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Quote:It makes posts a lot easier to read for people when you put text that you're quoting in a quote box.
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Quote:Dark isn't and never has been the approach for a successful superhero cover.
Feb 15 07 11:22 AM
Quote:If Showcase had been a monthy and Julie had been allowed to put out three or four monthly Flash books in 1956 we might well have had the full flowering of the silver age three years sooner.
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Feb 15 07 2:11 PM
Quote:IT wasn't that the new DC superhero did indifferently -- why try him again if he had been disappointing -- rather, it was the system that kept the Flash from showing his success quicker.
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Quote:Goodman and Lee approached the Atlas revival by not only doing the exact same thing that they did 10 years earlier (except with commies 'stead of nazis), but doing it not-as-well by keeping the stories ridiculously short, the characters incredibly bland, and eliminating any sense of humor. And yes, the covers were inappropriate. Not to mention folks, please remember that McCarthy was pretty well finished as a political force by April of 1954, so this brand of red-baiting became not so easy to sell.
Feb 15 07 8:54 PM
Quote:Timely's Golden Age reputation is largely a retcon based on Marvel's success.
Quote:Unlike with DC, fans weren't inundating Atlas with a call to revive the Timely heros.
Quote:Think of it this way, how many heros or villains of any significance to pop culture or the Marvel Universe come out of the Timely books? I can only think of two heros (Cap and Subby) and one villain (Red Skull).
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Quote:On that panel, do you recall whether Julius was referring to the general sales of the first Flash issue against Bats or Supes, or whether it did better or worse than, say, Firefighters or Frogmen?
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Quote:Oh no? Look at just about any Daredevil cover.
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