And The Saga Continues

After receiving the DC volume for my birthday last year, I got the above volume this year, and I just finished a cursory cover-to-cover run through (looking for something I looked for in the DC book--imaginary places in the U.S.). The DC one was better in terms of editing and clarity of information...the Marvel one is more scattershot, including characters that haven't been used in decades (even Atlas vintage!) and excluding a good number that are refered to in entries of other characters or teams.

What's truly bizarre about the Marvel Universe is that it seems to be evenly split between New York City and the Galaxy outside the Solar System. West Coast Avengers? Okay. Alpha Flight? Sure. Excalibur? Aye. But everything else either happens in Manhattan or so far away from Earth as makes no odds. The Five Boroughs are practically a three-ring circus of superheroes and supervillains...makes you wonder who's in the Spandex trade over there.

More to come, later.

FP

Time To Do This Again

( What I've been journaling about )

More About Marvel...

Turns out that Marvel had their own WW1 Air Ace Superhero--the Phantom Eagle.


He was an American with family in Germany, who fought the Germans under an assumed identity to protect his kin from reprisals. Marvel introduced him in the early 1970s, when war comics were beginning to lose their steam. What strikes me as being very strange...more than thirty years after his last appearance, Marvel currently is reviving the character in a miniseries.


Yes, Garth Ennis, the writer who revived Enemy Ace--and Howard Chaykin, the artist who DC threw at Blackhawk in the Eighties. The series just started this fall. I wonder if it'll be offered as a compilation.

FP