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FirstNationalBastard: The drug use reached its breaking point in the mid-1970s, when someone said "Let's make a book called Giant-Size Man-Thing", and no one disagreed.

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Drug Testing policies were instituted immediately afterward.


Of course you know that Giant-Size is a description of the book (68 pages) and not the Man-Thing himself.

wow...dude....infinity ... just think about it .... man

Ditko is therefore a good argument against the evils of drugs.

picked up this book after reading the excerpt two weeks ago. Interesting read if you're into comics.

FirstNationalBastard: Nurglitch: Ditko is therefore a good argument against the evils of drugs.

No, Ditko wasn't addicted to drugs, his addiction was worse and more destructive... his addiction was to the works of Ayn Rand.

I'm not a comic maven or a tripster, but this was obvious to me all along.

I have the Star Reach series, and the Starlin story about the guy fighing death in the first issue was pretty cool. I always suspected that it said a lot about Starlin himself, so the discussion in this article is no surprise.

The Cosmic Cube storyline was nothing short of EPIC, along with the Avengers Celestial Madonna run. I had a couple of issues of each in the 70s....and in the 80s when I began collecting seriously, the first thing I did was snap up NM copies of every issue in both runs. The artwork, the characters, the whole shootin' match was top of the line, IMO. Damned trippy stuff...!

In fact, I began to focus on the Avengers, and eventually collected the entire run (including crossovers). I will say that was one massive wonderful labor of love that last several years. And I NEVER get tired of pulling out the boxes and staring at the cover art of the old issues.

I've been meaning to get into old Captain Marvel or Warlock. Most of my 70s collection consisted of Defenders issues I got as a kid out of the 25 cent bin, which were pretty bizarre. Probably my clearest memory is an issue where the Hulk is obsessed with eating beans. I'd hate to be there when he digests that...

Christian Bale: What's with linking to PAGE 2 of an article?

Seems to happen a lot on Fark. Link to page 1, that's where normals start reading.

Sorry, that was me. The first page was just back-story that wasn't really relevant to the headline, re: the fact that the Marvel staffers were all tripping balls. Plus it was looong.

I figured if anybody was interested to they could go back and read it.

I missed this period of Marvel history growing up, but having read this I'm thinking I'm going to track down these comics and check them out. They sound pretty wild.

When Shooter was the head of Valient Comics in the late 80's, he would write a short paragraph on some of the back covers saying what a "rockin' good time" it was working there.

I'm thinking he had a broken VCR with Wild at Heart stuck on infinite playback at that time....

The Moench and Gulacy run on MOKF was one of, if not the best run of the 70's. Between MOKF, Conan and the large format Curtis books, Marvel had some great shiat going on then. Too bad it all went to shiat in the 80's though.

Dr. Strange was the sole reason I grew a goatee and epic sideburns in my college years. It was farking AWESOME. Sadly, the vast majority of female students did not share my love of arcane-optimized facial hair. I was extremely lucky, however, to find one smoking hot young lady who had developed a crush on Edward Mulhare (the Ghost from "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir") as a young teen. And rather than explain that my fancifully manicured man growth was inspired by a different supernatural entity than the one she was all squishy for, I cheerfully forked over $40 for a wool sea coat and turtleneck at the local Army/Navy store and did my best to speak with a Gloucester accent. Slightly dishonest, I admit, but it was effective.

I got into Captain Marvel just before he ditched his green/white military uniform.
Have been a fan boy for the title ever since, even though the later wearers of the uniform were ultimately found lacking.
I'm enjoying the new series with Carol Danvers wearing the uniform, she has the best claim to it and the name as Captain America himself even said, as well as the matching powers. Time will tell if the title will survive, but I hope so.
Marvel should give the new Captain Marvel their full support, she only has the same name as the company after all.

drewogatory: The Moench and Gulacy run on MOKF was one of, if not the best run of the 70's. Between MOKF, Conan and the large format Curtis books, Marvel had some great shiat going on then. Too bad it all went to shiat in the 80's though.

The Avengers: The Court-Martial of Hank Pym
Spider-Man: Venom Returns
Amazing Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
Silver Surfer: Second Star on The Right
Frank Miller/Chris Claremont: Wolverine
Punisher: Full Circle
Secret Wars
Daredevil: Elektra
X-Men: The Phoenix Must Die
Fantastic Four: Emergency
Captain America: Blood On The Moors
Six From Sirius

...yeah, I really don't know WHAT you're smoking, but the 1980s are considered Marvel's finest decade as a whole.

Ahhh, Atlas Comics, I had soooooo many of them.

Wowie Maui?

FirstNationalBastard: Nurglitch: Ditko is therefore a good argument against the evils of drugs.

No, Ditko wasn't addicted to drugs, his addiction was worse and more destructive... his addiction was to the works of Ayn Rand.

Now show us on the doll where Ayn Rand touched you.

/At least she didn't write a book that's three volumes with 1,000 plus pages, per volume.
//You know what book I'm talking about and it's not "The Communist Manifesto".

FirstNationalBastard: ghare: Ahhh, Atlas Comics, I had soooooo many of them.

Which Atlas comics?

1950s horror and Sfi-=Fi stuff from the company that eventually became Marvel, or the short lived 1970s Atlas COmics?

the 70's ones, I sold 'em all years ago though.

Yeah Englehart,Conway -- that's the period I began drifting away from Marvel. (though I loved Shang-Chi and I bought all the later Starlin stuff) -- wasn't until that incredible Clairmont/Byrne collaboration that Marvel really soared again.

Oh and re: Starlin's psych characters "I just took what had come before" -- yeah, a very specific "before". Starlin's stable is as close to Kirby's New Gods as the Squadron Supreme is to the JLA

Thanos, Darkseid
Mentor, Highfather
Drax, Orion
Eros, Lightray

Yeah Kirby should be getting a credit on Thanos