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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 5, 2020 21:39:31 GMT -5
Battle of the Planets was the first issue I saw of that comic. It was also the last issue published. That was Western for you. Not a great month, quality-wise. Dazzler #1 was only in comic shops; so, I missed it, but issue 2 was on newsstands. Didn't exactly knock my socks off. Marvel Spotlight was the last of the Captain Universe stories, which proved to be a disappointment, for me. I had missed the Captain Universe issue of Micronauts, but knew he had beaten off Baron Karza; so, I expected something big; but, instead, got a bunch of people temporarily gaining superpowers, with Ditko art that was fine, but not at the level of his earlier stuff. Wow, I never even knew there was a Battle of the Planets comic! I'll have to check it out. 10 issues, Win Mortimer on art. Not the most exciting adaptation out there; but, it was the only one we had. It followed the Sandy Frank continuity; so, Keeyop was an android, their battles were in space, and the villain was Zoltar, not Berg Katse, and the organization was just the soldiers of Planet Spectra, and not the Galactor Organization.
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 6, 2020 4:51:16 GMT -5
That doesn't resemble the one they published here:
It looks like they just took the pictures right off the anime.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 6, 2020 22:18:12 GMT -5
That doesn't resemble the one they published here: It looks like they just took the pictures right off the anime.
I've seen a lot of anime comics from Japan over the years where they do use cels in panels with word balloons added, and Marvel did it with Rock & Rule in the '80s. I absolutely have never understood why they hire new artists to 'adapt' stuff from Japanese animation when the cartoon original is the actual film itself being adapted. Of course for something like Nausicaa where Miyazaki did the comic, or say Reiji Matsumoto where the comics came before the anime, it's just as authentic... getting a non-Japanese artist to 'adapt' a Japanese show just seems extra pointless. However, Win Mortimer has a sort of late '70s early '80s appeal all his own, and #1 of that comic of the particularly American screw-up of Gatchaman replete with 7-Zark-7 is on my list. I did think Ken Steacy did some cool 'Robotech' art as well, but his Astro Boy... at that time there hadn't really been many actual Tezuka comics available in English and I thought that was pretty much very wrong. To me the best of American Japanese influenced comics would be something like Usagi Yojimbo, or Elfquest... I did support things like Rion 2990, Kendra, Wandering Star, Dynamo Joe when I saw them, but the idea of American artists being employed to do sort of white cover versions of Japanese creations where the originals were not available never made sense to me. If there was a Japanese comic you'd think that would be the thing people would most want to buy! If there wasn't then use the cels.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 3, 2021 15:12:30 GMT -5
It was Mantlo Month, for me... That was pretty much it. Sometime, during this period, I had an issue of Adventure Comics, with Dial H for Hero; but, I can't recall which one it was and poking through digital copies on-line hasn't helped. Micronauts was the finale to the return of Karza, with Acroyer being the one who has to stop him, at a very high price (and a concept that Mantlo swiped from Kirby's Eternals). Rom features a crossover with the X-Men, which makes it one of the most valuable issues of the series,, the X-Men weren't appearing in every comic, yet and Rom was a lower selling title, so there are fewer copies than other books. I might have also picked up the previous issue; but the memory is fuzzy. I read this and subsequent issues, up to issue #25.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 3, 2021 18:00:39 GMT -5
It even looks like a Frank Miller cover, which was also a good way to boost the value of a comic!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 3, 2021 18:28:29 GMT -5
It even looks like a Frank Miller cover, which was also a good way to boost the value of a comic! Yep, Miller and Al Milgrom.
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 4, 2021 7:09:12 GMT -5
Very funny way to sign, an amalgam of both names "MILL" plus the different endings ("er" and "grom"). I've never seen the like of it, but then again, Miller was nothing if not innovative (I'm assuming it was his thing).
Not much to buy that month around here. The publisher with the rights to most Marvel titles was almost out of business, so it was down to the big two:
Those weren't reprints, we were 3 and 5 years behind in publication, respectively. About the only good thing about the new publisher was that they didn't redraw the covers, but inside... mechanical lettering, missing pages, horrible translations... you name it.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 4, 2021 8:15:06 GMT -5
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 4, 2021 9:39:41 GMT -5
the conclusion to the initial Trigon story arc really delivered to my mind I still remember these two pages, it's not usual to see teams doing team work: Unfortunately, this wouldn't be published until July '84.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 4, 2021 11:46:38 GMT -5
Bought at the newsstand or received by mail in January 1981…
Avengers #206. Alas, Gene Colan’s art wasn’t working at all for me. I loved him on Dracula and other horror comics, but not on superheroes… and especially not when the competition wasn’t Don Heck or Larry Lieber but John Byrne or George Perez.
Conan the barbarian #121. And it continued… the “bad old years” of the Conan franchise at Marvel, which for the next half-dozen years would count just a handful of worthwhile issues. A winged horse? By Crom…
Howard the Duck #9. I really didn’t hate Mantlo’s Howard, although in retrospect I can see how superior Gerber’s was. Plus, it was for some reason one of the rare American comics that would make it to our town on a regular basis.
Micronauts #28. The Micronauts defeat Barzon Karza (again) with the help of the Worldmind (again). We also start a looooooong era of Acroyear feeling sorry for himself.
Savage Sword of Conan #62. A good, if generic story hobbled by then-usual bad continuity.
X-Men #144. The return of Cyclops (sort of). My favourite X-Man in a solo tale, with nice art by Craig Anderson. I don’t much care about D’Spayre, however… he’s one of the most annoyingly Claremontian villains of all the Claremont villains.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 9, 2021 14:15:20 GMT -5
I was 23 months old as of this date, so here's what I acquired after the fact:
Avengers #206 (haven't gotten around to reading it yet) Batman #334 Detective Comics #501 Master of Kung-Fu #99 (haven't read this one yet either) New Teen Titans #6 (the very first run I ever retroactively assembled at the tender age of 9!) Superman Radio Shak give-away X-Men #144
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Post by berkley on Jan 10, 2021 3:30:38 GMT -5
Bizarre Adventures #25 - I thought this was an uncharacteristically weak cover from Gulacy but the interior work made up for it. Really nice artwork, especially the Gulacy BW story, and from memory, enjoyable stories as well. Too bad about that cover, though.
Master of Kung Fu #99 - MoKF was still flying high with Moench, Zeck, & Day, just about the only relic from the great Marvel comics of the 70s that I still followed. Don't recall what was going on in this specific issue, off the top of my head.
New Teen Titans #6 - I had no interest in the Titans themelves, and generally disliked DC's superhero characters, so it was a bit of a leap for me to give this series a try. But I liked Wolfman and Perez, so I gave it a shot. Until relatively recently, my memory told me that I'd only follwed the series for a few months, maybe a year or so at the most, but then I went home one time and looked at some of my old comics that were still there - I'd long ago brought up all my old favourites - and was surprised to see that I had almost every NTT issue from around #3 or #4 to somewhere in the #50s. So I must have liked it more than I remembered, unless Iwas just stubborn or desperate for lack of anything better.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 9:27:55 GMT -5
The only book I got off the stands from this month was Fantastic Four #229, and it wasn't one I picked out. I was sick and my dad picked up 2 comics for me when he went to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription, and it was FF 229 & 230 (so it was likely in Feb that I got the comic not Jan). It was the first comics I had gotten since the Empire adaption ended in Star Wars.
-M
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 19, 2021 18:03:32 GMT -5
The Savage Sword of Conan Vol.1 #30 [...] I will always remember this two-page spread: A better version:
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Post by shaxper on Feb 5, 2021 9:24:09 GMT -5
Comics I acquired as an adult published in February 1981:
Avengers #207 Batman #335 Daredevil #170 DC Comics Presents #33 Detective Comics #502 Eerie #120 Elfquest #9 Epic Illustrated #5 (one of my favorite runs in all of comicdom) Man-Thing #10 Master of Kung Fu #100 Micronauts #29 Moon Knight #7 New Teen Titans #7 Savage Sword of Conan #63 Thor #307 (the issue right before Doug Moench takes over) Uncanny X-Men #145 (This issue made me love Doctor Doom)
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