"While DD looked better in an all red costume, ditching the yellow, while Shellhead added red to his formerly all-yellow costume. Oh, wait,make that "golden"! Can't have an all-"yellow" superhero. People…"
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Fred W. Hill replied to The Baron's discussion Watching "Unaging" Comics Characters "Move Past" Historical Events"Fifty years after the Beatles broke up they and their music are still fairly well known. One Direction? I've heard of them but don't know any of their songs or much of anything about them. I admit, I haven't been…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion The Abomination"In regards to the "arch-foes", the choices Stan Lee made for inclusion in the 3rd Fireside collection of Marvel Origins, Bring on the Bad Guys, is rather interesting. Most of the selections were pretty obvious, such as Dr. Doom for…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Randy Jackson's discussion Randy Jackson Re-Reads Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck"Yep -- they're consenting adults, even if one of them happened to be a talking duck from another dimension!"
Fred W. Hill liked The Baron's discussion Watching "Unaging" Comics Characters "Move Past" Historical EventsFred W. Hill replied to Randy Jackson's discussion Randy Jackson Re-Reads Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck"Dr. Bong is also a bastard love child of Dr. Doom and the High Evolutionary, not that any of them would ever admit it!"
Fred W. Hill replied to Randy Jackson's discussion Randy Jackson Re-Reads Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck"As a teen in the '70s, I loved Howard the Duck, and although I wasn't familiar with existentialism at the time, I think part of HtD's appeal was his existentialist angst as much as the humor. Based on the bulk of his comics…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Randy Jackson's discussion Randy Jackson Re-Reads Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck"Seems a reasonable enough analysis to me, Randy, and pretty much my interpretation too. I've never read any definitive answer from Gerber himself on the nature of Howard's relationship with Beverly, although I do recall reading that…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion The Pre-Defenders"Ah, I forgot that little detail. Considering that when Subby & the original Human Torch first met in the Golden Age they had a big fight, and that in the very first issue of Fantastic Four, Reed & Ben had a fight before they'd…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion The Greatest Comic Book of All Time"I can't really say what I'd regard at the greatest comic ever, but just going from my early months of regularly collecting comics when I was aged 10, versus randomly getting comics here and there whenever I could and then having most of…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Jeff of Earth-J's discussion The Pre-Defenders"Funny that the editor & writer of that Tales to Astonish story, and also happened to have been the editor and writer of that particular Avengers story had entirely forgotten that the Hulk and Namor had not battled in that issue but had actually…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Randy Jackson's discussion Randy Jackson reads Captain America"Most if not all of those old comics don't hold up to much deep thinking or analysis, even when they're not purely escapist fare. I got many of those old Cap stories from Tales of Suspense reprinted in one of the Pocketbooks from the…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Randy Jackson's discussion 12 Year Old You"I know when I lived in Utah, when regular comics were 20 cents, there was a penny tax on each issue. In that period, as there was no Navy Exchange in the area, I got my comics in whichever local stores had them. But from October 1974…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Randy Jackson's discussion 12 Year Old You"I turned 12 years old in 1974. At the beginning of that year, my family was living in West Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, where my dad, in his 17th year in the U.S. Navy, was stationed for recruiting duty. In October, was…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Randy Jackson's discussion Randy Jackson reads Captain America"Particularly in the first few years after Cap was revived, seems to me he got more character development, meager as it was, in the Kookie Quartet era of the Avengers than in previous issues of the Avengers or in his own series. He was depicted…"
Fred W. Hill replied to Randy Jackson's discussion X-men/Doom Patrol sales questions"Except for a few excerpts online, I haven't read any of the original run of Doom Patrol, which ended about 5 years before I began collecting comics in earnest. But by the early '80s I'd read several references to them and when I…"
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