Posted on 10/05/2006 4:08:51 AM PDT by 7thson
Just a simple vanity of something I thought funny and ironic and wanted to share.
From time to time, I go to the Marvel website and check out new stuff. They have a feature where you can read old and new comics online. I opened up an old Strange Tales featuring the Human Torch of the Fantastic Four. He is fighting some costumed character with the name of Destroyer - not the Destroyer that would later fight Thor. Anyway, the plot has the villian working for the coummunists (this story is from the early 60's). At the end when the Torch wins and unmasks the villian he turns out to be - ta da - the publisher of a newspaper!
I thought - was Stan Lee projecting? Anyway, like I said - this is just a vanity and I thought some of you would get a laugh from it.
I was always a DC fan. Superman, Batman, Blackhawk......
....Never liked too much of Marvel
Stan Lee is a bleeding heart Lib.
BUT
I did however enjoy the Fantastic Four.
I never did get Spidey. But in college I read Dr Doom and the Silver Surfer...just for 'sh*ts and giggles'.
Lee was one of those who held that fundraiser for HRC that's the center of a fundraising controversy.
Stan Lee's politics notwithstanding, I really liked Marvel Comics, during their golden age (which just happened to coincide with my primary comic-reading years). I particularly liked Spider Man and the Fantastic Four.
Sigh...we'd all be freakin' rich if only our Moms hadn't tossed them out!
I'd sell 'em and donate the $$ to the RNC if I had them now...
Ah, I've always loved Johnny Storm!
When I was a young teen - that is when my brother and I got into comix - I would buy and collect comics. The local newstand sold the comics. We knew which day of the week each comic would come out. My brother and I had a system where each one of us bought certain comics. This was back in the late 60's, early 70's. DC back then - to me - sucked! Even as a 12 year old, I looked at someone like Superman - possibly the most powerful comic creation ever - and he is fighting the Toyman, Prankster, and Luthor. And they're giving him a hard time! At Marvel though - the Fantastic Four are going up against Skrulls and Galactus! Thor is battling other Norse Gods! The XMen are battling the Juggernaut - someone who cannot be stopped - and robots specifically designed to destory them - Sentinals! It was power against power! Starting in the late 70's, DC started its move by slowly revamping Batman. Then Bryne revamped Superman in the 80's and Frank Miller revamped Batman into the Dark Knight. Now, Batman - who I detested back in the 60's and never bought - is one of the most coolest and dangerous superheros out there.
Nothing I've looked at since stopping comic collecting has induced me to read them again.
I do not like what they have done to certain comic characters. I know Stan Lee is a lib, but when you read the old Captain America stories from the 60's and early 70's - written by Lee - Cap is kicking the Red Skull's butt while telling him - and us the readers - how great America is. How people like the Skull are so wrong in thinking America's kindness and mercy are weaknesses. Today, we have the Red Skull writing the stories.
*cough* http://zcultfm.com/~comic/ *cough*
Never really got into the Super-Heroes.
Collected Conan the Barbarian and Swamp-Thing among others.
Still have all the Swamp-Things to about 1978.
Still have a file cabinet full but sold most of the good stuff to help pay for college.
Can anyone recommend any pro-American/pro-freedom comics in the current crop?
Well, I think this is where this post ends.
"Sigh...we'd all be freakin' rich if only our Moms hadn't tossed them out!"
I had a Freezer box full of them stolen when I was in high-school. They had been handed down to me from an older cousin. Just thinking about the current value makes my stomach hurt.
"Can anyone recommend any pro-American/pro-freedom comics in the current crop?"
"Well, I think this is where this post ends."
LOL! Indeed. They don't exist as far as I can tell.
Hi, Vacqueo:
Though not much of a "Superman" fan, I've always preferred DC's "Batman" to anything from Marvel.
The only comic book character to come close to Batman's overall "cool" was Walt Simomson/Arch Goodwin's "Manhunter" from DC in 1974-5. The story, plot, layout and characters excelled on all levels and set the tone of countless comics to come!
Marvel seemed more issue oriented, even in the '70s when comics were on their way up from 15 cents apiece.
Also preferred Joe Kubert's Sgt. Rock to Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos.
DC's "Blackhawk" rocked with their F-105s!
Jack.
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