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Dec 3 09 5:08 PM
Modern Age
Ah, my friend. The magic number of comic books is 8. And I was eight when I bought these.
I have recently completed a run of the World's Finest and they are treasures. Newton Captain Marvel, Anderson Hawkman, Some Black Lightning, Green Arrow and Black Canary. Couple of Aquaman, Infantino Adam Strange, Red Tornado (his first solo, I think!) Vigilante, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna! Ditko's Creeper (soon to be collected), Daily Planet's, Hembeck!, Ask the Answer man, just great stuff....
Separate from the World's Finest Team! Early on was a team-up with the Martian Manhunter, there was three-way with Hawkman, and multi-parter with Schaffenberger art about a hunchback Superman TWIN! Dr. Double-X! Metallo! A team-up of Terra-Man and the Penguin!
Maybe second only to Barve and the Bold as my favorite run of comics. Oh! or All-Star Squadron! Or All-Star Comics from the 70's!
Ugh....... I LOVE bronze age DC!
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Dec 3 09 5:34 PM
Golden Age
I love DC Dollar Comics.
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Dec 3 09 5:50 PM
deejayway wrote: What issue did Newton's Shazam start? Anderson on Hawkman? Really? That late in the day? Cool. Who did the Aquaman material? I am away from the collection, but I think Newton & Bridwell did the whole run of our good Captain during the WFC run. I remember a LOT of Newton Aquaman, too, but might be confusing that with Adventure... Buckler, too.
deejayway wrote:
I am away from the collection, but I think Newton & Bridwell did the whole run of our good Captain during the WFC run. I remember a LOT of Newton Aquaman, too, but might be confusing that with Adventure... Buckler, too.
Edit:
Just checked the DC indexes site (WONDERFUL site, by the way) and Captian Marvel started with newton inked by Schaffenberger...
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Dec 3 09 11:28 PM
I loved the diversity of material in these books: this was probably the closest any publisher came to recapturing what it was like to pick up Golden Age comics in the early 1940's (when 10-cents got you 64 pages of all-new comics) .
Dec 4 09 4:36 AM
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Dec 4 09 7:26 AM
Lee Semmens wrote: About the first half-dozen issues or so of Batman Family had about 17 pages of new stuff, and the rest was reprints. After that it was all-new stories.
Dec 4 09 8:06 AM
I've always liked Schaffenberger's art, even though he is fairly cartoonish, it's a few of the other artists I was thinking of, but I agree with you, Warlock, 100% re the over-use of Colletta's inks in Superman Family (although I don't recall him doing quite so much inking in World's Finest). I would unhesitatingly reccommend the World's Finest Dollar Comics. Superman Family - not quite so much, but hey, as I said before, they should be had quite cheaply. Several years ago, at a convention, I had an opportunity to pick up virtually the entire run of World's Finest Dollar Comics pretty cheaply (I was missing nearly all of them at the time), which I did so, for the Don Newton art on Shazam, if nothing else. A few of those WFCs I've never seen for sale since.
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Dec 5 09 12:03 AM
Silveragemarvelman wrote: My favorites of the dollar size comics were Adventure and Action.
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Dec 5 09 1:10 PM
Bronze Age
deejayway wrote: I never realized that in the 70s and early 80s, DC had much more diversity than Marvel in terms of different genres. They had mysteries, war, westerns, science-fiction, whereas at the time Marvel just had a steady diet of superheroes.
If you check your Overstreet, you'll find #182 ALSO had a story by Rogers (a The Fabulous World of Krypton story) but that one was inked by Frank Springer and the end result was not that great, IMO. Oh, and you forgot a few mystery anthologies like GHOSTS 1-112, DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE 1-4 (it becomes FORBIDDEN TALES OF DARK MANSION 5-15) , DOORWAY TO NIGHTMARE 1-5 (this one would ALSO be absorbed by UNEXPECTED after #189) , SINISTER HOUSE OF SECRET LOVE 1-4 (it becomes SECRETS OF SINISTER HOUSE 5-18) , SECRETS OF HAUNTED HOUSE 1-46. Don't forget WEIRD WAR TALES which was PARTLY a mystery anthology!
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