, Batman Family, Detective (b) Blackhawk (c) But it stank! Four-Star Spectacular (Talk about your hyperbolic titles!) (a) Jonah Hex (d) Legion (b) Teen Titans (c) Really stank!
Marvel had some better choices: Invaders, Savage Sword, Red Sonja, MOKF, Omega, Black Panther, War of the Worlds, Captain marvel, Howard the Duck, and a batch of reprint titles. They weren't all great, but thet were at the worst, different and/or promising.
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 1, 2016 16:52:08 GMT -5
SEPTEMBER 1976 bought back in the day Action Comics #466 Detective Comics #466 (Signalman!) Fantastic Four #177 (Marvel needs to dump Thor and Daredevil and give me more Captain Ultra and Texas Twister!) Justice League of America #137 Marvel Team Up #52 Spidey Super Stories #20 Super Friends #2 Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #222 Superman #306 now owned Amazing Spider-Man #163 Avengers #154 Batman #282 Brave & the Bold #131 Captain America #204 DC Special #25 DC Super Stars #10 Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Volume 1: Batman Green Lantern #92 Invaders #11 Iron Man #93 Metal Men #49 Spectacular Spider-Man #1 Isis #2 Super Heroes Battle Super Gorillas #1 Super Team Family #8 Teen Titans #45 Wonder Woman #227 World's Finest #242
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Post by Bronze age andy on Sept 1, 2016 19:34:31 GMT -5
On sale Sep.76.
Avengers 154 Champions 9 Daredevil 140 Defenders 42 Doctor Strange 20 Eternals 6 Fantastic Four 177 Marvel Presents 8 Marvel Two in One 22 Power Man 38 Super Team Family 8 Thor 254
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 23:13:03 GMT -5
The only book that I had off the racks as a kid was Super-Villain Team-Up #9.
There are several from this month that I currently own, but my favorites of these are:
2001: A Space Odyssey #1 (Kirby!) Eternals #6 (Kirby!) Marvel Premiere #33 (Solomon Kane by Howard Chaykin) Marvel Spotlight #31 (Fury by Starlin & Chaykin) Warlord #4 (Grell hitting his stride on the book)
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Post by zilch on Sept 2, 2016 19:53:44 GMT -5
Avengers #156* (Kirby cover and always dug Attuma!) Champions #9* Defenders #42* Inhumans #8* Invaders #11* (Kirby cover and Blue Bullet!!) Iron Fist #10* JLA #137* (team-up time, but the Supes/Cap battle was a bit of a rip-off, tho) Kamandi #48 (now buying this off the stands) Marvel Presents #8* (really like GoTG!) Metal Men #49 (!!!) Nova #4 Super-Team Family #8 Super-Villain Team-Up #9 (crossover!!! with Avengers !!!) X-Men #102* (I think i was getting this in subscription by now... maybe later, if so i picked it up off the stands)
* subscriptions
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Post by berkley on Sept 2, 2016 22:57:19 GMT -5
A link to September 19762001, a Space Odyssey #1 - great cover to the 1st issue of this brilliant SF anthology series by Kirby Amazing Spider-Man #163 - I was reading Spider-Man mostly out of habit by now; not bad, in retrospect, but the magic of the Ditko and Romita runs was missing, IMO Captain America #204 - CA wasn't up there with my favourite Kirby series but always solid Conan the Barbarian #69 - Val Mayerick's pencils were so swamped by Tony Dezuniga's inks we never got to see what Mayerik's Conan might really look like Daredevil #140 - as with Spider-Man, I was reading DD out of loyalty for the most part around this time; there'd be the occasional good issue but I don't recall this being one of them Doctor Strange #20 - Wolfman's story seemed like it might have potential but he was off the book before we got to see much more; I never took to Rudy Nebres's art, so another depressingly poor instalment for what had been possibly my favourite series under Englehart Eternals #6 - Thena intervenes in the Deviants' attack on NYC; I've always been disappointed in the failure of later writers to appreciate the significance of this character and the important role she played in the whole Eternals concept. Howard the Duck #7 - one of the less memorable issues of this great series for me, but only because almost every other issue up to then had been a near-masterpiece. I haven't read the series all the way through for decades though, so as with almost all these comments, my impressions are based on very old memories. Inhumans #8 - nice Perez artwork, but this series wasn't one of Moench's better efforts on the whole; pretty decent, and I was always a fan of the characters Marvel Premiere #33 (Solomon Kane) - always enjoyed Chaykin's style, even though it probably wasn't really suited to this particular REH character; the striped sleeves were a little, for example, though distinctive. Son of Satan #7 - a decent supernatural series, though not up to the level of Gerber's run; Trinidad's art was good, but I would have liked to see it how it might have looked with a different inker. Spectacular Spider-Man #1 - don't remember much about it except I always liked the Tarantula's costume Tomb of Dracula #51 - this series never disappointed; I don't think there was a weak issue for pretty much the entire run, certainly not after Wolfman's first few efforts X-Men #102 - enjoyable superhero stuff from Claremont and Cockrum; I remembered the Juggernaut from the old X-Men when I was much younger;
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simayl
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Post by simayl on Sept 3, 2016 7:12:40 GMT -5
Marvel Avengers #154 Captain America #204 Fantastic Four #177 Howard The Duck #7
DC Superboy and The Legion of Super-Heroes #222 Warlord #4
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Post by JKCarrier on Sept 3, 2016 13:58:35 GMT -5
Avengers #154 Brave and the Bold #131 Daredevil #140 DC Super Stars #10Defenders #42 Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1 Batman SC Fantastic Four #177 Green Lantern #92 Howard the Duck #7 Inhumans #8 Invaders #11 Isis #2 Justice League of America #137 Marvel Double Feature #19 Marvel Premiere #33 Marvel Presents #8 Marvel Spotlight #31 Marvel Team-Up #52 Master of Kung Fu #47 Metal Men #49 Ragman #3 Spectacular Spider-Man #1 Starfire #3 Super Friends #2 Super-Heroes Battle Super-Gorillas #1 Super-Team Family #8 Super-Villain Team-Up #9 Superboy #222 Superman #306 Wonder Woman #227 X-Men #102
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 4, 2016 13:24:56 GMT -5
Ernie Chan still wreaking mediocrity through the DC line. (Was this guy overworked, or what?) Particularly ugly: JLA 137 (At this point the hallowed summer crisis/ team-up had jumped not just the shark, but Monstro and Moby-Dick as well.) Superman's looks as if he's been assembled from several different donors. That right arm is especially odd. He looks like a Macy's Day balloon. And what's with the perspective? Where exactly are the figures in the background standing? Ernie should have either straightened the mountain or angled the figures. Or are we to think that the mountain is jutting out of the ground at an impossible angle? You gain even more respect for the draftsmanship of Murphy Anderson and Mike Sekowsky when you see this kind of hodge-podge mishmash. ![](http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/justice-league-of-america/137-1.jpg) And look at this cover for (A) DC Superstars; (B) DC Superstars Giant; (C) DC Superstars Giant Presents Strange Sports Stories; or (D) Strange Sports Stories. Am I mistaken, or isn't a cover supposed to entice you to buy the book???! ![](http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/4/44/DC_Super-Stars_Vol_1_10.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/270?cb=20100805174831) And don't tell me you can't make a baseball cover exciting! Habit buys: Batman, Detective, Brave and the Bold, JLAReprint buys: 3 Musketeers, Super-Gorillas (!) Intrigued by: Ragman, Hercules Unbound, Metal Men, Super-Team FamilyAt Marvel, most covers look like a Malthusian fever dream; who the hell was the Art Director? I remember buying Howard the Duck, because it was so refreshingly different, Tomb of Dracula because it was well written and drawn, Marvel Spotlight to support Nick Fury, MOKF because it was one of the best written and drawn comics out at the time, the Invaders because nostalgic fun, Marvel Premiere becuase of Chaykin on Solomon Kane, and the inexplicably reprinted Dr. Droom, renamed Dr. Druid, in Weird Wonder Tales, because it had a Kirby cover, goofy Atlas stuff inside, and the Gorlion!
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 5, 2016 22:10:34 GMT -5
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