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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 13, 2016 15:00:08 GMT -5
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Nov 14, 2016 19:38:44 GMT -5
Picked these up online. I enjoyed the Dr. Strange movie, thought its was very good. Realizing that my Strange repertoire was lacking, I thought these were a nice addition at $4 each.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 14, 2016 21:19:13 GMT -5
Picked these up online. I enjoyed the Dr. Strange movie, thought its was very good. Realizing that my Strange repertoire was lacking, I thought these were a nice addition at $4 each.
These are from the Frank Brunner era, right? Those issues are a lot of fun; they come at the end of a fairly long running arc, if memory serves. Very H. P. Lovecraft-esque villains. You'll enjoy these.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Nov 14, 2016 21:34:02 GMT -5
Actually I think they are just before his run...but some of the artwork is Ploog. Exactly what I am wanting:) Plus anything Bronze age makes me happy and these covers do just that!
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Post by Confessor on Nov 15, 2016 0:27:14 GMT -5
Actually I think they are just before his run...but some of the artwork is Ploog. Exactly what I am wanting:) Plus anything Bronze age makes me happy and these covers do just that! I just pulled out the masterworks and the first issue pictured is drawn by Frank Brunner, while the other two feature interior art by Craig Russell and Jim Starlin respectively. They are all nice looking issues inside though.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Nov 15, 2016 16:32:30 GMT -5
Ploog, Brunner, Starlin....oh joy!
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Post by Confessor on Nov 15, 2016 16:50:00 GMT -5
Ploog, Brunner, Starlin....oh joy! I re-read all three issues last night in bed. It says on the splash page of each issue that the story is based on concepts originated by Robert E. Howard, but to me they seem more Lovecraftian, as I say. I'm not well read at all when it comes to REH though, so who knows? These are great comic though...you got a bargain for $4 each.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 17:03:38 GMT -5
Ploog, Brunner, Starlin....oh joy! I re-read all three issues last night in bed. It says on the splash page of each issue that the story is based on concepts originated by Robert E. Howard, but to me they seem more Lovecraftian, as I say. I'm not well read at all when it comes to REH though, so who knows? These are great comic though...you got a bargain for $4 each. Howard and Lovecraft (along with several others like Clark Ashton Smith) were correspondents and often shared ideas and manuscripts before they were submitted for publication. It became known as the Lovecraft circle, as ole HP was at the heart of it and the earliest of them to be published and it was his presence that drew the others. Many in the circle tried their hand at writing Mythos inspired tales or tales that are now considered part of the Cthulhu cycle. Howard was among these and in one of those stories he originated Shuma Gorath-his own contribution to the Lovecratian Cthulhu mythos. So this story, using Shuma Gorath is correctly attributed to inspired by Howard, as he created ole Shuma, but it was Howard writing under the Lovecraftian umbrella. If you check out the Del Rey collection of The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard, you'll find many a Lovecfaftian tale among them. -M
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Post by Confessor on Nov 15, 2016 17:12:12 GMT -5
I re-read all three issues last night in bed. It says on the splash page of each issue that the story is based on concepts originated by Robert E. Howard, but to me they seem more Lovecraftian, as I say. I'm not well read at all when it comes to REH though, so who knows? These are great comic though...you got a bargain for $4 each. Howard and Lovecraft (along with several others like Clark Ashton Smith) were correspondents and often shared ideas and manuscripts before they were submitted for publication. It became known as the Lovecraft circle, as ole HP was at the heart of it and the earliest of them to be published and it was his presence that drew the others. Many in the circle tried their hand at writing Mythos inspired tales or tales that are now considered part of the Cthulhu cycle. Howard was among these and in one of those stories he originated Shuma Gorath-his own contribution to the Lovecratian Cthulhu mythos. So this story, using Shuma Gorath is correctly attributed to inspired by Howard, as he created ole Shuma, but it was Howard writing under the Lovecraftian umbrella. If you check out the Del Rey collection of The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard, you'll find many a Lovecfaftian tale among them. -M Wow! I had no idea about this. I've been a fan of Lovecraft's writing since I was a teenager and I had no idea that there were Cthulhu Mythos stories by anyone but HPL himself (and good ol' August Derleth, of course). I certainly didn't know there were Cthulhu Mythos stories by his contemporaries. I'll definitely have to check out some of REH's Cthulhu stories.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Nov 15, 2016 17:23:59 GMT -5
I thought it was a bargain...that's shipped to my door too! Lovecraft is someone I have been told to read and will definitely look into his stuff as it sounds up my alley. For now, another purchase. A bit pricier because of his supposed appearance in the upcoming movie.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 17:27:49 GMT -5
ConfessorConfessor said... And Robert Bloch and Stephen King and Henry Kuttner and Frank Belknap Long and Brian Lumley and Neil Gaiman and... In the late 60/early 70s Ballantine released a pair of paperbacks called Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos I have volume 1... but haven't been able to track down volume 2... these collect a good representation of Cthulhu tales by Lovecraft and many in his circle and those who followed. Volume 1 contains Call of Cthulhlu by HP and the following... by Clark Ashton Smith... -The Return of the Sorcerer -Ubbo Sathla by REH -The Black Stone by Frank Belknap Long -The Hounds of Tindalos -The Space-Eaters by Derleth -The Dweller in Darkness -Beyond the Threshold by Henry Kuttner -The Salem Horror by J.Vernon Shay -The Haunter of the Graveyard Mythos fiction is a cottage industry out there. Check out game publisher Chaosium (publishers of the Call of Cthulhu rpg), who have their own publishing imprint for weird fiction and are one opf the most prolific publishers of collected editions of the Lovecraft circle works and of anthologies of new fiction in the Lovecraftian mold. There's also lots of other publishers in the field as well...some of the stuff is quite good, some horrific. One of my favorite attempts though is a collection called Shadows over Baker Street... which as you can see doe Lovecraftian fiction in the Victorian millieu of Sherlock Holmes (Neil Gaiman has a brilliant story in this collection). So yeah, there's lots of Lovecratian inspired Mythos tales out there not by HP himself... -M
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Post by Confessor on Nov 15, 2016 17:31:55 GMT -5
I thought it was a bargain...that's shipped to my door too! Lovecraft is someone I have been told to read and will definitely look into his stuff as it sounds up my alley. For now, another purchase. A bit pricier because of his supposed appearance in the upcoming movie. Another classic!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 17:36:38 GMT -5
others to look for... and the cottage industry has taken it a step farther with books like this... with plots like this... so there's lots of interesting territory to explore if you are a fan of Lovecraft style horror -M now back to comic purchases...
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Post by Confessor on Nov 15, 2016 17:38:23 GMT -5
ConfessorConfessor said... And Robert Bloch and Stephen King and Henry Kuttner and Frank Belknap Long and Brian Lumley and Neil Gaiman and... In the late 60/early 70s Ballantine released a pair of paperbacks called Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos I have volume 1... but haven't been able to track down volume 2... these collect a good representation of Cthulhu tales by Lovecraft and many in his circle and those who followed. Volume 1 contains Call of Cthulhlu by HP and the following... by Clark Ashton Smith... -The Return of the Sorcerer -Ubbo Sathla by REH -The Black Stone by Frank Belknap Long -The Hounds of Tindalos -The Space-Eaters by Derleth -The Dweller in Darkness -Beyond the Threshold by Henry Kuttner -The Salem Horror by J.Vernon Shay -The Haunter of the Graveyard Mythos fiction is a cottage industry out there. Check out game publisher Chaosium (publishers of the Call of Cthulhu rpg), who have their own publishing imprint for weird fiction and are one opf the most prolific publishers of collected editions of the Lovecraft circle works and of anthologies of new fiction in the Lovecraftian mold. There's also lots of other publishers in the field as well...some of the stuff is quite good, some horrific. One of my favorite attempts though is a collection called Shadows over Baker Street... which as you can see doe Lovecraftian fiction in the Victorian millieu of Sherlock Holmes (Neil Gaiman has a brilliant story in this collection). So yeah, there's lots of Lovecratian inspired Mythos tales out there not by HP himself... -M Oh yeah, I knew that there were lots of Cthulhu Mythos tales by later writers, but I should've specified that it was only canonical or near-canonical stories that I was intrigued by. I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan (so I'm intrigued by that "Shadows Over Baker Street book), and there are similarly oodles of non-canon Holmes books that I'm not terribly interested in. It has to be Arthur Conan Doyle or nothing but me! I am intrigued by the Mythos stories of REH and others in HOL's circle though, precisely because they knew the man and shared ideas with him. Those two Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos books look really interesting. I'll have to see if I can track them down. Thanks for the tip off, mrp.
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Post by MDG on Nov 16, 2016 9:37:29 GMT -5
I bought those two Cthulhu Mythos paperbacks the summer I started college, and managed to write a mythos story for an assignment during the semester. It's fun to read the stories as a group, because the effect really becomes cumulative.
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