Oct 19, 2021
Astonishing Tales #3 (Lieber/Wood, Dec 1970). Ever the sore loser, Doom razes his Latverian palace rather than concede to his enemies.
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Astonishing Tales #3 (Lieber/Wood, Dec 1970). Ever the sore loser, Doom razes his Latverian palace rather than concede to his enemies.
The Mighty Marvel Bullpen, July 1970.
Photos by Steve Sherman.
It wasn't until after Marvel Comics: The Untold Story was published that I saw the photographic evidence of that cigar. Please print out Photo #7 and insert it between pages 108 and 109 of the book!
I ran across these panels of the Hulk throwing an alligator - "RONNK!" - in the Lee/Leiber Spider-Man strip from Comic Shop News and kind of fell in love with them.
Nerdy Fact #1812: Stan Lee did not write the very first Iron Man comic book, "Tales of Suspense #39." It was actually his brother, Larry Leiber.”
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Cover art and final cover for Marvel UK’s Captain Britain #10, probably by an uncredited Larry Leiber, with Brian Braddock aka Captain Britain facing death at the hands of sister Betsy (known better today as Psylocke) - with thanks to Derek Wilson
Tales to Astonish #43
Story - Stan Lee
Script - Larry Lieber
Art - Don Heck
Fired from his position as a corporate scientist due to his age, Elias Weems creates a device that will age everyone! Now he plans to use the device to get his revenge on a narrow-minded company and the rest of Center City! How can even Ant-Man fight age itself?
While this may not have been the most amazing Ant-Man story, it is a nice change of pace super-hero story. Punching and fighting can't win the day here, so Ant-Man has to use his compassion and understanding to turn Weems from his path of evil. The moral message is a little heavy-handed on the last page, but it wasn't a bad story.
Two other stories are featured in this issue as well, one follows on a similar theme of someone getting fired only to be replaced by a machine. Not sure why this was on Stan and Larry's mind so much, as unemployment seemed about average during this time. Even Steve Ditko's art on this story was sub-par. The other story featured a super-powered young man pursuing a dream to be a Major League pitcher. While the ending was fairly obvious, there was so much more that could have been done with this story.
Not the worst comic I've read during this period, but it certainly is forgettable. Definitely the kind of issue that made comic books a disposable media in those days.
Rawhide Kid 44 is written and penciled by Larry Lieber, with Jack Kirby on cover art. This is the first and only appearance of the Masked Maverick. In more recent years, Rawhide Kid has been written as being openly Gay (in the Old West). Comic is in VG- (3.5) condition. I has gorgeous color and
Rawhide Kid 44, Jack Kirby Cover. Regularly $23.00, on sale until Midnight EST for $20.70
Where Monster Dwell 31 contains 4 reprints of Golden Age (1950s) horror comics from the early Atlas days. They are mostly written by Stan Lee, and have interior art by Jack Kirby, Reed Crandall, Manny Stallman, and other uncredited artists. Cover art is by Larry Leiber. Comic is FN+ (6.5)