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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 22:15:12 GMT -5
Even just seeing an untold Secret Wars story in Thor #383 brought a smile to my face: What are some of your favorites? Why couldn't they print it until now? Technically this only came 2 years after the original Secret Wars, but I guess there were still a few "Secrets" left to tell!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 22:21:43 GMT -5
I like X-Men: Hidden Years too (Though I know Byrne isn't everyone's favorite). Oh, I enjoyed this a lot as well. This is kind of a reminder to me to spend more time celebrating/enjoying Byrne's successes versus dwelling on the things he's said/done over the years that I find annoying. I get online and I find it easier to be grumpy sometimes, but actually I still love tons of his work (well beyond the 80's). This reminds me too of the back-up features in Classic X-Men. I haven't read any of them since the 80's, but IIRC that was the idea as well to explore stories set in the past.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 22:37:51 GMT -5
Marvel Universe, only ran 7 issues, all written by Roger Stern, 1st 3 issues were an untold Invaders story, last 4 featured an untold pre-FF #1 story of the Monster Hunters with Ulysses Bloodstone, Dr. Druid and a Wakandan Dora Milaje, with an appearance by the Mole Man, Fin Fang Foom and other Marvel monsters. -M
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Post by Bronze age andy on Jan 10, 2022 3:29:46 GMT -5
The Untold Legend of Captain Marvel reads more like an Adam Strange story.
That's not a bad thing in my estimation. I've always wanted more of the green suited Mar-vell and his less cosmic adventures.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 10, 2022 4:30:33 GMT -5
I like X-Men: Hidden Years too (Though I know Byrne isn't everyone's favorite). Oh, I enjoyed this a lot as well. This is kind of a reminder to me to spend more time celebrating/enjoying Byrne's successes versus dwelling on the things he's said/done over the years that I find annoying. I get online and I find it easier to be grumpy sometimes, but actually I still love tons of his work (well beyond the 80's). This reminds me too of the back-up features in Classic X-Men. I haven't read any of them since the 80's, but IIRC that was the idea as well to explore stories set in the past. Despite a few flaws (some of them conceptual), I ended up enjoying Hidden Years a lot more than I thought I would. And speaking of Byrne, another series that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet - because it basically encapsulates what this thread is all about - is Marvel: The Lost Generation. It tells about what happened between WW2 and the modern day, introducing a number of new heroes who were active then, but also occasionally tying in characters and stories from Marvel's Atlas days in the 1950s. It's a really well-done series - which comes as no surprise, since Roger Stern co-wrote it.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 10, 2022 6:37:31 GMT -5
Magnus Robot fighter Annual #1: Published in the early '90s, Steve Rude made Russ Manning's 4000 AD come alive more brightly and authentically than I ever would have imagined possible.
The Life And Times of Scrooge McDuck: Barks' character actually makes more sense and earns far more empathy from the reader throughout this dense, carefully considered, and utterly brilliant work.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 10, 2022 10:42:07 GMT -5
Despite a few flaws (some of them conceptual), I ended up enjoying Hidden Years a lot more than I thought I would. And speaking of Byrne, another series that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet - because it basically encapsulates what this thread is all about - is Marvel: The Lost Generation. It tells about what happened between WW2 and the modern day, introducing a number of new heroes who were active then, but also occasionally tying in characters and stories from Marvel's Atlas days in the 1950s. It's a really well-done series - which comes as no surprise, since Roger Stern co-wrote it.
I enjoyed both of those series as well.
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 10, 2022 12:02:09 GMT -5
I thought Tijuana Bibles was a pretty well known reference. But everyone does not need to know everything. I think Slam was making a tongue in cheek comment about being sheltered, since the TJ Bibles are considered very naughty.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 10, 2022 12:26:17 GMT -5
For anyone else ignorant of the term, "Tijuana Bibles" were little digest sized unauthorized porn comics, often produced in Tijuana (allegedly) and brought into the US for distribution. They featured popular comic strip characters, comic book characters and celebrities engaged in sexual activity, though they probably read as tame, for the modern era. They appeared in the 20s and their heyday was during the 30s and 40s, when newspaper strips were king. They were still around by the 60s and are considered a forerunner to the Undergrounds.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jan 10, 2022 12:33:50 GMT -5
Marvel Universe, only ran 7 issues, all written by Roger Stern, 1st 3 issues were an untold Invaders story, last 4 featured an untold pre-FF #1 story of the Monster Hunters with Ulysses Bloodstone, Dr. Druid and a Wakandan Dora Milaje, with an appearance by the Mole Man, Fin Fang Foom and other Marvel monsters.
This was a great and sadly truncated series (and contains the ONLY Eternals/MU merged continuity that I actually like).
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 10, 2022 12:37:31 GMT -5
Marvel Universe, only ran 7 issues, all written by Roger Stern, 1st 3 issues were an untold Invaders story, last 4 featured an untold pre-FF #1 story of the Monster Hunters with Ulysses Bloodstone, Dr. Druid and a Wakandan Dora Milaje, with an appearance by the Mole Man, Fin Fang Foom and other Marvel monsters. -M Possibly the only Marvel book I bought in the 90s.
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Post by Graphic Autist on Jan 10, 2022 12:43:48 GMT -5
I second the original Invaders series from the 1970s. Was a favorite of mine when I first discovered readily-attainable back issues of nearly the entire run at a used bookstore for 15¢ each when I was 12.
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Post by MDG on Jan 10, 2022 13:09:15 GMT -5
For anyone else ignorant of the term, "Tijuana Bibles" were little digest sized unauthorized porn comics, often produced in Tijuana (allegedly) and brought into the US for distribution. They featured popular comic strip characters, comic book characters and celebrities engaged in sexual activity, though they probably read as tame, for the modern era. They appeared in the 20s and their heyday was during the 30s and 40s, when newspaper strips were king. They were still around by the 60s and are considered a forerunner to the Undergrounds. To learn more, you may want to Google "Tijuana Bibles" while you're at work
Fun fact: Wesley Morse, one of the pioneers of Tijuana Bibles, later created Bazooka Joe.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 10, 2022 13:14:52 GMT -5
My response to a comment in the pre-Jean X-men thread reminded me of two more untold X-tales, both focusing on Prof. Xavier: the one in X-men #117, in which the young Xavier confronts a super-powerful telepath who's also a crime-lord in Cairo; and the one in X-men #161, set at roughly the same period in Xavier's life, when he first meets and befriends a Holocaust survivor and amazingly powerful mutant named Magnus...
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Post by badwolf on Jan 10, 2022 14:06:28 GMT -5
My response to a comment in the pre-Jean X-men thread reminded me of two more untold X-tales, both focusing on Prof. Xavier: the one in X-men #117, in which the young Xavier confronts a super-powerful telepath who's also a crime-lord in Cairo; and the one in X-men #161, set at roughly the same period in Xavier's life, when he first meets and befriends a Holocaust survivor and amazingly powerful mutant named Magnus... Another good one is the backup story in Marvel Team-Up #100 with Storm and Black Panther.
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