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Tales to Astonish
Tales to Astonish #88
Just when you thought you threw 'em away, the Boomerang comes right back…
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 10, 1967
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Stan Lee
7,591 books2,364 followersStan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
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September 23, 2023
With these classics, they are really walking on thin ice for me.
Namor story, so last issue was the end of the long running story, and this issue they just go back old school and bring a story out of no where, at this point this issue was 2 stars for me.
Hulk story, the thin ice shatters a new artist, i never heard of before, and he really made the worst drawn hulk issue to date for me, plus the story itself was a repeat fight with boomerang.
Really interested how namor will tackle the seemingly industructable space robot.
Really looking forward to boomerang moving on from hulk, since i am not really sure he just died, as for Bruce banner who knows what will happen to him.
Namor story, so last issue was the end of the long running story, and this issue they just go back old school and bring a story out of no where, at this point this issue was 2 stars for me.
Hulk story, the thin ice shatters a new artist, i never heard of before, and he really made the worst drawn hulk issue to date for me, plus the story itself was a repeat fight with boomerang.
Really interested how namor will tackle the seemingly industructable space robot.
Really looking forward to boomerang moving on from hulk, since i am not really sure he just died, as for Bruce banner who knows what will happen to him.
January 1, 2021
TALES TO ASTONISH #60-91 (The Incredible Hulk)
Without so much as skipping a beat, Jack Kirby and Lee pick up the original The Incredible Hulk storyline that introduced the character literally exactly where it left off, as if no time had passed at all. It’s so amazing to be able to see the story continued in such a satisfactory and fittingly epic way, as so many frustrating loose ends were leftover; many incredible storylines and character arcs were left unresolved by its unceremonious cancellation.
But what’s perhaps more incredible is that white the storyline is the fittingly epic culmination of Kirby and Lee’s initial set up, finally paying off on what was originally promised, it actually spends less of its time being massive and epic as much as it spends being incredibly intimate; Bruce Banner’s refugee on-the-run storyline is a very investing one, as you genuinely want this guy to clear his name and live a normal life. But at every turn he’s denied the opportunity by the living personification of his darkest potential, each time that personification appears making his life actively worse. It’s really quite the character-study for 1960s comic-dom.
There’s a reason this is by far the greatest storyline in the history of this character; it is investing, riveting, and heartbreaking all at the same time. It is revolutionary not just in that it told one large extended storyline over the course of nearly a decade, but because that entire time it never lost sight of its intimacy.
10/10, Highly recommended.
Without so much as skipping a beat, Jack Kirby and Lee pick up the original The Incredible Hulk storyline that introduced the character literally exactly where it left off, as if no time had passed at all. It’s so amazing to be able to see the story continued in such a satisfactory and fittingly epic way, as so many frustrating loose ends were leftover; many incredible storylines and character arcs were left unresolved by its unceremonious cancellation.
But what’s perhaps more incredible is that white the storyline is the fittingly epic culmination of Kirby and Lee’s initial set up, finally paying off on what was originally promised, it actually spends less of its time being massive and epic as much as it spends being incredibly intimate; Bruce Banner’s refugee on-the-run storyline is a very investing one, as you genuinely want this guy to clear his name and live a normal life. But at every turn he’s denied the opportunity by the living personification of his darkest potential, each time that personification appears making his life actively worse. It’s really quite the character-study for 1960s comic-dom.
There’s a reason this is by far the greatest storyline in the history of this character; it is investing, riveting, and heartbreaking all at the same time. It is revolutionary not just in that it told one large extended storyline over the course of nearly a decade, but because that entire time it never lost sight of its intimacy.
10/10, Highly recommended.
September 8, 2023
Just mediocre
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