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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 14:16:36 GMT -5
Please no Gil Kane. Nooooooooo!  He's there in at least SSOC #8 with part 4.5 of Hour of the Dragon. Thing is a part of Blackmark ended up over in Kull & the Barbarians so for those who want to see it, they're missing part of the story. Hopefully, we'll get a hardbound edition of the Hour of the Dragon - with the SSOC material in colour. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 14:36:52 GMT -5
Yeah, some nice Buscema art in Bront - pencil and inks, sounds delicious. You might think you're a man, but have you choked out a tiger?
I need to dig those issues out and revisit Bront. I remember there was a character name Phork.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2018 11:49:14 GMT -5
I'm a little concerned about the possible addition of Fury of the Femizons by Lee and Romita, Man Thing by Conway and Gary Morrow and Black Brother by Sergius O'Shaugnessy and Gene Conan - they're not Conan or REH related. I can understand that Marvel do not have the rights to all the REH characters, but do they really need to include the non Conan/REH material from Savage Tales? Remind me: was Sergius O'Shaugnessy used purely by Denny O'Neill as a pseudonym or did other writers use it also? It's hard to imagine that they're going to include all those other stories, especially the ones from Savage Tales which had no real link to REH or Conan. It's a fine line they're going to have to walk to avoid confusion if they're including all the letters pages and the like. ......  Wow. I did not even know that Denny O'Neill used that name I guess it will help the letters pages a little with the additional stories reprinted, just wish they could have included more of the REH related stuff. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2018 11:53:53 GMT -5
He's there in at least SSOC #8 with part 4.5 of Hour of the Dragon. Thing is a part of Blackmark ended up over in Kull & the Barbarians so for those who want to see it, they're missing part of the story. Not forgetting Night Of The Dark God from Savage Tales #4. Gil Kane's style is a bit of an acquired taste, but the influence of Pablo Marcos (washes) and Neal Adams (inks) on that particular story turn it into something special. Having said that, I would kill to have Gil Kane's talent and knowledge of anatomy, although I would choose to draw figures in a less 'twisty' way. ......  Night of the Dark God is the only comic book story illustrated by Gil Kane that I can read, thanks to the inking by the above artists. I appreciate his obvious talent, and from what I can remember he was a true REH fan, but it's so tough reading a comic with his rendition of Conan, I have been trying to read his stuff for years. But, with these things you never know in the future I may notice something in his art style that I did/could not notice before. |
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 24, 2018 11:55:49 GMT -5
I'm a little concerned about the possible addition of Fury of the Femizons by Lee and Romita, Man Thing by Conway and Gary Morrow and Black Brother by Sergius O'Shaugnessy and Gene Conan - they're not Conan or REH related. I can understand that Marvel do not have the rights to all the REH characters, but do they really need to include the non Conan/REH material from Savage Tales? Remind me: was Sergius O'Shaugnessy used purely by Denny O'Neill as a pseudonym or did other writers use it also? It's hard to imagine that they're going to include all those other stories, especially the ones from Savage Tales which had no real link to REH or Conan. It's a fine line they're going to have to walk to avoid confusion if they're including all the letters pages and the like. ...... I don't know if Denny ever used it again, let alone anybody else. It's now Marvel releasing Marvel material instead of DH or Dynamite, so they probably look at it with a bit more leeway as to what they could/want to include. |
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Post by boot on Aug 24, 2018 12:16:51 GMT -5
Night of the Dark God is a damn good tale, too. I quite enjoyed it. In fact, I read it a couple of times.
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 24, 2018 16:51:18 GMT -5
Night of the Dark God is a damn good tale, too. I quite enjoyed it. In fact, I read it a couple of times. Just a shame that they had to turn it into a Conan tale, instead of the original. As good as it was, it always felt a wee bit forced in order to include the Cimmerian. I've got a colour reprint somewhere - can't remember where just now - but the B/W version was far better. ...... The color one was in MTE #15, I don't think DH reprinted it. Did any of the overseas ones do it? |
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Post by boot on Aug 24, 2018 17:06:56 GMT -5
I've only read it as a Conan tale.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2018 11:38:22 GMT -5
Part of me wants these...but the other part of me thinks it might be more fun to collect them in magazine format. How hard are decent reader copies to procure? I have about a dozen or so already that I acquired back in my comic collecting days. Conan and REH aside, this has to be the most popular sword-and-sorcery magazine of all time, right? Any luck in finding the individual issues? |
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Post by Jason Aiken on Sept 11, 2018 17:02:40 GMT -5
Part of me wants these...but the other part of me thinks it might be more fun to collect them in magazine format. How hard are decent reader copies to procure? I have about a dozen or so already that I acquired back in my comic collecting days. Conan and REH aside, this has to be the most popular sword-and-sorcery magazine of all time, right? Any luck in finding the individual issues? Haven't started the hunt just yet. I'm willing to bet I can get many of these out of dollar bins, though. Having the individual issues definitely is appealing to me. For Conan comics I'm more about quality sword-and-sorcery pastiche than direct adaptations. |
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Post by johnnypt on Sept 12, 2018 6:23:42 GMT -5
You’ll probably have better luck with the non Roy issues. The later issues had low print runs so the prices on those are sometimes surprisingly high.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2018 11:09:38 GMT -5
Any luck in finding the individual issues? Haven't started the hunt just yet. I'm willing to bet I can get many of these out of dollar bins, though. Having the individual issues definitely is appealing to me. For Conan comics I'm more about quality sword-and-sorcery pastiche than direct adaptations. Here in London I tend to find the early issues by Roy Thomas and the 2nd run by Roy Thomas (SSOC 190-235), unfortunately, with the dreadful Co-Mag pence stickers on the covers - if I remember correctly, Co-Mag distributed some comics/magazines in the early 1990's. But, as Johnnypt posted above it's tough finding the the later issues (100-180) in the UK. Comicshop owners/dealers can be a little dismissive about Conan comics (especially magazine size comics) so at times they can be found at reasonable prices. |
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Post by johnnypt on Sept 12, 2018 11:35:28 GMT -5
Haven't started the hunt just yet. I'm willing to bet I can get many of these out of dollar bins, though. Having the individual issues definitely is appealing to me. For Conan comics I'm more about quality sword-and-sorcery pastiche than direct adaptations. Here in London I tend to find the early issues by Roy Thomas and the 2nd run by Roy Thomas (SSOC 190-235), unfortunately, with the dreadful Co-Mag pence stickers on the covers - if I remember correctly, Co-Mag distributed some comics/magazines in the early 1990's. But, as Johnnypt posted above it's tough finding the the later issues (100-180) in the UK. Comicshop owners/dealers can be a little dismissive about Conan comics (especially magazine size comics) so at times they can be found at reasonable prices. When I was actively looking about a decade ago, I remember seeing some of the 220-235 issues going for double digit prices ($12-$15) |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2018 11:44:02 GMT -5
Here in London I tend to find the early issues by Roy Thomas and the 2nd run by Roy Thomas (SSOC 190-235), unfortunately, with the dreadful Co-Mag pence stickers on the covers - if I remember correctly, Co-Mag distributed some comics/magazines in the early 1990's. But, as Johnnypt posted above it's tough finding the the later issues (100-180) in the UK. Comicshop owners/dealers can be a little dismissive about Conan comics (especially magazine size comics) so at times they can be found at reasonable prices. When I was actively looking about a decade ago, I remember seeing some of the 220-235 issues going for double digit prices ($12-$15) I recently found the later issues going for 50p each at a comic mart in London (for whatever reason I did not pick em up at the time), admittedly, the dealer did not have the last issue. But, then again, I have seen the last issue of SSOC & CtB between £15 to £30! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2018 12:50:43 GMT -5
I had a look at the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu omnibus at Forbidden Planet in London yesterday. The omnibus was shrink-wrapped, but the weight of 1,000 glossy pages has already distorted the shape of the book. And that's before anyone has had the opportunity to read it! I don't think it's particularly clever of Marvel to go for a thousand page omnibus that'll probably fall apart before you can finish reading the volume. It's fine if you wanna make your bookshelf look good, but not very practical. Hopefully, they'll continue to keep the page count lower for the CtB omnibus editions.
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