Bronze Age Babies

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This evening, I’ve read four issues of Darwyn Cooke’s Spirit and five issues of the Conway/Andru Amazing Spider-Man run.

Saw a motel in Anderson, IN once, advertising “free heat”.

What a deal!

Ms. Marvel (original recipe), Captain Marvel, Binary, and Ms. Marvel (Cockrum update/Warbird costume).

Alex Ross, and Carol Danvers

The Jackal, driving a bus, pulls off a rubber mask - that was over his jackal mask!

Hey hey!! Been awhile since I celebrated a good rubber mask scene. But they’re all so dumbly good, aren’t they?

Detail from Amazing Spider-Man 147 (1975), by Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito, and Dave Hunt.

Sheesh! When I made the post below, Amazing Spider-Man 147 (also by John Romita, 1975) slipped my mind. Same cover, three times!

Same!

Nope.

Which one?

Me, too! And I bought the reissue for my grandson - he loves it!

Sports Illustrated from September 2 1974, featuring Evel Knievel standing beside the Snake River Canyon.

If you aren’t a Bronze Age baby, you have no idea the level of this man’s superstardom in the early-mid 1970s. Every jump was must-see TV.

Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the holy trinity.

Bronze Age comic book ad featuring Count Dante: The Deadliest Man Alive

No man can withstand the deadly hands of kung fu!

Spidey vs. the Scorpion

Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, Frank Giacoia, and Dave Hunt - interior splashin’ in Amazing Spider-Man 145 (1975).

Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity.

I love the first clone saga. Right up there with Celestial Madonna, and the Cockrum X-Men years.

Spidey vs. the Scorpion.

Peter tries to come to grips with the return of Gwen Stacy.

Gil Kane and John Romita covered Amazing Spider-Man 145 (1975).

Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, Frank Giacoia, and Dave Hunt splashed it.

Calvin catches a tiger - Hobbes - using a tuna fish sandwich as bait.

The first Calvin & Hobbes strip, from November 18 1985.

Ben Grimm - transformin’

I got the rockin’ pneumonia
And the boogie woogie flu

The new Darwyn Cooke Spirit hardcover

What are you doing at 5:00? Me 👇🏼

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Ride with Mony

Calvin catches a tiger - Hobbes - using a tuna fish sandwich as bait.

The first Calvin & Hobbes strip, from November 18 1985.

Ben Grimm - transformin’

I got the rockin’ pneumonia
And the boogie woogie flu

If this was the Sinister Six, which it is not.

ASM 141 cover - Spidey facing Jackal, Morbius, Vulture, Mysterio, and Doc Ock.

John Romita covered Amazing Spider-Man 141 (1974).

Superman standing at the entrance of the Fortress of Solitude

Superman montage - the rocket, the Daily Planet, Clark unbuttoning his shirt, the key at the Fortress of Solitude, and Superman hoisting a car above his head.

Superman and Batman

Superman kneeling amongst children

Dave Gibbons and the Last Son of Krypton

JLA/Avengers art - face-off style - from the doomed crossover in the mid-1980s.

GEORGE.
PEREZ.
1983

The World Wide Web is a gift.

Most of the time… 😂

Superman standing at the entrance of the Fortress of Solitude

Superman montage - the rocket, the Daily Planet, Clark unbuttoning his shirt, the key at the Fortress of Solitude, and Superman hoisting a car above his head.

Superman and Batman

Superman kneeling amongst children

Dave Gibbons and the Last Son of Krypton

Batman holds the cape and cowl ‘neath a spotlight. Alfred and Earth-2’s Robin stand to the side.

Dick Giordano covered Batman 300 (1978). Colors by Tatjana Wood. 😘

Cover - Superman and Deadman

Splash page original art - Deadman

Story page 4 - six panels of Deadman

Story page 13 - six panels of Superman and Deadman.

DC Comics Presents 24 (1980) was covered by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, who also provided the interior art for a Len Wein script.