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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 17, 2014 22:06:11 GMT -5
8. Space Ghost #1 Gold Key
I was a wee lad when I first read this comic. One of my brother’s friends came over with it to trade for some baseball cards and for whatever reason just left it. Now I was a big Space Ghost fan and never missed the cartoon on Saturday mornings way back when. Once my brother was occupied with his buddies I slinked away with it back to my bedroom. Needless to say I devoured the comic reading it from cover to cover before my brother noticed it was missing. It had all the characters from the show including Jan, Jace and Blip in full color (I only had a B&W set back then). All the action, cheesy dialogue, and bizarre villains was right here in my hands to read whenever I wanted as long as I could keep anyone else from noticing I had it! As it turned out I did confess to my brother that it wasn’t mine but he let me keep it anyway for being honest about it. It was a win-win all around as I got to keep it and didn’t have to feel guilty over it. This was one of the first comics I read and although I had read others before this one was special because I was already familiar with the characters and storylines. It started the fascination with floppies that I still have today. It is one of my favorites for showing me the excitement possible in the comic book medium. I love Space Ghost and I've always wanted to read this comic |
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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 17, 2014 22:56:59 GMT -5
CLASSIC COMICS CHRISTMAS #8
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ANNUAL #1
"MONSTER IN A LITTLE GIRL'S MIND"
On Sale May 13, 1982 Written by Paul Levitz Penciled by Keith Giffen Inked by Bruce Patterson Cover by Keith Giffen Edited by Laurie Sutton This is my favorite single issue of my third favorite super hero team. In it, Brainiac 5 takes a restless gamble to save the life of a girl and it all goes horribly wrong. Due to his actions, one of Legion's deadliest villains of all time returns and nearly kills the entire team inside it's own HQ. While the rest of the Legion shows it's courage in fighting off the villain's actions, the child's brother takes an enormous risk to save her life and defeat the villain. At the end of the day, the girl is still alive and her brother is the newest member of the Legion. About a decade later, the girl would also wind up joining the Legion. When people tell me online that they just don't "get" the Legion of Super-Heroes I just want to smack them upside the head with this issue. The Great Darkness Saga immediately follows the events of this issue, but I still think this is their finest hour. Everyone gets a little screen time, the few panels with the retired Duo Damsel are especially gut wrenching. It's an amazing debut for a new hero that shows you everything about what the Legion and super heroes are all about. It's also the best artwork of Keith Giffen's career. The next time I read a Legion story was after Superman supposedly blew up the moon in 1991. There had been a "few" changes in the meantime.  up next...back to the Silver Age for my favorite Mort Weisinger Era Superman story. I LOVE this issue. |
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Post by JKCarrier on Dec 17, 2014 23:19:30 GMT -5
 5) Nuance #3 (1990) This one's a personal milestone: This anthology comic represents my first published work, and it came about through sheer dumb luck. I'm a life-long comics fan, and I'd often drawn little strips and things for my own amusement, but never gave any serious thought to trying to get published. In 1990, I was working at a screenprinting company. I often brought in comics to read during my lunch hour, and one particular day I had a copy of Cerebus: High Society on my desk. A new hire, a guy named Tyim Courts, was being shown around the office, and he spotted the book. He was a big Cerebus fan too, and we started chatting. It turned out he was putting together an anthology comic with a bunch of local cartoonists, and invited me to submit something. I wrote and pencilled a short story called "You Can't Teach Karma to a Caveman" (with inking by Tomm Gabbard), and Tyim printed it in Nuance #3. It's not very good (the real star of the book was Tyim's own brilliant strip "Experiencing Technical Difficulties"), but it got me to approach cartooning more seriously, and from there I started publishing my own mini-comics, and later webcomics. Making comics is such a big part of my identity now, it's hard to imagine what my life would be like if Tyim and Nuance hadn't given me that initial push. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2014 1:29:28 GMT -5
#8: The New Mutants #21 (Marvel, 1984)  I encountered the New Mutants before I did the X-Men. They were my introduction to mutants, Professor X and the School for Gifted Youngsters. It feels weird to think about that now, having since experienced a near entire run of Uncanny. The female mutants have invited their friends over for a slumber party at the mansion. The first few pages are just them hanging out and having fun as any teenager in the 80's would. Meanwhile, Warlock (in his first appearance) crash lands into a nearby lake. Sunspot and Cannonball are nearby, and thinking it's a meteor, takes him to Professor X's lab. Very weak, Warlock must find an energy source to survive.  This leads into a funny sequence where he blows the power to the mansion while the girls are attempting to communicate with spirits for fun. Lockheed smells Warlock in the mansion and takes off, prompting Magik to follow. They find Warlock raiding the fridge, and thinking he is a demon from the seance, Magik and Lockheed attack. Magik summons a demon from limbo, but Warlock just grabs it and drains it of all life. Warlock proves too much a threat and the pair have to retreat into limbo. The rest of the New Mutants encounter and attack Warlock outside the mansion, while the girls' guests are listening to loud music and are oblivious to all that is going on. Warlock escapes to the danger room, where Doug Ramsey talks to him and learns his story. They invite him to join the New Mutants, and Professor X returns to the mansion only to find the place in shambles from the earlier battle. I really enjoyed Chris Claremont's writing in this one. He did a great job emulating a bunch of teenagers in a way that was very believable. And Warlock was a unique alien for his time. I'm a big Bill Sienkiewicz cover fan, but here he does a whole issue, and I just love the artwork. I don't think anyone has ever done a better Warlock. This book, for me, is like a time capsule back into the 80's every time I read it. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 18, 2014 9:33:21 GMT -5
I love Sienkiewicz's art here!
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Post by badwolf on Dec 18, 2014 10:15:10 GMT -5
NM #21 is going to be on my list later on as well.
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Post by paulie on Dec 18, 2014 10:32:45 GMT -5
CLASSIC COMICS CHRISTMAS #8
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ANNUAL #1
"MONSTER IN A LITTLE GIRL'S MIND"
On Sale May 13, 1982 Written by Paul Levitz Penciled by Keith Giffen Inked by Bruce Patterson Cover by Keith Giffen Edited by Laurie Sutton This is my favorite single issue of my third favorite super hero team. In it, Brainiac 5 takes a reckless gamble to save the life of a girl and it all goes horribly wrong. Due to his actions, one of Legion's deadliest villains of all time returns and nearly kills the entire team inside it's own HQ. While the rest of the Legion shows it's courage in fighting off the villain's actions, the child's brother takes an enormous risk to save her life and defeat the villain. At the end of the day, the girl is still alive and her brother is the newest member of the Legion. About a decade later, the girl would also wind up joining the Legion. When people tell me online that they just don't "get" the Legion of Super-Heroes I just want to smack them upside the head with this issue. The Great Darkness Saga immediately follows the events of this issue, but I still think this is their finest hour. Everyone gets a little screen time, the few panels with the retired Duo Damsel are especially gut wrenching. It's an amazing debut for a new hero that shows you everything about what the Legion and super heroes are all about. It's also the best artwork of Keith Giffen's career. The next time I read a Legion story was after Superman supposedly blew up the moon in 1991. There had been a "few" changes in the meantime. up next...back to the Silver Age for my favorite Mort Weisinger Era Superman story. A great pick. A great era of the Legion. There were about a dozen issues on my shortlist from the Levitz-Giffen-Baxter format era. An issue of Legion did make it though which we'll see on Day 6. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 18, 2014 11:57:50 GMT -5
Amazing Spider-Man !52 (Marvel Jan. 1976)  When I started buying comics, the selling point was Batman on the cover. I'm not entirely sure what my first non-Batman comic was, but it may have been this one. Actually I think I bought this one and the same month's Marvel Tales. So I jumped into Spider-Man with both feet. This book helped expand my field beyond Batman. And Spider-Man was my "go-to" Marvel character for a Long Long time.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 18, 2014 14:25:51 GMT -5
Today's entry was an early edition into the over-sized treasuries of yesteryear. DC Limited Edition Collectors' Edition # 45  My first treasury-sized comic and of course I loved it ! All these crazy characters I'd never heard of and something about the bad guys bursting through that picture of the super-heroes, just brazenly, breaking the rules ! There was a diorama on the back of the front cover. I was sorely tempted to cut it out but I knew my comic would fall apart later. Unacceptable ! Catwoman, Mirror Master, Mr Mxyzptlk, and Cheetah were all featured. The rest on the cover were teased in wanted posters or 1 page features. Seeing the art giant-sized like that helped to add that larger-than-life mystique, all though storing it was more challenging. Great memories ! |
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 18, 2014 14:27:57 GMT -5
CLASSIC COMICS CHRISTMAS #8
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ANNUAL #1
"MONSTER IN A LITTLE GIRL'S MIND"
On Sale May 13, 1982 Written by Paul Levitz Penciled by Keith Giffen Inked by Bruce Patterson Cover by Keith Giffen Edited by Laurie Sutton This is my favorite single issue of my third favorite super hero team. In it, Brainiac 5 takes a restless gamble to save the life of a girl and it all goes horribly wrong. Due to his actions, one of Legion's deadliest villains of all time returns and nearly kills the entire team inside it's own HQ. While the rest of the Legion shows it's courage in fighting off the villain's actions, the child's brother takes an enormous risk to save her life and defeat the villain. At the end of the day, the girl is still alive and her brother is the newest member of the Legion. About a decade later, the girl would also wind up joining the Legion. When people tell me online that they just don't "get" the Legion of Super-Heroes I just want to smack them upside the head with this issue. The Great Darkness Saga immediately follows the events of this issue, but I still think this is their finest hour. Everyone gets a little screen time, the few panels with the retired Duo Damsel are especially gut wrenching. It's an amazing debut for a new hero that shows you everything about what the Legion and super heroes are all about. It's also the best artwork of Keith Giffen's career. The next time I read a Legion story was after Superman supposedly blew up the moon in 1991. There had been a "few" changes in the meantime. up next...back to the Silver Age for my favorite Mort Weisinger Era Superman story. I LOVE this issue. Yes, I remember reading it when it came out and just loving this issue. Giffen was so on and the story was so entertaining. |
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Post by badwolf on Dec 18, 2014 14:31:34 GMT -5
Who is the fishy guy left of Scarecrow and the one in green and purple next to Cheetah? |
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Post by Crimebuster on Dec 18, 2014 14:42:51 GMT -5
When did they start drawing Bizarro with a backwards S logo? Looks weird to me now for him to have a normal Superman costume.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 18, 2014 15:05:05 GMT -5
Who is the fishy guy left of Scarecrow and the one in green and purple next to Cheetah? That's Killer Shark, a shark that somehow super evolved through comic book sci-fi and became a GL foe. |
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Post by foxley on Dec 18, 2014 15:49:47 GMT -5
Who is the fishy guy left of Scarecrow and the one in green and purple next to Cheetah? That's Killer Shark, a shark that somehow super evolved through comic book sci-fi and became a GL foe. Actually, he was just called the Shark. Killer Shark was a Blackhawk foe. The guy next to Cheetah is Matter Master, a Hawkman foe with a wand that allowed to transmute elements and reshape matter. |
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 18, 2014 16:47:08 GMT -5
8. Spectacular Spider-Man #189 "The Osborn Legacy" by J.M. Demateiss and Sal Buscema June, 1992 (Marvel)  One of the earliest Spider-Man comics I read remains one of my favorite single issues of all time. This standalone issue can be viewed as the middle bit of the Harry Osborn trilogy which began in The Child Within and reaches its conclusion in Spectacular Spider-Man #200. You can read a great review of the whole saga from Brian Cronin (with a guest paragraph by yours truly) here: goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/06/29/50-greatest-spider-man-stories-10-6/I always point to this issue to demonstrate what a masterful storyteller Sal Buscema is. He and Demateiss to my mind make a legendary pairing that delivered consistent excellence in Spectacular Spider-Man. This issue is in someways a thematic follow-up to the classic magazine-sized Spectacular Spider-Man #2, in which Norman Osborn hosted a tense dinner party with his sanity slowly slipping. Now it's Harry's turn to play host to a most awkward dinner party, with mounting tension and inner turmoil. But what am I doing describing the issue already? I completely forgot to preface the review with a rambling story of my introduction to Spider-Man. Here goes. Spider-Man is my favorite character. I was introduced to him in Transformers #3 and Avengers #317. It would take a while to pick up a Spider-Man comic, and the buzz surrounding his 30th anniversary finally motivated me. My first issue of Spider-Man was Amazing Spider-Man #362, the second chapter of the Carnage story. Perhaps not the most auspicious of starts, but it had art my Mark Bagley, who would forever define in my mind what Spider-Man looked like. Lanky and absurdly flexible. I picked up the next couple issues, until finally the 30th anniversary came. All four Spider-Man titles came with hologram covers and I brought the set of all four together from the comic store. Good issues all. Web of Spider-Man was probably the most forgettable, but featured a lot of crazy guest stars (or so it seemed... Mysterio was lurking in the wings); the Spider-Man story was a nice one-off tale of a guy who finds a force field and tries and fails at being a super-villain. The Amazing Spider-Man issue I quite loved and still love. With more context, it's not an entirely original story, but it is a well-told struggle with the Lizard. Gets to the heart of what worked about the best Lizard stories, including a touching ending. And of course... the issue spotlighted here. I was hooked. |
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