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Post by berkley on Oct 12, 2020 17:33:05 GMT -5
X-Men #141, part 1 of Days of Future Past. That storyline was later milked, exploited and abused for all it was worth, and then its corpse was exhumed and abused again until it was reduced to tatters, and then it was cloned and exploited to death the same way again... but BOY! did the original deliver. An absolute classic of a bronze age comic. My main complain at the time, was that it got me hoping for another lengthy saga, and next month it was over and then Byrne left Maybe that's the reason it feels kind of anti-climactic in my memory, like it didn't really live up to the esteem it seems a lot of fans hold it in.
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Post by Ozymandias on Oct 13, 2020 3:29:22 GMT -5
To say that it was anti-climactic is an understatement. All that setup, all those new characters and for what, to kill most of them right away? After all the planning that went into the Dark Phoenix Saga, this felt like a Silver Age resolution.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 13, 2020 4:47:46 GMT -5
Don't agree at all. Can't speak for anyone else, but personally I hold Days of Future Past in such high esteem precisely because it's a masterfully told story and the troubling, ambiguous ending is the whole point. The problem is that later Claremont couldn't leave well enough alone and kept mining that dystopian alternate future for story ideas and bringing characters from it into the present.
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 13, 2020 14:28:50 GMT -5
Bought back in the day: Amazing Adventures #14 Avengers #203 DC Comics Presents #29 Fantastic Four #226 Justice League of America #186 Legion of Super-Heroes #271 Micronauts #25 New Adventures of Superboy #13 New Teen Titans #3 Rom #14 Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #1 X-Men #141
Bought much more recently: Action Comics #515 Iron Man #142 Marvel Two-in-One #71 Tales to Astonish #14
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 2, 2020 11:23:31 GMT -5
Purchased back in November 1980
Conan the barbarian #119 : We meet Conan's grandfather, someone who should have been be a major character considering that according to Robert Howard, it is his Granpa's tales of his voyages in the south that led Conan to journey far from Cimmeria. Dark Horse would later do a bang-up job with Conan's grandfather. Here, he's still the inspiration for his grandson's wanderlust, but is there for a single issue. The man also doesn't look his age, being caught in a Faustian bargain with a wizard who granted him back his youth in exchange for his services... and the life of his grandson. Not being able to sacrifice his kin to purchase even more years, Granpa betrays the wizard and ends up an old man nearing death once again.
Micronauts #26 : there was a time when a team-up with Nick Fury was actually an event! Here SHIELD and the 'Nauts battle the forces of Hydra and Baron Karza. Not as good as the Mantlo-Goden issues, but quite enjoyable nevertheless.
Savage sword of Conan #60 : This is the last issue of Roy Thomas's original run (although a few inventory stories would be used later on). It is worth hunting down because of its back-up feature: pages and pages of unused storyboards for the intro to an eventual Conan movie (not the Arnold one), fully drawn by Neal Adams. Adams draws an excellent Conan; I am convinced that his take on the character is the closest we have to what Robert Howard envisioned.
Uncanny X-Men #142 : "This issue, everybody dies!" Was there ever a better blurb? Part 2 of the original Days of Future Past storyline, and one of the highest points of this title's long life. This issue was waiting for me in our mailbox after a blizzard forced my family to stay stuck in a motel for two days while on our way back from the holidays. Luckily, the mailbox didn't let any snow in.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 2, 2020 13:03:12 GMT -5
I'd missed X-Men #141 so I had to figure things out from just #142. Around the same time in Spider-Woman #36 (and maybe some others) there was this promo ad for it... Another highlight of the time were the Captain America goes to England and faces Baron Blood issues, #253 & 254; a bit of Hammer films comes to Marvel comics! Iron Man got new heavy-duty space armor, and Ka-Zar #1 was right around the corner and that was one of my favorite titles for it's first year or so...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 2, 2020 13:13:33 GMT -5
Purchased in November 1980
Avengers 204 Batman 332 Brave & Bold 171 Captain America 254 DCCP 30 (GA Atom back-up) Detective 499 Flash 294 Ghosts 97 Legion of Super-Heroes 272 Marvel Super Action 28 Moon Knight 4 New Teen Titans 4 PPTSS 51 Secrets of the Legion 2 Thor 304 Warlord 42 What If 25 Wonder Woman 276 (Huntress back-up) X-Men 142
I was clearly really flush with money because this was a huge month at the time. I will say that my birthday is in early November so that might explain part of it.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 2, 2020 13:32:36 GMT -5
Books I later acquired from this on-sale date:
Avengers #204 Batman #332 Cerebus the Aardvark #22 Epic Illustrated #4 Marvel Team-Up #102 Master of Kung Fu #97 Micronauts #26 Moon Knight #4 New Teen Titans #4 Star Trek #11 Uncanny X-Men #142
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2020 14:44:07 GMT -5
Bought at the time...
Star Wars #44
We were really struggling at this point, so no money for extras, but my parents let me get this one because I was such a huge Star Wars freak at the time, with the agreement, if I got this I wouldn't ask for anything else for a while. This was the last part of the Empire adaptation, and it would be about 6 months before I got another comic.
I have however, gotten several of this month's releases over the years (but no longer have SW 44). These are the ones I still own:
Conan the Barbarian #119 Epic Illustrated #4 G.I. Combat #226 Ghost Rider 53 Ghosts #97 (with a Spectre story) House of Mystery #289 Marvel Premiere #58 Marvel Preview #24 Master of Kung Fu #97 Micronauts #26 Mystery in Space #116 New Teen Titans #4 Power Man and Iron Fist #67 Rom #15 Savage Sword of Conan #60 Secrets of Haunted House #33 Unknown Soldier #248 Warlord #42 World's Finest #267
-M
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 2, 2020 18:38:15 GMT -5
Hm, let's see, based on a look at the covers over at Mike's Newsstand, I had these for sure: Avengers 204 Amazing Spider-man 213 Captain America 254 Iron Man 143 Legion of Super-heroes 272 Secrets of the Legion of Super-heroes 2 Marvel Super Action 28 Marvel Team-up 102 Marvel Two in One 72 Peter Parker 51 X-Men 142 ...and maybe a few more. I know I was reading Flash and Green Lantern pretty regularly at this point, but the covers don't look familiar to me. And I also had these two, which were officially released as DC Special Series nos. 23 and 24, even though the covers would indicate that they're 'DC Blue Ribbon Digests': Oh, man. I loved the digests DC was churning out at the time so much and snapped 'em up whenever I saw them. The World's Finest digest in particular was memorable for the Composite Superman story.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 2, 2020 22:34:20 GMT -5
Really lean month for me.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 1, 2020 23:09:29 GMT -5
Battle of the Planets was the first issue I saw of that comic. It was also the last issue published. That was Western for you. Not a great month, quality-wise. Dazzler #1 was only in comic shops; so, I missed it, but issue 2 was on newsstands. Didn't exactly knock my socks off. Marvel Spotlight was the last of the Captain Universe stories, which proved to be a disappointment, for me. I had missed the Captain Universe issue of Micronauts, but knew he had beaten off Baron Karza; so, I expected something big; but, instead, got a bunch of people temporarily gaining superpowers, with Ditko art that was fine, but not at the level of his earlier stuff.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 2, 2020 0:52:53 GMT -5
Bought at the time from newsstands Buck Rogers in the 25th Century #11 (only issue I ever had) Captain America #255 Crazy Magazine #71 Daredevil #169 Defenders #93 Ghost Rider #54 Iron Man #144 Ka-Zar the Savage #1 Marvel Super Action #29 (Avengers reprints) Marvel Team-Up #103 Rom #16 Spider-Woman #36 Uncanny X-Men #143
Bought a little after the fact... once I'd found a comic shop... Best of DC #10 (digest) Dazzler #1 Detective Comics #500 (eventually autographed by Dick Giordano) Green Lantern #138 House of Mystery #290 Justice League of America #188 Legion of Super-Heroes #273 Micronauts #27 Mystery in Space #117 Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #3
All Marvels at the spinner racks. I had dropped Batman and The Flash by this point after trying them for awhile, also Moon Knight and She-Hulk. I seem to remember getting a lot of the DCs at a big yearly discount clearance below cover price, but the Dazzler, Micronauts and Detective special I sought out specifically.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 2:06:04 GMT -5
I currently own a bunch of stuff from this month acquired as back issues (and there were other I got as back issues that I no longer own as well), but nothing from the stands this month. The Empire adaptation was done in Star Wars, so I wasn't getting that, and it would be six or seven months before I got another issue off the stands.
What I recognize as having now in single issue format includes:
Battle of the Planets #10 Buck Rogers #11 Conan the Barbarian #120 Detective Comics #500 Ghost Rider 54 Ghosts #98 (Spectre-app) House of Mystery #290 (Kubert cover) Justice League of America #188 Ka-Zar the Savage #1 King Conan #5 Master of Kung Fu #98 Micronauts #27 Mystery in Space #117 New Teen Titans #5 Savage Sword of Conan #61 Secrets of Haunted House #34
-M
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 2, 2020 8:21:21 GMT -5
I had about a dozen offerings from the spinner rack this month. Looking at the covers over at Mike's Newsstand, these two really struck a chord: Both perfectly fine issues - with the Cap containing a very well written and beautifully redrawn retelling of his origin - but they were bittersweet for me, because they were the last issues with John Byrne as penciler (and Roger Stern also stepped away from Cap -thus ending what I consider the finest run of issues in that title). Byrne's departure from X-men in particular was devastating for me back then.
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