Archive for September, 2006

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Nick Fury and His Agents of SHIELD #4 [1973]

Two STRANGE TALES reprints from 1966 in this issue, the SHIELD stories from #152 and #153, both drawn by Jim Steranko over Kirby layouts, both edited down to 11 pages from the original 12. Steranko would of course take over the full art in the next issue.
“The Power of SHIELD” starts with Fury trapped [...]

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Friday, September 1st, 2006

Where Monsters Dwell #26 [1974] – The Thing Called Metallo

This issue features a 13-page Kirby/Ayers reprint TALES OF SUSPENSE #16 (1961). Mike Fallon escapes from jail and decides the best place to hide-out would be to volunteer to test a radiation suit. Apparently there’s no background check for that, so he’s in, and gets to try out the giant robot frame, which [...]

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