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Post by MWGallaher on Oct 15, 2021 5:17:47 GMT -5
And while not a major character, The Silver Age Plastic Man (new in that he was the original's son) has a cover which justifies the series entire existence. Nice drawing, but awful text. "You'll never know, commissioner, whom I ran into!" Man, it's not just that that's the kind of phrasing that calls into question one's understanding of " who vs. whom" (it appears to be correct to my parsing, if I rephrase it as "you'll never guess into whom I ran"--and if whatever DC editor is responsible was such a stickler for proper grammar, why didn't he avoid ending with a preposition, as is the rule for grammar snobs?), it's just overall so awkward and cacophonous, with that insertion of "commissioner", the curious choice of "know" vs. the more appropriate "guess", and it doesn't sound like something a hip, fun superhero like Plas would say.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 15, 2021 7:22:28 GMT -5
While there are better Terrax covers, his first one wasn't bad. I got introduced to him in Silver Surfer in "The Herald Ordeal". Even Byrne did a better Terrax cover in FF later on.
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Post by kirby101 on Oct 15, 2021 7:40:54 GMT -5
Has this been posted?
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Oct 15, 2021 8:03:51 GMT -5
Nicely captures the blaxploitation vibe inside.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Oct 15, 2021 8:04:43 GMT -5
Archie Andrews is another character who didn't even make the cover when he debuted.
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Post by tonebone on Oct 15, 2021 9:33:34 GMT -5
I have always loved Annihilus as a character....visually too the colour scheme is great. But man his first cover stinks I much prefer this one later on... As a young kid, I didn't quite get the memo that his name derived from the word annihilation, and so I pronounced his name (in my head) as annie-HILLus.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 15, 2021 9:43:10 GMT -5
And while not a major character, The Silver Age Plastic Man (new in that he was the original's son) has a cover which justifies the series entire existence. Nice drawing, but awful text. "You'll never know, commissioner, whom I ran into!" Man, it's not just that that's the kind of phrasing that calls into question one's understanding of " who vs. whom" (it appears to be correct to my parsing, if I rephrase it as "you'll never guess into whom I ran"--and if whatever DC editor is responsible was such a stickler for proper grammar, why didn't he avoid ending with a preposition, as is the rule for grammar snobs?), it's just overall so awkward and cacophonous, with that insertion of "commissioner", the curious choice of "know" vs. the more appropriate "guess", and it doesn't sound like something a hip, fun superhero like Plas would say. MW, you're somebody with whose opinion I inevitably find myself in agreement, but I'll pick one little nit here. While I absolutely agree that "know" should have been "guess," and would also submit that "chief" would have been better than "commissioner," and in addition that "chief" should have been the first word in the line of dialogue, I like "whom" here, not so much because it's grammatically correct, but because I think it's meant as a bit of characterization that captures the wiseacre attitude of Plastic Man. "Chief, you'll never guess whom I ran into," sounds funnier, because we think PM's using a malaprop, even though it's correct, and makes him sound like Slip Mahoney of the Bowery Boys. I can imagine the Spirit using the same syntax speaking to Commissioner Dolan. PS: You know the joke about the visitor to Harvard ending his question to a Harvard man with a preposition, right? It's up there with the supposed Churchill retort: "That is something up with which I shall not put."
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Post by mikelmidnight on Oct 15, 2021 11:20:13 GMT -5
The first issue of Codename: Genetix had the team in the background and Wolverine in the foreground:
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Oct 15, 2021 12:20:37 GMT -5
Previously mentioned in the thread but not posted. A lousy debut cover.
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Post by james on Oct 15, 2021 12:39:58 GMT -5
Previously mentioned in the thread but not posted. A lousy debut cover. Who is that lifting the wall? Black bolt or Karnak or a character that just never made the cut?
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Post by The Cheat on Oct 15, 2021 13:12:38 GMT -5
Previously mentioned in the thread but not posted. A lousy debut cover. I love this cover. There's something about the Four in the foreground with the night-time sky and the sense of eerie quiet (before the storm?) it evokes that really gets me. FF 29 is an even better example of this.
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Post by MWGallaher on Oct 15, 2021 14:30:51 GMT -5
I haven't seen a single debut cover so far in this thread that tops this one: There was no way a typical comic book reader of 1972 was going to leave that on the spinner racks.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 15, 2021 18:24:32 GMT -5
I haven't seen a single debut cover so far in this thread that tops this one: There was no way a typical comic book reader of 1972 was going to leave that on the spinner racks. I second that emotion. I thought the story was an A+, from the writing to the art.
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Post by badwolf on Oct 15, 2021 20:30:16 GMT -5
Previously mentioned in the thread but not posted. A lousy debut cover. I love this cover. There's something about the Four in the foreground with the night-time sky and the sense of eerie quiet (before the storm?) it evokes that really gets me. FF 29 is an even better example of this. I like it too. The illustration coupled with the title gives a mysterious feeling. (Even though two of the Inhumans appeared in the previous issues.)
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Post by Graphic Autist on Oct 15, 2021 21:36:39 GMT -5
As a kid, I wound up having an almost complete run of Nova, via a used bookstore I used to go to in Milwaukee in the early-mid 80s. One issue I didn’t have:
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