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Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

27.11.2024

Giant-Size Avengers #3 (February, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Last month we took a look at Avengers #131, which ended with Earth's Mightiest Heroes being transported against their wills to the realm of Limbo, where they were set to face off against a Legion of the Unliving assembled by their long-time foe, Kang the Conqueror.  This month, we'll be discussing the "two-part triple-length triumph"…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

30.11.2024

Strange Tales #178 (February, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Back in June, we took a look at Captain Marvel #34, which was the last issue drawn and plotted by Jim Starlin.  As we discussed in that post, Starlin abruptly quit the series after delivering only one chapter of his first post-"Thanos War" storyline, unhappy with Marvel Comics' seeming unwillingness, or inability, to give him…

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…

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