He Read All 27,000 Marvel Comic Books and Lived to Tell the Tale 0

[Ken Aldred]

You should read it.  It’s quite amusing in places, such as when Master of Kung Fu is described as a lesser-known ‘deep cut’.  Not close, even before the film. Highly-regarded Bronze Age. 

Edited October 13, 2021 by Ken Aldred

[aszumilo]

On 10/12/2021 at 10:44 PM, kav said:

You mess with Garggy and you wake up with a horse head Strawberry Shortcake's head in your bed.

FIFY

[kav]

On 10/13/2021 at 4:32 PM, aszumilo said:

FIFY

Garggy is big on Cakeberry Shortstraw.

[lizards2]

On 10/13/2021 at 4:33 PM, kav said:

Garggy is big on Cakeberry Shortstraw.

Garggy stains without remorse.

[Tec-Tac-Toe]

I read Amazing Spider-Man 121. That is it.

 

 

[speedcake]

On 10/13/2021 at 1:00 PM, Ken Aldred said:

You should read it.  It’s quite amusing in places, such as when Master of Kung Fu is described as a lesser-known ‘deep cut’.  Not close, even before the film. Highly-regarded Bronze Age. 

If you mean the actual book and not this article, ya it does look like it'd be worth taking a look despite it all.

[Ken Aldred]

On 10/14/2021 at 5:40 PM, speedcake said:

If you mean the actual book and not this article, ya it does look like it'd be worth taking a look despite it all.

Yup. Hiding underneath the terribly written article, especially the laughably hyperbolic introduction, the actual book itself does look promising.

[RonS2112]

On 10/12/2021 at 7:51 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

Not every Marvel comic is available digitally, and it would be too time-consuming and cost-prohibitive to acquire the others while reading 18 hours/day with no breaks of any sort, at least in the timeline the person provided.

Yes, every Marvel comic IS avaialable digitally.  Just not necessarily by conventional commercial avenues.  But there are "digital preservation" projects out there that have sucessfully digitized just about everything Timely/Atlas/Marvel has published, and certainly everything since 1961.

And even at a clip of say, 20 books a day, every day, it would take 3.7 years to get through 27,000 comics.  That's not an insane hurdle.

Edited October 16, 2021 by RonS2112

[speedcake]

On 10/16/2021 at 2:51 PM, RonS2112 said:

Yes, every Marvel comic IS avaialable digitally.  Just not necessarily by conventional commercial avenues.  But there are "digital preservation" projects out there that have sucessfully digitized just about everything Timely/Atlas/Marvel has published, and certainly everything since 1961.

And even at a clip of say, 20 books a day, every day, it would take 3.7 years to get through 27,000 comics.  That's not an insane hurdle.

It's mildly insane

[1950's war comics]

it took me two full years to read the Bible... and since then i think about it every day

[MetalPSI]

Explains a lot, actually 

[Ken Aldred]

‘I read all 27,000 Marvel comics and Lived to Tell the Tale’ doesn’t sound like a statement made by a true Marvel Zombie.

More likely would be…

’I read all 27,000 Marvel comics, and now my life is complete.’

No other mountains to climb that could possibly measure up. Game over.

Edited October 16, 2021 by Ken Aldred

[BigLeagueCHEW]

On 10/14/2021 at 9:37 AM, Tec-Tac-Toe said:

I read Amazing Spider-Man 121. That is it.

 

 

Boring issue 

[Cat]

On 10/12/2021 at 11:36 PM, Wolverinex said:

I would be more impressed if the bots wrote that he read the entire Image line.  A lot of that stuff is unreadable

I did a complete read of Youngblood a few years ago. Every Youngblood title, and there's been a LOT. Most were garbage, with the only worthwhile series being the latest (which happened to be very good). If I had to write a book on my experiences it'd be repeated all over my walls. 

[Ken Aldred]

On 10/12/2021 at 2:36 PM, Wolverinex said:

I would be more impressed if the bots wrote that he read the entire Image line.  A lot of that stuff is unreadable

90s Image.  Most of it.

Modern Image - a great imprint with many excellent titles.

[theCapraAegagrus]

On 10/16/2021 at 2:51 PM, RonS2112 said:

That's not an insane hurdle.

Totally is.

[Tec-Tac-Toe]

On 10/23/2021 at 11:47 PM, BigLeagueCHEW said:

Boring issue 

Well, Gwen does "die," and then she (eventually) does (did) not. Then ....

[BigLeagueCHEW]

On 10/27/2021 at 6:08 AM, Tec-Tac-Toe said:

Well, Gwen does "die," and then she (eventually) does (did) not. Then ....

Then Spider Gwen 

Edited October 27, 2021 by BigLeagueCHEW

[Zonker]

Reviving this old thread to say I'm about 2/3 of the way through the book, and can offer a few comments:

- The author's claim of reading "every" Marvel comes with the caveat he is only talking about the shared super-hero universe from FF#1 up until 2017.  So he gets to exclude all the Conan and other REH series, as well as anything Star Wars and most of the war, western and romance output.  Epic, New Universe, Star series are out of scope. But due to crossovers with the Marvel "616" characters, he does include things like Micronauts and the Ultimate line.

- I'm finding it a fascinating read, and think many on here would enjoy it as I have.  Wolk's discussion of the Silver Age storylines will be fairly old news to most of us, but he then traces threads from those beginnings to subsequent Marvel events of the 21st century that I suspect many of us here have not been paying attention to. 

 - One Silver Age insight he had that was new to me was his identification of the issues on the stands in March 1965 as something of a turning point. There were plenty of crossovers prior to that date, but as of March 1965 the reader becomes aware of actually reading a single story of various characters who could appear in any of the several then-published Marvel Comics.  Wolk's prime example is X-Men villains quitting Magneto's group in one week and then joining the Avengers as heroes in the next week.  And one of the vacancies created in the Avengers is because of a Thor storyline launched that same month in Journey Into Mystery.  And that month's JIM story is itself a bridge between the most recent Daredevil issue and that month's Fantastic Four #39.  

Edited June 26, 2022 by Zonker
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[Zonker]

On 10/16/2021 at 2:51 PM, RonS2112 said:

 

And even at a clip of say, 20 books a day, every day, it would take 3.7 years to get through 27,000 comics.  That's not an insane hurdle.

I finished All of the Marvels today, and the author actually began reading Marvel Comics at age 10, and has more-or-less been reading comics ever since.  He might have re-read some of them for this project, but he certainly didn't need to keep up the pace of 20 books a day for 3.7 years, given his early start.