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Remembering "Under Siege", or "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mansion..."

Late in Roger Stern's lengthy run in the Avengers main title, the reformed Masters of Evil under a new Baron Zemo led a successful planned assalt upon the Avengers.

 

As I recall, they not only ransacked the mansion, but sank the Aquabase, and genera

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Dangling Plot Threads and... er, what was I saying?

It seems to me that there were a repeating number of subplots running in some Marvel silver age series, that never were resolved...or, that were going somewhere and dropped along the way.

 

For instance, there's the soap opera plight of Coach Thorton

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Doctor Strange Questions AKA I Was Wondering #4

Master of the Mystic Arts Edition--With his grand return in The New Avengers and The Defenders, I was thinking about Doc and his place in the Marvel Universe during the Silver Age so....

• How publicly known was Doctor Strange? In his first appearance

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Silver Age DC Comics poetry

I was fortunate to score a few Silver Age DC comics at a local comics convention today. As I was reading Adventures of Bob Hope 99 I ran across this poetry designed to appeal to the hip kids of 1966:

I know there are others, including one

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The Jordan Boys! (Ask Mr. Silver Age, CBG #1691, July 2012)

For CBG's special Parents' Guide to Comics issue, Mr. SIlver Age saluted the children in one of the biggest families in SA comics: The Jordans Brothers!

http://www.cbgxtra.com/columnists/craig-shutt-ask-mr-silver-age/the-jordan-boys-ask-mr-silver-age

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Unusual Sources for Comic Books

This thread will devoted to extremely unusual places where we have secured comics books.

For instance, in the 1960s, there were very few used comic book stores, and so, we relied upon garage sales, yard sales, and swapping and trading with friends, r

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Flash Questions AKA I Was Wondering #3

Y'know these are pretty fun! And If you're not  careful, you'll learn something before it's done!

Thinking about the Scarlet Speedster, I was wondering:

• Was Barry a police officer during the Silver Age? Or was he an employee of the Central City Poli

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Marvel's first continued story?

I'm continuing my project to read the Marvel comics of the Silver Age in the order they were published and I'm still discovering "new" things. For instance, when I started reading them in the mid-1960s, continued stories were the norm and part of the

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Thor Questions AKA "I Was Wondering" #2

Thinking about the latest twists in the Thor saga, I thought about the Silver Age Thor so I was wondering--

• when Odin deposited the newly created Don Blake in front of that medical college, did he think up a complete backstory for the guy, with pape

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Happy birthday Mr. Silver Age!

It's your special day! Even though it's more than 40 years since the end of the Silver Age, we still think of you as being near-mint. Mostly.

--your pal, Hoy

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The Black Widow’s Missing Membership! (Ask Mr. Silver Age, CBG #1690, June 2012)

Hey, remember back in the Silver Age when the Black Widow was a member of the Avengers? Yeah, about that...

http://www.cbgxtra.com/columnists/craig-shutt-ask-mr-silver-age/black-widows-missing-membership-ask-mr-silver-age-cbg-1690-june-2012

-- MSA

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Rogues Bracketology: DD vs WW (Ask Mr. Silver Age) CBG #1689, May 2012

Finally! Mr. Silver Age finds a useful purpose for the precise science of bracketology: determining whether Daredevil or Wonder Woman had the goofiest rogues gallery:

http://www.cbgxtra.com/columnists/craig-shutt-ask-mr-silver-age/rogues-dd-vs-ww-ask

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Joe Shuster art for sale

I was alerted to this eBay auction of an original Joe Shuster drawing recreating the cover to Action Comics #19. It was done in 1983, which is pretty impressive for a guy who had difficulty drawing by then.There's good provenance with it, too, consid

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Pushing the Sub-Mariner

After following the forum for a Big Month for Marvel Comics, and looking at the link for Mike's Kang Time Platform to see month by month what was on sale, I've noticed something that may have been obvious to others.

 

First, the sequencing of the fir

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Big month for Marvel, August 1963

I've been continuing my New Year's resolution of reading all of the Silver Age Marvel comics in the order they were originally published, and I've reached what I believe is a watershed month:August 1963.

Up until this time Stan Lee had been letting

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SPACE CONQUERORS!

The problems with my browser (and the computer crashing repeatedly) seem to have been eliminated after that massive CD-backup project yesterday.


So, just updated the blog again. Now have SPACE CONQUERORS! posted from the beginning in 1952 up to Jun

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Silver Sightings: The Hulk Vs Boomerang???

As I mentioned before, the first solo Hulk story I read in Marvel Super-Heroes #36 (My'73) which reprinted Tales To Astonish #81 (Jl'66). I wasn't even eight yet. Henry superbly has been recoloring those classic covers here. TTA #81 is the first appe

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Legion Questions AKA "I Was Wondering..." #1

After a really bad day at work (actually a bad week but no matter), I pulled out my Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes issues and tried to see if I could come up with some "deep" questions so I was wondering...

• ...if Rokk Krinn was considered a

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X-Men

For a series that was never a huge success in the 60's, X-MEN went on to become Marvel's biggest "franchise" in the 80's & 90's.  (Probably TOO big for its own good.)  But it all started in 1963, oddly enough, the SAME month as THE AVENGERS.  (Leave

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Wrath of the Titans and the early Avengers Lava Men stories

I had an interesting experience tonight, when I went to watch the sequel, "Wrath of the Titans" at the movie theater.  My son had been talking to my wife about going to see the new Avengers movie, and she agreed, thinking that "American Reunion" was

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