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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2020 17:42:20 GMT -5
I was trying to remember if "Even an Android Can Cry" was part of a 2 or 3 part story. Good call. Another one I think might qualify but can't recall with 100% certainty is the Hulk/Avengers story with the insectoid villain, Psyklop. It started in Avengers # 88 and was concluded in the Hulk book. Don't know the issue #. Maybe 140?
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 14, 2020 21:35:04 GMT -5
Yep
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2020 21:41:41 GMT -5
I know too many useless facts...
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Post by shaxper on Aug 15, 2020 8:18:44 GMT -5
I've always wanted to read the Jarella storyline. Len Wein referenced it so often in his Hulk run.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2020 11:43:36 GMT -5
I know too many useless facts... I think your prioritization of fact retention is just fine.
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 15, 2020 12:22:15 GMT -5
I know too many useless facts... Useless? Comic knowledge is not useless!
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 16, 2020 0:18:41 GMT -5
I have the two part Hulk story where he wants Doctor Strange to bring Jarella back to life and goes on a rampage in New York which the Defenders have to stop... Incredible Hulk #206 & 207.
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Post by MDG on Aug 16, 2020 11:01:28 GMT -5
Can both parts (different artists) be in the same issue? Also, Joker fish.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 18, 2020 14:11:54 GMT -5
In the mid-80's to late 80's/early 90's G.I. Joe was ridiculously popular... on second thought (courtesy of the movie Spaceballs) G.I. Joe was LUDICROUS in popularity. And Snake Eyes and eventually Storm Shadow as well were very popular and their popularity was off-the-rictor-scale. I remember these two issues couldn't even be purchased as they cleared the stands, and Marvel ended up doing second printings and I believe a third printing as well. And it was cool to have two different masters train them (The Hardmaster and The Softmaster). And it became an ongoing long sub-plotline that fans followed in the comic books for years where eventually the two find out it was Zartan who murdered their teacher, The Hardmaster. And when Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow form an alliance to bring Zartan to justice was a topic kids would talk about in grade school. I mean after all there was no internet or cell phones. The ones that could afford the computers at the time usually purchased the Commodore 64, and if the parents were upper-middle class, then it would be the Commodore 128 which was more expensive. There was still the Atari 2600 and I forgot what the other 4-digit Atari video game console was. And of course Colleco-vision. Nintendo would eventually debut and take over the video game market. Of course, the commodore 64 and 128 had their niche of kids sharing many video games via copied floppy discs as well. Hence comic books and morning and afternoon cartoons basically still had the kids' attention primarily as entertainment.
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Post by Farrar on Aug 21, 2020 14:43:51 GMT -5
So many great examples here, many from my comics-reading days! In particular I loved the examples from the Avengers from the Thomas-Buscema-George Klein run; even though I wasn't crazy about the core team at the time, the art couldn't be bettered and Roy Thomas wasn't too shabby either . Also mentioned were FF #83 and #84, with the Inhumans --another great two-parter. I'll add a couple of others to the mix, stories I loved and that have nostalgic value for me, as they were among the earliest comics I ever owned. Adventure #359-360
#359 featured all of the Legionnaires and so was a quite a treat for a young fan like me. We got to see every single member! Story by Shooter; utterly perfect Swan-Klein art. The Legion is framed and many members are arrested and sent to a penal colony. Often for DC two-parters back then, at least for the Weisinger books, the second part of the story veered off into a different direction so that the story does not just repeat the action in the first part...and this one was no exception. In #360, we see the handful of Legionnaires who've managed to evade arrest work to free the others and uncover why the Legion has been vilified. Coincidentally that same summer there was a two-parter in Lois Lane, starting in #76 and concluding in #78 (#77 was an 80-Page Giant Lois Lane, which I also bought that summer). Lois Lane #76, #78Story by Leo Dorfman. In #76 Lois and Lana are romanced by someone passing himself off as a genie. Say what you will about the inanity of most of those LL stories,here the characterizations were spot on. Lois and Lana are industrious and intelligent, and rightfully suspicious of this "genie." And as I have noted many times at this forum and elsewhere, I was in love with the Schaffenberger art. Part two was in #78 and as I mentioned above, as with the Legion story, here the story veered off in another direction: Lois and Lana are in Kandor and learning to live as Kandorians. And they weren't just sitting around; they were pursuing new careers: Lois was studying to become a detective (and uncovering forensic evidence), Lana an archaeologist. I was already intrigued by their journalism careers; this issue inspired me to read more about archaeology and forensics.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 21, 2020 17:06:53 GMT -5
How did I forget two all-time favorites from Adventure? The Legion and the Fatal Five take on the Sun-Eater. RIP Ferro Lad. (352-353) And Mordru visits Smallville in 369-70.
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Post by Farrar on Aug 21, 2020 18:06:09 GMT -5
Yes, Prince Hal , the Legion during their Adventure days had some great two-part (two-issue) stories. I'd made a list of some that I was going to post about, including the Mordru story (which you'd already mentioned in an earlier post) and of course the Death of Ferro Lad two-parter. In compiling my list I noticed that the Legion two-parters were quite frequent, the norm rather than the exception. That's understandable since the team was so large; at times the two-parters would serve to highlight different members in each part (but not always as I mentioned. For example #352-353, the Death of Ferro Lad, included the same 5 Legionnaires in both parts 1 and 2). And I know the Computo story (#340-1) was a two-parter but I wasn't crazy about those issues, so it doesn't make my list. As per the OP, I'm listing some of my favorite Legion two-parters. Adventure #344-5: Super-Stalag of Space Adventure #346-7: Jim Shooter's first Legion stories
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Post by Farrar on Aug 21, 2020 18:09:37 GMT -5
Adventure #350-1 #350 has my favorite LSH cover! Part 1, super-cousins are forced to leave the team. Part 2, lots of other stuff happens (and spoiler alert: the super-cousins are able to return to the fold.) Adventure #354-5: Adult Legion story
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 21, 2020 18:17:16 GMT -5
Farrar, I used to love that the Legion had two-parters! As you said, with all those members, it made sense. Plus the universe was their playground! Still, they were often shortened because of the Superboy reprints. I wished they'd have skipped them and made the "epics" epic in length. I do have to part ways with you on one point. I loved the Computo story, especially the first part. It seemed as if it were going to be the end of the world, and the death of one-third of Triplicate Girl amped up the melodrama for me. Plus I loved those covers!! But hey, I was 11.
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Post by Farrar on Aug 21, 2020 18:29:45 GMT -5
^^^ Differences of opinion are what it's all about. Even if I wasn't crazy about it, I know Computo was an important story, so I'm glad you spoke up for its appeal.
Oh, those awful back-up reprints in the 12-cent mags (even though now I like them, for historical reasons). But as a reader back then I hated those back-up reprints, I preferred the "novels" (as Weisinger was apt to call them). Adventure #359 didn't have a reprint, and neither did Lois Lane #76--it made those particular issues seem all the more special to me.
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