Marvel Masterworks Marathon Part 33: February 1964
February 7, 1964 ... a great time to be in New York City, as the Beatles landed after their flight from England. Two days later they were featured on the Ed Sullivan Show, drawing in the neighborhood...
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gardibolt wrote: "Fun-loving" Foggy isn't getting the kind of reaction from the new girl that he expected, though. You can sure tell why he hired her. BTW, several old Timely/Atlas artists have noted...
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Wow, this issue has pretty great cover showing both the Human Torch and Iceman. Stan the Man's cross-promotional hype machine at work, nuff said. The story is kinda kooky (did teens really go on...
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Journey into Mystery #103, April 1964 [published 4 Feb 64]Again, on the cover: why is it so hard to draw the rainbow bridge with only six bands?Thor: “The Enchantress and the Executioner!” Script:...
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Well, here we are. From what I can recall this is the next Marvel title I owned as a child. I was still nine-years-old. I would turn ten in March. My Mother and I were leaving the Doctor’s Office. No,...
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This is another one I bought brand new. I remember reading it over and over as a kid. Ha! I even tried to convert it into a piece of prose fiction. In retrospect I think it’s one of the better...
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The Amazing Spider-Man #12, May 1964 [published 11 Feb 64] Script: Stan Lee; Art: Steve Ditko; Lettering: Art SimekSpM #11-12 may have been two inter-related stories, but paired with FF #25-26, it’s...
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The Fantastic Four #26, May 1964 [published 11 Feb 64] Script: Stan Lee; Art: Jack Kirby; Inking: George Roussos; Lettering: Art SimekBecause why – I do like this cover. It is the neatest, cleanest...
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Tales of Suspense #53, May 1964 [published 11 Feb 64]And yes!, the front cover blurb did proclaim “The Origin of the Watcher!”Iron Man: “The Black Widow Strikes Again!” Plot: Stan Lee; Script: Donato...
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Strange Tales #120, May 1964 [published 11 Feb 64]As many of you know, Marvels of this period had 25 pages of editorial content. In Fantastic Four this broke down to a 22pp story, a 1p house ad, and a...
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When the Enchantress went to “the salon of one of New York’s most exclusive fashion designers” it’s surprising she didn’t run into Sue Storm there.Please keep these coming. I would turn ten in March....
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Joe: His name was Dr. Druzda if you have to know. VF: Sounds like you were escaping a Marvel villain. Joe: It's a Czech name.Joe: (TtA 55:) I even tried to convert it into a piece of prose fiction....
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Well I certainly don't mean to imply that all Czech's are Marvel villians.I think it looks dorky.It do.
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VisualFiction wrote:I flipped through the next issue of JiM, and the colors are beginning to look fairly washed out, so this may be the point where I very reluctantly go on hiatus from the Marathon...
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I actually admire you for the fact that you don't mind the loss of color. I personally can't imagine ever being satisfied with that, so that makes it impressive to me that you're able to be. I'm glad...
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Within the last few months, on some Time Capsule thread someone said something about the older Marathon threads getting bumped up with new posts (how's that for vague?) Last month I finally got around...
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Well I certainly don't see any older Marathon threads that were bumped up with new posts during the past year, so I have no clue what that someone was referencing. I would've been reading those new...
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VisualFiction wrote: Well I certainly don't see any older Marathon threads that were bumped up with new posts during the past year, so I have no clue what that someone was referencing. I would've been...
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Thanks, dad. Sounds like someone was just talking generally about how it's possible to add to the older threads, and I just misread dearlen's comment to mean it had been happening more recently than...
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dearlenbaugh wrote:The women are all flighty whiny airheads. Art imitates life imitates art....
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