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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 11:17:23 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me about Ken Selig? He's a comic creator. I thought one of the Archie experts would answer this. He's an artist that Drew various Archie mags. He lives on my route and gets many Archie books sent to him. A quick search on the GCD shows he was an editor for Harvey in the 80s-90s an still works in the industry (he has credits in a book with a Nov 2015 cover date) primarily as an inker for Archie. Other than that, I know nothing. -M |
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Post by realjla on Jan 24, 2016 11:43:19 GMT -5
Alan Moore's story was the last Superman tale published before Byrne took over and started from scratch. DC really didn't plan or execute anything "post-Crisis" very well, but in the last 6 months of pre-Byrne Superman continuity, people still remembered the Crisis, and Supergirl was among the heroes who had died because of it. Once Byrne took over, there had still been a Crisis, but no Supergirl...until JB declared otherwise. Honestly, the "journey" of COIE was fun, but the "destination" was a mess. I always thought Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow was what would have been the ultimate fate of the Earth One Superman if the Crisis hadn't happened. There's one panel in one of the issues that suggests the story is taking place on 'post-Crisis, but pre-MOS' earth. Among the heroes shown trying to break through the barrier surrounding the Fortress of Solitude are Superwoman(a creation of Elliott S! Maggin), Vartox(definitely a pre-Crisis/Bronze Age character), and Captain Marvel(with none of the Marvel Family) |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2016 11:50:47 GMT -5
I always thought Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow was what would have been the ultimate fate of the Earth One Superman if the Crisis hadn't happened. There's one panel in one of the issues that suggests the story is taking place on 'post-Crisis, but pre-MOS' earth. Among the heroes shown trying to break through the barrier surrounding the Fortress of Solitude are Superwoman(a creation of Elliott S! Maggin), Vartox(definitely a pre-Crisis/Bronze Age character), and Captain Marvel(with none of the Marvel Family) Well, Cap could simply have popped in from Earth S! I believe successful travel between parallel Earths was pretty much just a case of getting on the right bus back then... |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 24, 2016 12:06:18 GMT -5
I just read World's Finest #181. After about 8 pages of story (there was ads between them), it says "The story continues in the second part. Then there's an ad an a page later, there's a title saying 'The Hunter and the Hunted, Part II". It's not the first time I see this, is there a reason why the stories say "Part I, II, sometime III in the same for just one story? Are they reprints, and the stories were not in the same book before? Or maybe there's just no reason, a writer's decision to split the story in chapters. I'm not sure my question is super clear, sorry about, my English is limited! It was very common for Silver Age comics to be split up like that. You'll notice the early issues of The Fantastic Four (up to #13 or #14, I think) will be split into four or five chapters. I think it was because the editors thought that comic book readers were used to short stories in the 1950s, and every issue would have three or four stories. But as they started writing longer stories, they put the chapter markers in to give the appearance that there was more story. You'll also notice that - in the DC books - they started putting in those half-page house ads. So you would have a half a page of the story with four or five panels of Batman fighting a guy with an eraser for a head and the bottom half of the page is a house ad for Metamorpho. These half-pages are usually followed by a full page with a new chapter starting. I think somebody decided that it looked better to start a new chapter directly after a half page. (And then there's that thing Marvel did in the early 1970s, where there would be two consecutive pages with the top half is story art and the bottom half was advertising. And both pages were numbered as story pages, so the last page would be labeled page 20 when there were really only 19 pages because of the two half-pages.) I hope that answers your question! Marvel stopped doing chapters pretty early on but DC did it way into the 1960s. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 24, 2016 12:13:19 GMT -5
Yeah, all the reprint books - Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel Superheroes, Marvel's Greatest Comics did the same thing as Marvel Tales. (I wonder if it ever made the stories better?!) I always wondered why Marvel Double Feature, which reprinted Cap and Iron Man stories form Tales of Suspense, featured a Cap story from one issue and an Iron Man story from a different issue-wouldn't it have made more sense and been easier just to reprint all of the TOS issue they took the stories from modified for modern page counts? -M I always wondered about that as well. I would guess that there might have been a specific Captain America or Iron Man issue where they had recently reprinted two (?) issues of one of the features (probably Captain America) so when they started Marvel Double Feature, they skipped a couple of stories that had been reprinted fairly recently. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 24, 2016 12:24:25 GMT -5
Ok, so I just read Detective Comics #468, Batman vs the Calculator. I don'T know a lot about Batman. My question : How does he gets to that Satellite to meet with the justice league? Does he have a plane/Spaceship? Bonus question : what is exactly the calculator, not sure I understand his power.... He makes me think a bit of Inspector Gadget. The Calculator was the villain in the backup stories in Detective Comics from #463 to #467. I think he fights a different hero each time until he finally faces Batman in the main story in #468. I collect Detective Comics and so I've acquired all these issues (except #467) over the last few years. So I've read most of these issues with the Calculator. He's a terrible terrible character. He basically has a magic suit that can somehow electronically do a bunch of stuff because technology is magical. Or something. I don't understand his power either. He makes no sense. Don't sweat it, antoine. It's comic books. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 24, 2016 12:56:15 GMT -5
I always wondered why Marvel Double Feature, which reprinted Cap and Iron Man stories form Tales of Suspense, featured a Cap story from one issue and an Iron Man story from a different issue-wouldn't it have made more sense and been easier just to reprint all of the TOS issue they took the stories from modified for modern page counts? -M I always wondered about that as well. I would guess that there might have been a specific Captain America or Iron Man issue where they had recently reprinted two (?) issues of one of the features (probably Captain America) so when they started Marvel Double Feature, they skipped a couple of stories that had been reprinted fairly recently. You're pretty close. The two series got out of sync when Marvel chose to spotlight specific story arcs in their all-reprint annuals. If memory serves, they had an informal rule at the time saying that stories shouldn't be reprinted more than once every five years or so. Cei-U! I summon the partial answer! |
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Post by antoine on Jan 24, 2016 22:17:23 GMT -5
Ok, so I just read Detective Comics #468, Batman vs the Calculator. I don'T know a lot about Batman. My question : How does he gets to that Satellite to meet with the justice league? Does he have a plane/Spaceship? Bonus question : what is exactly the calculator, not sure I understand his power.... He makes me think a bit of Inspector Gadget. The Calculator was the villain in the backup stories in Detective Comics from #463 to #467. I think he fights a different hero each time until he finally faces Batman in the main story in #468. I collect Detective Comics and so I've acquired all these issues (except #467) over the last few years. So I've read most of these issues with the Calculator. He's a terrible terrible character. He basically has a magic suit that can somehow electronically do a bunch of stuff because technology is magical. Or something. I don't understand his power either. He makes no sense. Don't sweat it, antoine. It's comic books. Haha, I was not too worried about him, but he was really weird... Thanks a lot Hoosier! |
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Post by coke & comics on Jan 24, 2016 22:49:08 GMT -5
This years CCC got me thinking I've never read anything by Philippe Druillet.
Suggestions on where to start?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 23:47:06 GMT -5
This years CCC got me thinking I've never read anything by Philippe Druillet. Suggestions on where to start? Six Voyages of Lone Sloane -M |
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Post by foxley on Jan 25, 2016 1:04:44 GMT -5
The Calculator was the villain in the backup stories in Detective Comics from #463 to #467. I think he fights a different hero each time until he finally faces Batman in the main story in #468. I collect Detective Comics and so I've acquired all these issues (except #467) over the last few years. So I've read most of these issues with the Calculator. He's a terrible terrible character. He basically has a magic suit that can somehow electronically do a bunch of stuff because technology is magical. Or something. I don't understand his power either. He makes no sense. Don't sweat it, antoine. It's comic books. Haha, I was not too worried about him, but he was really weird... Thanks a lot Hoosier! The computers in the suit could anticipate the actions of any hero. Somehow by allowing himself to be defeated by a hero and thne pressing a special button on his chest plate, this somehow 'inoculated' him against every being defeated by that hero again. Exactly how that second part was supposed to work was never explained. Additionally, the head piece of his costume allowed him to create objects by solidifying the dust in the air. |
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Post by realjla on Jan 25, 2016 2:14:49 GMT -5
All I remember about the Calculator was that people could defeat him by randomly hitting his 'keyboard'.
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Damn, I just totally pwnd him there.
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Post by MDG on Jan 25, 2016 13:21:09 GMT -5
The best thing about the Calculator stories was Rogers warming up for his Detective run with Englehart.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 25, 2016 13:27:39 GMT -5
All I remember about the Calculator was that people could defeat him by randomly hitting his 'keyboard'. fh6futgcfsgscfudu;uflvrjiu74y7gtyefyefyft7t7367f87yfgetdfytcfgihivhivpnfb lk.sfm;l;lbjs;s;jbskgv jg vz hb Damn, I just totally pwnd him there. So the Calculator's biggest enemy is my cat. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 18:13:52 GMT -5
Does anyone know if Namora's 1948 three issue mini is collected in anything?
I'd love to read it, but you know, the originals are quite pricey.
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