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Jean Voulis
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I also read the Great Darkness saga (and a bunch of the Giffen/Levitz run of the Legion) years after it was out and I can say it lived up to the hype! Still holds up!
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Brennan Voboril
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It makes me fondly remember the old days when the scene on the cover wasn't to be found in the book. It baffled me as a boy, but now thrills me.
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Eric Jansen
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Three well-hyped series I missed as a child that I have finally read in recent years are--
HOWARD THE DUCK CONAN THE BARBARIAN TOMB OF DRACULA
HOWARD was written by Steve Gerber who I enjoyed on other things like DEFENDERS, so I'm not surprised that I loved this series! Wish it had gone 100 issues by Gerber and Colan!
I've read the first 60 issues of CONAN so far which started with great art by Barry Smith, had some beautiful moments by Neal Adams, but most were drawn by the great John Buscema doing what he was born for. Reading a ton of Marvel Epic Collections lately, I realize that Roy Thomas was sometimes better than other times. Here, he was excellent! CONAN definitely stands up to the hype!
DRACULA is beautiful with Gene Colan supplying most of the art right from the beginning, and only improved with Tom Palmer inks. The stories, on the other hand, are dumb. Dracula himself is just an unpleasant murderous jerk (I was expecting SOMETHING to sympathathize with) and the stories follow a predictable pattern. Despite the beautiful artwork, this one definitely did not live up to the hype.
Edited by Eric Jansen on 29 March 2025 at 6:35pm
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Joe Smith
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The Alpha Flight ads that ran basically the cover to #1 were completely
correct. I was barely an X-Fan other than the Mini Digest DPS.
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Rodrigo castellanos
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Frank Miller original DD run (160s to 191) for me - bought as back issues and reprints and lived up to the hype!
My answer as well.
I wasn't even born when that run originally came out, and when I finally got to it I was already exposed to a lot of stuff that was influenced by it or even parodied it (like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
Still the best comics run ever for me, can't imagine what it must've felt reading it at the time, month to month.
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Matt Reed
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Rodrigo Castellanos re: Miller’s DD wrote:
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Fuck me. I read it first run fresh off the stand. I feel really old now.
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Rodrigo castellanos
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Fuck me. I read it first run fresh off the stand. I feel really old now.
Ha!
But hey, I'm 43. Not exactly a young buck either!
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Matt Reed
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If it’s possible, the fact that you’re 43 now but weren’t born when Miller wrote DD is an even worse indictment against my age!
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John Byrne
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Welcome to my world, Matt!
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Seems to me that hype really cranked up around the time I stopped reading comicbooks, i.e., the very early 80s. I didn't notice anything really hype-y before that. I know that *I* was hyped-up myself to get my hands on ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS in 1974, having missed the start of it all.
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Jean Voulis
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Eric - I also discovered a lot of the Marvel Conan books after the fact.
I read a lot in the 90s - Roy Thomas and John Buscemas return to the title but only recently dove into the original run from the 70s (during the pandemic!). Brilliant work that is not at all dated IMO.
I love the Dark Horse reprints of Savage sword (as well as the Dark Horse series by Busiek, Truman, Nord, and more). And Solomon Kane. And anything Howard and pulp related.
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The Phoenix Saga for me. I really started reading and collecting comics in 1983
and it was already mentioned as this great and important thing but seemed to
my young self to be far in the past (even though it was only a few years old by
then). Getting the TPB in those times when few things were collected was pure
joy and the issues really lived up to everything I'd heard.
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