Those Gil Kane 10h anniversary covers made me buy so many comics of the old spinner rack. Only to realize, once back home and actually reading the comic book, that, more often than not, I was a victim of the old bait & switch, realizing that the art inside was from lesser hands than the cover artist. That is why AMAZING SPIDER-MAN was my favorite series as a kid: because the quality of the interior art matched the quality of the exterior art, as they were both by Gil Kane. For a while at least. I never had MARVEL TEAM-UP # 4, and that's too bad. Frank Giacoia and John Romita seemed to be Gil Kane's regular inkers on covers of that period, and that was fine by me as they were the best.
I think, as a kid, I got so used to the ol' cover switcheroo that it stopped bothering me. I just came to expect it and was pleasantly surprised when the interior art was as good as the cover.
Page 16, the middle of the page were Morbius is kicking Iceman, Neal Adams used that to create the cover for issue of Deadly Hands of King Fu cover. Neal Adams used Gil Kane a lot when he drew Green Lantern for reference. I would too if I was Neal Adams.
The era represented in this issue was definitely before my time, but visually it reminds me of my youth. Which is weird because that 70's Marvel "house style" had fallen out of favor long before I started reading comics. Either way, I've grown increasingly fond of this era - there's a kind of mysticism or romanticism involved that I can't explain.
There was an interesting "Anything goes" quality to Marvel in the 1970s between Stan Lee leaving and Jim Shooter taking over. There were lots of failures and bland comics but I feel nostalgia for its uniqueness.
Jared you're videos are awesome man, keep up the great work I've really been enjoying learning all kinds of new stuff from the stories you tell. You and Tim have a good thing going with the show ya'll been putting out to :)
Angel shirtless looks a little bit like Ka-Zar on this cover. I think the reason he looks more natural shirtless is because it's really really difficult to imagine any kind of costume shirt that allows for wings.
Love the gil kane stuff.
He did so many good covers. I love them all.
Those Gil Kane 10h anniversary covers made me buy so many comics of the old spinner rack. Only to realize, once back home and actually reading the comic book, that, more often than not, I was a victim of the old bait & switch, realizing that the art inside was from lesser hands than the cover artist. That is why AMAZING SPIDER-MAN was my favorite series as a kid: because the quality of the interior art matched the quality of the exterior art, as they were both by Gil Kane. For a while at least. I never had MARVEL TEAM-UP # 4, and that's too bad. Frank Giacoia and John Romita seemed to be Gil Kane's regular inkers on covers of that period, and that was fine by me as they were the best.
I think, as a kid, I got so used to the ol' cover switcheroo that it stopped bothering me. I just came to expect it and was pleasantly surprised when the interior art was as good as the cover.
Page 16, the middle of the page were Morbius is kicking Iceman, Neal Adams used that to create the cover for issue of Deadly Hands of King Fu cover.
Neal Adams used Gil Kane a lot when he drew Green Lantern for reference. I would too if I was Neal Adams.
The era represented in this issue was definitely before my time, but visually it reminds me of my youth. Which is weird because that 70's Marvel "house style" had fallen out of favor long before I started reading comics.
Either way, I've grown increasingly fond of this era - there's a kind of mysticism or romanticism involved that I can't explain.
There was an interesting "Anything goes" quality to Marvel in the 1970s between Stan Lee leaving and Jim Shooter taking over. There were lots of failures and bland comics but I feel nostalgia for its uniqueness.
Jared you're videos are awesome man, keep up the great work I've really been enjoying learning all kinds of new stuff from the stories you tell. You and Tim have a good thing going with the show ya'll been putting out to :)
Glad you like the show Tim and I are doing. I'm having fun talking comics with him and all the commenters.
There are so very few misunderstanding fights in Marvel books, odds are there are perfectly motivated reasons for that brawl.
Spidey needed a good ass-kicking. It was completely justified.
Angel shirtless looks a little bit like Ka-Zar on this cover. I think the reason he looks more natural shirtless is because it's really really difficult to imagine any kind of costume shirt that allows for wings.
That could be it. It makes sense that he has no shirt with those wings.
The Beast is not on the X-Men team...I'm guessing this is right when they turned him furry and gave him his own series in Amazing Adventures.
That's right. I forgot about him. In my youth I knew the Beast as a blue furry Avenger rather than an X-Man.
No costumes for the X-Men? It's weird to see how 2nd rate the X-Men were treated before the mid-70s reboot, but that's how it was.
They were probably second rate all the 1960s too. But at least they had their own book.