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Recommended Reading: Thor, Captain America, Avengers, Green Lantern

post #1 of 17
7/27/10 at 7:00pm
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I figured there would be some interest in reading up on these titles since they're the HOT NEW comic movies.


For Thor I'd recommend:

-LEE/KIRBY THOR
Journey Into Mystery #110 to Thor #170. I'd bypass Journey Into Mystery 83-100 because they kind of suck.

-SIMONSON THOR
Thor #337-382


For Captain America I'd go with:

-LEE/KIRBY CAP
Tales of Suspense #59 to Captain America #109 (Vol 1)

-WAID CAP
Captain America (Vol 1) #444-454
Captain America (Vol 3) #1-23

-BRUBAKER CAP
Captain America (Vol 5) 1-Current
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post #2 of 17
7/27/10 at 7:12pm
The Adventures Of Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty 4 issue series from 1992 is hard to find but absolutely fantastic.

And yeah, Simonson's run on Thor is brilliant & can be thought of as "celtic anime".
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post #3 of 17
7/27/10 at 7:20pm
He didn't properly conclude his run but J. Michael Straczynski's Thor with Olivier Coipel's lush art was just great. The title took such a huge drop in quality afterwards that I don't bother with it anymore.

Thor: Vikings is Garth Ennis sleepwriting but it's still fun for what it is; Thor vs. Zombie Vikings.

Kinda blasphemous to say but Lee's writing is really hard work to take in compared to comics now. I struggle getting past more than a couple of issues at a time.
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post #4 of 17
7/27/10 at 7:48pm
It's not really "definitive" Cap, but Jim Steranko's three-issue run on Cap 110-113 (112 was done -- supposedly over a single weekend -- by Kirby, when Steranko couldn't meet a deadline) is a great example of the kind of things the "House of Ideas" was all about in the 60's.

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post #5 of 17
7/27/10 at 9:18pm
I don't know much about Green Lantern outside of team-ups with other heroes, and random episodes of Justice League. Where would be a good place to start?
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post #6 of 17
7/27/10 at 9:34pm
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I don't know much about Green Lantern outside of team-ups with other heroes, and random episodes of Justice League. Where would be a good place to start?
"Green Lantern: Rebirth" is a good starting point if you ask me; the trades that collect the series that followed (by geoff Johns) have a revamped origin story, and set up for the big Sinestro Corps event.

As for the Avengers, id go with "The Kree-Skrull war", "Under Siege", "Kang War" and "Ultron Unlimited".
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post #7 of 17
7/27/10 at 9:36pm
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I don't know much about Green Lantern outside of team-ups with other heroes, and random episodes of Justice League. Where would be a good place to start?
My guess is that the movie will use bits of the Emerald Dawn/Emerald Dawn II miniseries which were reprinted a few years ago, so start there.
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post #8 of 17
7/28/10 at 10:32am
Fuck that, start with the Dennis O'Neill Green Lantern/Green Arrow trades. The most well intentioned preachy comic book ridicolousness the 70's has to offer. At one point Green Arrow dresses up as an old indian spirit to mobilize a group of alcoholic native americans into action! Also, these wonderful wonderful panels:

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post #9 of 17
7/28/10 at 11:14am
Emerald Dawn I and II, Hard Traveling Heroes.

Mosaic is an 18 book series that focused on John Stewart policing the Guardians homeworld of OA when an insane Guardian began snatching cities from planets he had visited with Hal and Oliver McQueen. I found it to be quite a fascinating storyline. Not that it would inform the film but an excellent read.

The Four Supermen run-up where the cyborg Superman destroyed Coast City and set up the Parallax storyline and the subsequent GL books are great stuff. *EDIT* Up until they introduce Rayner.
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post #10 of 17
7/28/10 at 11:19am
I recommend...Lee/Kirby Thor in...Marvel Essentials 1-4. #5 will probably arrive a few months before, the 2011 film adaption of Thor.
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post #11 of 17
7/28/10 at 11:27am
For the Avengers, I'd say The Kree-Skrull War epitomizes what the comic was all about back in the 70s. You get a great bit of continuity with a call-back to Fantastic Four #2, all kinds of space adventure, and art by Sal Buscema and Neal Adams. Plus the classic issue "This Beach-Head Earth," where Adams goes absolutely nuts showing Ant-Man's journey inside the Vision.
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post #12 of 17
7/29/10 at 12:58am
What should I read if I want to get into all those cosmic epics, stuff with the Cosmic Cube or Thanos (maybe even Galactus)?

This is how my shopping list is shaping up:
Thor Visionaries - Walter Simonson
Avengers: The Kree/Skrull War
Infinity Gauntlet

Most of what I know about this stuff is from reading Earth X in high school. So I might get that as well.
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post #13 of 17
7/29/10 at 1:12am
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Well THANOS QUEST comes before the INFINITY GAUNTLET, so you should check that out too. It's collected in Silver Surfer: Rebirth Of Thanos along with all of Thanos' early appearances.

As for some Cube stories, I'd Recommend Tales of Suspense 79-84, Cap 450-454 (Collected in a trade called OPERATION REBIRTH) and most of Brubaker's run.
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post #14 of 17
7/29/10 at 3:30am
Specifically, Thanos' quest for the Cube takes place in Captain Marvel #25-33 (along with some odds and ends crossover appearances in Iron Man and Daredevil issues around the same time). I believe that the collection called The Life of Captain Marvel covers that whole story.

He then appears in the Warlock/Magus storyline that Starlin began in Strange Tales #178-181, and continued into the revived Warlock series that re-started with issue #9; my dim recollection is that this storyline ends with #12.

IMHO, no one's done "cosmic" quite like Jim Starlin in all the years since (including Starlin himself).
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post #15 of 17
7/29/10 at 7:44pm
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As for the Avengers, id go with "The Kree-Skrull war", "Under Siege", "Kang War" and "Ultron Unlimited".
The Korvac Saga is top-notch as well.
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post #16 of 17
7/29/10 at 7:45pm
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Specifically, Thanos' quest for the Cube takes place in Captain Marvel #25-33 (along with some odds and ends crossover appearances in Iron Man and Daredevil issues around the same time). I believe that the collection called The Life of Captain Marvel covers that whole story.

He then appears in the Warlock/Magus storyline that Starlin began in Strange Tales #178-181, and continued into the revived Warlock series that re-started with issue #9; my dim recollection is that this storyline ends with #12.

IMHO, no one's done "cosmic" quite like Jim Starlin in all the years since (including Starlin himself).

Dreadstar was pretty good.
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post #17 of 17
7/30/10 at 12:59am
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Dreadstar was pretty good.
It was certainly better than Death of the New Gods.
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