The Marvel Age of Comics

Original art and assorted oddities gathered from hither and yon relating to the formative years of Marvel Comics.

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BC: DEFENDERS #33 THE DEFENDERS was always a bit of a weird series to me. On the outside, it looked like any other regular Marvel comic of the period....

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BHOC: UNCANNY X-MEN #125 UNCANNY X-MEN was on a roll at this point in time, and while this latest issue was something of a transition story, moving events in the direction of resolving some long-percolating plotlines, it was still ultra-enjoyable....

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BHOC: UNCANNY X-MEN #125 UNCANNY X-MEN was on a roll at this point in time, and while this latest issue was something of a transition story, moving events in the direction of resolving some long-percolating plotlines, it was still ultra-enjoyable....

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Esteban Maroto — Savage Sword of Conan #1 inside-front cover illustration (1974) Source

Alfredo Alcala — Savage Sword of Conan #1 (1974) Source

Esteban Maroto — Red Sonja, Savage Sword of Conan #1 (1974) Source

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BHOC: MARVEL TALES #107 I continued to pick up MARVEL TALES every month to help fill in the gaps in my knowledge of Spider-Man's history....

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Lee & Kirby: An Excised Page From FANTASTIC FOUR #31 I had written about this a little bit before, in the context of a broader review of this early issue of FANTASTIC FOUR:...

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BHOC: INVADERS #41 The appearance of this book constituted something of a surprise. I seem to recall that it showed up on the spinner rack of my local 7-11, which I still continued to frequent in addition to the new Stationery Store....

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Continuing our celebration of John Byrne’s return to the X-Men with his WECBA Limited Edition Portfolio (1993) featuring key scenes from Byrne's definitive run on the Uncanny X-Men.

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FSC: DAREDEVIL #192 In the early 1980s, Frank Miller had a transformative run on DAREDEVIL. Starting out as only the book's penciler, he began to shift it in tone, moving it away from the ersatz Spider-Man clone it had been towards something with a bit more of a noir sensibility to it....

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BC: AVENGERS #150 AVENGERS #150 was another book that was in the collection of my friend David Steckel, and which I borrowed from him to read at some point or another....

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BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #239 INCREDIBLE HULK had kind of hit its stride for what would remain of the 1970s and the early 1980s....

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Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk (DC Special #27 - September, 1981) cover by José Luís García-López

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BHOC: AVENGERS #187 I picked up the newest issue of AVENGERS on my now-weekly Thursday trip to the Stationery Store....

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FSC: X-MEN MARVEL ILLUSTRATED Paperback By 1982, Marvel had been making inroads into establishing itself as a children's book publisher as much as a periodical comic book publisher....

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BHOC: FUN AND GAMES MAGAZINE #1 This shows you just how in the tank i was for Marvel at this point. The next time I visited the Stationery Store that had become my main outlet for buying new comics, this book was situated among the other stacks on the shelf....

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BHOC: DOCTOR STRANGE #36 I was never really much of a DOCTOR STRANGE fan, and so outside of a few key runs, it wasn't a title that I read avidly....

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INCREDIBLE HULK 192 (1975). Marvel Comics.

Rejected/unpublished cover by Herb Trimpe.

Published cover by Ed Hannigan and Frank Giacoia.