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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 22, 2022 19:09:17 GMT -5
I voted for FF # 200 for this great confrontation. " At long last! It's the two of us .. as it was always meant to be!" I love that panel and line.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 22, 2022 19:37:38 GMT -5
Other: Jughead vol 2 #200. Jughead makes an ill-advised pact with a witch, who steals his superhuman metabolism. So Jughead gets massively obese due to his overeating. Luckily, he's friends with Sabrina, who is able to defeat the witch and lift the curse.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 22, 2022 19:45:37 GMT -5
Wait, was FF #200 part of "The Overthrow of Doom"? Then I have read it, but I don't remember it at all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2022 20:21:32 GMT -5
I hear Brother Power the Geek #200 was amazeballs. I vaguely remember someone reviewing it in our Brother Power from the Beginning thread, but I haven't seen that review thread in ages...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 23, 2022 4:59:53 GMT -5
I'm really fond of both ASM and FF 200, but JLA 200 is the platonic ideal of a 200th anniversary issue. Its awesomeness can barely be contained by what is arguably the best wraparound cover ever.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 23, 2022 7:20:28 GMT -5
Dagnabbit! I meant to include Uncanny X-Men #200 on this list but forgot!! While I certainly wouldn't have voted for it, I know it was highly acclaimed. By the looks of it, I should also have included Thor #200, since some people have expressed a preference for that. I wish I could edit polls.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 23, 2022 7:41:27 GMT -5
Wait, was FF #200 part of "The Overthrow of Doom"? Then I have read it, but I don't remember it at all. It was the culmination to a story started in # 192 that involves a plan that Doom has to drain the four of their powers to place in a clone of his. Great Keith Pollard artwork. I never saw Reed Richards written better than that issue. JLA # 200 is only memorable because of the Brian Bollard artwork in one chapter.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 23, 2022 7:42:54 GMT -5
Other: Jughead vol 2 #200. Jughead makes an ill-advised pact with a witch, who steals his superhuman metabolism. So Jughead gets massively obese due to his overeating. Luckily, he's friends with Sabrina, who is able to defeat the witch and lift the curse. Dude, I dig you but I'm shaking my head at this choice...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 23, 2022 10:36:08 GMT -5
Savage sword of Conan #200 was what an anniversary issue should be: something that stands out and celebrates a character.
It featured a team-up (of sorts) between Conan and... Robert E. Howard himself. Using actual events from Howard's life, Roy Thomas shows how the writer may have come up with his most famous hero, and where certain classic scenes in the saga may have come from.
People who have read Novalyne Price's or Mark Finn's biographies of Howard, or watched the movie The Whole Wide World, will smile when they recognize things like a certain huge tasseled hat.
On the Conan side, we also get a brief glimpse of Yezdigerd, king of Turan, whom Roy had groomed to be Conan's most formidable enemy in the early years of his tenure. That never quite panned out, but the cameo was welcome, harking back to the title's grand tradition.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 23, 2022 11:38:04 GMT -5
Savage sword of Conan #200 was what an anniversary issue should be: something that stands out and celebrates a character. It featured a team-up (of sorts) between Conan and... Robert E. Howard himself. Using actual events from Howard's life, Roy Thomas shows how the writer may have come up with his most famous hero, and where certain classic scenes in the saga may have come from. People who have read Novalyne Price's or Mark Finn's biographies of Howard, or watched the movie The Whole Wide World, will smile when they recognize things like a certain huge tasseled hat. On the Conan side, we also get a brief glimpse of Yezdigerd, king of Turan, whom Roy had groomed to be Conan's most formidable enemy in the early years of his tenure. That never quite panned out, but the cameo was welcome, harking back to the title's grand tradition. Is this the one where Red Sonja finally has sex with Conan ?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 23, 2022 15:04:20 GMT -5
Savage sword of Conan #200 was what an anniversary issue should be: something that stands out and celebrates a character. It featured a team-up (of sorts) between Conan and... Robert E. Howard himself. Using actual events from Howard's life, Roy Thomas shows how the writer may have come up with his most famous hero, and where certain classic scenes in the saga may have come from. People who have read Novalyne Price's or Mark Finn's biographies of Howard, or watched the movie The Whole Wide World, will smile when they recognize things like a certain huge tasseled hat. On the Conan side, we also get a brief glimpse of Yezdigerd, king of Turan, whom Roy had groomed to be Conan's most formidable enemy in the early years of his tenure. That never quite panned out, but the cameo was welcome, harking back to the title's grand tradition. Is this the one where Red Sonja finally has sex with Conan ? Harh! That would never happen, I think, if writers stay true to the way those two characters evolved over the years. Conan is open to the idea but respects Sonja's disinterest, and while she used to tease him in the early years she really behaved like his sister later on. They're really friends and not lovers.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 23, 2022 15:49:35 GMT -5
I hear Brother Power the Geek #200 was amazeballs. I vaguely remember someone reviewing it in our Brother Power from the Beginning thread, but I haven't seen that review thread in ages... -M Is that the one where he teams up with Yankee Doodle Dandy, Atlas, Lady Cop, the Dingbats of Danger Street, Jonny Double, and the Green Team?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2022 17:06:56 GMT -5
I hear Brother Power the Geek #200 was amazeballs. I vaguely remember someone reviewing it in our Brother Power from the Beginning thread, but I haven't seen that review thread in ages... -M Is that the one where he teams up with Yankee Doodle Dandy, Atlas, Lady Cop, the Dingbats of Danger Street, Jonny Double, and the Green Team? It might be, I remember Lady Cop for certain... -M
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 23, 2022 18:22:25 GMT -5
Is that the one where he teams up with Yankee Doodle Dandy, Atlas, Lady Cop, the Dingbats of Danger Street, Jonny Double, and the Green Team? It might be, I remember Lady Cop for certain... -M It was an excellent story... Joe simon on pecls, Colletta on the inks, IIRC.
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Post by berkley on Jan 23, 2022 21:59:37 GMT -5
Nothing really stands out in my memory, though I know I read FF #200 and I'm pretty sure Spider-Man #200 and Hulk #200. I missed Thor #200, though I did read the Ego story that came right after it. Trying to recall which other old favourites lasted that long as series, I had stopped following DD, X-Men, Conan, and the Avengers by the time their #200 issues came out. I wasn't enough of a DC reader to know anything about their various #200s.
Wait, there is something: Captain America #200 came right in the middle of Kirby's '70s run on the series. That would be my pick, unless I remember something later.
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