So this last week, my copy of Marvel Masterworks #186 shows up. This reprints the Avengers #112-119 and the appropriate Defenders issues to complete "the Avengers/Defenders War".
SPOILERS: SPOILERS GALORE BELOW:
Now, I've been looking forward
Read more…I think Bill Everett's classic character deserves his own "general" thread, to discuss anything related to him. After all, how many Marvel characters have been around even longer than Captain America?
Read more…For several decades now, it's been accepted comic book lore that it was Neal Adams who ended the campy era of Batman thanks to his subversive redrawing of Bob Haney's Brave & Bold scripts so that day scenes became night scenes, and Batman became dark
Read more…This famous line from the title of Avengers #16 has come to indicate a shake up in the line-up of many a superhero team.
But how many of us have thought much about that iconic cover that Kirby drew back in May 1965? You know the
Read more…Recently, a good fellow on this board and I were discussing writing a review or two of the Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense pre-hero monster period (roughly the first 3 years), and I thought I'd get onto that project tonight.
While reading an
Read more…I suppose I shouldn't be the one to start this thread. After all, I never bought nor read any of Joe Maneely's work while he was alive, and the only thing that I did know was his work on The Black Knight.
Stan Lee has said as recently as 2000 that
Read more…If the title of this thread seems overly clever or familiar, it's because I've stolen/ borrowed this title from the four page introduction to the final Tales of Suspense Masterworks volume #186, penned by Barry Pearl, because I think it's very appro
Read more…The Yancy Street Gang were a running gag or cameo appearance of a street gang that Jack Kirby injected into the Fantastic Four. While they were basically a thorn in the side of Ben Grimm, they also showed a great deal of affection for the ol' orange
Read more…About time we had a general thread for Marvel's BLIND super-hero! Thanks to Kirk G for inspiring me to do this... as well as to dig out another 60's Marvel cover to "restore". Hadn't done any of those in months, and I just did an extensive restorat
Read more…OK, for those who don't already know, plug your ears...
but Professor X has died at least once before....yup, in the very pages of X-men in about 1967 or so.
How he died isn't terribly important, but it left the recent graduates with a loss of identi
Read more…More Superman silliness here, but this was one of the biggest things that turned me off to Silver Age Superman/boy.
Hoy
Read more…I have most of the Silver Age Metal Men comics, the Archive and the Showcase Presents so I know the chronicles of the Elements of Justice. And there's little point in questioning the logic of their adventures or deciphering the surrealism of their st
Read more…As I was looking over the first volume of Atlas Era Masterworks, I noticed something Odd about the Tales to Astonish logo.
There is an exclamation point at the end of the title on the first eleven issues of Tales to Astonish!
This had never attracted
Read more…Krause Publications just issued the following news:
F+W Announces Closure of Comics Buyer's Guide
January 9, 2013 – Krause Publications, a division of F+W Media, Inc., announced today the closure of Comics Buyer's Guide effective with the March 2013
Read more…Back when CBGXtra.com hosted the Ask Mr. Silver Age Forum, I made a practice of reviewing most of the volumes of Showcase Presents as they came out. Since the great migration to the Captain Comics board, I’ve neglected that “service.” Next year I res
Read more…Captain Cold: In SHOWCASE #8, Len Snart is introduced as a scientifically-savvy crook who wants to find a way to stop the Flash. He invents a gun to use radiation from a cyclotron. He then essentially walks into a “Radiation Laboratory” which appare
Read more…When Jim Steranko was drawing Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD in Strange Tales, he would work on the design elements as much as telling a story.
In the recent tell-all book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe describes not only the revolutionary d
Read more…Seeing a recent tout on the right hand side of this column with a photo of Wally Wood and a Daredevil cover made me want to click on the link.
I had heard the Marvel Bullpen recording before, but forgot how vivid and bright Wally's piece was.
It stired
In light of the national election in the USA, I was wondering just how many times an American president has been depicted in a comic book?
We're not talking a shadowy figure sillouetted in a window of the west wing from a distance...
I'm talking eith
Read more…In addition to the Marvel Masterworks that have been coming out for twenty years or so now,
Marvel is also issuing Atlas Comics era Masterworks that collect approximately four volumes for each of the series "Tales of Suspense", "Tales to Astonish", "
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