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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 15, 2019 8:38:18 GMT -5
A day late and a dollar short but here's...
 Savage Sword of Conan #219-220 Marvel,1994 One of my favorite types of crossovers is when a someone decides to do a mash up two characters from the same creator who never met up and that's what Conan writer extraordinaire Roy Thomas gave us in this story. Through magical time travel shenanigans both Conan and Solomon Kane end up in ancient Atlantis and as heroes who have never met before are want to do they fight:  Their swords clash, they trade great verbal barbs and in the end become friends in the face of their true enemy. It's an idea that really shouldn't work as the characters are so different but it's a fun read despite that. |
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Post by foxley on Dec 15, 2019 9:20:51 GMT -5
A day late and a dollar short but here's...
Savage Sword of Conan #219-220 Marvel,1994 One of my favorite types of crossovers is when a someone decides to do a mash up two characters from the same creator who never met up and that's what Conan writer extraordinaire Roy Thomas gave us in this story. Through magical time travel shenanigans both Conan and Solomon Kane end up in ancient Atlantis and as heroes who have never met before are want to do they fight: Their swords clash, they trade great verbal barbs and in the end become friends in the face of their true enemy. It's an idea that really shouldn't work as the characters are so different but it's a fun read despite that. Every time I think I've got something unique on my list... 
Excellent choice.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 15, 2019 9:40:19 GMT -5
A day late and a dollar short but here's...
Savage Sword of Conan #219-220 Marvel,1994
Who were the art team ? |
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Post by foxley on Dec 15, 2019 9:54:39 GMT -5
A day late and a dollar short but here's...
Savage Sword of Conan #219-220 Marvel,1994
Who were the art team ? Colin MacNeil, doing his his own inking. He also did the painted covers. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 15, 2019 10:16:14 GMT -5
Hey, Michael G, where's your First Day pick? Cei-U! I summon the lapse! Do you mean me? I posted one, Namor and Venus. So you did. Somehow I managed to scroll past it not once, not twice, but three times. Which brings me to something I've brought up in years past: People, if you quote someone, please edit out the artwork. It can get terribly confusing when I'm reviewing the threads. This kind of kerfluffle is exactly why I make the request.
Cei-U! I summon the aspirin!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 15, 2019 11:18:42 GMT -5
2. Spider-Man and ThorMarvel Team-Up # 70 May/June 1978  Because sometimes your just in the mood for gigantic, Egyptian themed Kaiju rampaging through New York. My two favorite things about this'n, besides the bone shatterong Thor and hammer vs. giant pharaoh sequences: Much of the banter and some of action sequences are actually really funny, with a chuckle-inducing couple pages of Spider-Man being dragged around by Thor's hammer, and Byrne does a great job of anchoring the tremendagiantichuge monster fight in a palpable New York City. The fight scenes give us a guided tour of New York, starting in Manhattan and moving to the harbor... and Spidey uses the observation binoculars from the Empire State Building to track down some of his less building-sized enemies!
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 15, 2019 14:23:54 GMT -5
Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth #1 (DC; 2003) by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday. -M Great book and Cassidy never disappoints . |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 15, 2019 14:26:00 GMT -5
11. Daredevil and Sub-Mariner
Daredevil #7 (Marvel, 1965) Nobody drew DD better than Wally Wood. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 15, 2019 15:58:03 GMT -5
Day two...in which I react to the picks. Because it's a thing I do. For...reasons.
Action Comics #421. It's not as if I have kept my feelings about Superman a secret. That said I do like me some Popeye. But probably not enough to seek this out. Cool pick though.
The Brave and The Bold #191. I've read most, if not all of the Batman issues of B&B. My gut tells me I've read this. But I have ZERO memory of it. So...yeah.
Thor #314. I was buying Thor semi-regularly at this time. But upon looking at the GCD I stopped at #312. Bummer.
The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #1-3. Man! This is one I should have thought of. I love me some Rocketeer, but this just didn't spring to mind at all. Great choice.
Hulk # 166. I've not read this issue. Came out about three years before I was regularly buying comics and I just don't think my back-issue reading ever got quite that far.
Giant-Size Spider-Man #5. This one, on the other hand I own. There used to be a store that sold Marvel Giant-Size books in cello two-packs. So I bought a ton of these probably a good 8 years after they initially came out. I remember liking this one but I was always a sucker for The Lizard.
Iron Man #133. Iron Man is a book I never read regularly. I was fine with him in Avengers but I probably never bought more than a dozen issues of his comic. Reprint reading never got close to this far.
Herbie #14. I've never read Herbie. I need to fix that. So many comics, etc.
Green Lantern #40. This is, oddly, a book I've never read. When I was in my Earth-2 phase it was too expensive. And I never made it that far in my back-issue reading phase. I find most Silver Age DC nigh on to unreadable now so I likely will not ever get to it.
DC Comics Presents #10. Have I mentioned I hate Superman?
Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth #1. I briefly considered this but it's been so long since I've read it that I couldn't in good conscience do more than consider it. I need to re-read Planetary.
Sgt. Fury Annual #3. I don't think I've ever read a full issue of Sgt. Fury. That was a funny write-up though.
Cerebus bi-weekly #26. Brilliant. I didn't even think of Cerebus. And I'm not adjusting my list at this point.
Mystery in Space 90. I've read all or part of this. But it's been a long time. And Silver Age DC largely doesn't work for me any more (except for fringe books like Anthro and Bat Lash).
Daredevil #7. This is a book I feel bad about leaving off my list. This was a tour-de-force by Wally Wood. I'm really glad to see it here.
The Brave and the Bold #124. I limited myself to one issue of Brave & Bold. Could have easily been a dozen. This is a fun weird book.
Fantastic Four #338. I've never read Simonson on FF. I know I should. So many comics so little time is my mantra for this event. To be fair, I was still pretty pissed at Marvel at this point over bringing back Jean Grey.
Godzilla #21-22. I bought and read the Essential Godzilla book. I have NO memory of these books at all. Getting old is Hell I tells ya.
Savage Sword of Conan #219-220. I never felt like I could afford Savage Sword of Conan. And by the time I felt I could it seemed like its best days were behind it. But I really like Solomon Kane so I may track this down some of these days.
Marvel Team-Up # 70. I bought this book off the spinner rack. I was buying MTU pretty regularly at that point. I recall liking it though it's been years.
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Post by brianf on Dec 15, 2019 22:46:44 GMT -5
 Catching up! #2 of 12 days of Deadman teamups Hawkman (Vol 4) #36 (Mar 05) W - Jimmy Palmiotti / Justin Gray A - Joe Bennett I - Ruy José C - Ryan Sook Hawkman is in the midst of a multi-issue run when Deadman shows up. Reading this as a stand alone comic there’s a few “what the hell is going on here?” moments, but over all things are readable, so thumbs up here. The comic starts off with Hawkman and Hawklady in the middle a big old zombie fight & they’re being attacked by the reanimated corpse of a murdered ex-girlfriend, along with other deadies. Deadman shows up and with a practiced ease takes over the zombie Ex. Some zombies get capped, they find the bad guy behind the whole thing & turn off his zombie machine (but allowing him to escape), and Deadman helps Hawkman get some closure with his dead ex. Pretty pictures too - whoop whoop!  |
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Post by berkley on Dec 16, 2019 2:22:40 GMT -5
11. Howard the Duck & The DefendersSteve Gerber & Sal Buscema + Klaus Janson
Marvel Treasury Edition #12 (Marvel 1976)   One of two appearances Howard will make on my list (assuming the other one qualifies). This was not one of Gerber's deeper yarns but still a fun story in his satiric mode. The interior art, by Sal Buscema and Klaus Jansson, the Defenders art team at the time, was fine, but these gene Colan covers always made me wish they had done the story as well as the covers.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 16, 2019 5:17:52 GMT -5
I never knew that this Defenders story was brand new.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 16, 2019 5:59:10 GMT -5
11. Howard the Duck & The DefendersMarvel Treasury Edition #12 (Marvel 1976) One of two appearances Howard will make on my list (assuming the other one qualifies). This was not one of Gerber's deeper yarns but still a fun story in his satiric mode. The interior art, by Sal Buscema and Klaus Jansson, the Defenders art team at the time, was fine, but these gene Colan covers always made me wish they had done the story as well as the covers. This came pretty close to making my list; I re-read it and even scanned a few pages (all b&w, I only have the original Howard in an Essentials volume), but it didn't make the cut given some of the other stuff I like better. Like you said, it's a fun story, but there's better Howard and Defenders stories out there. |
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Post by brutalis on Dec 16, 2019 7:54:38 GMT -5
Day 2. Ghost Rider and Ghost/Night Rider
Ghost Rider #50 August 1980
Two spirits of the night astride their steeds, one a flaming motorcycle , one equine handing out justice. Oh how could you ever pass up that cover with the Riders leaping out at you? Teenage me could not, that is for certain! Fleisher and Perlin deliver Blaze into the past where he is inserted into a classic western style Night Rider story-line. Blaze enjoys some good old fashioned cowboy action until he has to let loose the demon within and shows what real supernatural wrath is. After the cowboys and indian's and motorcycle fun GR goes back to the present and saves the sacred Indian grounds.
With nothing great, grand or glorious here, what is provided is a solid contemporary western story with a blazing demon of vengeance learning something about the human and demon being capable of working together for a common good. But the visual and idea for the current flaming skull rider and the phantom rider of the past meeting made for one fun thrill of a comic for me in combining 2 favorites of mine: Westerns and Horror together. A bit of silliness perhaps, but I enjoyed it none the less...
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 16, 2019 17:20:32 GMT -5
11. Green Lantern & Green LanternGreen Lantern #40 (October 1965, DC) John Broome, Gil Kane & Sid Greene An evil entity invades the golden age's Green Lantern's power ring and making it act like modern Hal Jordan's. This leads Alan Scott to head to that Earth not knowing it was part of the ancient evil one's plan to confront to Guardians of Oa. A great full-length story spanning time, space and multiple realities. We learn a lot about the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps for the first time here in one of my most treasured back issue buys, and '60s GL was a hard title to find for me. I always found the Gil Kane and Sid Greene team to be one of my favorites art-wise. It is nice to see the single greatest Green Lantern story of all time get some love. |
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