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Oct 27 09 3:48 PM
Bronze Age
Lockjaw wrote: Who inked that interior Chamber of darkness page? Chic Stone?
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BonanzaGuy wrote: Lockjaw wrote: Who inked that interior Chamber of darkness page? Chic Stone? The inker was John Verpoorten who inked a few of Jack's stories back then. This story still shows Jack had some good stuff in the tank.
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Alan The Insane!!! Sub-Mariner 26, the Greatest Comic Ever SOLD!!! Looking forward to a Strange World Omnibus sometime in the future!!!
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Nov 1 09 2:20 PM
I finished the book a few days ago, but haven't had time to offer any thoughts till today (it's that 'extra hour' of daylight that's given me the time).
I really looked forward to this book, to see Kirby, Adams and Sekowsky, but little did I realize how disjointed the book would seem when those three distinct styles were put in such close proximity to each other. Within the compressed time to read the book, as opposed to the time span covered when the stories first appeared, it was an uneven read. Taken individually, all stories were enjoyable, but put together in one book, it seems to be the visual equivalent of listening to a CD mix of classical, country, doo-wop and heavy metal. Jarring...
Reproduction and presentation were impeccable; beautiful art, great colors and a flawlessly produced book. Thanks Cory and Marvel!
I really enjoyed Sekowsky's art here. JLA was one of my favorite titles as a kid, greatly due to his art, rapidly declining in popularity with me after Dillin and O'Neill took over. Sekowsky had some interesting perspectives in his art, but to me, that's part of the attraction. The Adams work was expectedly terrific. BIG changes in Kirby's art from the Thor back-ups to the AA stories.
Now I need to sit back and be patient a few more weeks till SHIELD 2 arrives.
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fourtimer wrote: Clessidraman, it's posts like yours that keep me revisiting this site every day. I loved the Inhumans for similar reasons; I didn't read them off the stands, but in back issues acquired in the early 70s. But they always had that sense of wonder -- a fascinating family of powers and colors. Living apart from our society, but with dignity and nobility. Especially their dog.
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I'm surprised the Gene Colan fans aren't raving about the Marvel Super-Heroes story, or the coloring gurus unhappy with the way her costume was colored in that one issue. They did keep the blue and white coloring in this volume, right? I hated when I saw, back in 1968, the color design for her costume. And, by the way, the solo story was published about the same time as her appearnce in Spider-Man. Overkill?
-- Joe M.
Nov 7 09 5:03 PM
"the way her costume was colored in that one issue."
I don't know too many women who wear one color scheme all the time...
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Nov 9 09 4:48 PM
I read my copy this past weekend. My thoughts: (1) The "Thor" back-up stories by Lee, Kirby and Sinnott are as good as I remember them (I first read them in "Marvel Tales" reprints in the '80's). This is Lee & Kirby at their peak with Joe Sinnott showing why he was one of Jack's best inkers. It's interesting that in the introduction Mark Evanier only mentions these back-ups as a way of maintaining interest in the characters after plans to give them their own book were shelved. I had gotten the impression (perhaps from Kirby Collector?) that these back-ups may actually have been (part of?) the first issue of the Inhumans comic that Jack had already started drawing before Marvel's plans changed. Reading the stories now, it's hard to tell. If you put them altogether, it makes for somewhat disjointed reading, certainly. There are really two stories here: one about Black Bolt and one about Triton... Maybe the beginning was intended for the Inhumans comic and then before he got very far they told him to change it to a series of back-ups...Additionally, the ending of the whole sequence (where Black Bolt goes off to seek a new location in the mountains for the Great Refuge) seems very abrupt. It looks like Jack was either told to stop drawing it or finished drawing the last story before he knew there wasn't going to be another one. (2) I like Gene Colan but his take on the Inhumans in "Marvel Superheroes" does nothing for me here. Still, nice to have it included. (3) The Jack Kirby-Chic Stone "Amazing Adventures" issues: I'd never read these before and while it was neat to satisfy my curiosity I must say they are hardly noteworthy. They're really just typically dull products of Jack's lackluster last year at Marvel, prior to his departure for DC. I think Chic was a good inker for Jack in general but he isn't given much to work with here. Much of what Jack did during that period was a regression to the early '60's (see his last few issues of "Fantastic Four" as well), only back then it was at least original. Comparing these with the "Thor" back-up stories is depressing! (4) The Roy Thomas-Neil Adams "Amazing Adventures" issues are interesting although I was very discouraged when I saw that Tom Palmer only inked the first issue and the "Avengers" story at the end. John Verpoorten worked well at times with John Romita Sr. but I find he just flattens Neil Adams here. What a difference the inker makes in this case. The story is very reminiscent of the politically "relevant" themes one finds in much of Adams' work both for Marvel (with Roy Thomas) and for DC (with Denny O'Neill) during the late '60's/early '70's.
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