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Post by DubipR on May 29, 2022 14:30:48 GMT -5
"Trail of the Catwoman" by Brubaker and Cooke in Detective 759-762.
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Post by tartanphantom on May 30, 2022 0:22:53 GMT -5
Call 'em juvenile if you wish, but I always enjoyed the Dial H for Hero backups in the 80's Superboy issues, and several (not all)the Spectacular Spider Ham backups in later editions of Marvel Tales.
One that I didn't think I'd enjoy but turned out to be as good as the lead feature was the Dr. Thirteen backup story in the 2006 run of Tales of the Unexpected.
The aforementioned Captain Fear in Adventure comics-- didn't like it as a kid, but came to enjoy it as an adult. Nino's artwork was quite good in that run.
Finally, I quite enjoyed almost all of the rotating backup stories in the '80s Eclipse Airboy run.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 30, 2022 4:05:38 GMT -5
One back-up that I think deserves a shout-out is the three-part Falcon story from Captain America #s 276-278. It was done by the same creative team that worked on the main title, i.e., DeMatteis and Zeck, and it was an admirable attempt to fix that horrible retcon of Falcon's origin done by Englehart during his run on the title.
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Post by Confessor on May 30, 2022 7:24:35 GMT -5
I too liked the Atom & Airwave stories in the back of Action Comics in the early '80s.
On the subject of back-up strips, here in the UK in the 70s and 80s, where Marvel UK's publishing schedual was almost universally weekly (each regular U.S. issue was divided into 3 weekly parts), we got some amazing back-up strips. I mean, just in Star Wars Weekly alone, we had such high quality back-up strips as The Micronauts, Tales of the Watcher, Killraven, Jim Starlin's Warlock, The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, the comic adaptation of Blade Runner, and a whole shed load of early, pre-Fantastic Four #1 Lee/Ditko sci-fi tales from the pages of Amazing Fantasy, Tales of Suspense et al.
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Post by kirby101 on May 30, 2022 7:46:35 GMT -5
Tales of the Watcher in Tales of Suspense with Ironman before Cap took over was fun. Some were retooled in Silver Surfer.
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Post by shaxper on May 30, 2022 8:38:51 GMT -5
Grendel backup in Mage The Watcher backup in Silver Surfer Captain Johner and The Aliens backup in Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 AD Magnus Robot Fighter backup in the Whitman Doctor Solar series.
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Post by shaxper on May 30, 2022 8:39:44 GMT -5
Tales of the Watcher in Tales of Suspense with Ironman before Cap took over was fun. Some were retooled in Silver Surfer. I didn't realize those were retooled from an earlier source. Thanks for this!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 30, 2022 9:29:34 GMT -5
There was a great Starlin penned and drawn Thanos/Drax story in Logans Run, #5, iirc. Might have to get it out and read it later today. I remember a really great line from Thanos towards the end. Ive never read the main story to this day.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 30, 2022 9:36:15 GMT -5
There was a great Starlin penned and drawn Thanos/Drax story in Logans Run, #5, iirc. Might have to get it out and read it later today. I remember a really great line from Thanos towards the end. Ive never read the main story to this day. Kind of wrong on all counts there. It was from Logan's Run #6, and it was written by Scott Edelman and drawn by Mike Zeck (one of his first jobs for Marvel).
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 30, 2022 10:46:29 GMT -5
There was a great Starlin penned and drawn Thanos/Drax story in Logans Run, #5, iirc. Might have to get it out and read it later today. I remember a really great line from Thanos towards the end. Ive never read the main story to this day. Kind of wrong on all counts there. It was from Logan's Run #6, and it was written by Scott Edelman and drawn by Mike Zeck (one of his first jobs for Marvel). Well than I stand corrected on all counts. Guess I’ll definitely need to read it again if I’ve forgotten that much about it.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 30, 2022 18:58:30 GMT -5
I would add:
Rose & Thorn, from Lois Lane Sky Wolf, in the Eclipse Airboy comics The World of Krypton stories, in Superman, in support of the Kryptonite No More storyline The Huntress, in Wonder Woman Richie Rich, in the pages of Little Dot (which led to his own comic) Dominic Fortune, in The Hulk Magazine (with Chaykin painting them) The Mary Marvel stories, in Shazam!, with Bob Oksner
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Post by berkley on May 30, 2022 21:46:42 GMT -5
The Tales of Asgard feature was briefly replaced with some very nice Inhumans back-up stories by Lee and Kirby before they did away with the back-ups in Thor altogether. I'm a big Inhumans fan and like those stories but I would have preferred they continued with Tales of Asgard as more appropriate to Thor. I wonder if they ever considered putting the Inhumans back-ups in the FF, where they would have made more sense? I suppose there was no tradition of back-ups in the FF mag so perhaps it was never thought of.
Kirby made such good use of back-up stories in his Fourth World books at DC, I wonder if he might have done the same for the Eternals if only the page count per issue hadn't fallen to a measly 17 pages by the time of that series.
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Post by Graphic Autist on May 31, 2022 10:34:28 GMT -5
I remember enjoying the Creeper backups that appeared in The Flash and Tales of the Green Lantern Corps shorts that would appear in Green Lantern. Both in the early 80s.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 31, 2022 10:53:48 GMT -5
Adventure Comics #431 had one of the great back-ups with Shelly Mayer and Alex Toth's "Is a Snerl Human?"
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Post by berkley on May 31, 2022 11:16:19 GMT -5
I remember enjoying the Creeper backups that appeared in The Flash and Tales of the Green Lantern Corps shorts that would appear in Green Lantern. Both in the early 80s. Were they by Ditko or someone else? Either way, how did they compare to the short-lived '60s Ditko series?
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