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thismachinekillscommies

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Hey-o
« on: October 05, 2012, 07:05:12 PM »
I started reading comic books somewhere in highschool, but it was during college that I really started collecting. Currently I have about 500 60s-70s comics, mostly Superman/Girl/Boy issues with a large contingent of 60s-70s Thor, Silver Surfer and Shazam!/Marvel Family books.

I also collect Golden Age books, though mostly digitally due to the terrible condition of affordable GA books; so here I am!

I am a big fan of uberpowerful characters (thus all the SA Superman), and my favorite Golden Age character is probably Captain Future.

Aside from comics, I love the pulps - Conan, the Shadow, Lovecraft and so forth.
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paw broon

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Re: Hey-o
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2012, 07:11:47 PM »
Hello thismachinekillscommies and welcome to CB+  By the way, I do hope not.  Kill commies, I mean.
Uberpowerful characters - does that not eventually get a bit boring?  Or, do the extremes the writers got, to present the hero with a really threatening problem, make it all worthwhile?
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thismachinekillscommies

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Re: Hey-o
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2012, 10:07:40 PM »
Quote from: paw broon on October 05, 2012, 07:11:47 PM

Hello thismachinekillscommies and welcome to CB+  By the way, I do hope not.  Kill commies, I mean.
Uberpowerful characters - does that not eventually get a bit boring?  Or, do the extremes the writers got, to present the hero with a really threatening problem, make it all worthwhile?

Sometimes they end up aimless, but I think with characters like Superman (or Solar) it's more supposed to be religious literature than heroic. I mean, comic books are so blatantly mythological in character. Some myths are about Perseus, some are about Jesus. The issue is in not conflating the genres, at least not unless you have a very clever idea. That's what I like about SA Superman - it was basically him getting bored and being whimsical in an omnibenevolent kind of way, because he was so powerful it was hard to imagine him being seriously defeated. It's a bit like Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (which Superman certainly is, in a literal sense), but with pecs.
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narfstar

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Re: Hey-o
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2012, 02:00:28 AM »
Welcome machine and you have to check out Fletcher Hanks Stardust
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thismachinekillscommies

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Re: Hey-o
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2012, 01:08:13 PM »
Quote from: narfstar on October 06, 2012, 02:00:28 AM

Welcome machine and you have to check out Fletcher Hanks Stardust

No, but now I wikied it - gotta have it! ^_^
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