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Wheat Loaf posted:Co-creator of Captain America Joe Simon? Wikipedia says he died back in 2011 at the age of 98. Are you thinking of someone else? That'll teach me to go against my first instinct. I was pretty certain he kicked it but I googled it and got pics of captain america and "Joe Simon - 75."
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 01:01 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 15:54 |
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Man, revolutionary artist but a weird dude. Helped create one of the most popular superheroes ever, and he gives less than a poo poo.
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 01:02 |
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Joe Sinnott is still alive at 91. He inked a lot of early Marvel, including FF #5 and then almost all of the back half of the Lee/Kirby run and the lion's share of later issues into the early 1980s. Stan's brother Larry Lieber is 86, and scripted most of the early Iron Man and Thor stories and a bunch of other stuff of the era. Sal Buscema is 82 but he didn't break in at Marvel until 1968.
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 01:28 |
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FutureFriend posted:how has the zub run of it been so far? something worth reading in general or pretty much just something to wait for when it hits marvel unlimited? It's only been a few issues so far, but I like it. It reminds me of Peter David's Young Justice, in that Zub is writing them like a bunch of teenagers who hang out rather than an organized super-team. https://twitter.com/HackinTimSeeley/status/1015266862463176704
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 01:53 |
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I'll take a comic that's secretly Grayson Vol. 2
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 02:09 |
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Wow. Ditko. The past couple years I've been expecting Lee to go and didn't think about how Ditko must also be getting on in his years. Spider-Man has meant a lot to me, but it's weird to think that if I had ever expressed that to him (Ditko, not Spider-Man) he wouldn't have given a crap.
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 02:18 |
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Edge & Christian posted:Joe Sinnott is still alive at 91. He inked a lot of early Marvel, including FF #5 and then almost all of the back half of the Lee/Kirby run and the lion's share of later issues into the early 1980s. He's not original original but John Romita Sr. is still kicking too. Also, in looking up Joe Sinnott he may still be inking newspaper Spider-Man with Larry Lieber.
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 02:42 |
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While sad to hear, I legit thought Ditko was already dead since he was such a recluse. But in that regard, I hope he was happy.
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 03:56 |
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Rochallor posted:He's not original original but John Romita Sr. is still kicking too.
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 04:25 |
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Rhyno posted:That'll teach me to go against my first instinct. I was pretty certain he kicked it but I googled it and got pics of captain america and "Joe Simon - 75." I guess there's a chance he could have co created Captain America when he was -2 years old.
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 07:05 |
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Marie Severin is still around! One of the great colorists and a majorly unsung figure of the early Marvel days! She also designed one of the most Ditko of all non-Ditko characters, the Living Tribunal!
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 08:12 |
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I didn't realise that Ditko was that old. R.I.P.
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# ? Jul 7, 2018 14:49 |
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Rhyno posted:That'll teach me to go against my first instinct. I was pretty certain he kicked it but I googled it and got pics of captain america and "Joe Simon - 75." If he was 75, he would have co-created Captain America at the ripe old age of negative 2. Child labour laws back then were lax!
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# ? Jul 8, 2018 16:14 |
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Ditko has gone to the great Gulch in the sky. How many issues is Marvel rising? Its numbering has been really confusing, and the way the last issue ends makes it sound like it all ties up in the next issue.
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# ? Jul 8, 2018 19:58 |
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Android Blues posted:If he was 75, he would have co-created Captain America at the ripe old age of negative 2. Child labour laws back then were lax! Did child labor laws even exist in the 30s?
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# ? Jul 8, 2018 20:03 |
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Rhyno posted:Did child labor laws even exist in the 30s? The Fair Labor Standards Act passed in 1938. Before that (and, well, after that) it was a pretty vicious back and forth on both the state and the federal level. For example the Keatings-Owen Act in 1916 was supposed to discourage exploitive child-labor by curtailing interstate commerce of stuff produced by minors under *especially* nasty conditions (factories, mines, or very long shifts), but it was ruled unconstitutional and struck down within two years. It was a tough world for kids who were negative two.
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# ? Jul 8, 2018 21:09 |
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twistedmentat posted:How many issues is Marvel rising? Its numbering has been really confusing, and the way the last issue ends makes it sound like it all ties up in the next issue. Seems to be two more issues, Ms. Marvel/Squirrel Girl, then marvel rising: omega.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 02:16 |
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Anyone reading Hulk? I get that they want to do horror with it but it's also kind of weird when the Hulk is also being Sherlock Holmes and Banner is Watson?
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 03:02 |
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Love it. Hulk as an EC horror comic is perfect.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 03:54 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Love it. There's some good rear end moments in the last one though. I mean I thought the fate of the bad guy was a bit much but then the reveal the son was ALSO alive and buried all this time was gosh. HULK DOESNT KILL. *so far in series, leaves one guy in a permanent coma, the other immortal person he rips the limbs off and buries him under a mountain* The Sadistic Hulk might have been a more accurate title. Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jul 9, 2018 |
# ? Jul 9, 2018 04:04 |
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Yeah, "Hulk doesn't kill" here is more of a threat than a heroic statement.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 04:26 |
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I don't have a lot of money atm so I only follow a few things, but hulk is really good and worth the read
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 04:28 |
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Al Ewing needs to get a prestige book toute suite. The dude's mind does not work the same way as anyone else at Marvel and I love it.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 06:14 |
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Nilbop posted:Al Ewing needs to get a prestige book toute suite. The dude's mind does not work the same way as anyone else at Marvel and I love it. I'm not sure what you mean by prestige, because he's had like 27 different Avengers books and also the Loki book that could ignore most events when Loki was the most popular character from the films. He needs to find an artist he likes and can work fast and do a loving Image book that gets optioned for a tv show (doesn't really matter if the tv show gets made).
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 06:26 |
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USAvengers and Loki are not what anyone thinks of when they say prestige books.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 06:35 |
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howe_sam posted:Seems to be two more issues, Ms. Marvel/Squirrel Girl, then marvel rising: omega. Its really confusing how its numbered, but that makes sense in the number of issues. I guess I shouldn't have expected it to be longer if its mostly just to get people interested in the upcoming show. And yea I had to cancel a bunch of books because I don't have the money I used to have, so i had to be careful. Lucky there's only one Avengers right now, and a bunch of other books ended that I can replace, like Hawkeye will be replaced by West Coast Avengers.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 07:03 |
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Nilbop posted:USAvengers and Loki are not what anyone thinks of when they say prestige books. There was that first 6 issues of ultimates
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 07:09 |
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Nilbop posted:USAvengers and Loki are not what anyone thinks of when they say prestige books. Then what's an example of a prestige book? I think it's either something like New Avengers (you know, Bendis' poo poo where they finally had both Spider-Man and Wolverine on the Avengers and was the catalyst for every event comic for the next decade) or something like Sandman (which is not comparable to anything that Ewing's written), or Mike Carey's Lucifer (which definitely feels like what Ewing was doing with Loki: Agent of Asgard).
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 07:11 |
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quote:There was that first 6 issues of ultimates I loved his entire Ultimates run but I doubt it sold as well as something like Wolverine or whatever. Skwirl posted:Then what's an example of a prestige book? I think it's either something like New Avengers (you know, Bendis' poo poo where they finally had both Spider-Man and Wolverine on the Avengers and was the catalyst for every event comic for the next decade) or something like Sandman (which is not comparable to anything that Ewing's written), or Mike Carey's Lucifer (which definitely feels like what Ewing was doing with Loki: Agent of Asgard). For Marvel? Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, whatever the big X-Men book is. I'm talking about sales and visibility, which absolutely change over time but for something like Spidey and the prime X-Men book generally stay high in the charts and visibility. In my brain these titles are assigned to writers as rewards and if they've got a super good take. I'm sure someone could correct me on what the top consistent sellers generally are.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 08:22 |
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site posted:There was that first 6 issues of ultimates Which first 6?
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 08:36 |
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Nilbop posted:I'm sure someone could correct me on what the top consistent sellers generally are. What's that steel chair shaped spotlight in the sky?!
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 08:48 |
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Immortal Hulk is one of the best Marvel titles in a while for me. The idea that Bruce Banner's lost a bit of his intelligence is interesting as well
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 13:37 |
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Alaois posted:What's that steel chair shaped spotlight in the sky?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGGZaCdYIuU
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 14:23 |
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Can someone give me a quick rundown of everything that's happened in Amazing Spider-Man from about the point where Superior Spider-Man ended? That's roughly where I stopped reading. Might come back now that Slott is finally gone.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 14:56 |
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Senjuro posted:Can someone give me a quick rundown of everything that's happened in Amazing Spider-Man from about the point where Superior Spider-Man ended? That's roughly where I stopped reading. Might come back now that Slott is finally gone. You know they replaced Slott with Nick "let's make Captain America a Nazi" Spencer, right?
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 15:58 |
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Skwirl posted:You know they replaced Slott with Nick "let's make Captain America a Nazi" Spencer, right? He also did Superior Foes though, right? That was pretty good from what I remember.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 16:06 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:Which first 6? Ummm issues 1 through 6...??? before it became a cw2 tiein and went off the rails
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 16:11 |
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site posted:Ummm issues 1 through 6...??? before it became a cw2 tiein and went off the rails I think he was making a joke about how it was something like the 6th comic titled Ultimates.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 16:14 |
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Senjuro posted:He also did Superior Foes though, right? That was pretty good from what I remember. I enjoyed Superior Foes, but I'd also say that regardless of that his Ultimate X-Men run should have gotten him banned from writing for either of the big two forever.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 16:17 |
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Skwirl posted:You know they replaced Slott with Nick "let's make Captain America a Nazi" Spencer, right? Can't wait for Nick Spencer to make Spider-Man a goblin.
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# ? Jul 9, 2018 16:23 |