tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post3493127681272126072..comments2024-03-10T23:51:37.936+00:00Comments on The Glass Walking-Stick: Comics Year Zero - 1971Simon B http://www.blogger.com/profile/07719757386457800087noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-47289935806132718862017-03-05T16:55:01.049+00:002017-03-05T16:55:01.049+00:00Kid's are much better than GCD's, Simon. I...Kid's are much better than GCD's, Simon. I have noticed if you enlarge their covers, everything becomes blurry!John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-20180584864641296022017-03-05T16:50:28.147+00:002017-03-05T16:50:28.147+00:00Might have guessed it was Susie that attracted you...Might have guessed it was Susie that attracted you to it, Kid!<br />You old scoundrel, you!John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-30285709372941262282017-03-05T10:41:22.266+00:002017-03-05T10:41:22.266+00:00@John
Yes, I should definitely do more posts about...@John<br />Yes, I should definitely do more posts about comics - it was one of the main reasons I started blogging, back in the mists of time. I have bought a few Bronze Age goodies recently so may have to post about them...<br /><br />@Kid<br />You really can't go wrong with John Romita drawing Sue Storm :-)<br />Ref. those covers - I may have to do just that. Thanks for the offer. I did a similar thing with a couple of coverless Silver Age comics I own ( an early '60s Flash and X-Men #4 ) - nicked some cover images from the Grand Comics Database.Simon B https://www.blogger.com/profile/07719757386457800087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-58980284357121596432017-03-04T10:55:58.594+00:002017-03-04T10:55:58.594+00:00If I remember correctly, FF #106 was the first non...If I remember correctly, FF #106 was the first non-Kirby ish I ever bought, and it was that pic of Susie on the cover that made me buy it. I reckon I bought it around 1971, from a shop called Corson's - which still exists. Incidentally, Cer, the covers of some of those comics have appeared on my blog, so you could probably restore them to your comics by means of the 'clickety-click' method that JP is so fond of. (True, you may have to reduce them to the required size, but I'm sure you could manage that.)Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-74022553125063496032017-03-03T23:23:16.756+00:002017-03-03T23:23:16.756+00:00Hi again, Simon, you know you SHOULD do more comic...Hi again, Simon, you know you SHOULD do more comics posts like this, these days!<br />Anyway, I don't think I've read FF#106, not even in reprint ( nor ANY of the DC comics on this post )!<br />I am familiar though with the original Avengers and Subby stories.<br />Anyway, your "Year Zero" seems as good a starting point as any, from the scans above! John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-67293706987837506532011-12-06T22:38:20.763+00:002011-12-06T22:38:20.763+00:00Hi Dougie! FOOM was certainly a big deal for me wh...Hi Dougie! FOOM was certainly a big deal for me when it first appeared. All those glimpses behind the scenes at Marvel Comics and those tantalising views of comics I thought I'd never be able to own. And, of course, that awesome Steranko poster...Simon B https://www.blogger.com/profile/07719757386457800087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-29939244152314082562011-12-06T20:50:49.426+00:002011-12-06T20:50:49.426+00:00I love the description "personal archaeology&...I love the description "personal archaeology" for what we've been doing on-line.<br /><br />My Year Zero would probably be 1971 for DC. I had read Marvels since the days of Power Comics: mostly the FF and the Avengers from 68-70. But I was aware of the Fourth World and the New Wonder Woman and then through the Super-Spectaculars, of the long history of DC.<br /><br />My Marvel Year Zero was 72,however, especially the advent of FOOM because the barbarians, vampires and Satanism glimpsed in its pages made Marvel seem illict and heady.Dougiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03965448821892833703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-20500612909389085642011-12-06T19:48:21.428+00:002011-12-06T19:48:21.428+00:00@Steve
The early years of UK Marvel was a special ...@Steve<br />The early years of UK Marvel was a special time, wasn't it?<br />BTW your regular looks back at Marvel Comics 40 years ago inspired this very post, so thanks, Steve. Take a bow...<br /><br />@Richard<br />Thanks for pointing out that website. Now I know some of my "1971" comics actually came out in 1970 :-)<br />Damn those misleading cover dates :-)<br />Well, I was certainly reading them in 1972...<br /><br />You could be right about UK fans having extra devotion to our hobby. If you found part one of a story in an imported Marvel or DC comic, you could never count on finding the second part, distribution being so random. But this hit-and-miss comic collecting did make every issue seem more special. And, as I've said here before, I do feel lucky that I could experience the Silver and Bronze Ages of Marvel simultaneously, through current issues and UK reprints.Simon B https://www.blogger.com/profile/07719757386457800087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-86390090571793505642011-12-06T01:01:16.833+00:002011-12-06T01:01:16.833+00:00Mister, you are talking my language. Not only am ...Mister, you are talking my language. Not only am I constantly pursuing the act of personal archaeology, I also seek out the introspective surveys of other Bronze Age fans to see how my recollections match up with theirs. So this post is right up my street. If I'm trying to place a memory in its historical context, I head to the Newsstand site and check out all the other titles that would have been appearing on the racks (at least here in the States) at the same time. For instance, <a href="http://www.dcindexes.com/newsstand/releasedate.php?year=1970&month=10" rel="nofollow">everything that would have been on sale the same month as <i>Fantastic Four</i> #106</a>. You can look up books by the actual release date, or by the (misleading) cover date as you prefer. And then I just go forward or backward at whim, wasting a whole evening and getting nothing else done. No need to thank me, destroying other people's productivity is its own reward!<br /><br />Also, I never cease to be amazed at the extra hoops UK fans had to go through with the weekly reprint comics, in that stuff might appear out of order or without context just as continuity and interrelated chronology started to become important in US comics. I often think you guys had to be more devoted fans than your US counterparts to be able to make sense of it all.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5470510671824637475.post-55877288771863935702011-12-05T23:01:08.401+00:002011-12-05T23:01:08.401+00:00For me it was 1972; when I first started to get my...For me it was 1972; when I first started to get my hands on American comics, and <i>Mighty World of Marvel</i> came along to make every Friday a magical experience. <br /><br />During the summer of that year, within mere days of each other, I became acquainted with Captain America, Superman, Supergirl, the Flash, the X-Men and the Teen Titans. And I discovered that Batman had a comic of his own, as well as a TV show.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.com