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Post by hondobrode on Mar 25, 2015 13:39:03 GMT -5
Thanks for another wins folks ! Didn't expect to win but I'm glad you enjoyed the Kane showdown. For something different, how about we post covers featuring our favorite classic non-Marvel or non-DC corporate-owned characters. Under the cover posting please list who that creator(s) is and why you like the character so much. I'll start with Grimjack, from the late great First Comics of the 80's.  Created by John Ostander and Tim Truman Existing in the pan-dimensional city of Cynosure, and being owner of Munden's Bar, Grimjack has to endure a constantly shifting worldscape of magic and science. He's a bounty hunter, detective, magic user, mercenary and soldier and has met different characters due to Cynosure constant shifting including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This would make a red hot tv show IMO. |
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Post by the4thpip on Mar 25, 2015 13:51:30 GMT -5
 by Jack "King" Kirby. Why do I love him? First of, it's a sequel to New Gods the way New Gods was a sequel to Thor, what with Captain Victory being the grandson of (wecantcallhim) Darkseid. It's a very dark concept - a replaceable hero, whose consciousness is downloaded into a clone each time he dies - but is his soul, too? Yet Kirby plays this one very camp. It being Kirby, this was one of the very few independent comics to be translated into German (published by Condor, who also had Marvel at the time). So I've been reading this since I was a kid. Wasn't too crazy about what Topps Comics did with the good Captain in the 90s, but the recent stuff by Dynamite was great. |
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Post by Paradox on Mar 25, 2015 14:01:48 GMT -5
 I don't really think in the form of "favorite characters" so I'm going with "favorite book". American Flagg by Howard Chaykin. Slick, stylized art by a master of the form with a unique take on the future, avoiding most of the stereotypes of that concept (starting with the main character being a Martian of Russian heritage). |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2015 14:03:14 GMT -5
 Will Eisner's The Spirit I might have put Conan or Vanth Dreadstar ahead of this, but both debuted in comics under the Marvel banner even though they were not Marvel owned-characters. The Spirit was a bit of an everyman window into a world of excitement and adventure serving as Eisner's vehicle to tell poignant, daring, and exciting stories and to experiment with the medium of storytelling he was working in. The worst efforts were merely enjoyable, the best were sheer genius. -M |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 25, 2015 14:08:07 GMT -5
Staking my claim to T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents with this Wally Wood classic. They were ahead of their time with their characterizations and plots that actually allowed some change, not just the illusion. Heroes changed, heroes died for good, etc. I missed them when they came out, but fell for them with the unauthorized Deluxe series and have collected all their other appearances, hopscotching from publisher to publisher, authorized and not. |
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Post by DubipR on Mar 25, 2015 14:20:58 GMT -5
Greatest comic book of all time...  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 25, 2015 14:27:34 GMT -5
 Like Jack, I don't think in terms of characters since they are at the whims of whoever is writing/drawing. But this one is a double whammy of Sable and Maggie the Cat. Sable was a great antidote to superhero comics. A mix of Bond, Mike Hammer and Trader Horn. Maggie was the sophisticated cat burglar. Great stuff. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Mar 25, 2015 14:32:47 GMT -5
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Dean Motter's Mister X was and continues to be one of the most interesting comics ever published. Each and every issue is a masterpiece of design filled with suspense and wild antics. Mr X, the titular lead character, is a total cypher with an ever shifting origin, but the real star of the story is Radiant City, an art deco nightmare that drives its citizens mad. It's retro futurism at its finest, and it's awfully hard to beat the series' covers, masterpieces of design in themselves. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2015 14:37:00 GMT -5
Man this is going to be a really hard one to vote on based on the covers alone, so much of my bias' will be tied to series/characters I like being chosen rather than the actual covers. I struggled to find which Spirit cover I wanted to use even though I knew I wanted to pick the Spirit, because there wasn't a cover that stood out as "this is what I want to show off in the competition this week" like there usually is. Love the theme, but staying true to picking the best cover this week going to be tough for me.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 25, 2015 15:01:29 GMT -5
Staking my claim to T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents with this Wally Wood classic. They were ahead of their time with their characterizations and plots that actually allowed some change, not just the illusion. Heroes changed, heroes died for good, etc. I missed them when they came out, but fell for them with the unauthorized Deluxe series and have collected all their other appearances, hopscotching from publisher to publisher, authorized and not. Love the T.H.UN.D.E.R. Agents! Always thought Iceman in his Champions garb was a Dynamo wannabe  ...  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 25, 2015 15:07:50 GMT -5
 I haven't read this comic since it came out. Long ago lost it (aka it was thrown out by my mother in one of her rages) and haven't found a replacement price I can live with just yet. I bet it's still just as great now as it was then, though. Came out early in June, 1968, at the end of my first year in high school, and as so often happened in those days before comics marketing got even close to sophisticated, it just dropped onto the newsstands without warning, without explanation inside, and without any acknowledgement in any other Gold Key title (IIRC). of course I snapped it up; who didn't love King Kong, the movie shown just once a year on Channel 9, WOR-TV, New York, as a Thanksgiving treat. It was the greatest of all adventure stories and whether any of us kids realized it, spoke to us on so many different levels that we couldn’t help but empathize with Kong, long for Fay Wray, and wish we could have the sheer stamina and balls of Jack Driscoll. I read Gold Key books, but too many of them just came and went without notice (the vagaries of Gold Key’s shtik of licensing TV shows, etc.) Once in a while a decent non-humor title would come out (MARS Patrol, for instance), but those were rare and tended to come out bi-monthly at best and rapidly descend from well executed first issues into Sparlingville and other less than intriguing locations. Kong turned out to be a faithful retelling of the 1933 movie, with a great cover by George Wilson (Who knew who he was then?), who I think did a batch of Gold Key covers, and which always outshone the contents by a wider margin than Marvel or DC covers did their interiors. The art is beautiful, with pencils by Giovanni Ticci and inks by Alberto Giolitti. Again, I didn’t know that or them then, but I knew it was damn good stuff, and worlds better than what GK usually put out. When I saw this comic, I thought that maybe GK had turned the corner and was going to get more in tune with those of us who liked more than their usual six panels to a page, every single frikkin’ page, it seemed. ( Tarzan was an exception, but, hey, that was Russ Manning). Didn’t happen: no KK series, no similar giant-sized issues, no other manna from heaven. Anyway, the story was engrossing, the artwork compelling, and the delight so unexpected that I always think of this comic as a gift from the four-color gods. Here are a couple of panels that capture the spirit of this old favorite...   |
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 25, 2015 15:31:22 GMT -5
 Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai seems the obvious choice. I'll refer you to my review thread for why. |
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Post by Pharozonk on Mar 25, 2015 15:32:33 GMT -5
Can you think of a better comic host than the Crypt Keeper?   |
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Post by foxley on Mar 25, 2015 15:33:47 GMT -5
 I always think of these characters as a pair, so I'm posting them as a pair: Jennifer Mays and Gabe Webb from The Maze Agency. Created by Mike W. Barr, The Maze Agency is a rarity in comic book genres: the fairplay whodunnit. Engaging mysteries, with a nice dose of light humour. But most important are the likeable leads who have great chemistry. These are a pair of characters who you would want to hang out with in real life. (If it weren't for all the murders that keep happening around them, that is.  ) |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 25, 2015 15:49:12 GMT -5
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I know Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy is a daily comic strip, but I used to have a handful of issues of Comics on Parade and I grew to love Nancy and Sluggo and Fritzi Ritz from comic books, so Nancy is a comic book hero to me! |
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