Ken Aldred

Seemed an appropriate description, given the current discussion about Big Frankie.

It’s a lot of extra responsibility to put on kids being paid at best minimum wage, and an expectation that they’ll have the motivation to be constantly diligent with anti-COVID protocols.

Marvel Zombie.

He’d state what’s obvious to anyone, even if they don’t possess an advanced psychiatric qualification.

I’m guessing that it might have been a nosebleed price of ten times cover.

Her creator had ‘a bit of an obsession’ about this, and there must be an abundance of examples in the comics. A Golden Age expert could confirm.

X-Men 107 first Shi’ar Imperial Guard

I’ve never seen this before. So much wrong with that. The outright condescension of calling a very short ‘monster’ ‘Big Frankie’. That the only reason he’s ‘friendly’ is that he’s been chained up, held captive, and has developed a Stockholm Syndrome dependency on his captor. Also, his expression suggests either sadness or additional heavy sedation. I look at that image, and wonder who the real monster is there?

We learn from history to prevent future repetition. Hopefully. That’s always the point.

I’m trying to think of something more inventive than X-Men 94.

I believe that it’s been established that there’s also a third possibility.

No problem with the terms themselves to describe a relic from the Golden Age, comic or pulp, other than always seeming extremely antiquated to me, even back in the less pc 1980s. And, as a long term reader of Heavy Metal and Humanoids books, not prudishness either.

Great pick. A classic debut.

I’ve always thought both terms sound a bit adolescent, desperate and sophomoric. The interior quality of the material has always been a more important focus for me than a racy, superficial cover.

Journey into Mystery 84 - first Jane Foster, later Thor, Goddess of Thunder Green Lantern 85 - drug abuse / relevance classic Flash Comics 86 - first Black Canary Green Lantern 87 - first John Stewart, or New Mutants 87 first full Cable story. Can’t think of an 88, but I’ll mention Strange Tales 89 - first Fin Fang Foom (An all-time great mega-key.)

Showcase 80 - first Silver Age appearance of Phantom Stranger

That wouldn't work, as you know. It would be "jarivak"

All-American Comics 61 1st Solomon Grundy

Also, Marvel did a short Haunt of Horror : Lovecraft series with Richard Corben art that might interest you.

Cthulhu is a cosmic entity, an elder god, so as much as I like Godzilla, I suspect he’d get owned.

Weird Science-Fantasy 29. Classic and very expensive Frazetta cover comic.

Just to show that I’m not Silver Age fixated, X-Factor 24, first Archangel.

It does show how many great characters were created in the Silver Age, though. But, nothing like having a bit of variety.

FF 20 First Molecule Man Brilliant character.

Lots of great stories in there, especially the earlier ones by Mark Gruenwald.