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Post by tingramretro on May 20, 2017 8:33:33 GMT -5
The attempts at scientific explanations for super powers used to crack me up. As I recall, the Hulk supposedly drew mass from another dimension. Um, okay. Other dimensions seemed to be the catch-all when they couldn't come up with some other jibberish. They should have just put, "'Cause, comics!" I think that was one of the reasons that I preferred Who's Who to the Marvel Handbook. On the surface it seemed a bit more fluffy. But it didn't have the eye-rolling comic book "science" that was essentially magic anyway. A lot of which was later ignored, anyway. Supposedly, Wolverine had some kind of sterile mesh which covered the holes in his hands when his claws weren't extended...until a later writer just said "nope, the holes just instantly heal over until he opens them up again". |
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Post by tingramretro on May 19, 2017 9:11:52 GMT -5
From issue #12 of "Who's Who, the Definitive Directory of the DC Universe". Not a great scan, I'm afraid, but nonetheless, the man in the hat is there. He's shown as a member, he appears in the roll call more than once, he desribes himself as a member at least once and the JLA themselves seem to consider him to be one. If the Stranger, the team, and the publishers all say he's a member, he's a member!  |
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Post by tingramretro on May 18, 2017 10:43:22 GMT -5
I had the complete set and I've foolishly sold them to guy who wanted it so badly and I wished I hadn't done it. It was an invaluable information of all Marvel Characters at that point of time. It was indeed...even if that information was sadly not always entirely accurate. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 18, 2017 4:05:31 GMT -5
I'm currently (re)collecting the OHBotMU in TPB form and had a question. I was under the impression that the trades were in fact collected reprints of the original from '82-'83? I see that Angel, Jean and Cyke are in their X-Factor togs, Hank isn't furry, etc. so I think I'm missing something. Is volume 1 collected? What's the deluxe edition? I'm guessing the "update" edition was for characters that changed, John Walker becoming USAgent etc. I'm asking here because I don't trust Wiki's and would rather confer with the experts. The original series from '82-83 ran for 15 issues, with the majority of entries being only one page each. The Deluxe Edition from '85-86 ran for 20 issues, with most of the updated entries expanded to two or three pages, plus obviously a lot of new entries. The Deluxe Edition was then reprinted as a series of trades, but in the meantime, X-Factor had been launched, and the entries for Angel, Beast and Cyclops (which had appeared in issues released before X-Factor #1) had to be given updated artwork for the trades since the original entries had shown Beast in his furry form and Angel and Cyke in new costumes which, in the event, they never actually wore in the comics. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 17, 2017 7:26:03 GMT -5
Can we deduct points  for any cover depicting cavemen and dinosaurs co-existing in the same time period? Mammoths, on the other hand, should be fine...  |
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Post by tingramretro on May 17, 2017 7:07:26 GMT -5
Given that this has just happened as part of the lead-in to it, I'm optimistic...  |
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Post by tingramretro on May 16, 2017 2:59:07 GMT -5
Hoosier X
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Post by tingramretro on May 15, 2017 9:25:22 GMT -5
Yes, maybe they should come up with another name other than modern. IMHO, I don't think anything worth while has been created past 2010. Totally disagree. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 15, 2017 6:30:35 GMT -5
I always wondered how a " readers copy" is graded. I bought a shabby Batman #245 yesterday and am wondering why someone would try to sell the game book as a 3.0 or some low grade . Is it just trying to place value on something that doesn't have any value? As far as I can see, the value of something is defined by what people are willing to pay for it. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 15, 2017 2:45:58 GMT -5
I voted Other cause there were still great comics being published past the Bronze Age, into the Copper Age, and the Modern Age (I hate that name - there needs to be a more appropriate name). Yes, there are still great comics, but, the mainstream Big Two, esp Marvel IMO, mostly quit being good before the end of the Copper Age, when Image debuted. Is that clear as mud ? There are still some outstanding Marvel titles. They just tend to be lower selling books featuring less well known characters. The Vision was one of the best titles in recent years from any publisher, in my opinion. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 15, 2017 2:36:38 GMT -5
Why?  Well, only because if the title says "Marvel runs", I assume that that's runs of Marvel characters. Star Wars was published by Marvel, yes, but, I dunno, it's a licensed property and isn't part of the Marvel universe, so I don't tend to think if it as a "Marvel comic". Maybe that's just me though. I don't tend to differentiate. But then, 'my' licensed title was Doctor Who, and there was a fair bit of crossover between the Whoniverse strips and the mainstream Marvel strips (the Doctor is even named in several character histories in one of the runs of OHTMU). |
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Post by tingramretro on May 14, 2017 13:27:25 GMT -5
I assume we're not including licensed properties like Marvel's Star Wars. Why? |
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Post by tingramretro on May 14, 2017 13:20:55 GMT -5
I had many: Daredevil by Frank Miller/Klaus Janson & then the later issues with art by David Mazzuchelli (both before & after FM's superb "Born Again" series) Fantastic Four by John Byrne Thor by Walt Simonson Master of Kung Fu by Gene Day Moon Knight by Sienciewicz/Moench Iron Many by Micheline/Layton G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Marvel Star Wars And yet you haven't mentioned Rom...Rom!  |
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Post by tingramretro on May 14, 2017 13:03:10 GMT -5
Alan Moore's run on Captain Britain from 1982-1984 beats any of those listed, in my opinion. One of the best things Marvel ever published. I'd also place Bruce Jones's Ka-Zar the Savage, Bill Mantlo's Micronauts, J.M DeMatteis's Defenders and Doug Moench's Master of Kung Fu and Moon Knight above most of them, as well as Doctor Who, Power Man & Iron Fist, Power Pack (yes, really), a lot of Marvel Two-In-One and the later issues of Dazzler and Spider-Woman.
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Post by tingramretro on May 14, 2017 9:06:40 GMT -5
I've voted other, for the simple reason that neither wasn't an option. There are still plenty of great comics being produced today. The poll implies that it's a foregone conclusion that there aren't, but that simply isn't the case.
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for any cover depicting cavemen and dinosaurs co-existing in the same time period? 
