#marvel 1965

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Sorry for the lack of posts, I haven't drawn on Marvel for a long time. I know you like this quartet, so.. I hope you liked it as much as I did. I drew 15 hours

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X-Men t-shirt art by Jack Kirby and Chic Stone.  Marvel first offered this t-shirt for sale on The Merry Marvel Bullpen Page of X-Men #12 (1965) as a mail order exclusive for $1.50 inclusive of shipping and handling!

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #20 (1965): First Scorpion

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #20 (1965): First Scorpion

First appearance of The Scorpion.   So many classic villains in these early issues….

Mac Gargan is a thug hired by J. Jonah Jameson to spy on Peter Parker and see how he gets all those great Spider-Man pics.  When JJJ learns about Dr. Sitwell’s ability to give people super-powers, he puts Gargan in the mix and Scorpion is born.  Yodda yodda.  It’s a fine origin tale, but the real story is on the…

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #24 (1965)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #24 (1965)

A very odd Mysterio story title, “Spider-Man Goes Mad.”  Mysterio, without the fishbowl, drives Spider-Man crazy.  Literally. Really not much to say here, but it’s a good comic.

What I love about this is the Ditko hallucination illustrations.  Some of them are clear: Sandman, Vulture.

But then there’s these random creepy images at the sides of the panels….Like the black cat above.  And an…

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DAREDEVIL #9 (1965)

  And so began the rivalry of Foggy and Matt. And from the beginning, Foggy was losing.

Also, already the legendary Wally Wood is relegating himself to layouts only, under Bob Powell’s inks. Powell’s no slouch, but he’s no Wally Wood.

What’s interesting is that the story suffers, too.  Matt Murdock travels to the nation of Lichtenbad—and for a street hero, it’s never a good idea to be off the…

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DAREDEVIL #10-12: Wally Wood Quits, John Romita Signs On With Marvel (1965-1966)

DAREDEVIL #10-12: Wally Wood Quits, John Romita Signs On With Marvel (1965-1966)

The first time I read these issues I thought, “Damn this would have been awesome if it were written by Steve Gerber!”  I mean, can you imagine, Marvel’s master of the weird teamed up with Wally Wood?  That would have been awesome.

As it stands, though, the first appearance of The Ani-Men is still a fine story.  The story starts with a good old-fashioned prison break, and I do love prison tales…

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Amazing Spider-Man #31-33 (1965-1966): First Miles "The Jackal" Warren

Amazing Spider-Man #31-33 (1965-1966): First Miles “The Jackal” Warren

This is the one with the iconic scene…

Trapped under tons of machinery, trapped in Doc Ock’s underwater base, Spider-Man must strain, push, and…

…That’s the money shot—one of the best known Spider-Man sequences of all time.  The panel, above, is not just great art, it’s also a visual example of how Ditko’s characterization of Spider-Man has evolved from a skinny teen with uncanny strength to a…

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FANTASTIC FOUR #41-43 (1965)

FANTASTIC FOUR #41-43 (1965)

With issue #41, Stan and Jack began a series of longer, multiple issue arcs. This one, the first of three-in-a-row, featured The Frightful Four. Frankly, there’d been quite a bit of this villain team in recent issues, so it wasn’t all that exciting–but it was interesting to see a similar story play out over three issues instead of one. Stan and Jack seemed to be experimenting with less compressed…

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