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Post by mrp on Mar 23, 2017 20:56:35 GMT -5
DC's Beowulf comic had an incoherent storyline, thanks to the scripting of Michael Uslan, who has stated he hates sword and sorcery. However, some of the Villamonte art was outstanding. Here's a review of #6: comicsalliance.com/bizarro-back-issues-beowulf-1975/ I never got this. Why the fuck would you assign a writer who hates the subject he's writing about? I don't know. John Buscema has stated several times he disliked drawing super-heroes and did not like the genre. But he did it because it was his job and where the work was. Neal Adams still dislikes super-heroes too. That generation didn't do these things for the love of the characters or the genres, they did it because they were professionals and that was their job. Just because you like something doesn't mean your work in it will be good and just because you don't like it, doesn't mean your output will be terrible. DC didn't care about the book except in that they were trying to capitalize on the popularity of the genre, but outside of Conan and Warlord, none of the other S&S books clicked with audiences and sold even when they had top notch talent on them. Uslan was a relative unknown at the time and given an assignment to see what he could do, DC used the mystery books and some of those other 2nd tier books as talent try outs more than anything, and that's more than likely what happened. Here Uslan, let's see what you got, do this book. -M |
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Post by deuce on Mar 31, 2017 20:47:00 GMT -5
Longbox Graveyard is a cool site. This is an excellent overview of the Killraven character: longboxgraveyard.com/2012/08/01/59-killravens-war-of-the-worlds/Roy Thomas came up with the concept -- like he did with so much else at Marvel in the early '70s -- but never wrote an issue. It eventually fell to Don McGregor and Craig Russell to create what was the weirdest, but most memorable, period in the character's career.  
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Post by deuce on Apr 4, 2017 13:44:39 GMT -5
Jim Steranko was basically run out of Marvel by Stan Lee at the beginning of the Bronze Age, much like Stan had run off Jack Kirby. Steranko devoted much of the '70s to publishing, commercial art and comics scholarship. His two-volume Steranko History of Comics hit comic fandom like a bombshell. It was the first serious history of the comics undertaken at that point. jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2013/02/forgotten-books-steranko-history-of.html |
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Post by deuce on Apr 10, 2017 11:07:50 GMT -5
Roy Thomas created Morbius in the '70s. Here is some great cover art by Paul Gulacy for an early issue of The Spectacular Spider-Man featuring Morbius.  |
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Post by deuce on May 10, 2017 19:49:06 GMT -5
Classic Legion cover from Mike Grell. I bought this one off the rack.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 13:00:32 GMT -5
 from Conan the Barbarian 65, 1974. |
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Post by deuce on May 21, 2017 12:44:16 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 22, 2017 14:33:26 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 23, 2017 12:42:29 GMT -5
Rich Buckler has passed away: He was one of the mainstays of Marvel during the '70s. He created Deathlok and drew the cover for one of the first Conan comics I ever bought. When I first saw his stuff in the 70s, it was usually as a replacement or fill-in for Kirby and Buscema on FF, Thor, Avengers, even Conan (#40, if I remember right), and his work often seemed like an amalgam of their styles (with maybe a dash of Adams thrown in for good measure), but I think that was what the higher-ups wanted from him at the time. I preferred his work on Black Panther and Deathlok, especially when he was inked by Klaus Janson, although it’s a pity that Deathlok didn’t quite fulfill its early promise. Well put. I agree that Janson was his best inker.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 17:46:53 GMT -5
from Conan the Barbarian 65, 1974. Hmmm, let me see now ... Thor, Cap and Spidey by John Romita, Hulk and possibly Iron Man by Herb Trimpe, Daredevil and Conan by Gil Kane, Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin, Howard by Frank Brunner, and The Human Torch by John Buscema or possibly Rich Buckler ......  Wow! You're good Kail, very good. The Conan's inked by good ol' Ernie Chan. I think? |
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Post by deuce on May 30, 2017 23:44:02 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 5, 2017 18:06:08 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 12, 2017 17:15:23 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 18, 2017 13:22:24 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jul 1, 2017 20:02:05 GMT -5
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