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Post by driver1980 on Nov 13, 2024 10:53:54 GMT -5
I bought a bulk box of comics from the CBG back in the 90's, and it included an almost complete run of Atlas comics, with duplicates... I gave them away, not understanding how cool I would eventually think they were. I wish the person you had given them away to had been me! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 13, 2024 11:37:21 GMT -5
Well, they were published 50 years ago; you'd have to been able to find them on a newsstand to say they went on sale!  Bought both of them off the stands back then. You were lucky then; their distribution was pretty darn spotty. The only one I saw, in the wild, in the 70s, was Phoenix #4, when it got revamped into a Green Lantern wannabe (or Lensman.....without the Lens). I did find some, in college, in a shop, then the bulk of the rest (except the magazines) at a local shop, in Charleston, while I was stationed there. By contrast, Charlton and Gold key were plentiful, in my area, in central Illinois. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 13, 2024 11:43:08 GMT -5
Bought both of them off the stands back then. You were lucky then; their distribution was pretty darn spotty. The only one I saw, in the wild, in the 70s, was Phoenix #4, when it got revamped into a Green Lantern wannabe (or Lensman.....without the Lens). I did find some, in college, in a shop, then the bulk of the rest (except the magazines) at a local shop, in Charleston, while I was stationed there. By contrast, Charlton and Gold key were plentiful, in my area, in central Illinois. Saw them all over the place; distribution had definitely improved by '74. |
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Post by driver1980 on Nov 20, 2024 6:42:57 GMT -5
On sale 45 years ago today:   I own these two issues, bought from a company called Silver Acre Comics years ago. www.silveracre.com/sacsiteThese two are special to me because I like it when heroes and villains are forced to team up (not that I think the idea should be overdone), so Batman and Ra’s al Ghul is a good team-up; and I also like it when heroes battle villains that are not part of their rogues gallery, so seeing Penguin as part of a duo opposing a duo that consists of Superman was interesting, although, unlike one Silver Age tale, I don’t think Supes and Penguin have a lot of interaction here. (I also remember a World’s Finest Comics story where Superman and Batman battled Mister Freeze). It’s the novelty I like. It shouldn’t be overdone. It’d be boring if it was overdone. But now and again, it’s great to pick up a back issue featuring, say, Captain America vs. Scorpion, or Superman vs. Joker. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2024 7:22:16 GMT -5
These two are special to me because I like it when heroes and villains are forced to team up (not that I think the idea should be overdone), so Batman and Ra’s al Ghul is a good team-up; I tend to like those types of stories a lot as well (and agreed, without being too overdone). It has to be something pretty unusual to drive them to team up in the first place, and then you have this tension as a reader of "how long will it last" knowing the villain could betray them at any point. Or will they solve the problem together and it's the whole "this changes nothing, when next we meet it will be as enemies again". And yeah, the sheer resourcefulness and cunning of both Batman and Ra's al Ghul in this case is a good team-up indeed. Good stuff! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 20, 2024 11:09:17 GMT -5
Penguin and Terra-Man teaming up sounds like a plot from the Batman tv series. Wonder who they would have gotten to play Superman, in that pair (or even trio) of episodes?
I see Jack Palance as Terra-Man.
Hugh O'Brian, maybe?
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