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Post by MDG on Jul 2, 2021 21:18:06 GMT -5
You can't beat the Sixties Batman tv show for capturing a comic book aesthetic in live-action. I re-watched Danger: Diabolik last week and thought it would make a great double feature with the Batman '66 movie. It's unapologetically comic-book.
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Post by profh0011 on Jul 2, 2021 21:19:56 GMT -5
Alfred's FINEST moment!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 2, 2021 21:43:49 GMT -5
You can't beat the Sixties Batman tv show for capturing a comic book aesthetic in live-action. I re-watched Danger: Diabolik last week and thought it would make a great double feature with the Batman '66 movie. It's unapologetically comic-book. Yeah, although their solution to replicate the mask of the fumetti was a bit odd. I remember seeing a sketch by David Llod of V, from V for Vendetta, and he said something about possibly the mask (a balaclava-style) was painted on, "like Diabolik" and I had not seen the movie, yet. When I did, I couldn't figue out why he thought it was painted on, unless he saw it on a bad screen or tv. It's done in molded rubber, to fit tightly on John Phillip Law's face; but in two parts. There is the skullcap, and then the lower face mask, which buckled behind the head. There was one or two scenes where youd could see how it was fixed together and it looked a bit more bizarre than a one-piece balaclava would have. I guess they wanted it to look just like the drawing, which always showed the outline of the noes and mouth, through the mask. The film is fun as hell. There were a pair of films about one of Diabolik's fumetti negri rivals, Kriminal, from around the same era, though not with anyone as creative as Mario Bava, or with Morricone music. The first one, just titled Kriminal, isn't bad, but has some slow sections. I still haven't seen the entirety of the second, The Mark of Kriminal. If you want really gonzo comic book-style antics, check out the Italian film, The 3 Fantastic Supermen... Brad Harris looked like he should have played Captain America, in the 60s or early 70s. Hell, he could have done it in the 90s, based on how he still looked, in his 70s... Also, the two Super Argo films (a mixture of superhero and luchador, but in Italy) and Argoman (not exactly related to the first two, but similar in style)
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Post by MDG on Jul 4, 2021 10:13:03 GMT -5
First through fourth grades, I had a good friend named Joey. He lived a couple minutes away and we spent a lot of time playing, going to each others house for dinner, sleeping over, and all the usual stuff. Our parents remained good friends for years after Joey and I drifted apart. He also had an older sister and twin brothers a couple years younger than him. I believe he ultimately became an ophthalmologist.
The thing was, though, any time you had two members of his family in the room, the bickering would start. A third would come in to try to calm things down and soon get drawn into it. It wasn't unusual for him and his siblings to start wrestling on the floor, hollering at each other. Once his mom smacked me in the head because she was tooling down the Bronx River Parkway and couldn't turn around to see who in the back seat she was slapping.
Every time I read a silver age Avengers, I feel like I'm back with Joey and his family.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 4, 2021 11:31:46 GMT -5
First through fourth grades, I had a good friend named Joey. He lived a couple minutes away and we spent a lot of time playing, going to each others house for dinner, sleeping over, and all the usual stuff. Our parents remained good friends for years after Joey and I drifted apart. He also had an older sister and twin brothers a couple years younger than him. I believe he ultimately became an ophthalmologist. The thing was, though, any time you had two members of his family in the room, the bickering would start. A third would come in to try to calm things down and soon get drawn into it. It wasn't unusual for him and his siblings to start wrestling on the floor, hollering at each other. Once his mom smacked me in the head because she was tooling down the Bronx River Parkway and couldn't turn around to see who in the back seat she was slapping. Every time I read a silver age Avengers, I feel like I'm back with Joey and his family. And every time I read about about whether Kirby didn’t do this or Stan Lee didn’t do that on a CCF thread, I feel like I’m right there with you… hey, look out, I think Joey’s mom is gonna take another swing at us…
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Post by jason on Jul 10, 2021 15:56:22 GMT -5
I said this on another thread, but the cover of Marvel Comics #1 looks more like a horror comic than a superhero comic
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 10, 2021 19:05:07 GMT -5
The style of it matches the pulps of the period, particularly Goodman's line of "shudder" pulps.
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Post by MDG on Jul 10, 2021 20:53:30 GMT -5
The style of it matches the pulps of the period, particularly Goodman's line of "shudder" pulps. It was drawn by Frank R. Paul, who was a major pulp cover artist. I don't think he did much for comics.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2021 13:00:15 GMT -5
Decisions....decisions...
I came across some 'excellent' condition 12c comics with only one flaw on otherwise excellent shape books....they have 15c price stickers on them.
Debating on whether I should take them....I mean, indifferent resellers did tag them like that back then so it's kinda historical....but still a flaw.
Pondering....and they're cheap too....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2021 13:27:17 GMT -5
Decisions....decisions... I came across some 'excellent' condition 12c comics with only one flaw on otherwise excellent shape books....they have 15c price stickers on them. Debating on whether I should take them....I mean, indifferent resellers did tag them like that back then so it's kinda historical....but still a flaw. Pondering....and they're cheap too.... This is the classic conundrum for me at times...logically the brain knows it should not be a big deal, overall the reading experience should matter, need to stop stressing small items, to your point you could even say that's a part of the history. And then you find yourself staring at the "flaw" on the cover more than the art every time you look at it (at least I do). My golden rule is if I hesitate while thinking about it, I won't "grow to be ok with it" later, even if it is terribly minor. But cheap is cheap, sometimes a great bargain for reading copies is still worth it. Maybe one way to look at it is if these are important issues for your collection you can be patient on, or more just fun to grab and read. Additional edit: sometimes a "flaw" doesn't bother me. If I get an old Silver Age comic book and someone wrote their name on the cover, honestly that kind of makes me smile and I usually don't pass on those. I think trusting personal "gut reaction" is most important.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 13, 2021 7:59:43 GMT -5
The most interesting flaw I found in a back issue purchase was in a pair of what I call my "Rain Man" comics. The original owner had circled in pencil every number on the page and added them up at the bottom. And this guy had rules that could be inferred from his choices: if Batman said "That's twice now we've seen a reference for 1364 Vicoscia Drive in these papers, Robin! We should go to that address!", the sum would be 2 ("twice") + 1 + 3 + 6 + 4 + 2 ("to").
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jul 13, 2021 8:21:17 GMT -5
The most interesting flaw I found in a back issue purchase was in a pair of what I call my "Rain Man" comics. The original owner had circled in pencil every number on the page and added them up at the bottom. And this guy had rules that could be inferred from his choices: if Batman said "That's twice now we've seen a reference for 1364 Vicoscia Drive in these papers, Robin! We should go to that address!", the sum would be 2 ("twice") + 1 + 3 + 6 + 4 + 2 ("to"). I live for things like this. I rarely buy anything but "reader copies" of old comics expressly hoping to find these archaeological traces of past ownership. Most such traces are the expected (a half-completed coupon or puzzle, a name on the cover) but things like your "Rain Man" comics are pure gold.
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Post by badwolf on Jul 13, 2021 13:05:32 GMT -5
I used to check off the checklists that Marvel put in their comics in the early 80s. At the time I had 2 friends who also read comics and we'd often just hang out and read each others', so on some I would write their names next to the ones I knew they had.
I think I might have checked off some titles on subscription forms, even though I had no intention of cutting out of the comics. Maybe they were the ones that I would have gotten if I did.
I remember being mad cos some ne'er-do-well in my class in junior high whom I let borrow a comic filled out the form on the back cover with some juvenile, obscene stuff.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 13, 2021 17:24:23 GMT -5
I'll do you one better-- I didn't use the Marvel checklists, but...
All those guilty of cutting out a Marvel Value Stamp, please raise your hands.
At the ripe old age of 11, I cut few when they first came out, but discontinued the practice because I realized that they often affected the story/art. I never did cut a "Series B" stamp, and no, I never cut the stamp out of Hulk #181, because I never owned it. I never had any intention of completing the set, because buying that many books was way beyond my 11 yr-old budget.
Obviously, there were plenty out there like me, because every now and then I'll come across a book where some other kid or adult fanboy clipped the stamp.
One thing I never did though, and that was clip the DC Bicentennial Headers, because I wasn't the least interested in that Superman belt buckle..
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2021 20:45:02 GMT -5
I've only cut out a coupon from a comic once in my life.
I was 7 and clipped out a coupon from an Archie comic, asked mum for some money and we sent it in. This would have been in the early 1990s.
What I didn't know was the comic was from 1972 and those Archie Giant Size series books @ 25c each weren't around anymore. I was almost 20 years too late.
Archie was still nice to me, they not only sent me some current books, but sent me free books several times over a period of one year.
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