tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830827465735526826.post2447071161050417211..comments2024-03-28T02:32:56.979-07:00Comments on Marvel University: November 1975 Part Two: Torn From the Loincloth of Conan the Barbarian! Red Sonja!John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15830334036783163702noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830827465735526826.post-89235169988449800152015-04-01T17:41:28.024-07:002015-04-01T17:41:28.024-07:00Kirby certainly made a big splash upon his return ...Kirby certainly made a big splash upon his return with all those covers. Even after an absence of 5 years, Marvel appeared to be acknowledging his significance to the company's history by having him do so many covers on mags he wasn't drawing. Certainly DC wouldn't have had him draw covers for a bunch of mags on which he wasn't also the interior artist, particularly in an era when most of their cover artists who weren't Neal Adams did their best to imitate Neal Adams' style (at least that's my perception of early to mid-70s DC).<br />As a kid, my favorite of this batch was the Marvel Team-Up -- I wasn't familar at all with either the Big Man or the Crime Master, although I did get a Marvel Tales reprint of ASM #53, which made reference to Frederic Foswell. Anyhow, the MTU tale wasn't really great shakes but it was still a fun read and I enjoyed the referencing back to a part of Marvel's early history that was still relatively unknown to me at the time.<br />Otherwise, my fave is the MOKF issue, a keen mix of drama and absurdity, as well as that lovely Gulacy art.Fred W. Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07602124919964053532noreply@blogger.com