Closing out this week of Milestone Media retrospectives, here’re the highlights of Icon #30 (1995): the many other superhero identities of Buck Wild. Each one as amazing as the last. (Dwayne McDuffie and Mark Bright are to thank.) – Graeme
I love this issue!
The opening of Hardware #1, the first Milestone Media comic, is a thing of greatness – not just a good opening for a comic book series, but a great statement of intent for Milestone in general. It’s by Dwayne McDuffie and Denys Cowan, so maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. (1993) – Graeme
I really need to re-read the Milestone books
So while I’m at it, I thought I’d talk about how to incorporate the Fantastic Four into the MCU if the deal with Fox ever works out.
In this amazing photo: the co-creators of Superman, Batman, Captain America, the X-Men, Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, the Fantastic Four hanging out with Lost in Space’s Will Robinson, Star Wars’ Luke Skywalker, and Twin Peaks’ Albert Rosenfeld.
Let that sink in for a moment.
(Bill Mumy, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Bob Kane, Mark Hamill, and Miguel Ferrer in January 1987.)
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Forgotten masterpiece: “The Philistine” by Denny O’Neil (story) and Frank Miller (art) from Bizarre Adventures #31, published by Marvel Comics, April 1982.
A gallery of pin-ups from Doctor Strange Classics #1-4, a reprint series featuring re-colored versions of Lee and Ditko’s classic stories, published by Marvel, 1983-84
Pin-ups by:
- Jon. J. Muth
- Carl Potts
- Tony Salmons
- Steve Leialoha
- Dan Green
- Art Adams
- Kevin Nowlan
- Michael Golden
- Bill Sienkiewicz
- P. Craig Russell
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Out of nowhere, I’ve found myself thinking about the great (lost) supporting cast members of the 1980s superhero comics that I loved. Is it just me, or do superhero comics have less supporting casts that aren’t other superheroes these days…? (From 1986′s Blue Beetle #1, by Len Wein and Paris Cullins) – Graeme
