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Post by brutalis on Nov 15, 2019 8:23:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the link profh0011 as I used to have this saved on my work computer for lunch time reading and I had totally forgotten about when they upgraded my computer and lost it. I really enjoy reading through these classic comics. As to Bill Black and his Paradox/AC comics, I found out about them in the early 80's through the LCS's openings up around town. But his various series were always difficult for finding as none of them were carried regularly since his company wasn't a big seller. It was his personal venture and very focused upon unique and older material that just doesn't sale. His Femforce sold based upon the good girl art aspect but nearly all the rest of his publications were a work of love and might sell for the initial release or 2nd issue and dying off by the 3rd or 4th issue. I think his western imprint Best of the West ran for 71 issues but you would only get them by buying from him online for quite a long time which wasn't an option for me in the past. During the 80's I never had the fluid income for his slightly more expensive black and white comics that I would have to special order and not find on the "rack" at an LCS. If they had been there more often then I would certainly have bought them. But at the time all I was finding was his superhero stuff. I have a few issues of Femforce, Dragonfly, Nightveil and Black Diamond along with a couple of the western things he did like a Roy Rogers special and a Tom Mix special. The Best of the West series I am going to start purchasing issues slowly and steadily through his online site and Lonestar/MyComic Shop. And yes beccabear67 there is some Severin Marvel western art to be found as John Severin drew The Ringo Kid alongside Joe Maneely and Fred Kida. And LOTS of single story artistry to be found within those Marvel westerns from Heck, Colan, Trimpe, John Buscema, Werner Roth, Doug Wildey and others.
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 15, 2019 17:18:33 GMT -5
I could never be sure (and he never admitted it), but I recall once writing to Bill Black suggesting he do "one big book" with a single character, instead of all these random anthologies.. and not that long after, he did a THICK volume of PHANTOM LADY. I like to think I was the one who pushed him to do it. I'm sure if I wasn't so "dead broke" right now, I'd probably be going after more of his stuff... along with BIG BANG from Gary Carlson, the various projects from Mort Todd. I keep finding creator-driven personal projects that haven't been around "forever" to be MORE FUN than anything from "the big guys". The last 10 years, my favorite "new" comic was JANE'S WORLD from Paige Braddock, a comedy soap-opera with a large and often-confusing cast. I read it 6 times in a row before I had to force myself to stop and take a break to read something else...
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Post by Confessor on Nov 15, 2019 19:27:07 GMT -5
There are lots of things I absolutely love about comics, but something that occurred to me today was that I absolutely love issues of Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man from 1981 through to about 1985. This was the era when I started buying both titles semi-regularly, as my pocket money would allow. As you can imagine, the issues I bought back in the day illicit tremendous nostalgia when I re-read them, but even the issues that I didn't pick up at the time give me a really warm, fuzzy nostalgic feeling. It's just that era of Spidey comics in general.
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Post by Duragizer on Nov 15, 2019 21:28:30 GMT -5
Garfield Minus Garfield. Nuff said.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 18, 2019 7:46:17 GMT -5
I absolutely love the second and third tier Marvel/DC super-heroes and villains! Captain Mar-Vell, Adam Warlock, Killraven, Deathlok, Nova, Nighthawk, Falcon, Stingray, Triton, Black Bolt, Hawkeye, Black Knight, 3-D Man, The Jester, Stilt-Man, Gladiator, The Orb, Blackout, Condor, Diamondhead, Man-Wolf, Jack of Hearts, White Tiger, Morbius, Karate Kid, Timber Wolf, Wildfire, Dawnstar, Omac, Demon, Mister Miracle, Creeper, Doom Patrol, Metamorpho, Hawkman, Elongated Man, Paste Pot Pete (Trapster), Boomerang, Batroc, Swordsman, Grim Reaper, M'Baku the Man Ape, Mercurio the 3-D man, Grey Gargoyle, Super Adaptoid, Amazo, Doctor Light, Captain Boomerang, Royal Flush Gang, The Key, Doctor Destiny, Atomic Skull and so forth and so on with others which don't pop instantly to mind for me.
Gimme the B-Listers for fun and adventures of derring do anytime.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 18, 2019 13:35:15 GMT -5
hope it's okay for us to think of some of the 'and so on'... Mockingbird, Paladin, Hellcat, Sunfire, Jolt, Rag Man, Man Bat... Graviton, The Mimic, Gentleman Ghost, Shadow Thief, Chronos...
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 18, 2019 18:31:02 GMT -5
I remember in the mid-late 70s being far more fascinated by the "third tier" heroes. I'm not sure I realized why back then, but I slowly came to feel it was because they were still relatively new and "fresh", and hadn't yet been written into the ground by a merry-go-round of indifferent writers & editors just cranking out "product".
Just today, someone asked me if I'd seen one of the "Punisher" movies, and I gave him a quick run-down on his early history. I pointed out the irony that as one of the character's earliest fans (I was there from the day he debuted), by the time they FINALLY got around to giving him his own book, I'd already become bored and lost interest (part of it was any sense of "fun" connected with reading the character had by then long since been driven out in further and further attempts to play him as "deadly serious" as possible).
In the 80s, it was the army of totally-new characters from the variety of "independant" publishers.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 26, 2019 13:41:40 GMT -5
I absolutely love...
Old Hanna Barbera and Filmation (and others) cartoons from Saturday morning and after school. While they may be limited animation, they were an essential part of my childhood. I have been buying up DVD's cheaply whenever i can find them. Still have a few to seek out eventually.
I have in no particular order: All the original Scooby Doo Where are you? Scooby Doo and Dynomutt Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo Hong Kong Phooey Wacky Races Dastardly and Muttley and their Flying Machines Speed Buggy Space Ghost Josie and the Pussycats Herculoids Jonny Quest Thundarr Funky Phantom Underdog Ghostbusters (filmation's live action and cartoon) He-Man and Masters of the Universe She-Ra Tarzan Flash Gordon Adventures of Batman New Adventures of Batman New Adventures of Superman Aquaman Star Trek the animated series Sabrina the Teenage Witch Archie's Funhouse Groovie Ghoolies Return to the Planet of the Apes
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2019 10:14:43 GMT -5
I absolutely love... Old Hanna Barbera and Filmation (and others) cartoons from Saturday morning and after school. While they may be limited animation, they were an essential part of my childhood. I have been buying up DVD's cheaply whenever i can find them. Still have a few to seek out eventually. I have in no particular order: All the original Scooby Doo Where are you? Scooby Doo and Dynomutt Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo Hong Kong PhooeyWacky Races Dastardly and Muttley and their Flying Machines Speed Buggy Space GhostJosie and the Pussycats Herculoids Jonny QuestThundarr Funky Phantom Underdog Ghostbusters (filmation's live action and cartoon) He-Man and Masters of the Universe She-Ra Tarzan Flash Gordon Adventures of Batman New Adventures of Batman New Adventures of Superman AquamanStar Trek the animated series Sabrina the Teenage Witch Archie's Funhouse Groovie Ghoolies Return to the Planet of the Apes I have the following in Bold.
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 27, 2019 13:34:10 GMT -5
I remember at some point running across some Alex Toth comics stories, and (apart from " Bravo For Adventure" in THE ROOK) never really being impressed by his work. THEN I found out I'd been a huge fan of his TV animation work from the 60s!! That was quite a shock. I think I found out about Doug Wildey before I did Alex Toth.
By comparison, I probably loved Gray Morrow's comics work from the first time I laid eyes on his art.
But it took me decades to somehow connect that back in 1968, I was enjoying TWO different projects he was working on at the same time... the 2nd (and 3rd) seasons of "SPIDER-MAN" on TV... and the "SPACE CONQUERORS" feature in BOY'S LIFE magazine.
July 1968
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Post by badwolf on Nov 27, 2019 13:54:12 GMT -5
I remember in the mid-late 70s being far more fascinated by the "third tier" heroes. Same. I remember watching Superfriends and being bored with the "big guns" and being excited when an episode would guest star the Flash or Hawkman or Green Lantern. (But not those characters that were made up for the show, I don't think.)
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Post by brutalis on Nov 27, 2019 14:48:41 GMT -5
I remember in the mid-late 70s being far more fascinated by the "third tier" heroes. Same. I remember watching Superfriends and being bored with the "big guns" and being excited when an episode would guest star the Flash or Hawkman or Green Lantern. (But not those characters that were made up for the show, I don't think.) Apache Chief and Samurai were the only 2 newbies of the S-Friends I can say that I truly enjoyed. The others were nothing special. I did like that the later Super Power's version of S-Friends brought Cyborg and Firestorm onto the team.
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 27, 2019 18:21:11 GMT -5
Same. I remember watching Superfriends and being bored with the "big guns" and being excited when an episode would guest star the Flash or Hawkman or Green Lantern. (But not those characters that were made up for the show, I don't think.) Apache Chief and Samurai were the only 2 newbies of the S-Friends I can say that I truly enjoyed. The others were nothing special. I did like that the later Super Power's version of S-Friends brought Cyborg and Firestorm onto the team. I actually enjoyed El Dorado among the new characters. He actually seemed to have a personality, and a sense of humor, and his powers were interesting.
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Post by berkley on Nov 28, 2019 3:46:45 GMT -5
As far as DC goes, all my favourites were definitely not the flagship characters that I've grown to actively dislike over time. But even in regards to Marvel, where I did like pretty much all the popular characters, my favourites were mostly not to be found within that select group.
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 28, 2019 11:21:12 GMT -5
In the 90s, all my favorite DC books were the ones that had formerly been "Earth-2"-- and before that-- "All-American".
I don't know how many are familiar, but early on, there were 2 distinct editorial groups being published together; for a short period, "AA" split off into its own company, then rejoined "DC". When the bottom fell out of the superhero market in the late 40s, ONLY the "DC" characters continued to be published-- Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman & Green Arrow (the latter 2 as back-up features).
In the mid-late 90s, the "AA" characters became (in my eyes) the only things DC put out that were still worth reading... SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE! STARMAN! THE SPECTRE! STARS AND S.T.R.I.P.E.! (Funny, 4 "S" titles.) And eventually... JSA... although that book had a peculiar problem for me, as it seemed to be constantly building and building for years to a climax that it never arrived at. (heehee)
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