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50yearoldcomics.com
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| | | | | According to the account given by Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas on the letters page of Amazing Adventures #18, the new feature that made its debut in that issue had been gestating for some time. ("Two long and not always enjoyable years," to quote the man himself.) It had all started in 1971, when Marvel was... | |
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| | | | | Prior to the release of today's featured comic fifty years ago this month, only three artists had lent their pencils to delineating the adventures of Marvel Comics' newest superstar, at least officially: Val Mayerik, who'd drawn the character's debut appearances in Fear #19 and Man-Thing #1; Frank Brunner, who'd illustrated the two solo strips that... | |
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| | | | | When last the regular readers of this blog saw Captain Marvel, he'd just been defeated and taken prisoner by the Watcher -- a formerly benign, self-declared non-interventionist, whose sudden heel turn after over a decade of Marvel Comics appearances seemed to come out of nowhere -- who had then proceeded to hand him over to... | |
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blogintomystery.com
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| | | Do we really want a magician who learned his trade through a comic book ad performing the "saw a woman in half" trick? Wouldn't OSHA want to step in here? Doesn't this guy bear too close a resemblance to a Snidely Whiplash type villain to trust with such a deed? So many harrowing possibilities! | ||
