posted May 04, 2002 07:50 AM               

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Originally posted by Hedorah:
Going back to the original point, the movie where Kong was being towed behind a ship on a big raft was "King Kong vs. Godzilla". He had been captured after getting drunk on beryy juice on Mondo Island. Two hapless advertising men working for Mr. Tako of the Pacific Pharmaceutical Company were charged with his capture and retrieval for an advertising campaign, and when they realized their error and attempted to blow up the TNT-wired raft, Kong survived and swam to Tokyo where he instinctively sought out his "natural" enemy, Godzilla. So there.

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Hmm, a TNT-wired raft, huh? So that explains how Ted Turner wound up owning the King Kong character (or is it co-owned by Universal?). He seduced the poor dumb brute while he was under the influence with plenty of Turner Network Television reruns!

posted May 06, 2002 01:12 AM               

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Originally posted by James Friel:
And you may be disappointed when you read 'em; it's Kanigher, after all.
Now the Simonson incarnation from the '70s--that would make a sweet little trade paperback. (As would Hercules Unbound.)

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The 70's METAL MEN issues by Simonson (issues 45-49) were reprinted in THE ART OF WALT SIMONSON trade, back in 1989, along with:

DETECTIVE 450
FIRST ISSUE SPECIAL # 9 (Dr Fate)
STAR SPANGLED WAR 170 and 180
UNKNOWN SOLDIER 254-256 (Captain Fear)
HERCULES UNBOUND 11-12

A pretty decent collection of obscure 1973-1980 Walt Simonson material.

posted May 06, 2002 02:50 PM               

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Originally posted by Dave the Wonder Boy:
The 70's METAL MEN issues by Simonson (issues 45-49) were reprinted in THE ART OF WALT SIMONSON trade, back in 1989...
A pretty decent collection of obscure 1973-1980 Walt Simonson material.

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posted May 09, 2002 11:43 AM               

The thing I don't like about these 80-page and 100-page facsimile editions is that I never know when they're coming out. It's an occasional one-shot deal, and I often don't see them until months, or even YEARS after they are released.

I'd like to see them become a monthly or bi-monthly, or quarterly even, kind of deal. With an ad and a release date for the next 100-pager at the end of each issue.

I'd also like to see a series of 70's 100-pagers re-released, like say a serialized re-release of DETECTIVE COMICS 437-443, over a period of months. Even though I already have these issues, I'd love to purchase them again with better printing. (and yes, I know, 437 was not a 100-pager, but it would be interesting to see it re-made as a 100 pager, with maybe more Sheldon Moldoff Hawkman stories, or Infantino Batman or Elongated man reprints, or Finger/Kane early 40's Batman reprints.

And I repeat my suggestion for a series of 80-page reprints of Infantino Adam Strange stories.

posted May 09, 2002 11:54 AM               

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Originally posted by Dave the Wonder Boy:
I'd also like to see a series of 70's 100-pagers re-released, like say a serialized re-release of DETECTIVE COMICS 437-443, over a period of months. Even though I already have these issues, I'd love to purchase them again with better printing. (and yes, I know, 437 was not a 100-pager, but it would be interesting to see it re-made as a 100 pager, with maybe more Sheldon Moldoff Hawkman stories, or Infantino Batman or Elongated man reprints, or Finger/Kane early 40's Batman reprints.

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I'd agree, with the exception made that the remainder of the 'Bat-Murderer' storyline begun in the Detective 100-Page era (and finished just after it went back to regular format) somehow be included... or made into it's 'own' 100-Page release. IIRC, the page count should be just about right.

Better yet, double it up with the 'Who Murdered Batman?' storyline from Batman #291-294 and release those two storylines in a single TPB. Between last years botched retread (and admitted homage to the 1977 Batman storyline) of the 'In This Issue... Batman DIES' and the current storyline in the Bat-titles, current readers should have a chance to read both classic tales.

Cass

posted May 09, 2002 04:06 PM               

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Originally posted by casselmm47:
I'd agree, with the exception made that the remainder of the 'Bat-Murderer' storyline begun in the Detective 100-Page era (and finished just after it went back to regular format) somehow be included... or made into it's 'own' 100-Page release. IIRC, the page count should be just about right.

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Yes, I was tempted to list that one too, a story (if I recall correctly) by Len Wein and Jim Aparo (when Aparo was doing some of his best work), in DETECTIVE COMICS 444-448. As I recall, the last 3 issues were not 100-pagers, but hey, more room to cram in other reprint material, right?

These issues ( 446-448) had a great guest appearance of the Creeper in the story, at the time I was absolutely wild about the Creeper. Maybe some other reprints to toss in would be JOKER # 3 (with Joker & the Creeper teamed up), DETECTIVE 418 (a team up of Batman and the Creeper, another good story) or BRAVE & THE BOLD 80 (the first Batman/Creeper team-up, art by Neal Adams), or even BEWARE THE CREEPER 1-6 (by Ditko).

No, on second thought, give me more Sheldon Moldoff Hawkman reprints. The others I already have, and they're much easier to find, for anyone who hasn't already read them like I have. And maybe some early Golden Age Batman (although the Batman stuff is all available in Archives now).
Maybe some Lou Fine "The Ray" stories, or other Quality material from the 40's. So hard to choose... but as a rule, the more rare and hard to find stuff by Moldoff, Fine RaBoy, Gustavson and the like. Not stuff that's been reprinted at last once already.

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Originally posted by Steven Utley:
As I noted at http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum21/HTML/001066.html the logical follow-up to the recent facsimile edition of Sugar and Spike # 1 is a "lost" 80- or 100-page DC Funny Folks (or, perhaps, Comic Cavalcade) Annual serving up some long-unseen reprints from The Fox and the Crow, Scribbly, The Three Mouseketeers, etc.

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THE FOX AND THE CROW ANNUAL NO. 1!!!

Bring it on!!!

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posted June 04, 2002 01:17 AM               

You see, the reason I love it is not the Batman reprint.

Nor the detective related reprints.

It was teh Doll man story.

Featuring Doll Man's pet Elmo.

You see, uniquely among Golden Age fans, I feel, I can understnd how Streak the Wonder Dog managed to oust the Green Lantern.

You see, I STILL think an Elmo Archive makes sense.

I am so ashamed.

But, . . .

he was a really good dog.

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posted July 13, 2002 08:10 PM            

Now, I mean real pulp fiction, as originally published in a type of magazine that made its debut in the 1880s, lasted through two world wars, and then expired in the 1950s. For the benefit of you as don't, won't, or can't remember back that far, I can't do much better than to quote Charles Beaumont on the subject:

The Pulps.

What were they?

Cheaply printed, luridly illustrated, sensationally written magazines of fiction aimed at the lower- and lower-middle-class American male.

Were they any good?

No. They were great.

... In line with the imperishable American concept that anything which is purely renjoyable must be a sin, the pulps were considered sinful. Although they were, at their worst (or best), fractionally as "objectionable" as the immoral, amoral, violent, perverted product available nowadays [Beaumont wrote this in the early 1960s] to any tennis-shoe-shod sub-teen who has the price of admission to a movie theatre or access to a television set, they were proscribed by most parents and all educators. Thus we indulged in them in much the same way that we indulged in the other purely enjoyable facts of life. Which was an altogether agreeable state of affairs. Although we weren't aware of it at the time, the disapproval and prohibition actually increased our pleasure, addind a welcome pinch of lawlessness to the experience. Fortunately, the psychologists ofthe day did not understand the special sweetness of the stolen watermelon. So they denounced the pulps, wrote tracts on the fearful consequences certain to befall those whose minds were polluted by "the newsstand trash" and otherwise did their best to create a nation of addicts.

posted July 16, 2002 11:22 PM               

I spent the entire, glorious summer of 1965 (when I was 16) reading Doc Savage, The Shadow, G-8 and His Battle Aces, The Toff, The Continental Op, plus all of ER Burroughs' Pelucidar books, all the James Bond novels, and the original Belmont Shadow series.

posted July 29, 2002 04:02 AM               

Anyhow, I'm just going to go with what I want to see:
In facimile editions, I don't need any of the 100-pagers from the early '70s, so I'll selfishly ignore them.
But I'd love to have facimiles of Batman Annual #2, Superman Annual #2, Superboy Annual #1, or Lois Lane Annual #1.The last might be a good feeler for the potential market for a Lois Lane Archive, so I'll pick it.

As far as faux Annuals go, there are so many possibilities.
I'd like to see some "lost" 1940s or early 1950s collections of Golden Age (sorry, Steven) stuff--ideally Annuals of one or more of the anthology titles--say a 1949 Flash Comics or All-American Comics Annual or a 1945 More Fun Comics, Adventure Comics, or Star Spangled Comics Annual or a mid-'40s Annual for any of the Quality or Fawcett anthologies.
If I had to pick one or two from this category, I think I'd want Adventure or More Fun.

From the 1950s, the natural possibilities seem to be from the western and science fiction genres: a "lost" Strange Adventures, Mystery In Space, or [/I]All-Star Western Annual from 1960.
I'll go with Mystery In Space.

And from the late 1960s, what could be better than a Charlton Action Heroes Annual? Maybe they could even duplicate the cheesy paper and printing...

To summarize, my extravagant and probably wholly unrealistic guess for 2003 is:

Facimile Lois Lane Annual #1 and perhaps another of the early Superman or Batman family Annuals.

"Lost" 1945 Adventure Comics Annual and maybe a mid-'40s Annual from one of the Quality titles.

"Lost" Mystery In Space Annual for 1960 or '61.

"Lost" Charlton Action Heroes Annual from 1967.