Category: Marvel
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Incredible Hulk #4:Gladiator from Outer Space
Cover Date: Nov 1962 | Review: 3.75 StarsIncredible Hulk #4 is the halfway point of the original six issue run. With this issue it seems like Jack & Stan decided to try something a bit different, instead of telling one full issue story filled with everything we expect and hope for, they gave us two, both staring our favorite green machine. The…
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Incredible Hulk #4:The Monster and The Machine
Cover Date: Nov 1962 | Review: 3.5 StarsIncredible Hulk #4 is the halfway point of the original six issue run. With this issue it seems like Jack & Stan decided to try something a bit different, instead of telling one full issue story filled with everything we expect and hope for, they gave us two, both staring our favorite green machine. The…
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Journey Into Mystery #86:On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man
Cover Date: Nov 1962 | Review: 3.5 StarsHe didn’t fly away he just faded from sight… as though moving into another segment of time! and since there was no time-travel in the past, he must have come from the future!! If one quote from this issue, struck me it was this one. It says so much about the story, the writing of the time, and the logic behind it just makes me laugh.…
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Tales To Astonish #37:Trapped by the Protecter!
Cover Date: Nov 1962 | Review: 3 StarsHaving read the Ant-Man feature in Tales To Astonish #37, I feel this story and the one from last issue would have been better served in reverse. it feels like it covers a bit of what felt like was missing between the two. While I would not call this a classic story, it was a…
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Tales to Astonish #36:The Challege of Comrade X!
Cover Date: Oct 1962 | Review: 3.5 StarsLast issue, Dr. Pym donned the Ant-Man costume and identity for the first time. between then and now it seems our hero has been busy. This issue does a great job of showing how Ant-Man is a general hero, helping out whenever he is needed. It also explains quite well how he knows when he is needed.…
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Strange Tales #101:The Human Torch
Cover Date: Oct 1962 | Review: 3 StarsIt is October of 1962 when this issue was released. in the middle of that month, when someone, somewhere may have been reading this for the first time. The US entered the Nuclear weapon’s stand-off that we know as the Cuban Missile Crisis. On a lighter note, The New York Yankee’s would have been playing the San Francisco Giants for…
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Journey Into Mystery #85:Trapped By Loki, The God of Mischief
Cover Date: Oct 1962 | Review: 2.5 StarsJust three issues after the Hammer of Thor finds its way into the hands of Dr. Don Blake we get our first taste of another god. In this issue, we are introduced to Loki, but much more is at play and is hinted at then is understood at this time. In this issue, we have the first…
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Fantastic Four #7:Prisoners of Kurrgo, Master of Planet X
Cover Date: Oct 1962 | Review: 3.5 StarsIn this issue, the Fantastic Four find themselves prisoner’s… again! Yes, really, First to the US government, then to Dr. Doom, and now to an alien leader on his distant planet. 3 times in 7 issues, that’s a lot to be captured! You may think from my first paragraph that I did not like the story, In fact…
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Fantastic Four #6:Captives of the Deadly Duo
Cover Date: Sep 1962 | Review: 3.75 StarsAt long last, I return to the Fantastic Four with Fantastic Four #6. While it may see like it was a long wait, it was nowhere near as long as the 2 months that people in 1962 would have waited for this September issue. Two issues ago, they reintroduced the Sub-Mariner. Last issue they introduced Dr.Doom. Now, in just…
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Amazing Fantasy #15:Spider-Man
Cover Date: Aug 1962 | Review: 4.5 StarsAmazing Fantasy 15 is the last issue of Amazing Adult Fantasy, that was dropped from the name with just that issue. unfortunately for Amazing Adult Fantasy #15, that with or without the adult, it was to be the last issue of that comic magazine. But fortunately for us, and history, that allowed them to take a chance on one of…
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Tales To Astonish #35:Return of the Ant-Man
Cover Date: Sep 1962 | Review: 3.75 StarsFollowing up on yesterday; I read Tales to Astonish #35. As I am sure you knew or have guessed, it’s the next issue to feature Dr. Henry Pym. This time however, he takes up the role of super hero for the first time becoming Ant-Man. This story is a great follow-up to the first, serving…
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Tales To Astonish #27:The Man In The Ant Hill
Cover Date: Jan 1962 | Review: 3.25 StarsToday I am focusing on reviewing the story the Man in the Ant Hill, From Tales To Astonish number 27. Why would I pick out this story instead of one of the others in this volume? Well, that would not be apparent until 8 issues later when Dr. Pym, the star of our story returns. At this point though,…
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Journey Into Mystery #84:Vs. The Executioner
Cover Date: Sep 1962 | Review: 4.5 StarsThor’s story in Journey Into Mystery # 84 served as the perfect complement to his origin one issue before. In fact, it greatly surpassed it. don’t get me wrong, the origin was good; but this was better. It had action, It had suspense, it had irony. Most important of all, it had the character development we need to turn Thor from just some guy into…
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Journey Into Mystery #83:Thor the Mighty! and The Stone Men from Saturn
Cover Date: Aug 1962 | Review: 3.25 StarsA big title for a short story, the ‘Journey Into Mystery’ comics would feature a few stories in each, but all I have the luxury of reviewing is ‘Thor the Mighty! and “The Stone Men from Saturn”‘. This 13 page short is the first appearance of The Mighty Thor, and serves at the origin story for how Dr.…
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Incredible Hulk #3:Banished To Outer Space
Cover Date: Sep 1962 | Review: 4.25 Starssubtitled this Banished to outer space, but that is really just the first story in this issue, Incredible Hulk #3 featured 2 great story’s divided by a retelling of the origin for anyone whom may have missed it back in issue #1. This time the origin is more from Rick’s perspective. Even if you know the…
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Incredible Hulk #2:The Terror of the Toad Men!
Cover Date: Jul 1962 | Review: 1.75 StarsWhat can I say, how should I start this one-off. I went into reading Issue #2 having come from Incredible Hulk #1 with high hopes. Having highly liked everything about the first volume, how could I expect anything less than greatness? Perhaps I am being hard or requesting too much out of the older books,…
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Incredible Hulk #1:The Hulk
Cover Date: May 1962 | Review: 4.25 StarsThe First issue of The Incredible Hulk was quite a compelling read, it was a fine example of storytelling, art, and creativity. At its root, The Incredible Hulk story is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story. only this time its Dr. Banner and The Hulk, One half, a brilliant man, the other half a…
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Fantastic Four #5:Prisoners of Doctor Doom!
Cover Date: Jul 1962 | Review: 2.5 StarsAfter the last issue of Fantastic Four knocked my socks off, I went into reading this one filled with high hopes. Would the tale that introduced Dr.Doom be as compelling and as good as the tale that reintroduced Namor? The cover and the opening pages offered such promise, starting off with the view of our new antagonist.…
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Fantastic Four #4:The Coming of the Sub-Mariner
Cover Date: May 1962 | Review: 4 StarsWith Fantastic Four #4, we have truly the signs that the series is in its early stages of greatness. this volume is in effect the first time in Fantastic Four that the ending events of the last issue directly effect the next. leaving no feeling of a great loss of time, in #1 to #3,…
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Fantastic Four #3:The Menace of the Miracle Man
Cover Date: Mar 1962 | Review: 4.25 StarsIn this, the Third issue of the Fantastic Four. Having faced threats from both below and above, its time they face a threat that is truly powerful. Miracle man, with his seeming omnipotent power. He first stops the Fantastic Four, or most directly The Thing, during a show of his. But when the situation…
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Fantastic Four #2:Skrulls From Outer Space
Cover Date: Jan 1962 | Review: 3.5 StarsFor the Fantastic Four, what comes after stopping an invasion from below? Stopping one from above of course. Last Issue, the Fantastic Four Come onto the scene out of nowhere to save the Earth from the Mole Man, This time, it’s the Skrulls that is the threat. Also in the time between the last issue and this, while not directly mentioned.…
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Fantastic Four #1:The Fantastic Four
Cover Date: Nov 1961 | Review: 3.75 StarsThe Fantastic Four Blaze into their first appearance, and their First Feature comic at the same time, in Fantastic Four #1. Bringing about the dawn of what I see as a new age for Marvel at that time. I find the cover of this first book, does not do it justice on its own, while…