He famously tried this on Dredd and declared "Gaze into the face of Fear" which led to what is probably the most famous panel in British comic book history.
Wow, LOVE that! Never seen it, but you can immediately tell it was quite a "moment".
John Romita, Sr. cover from FF...I remember being intensely interested in this storyline as a kid, as my parents had (relatively) recently divorced...and Reed and Sue were on the rocks.
@RobAnderson Cool! "To continue with this ghastly feature, From a nearby box springs another creature, Gone, gone the form of man, Arise the Demon Etrigan!"
From a nearby box springs another creature, Gone, gone the form of man, Arise the Demon Etrigan!"
@Caliban Nice! I just finished reading Evanier's Kirby: King of Comics recently and enjoyed the heck out of it, so happy to see some Kirby Demon stuff in the thread!
(As a kid, his rendition of Gwen Stacy made me fall in love with her - and I was therefore traumatized by the story in Amazing Spider-Man #121-122 -- ha)
Me too! I feel your pain! In fact, I stopped collecting comics after that! (Talk about trauma!) And when did I resume? In the late #140s when Gwen was back on the cover! (And, yes. Of course I went back a bought all the issues that I'd missed!) I'm gonna sound like quite the old duffer here, but I think it's a real shame that today's young readers will never have that experience (i.e., abject shock at the end of a comic) because of Previews and the web.
And when did I resume? In the late #140s when Gwen was back on the cover! (And, yes. Of course I went back a bought all the issues that I'd missed!) I'm gonna sound like quite the old duffer here, but I think it's a real shame that today's young readers will never have that experience (i.e., abject shock at the end of a comic) because of Previews and the web.
@TheMarvelMan Although I bought all those issues in between -- I agree -- when we saw the hint of Gwen on the cover in the 140's, my heart stopped. As a kid, I thought she was really dead, and, at least for me at that point in the 70's, I was *shocked* that someone could return! (ha)
So, OK, here's today's cover -- I love these reprints with original covers I missed. Newstand distribution was so spotty!
From left to right they are Fear, Death, Fire and Mortis. Mortis causes tissue necrosis on contact, Fire does fire, Death does death and Fear opens his visor to reveal a hideous face which sends the victim mad. He famously tried this on Dredd and declared "Gaze into the face of Fear" which led to what is probably the most famous panel in British comic book history. @FlintLockjaw may agree
That is my most favorite quote from all of comics. That is what I aspire to. Gaze into the fist of dredd! Brilliant!,,,
Today's 1973 Marvel cover is Cap losing his mind...from Jim Starlin (pencils) and Joe Sinnott (inks)....I wouldn't have guessed the artists on this one, but both comicsDB and comics.org agree on that...
@Caliban Awesome! I bet there's TONS of cool Marvel UK covers I've never seen. Love the Alan Davis (although I thought Tigra had grown a moustache when I first glanced -- LOL!)
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It's in case files vol 5
http://amzn.to/KVns8p
also collected in single volumes like
http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Death-Graphic-Novels/dp/1401205801/
Here's the one from 1973 on my PC desktop today. Very Silver Age-looking to me (I think thanks to the Bill Everett art)...
The comic is from December 1944, and she didn't really start modeling in New York until 1949.
"To continue with this ghastly feature,
From a nearby box springs another creature,
Gone, gone the form of man,
Arise the Demon Etrigan!"
So, OK, here's today's cover -- I love these reprints with original covers I missed. Newstand distribution was so spotty!
This one's by Gil Kane...
That's Dave 'Watchmen' Gibbons as the Superhero Editor of 'Tornado' - Big E!
He does have some pages from the same story on his agent's page
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=85233
I should have asked him when I met him at London Super comic-con
:D