Dick Pontoon

I'm about 7 issues shy of the whole run up to 300 and beyond, and have been reading the post-Kirby issues like this one.

Two and a half years ago rob_react scored a nice 9.4 #81 and mentioned centering problems common to that issue. I finally pulled mine out. I'd say its centered decently and presents well. Unfortunately it has a dime-sized stain on the back cover. However, it's nice enough otherwise for me.

Back from the dead! The Turok thread!

Lee and Everett get the main credit at the head since they created the character. (Wally Wood should be listed there as well.) The tail credits list numerous other creators who shaped the characters and book over the years.

It's a great group of books, one of my favorite series. I just noticed that except for Torr, all the AA monsters are pink or brown.

It's a huge improvement over his original characterization in the comic. A disgruntled costume designer is more like the type of villain you'd expect to see in Spidey Super Stories than in Daredevil. I can't read most of this thread at this point. We've only finished the second episode; no time to watch multiple episodes at once and I think I prefer spacing them out anyway.

Punny humans!

I love Sam Peckinpah, but the movie version of The Getaway seemed completely flat after reading the book. I devoured everything that Black Lizard re-published by Thompson in the early 90s. You should check out some of the lesser known books. He falls prey to re-using character mannerisms at times but they're all worth reading; A Hell of a Woman is one of my favorites. I've never seen the movie, actually, but I can't imagine them filming the ending as written! Hell of a Woman is on my list, and so is Savage Night. But I might take a break and switch to Agatha Christie next. You also might want to try some of the Travis McGee books by John McDonald. They're not gritty and dark like Thompson but they're entertaining.

Nice! Definitely in the running for one of the best post-code covers. Still need to get a copy...

I liked the ambiguity fine, didn’t bother me that everything wasn’t tied up in a neat package. Maybe that comes from having gown up with shows like Gilligan’s Island or Lost in Space that ended without resolution.

I had no idea there was any Beaumont back in print. I'll have to check this out.

I love Sam Peckinpah, but the movie version of The Getaway seemed completely flat after reading the book. I devoured everything that Black Lizard re-published by Thompson in the early 90s. You should check out some of the lesser known books. He falls prey to re-using character mannerisms at times but they're all worth reading; A Hell of a Woman is one of my favorites.

"White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s" by Joe Boyd was the most recent. It was a great read. Currently I’m close to finishing ”Life Itself: A Memoir” by Roger Ebert, another good one.

Nice! On a related note, here's an upgrade to my Iron Man #93 I bought off the spinner rack. I picked it up last summer, so it's not new this week but just finally got around to re-reading it. Some pages were still stuck at the pull down claw holes, so it appears to have been unread.

Here's another from the post-code fantasy atomic age nether zone, including Jack Kirby, Gene Colan, Dave Berg (!) and Paul Reinman, who I think gets a bad rap. Astonishing #56 from Dec. '56:

The missus and I are both looking forward to the new season, she even more than I. Just have to finish Jessica Jones, one more to go. In the meantime, I had this one out as I’ve been reading through the run so I figured I’d scan it. (I’ll have to stop soon and start buying more, have a lot of holes once I get past the #80s.

Ditko inks on Kirby.

In my travels, this was the toughest book in the run to find and strangely it also is the nicest.

I need to make some more scans.

I don't know if there's been a modern day (anything past the mid-80s to me) tie-in, but the story was reprinted in Marvel Tales #83 alongside the ASM #104 reprint. I think there was an editorial blurb suggesting a connection but I don't have it in front of me.