ASTONISHING TALES #3-5 DEC 1970 - APRIL 1971 THE PETRIFIED MAN
The story told across 30 pages of ASTONISHING TALES issues 3-5 is a breath-taking statement of intent from its creative team-- Barry Windsor Smith demonstrating the flair and grandiosity which defined CONAN, and Gerry Conway layering in such a rich array of ideas and linguistic flourishes that it seems like each 10-page instalment is at least double the length... (click the cover to read the full article)
SUPERMAN #234 FEB 1971
"I can't fly!" shrieks Superman, dropping helplessly out of the sky, "That THING-- Draining me of my powers!" Above him soars a gold-coloured shape-- one that looks uncannily like the Man of Steel himself in full flight... (click the cover to read full article)
FOREVER PEOPLE #1 MARCH 1971
From the opening image in FOREVER PEOPLE #1, Kirby is letting his readers know that this comic is going to be different to most others...
JIMMY OLSEN #136 MARCH 1971
So this is SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #136, the fourth part of this title handled by Jack Kirby as he unleashed his elaborate Fourth World storyline on readers back in 1970-71...
SUPERMAN #233 JAN 1971
'Kryptonite Nevermore!' reads the caption, Neal Adams' dynamic cover-image depicting the eponymous hero bursting symbolically free of chains made from the incapacitating green substance as easily as if they were made of paper...
SPIDER-MAN #95 APRIL 1971
'Spidey fights in London!' declares the cover of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #95, dated April 1971, but on sale from January that year. The cover is a typical all-action picture of the web-slinger swinging past the city's Tower Bridge while being shot at by a number of London's criminals, one of whom is firing from the roof of a double-decker bus. Meanwhile three bobbies are energetically joining the fray, truncheons drawn...
Anybody buying AQUAMAN #56 in January 1971 would have been justified in feeling somewhat short-changed by its contents if they were anticipating the monster story suggested by its cover. 'The Creature that Devoured Detroit' is an unusual tale by any definition, the false promise of its cover being just one of several idiosyncrasies, some of which are laudable, others perhaps less so...
If this is a wedding, then it's the wedding from hell, the juxtaposition of the strapline with the image giving the cover a wonderfully ironic charge. A ceremony which should be positive and sacred and peaceful under threat by violent insurrectionists desperate to prevent the event from going ahead...
Tossing his golden mask frustratedly away from him, Tony Stark remarks that the protective visage has become a means for him to hide his feelings from others...
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