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Skwirl posted:No, that's Johnny, he frequently had solo adventures in Strange Tales before it became the Nick Fury/Doctor Strange book. So many panels from that run could be posted here... The insanely awful art when it became a Ben/Johnny book (Dick Ayers on pencils??) the incredibly lame villains the Torch faced (William Van Vile? The Acrobat? Paste Pot Pete? ), the Thing in a Beatles wig....Strange Tales might have been the worst book early Marvel published.
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Skwirl posted:Paste Pot Pete was a legitimate villain for a good chunk of the initial Lee/Kirby run, mostly as part of the Frightful Four which included Medusa (yes, Black Bolt's wife, well ex-wife at this point, I think she's dating Johnny Storm right now if you want to bring this full circle). Don't joke about Paste Pot Pete, he'll seal up your mouth and nose holes and watch you suffocate. Once he became the Trapster and got a legit costume he became a decent villain. But don't fool yourself into thinking he had a great beginning - he had a weird look and literally carries around an open bucket of glue with a pump gun. He was a true joke until he met up with the Wizard. And I still think the original Beetle costume was pretty cool...
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From Iron Man #233... Oh Marcy, if only you had a crystal ball...
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
Also... Prince Namor is king? How is he a king if he's a prince??? How is he a prince if he's king??? drat you Spidey Super Stories!!!
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The Question IRL posted:The colour thing that I always noticed was how in the Bob Latin and David Michellene Iron-man stories from the 80's, Tony Stark was made to look like his hair had blue highlights. Holy poo poo I thought it was just me. It confused the hell out of 10 year old me as to why Tony had seemingly bright blue hair in some panels and nobody ever reacted to it.
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prefect posted:Roy Orbison would have been perfect. Yeah, but then Spidey would have easily defeated him with cling film....
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Oh Silver Age innocence... And prom is tomorrow night!! (Amazing Spider-Man #5)
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Zeeman posted:
His scientific wizardry?? Scientific???? SCIENTIFIC?????
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A Strange Aeon posted:This Xavier talk reminded me he's the Juggernaut's brother. Are there any other kind of dumb relationships like that? Step-brother. Every time I think about the Juggernaut, I think of what he looked like in his first appearance or two vs what he turned into in the 90s. Skinny dude who had armor into the Hulk on steroids with a bodysuit.
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Retro Futurist posted:Who the hell is- Hoo boy wait til you discover the rest of the Headmen.... Shrunken Bones, Ruby Thursday, Chondu. You are in for a wild ride.
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Binary Badger posted:This was one of the gems created by none other than Steve Gerber, who left this world too soon. Anyone with Marvel Unlimited needs to go read his She-Hulk run right the gently caress now. It starts with a 2 issue Superman/DC parody, then has his creation Howard the Duck in the most 70s style Gerber story you'll ever read in 1990. He then goes into a Batman parody and leaves soon thereafter, but his 12 issues are gold.
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amishjosh posted:Was all this inspired by Fletcher Hanks? Gorilla head transplants and shrinking bones, jesus. Gerber literally went back to all the old Atlas era horror and monster stories, pulled out 3 of the most batshit crazy ones, and made them part of 616 continuity. Then he rounded it out by adding a woman who replaced her head with an organic computer shaped like a red plastic ball and had her run for president. Gorilla Man had his head placed on a gorilla body. Chondu was a mystical magician that had his body replaced with an amalgamation of mythical creature parts. Shrunken Bones essentially tried a Pym-particle type formula but only succeeded in shrinking his skeleton, so his flesh just hangs loose now. The running gag with them is Chondu is always getting his head removed and placed on different things - the aforementioned weird creature, Nighthawk, a fawn, the She-hulk, a robotic spider.... God I miss Steve Gerber....
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Kwyndig posted:Cobra money was an episode (Money to Burn), if I remember correctly the idea was that they had a machine that remotely made all the country's paper money burst into flames, and Cobra issued gold Cobra Coins to try to control the US's economy. That still can't beat Cold Slither, where COBRA went bankrupt, forcing most of the soldiers to go to the unemployment line. The solution? Start a rock band and hypnotically control radio listeners to buy their album and attend their concert! Listen to the WHM Animation Damnation episode on this for maximum hilarity.
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Science? The first year or two of transformers is a goldmine for this stuff. Someone needs to post issue 13 (?) where some crappy hoodlum finds Megatron stuck in gun mode and becomes the city's most dangerous criminal. Much like GI Joe, tho, that series was so much better than it had any right to be.
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TheCenturion posted:I liked Circuitbreaker. I liked how Marvel wasn't afraid to explore different ideas in their comics. Hell yes it does. I wish they'd put more up on Unlimited, used to live that book back in the day. Circuit Breaker was hilarious in that they forced her into 2 panels of an issue of Secret Wars 2 a week or so before her appearance in Transformers. gently caress you, Hasbro!! Original character do not steal!!!
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This is even more hilarious when it turns out Falcon is picked solely to fulfill a minority requirement. This leads to two fantastic moments: 1). The Beast reacting to Gyrich claiming they don't employee any minorities by pointing out he and Wanda are mutants, Vision is a synthezoid, and the Black Panther IS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF HIM 2). Falcon reacting to the decree by putting on a Steppin Fetchit accent on the next 4 issues and mocking the whole situation to the point where Captain America has to tell him to stop it.
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Ygolonac posted:Big, so you can read the fine print. Holy poo poo every remember every joke from this. Remember when Byrne actually tried? That's 2 pages of legit hilarious text, all in the context of She-Hulk saying "gently caress it" and tearing through her own magazine to get away from danger. The 'Nam one is still my favorite... can't believe he got away with the weed like in 1989....
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A Strange Aeon posted:I've been reading the first golden age omnibus and it's full of weird stuff. I want the war to end because I'm sick of every antagonist being a German or Japanese spy. It's impossible to imagine a modern comic treating contemporary political conflicts the same way the golden age did. Paging Silver Age Marvel to the thread.... (Yes I know it's not modern but every drat issue featured a Commie spy/super villain/menace)
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Binary Badger posted:If memory serves, a lot of the villains were recently (as of the issue of Deadpool) killed by Scourge during an anti-villain murder parade that Mark Gruenwald wrote in an arc of Captain America. Gruenwald basically pitched it as a way to clean up the trash that was sitting around and force writers to come up with new and better villains. Most of what he killed off were losers who barely appeared anymore or really really old villains that were collecting dust. The big one he wanted to off was Kraven the Hunter, but the Spider-office nixed it in favor of the "Kraven's Last Hunt" story. Looking back at the list, there wasn't anyone of note on there. Although I always liked the Melter 😔 If I remember correctly, he later said he regretted doing it because any crappy character could be redeemed in the right circumstances.
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Rick Jones knows to torture someone...
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I'm re-reading that Captain Marvel run on Unlimited now and it's a gold mine for this thread. That run up until the "U-Decide" disaster was sooooooo much fun - Micronau... I mean Microns, Drax, Moondragon, Super Skrull, the whole "millennium" debate - Peter David was knocking it out of the park and Chris Cross' art reflected the fun he was having.
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More Captain Marvel, and no this joke never gets old....
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Gorilla Salad posted:Thanks. The nerd in me is extremely bothered by the fact that Dragon Man, a barely sentient android at the time, is at a bar laughing with other humans about what The Shocker means. And slightly bothered by the Puma being there as well.
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 Sure it hasn’t, Blacklash, sure it hasn’t. (Iron Man #224)
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Android Blues posted:It messes with Uncanny a lot too, the fastidiously-ignored-ever-since arc where Wolverine kills Rachel flows out of Secret Wars 2. He didn’t kill her but he straight up slashed her face and gutted her. Then she wandered through the forest until Spiral tricked her into being healed then wasn’t seen again until Excalibur like 3 years later. That was one of the first X-Men comics I ever owned - came as part of a 25 pack collection of Marvel comics out of the Sears Wish Book. What a hell of an intro to the team....
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chitoryu12 posted:
It took the Avengers and the MU in general WAAAAAAAY too long to figure out Thor was a different guy. “He grew a beard over night, talks really differently, and seems to have no idea how to use his powers.... Nope, nothing different here!!”
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Ummmm.... did Marvel’s lawyers fall asleep this day? T’Challa was just... paying his way through school. Yeah! That’s it!
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zoux posted:
A lot of people must have died, because that book lasted for just a few months after that ad appeared....
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Skwirl posted:I didn't read it, but I know Kirkman invented a kinda cool new gay character then brutally killed him. I always loved how the character came up with his super hero name. His boyfriend/love interest mentioned about getting some free dumb ring and it stuck ☺️
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Lobok posted:Yep, that was Gerber. And yep, Thing comes off as a huge rear end in a top hat to the shopkeeper. And in the premiere issue. Right from the very first splash page he's tearing up the guy's store. The Thing is a 1000 times more interesting when he has someone to play off of, and Ben Grimm has been my favorite character since I was about 5. The solo series in the 80s wasn’t too bad, especially once they got him off Battleworld and had him wander the country. I just loved going back and finding those two in one back issues to see how he found a way to wander into some other hero’s turf  And I always thought Marvel Team Up was conceived as a Spider-Man/Human Torch book, but they got sick of it real quick and just had Spidey meet whoever they wanted. Torch then became the go-to character when Spider-Man needed a break.
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Random Stranger posted:One Russian and three apes also got cosmic rayed. And don’t forget the U-Foes, who not only did it intentionally but also overexposed themselves to get better powers than the FF.
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Begemot posted:They had been amputated because he was attacked by the Reavers, an anti-mutant terrorist group who were eventually revealed to be working for... Apocalypse. Well, the Reavers only damaged the wings, they were amputated as part of a plot by his old college buddy, Cameron Hodge, who provided the seed money for the elaborate scam that was X-Factor, but turned out to also be an anti-mutant extremist with a grudge. It was the Marauders, not the Reavers. I think Harpoon and Sabretooth did the damage to his wings, then hung him like a butterfly specimen in the sewers. They were working for Mister Sinister by way of Apocalypse (?) and somehow Gambit was retroactively involved in the shadows.... The Reavers were the cyborg group on the Australian desert that eventually crucified a Wolverine.
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Android Blues posted:The Marauders are the absolute worst. Mutant Massacre is a real black mark on that run, just pointless grimdarkness while guys like Scalphunter and Harpoon take centre stage, with their only motivation for like a year of issues being, "we're really evil and hate mutants, and also, a shadowy figure with ambiguous motivations hired us to do this". Don’t forget having Polaris rejoin the team only to immediately be possessed by Marauder member Malice, turning her evil and then bonding to her permanently and she joined the Marauders but then she got better and went to Muir Isle and her powers went wonky and she turned into a white She Hulk that gained power from other people’s anger but then it turned out it was the Shadow King and she Is there a macro of Kate’s head exploding?
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Zaodai posted:That rhinos will stop charging to go stomp out a fire? I heard that from Stone Philips.
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That whole 4 issue limited series is batshit insane and full of panels like that. Dave Cockrum was given free reign to write and draw his favorite character and every page shows just how much he was having.
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Beachcomber posted:
Drawn by, of all people, Mark Gruenwald.
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Skwirl posted:I'm not, Old Thor had the metal arm in the future bits from the very first issue of Aaron's run. He's not getting the arm back as long as Aaron is writing him (and honestly I don't know why a future writer would undo it). The question is if we see Thor lose the eye too in his run. Wasn’t he armless in the future that Dan Jurgens wrote in his run? The Reigning?
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