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Captain America #180 (December, 1974)

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Published: September 7, 2024 05:05

Last month we took a look at Captain America #179, in which Steve Rogers’ former Avengers teammate Hawkeye — after spending most of the issue disguised as the presumably villainous Golden Archer — managed to convince him that just because he no longer…

Giant-Size Avengers #2 (November, 1974)

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Published: August 31, 2024 05:05

For the most part, the comics that came out as part of Marvel’s “Giant-Size” line in 1974 and 1975 featured stories that, while generally understood to be in continuity with those in the regular-size titles, didn’t directly lead into and/or out of those…

Savage Sword of Conan #2 (October, 1974)

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Published: August 24, 2024 05:05

In 1974, star comics artist Neal Adams had largely turned away from pencilling comic book stories.  But he did keep his hand in in the field in various ways, such as by turning out painted covers for Marvel Comics’ black-and-white magazine line on a fairly…

Avengers #129 (November, 1974)

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Published: August 17, 2024 05:05

When we last saw the Avengers, it was at the end of Fantastic Four #150 — the second half of a crossover with Avengers #127 in which both of Marvel’s premiere super-teams came together in the Great Refuge of the Inhumans to celebrate the wedding of the…

Swamp Thing #13 (Nov.-Dec., 1974)

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Published: August 10, 2024 05:05

As we covered in a post back in February, the 10th issue of DC Comics’ Swamp Thing marked the end of the award-winning collaboration on the title of writer Len Wein, artist Bernie Wrightson, and editor Joe Orlando, as Wrightson chose to leave the book…

Captain America #179 (November, 1974)

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Published: August 3, 2024 05:05

At the conclusion of the last issue of Captain America we looked at on this blog, the classic #176, our star-spangled hero, reeling from the revelations about the United States government that had emerged in the wake of the Watergate scandal downfall of…

Thor #228 (October, 1974)

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Published: July 27, 2024 05:05

The primary subject of today’s blog post is the advent of artist Rich Buckler as the regular artist on Marvel Comics’ Thor (and despite the post’s title, we’ll be spending at least as much time on issue #227 — Buckler’s actual debut on the series — as we…

Doctor Strange #4 (October, 1974)

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Published: July 20, 2024 05:05

As we previously noted in our post about Doctor Strange #2 back in May, in June, 1974, Marvel Comics provided fans of the Master of the Mystic Arts’ normally bimonthly series with the release of an extra issue.  But Doctor Strange #3 didn’t feature the…

Phantom Stranger #33 (Oct.-Nov., 1974)

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Published: July 13, 2024 05:05

It’s been quite a while since we covered an issue of Phantom Stranger on the blog — more specifically, since May, 2023, when we took a look at PS #26.  As I wrote at the time, that issue’s crossover between the comic’s lead and backup features (the latter…

Tomb of Dracula #25 (October, 1974)

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Published: July 6, 2024 05:05

The story told within the pages of this issue of Tomb of Dracula is, for the most part, a self-contained narrative; what’s often referred to as a “done in one”.  That said, it’s still one episode in an ongoing serial continuity, which means that it…