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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 13, 2024 14:16:25 GMT -5
Manager
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 13, 2024 1:41:22 GMT -5
It’s the first Lee/Ditko Spidey story I ever read (via the reprint in Marvel Tales 151). I was 7 years old What a coincidence! This was my second Lee/Ditko Spidey story, and I too read it when I was 7 (in March 1964). This one still has its cover. I'm also not a fan of the names first revealed in the Handbook. As I mentioned in a recent Classic Comics Christmas, I refuse to refer to Enchantress and Executioner as "Amora" and "Skurge". Those aren't the names I know them by.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 12, 2024 14:22:02 GMT -5
I love the timeline, Kurt!
It seems to leave out ASM #13, though. Is it before or after Astonish #57?
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 12, 2024 12:39:14 GMT -5
Quick note: the Eclipse logo, first seen on Eclipse the Magazine #1 above, was designed by Tom Orzechowski.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 12, 2024 10:23:54 GMT -5
Sisters
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 11, 2024 19:25:33 GMT -5
Law
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 11, 2024 12:26:27 GMT -5
London
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 11, 2024 0:34:53 GMT -5
Thorn
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 10, 2024 11:33:37 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 10, 2024 10:13:29 GMT -5
Pining
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 9, 2024 18:29:59 GMT -5
Would his name have been spelled "van der Bilt" in the original Dutch? Originally, yes. By the time he was born in 1794 it had been condensed. I prefer the original. I also prefer "Marquis de la Fayette" to the more common spelling.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 9, 2024 15:05:47 GMT -5
Would his name have been spelled "van der Bilt" in the original Dutch?
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 9, 2024 15:03:14 GMT -5
Washington
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 9, 2024 14:57:40 GMT -5
Yes, but 15 years was a whole different world in comics back then.
That DC Special issue was on sale in March 1971, undoubtedly because of the success of Conan.
Gold Key jumped on the bandwagon in summer 1972 with Dagar the Invincible.
Edit: I forgot about Warren! Archie Goodwin and Steve Ditko produced what might be the first clearly s&s story of the 60s in Creepy #14, on sale in January 1967. The following issue they introduced the hero Thane, who had two more stories in 1967-9, with art by Jeff Jones and Tom Sutton respectively.
Charlton's Hercules, with its s&s backup Thane of Bagarth (in this one, Thane is a title rather than a name) debuted in summer 1967. I guess 1967 was the year of the Thane.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 9, 2024 14:28:43 GMT -5
Just a quick note about precursors. Before that s&s story in Chamber of Darkness #4, Roy started using sword & sorcery elements in Marvel stories. First, in late 1968 in the Serpent Crown saga in Sub-Mariner. The letters pages there are where I first saw the names "Howard" and "Conan". It was pretty clever - a letter writer wrote (paraphrasing from memory here), "This story is starting to remind me of a certain barbarian... 'Howard' you spell that anyway?" and the editorial reply was, "Yes, we're familiar with that barbarian hero - or 'Conan' you tell?"
Then about five months before Conan #1, the Avengers encountered Arkon, an even more obvious s&s character.
And of course Roy's Missouri compatriot Denny O'Neil brought sword & sorcery to DC a full year before Conan #1 in Showcase #82-84, "Nightmaster", with art first by Jerry Grandenetti and Dick Giordano (#82), then Bernie Wrightson assisted by Jeff Jones and Mike Kaluta (#83-84).
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