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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 18, 2019 20:17:28 GMT -5
You can't get a much shorter run than one issue! Besides "Black Brother" and "The Femizons" from Savage Tales #1, and "The Brothers Link" in Astonishing Tales #8, and not counting try-out comics like Marvel Premiere, are there any other back-up features at Marvel in the 70's that were clearly intended to be ongoing but which got cut as short as a published run can be cut? And yeah, the Femizons and the Brothers Link (in the form of villain Gemini) showed up again elsewhere later, but I think Black Brother is possibly the only Marvel character of the era to never make an appearance after his own solo story. Can this be possible? Surely someone sneaked him into a supporting cast or guest appearance, right? There was a story in the first issue of Marvel's black & white Monsters Unleashed that looked to me like the beginning of a series, but it never appeared again. The story title was "World of Warlocks". In a subsequent issue, an editorial or letters page mentioned that they'd had fans write in to request that it return. Oh, yeah, I remember seeing the reference in the editorial but I missed the original. That reminds me of another couple of Marvel monster mag series that didn't get past the first installment: Wendigo and Manphibian, both of which I really dug. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 19, 2019 19:20:34 GMT -5
L'il Folks!
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Post by mikelmidnight on Feb 20, 2019 13:09:32 GMT -5
I have a sneaking affection for the Hangman. He appeared in a pretty diverse set of comics ... Werewolf by Night then revived in Spider-Woman, then they killed him off in a morbid solo story in one of their black & white titles.
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Post by earl on Feb 23, 2019 14:41:22 GMT -5
Have those The Watcher tales been compiled and reprinted? I don't remember them being in the Essential Silver Surfer I have.
Are those two Wasp stories reprinted with the Antman series from the 60s?
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 23, 2019 16:53:48 GMT -5
Sorry. L'il Kids!  |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Feb 23, 2019 17:43:51 GMT -5
I have a sneaking affection for the Hangman. He appeared in a pretty diverse set of comics ... Werewolf by Night then revived in Spider-Woman, then they killed him off in a morbid solo story in one of their black & white titles. Hangman's chronology was somewhat problematic. His appearance in Spider Woman #50 came about a year after his apparent demise in Bizarre Adventures #31. He also featured in Iron Man: Legacy #6 & 7 (written by Fred Van Lente and published in 2010 but set during Denny O'Neil's alcoholism storyline), in which he appeared to die by hanging himself. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Feb 23, 2019 18:04:52 GMT -5
Have those The Watcher tales been compiled and reprinted? I don't remember them being in the Essential Silver Surfer I have. Are those two Wasp stories reprinted with the Antman series from the 60s? The Watcher stories from Silver Surfer don't seem to have made their way into a collected edition yet. Most of them were reprinted black and white in the UK as backups in Star Wars Weekly. According to GCD, the Wasp backups from Tales To Astonish #57 & 58 ware included in Essential Ant-Man #1, Marvel Masterworks Ant-Man / Giant-Man #2 and Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection #1. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 23, 2019 19:01:44 GMT -5
The Watcher stories were reprinted in Marvel Masterworks rarities, a 60$ book which is Oop and now goes for more than that.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 23, 2019 20:56:21 GMT -5
Have those The Watcher tales been compiled and reprinted? I don't remember them being in the Essential Silver Surfer I have. Are those two Wasp stories reprinted with the Antman series from the 60s? The Watcher stories from Silver Surfer don't seem to have made their way into a collected edition yet. Most of them were reprinted black and white in the UK as backups in Star Wars Weekly. Which is how I know about them. Tales of the Watcher was one of my favourite backup strips in SW Weekly when I was a kid. I have a feeling that we got "new" Tales of the Watcher too, with Marvel UK reprinting any old pre-FF #1 sci-fi story, framed with a picture of the Watcher and a little bit of introductory blurb from the old fella, and presto!...a new Tale. |
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Post by brutalis on Feb 25, 2019 8:17:00 GMT -5
MARVEL SAGA. Fun compilation (35 issues i think?) also found in Essential b/w format. Tells the history of the MU from the start chronologically in a cut/paste type of style pulling from ALL of MU comics over time and space. Started well but becomes less fun as the MU quickly became convoluted beyond all get out. But a great comic to enjoy various heroes/villains/stories and artists!
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 25, 2019 22:32:32 GMT -5
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Post by earl on Mar 3, 2019 17:30:26 GMT -5
The Watcher stories were reprinted in Marvel Masterworks rarities, a 60$ book which is Oop and now goes for more than that. I knew I should have gotten that one when it came out. Masterworks are tough to collect any of the long ones. I have them of some of the small run stuff.
I've got the Ant-man Essentials but haven't read it yet.
Sounds like those Watcher stories are some of the few I don't have from the 60s in any form. I have the Silver Surfer reprints. Too bad they just did not include them at the end of one of those books. Silver Surfer is also one that is really hard to collect the original issues, they are all pricey and because of their format pretty fragile.
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