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Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

07.12.2024

Captain America #183 (March, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Fifty years and one month ago, on the final page of Captain America #182, writer Steve Englehart promised his readers that the next issue would feature "The Return of Captain America!  Eight months in the making, and worth every second of the wait!"  That bottom-of-the-page blurb struck an unmistakably triumphal tone -- but it was…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

14.12.2024

Savage Sword of Conan #4 (February, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

The fifty-year-old comics magazine we'll be looking at today leads off with a cover by fantasy painter Boris Vallejo that actually illustrates the issue's lead story -- something which wasn't exactly unheard of with Marvel's black-and-white comics of the 1970s, but wasn't quite what you'd call commonplace, either.  About the only significant discrepancy between cover…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

18.12.2024

Defenders #21 (March, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Fifty years ago this month, the Gil Kane-Klaus Janson cover of Defenders #21 heralded the beginning of a new storyline.  But as soon as we readers of the time turned to the comic's opening splash page -- not to mention the double-page spread that followed immediately thereafter -- it was clear that although the "A"-plot…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

21.12.2024

Captain Marvel #37 (March, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Back in June, we took a look at Captain Marvel #34 -- the last issue produced by auteur Jim Starlin, who would soon be moving on to "Warlock" in Strange Tales.  As you may recall, Starlin's swan song ended on a cliffhanger, with Mar-Vell lying unconscious after having been exposed to a deadly nerve toxin.…

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