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I truly was shocked by the surprise revelation of this series.
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They should have collected that in a TPB..Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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The secret is why Cosmic Boy went around half-nekkid for a decade...and how he kept that bustier up!
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I have this series but I'll danged if I can remember how it endedCome see my items for sale at:
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A great way to get everyone caught up on 30 years of Legion History so they can begin enjoying the regular book."Hang on Lady... We go for a RIDE!" - Shorty to Willie Scott.Best movie line from Indiana Jones & the Temple Of DoomComment
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It's more than three decades old at this point and like, a half dozen reboots out of continuity, so the statute of limitations on spoilers is in full effect IMHO.
Brande is a shape shifting Durlan, and Chameleon Boy is his son. This seemed HUGE to me as a kid.
I don't know why... I guess the mini-series format had just started up and all of them seemed really special, with revelations about previously unknown corners of the DCU, like The Phantom Zone, or the Secret Years of Clark kent, the origins of the new members of the Teen Titans, or the Trial of the JSA.
kind of hated these Miller covers as a kid. But the insides were by Curt Swan, so it was familiar and comforting on the inside to me.
I couldn't wait to find out what Batman was accusing them of. They really stretched this one out.
Steve Gerber and Gene Colan really be trippin' when they came out with this one. What kid wasn't freaked out by this stuff?
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DC mini-series were special events in those days. I really loved Untold Legend of the Batman and Tales of the Teen Titans. Perfection.
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I knew about "World of Krypton" and "Untold Legend of the Batman" when they were coming out but "Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes" was a total surprise to me.
Stumbled across the first issue at St. John's Pharmacy, a place where I rarely went to buy comics...
So much was packed into 3 or 4 issues back then. You got tons of background info as well as a new story linking it altogether. Nowadays they write for the trades and even after 6-8 issues you're left wondering what exactly you just read...Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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My favorite was the Batman mini. The first issue was Byrne's first work on Batman and maybe his first work for DC, but he dropped the ball and Aparo did the final 2 issues. I remember reading that he said it was the only project he froze up on.
It's interesting that after the Death of Phoenix, he and Claremont used Jean's funeral as an opportunity to do a "This is Your Life" X-Men issue in No. 138, which was basically what the Batman mini series was.
I really liked the Green Lantern Corps mini with the fantastic Brian Bolland covers that introduced Nekron and I think Arisia. Good stuff.
The Phantom Zone mini was weird. I love Gene Colan's art, but his style was about as ill-fitting for Superman as any artist of the period.
I really enjoyed the Hawkeye and Hercules mini series Marvel produced a few years later and of course the Claremont/Miller Wolverine mini. The Machine Man mini was surprisingly good to me as well.
I wanted so much to like Camelot 3000, but the story really didn't go anywhere to me and the delays were terrible, but again Bolland's art was fantastic. But I guess it was a maxi series.
The Squadron Supreme mini is one of my favorite JLA stories. I had not yet read the team's previous appearances in the Avengers and thought the parody was really edgy, lol, and better written than the JLA at the time.
It always strikes me when I re-read the comics of my childhood and teens, how much more sophisticated my memories of the stories are than the actual material was.
But as Anthony pointed out above, there was so much more story. Today subplots are almost nonexistent and supporting characters are almost forgotten unless they have superpowers or an alternate identity.
Of course, it's kind of nice that Roy Thomas isn't trying to write a purple prose novel with word balloons in each issue, too, and that the narration in comics no longer hiccups the art.Last edited by madmarva; Jan 12, '14, 4:23 AM.Comment
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I will agree that Thomas sometimes went a bit overboard with the verbosity, but he was basically following in Gardner Fox's footsteps. Fox was a great writer, with fantastic concepts, but I feel he sometimes went even beyond the Silver Age norm in overexplaining everything, much like Thomas could do at times.
Good point on the lack of subplots. There basically are none. Subplots used to build momentum until they became the next storyline, but that's problematic for the "writing for the trade" generation. Where do you start the trade? Do you include selective segments of the issues where the plot was building, and then the full blown storyline? Or do you reprint all of it over several volumes?
Easier to just cut them out all together, and by doing so, eliminate most of the supporting cast, aside from their direct interaction with the protagonist, so they now come across as ciphers.
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The difference with Fox and Thomas, though, was that Thomas was working "Marvel Style" where the artist paced the story. Thomas had so much he was attempting to say in each issue that he did not let the art help guide him, sometimes to the detriment at times of the story. It was almost like he decided I don't care what's going on with the art, I'm going to get my 3,000 words in. To me Fox's stories worked better because the artists were illustrating the script.
But, I never felt cheated on story by Thomas, and he did some truly great work, particularly on the Avengers, Conan and All Star Squadron.Comment
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