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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 11, 2014 21:01:00 GMT -5
He's not a troll, but that noted curmudgeon Bob Reyer lurks under this bridge! |
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 11, 2014 21:12:40 GMT -5
It's your Cranky Old Uncle Bob here, to let you know that I'll be using this space to pop in here-and-there and chat about comics and creators past and present. With any luck this will be informative, illuminating, and entertaining, although I'm sure that every now-and-again it will be infuriating! I can't guarantee prompt replies, as this technology is still foreign to me...
(He's not joking, dear ones! Robert is possibly the only person this side of Stephanie's Oma that still doesn't own at least a cell phone, and he still refers to his refrigerator as an "icebox", darlings! @udrey)
*ahem* ...but I promise to do my best!
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Fugazi
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Post by Fugazi on Jan 11, 2014 21:58:18 GMT -5
It's great to see you on the forums Bob! I hope I am as adventurous as you in the face of new technology one day...
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 11, 2014 22:09:23 GMT -5
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS
MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #50 (April 1979)
Writer/Artist: John Byrne
Cover: George Perez
In this issue, Reed Richards creates a cure for Ben, but one that would have only worked on his older, less-evolved form. In a flash of inspiration, Ben uses Doctor Doom's Time Platform to bring the formula to the past, where in an attempt to affect a "retro"-cure, he encounters a much different "thing" than he remembers being! 
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 11, 2014 22:19:16 GMT -5
Fugazi,
Thanks for the confidence in me, but honestly, my first attempt at adding images didn't go very well, despite much time and effort at trying to "intuit" my way through the process! (If you click on them, they will magically enlarge themselves, which I don't think I had anything to do with, frankly!)
Needless to say, Marvel Two-in-One #50 is a great book, with an amazing cover by George Perez, and fabulous art and story by John Byrne, whose Fantastic Four run is second only to Stan Lee & Jack Kirby! I'll be chatting about this book, which is one of my all-time favorites, during this week's podcast!
Sorry for the thumbnail-sized pix! rrr
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Post by CaptainSuperior on Jan 12, 2014 2:32:09 GMT -5
 Hey Bob, I'm a huge Black Panther fan and recently acquired all the issues of Jungle Action for the Black Panther vs The Klan story arc, I was curious if this arc was considered controversial and garnered any public attention, or did the story kinda fly under the radar around the the time of its release? |
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akaboali
Fearless Defender
“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.” ― Louisa May Alcott
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Post by akaboali on Jan 12, 2014 5:30:57 GMT -5
Fantastic news, looking forward to all your posts and never ending wisdom  |
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 12, 2014 9:44:08 GMT -5
Cap,
First off, how did you get such a large image? It's very impressive, and I'd love to know the process! As you can see from my previous post, I'm clueless!
To business: I certainly can't speak for Marvel editorial, but for fans reading their comics at that point in the Seventies, a "Panther vs. the Klan" story was just another one of Marvel's uses of the real world to inform their books! It was just a year or so before that Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema referenced Presidential corruption in Captain America, and in Fantastic Four #119, Roy Thomas and John Buscema addressed apartheid in an issue that featured T'challa imprisoned in the fictional country of Rudyarda.
Don Macgregor's Jungle Action work was a treasure, and particularly with Billy Graham on pencils, was a dynamic and powerful run. As I recall, along with the Englehart Captain America, they were both re-jiggered when Jack Kirby came back and took over the books, which was a pretty sad state of affairs, even though I'm one of the biggest "King" Kirby fans around!
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 12, 2014 9:47:49 GMT -5
Akaboali,
Thanks for the welcome, and I hope I can live up to expectations, as there is debate as to how "wise" I am; just look at all those comics I loved this year that got cancelled!
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Post by Blencs on Jan 12, 2014 13:21:46 GMT -5
Hi bob, im very pleased you are now on the forum as I can try and do an online intervention!!! I was worried to hear (and thoroughly amused) that you have taken that very well trodden first step on the path to super-villainy. Stealing wifi. I can imagine it now "first the neighbours wifi, and then the world!!!!! *insert maniacle laugh*" I feel we the talking comics forum community should all stand together to try to bring you back from the brink of evildom (not sure thats a word but I like it!)
In all seriousness im exstatic to see you online and look forward to picking your brains on all things comic related and more. (like how best to steal a neighbours wifi..........;-p)
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Post by CaptainSuperior on Jan 12, 2014 13:22:42 GMT -5
Cap, First off, how did you get such a large image? It's very impressive, and I'd love to know the process! As you can see from my previous post, I'm clueless! To business: I certainly can't speak for Marvel editorial, but for fans reading their comics at that point in the Seventies, a "Panther vs. the Klan" story was just another one of Marvel's uses of the real world to inform their books! It was just a year or so before that Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema referenced Presidential corruption in Captain America, and in Fantastic Four #119, Roy Thomas and John Buscema addressed apartheid in an issue that featured T'challa imprisoned in the fictional country of Rudyarda. Don Macgregor's Jungle Action work was a treasure, and particularly with Billy Graham on pencils, was a dynamic and powerful run. As I recall, along with the Englehart Captain America, they were both re-jiggered when Jack Kirby came back and took over the books, which was a pretty sad state of affairs, even though I'm one of the biggest "King" Kirby fans around! Thanks for the awesome info Bob, I'll have to definitely find a way to check those issues of Captain American and Fantastic Four out! I'm a huge fan of late Silver Age and early Bronze Age comics in particular. To answer you question about how to get larger pictures for posting, typically I will go to Google and type in the name and issue # in the search bar. After you've done the search there should be a Images tab that you can click on and it will show all the images Google has found in relation to your search. You can scroll through the pictures and when you find one you like just click on it and the picture will enlarge. A black box should come up and display the picture, within that box there should be a button that says View Image. A page should open that just displays the picture. Go to the address bar and copy the address, you can now paste that web address into the Image URL link in the Insert Image area of the post. You should see the Insert Image button, it's the 6th button to the left, when you are editing your post. It's easier to show someone how to do it than to explain it, but hopefully that will help! |
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 12, 2014 15:38:55 GMT -5
Craig,
I am not "stealing" Wi-Fi, I'm merely borrowing it! I promise to put it back when I'm finished! Of course, I believe Doctor Doom made similar statements when he orchestrated a hostile take-over of a junge fraulein's lemonade stand in Latveria!
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 12, 2014 15:49:56 GMT -5
Cap,
Thanks for the technical info! I've always used Google or Yahoo images, but the "Help" pages suggested other avenues, so I went in different directions--which was obviously a mistake! Onwards and upwards from here on!
Marvel in the Seventies had some interesting folks working as writers, with vets like Roy Thomas side-by-side with the youngsters like Steve Gerber, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Chris Claremont, and all the rest.
Many will find this hard to believe, but Steve Englehart's Captain America run is every bit the equal of any in the long history of the book! Great characterizations of Steve, the Falcon and Sharon, wonderfully "in-the-now" stories that also made fantastic usage of Cap's "back catalog", all combined to make for compelling comics!
'Nuff Said!
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Post by irishways on Jan 12, 2014 19:24:30 GMT -5
Hey uncle Bob. What's your favorite story act ever? Also favorite X-men arc (if not the same). Thanks Unc.
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 12, 2014 20:17:11 GMT -5
That's a fairly easy question for me, "irish"!
In the short term, it's Fantastic Four #48 to #50 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966, which is known as "The Galactus Trilogy"; why I say short term is that those issues were part of a phalanx of connected (if not all continued) stories that ran from Fantastic Four #36 (the introduction of Medusa) through to issue #60, the finale of the story where-in Doctor Doom stole the Silver Surfer's power cosmic. In between, we as readers would be introduced to the Frightful Four, the Inhumans, Galactus, the Silver Surfer, and the Black Panther, and just ahead we would meet the Kree and the character who would eventually be known as Adam Warlock. There has probably never been a run of issues of any comic book with so much sustained creativity, and whose impact continues to be felt nearly fifty years later in the pages of Infinity and Inhumanity. In fact, it is the opinion of many pundits (this one included!) that the first 102 issues of Fantastic Four, all by Lee & Kirby, are the greatest run of comics by a creative team in the history of the medium. In essence, for all the concepts and characters introduced there, the Marvel Universe was created within the pages of "The World's Greatest Comics Magazine".
As to X-Men, that's an easy one, too! "The Phoenix Saga" by Chris Claremont and John Byrne! Simply put, it's the "high opera" of comics; filled with great heroism and sacrifice, and overwhelimingly emotional. For those reading and enjoying the characters of Jean and Scott as they are portayed today, go back and peruse this masterpiece and see them at their peak!
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