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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 13, 2020 6:36:04 GMT -5
I also read The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #1-2. It was great! I've read several random issues of this series before, so I know it doesn't maintain this standard, as creative teams change often,but at least the series got off to a great start. Largely due to John Byrne. Personally, I think the Further Adventures Of Indian Jones series is pretty consistent. I have a full run and, although the quality varies a bit, by and large it's pretty good. Good to know, because I plan to read the entire series.
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 13, 2020 6:36:53 GMT -5
I read Star Trek #1 from Gold Key. The 1967 series. This was an odd comic. It seemed as if the creators had never seen Star Trek before. The terminology was all wrong. Some of the characters at least looked like the actors, but Captain Kirk did not look much like William Shatner. Also, the plot was a bit odd, dealing with some man eating plant creatures.
With all the hiccups about it, I am at a loss to understand why it sells for so much.
Maybe because it's a 60's Star Trek collectible, plus those cool photo covers.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 13, 2020 7:00:18 GMT -5
Personally, I think the Further Adventures Of Indian Jones series is pretty consistent. I have a full run and, although the quality varies a bit, by and large it's pretty good. Good to know, because I plan to read the entire series. Great. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. I initially encountered the series when it was reprinted as a back-up strip in Marvel UK's Star Wars Monthly and Return of the Jedi Weekly, back in 1982 and 1983. The series had an ever revolving creative team, but I guess that David Micheline of Star Wars and Amazing Spider-Man fame is the closest thing that the series ever had to a regular writer. Artwise, the first issue is by far the best looking, what with all that gorgeous John Byrne artwork, but the art in the following issues was mostly great, and was always interesting. The likes of Ron Frenz and Herb Trimpe turned in nice work, and in the latter half of the series you get the legendary Steve Ditko coming on board as the regular artist. Myself, I always felt that the Marvel adaptations of the three Indiana Jones movies were a little bit lacklustre (with Temple of Doom being arguably the best of the bunch). The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, on the other hand, "does what it says on the tin" (to quote a popular British TV advertisement). This is a comic that really does feel like the further adventures of the same character you'd seen in the movies. It nailed the characterisation of the lead characters and totally captured the exciting, 1930s movie serial vibe of the films. You really feel like you are experiencing missing chapters of the cinematic franchise when you read these comics. In short, the series is a whole lot of fun.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 13, 2020 7:33:17 GMT -5
Read me some Jonny Quest this weekend. Issues 1 through 5 with all capturing the essence of the cartoon. Slightly stronger in story and a bit less "adventure" as they are comic books and not animation driven. Still they manage to respect the cartoon characters and doesn't try to "change" for the times by making them different than they were/are. Issue 2 by William Messner-Loebs and Wendy Pini and Joe Staton on art delivers a real and authentic gut puncher, bring tears to your eyes with a story of Jonny's mother's death. I tell you my eyes did not stop watering for awhile after that one. I really felt Jonny and Benton's pain. Truly telling that a comic book based upon cartoon characters can touch the readers heart to such depths. THIS IS WHY I LOVE COMIC BOOKS
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 13, 2020 7:38:41 GMT -5
I've read All-Star Comics (1940) #4-6, and Green Lantern's powers are described as being immune to all metals (so bullets can't hurt him), flight, and being able to walk through walls. That's it. No green energy projections. I wondered why he resorted to fisticuffs so often in those Golden Age adventures, and I guess that's why. I wonder when his powers were expanded? Also, it appears that Johnny Thunder doesn't actually know what the magic word that causes his thunderbolt to do his biding for one hour ("say you") is, and just lucks into it. I wonder when that dumbkopf figured it out? Sounds like my cue...
Green Lantern's powers were restricted to what you describe in his first episode, but he was already forming objects of solidified light in the second. New powers were added (and vulnerabilities removed) as the series progressed. Those early All-Stars probably reflected that original power set because they were scripted by Gardner Fox (who may only have read the pilot story at that time) rather than co-creator Bill Finger. Fox would eventually catch up.
Johnny T didn't even notice the Thunderbolt until Flash Comics #11 and didn't figure out his magic word until #20. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, our Johnny.
Cei-U! I summon the Golden Age goofiness!
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Post by tingramretro on Apr 13, 2020 8:00:01 GMT -5
Starting to read through this...bit of bias of course as I'm from the UK albeit not there at the moment...
This collection collects the Captain Britain stories from those merged Super Spider-Man issues that were published in England in the 70s.
I take it that book includes the Alan Moore stories then? If so, those are great. I always regarded Captain Britain as a super-lame character, but those were the stories that (fairly recently) changed my mind and turned me onto someone who actually thinks that Captain Britian is quite a cool character after all. EDIT: I just Googled it and the Alan Moore stories came later, in 1982. So probably not in this book. I guess that these are the issues that tingramretro was reviewing in his old Captain Britain review thread. This book only goes up as far as the Black Knight series. The later Thorpe/Moore/Davis/Delano stories were reprinted in the Captain Britain Omnibus.
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Post by tingramretro on Apr 13, 2020 8:02:39 GMT -5
I think the only way to get Alan Moore's Captain Britain in HC is the omnibus...about 200 pages or so of his work is included. It's a real price-gouger though.... The Moore stories were also reprinted in two TPB's from Panini UK and in an earlier trade published in 2002, as well as in the X-Men Archives series, and in a partwork released in the UK a few years ago. In short: they've been reprinted a lot!
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Post by MDG on Apr 13, 2020 9:15:46 GMT -5
Read me some Jonny Quest this weekend. Issues 1 through 5 with all capturing the essence of the cartoon. Slightly stronger in story and a bit less "adventure" as they are comic books and not animation driven. Still they manage to respect the cartoon characters and doesn't try to "change" for the times by making them different than they were/are. Issue 2 by William Messner-Loebs and Wendy Pini and Joe Staton on art delivers a real and authentic gut puncher, bring tears to your eyes with a story of Jonny's mother's death. I tell you my eyes did not stop watering for awhile after that one. I really felt Jonny and Benton's pain. Truly telling that a comic book based upon cartoon characters can touch the readers heart to such depths. THIS IS WHY I LOVE COMIC BOOKS Definitely a high point of 80s comics. And while Hempel and Wheatly were a good team, it was fun picking up the early issues when there was a variety if different artists drawing it.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 13, 2020 13:58:41 GMT -5
Read me some Jonny Quest this weekend. Issues 1 through 5 with all capturing the essence of the cartoon. Slightly stronger in story and a bit less "adventure" as they are comic books and not animation driven. Still they manage to respect the cartoon characters and doesn't try to "change" for the times by making them different than they were/are. Issue 2 by William Messner-Loebs and Wendy Pini and Joe Staton on art delivers a real and authentic gut puncher, bring tears to your eyes with a story of Jonny's mother's death. I tell you my eyes did not stop watering for awhile after that one. I really felt Jonny and Benton's pain. Truly telling that a comic book based upon cartoon characters can touch the readers heart to such depths. THIS IS WHY I LOVE COMIC BOOKS Definitely a high point of 80s comics. And while Hempel and Wheatly were a good team, it was fun picking up the early issues when there was a variety if different artists drawing it. I had forgotten and am greatly enjoying how they had lots of single page "posters" from various artists who loved JQ inside the comic. And a 1st issue with Doug Wildey and Steve Rude? That is an INSTANT buy on ANY day!
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 15, 2020 19:13:55 GMT -5
I'm moving right along in the Lee/Ditko Spider-Man series. I read #11 and #12 over the last few nights. They are great! I'm not much moved by the dumb death of Bennett Brant, but otherwise #11 is a real page-turner! And "Unmasked by Dr. Octopus!" in #12 is just about a perfect Doctor Octopus story! I love that bit where Peter goes to Coney Island to fight Doctor Octopus and save Betty, but he has a flu bug and gets whipped by Doc Ock in like four panels! And when he unmasks him and realizes it's puny Parker, he throws poor Peter at the Jameson and the cops and escapes! And then he lets the zoo animals free! And then they have the fight in the abandoned loft with all the sculptures! It's all so awesome! I should be reading #13 tonight or tomorrow.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 15, 2020 19:17:41 GMT -5
I'm moving right along in the Lee/Ditko Spider-Man series. I read #11 and #12 over the last few nights. They are great! I'm not much moved by the dumb death of Bennett Brant, but otherwise #11 is a real page-turner! And "Unmasked by Dr. Octopus!" in #12 is just about a perfect Doctor Octopus story! I love that bit where Peter goes to Coney Island to fight Doctor Octopus and save Betty, but he has a flu bug and gets whipped by Doc Ock in like four panels! And when he unmasks him and realizes it's puny Parker, he throws poor Peter at the Jameson and the cops and escapes! And then he lets the zoo animals free! And then they have the fight in the abandoned loft with all the sculptures! It's all so awesome! I should be reading #13 tonight or tomorrow. Yeah, I really liked that he had no strength and Ock thought , there's no way this is the real Spider-man. Nice plot twist.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 15, 2020 19:24:59 GMT -5
I'm still working on my quest to read all the Marvel series that started in the 1960s up to where I started reading them in 1975 and 1976. I finished Iron Man last year and, except for a few years' worth of Sgt. Fury, all I have left is Thor. Through various reprints and Essential volumes and Masterworks, I've read up to #220 and I just have to read up to about #243 or #244 to get to where I started reading Thor in the mid-1970s. I got a digital Marvel Masterworks volume from Comixology and I've read the first few issues. This volume reprints Thor #217 to #228. I read the first four issues in an Essential Thor volume fairly recently, maybe a year ago? So I've been reading #217 to #220 the last few days. I barely remember them, to be honest. Aside from the subplot with Hildegarde and Krista, I'm not loving this so far, despite the John Buscema art.
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Post by beccabear67 on Apr 16, 2020 0:39:41 GMT -5
That Spider-Man cover is very DC-esque. I was going through some old junk in a cabinet from the early '00s and found this comic book I got on board an Alaska ferry. It says (c)1960 and 1993. I'm a fool for tawny chest fur basically so I enjoyed seeing and reading it again, a 16 page story plus covers, the art is quality but fairly non-descript inside, like old Mark Trail comic strips. I will put this in a bag with a board finally! I know I had one of the later Dell/Gold Key Smokey comics when i was little, no idea which one from the covers though. I also remember seeing the forestry service signs with him on at the side of various roads in Washington, Oregon and California.
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 16, 2020 7:40:22 GMT -5
That Smokey 16-pager reprints the first story from Dell's Four Color #932 (August 1958), which I cited a few Classic Christmases back as one of my Twelve Favorite Comic Books. The USFS giveaway came with my official Smokey Bear Fan Club membership package waaaaay back in 1964 or thereabouts. I finally picked up the original comic at a convention in the mid-'90s. . Cei-U! I summon the firehose!
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 16, 2020 8:06:16 GMT -5
That Smokey 16-pager reprints the first story from Dell's Four Color #932 (August 1958), which I cited a few Classic Christmases back as one of my Twelve Favorite Comic Books. The USFS giveaway came with my official Smokey Bear Fan Club membership package waaaaay back in 1964 or thereabouts. I finally picked up the original comic at a convention in the mid-'90s. . Cei-U! I summon the firehose! Just out of curiosity, do you have a link to your Twelve Favorite Comic Books?
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