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From a reading aspect I really liked the oversize format...
Me, too!
...but there was the problem of where to store them.
Yer losin' me, doc.
I was a follower of The Jack Kirby Collector almost from the very beginning (like #4 or something). I adored the HUGE format they switched to with #31, but TwoMorrows eventually caved to pressure and reverted to standard magazine size. I wrote an e-mail to the editor complaining of readers who complaion "Storyteller is too big! Lone Wolf & Cub is too small!" and seeming buy their comics just to put them in a box. (I also suggested puting them on a shelf next to their Prince Valiants.) We had a brief exchange of e-mails which he edited into a single "letter" which he ran the next issue, immediately follow a letter written by a guy who declared, "Yes! It's easier to store!"
THE JOE KUBERT LIBRARY v3:
I shelve the three-volume Joe Kubert Library (featuring "Tor") next to the BWS "Storyteller" collections, and decided to read Epic's 1993 limited series since its from the same era. (The third volume also comprises DC's Tor #1 from 1975.) Kubert introduced Tor in 1953, and revamped the character every decade or so for the rest of his life. The one thing that remains consistent, however, is that the Tor stories are always an allegory for modern man.
On the same shelf with BWS and Joe Kubert is Shel Silverstein.
DIFFERENT DANCES:
a modern
ballet
where
lovers are ground
to hamburger
wives are turned into chairs
TV sets eat people
flowers grom from
children's heads
God is uncovered -- and
re-covered
and men are hung
by the instrument
of their desire
Hey, it's all comics.
This is the book I give to high school grads in lieu of Oh, the Places You'll Go!
CONAN:
I was in the mood to read something "epic" in scope, so I decided to delve into Marvel's Conan the Barbarian once again. I've tried a couple of times before, but I've never gotten past the BWS era. Rather than picking up where I left off last time (#25, say), I started over at the beginning yet again because it's been more than 20 years since I last made the attempt.
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES:
Rather than picking up where I left off last time (and rather than going back to the beginning), I opted to start with the beginning of one of my favorite eras, Superboy #197. (This was my second LSH story, following the reprint in #177.) I'm already past the "Cockrum" era and well into the "Grell" era.
Jeff of Earth-J said:
CONAN:
I was in the mood to read something "epic" in scope, so I decided to delve into Marvel's Conan the Barbarian once again. I've tried a couple of times before, but I've never gotten past the BWS era. Rather than picking up where I left off last time (#25, say), I started over at the beginning yet again because it's been more than 20 years since I last made the attempt.
I began reading Marvel’s groundbreaking Conan the Barbarian title with issue #1. Issue #4 really hooked me with “The Tower of the Elephant” and the introduction of a talking non-human, non-god character. This story prompted me to start reading the REH paperbacks.
The interior artwork is Smith inked by Sal Buscema, who we are honoring this month.
Conan #4 was my first exposure to the character and I too was hooked. I not only became a faithful reader of the comic series, at least until BWS left, but I got into the Lancer paperback collections as well.
My first Conan was Marvel Treasury Edition #4. "Red Nails" is still my favorite Conan comic book story.
It's been a long time, but I think it was Marvel's Conan the Barbarian that got me into the Lancer paperbacks ... but it might have been the other way around, as I was buying an awful lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs and SF in those days, and I certainly would have noticed the Frazetta covers.
Either way, I was NOT a Barry Smith fan. I know Jeff and others here have expressed appreciation for his Kirby Kopy days, but I was manifestly not a fan. I hated his work on Daredevil and X-Men. And sure enough, I didn't care for Conan the Barbarian #1-2. But I never saw #3 in my neck of the woods, and it was one of those Holy Grail books that it took me years (if not decades) to find. In the meantime came Conan the Barbarian #4 ...
Andy yep, just like you guys, I said "Whoa, there's something big going on here!" And sure enough, within a year, Barry Smith had become something else entirely, something I'd never seen before, and I was hooked, hooked, hooked. (Was he Barry Windsor-Smith yet? It's late, and I'm not going to look it up.)
I was actually disappointed when one of my favorite Marvel artists, John Buscema, took over the title. Of course, he eventually became THE Conan artist, but it took me a while to get on board. Eventually I did -- I was very young, then I grew up -- and now when I think of Conan, I think of Big John B's version.
But, boy, the change-over from Barry Smith was hard to swallow. It took me years to get over it. And what few comics-buying friends I had bailed out of comics at that time. It was really a sea change at how we all looked at comic book art.
During his Conan run he was credited as Barry Smith throughout. It must have been in the mid-Seventies when The Studio was established with Jones, Kaluta and Wrightson that he became Windsor-Smith.
Thanks, Doc!
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