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Captain Marvel (1968)
Captain MARVEL #27
Captain Marvel takes the fight to Titan! Will he be able to defeat the multi-powered Super-Skrull!
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December 30, 2024
This book is heating up quick - because of Eros/Starfox! I have to be honest - he always struck me as a king of 'cosmic' Mr. Darcy - or a very narcissistic Genji - not a big fan of his. The thread of his intentions are always weaved to his benefit; he seems to be amoral at best and has had many occasions when he could have taken a much stronger stance on injustice. Having said this something tells me he will have his fans - if you are looking at a book to invest in take a look at this unique character.
August 31, 2021
Thanos is after the Cosmic Cube, the Destroyer is on his tail, Rick Jones meets Eros and Mentor, and Captain Marvel goes balistic on a fight against Super-Skrull, with all the pages illustrated by Jim Starlin's acid-induced artwork, this is all comic-booky goodness. If I lived in the seventies, this would have been my jam.
March 20, 2018
Thanos has extracted the information from Rick that he wanted. Somehow, Thanos learned that subconsciously Rick had information about the Cosmic Cube. We don't know how Rick came upon this information. ISSAC, a computer in Thanos's control extracted the information. Thanos is off to get the cube.
Rick is imprisoned by Super-Skrull, whi is not in charge of the planet/moon Titan. Eros, Thanos's brother, and their father join forces with Rick. They decide to break into the laboratory where the tapes of Rick's memory are stored. The thinking, if the can destroy that, Thanos will no longer have the information. Rick conjures up Captain Marvel and all hell breaks loose.
Meanwhile, Lou-Ann gets herself to Avengers Headquarters to alert them about Rick. They are cautious of a trap.
Somehow The Human Torch makes an appearance. Didn't quite understand that.
In the end, the good guys are successful, but Thanos is still at large closing in on the Cosmic Cube. My first encounter with Black Panther, who is an Avenger.
Some very interesting art in this one that I liked.
Rick is imprisoned by Super-Skrull, whi is not in charge of the planet/moon Titan. Eros, Thanos's brother, and their father join forces with Rick. They decide to break into the laboratory where the tapes of Rick's memory are stored. The thinking, if the can destroy that, Thanos will no longer have the information. Rick conjures up Captain Marvel and all hell breaks loose.
Meanwhile, Lou-Ann gets herself to Avengers Headquarters to alert them about Rick. They are cautious of a trap.
Somehow The Human Torch makes an appearance. Didn't quite understand that.
In the end, the good guys are successful, but Thanos is still at large closing in on the Cosmic Cube. My first encounter with Black Panther, who is an Avenger.
Some very interesting art in this one that I liked.
April 24, 2021
IRON MAN #55, CAPTAIN MARVEL #25-34, MARVEL FEATURE #12, AVENGERS #125 (The Thanos War)
*Note: a nifty READING ORDER has been provided at the end of this review
It’s almost surreal that we now live in a world where Thanos’ name is common knowledge. You can tell from reading this storyline that he was clearly created in a vacuum, with the basic assumption that only a niche audience was still actively reading the Earth-616 mythology in the Bronze Age. Yet, it is precisely this vacuum mentality that encourages Jim Starlin — an incredible new voice — to fully explore as psychologically complex and developed a character as Thanos; fully unafraid to risk losing readers, given at that point there weren’t many readers to lose (certainly not as many as there were in the Silver Age).
I think it is because of this unapologetic experimentation and originality that allowed this character to endure to the point of becoming known universally, and certainly his emergence that triggered a new future for what might have otherwise been a dying mythology.
One of the most revolutionary decisions in comic book history, for instance, was Jim Starlin and Mike Friedrich’s publishing the storyline concurrently in multiple comic-book titles, each releasing simultaneously with one another. This leads to incredible narrative cross-cutting, such as when Iron Man and Captain Marvel decide to split up (in Captain Marvel #30); thus Iron Man goes on a side-quest explored in Marvel Feature #12, while Captain Marvel continues on the main-quest in Captain Marvel #31. This lays the ground work for the technique to come back in a powerful way in the final act of the story… which I won’t dare spoil. Needless to say, spanning the story across so many different comic books certainly helps expand the the scope of locations it encompasses; given the cosmic scale of the story, seeing the quantity of locations affected is appropriate.
It’s taken for granted now, but at the time this technique was unheard of. It set the precedent for the equally groundbreaking Avengers/Defenders War only a few months later… or earlier; the real world length of time these comic book storylines occupy can often cause them to overlap with other titles, which be confusing in the context of shared universes like this. This storyline, for instance, begins BEFORE The Avengers/Defenders War but ends AFTER it… begging the question as to whether you should read this story before or after that one. It’s certainly clear, nevertheless, this storyline practiced the technique of intercutting multiple different comic titles before that one did, to the point of inspiring that story’s even more radical use of it.
Regardless, the everlasting impact of this story cannot be stressed enough, which is likely the reason for its enduring legacy.
READING ORDER:
- Iron Man #55
- Captain Marvel #25-30
- Marvel Feature #12
- Captain Marvel #31-32
- Avengers #125
- Captain Marvel #33-34
*Note: a nifty READING ORDER has been provided at the end of this review
It’s almost surreal that we now live in a world where Thanos’ name is common knowledge. You can tell from reading this storyline that he was clearly created in a vacuum, with the basic assumption that only a niche audience was still actively reading the Earth-616 mythology in the Bronze Age. Yet, it is precisely this vacuum mentality that encourages Jim Starlin — an incredible new voice — to fully explore as psychologically complex and developed a character as Thanos; fully unafraid to risk losing readers, given at that point there weren’t many readers to lose (certainly not as many as there were in the Silver Age).
I think it is because of this unapologetic experimentation and originality that allowed this character to endure to the point of becoming known universally, and certainly his emergence that triggered a new future for what might have otherwise been a dying mythology.
One of the most revolutionary decisions in comic book history, for instance, was Jim Starlin and Mike Friedrich’s publishing the storyline concurrently in multiple comic-book titles, each releasing simultaneously with one another. This leads to incredible narrative cross-cutting, such as when Iron Man and Captain Marvel decide to split up (in Captain Marvel #30); thus Iron Man goes on a side-quest explored in Marvel Feature #12, while Captain Marvel continues on the main-quest in Captain Marvel #31. This lays the ground work for the technique to come back in a powerful way in the final act of the story… which I won’t dare spoil. Needless to say, spanning the story across so many different comic books certainly helps expand the the scope of locations it encompasses; given the cosmic scale of the story, seeing the quantity of locations affected is appropriate.
It’s taken for granted now, but at the time this technique was unheard of. It set the precedent for the equally groundbreaking Avengers/Defenders War only a few months later… or earlier; the real world length of time these comic book storylines occupy can often cause them to overlap with other titles, which be confusing in the context of shared universes like this. This storyline, for instance, begins BEFORE The Avengers/Defenders War but ends AFTER it… begging the question as to whether you should read this story before or after that one. It’s certainly clear, nevertheless, this storyline practiced the technique of intercutting multiple different comic titles before that one did, to the point of inspiring that story’s even more radical use of it.
Regardless, the everlasting impact of this story cannot be stressed enough, which is likely the reason for its enduring legacy.
READING ORDER:
- Iron Man #55
- Captain Marvel #25-30
- Marvel Feature #12
- Captain Marvel #31-32
- Avengers #125
- Captain Marvel #33-34
April 14, 2024
Enjoying this story arc. Good villan and good new allies. Can't wait to read the next issue
June 15, 2021
Is The cosmic cube The same as The Tesseract?
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