Ken Aldred

I can remember the late 70s, and in those days many would've picked Motion Picture Funnies Weekly 1 or Marvel Comics 1.

At least this makes me feel less guilty about breaking the rules by posting two books. Police Comics 1 is a great choice.

Yup. I was thinking FF 177 as well. Memorable for me as a George Perez fan, one of the first FF issues I ever bought, and also the ridiculous costume designed for the character.

His earlier Mr A artwork is quite nice, but his style starts to get a bit too stiff-figured and simplified for me once we reach the late 70s / early 80s. The Objectivist standpoint he has in his solo work is one-note, often headache-inducing and a philosophy I don't share, certainly not as being generally, inflexibly applicable to every situation. Simply put, quickly repetitive and tedious.

Thinking it through, there are too many conflicts to let go of certain issues in my collection which I’m extremely fond of, especially some of my bronze Age keys, even if I pooled everything together to trade for one Golden Age or Silver Age super-key book. Emotional connection, memories, nostalgia associated with the books I already own outweighs trading them all off for one big status symbol. I’d still end up easily with a dozen I’d be too reluctant and indecisive to part with. Theoretically, a pipe dream, nicely-presenting 9.0 + Tec 27 or AF 15.

Not a bad issue at all, with Miller and Garcia-Lopez art.

A bit like how the Human Torch was in the earliest FFs, still needing to refine the control of his power, and rougher-looking than later on.

Also worth having as it’s a good story with very nice Michael Golden art.

IIRC, that’s the Cary Grant film, ‘Bringing Up Baby’?

In Caltopia his call will be broadcast each morning, the citizens waking up to the reassuring roar of a powerful leader.

Would a metal bazooka shell simply bounce off Magneto’s protective field, or would it explode, likely killing Cyclops, Beast, Iceman and Angel, and at least severely maiming Marvel Girl, standing a little further back? A very short-running series.

I actually quite like that DC's movies tend to be tonally quite different to Marvel's. Provides some variety.

When I picked up my copies, back in the 70s, they were equally problematic for me to find, and still equal in status. I have fond memories of both - MP 2 being important to me as a b/w magazine collector from an early age, ASM 135 as one of the first non-distributed, specially-imported and higher-than-cover-priced colour comics I ever bought; a big UK 35p rather than the newsstand 12p. I liked The Punisher even that early on, having read ASM 129 in a British reprint annual. Jimmers' suggestion is a shrewd one, and Punisher m/s 1 is a must-have, as it's the story which really raised his profile and gave him the popularity he still has today,

Something that has become a very, very common, overused hype / marketing strategy in more recent years. Except that anger has been replaced by boredom, and not buying into it.

Definitely in the linework in the hands. Talking of which, this design has to remind me of the classic Johnny Craig cover...

One of his most Ingels-like covers.

How about a Marvel cover?

They did seriously consider having Nicholas Cage as Superman at one point. Miscast and bad enough in the Ghost Rider films.

ComiXology Black Friday digital comics Sale, lots of great, complete edition reading material, just £2-99 each...

I'm tempted to post my stampeding, herded pygmy goats gif again. A simple, effective visual representation.

The nutjob uber-Goth, Hela, is my current favourite.

Caltopia is an empire that will exist both on land and under the oceans. So, he'll need two appropriately-qualified deputies. To the best of my knowledge, anyway, Cal himself isn't amphibious.

+1 Yup. The pamphlets are sacred. Less of that talk.

Doom is just having a huge sulk because Hawkeye is looking away and ignoring him. Something more important than an egomaniacal dictator / super-villain has grabbed his attention. I suspect it's someone selling top-quality Latverian Bratwurst hot dogs. The word is they taste incredible.