tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post8105073836385046971..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: 1K Worth of Bronze Age Babies Posts -- Today!Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-459086355139474672012-11-27T22:57:19.849-06:002012-11-27T22:57:19.849-06:00Doug and Karen- a big hi five for 1000 columns! Lo...Doug and Karen- a big hi five for 1000 columns! Looking forward to seeing some of the older ones, and reading some new comments as well. Your memories bring a smile to my face, much as our Bronze Age tales do. Doug, your mention of the background music of the day particularly hit home. I clearly recall reading Avengers in my best friend's garage while listening to Pilot's "Magic"; ah, that fine summer of 1975...<br /><br />Anyway, enjoy some rest; and may you have a wonderful Holiday Season!Redartznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-70536249236143466462012-11-27T20:51:37.288-06:002012-11-27T20:51:37.288-06:00Thanks for all the kind words, everyone.
And we&#...Thanks for all the kind words, everyone.<br /><br />And we're not planning any sort of let-up prior to our upcoming "days off". Nope -- good stuff on the horizon. For comics, we have the Iron Man/Dr. Doom 2-parter; a double-favorite from us to you -- Silver Surfer #4 (many folk's nominee for best-comic-ever); a Silver/Bronze artist tour de force in Marvel Heroes and Legends #1 and then also lots of Open Forums and Discuss-type posts. Karen's digging back into her sci-fi posts for those so inclined, and I'm going to ask you about seasonal comic book stories.<br /><br />So buckle in -- we'll hit it running right away tomorrow with a Discuss on a quite-controversial topic! See you then.<br /><br />DougDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-30332030144524021522012-11-27T20:35:23.110-06:002012-11-27T20:35:23.110-06:001000 posts? Nice!
Long live Bronze Age Babies! Ex...1000 posts? Nice!<br /><br />Long live Bronze Age Babies! Excelsior!<br /><br />- Mike 'let it snow' from Trinidad & Tobago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-41290576456258732422012-11-27T20:34:09.117-06:002012-11-27T20:34:09.117-06:00For your celebration cake, I had to shrink 1000 ca...For your celebration cake, I had to shrink 1000 candles with Pym particles in order to fit them all on the top. Unfortunately, they retain the normal strength of full-size candles, so you'll need to take one <i>hell</i> of a deep breath to blow them all out at once. Heh. Good luck with that.<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-17831631480039371132012-11-27T20:26:46.356-06:002012-11-27T20:26:46.356-06:00Dare I also submit, Karen, that you have a terrifi...Dare I also submit, Karen, that you have a terrific face? Without it sounding all creepy-like? It just says, "Hey, come and talk comics with me! I'm there for ya-!"<br /><br />Oh-- I mean, no offense, Doug. You- uh- you're a total, uh, chick-magnet yourself, pal. Yessir. . . ummmm. . . . uh. . . <br /><br />Oh- wife's callin'. Gotta go. . . <br /><br />HBhumanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-17619818086006161382012-11-27T16:23:25.669-06:002012-11-27T16:23:25.669-06:00Wow, congrats, that's great!Wow, congrats, that's great!J.A. Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15800901321134394272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-90548651609120007032012-11-27T15:38:25.471-06:002012-11-27T15:38:25.471-06:00Karen, forgot to mention, LOVE your shirt. Always ...Karen, forgot to mention, LOVE your shirt. Always a sucker for a Creature from Black Lagoon shirt.<br /><br />At first I thought that WAS your 'comics room'...?!?david_bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218727673816200051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-39007048537878921512012-11-27T14:48:32.404-06:002012-11-27T14:48:32.404-06:00Congratulations on 1000 posts, guys! That's im...Congratulations on 1000 posts, guys! That's impressive to say the least. I don't comment on here nearly as often as I should but I'd just like to say thanks for always posting such entertaining, thought-provoking and consistently high quality pieces.Simon B https://www.blogger.com/profile/07719757386457800087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-20472577831730363392012-11-27T14:37:21.905-06:002012-11-27T14:37:21.905-06:00Oh, good one, Dougie-!
Yep, that's what it wou...Oh, good one, Dougie-!<br />Yep, that's what it would have to be. Technically, I suppose it really would fit in (quite sweetly) as a scene immediately after the final panel of that issue. Vision composes himself, and Jan- sensing that lightening the mood might do everyone some good at that moment- notices that a gentle, picturesque snow has started to fall on the nightime city-scape. Naturally, she suggests they all take a quick jaunt outside and introduce Vizh to this lovely phenomenon. It's the perfect warm, welcoming epilogue to the story-- an end-credits sequence, as it were. And made all the more remarkable by an unexpected cruise-by from the Silver Surfer.<br /><br />Perhaps they invite him in for cocoa afterwards. . . who can say?<br /><br />*sigh*<br /><br />Call me a hopelessly sentimental sap (you wouldn't be the first), but that whole scenario just completely whisks me away on the wings of Christmas spiritedness. . . <br /><br />Hmm. Do you suppose the Avengers did Secret Santas? How exactly would that work for Thor? I mean, his dad is already pretty much a dead-ringer for Santa Claus. . . <br /><br />HB (on a free-association rampage)humanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-59557647128303595812012-11-27T11:37:23.367-06:002012-11-27T11:37:23.367-06:00That's the back cover of the third Giant Super...That's the back cover of the third Giant Superhero Holiday Grab-Bag from 1976. I'll be reviewing the comic on my Materioptikon blog in a couple of weeks. <br /><br />My copy was given to me by Alex Harvey, eldest son of the Sensational Alex Harvey.<br /> Alex Snr. was a fan of Marvel Comics, especially the Surfer and Barry Smith's Conan.<br /><br />HB, is the "one moment" part of "Even an Android can Cry?"Dougiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03965448821892833703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-44591857613060875832012-11-27T10:46:54.837-06:002012-11-27T10:46:54.837-06:00"our version of Marvel Tales" -Mike, you..."our version of Marvel Tales" -Mike, you cracked me up with that!<br /><br />Edo -thanks, I dig that Creature t-shirt myself! I have a confession: I was also supposed to post a picture of myself in my comics room, but I've had a terrible chest cold for a week and frankly, I look like hell! So instead I inserted a pic from the Fry's Electronics store in Burbank,CA, which I visited back in April for the Monsterpalooza show. That Fry's is just amazing.<br /><br />But I will try to get some pictures of my comics/monster room in the blog soon. It's changed a great deal in the last couple of years. Maybe we can get Doug to do an update on his room as well.<br /><br />I also wanted to mention that our "Recent Comments" gizmo is broken and we hope that it will get fixed soon. We like having that on the side-bar, so everyone can engage a little more fully on any post.<br /><br />Thanks again for all you guys bring to the world of BAB!<br /><br />KarenKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032477453891087135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-4488935522012273262012-11-27T10:21:08.547-06:002012-11-27T10:21:08.547-06:00Awesome!! I'll be here to state my comments, a...Awesome!! I'll be here to state my comments, and make it look like I actually know what I'm talking about, even though I don't lol. You guys have to do more DC books though...Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15962464518956106665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-32415240707308237302012-11-27T10:14:37.126-06:002012-11-27T10:14:37.126-06:00Great to see all the other responses first..!!
Ye...Great to see all the other responses first..!!<br /><br />Yep, count me as one of those who check BAB at, like 6:01am each morning to see how fun my day's goin' to be.<br /><br />(Each morning for a few years now. Now THAT'S devotion...)<br /><br />Wow.., 1000 posts. Not too much more to say on that, but echoing the congrats from everyone else.<br /><br />Yes, I NEED to find which Treasury Edition that Holiday image came from. It's gorgeous..!<br /><br />Maybe it's just me, but I'm a big fan of your collection pics, Doug. Would love to see 'em updated (basically so I know what to hunt down next..) I still have a megomuseum link to this one guy's AWESOME Bronze Spidey collection with vintage comics, merchandise, spinning comic racks, you name it. He had a shelf of 20some Mego Spideys (T1s, T2s, circle patterns, you name it..) with ONE Goblin right in the middle. It looked SO cool, and it encouraged me to pick up a bunch of other Spidey items from that golden year of 1973, stuff I either had and tossed over the years, or stuff I wish I would have bought back then, and now cherish.<br /><br />For instance I had that Secret Wars Black Spidey on your shelf, but sold him years ago (thus, will have to purchase again).<br /><br />Speaking of 'cherishing', I cherish you all for your input here and broadening my love of all things Bronze. <br /><br />Bless you.david_bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218727673816200051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-51912953868853799312012-11-27T09:59:03.852-06:002012-11-27T09:59:03.852-06:00Hey, HB, who you callin' insufferable?! ... ;...Hey, HB, who you callin' insufferable?! ... ;)<br />By the way, that Avengers image is, if I'm not mistaken, is from one of those Holiday Grab-Bag Treasury Editions (Karen or Doug can correct me if I'm wrong).<br />As to matter at hand: congratulations from me as well on the big 1K post. And Karen, that picture of you is awesome (like the T-shirt as well).<br />As for your idea of BAB classics - excellent! Since I've done quite a bit of spelunking (to use Doug's term) in your archives, there's been a number of times when I felt like leaving comments on 2-3 year old posts (and I have done so a few times).<br />I've also always been fond those DIY posts that lets us set the topic, since 6 a.m. Central Time is right around lunch time here in Croatia, so I have no problem getting the jump on those.<br />And now I'll have to redouble my efforts to find a reasonably priced reprint copy of the Under Siege story...Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-8871118903842528642012-11-27T09:29:20.852-06:002012-11-27T09:29:20.852-06:00Guys, CONGRATS on the 1000 posts milestone!!! Amaz...Guys, CONGRATS on the 1000 posts milestone!!! Amazing! I still consider myself a newbie to the site, although I am starting to comfortably settle in. I look forward to reading your blasts from the past ... kinda your version of Marvel Tales, huh?? You know, I always loved reading Marvel Tales.<br /><br />Anyhow, take a break to get ready for a rip-roaring new year. I'll be here down in the Comments every once in awhile to humbly throw down my two-cents .. er, I guess here in the Bronze Age its "STILL 25 cents!"<br /><br />Thanks for all you do, and have a blessed and safe holidays!Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00772306756607189999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-24801241182629153202012-11-27T09:22:27.541-06:002012-11-27T09:22:27.541-06:00Oh, so much to like about this post--- so MUCH!
F...Oh, so much to like about this post--- so MUCH!<br /><br />First of all-- MANY CONGRATULATIONS on your thousandth post, eh? Looking over the historical log, this blog has really morphed from being a happy diversion into quite a major responsibility, hasn't it? Ahhhh, with great power, etc. . . I honestly don't bounce around too many similar blogs/forums (Avengers Assemble being the only other place I post on regularly), but the bit of exploration of done seems to reveal a blogosphere largely dominated by forums that either a)lie fallow forever & ever w/out any activity, or b) are so overpopulated that there's little sense of any actual community (Discworld's forum comes to mind-- although the folks there are exceedingly nice), or c) man, the given blog/forum is simply populated with loud-mouthed, confrontational jerks.<br /><br />This blog, so happily, is NONE of those. (Okay, although *ahem* some folks may tend to wind on at insufferable length sometimes. . . ) I think the atmosphere that somehow combines maturity and respect with an undeniable sense of fun can be attributed directly to the tone that both of you, Doug & Karen, set for us. This is a real balancing act, to say the least-- and it's much appreciated on our end-!<br /><br />Doug, your observation about catching smell-memories is really dead-on. Comic pages, chocolate chip cookies (or just chocolate chips), newly-mowed grass, dank basement--- it's all cemented right in the ol' olfactory lobe-!<br /><br />Hey, but can I give a shout-out for your "Season's Greetings" header? I LOVE that image! Is that track-downable for the rest of us? It looks sort of like George Perez channeling John B-- and boy the colors are great. ALSO-- if you pull the oddly-included Silver Surfer out of the way, there is really only one moment-- ONE MOMENT-- in the entire Avengers run where this specific grouping could have occurred. Anyone care to hazard a guess, hmm?<br /><br />Ah, but enough from me--<br /><br />HBhumanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-15068288640319135042012-11-27T07:45:17.930-06:002012-11-27T07:45:17.930-06:00Those are some nice childhood memories, Karen. Li...Those are some nice childhood memories, Karen. Like most others here, re-reading these old comics is not only about the stories themselves, but that many of them take me back several decades to the "good old days". I am a fan of nostalgia, but I seem to remember reading a few years ago that some psychologists think that nostalgia is a mechanism put in place by the brain to improve mental health (or something like that) so I don't feel guilty indulging, or even overindulging, in nostalgia. I'm very glad I grew up when I did, though being bro in 1969, I know I'm a little behind many others here in the timescale.<br /><br />And yes, I'm very much looking forwards to revisiting "Avengers Under Siege".<br />dbutler16https://www.blogger.com/profile/00046066729353639991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-52017271220635854532012-11-27T07:16:13.327-06:002012-11-27T07:16:13.327-06:00The Avenger's Under Siege? Ohhh, count me in. ...The Avenger's Under Siege? Ohhh, count me in. That's a huge favorite. I have the entire run.Inkstained Wretchnoreply@blogger.com