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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 26, 2014 13:38:23 GMT -5
Ryan wrote: Thanks for that extremely thorough answer, Bob! The work Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema (or was it John?) did on Cap sounds very, very interesting. I think stories where the person of Steve Rogers finds himself at odds with the personage and symbolism of Captain America really appeal to me.
Ryan,
It was the criminally-underrated Sal Buscema who was the penciller during most of Steve Englehart's Captain America run. Big John's "little" brother also had fondly-remembered runs on Incredible Hulk, Avengers, and The Defenders, and was the inker over Ron Frenz on one of my favorites, the May Parker Spider-Girl series.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to wax rhapsodic about one of my favorite comic book characters--my number two, in fact!
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Post by kiro on Jan 27, 2014 8:39:26 GMT -5
Find of the weekend Bob! $6.99 on the clearance rack at Old Navy.
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 27, 2014 10:16:14 GMT -5
Kiro,
I'm off to Old Navy right after lunch! That's a cover by Rich Buckler from one of the first Roy Thomas/George Perez issues, and part of one of my favorite "mini-arcs"! I promise not to spoil the story, but events in that issue and the follow-up lead to Darla Deering's "Ms. Thing" in Matt Fraction's FF!!
Great purchase--thanks for sharing!
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Post by kiro on Jan 27, 2014 10:41:32 GMT -5
Kiro, I'm off to Old Navy right after lunch! That's a cover by Rich Buckler from one of the first Roy Thomas/George Perez issues, and part of one of my favorite "mini-arcs"! I promise not to spoil the story, but events in that issue and the follow-up lead to Darla Deering's "Ms. Thing" in Matt Fraction's FF!! Great purchase--thanks for sharing! It may be hard to find Bob considering it was in the clearance rack. But there are so many good finds at Old Navy as far as shirts go. And they are that thin cotton material so they are so comfortable. I have about 20 shirts from Old Navy that make up the bulk of my nerdy shirts. I dont go anywhere without one! lol
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 27, 2014 10:45:15 GMT -5
Kiro,
At $6.99 it's worth going for a look-see! I may find some other goodies while I'm shopping, too!
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Post by kiro on Jan 27, 2014 10:52:13 GMT -5
Keep us posted on your finds!
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Post by Blencs on Jan 28, 2014 2:50:10 GMT -5
Ola Bob, If I wanted to read about apocalypse where is best to start?
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 28, 2014 7:10:58 GMT -5
Ola Bob, If I wanted to read about apocalypse where is best to start? The character of Apocalypse begins in the mid-Eighties X-Factor, but most of his major "work" such as the "Age of Apocalypse" event happen after I drifted away from the main-line X- Men books after Chris Claremont left. I may have to play catch-up with him before the next film myself! Sorry I can't be of more help, Bob
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Post by Blencs on Jan 28, 2014 10:19:18 GMT -5
Ola Bob, If I wanted to read about apocalypse where is best to start? The character of Apocalypse begins in the mid-Eighties X-Factor, but most of his major "work" such as the "Age of Apocalypse" event happen after I drifted away from the main-line X- Men books after Chris Claremont left. I may have to play catch-up with him before the next film myself! Sorry I can't be of more help, Bob That is enough to get me started my good man. Thanks for taking the time to answer my query. :-)
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Post by CaptainSuperior on Jan 28, 2014 11:09:23 GMT -5
Bob, I was curious as to what your opinion is on why the original X-men series was somewhat unpopular to comic readers during the beginning of its first run? The series resorted to reprints until the release of Giant Size X-men, which gave the series a much needed shot in the arm and created X-men as we know them today.
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 28, 2014 11:38:02 GMT -5
Bob, I was curious as to what your opinion is on why the original X-men series was somewhat unpopular to comic readers during the beginning of its first run? The series resorted to reprints until the release of Giant Size X-men, which gave the series a much needed shot in the arm and created X-men as we know them today. Cap, I've heard Stan say that with so many Marvel books coming out from their pens, he and Jack Kirby had to leave the X-Men in other hands fairly early on, which certainly didn't help when if you wanted to read a team book, the Fantastic Four and Avengers were going great guns--not to mention the JLA at the Distinguished Competition! My feeling is that the book was good, but compared to the other amazing stuff coming out around it, it wasn't special enough. I know that I dropped off it somewhere in the 20s; perhaps if Lee & Kirby had stayed longer, it might have made a difference, but it's impossible to know. Just before they went to the reprints with issue #67(?), there was a brief flurry of great stuff in X-Men written by Roy Thomas, with art by Jim Steranko, Barry Smith and especially Neal Adams. (A reprint of the Thomas/Adams issues is due out tomorrow!) It's my understanding that those issues sold well enough that Marvel realized the core was sound, but that they needed a new hook. They didn't want to have the characters fade into oblivion while they came up with it, so they went to reprints, and used the X-Men characters as guest stars all through the Marvel line for the next few years, until the time was right for Giant Size X-Men #1! By the way, John Byrne wrote and drew a 20-odd issue series called X-Men: The Hidden Years that was meant to fill in the gap between #66 and GSXM #1 !
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Post by CaptainSuperior on Jan 28, 2014 18:21:26 GMT -5
Bob, I was curious as to what your opinion is on why the original X-men series was somewhat unpopular to comic readers during the beginning of its first run? The series resorted to reprints until the release of Giant Size X-men, which gave the series a much needed shot in the arm and created X-men as we know them today. Cap, I've heard Stan say that with so many Marvel books coming out from their pens, he and Jack Kirby had to leave the X-Men in other hands fairly early on, which certainly didn't help when if you wanted to read a team book, the Fantastic Four and Avengers were going great guns--not to mention the JLA at the Distinguished Competition! My feeling is that the book was good, but compared to the other amazing stuff coming out around it, it wasn't special enough. I know that I dropped off it somewhere in the 20s; perhaps if Lee & Kirby had stayed longer, it might have made a difference, but it's impossible to know. Just before they went to the reprints with issue #67(?), there was a brief flurry of great stuff in X-Men written by Roy Thomas, with art by Jim Steranko, Barry Smith and especially Neal Adams. (A reprint of the Thomas/Adams issues is due out tomorrow!) It's my understanding that those issues sold well enough that Marvel realized the core was sound, but that they needed a new hook. They didn't want to have the characters fade into oblivion while they came up with it, so they went to reprints, and used the X-Men characters as guest stars all through the Marvel line for the next few years, until the time was right for Giant Size X-Men #1! By the way, John Byrne wrote and drew a 20-odd issue series called X-Men: The Hidden Years that was meant to fill in the gap between #66 and GSXM #1 ! I was unaware of X-men The Hidden Years, hopefully it is on Marvel Unlimited.
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 29, 2014 12:22:15 GMT -5
CaptainSuperior wrote: I was unaware of X-men The Hidden Years, hopefully it is on Marvel Unlimited.
Cap,
John Byrne did a great job finding the "open areas" in Marvel continuity to play in, and the art is, of course, pretty classic!
X-Men: The Hidden Years is what caused Mr. Byrne's final exit from Marvel, due to disagreements with Joe Quesada, who seemed to take it as a personal mission to force Mr. Byrne out, with various comments about the book's quality, and its poor sales, although it was selling better than many other Marvel books at the time.
This spat might cause it to be absent from Marvel Unlimited, but let's hope not!
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Post by klynngullo on Jan 30, 2014 22:08:37 GMT -5
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! These are some of my most treasured comics from when I collected in the late 70's. I was pleasantly surprised when I came back to comics in 2012 after a 30 year hiatus that the Brubaker run referenced a lot of this era, especially the friendship of Steve, Sam and Sharon.
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Post by Bob Reyer on Jan 30, 2014 22:30:36 GMT -5
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! These are some of my most treasured comics from when I collected in the late 70's. I was pleasantly surprised when I came back to comics in 2012 after a 30 year hiatus that the Brubaker run referenced a lot of this era, especially the friendship of Steve, Sam and Sharon. klyn, Welcome to my little corner of the forums! I so love those Englehart/Buscema Captain America issues, and you've referenced to me what was the best part of ed Brubaker's run--the humanity! It's a sad thing that after 50 years of collecting Cap I've dropped the book from my pull list over the dark and overly-violent "Dimension Z" story-arc.
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