Showing posts with label Roy Thomas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roy Thomas. Show all posts
Monday, November 28, 2022
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Recently Read: Golden Age Sub-Mariner, Vol. 1
Reprints the first four 64-page Sub-Mariner comics from 1941. These stories, frankly, aren't as compellingly written or drawn as Bill Everett's first Subby stories. Spread thin, he was relying on assistants by this point (and about to enter the military). They are, nevertheless, worth a gamble. The Angel is the just okay backup strip. Jack Kirby's fantastic Angel cover for Marvel Mystery Comics #12 whetted my appetite for more Kirby Angel stories, but I don't think those ever happened (comics historians please clarify).
The volume is filled out with filler pieces by Mickey Spillane and Basil Wolverton (two creators not often mentioned in the same sentence), historical notes by Roy Thomas and the various house ads for all four issues, which appeared in other Marvel comics.
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Recently Read: Golden Age Marvel Comics, Vol. 2
This book is oddly titled: it actually reprints Marvel Mystery Comics Nos. 5-8. At any rate, the origins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Marvel Universe in general start in this important book, wherein The Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch meet and battle it out! Never before had two Marvel characters interacted in a shared universe.
As with the previous volume, Bill Everett's work on Sub-Mariner is the best in the book - it packs a punch, with the mariner acting more like Osama bin Laden than a Marvel hero. Also great is Steve Dahlman's art for the underrated Electro: the Marvel of the Age series. Ferret: Mystery Detective has a ferretless story near the end; his series would soon be supplanted by Terry Vance, boy detective. The rest of the features are primitive, but fascinating as time capsules, and The Angel was about to get a lot weirder in the next volume.
Also features an introduction by Roy Thomas and contemporary ad reproductions.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Recently Read: Comics On Trial - the Kirby Estate vs. Disney/Marvel
Just reading the transcripts of Lee, Thomas and Romita, you'd come away thinking that Stan Lee basically plotted most of the '60s Marvel comics which Kirby drew - which doesn't seem to be the case, looking at the evidence (the original art, the printed books and the creative output of Lee and Kirby before and after the '60s).
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