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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:47 am 
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I still love this final panel from the much-missed Carlos Pacheco! The dialogue still gives me goosebumps, when Reed says "In the words of my dearest friend, it's Clobberin time" topped off with the perfect response by the Thing "Nuff Said" which of course has a double meaning (Marvel history-wise)

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And of course, perhaps my all time favorite, with the amazingly well written buildup to this, with the occasional "where is Thor" "We need Thor" and then when all hope is lost.....

THIS is the Thor I want to see in live action!

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:54 am 
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Like this one from Jack Cole.

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You could do a whole thread on Will Eisner.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:59 am 
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The first one that popped in my mind was a page from an early issue of Heavy Metal Magazine. Here's the few panels preceding it for context, with the actual page in spoilers:

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:03 pm 
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Ya can't have a thread like this without Will Eisner. This is as brilliant a comic page as I've ever seen:

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:07 pm 
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I've read in a few places that the last pages of Bernard Krigstein's 1955 Master Race story for EC Comics is one of the most important and influential pages in American comics.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:15 pm 
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I was a huge fan of the Johns and Van Sciver series Green Lantern Rebirth, and bringing Hal Jordan back in that manner is one of the main things that got me back into reading comics in my 30's. I absolutely loved the dramatic moment when Hal's reanimation was complete and the build up to it did not disappoint. Sinestro is telling them to beg for their lives, etc. From Rebirth #4

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:23 pm 
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I read Alex Toth's Fox backups as a 13 year old when they were first published in Archie's The Black Hood back in 1983. At the time, I thought these were the two most perfect art jobs I'd ever seen in my life. I kinda still think that way, especially about these two pages in particular. They are just... well, perfect. I wish there were more. These are definately formative in what I consider great comics art.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:25 pm 
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Kid Nemo wrote:
Like this one from Jack Cole.

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I need to get all those Plastic Man and Spirit archives that DC published back when. I love everything I've seen of 'em.


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The Spirit Archives are fine, but the Plastic Man Archives are badly from that era of really poorly produced DC archives, where the art looks nothing like Cole. They look like bleached pages that were retraced by someone in production. They should just do a collection that is photographed from the original published comics. (Unless they have the original art! Highly unlikely!!!)

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 1:25 pm 
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Jason Michael wrote:
The Spirit Archives are fine, but the Plastic Man Archives are badly from that era of really poorly produced DC archives, where the art looks nothing like Cole. They look like bleached pages that were retraced by someone in production. They should just do a collection that is photographed from the original published comics. (Unless they have the original art! Highly unlikely!!!)

Well that sucks. There’s not really alternatives to those volumes.


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Ditko often impressed.

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As did Kirby.

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Man, I got threads and threads full of art that’s impressed me! Where do I start?


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:10 pm 
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Bolgani Gogo wrote:
Kid Nemo wrote:
Like this one from Jack Cole.

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I need to get all those Plastic Man and Spirit archives that DC published back when. I love everything I've seen of 'em.


My first thought when I saw that was "Now I see where Steranko got some of his ideas!"

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:37 pm 
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That Devil Dinosaur page is so awesome.


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Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson were a good team,even if they didn't think so.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:23 am 
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:13 am 
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That Devil Dinosaur page is so awesome.

It's the reason I bought the Omnibus. Never read any DD before but the splash pages (more than just that one) were wild, and I had to have it.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:15 am 
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And of course, perhaps my all time favorite, with the amazingly well written buildup to this, with the occasional "where is Thor" "We need Thor" and then when all hope is lost.....

THIS is the Thor I want to see in live action!

I think we got something pretty close to that in Infinity War and also in Ragnarok. I don't know why they went the direction they did with Thor after that, but in those two films he was a powerhouse.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:25 am 
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Jeff wrote:
Bolgani Gogo wrote:
That Devil Dinosaur page is so awesome.

It's the reason I bought the Omnibus. Never read any DD before but the splash pages (more than just that one) were wild, and I had to have it.

I bought them when they came out. I was seven. That book and Marvel's Godzilla were my favorite comics. Little boys like dinosaurs, I guess. At least this one did. ;)

They even fought/teamed-up in a wo issue story, complete with a tribute double-page splash. The premise was that the Marvel heroes used Pym particles to shrink him, then Reed Richards used Dr. Doom's time machine to send him back to the prehistoric era where Godzilla could better thrive.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:29 am 
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Jeff wrote:
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And of course, perhaps my all time favorite, with the amazingly well written buildup to this, with the occasional "where is Thor" "We need Thor" and then when all hope is lost.....

THIS is the Thor I want to see in live action!

I think we got something pretty close to that in Infinity War and also in Ragnarok. I don't know why they went the direction they did with Thor after that, but in those two films he was a powerhouse.

Love and Thunder was the first MCU film I couldn't get through. There were a few other Marvel flics that I abandoned part way, but never an MCU one. I think, like with Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, the franchise may have jumped the shark for me.


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From Supernatural Thrillers #3 - Gil Kane pencils, Ernie Chua inks, written by Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway.

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This is one of my all-time favourite pages from a comic...and one of my all-time favourite comics. I have a copy, sealed in a plastic baggie, in near-prefect condition. It's one of my prized possessions.

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