Last month, in our post about Captain America #180, we covered the debut of the former Captain America, Steve Rogers, in his brand-new superheroic identity of the Nomad. As regular readers will hopefully recall, the Nomad's initial outing was somewhat less than completely auspicious, as he tripped over his own cape and failed to prevent…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

12.10.2024

Marvel Two-in-One #7 (January, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

As of October, 1974, Steve Gerber had been the writer on Marvel Two-in-One for a year -- ever since the series teaming the Fantastic Four's Thing with a rotating cast of co-stars had jumped from its previous home in Marvel Feature to its own brand-new title, in fact. Intriguingly (though perhaps also understandably), with the…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

19.10.2024

Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1 (January, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

In February of last year, we ran a post on the first issue of Worlds Unknown -- a four-color anthology title from Marvel Comics devoted to the science fiction genre, with a special focus on adapting short stories and novels by well-known SF authors. As we discussed at the time, this passion project of Marvel's…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

26.10.2024

Avengers #131 (January, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Back in August, we covered Avengers #129 and Giant-Size Avengers #2, two memorable issues which together kicked off writer Steve Englehart's "Celestial Madonna" saga -- and the latter of which also saw the death of an Avenger, as the reformed villain called the Swordsman met his untimely end as an unquestioned hero. The next regular…

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Captain America #181 (January, 1981) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Marvel Two-in-One #7 (January, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1 (January, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Avengers #131 (January, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

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