Confessor
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Post by Confessor on May 8, 2020 2:31:16 GMT -5
I'm also reading the whole run of The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones. I'm up to #16 now. I've read a few random issues before but never the whole run. I'm enjoying this series a lot! It "feels" like a continuation of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and I like Marion as a sometime partner of Indy. It's been mostly Dave Michelinie thus far and the art has been mostly quite good. It's a really underrated series, for sure. I like it a lot. |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 2:45:48 GMT -5
Ultimate Spider-Man #13...the big reveal to MJ...lovely story.
Was putting together a spare set for someone....
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Post by Batflunkie on May 8, 2020 11:54:19 GMT -5
Captain America #298 and #299   Two really good issues; heavy on the drama, light on action. 298 re-weaves Red Skull's origin story into something more and says that Red Skull and Captain America were destined to fight one another for time and immemorial
I have a physical copy of 299 that I got some years ago from a mycomichop grab bag of Cap books, so it was fun to read that and smell the aged paper
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Post by beccabear67 on May 8, 2020 13:16:33 GMT -5
I loved the Zeck/Beatty art on Captain America, and I liked the Neary art, but I think I dropped the title after a maybe just two issues by him... I was just dropping a lot of the main Marvel and DC comics then though. I remember this issue being quite a good one-off story with Paul Neary art... I only knew his name from his having been an editor on Doctor Who Monthly magazine before that.  |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 8, 2020 17:54:40 GMT -5
I loved the Zeck/Beatty art on Captain America, and I liked the Neary art, but I think I dropped the title after a maybe just two issues by him... I was just dropping a lot of the main Marvel and DC comics then though. I remember this issue being quite a good one-off story with Paul Neary art... I only knew his name from his having been an editor on Doctor Who Monthly magazine before that. Apparently Black Crow was supposed to take over as Captain America at the end of DeMatteis' run according to Marvel Comics: The Untold Story with Steve throwing his shield into the river or some such thing |
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Post by dbutler69 on May 9, 2020 9:36:33 GMT -5
Captain America #298 and #299 Two really good issues; heavy on the drama, light on action. 298 re-weaves Red Skull's origin story into something more and says that Red Skull and Captain America were destined to fight one another for time and immemorial
I have a physical copy of 299 that I got some years ago from a mycomichop grab bag of Cap books, so it was fun to read that and smell the aged paper
Nothing better than the smell of old comics!  |
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Post by dbutler69 on May 9, 2020 9:46:15 GMT -5
I read Fantastic Four #102-104. It's an OK three part story where Magneto tricks Namor & the Atlanteans into attacking NYC. Namor rescues Magneto and take him to Atlantis. From there, Magneto uses his powers to make things to crazy in NYC, and he has the apparatus in the Baxter Building attack the FF. How this equipment can accurately attack the FF, and dodge the FF's counterattack, when Magneto is controlling them from hundreds of miles away and can't possible see what he's doing, is beyond me. Must be transistors. Reed uses a gizmo to determine that the magnetic forces come from Atlantis, so they naturally assume that Namor is behind the attack. Then Ben, without consulting anyone, launches a freaking missile at Atlantis! Naturally, after stopping the missile, Namor finds out that the FF launched it, so he assumes that the surface world is attacking him, and takes his army to attack NYC. Magneto comes along for the ride. Magneto then takes Sue as a hostage (again??) and Lady Dorma, for good measure. This prevents Namor (who's now onto Maggy) and the FF from attacking then. Reed tells Namor to go along with Magneto for now, so Namor goes back to Magneto and says he'll help. Reed of course comes up with a dues ex machina gizmo to defeat Magneto, and the FF and Namor take care of business and all is well.    |
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Post by dbutler69 on May 9, 2020 9:48:45 GMT -5
I read The Lone Ranger #1 (1947) from Dell. It was pretty good, considering the era. The first story kinda reminded me of a Scooby Doo mystery, with a fake ghost that was actually trying to scare everyone away from a gold mine.  |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 9, 2020 12:13:45 GMT -5
Captain America #302-#304    Cap has his shield stolen (which is honestly funny that it's never really happened before as near as I can recall) by Batroc, Zaran, and Machete. They're under contract for Stane International, a weapons manufacturer, who wants to try and replicate the metal in Cap's shield for a line of armored suits with the help of the scientist who originally created Cap's shield by total accident Michael Carlin does an excellent job keeping the pace where DeMatteis left off. Feels very silver age like |
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Post by beccabear67 on May 9, 2020 13:57:57 GMT -5
I read those started by Kirby and finished by Romita Sr. Fantastic Fours in the Marvel's Greatest reprint title of the late '70s/early '80s. Sub-Mariner rescuing Magneto is tied in to X-Men: The Hidden Years by John Byrne later.  Look at the different coloring! |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 9, 2020 14:03:39 GMT -5
I read those started by Kirby and finished by Romita Sr. Fantastic Fours in the Marvel's Greatest reprint title of the late '70s/early '80s Geez, how many reprint books did Marvel have? |
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Post by beccabear67 on May 9, 2020 14:34:17 GMT -5
In the late '70s/early '80s... a lot! Although in the mid '70s there was a reprint book for Thor and another for Daredevil that had ended by then. I guess it was Danny Fingeroth working on most of them.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 10, 2020 7:17:23 GMT -5
I read Fantastic Four #102-104. It's an OK three part story where Magneto tricks Namor & the Atlanteans into attacking NYC. Namor rescues Magneto and take him to Atlantis. From there, Magneto uses his powers to make things to crazy in NYC, and he has the apparatus in the Baxter Building attack the FF. How this equipment can accurately attack the FF, and dodge the FF's counterattack, when Magneto is controlling them from hundreds of miles away and can't possible see what he's doing, is beyond me. Must be transistors. Reed uses a gizmo to determine that the magnetic forces come from Atlantis, so they naturally assume that Namor is behind the attack. Then Ben, without consulting anyone, launches a freaking missile at Atlantis! Naturally, after stopping the missile, Namor finds out that the FF launched it, so he assumes that the surface world is attacking him, and takes his army to attack NYC. Magneto comes along for the ride. Magneto then takes Sue as a hostage (again??) and Lady Dorma, for good measure. This prevents Namor (who's now onto Maggy) and the FF from attacking then. Reed tells Namor to go along with Magneto for now, so Namor goes back to Magneto and says he'll help. Reed of course comes up with a dues ex machina gizmo to defeat Magneto, and the FF and Namor take care of business and all is well. I remember my grandma buying me #102 off the stands. I loved the Romita artwork. |
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Post by Farrar on May 10, 2020 10:39:04 GMT -5
^^^ Are you sure it was #102 and not #103, Icctrombone ? Romita did #102's cover, but that issue's interior art was by Kirby. Romita took over the penciling with #103 (and then with #107 we get Buscema!  ) From #102: Kirby's powerful, brooding Namor and Magneto.  Btw later on some readers complained that throughout this FF arc there'd been no indication that Magneto and Namor had teamed up before--with disastrous results--way back in X-Men #6. There was nothing in the FF arc to explicitly contradict it either, but some readers felt it was careless of Marvel not to include an in-story mention that Namor and Magneto had teamed up previously. |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 10, 2020 10:43:10 GMT -5
Sorry man, my sentence wasn't clearly written. I bought 102 and the following issues that had Romita Interiors were what I was referring to. I did get those later on.
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