|
|
Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Nov 10, 2015 21:29:54 GMT -5
So many golden age forgotten heroes! Some look mighty cool. What about this??? Ditko at his finest???  |
|
|
|
Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 10, 2015 22:06:15 GMT -5
So many golden age forgotten heroes! Some look mighty cool. What about this??? Ditko at his finest??? Even Doll Man couldn't make that out |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2015 22:28:24 GMT -5
Atlas Comics. Cheesy 70's comics. I loved them!
|
|
|
|
Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 11, 2015 14:42:32 GMT -5
Captain Victory-Created by Jack Kirby 1st appearance Captain Victory (Pacific Comics) #1 Nov 1981 Fandom was very much looking forward to this book arriving at the comics shops. Pacific Comics had already published some fine looking horror and sf anthologies on upgraded paper stocks and free from the Comics Code scrutiny. Jack Kirby was to be given full reign to use his imagination in whatever way he chose. How can this not possibly be great? It wasn't. It was a hodgepodge of ideas and action lacking cohesiveness, characterization and sensible dialogue. It lasted about a dozen or so issues. Never read any glowing reviews of this title, tried reading it myself wen it came out and didn't care much about it. Sure, the art was dynamic as expected but not a compelling story. Humanoid bugs, micro troops, spirit brothers, fighting fetus-all flash and sizzle but no meat The Ferret-Created by R.A.Jones and Tom Derenick 1st modern appearance The Ferret (Malibu) #1 The golden age Ferret was a one shot from Centaur Publishing. A police commissioner named Cal Dalton who flew and had super strength. Malibu updated a bunch of public domain heroes, the Ferret among them. He's now Cal Denton, grim and gritty former police commissioner with a mullet and Wolverine claws. He's now a musician (lots of top cops become musicians). A member of the Malibu super group The Protectors, he was a typical 90s bad ass and had a typical 90s enhanced cover on one of his books Gunfire-Created by Len Wein and Steve Erwin 1st appearance Deathstroke Annual (DC) #2 Oct 1993 DC used a bunch of 1993 annuals as an event introducing new characters, infected by alien parasites that caused some lucky victims to attain powers. Gunfire had the ability to change anything he touched into a gun that shot energy blasts. Just about all these new characters were losers-did any last a significant amount of time? Anima, Mongrel, Loose Cannon, Geist the Twilight Man, Hook, Ballistic, Nightblade etc. etc. Organize a search party Holo-Man-Created by Vincent Fusco & Donald Kasen 1st appearance The Amazing Adventures Of Holo-Man (Peter Pan Records) 1978 Peter Pan records during the 70s produced book and record sets of licensed characters. They used comic characters like Spider-Man and Metamorpho. They figured they could create their own super hero while they were at it. Dr James Robinson , giving a laser demonstration to the president, is disintegrated by an act of sabotage. However his spirit becomes encased within a holographic plate. What happens next is so convoluted and scientifically super silly I can't even bring myself to write about it. The story ends on a cliffhanger with nuclear bombs launched against Washington D.C.. However further adventures of Holo-Man were not to be since he just winks out    
|
|
|
|
Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 12, 2015 13:48:56 GMT -5
Anyone ever binge read the characters in this thread? Onwards The Human Fly-Created by Bill Mantlo 1st appearance Human Fly (Marvel) #1 Sept 1977 In the real world, stuntman Rick Rojatt challenged Evel Knievel's dominance on the daredevil circuit by wing-walking on an airborne DC-8. Rick was a master of self promotion and negotiated an agreement with Marvel comics for a fictional character based on himself. The comic book Human Fly kept his ID secret, hobnobbed with the super-hero community and fought crime because it was the right thing to do. Most of his actions were for charitable causes. 19 issues later it came to an end as the Human Fly walked off into the sunset. In real life, Rojatt had a devastating injury when he attempted to leap over 26 school buses parked side by side on a motorcycle. Rojatt was forced into retirement after that crash Killjoy-Created by Steve Ditko 1st appearance E-Man (Charlton) #2 Dec 1973 From the co-creator of Spider-Man, Dr.Strange and Squirrel Girl comes a silent orange garbed hero bashing villains gleefully with his athletic prowess. All the baddies he faced were of the whining variety avering they are always within their rights. "All wealth is stolen, it's my turn" cries one. "It's crime's time to be legal" moans another. "I have the right to be a dictator" declares General Disaster. Ayn Rand approves Maggott-Created by Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureia 1st appearance Uncanny X-Men (Marvel) #345 June 1997 This creep has 2 wormlike parasites in it's abdomen. They crawl out, consume matter, crawl back in and transfer the energy to make Maggott grow muscle mass. Disgusting. Almost as bad are Marrow, who grows new bones and breaks them off to use as weapons, Longneck, Rubbermaid, Glob Herman, Beak, Snot and o thers.
Man-Wolf-Created by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane 1st appearance Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel) # 124 J. Jonah Jameson's son is an astronaut who encounters a lunar gemstone transforming him into a cosmic werewolf. He becomes the warrior king of the magical land called "The Other Realm". He wields a sword and resides inside the moon. Too much..too much Moorlock 2001-Created by Michael Fleischer and Al Milgrom 1st appearance Moorlock 2001 (Atlas) #1 Moorlock is a vegetable man with white hair. A brutal government confiscates him to do their bidding. He's a peace loving rutabaga but when angered he hulks out and eats friend or foe. With the 3rd issue, the revolutionary group, The Midnight Men, adopt him. But they wind out putting a bullet into him since he's uncontrollable. He only needs a little Russian Dressing fellas.      |
|
|
|
Post by Rob Allen on Nov 12, 2015 19:59:09 GMT -5
Catching up with this thread - notice the name of the law firm in the first small panel: "Cronin, Fox & DiPreta". Ed Cronin, Gill Fox and Tony DiPreta worked at Quality Comics when this story was produced. |
|
|
|
Post by Rob Allen on Nov 12, 2015 20:07:46 GMT -5
"Vootie" was part of the jive/hipster slang created by singer/guitarist Slim Gaillard. He put out a song called "Puerto Vootie" in 1947. See www.pocreations.com/vout.html for a copy of Slim's Vout-o-reenee Dictionary. |
|
|
|
Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 12, 2015 20:18:44 GMT -5
"Vootie" was part of the jive/hipster slang created by singer/guitarist Slim Gaillard. He put out a song called "Puerto Vootie" in 1947. See www.pocreations.com/vout.html for a copy of Slim's Vout-o-reenee Dictionary. An ancient brain cell in my cranium recalls a 1950s Mad Magazine parody. The subject was the early morning NBC Today show then hosted by Dave Garroway. Among the co-hosts was a popular chimpanzee named J.Fred Muggs. In the Mad comic strip they showed J. Fred and all he would say was "Vootie" |
|
|
|
Post by junkmonkey on Nov 12, 2015 21:08:48 GMT -5
 Captain Truth I would guess the artist wasn't very good at hands. |
|
|
|
Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 13, 2015 14:08:36 GMT -5
New Guardians-Created by Steve Engelhart & Joe Staton 1st appearance Millennium (DC) #1 Jan 1988 This group was launched with a big hyped up event called Millennium. A new group for the 2000s. That's thinking ahead. A diverse group that however displayed unfortunate stereotypes. They included: Tom Kalmaku, old Pieface from the Green Lantern series Harbinger, a leftover from the Crisis event Floro, formerly the Floronic Man The new characters were lame Betty Clawman-an Australian aborigine tuned into "The Dreamtime" Extrano-Flamboyant latino who was gay but DC didn't want to come out and say it Gloss- Chinese superwoman who tied into the "Dragonforce" Jet-Jamaican with a heavy patois Ram-A Japanese businessman good with computers Janwillem Kroef- South African and team racist A bunch of space aliens endowed this group with their powers. They didn't make it into the 1990s NFL Superpro-Created by Fabian Nicieza & Jose Delbo 1st appearance NFL Superpro Superbowl Special (Marvel) #1 Sept 1991 Buried under a mountain of burning football memorabilia and film, former NFL star Phil Grayfield breathes in the fumes and gains the typical set of super powers. He manages to find villians to battle that have ties to football. Foes like steroid man-monsters, former goal kickers and more. After 12 issues, a time out was called The Outsiders-Created by Joe Simon & Jerry Grandenetti 1st appearance First Issue Special(DC) # 10 Jan 1976 A group of weird looking mutants banded together to protect themselves from prejudice, DCs quick response to the New X-Men. Lizard Johnny, Amazing Ronnie, Mighty Mary, Hairy Larry-isn't it a shame they never got a 2nd chance at stardom? Phoenix-Created by Jeff Rovin & Sal Amendola 1st appearance Phoenix (Atlas) #1 Ed Tyler crashes into the Arctic. An all powerful race of aliens, the Deiei rescue him. They claim they are responsible for humanity's evolution and are not happy with how things turned out. They mean to wipe the slate clean. Tyler grabs a powered up space suit to fight the aliens. For the balance of the series, Tyler is constantly pessimistic that Earth is doomed. It gets quite depressing with his constant moaning of the situation. By issue 4 a change in direction occurs when the Deiei are defeated by another alien race. They warn Tyler that if you exhibits any hate, bigotry or greed they'll destroy the planet. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy Prez-Created by Joe Simon and Jerry Grandenetti 1st appearance Prez (DC) #1 Inspired by the late 1960s movie, Wild In The Streets, Prez Rickard becomes the first teen president of the U.S. His parents must have known this would happen when they christianed him. Actually the comic states he's 21 years old but we'll forgive that faux pas. For some reason, the series has a clock fetish. Neil Gaimen revisited Prez in a Sandman story. Since then Mr Rickard remains in a Prez dispenser     
|
|
|
|
Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 13, 2015 20:20:11 GMT -5
How could I forget including Atlas Comics' Phoenix among the pictures? Easily but i shouldn't  |
|
|
|
Post by berkley on Nov 13, 2015 21:12:37 GMT -5
I think Kirby was past his best by the time he did Captain Victory. I still thought it was OK, but nowhere near the level of his 70s and 60s work. None of the Pacific work is all that great, though still worth a look for fans, I would say. I think Silver Star was probably the one I found most interesting.
Haven't read Killjoy but that image or cover looks good - I might seek it out just for the Ditko artwork, as bad as the writing sounds.
Man-Wolf was a fun ERB-style planet-romance with great artwork by George Perez, but I think it would have been just as good or better if Jameson had been a regular human rather than a "Man-Wolf".
|
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 9,528 
|
Post by Confessor on Nov 14, 2015 11:22:46 GMT -5
New Guardians-Created by Steve Engelhart & Joe Staton 1st appearance Millennium (DC) #1 Jan 1988 This group was launched with a big hyped up event called Millennium. A new group for the 2000s. That's thinking ahead. A diverse group that however displayed unfortunate stereotypes. They included: Tom Kalmaku, old Pieface from the Green Lantern series Harbinger, a leftover from the Crisis event Floro, formerly the Floronic Man The new characters were lame Betty Clawman-an Australian aborigine tuned into "The Dreamtime" Extrano-Flamboyant latino who was gay but DC didn't want to come out and say it Gloss- Chinese superwoman who tied into the "Dragonforce" Jet-Jamaican with a heavy patois Ram-A Japanese businessman good with computers Janwillem Kroef- South African and team racist A bunch of space aliens endowed this group with their powers. They didn't make it into the 1990s I bought that first issue and, I think, about the next 8 or 9 off of the stands in 1988 and 1989. It's been ages since I read it, but I think one of the gang was revealed to be HIV positive in one of the early issues, which in 1988 was very topical and quite daring. Superheroes hadn't had HIV before to my knowledge. My memory is hazy, but it was probably Extrano who was openly HIV positive, from what I remember. I think the whole mag was a fairly bold title, but undermined by lackluster writing and, as you note, not terribly engaging characters. Still, I liked it a fair bit at the time. I re-read those early issues again in the late '90s and they hadn't aged well at all, so I got rid of them. |
|
|
|
Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 14, 2015 16:19:53 GMT -5
Regretably, we continue
Ravage 2099 -Created by Stan Lee & Paul Ryan 1st appearance Ravage 2099 (Marvel) # 1 Dec 1992
Marvel's New Universe went bust, so create another one to help propel a bunch of new titles. Most of the 2099 books were futuristic clones of existant characters but here they get living legend Stan Lee to come up with a new one. Stan tried to fit this in with the 1990's zeitgeist. It would be a dismal dytopian future with an authoritative government. The character would be grim and gritty. Corporations and technoligies were the enemy. enter Paul Ravage- fighting people who pollute since he gives a hoot. But he's framed for murder. So he arms himself with garbage he finds lying around, barbed wire, hubcaps and padding.Not to many issues later, he's revamped by getting radiation spawned powers-a Lee specialty. He's revamped a third time by aquiring the ability to get bestial. 2099's Doctor Doom finally kills this hero that never quite worked
Rom, Spaceknight-Comic created by Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema 1st appearance Rom (Marvel) #1 Dec 1979
Jon Morris for some odd reason included him among these misbegotten stars though even he admitted it was a fan favorite and lasted many years. It was much better than it had the right to be considering it was based on a toy that bombed on the marketplace. A shame that licensing rights might forever prevent this series from ever being collected in a permanent form. To the longboxes and search it out!!
Skateman-Created by Neal Adams 1st appearance Skateman(Pacific Comics) #1 Nov 1983
This is more in line as a real piece of junk. Somehow even worse than Ms Mystic, a Neal Adams creation that preceded this for the newly formed direct market. Fandom unanimously held its nose with this series which died immediately. Billy Moon, Vietnam vet is framed for murder by the Mafia. His girlfriend gets knifed for no reason by a biker gang. So he dons his skates and rides out for revenge. Oh, he also wears white booty shorts. Neal, what were you thinking?
Slapstick-Created by Len Kaminski and James Fry 1st appearance Slapstick (Marvel) # 1 Nov 1992
Comics needed a huge helping of levity during the grim and gritty phase and Slapstick was to address that void. Steve Harmon, high school smart aleck discovers evil clowns from another dimension are on earth. He's pulled into another dimension and his body goes elastic enabling to perform stunts like a Loony Tunes character. Possibly inspired by Who Framed Roger Rabbitt? Slapstick was set in the Marvel Universe. So were his enemies like The Neutron Bum, Doctor Denton and The Overkiller. Since so much of the humor was based on pop culture from a half century prior (Marx brothers jokes for instance) Slapstick didn't seem to tickle the fancy of most Marvel readers
An appropiate Ravage cover
I will not include Rom in this Rogues gallery
|
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 15, 2015 8:21:29 GMT -5
Regretably, we continue
Ravage 2099 -Created by Stan Lee & Paul Ryan 1st appearance Ravage 2099 (Marvel) # 1 Dec 1992
Marvel's New Universe went bust, so create another one to help propel a bunch of new titles. Most of the 2099 books were futuristic clones of existant characters but here they get living legend Stan Lee to come up with a new one. Stan tried to fit this in with the 1990's zeitgeist. It would be a dismal dytopian future with an authoritative government. The character would be grim and gritty. Corporations and technoligies were the enemy. enter Paul Ravage- fighting people who pollute since he gives a hoot. But he's framed for murder. So he arms himself with garbage he finds lying around, barbed wire, hubcaps and padding.Not to many issues later, he's revamped by getting radiation spawned powers-a Lee specialty. He's revamped a third time by aquiring the ability to get bestial. 2099's Doctor Doom finally kills this hero that never quite worked
Rom, Spaceknight-Comic created by Bill Mantlo & Sal Buscema 1st appearance Rom (Marvel) #1 Dec 1979
Jon Morris for some odd reason included him among these misbegotten stars though even he admitted it was a fan favorite and lasted many years. It was much better than it had the right to be considering it was based on a toy that bombed on the marketplace. A shame that licensing rights might forever prevent this series from ever being collected in a permanent form. To the longboxes and search it out!!
Skateman-Created by Neal Adams 1st appearance Skateman(Pacific Comics) #1 Nov 1983
This is more in line as a real piece of junk. Somehow even worse than Ms Mystic, a Neal Adams creation that preceded this for the newly formed direct market. Fandom unanimously held its nose with this series which died immediately. Billy Moon, Vietnam vet is framed for murder by the Mafia. His girlfriend gets knifed for no reason by a biker gang. So he dons his skates and rides out for revenge. Oh, he also wears white booty shorts. Neal, what were you thinking?
Slapstick-Created by Len Kaminski and James Fry 1st appearance Slapstick (Marvel) # 1 Nov 1992
Comics needed a huge helping of levity during the grim and gritty phase and Slapstick was to address that void. Steve Harmon, high school smart aleck discovers evil clowns from another dimension are on earth. He's pulled into another dimension and his body goes elastic enabling to perform stunts like a Loony Tunes character. Possibly inspired by Who Framed Roger Rabbitt? Slapstick was set in the Marvel Universe. So were his enemies like The Neutron Bum, Doctor Denton and The Overkiller. Since so much of the humor was based on pop culture from a half century prior (Marx brothers jokes for instance) Slapstick didn't seem to tickle the fancy of most Marvel readers
An appropiate Ravage cover
I will not include Rom in this Rogues gallery
Whoa, whoa... put the breaks on there... Ravage was not 'unfortunate'...nor was Rom... some people ain't got no culture!!! Ravage was Stan Lee's last Mravel creation, and the most unique part of 2099 (until they broke him and turned him into Wolverine). |
|
