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So I've been reading and indexing the '80s Dazzler series and kind of enjoying it despite myself, but I've just finished Marvel Graphic Novel #12 (Dazzler: The Movie) and the Beauty and The Beast...

May 1973: I was nearing the end of my sophomore year at Wilson High, hopelessly in love (I thought) with an unattainable girl and thrilled that all my guy friends were getting their drivers'...

Because super-team titles were hot at the time.

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I summon the nekkid truth!

Pretty much, yeah, though a lot of what I said was exagerrated for comic effort. It's cool if you disagree with me. I was pretty sure someone would and you made some eloquent arguments in favor of...

I've never read the later series but I quite liked the original when it first came out (it was on my pull list the day after it was first announced). I re-read it last year for my indexing project...

Someone explain the appeal of the original five X-Men. I get the appeal of the concept -- school for mutants -- just fine but the Class of '63 are the dullest, dreariest characters the Lee/Kirby team...

Anything worthwhile in Alpha Flight was killed dead once Bill Mantlo took over the book (although to be fair, I thought John B was losing his way for a good four months before he left).

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I have a strong dislike for Kane inking his own pencils, particularly at that point in his career. Almost anybody, even Vinnie the C, is an improvement.

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I summon the aesthetic aversion!

Please, disagree away. Swamp Thing is a fine series by any standard but I don't see it taking the chances Man-Thing did.



[bad Goofy impression] Aw, shucks! [/bad Goofy impression]



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I'm three issues into The Savage Sword of Conan, a title I've *never* read before, and I am loving it! I'm a sucker for REH anyway and, so far at least, the Thomas/Buscema team is kicking ass and...

I share your befuddlement over Cloak and Dagger, Scott, but I like Man-Thing a LOT, at least until Claremont got a hold of him/it. Gerber's run on the series was, IMHO, leagues better than the...

One more word about Marvel Comics: The Untold Story: I caught dozens and dozens of mistakes--some profoundly misleading--in the author's descriptions of the Marvel characters and their storylines....

I just finished it yesterday and you hear right.

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I summon the House of Rampant Egos!

Maximus has a power, introduced waaay back in Amazing Adventures #5: the power of mind control, which may explain why the Inhumans never seem to mind much when he temporarily usurps power.

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Maybe because it does. Wolfman spends half his time unravelling Englehart's continuity for no apparent reason (except, perhaps, professional jealousy) and Starlin spends his cleaning up the mess...

Avengers #61 happens between #178 and 179 of Doctor Strange.

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Actually, the animators based a number of key poses on iconic Ditko Spidey drawings, particularly when wall-crawling. There was a time when I could actually cite issue, page and panel of the swipes....

Right, in the order Sub-Mariner #22, Incredible Hulk #126 and the second story in Marvel Feature #1.

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I summon the missing master!

I honestly couldn't care less what my collection is worth or if it appreciates. When I'm gone, it will be given away to friends and family.

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I summon the lowdown!

While watching a documentary on my hometown of Tacoma last night, I learned that my neighborhood--known today as South Tacoma--was for a brief time in the 1890s named... Excelsior! Who knew Stan Lee...

Actually, Larry Lieber scripted #35 as well (from Stan's plot), according to the GCD and both Stan and Lieber themselves (they mentioned it during LL's spotlight panel at SDCC a few years back).
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"The Man in the Ant-Hill" was scripted by Larry Lieber and drawn by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.

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Just realized that one of the songs I listed for the Jacksons, "Love Machine," is actually by the Smokey Robinson-less Miracles. Oops.

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I summon the memory lapse!

I'm pretty sure he was made up for whatever game this comes from.

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i summon the generic good guy!

For years I thought he was saying Robert Vaughn.

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I summoned Ilya Kuryakin and all I got was Dr. Ducky Mallard!