Archive for June, 2006
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Phantom Force #8 [1994]
This issue concluded the PHANTOM FORCE series published by first Image and then Genesis West in that year. They’d pretty much used up the actual Kirby artwork at this point, so all the art is by Michael Thibodeaux, with Kirby just having a plotting credit. Bit of a light story, with just a [...]
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Thor #254 [1976] – The Answer at Last
The old “Dreaded Deadline Doom” caught up with Marvel this month, and they responded by putting in an edited reprint of THOR #159 (1968). I know the feeling. Anyway, this is the story which finally settles the issue of who Don Blake really is, with the revelation of a scheme from Odin that [...]
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
Off for a bit…
Didn’t manage to really get back on track and get ahead before I left as I had planned. I have a few short posts which will show up in the next two weeks, other than that I’ll be mostly offline, so if you comment or e-mail I’ll get back to you eventually.
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
Black Panther #5 [1977] – Quest for the Sacred Water-Skin
T’Challa continues to get roped into quests on behalf of the Collectors and their desire for the secret of immortality, now with Princess Zanda threatening Wakanda with a missile attack if he doesn’t search for the hidden Samurai City and its mythic Sacred Water-Skin. T’Challa goes on the quest with Abner Little, and of [...]
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
Machine Man #7 [1978] – With a Nation Against Him
As you’d expect after he saved the world from the invasion of Ten-For last issue, this issue starts with Machine Man hauled in front of a Congressional committee, which now has to decide what to do about the federal order to destroy all of the X-Series robots. In the meantime, MM is released in [...]
