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deejayway wrote:A lot of the material in the first dozen or so is pretty dodgy with a lot of Shaffenwitzenberger and Vinnie Colletta on ink (ugh) but after that the majority of work is delightful with huge variety.
chasdom wrote:I had near complete set of the World's Finest dollar comics in the early 90s. It pushed a number of my buttons at the time, including Bronze Age Green Arrow and Black Canary, Ditko on The Creeper, and just my general love for anthologies and short stories.
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chasdom wrote: The lead Supes/Bats stories were generally the weakest, although still readable. Unfortunately, the title was still employing the Schwartz-era ploy of having a cover that depicts a shocking event that barely occurs inside the comic. This was really passé by that point, and helps make the lead story feel more dated than the rest of the features.
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IamMightySore wrote: Ditto on all the love being tossed in the direction of the DC over-sized books of yore. Even if the stories were weak to mediocre, that still was a whole passel of readin'.
Personally, I am a fan of Kurt Schaffenberger's, however when he was inked by the dreadful Vince Colletta - which happened far too often in the WFC Dollar comic period - the results do not favor him, same as with 99% of pencillers.
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The Power of Shazam (1995): 1-10by Jerry Ordway, Peter Krause & Mike ManleyThese are indeed the days of miracles and wonders. When I was a young kid in the 60s and 70s and a stalwart Marvelite, Superman and the original Captain Marvel were considered the squarest, lamest characters imaginable. 30 odd years later, I have eaten humble pie and professed my undying love for the man of steel and have collected around 600 odd issues of Superman-related titles. Well the humble pie eating continues because greatly impressed by his sterling work on Superman, I was tempted to sample Jerry Ordway’s work on Captain Marvel. I bought the first 10-issues and all I can say is that they are good, clean, all-ages comics fun. Well written, competently crafted and entertaining. Nothing more, nothing less. They are even less sophisticated that the contemporaneous Superman titles so don’t expect anything earth shattering around here but if you want to lose yourself in 15 minutes of superheroic thrills, you could do worse than this.The mag has a timeless feeling to it; the characters are two-dimensional, the plots simple, the dialogue archaic but that’s all part of the fun. This is a Golden Age comic filtered through the 1990s (if that makes any sense). The artwork enhances the feel. It’s straight forward, no fills, clear and exciting.And the painted covers by Jerry Ordway are an absolute delight.I can’t say I’m immediately going to order the next 10 issues but they are on my list and I expect I will add them to an order within the next year or so.
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deejayway wrote: Since I last posted in this thread, I have amassed an almost complete run of World's Finest from #244-285, which includes all of the Dollar Comics. There are a lot of great surprises in there but the pick of the bunch is - not surprisingly - Shazam by Don Newton, which combines all of the charm and grace of Mac Raboy with Newton's own powerful and elegant style. I'm gonna smack some issues down on my scanner one of these days and treat you guys to some prime Newton Shazam scans.That is unless of course somebody beats me to it.
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