OK, Murgen wiki'd it, and I think he was the only one who cared, so the answers to the bonus questions are:

The three team-up books that were replaced by a new non-team-up book for the main character in the mid-eighties were: Brave & the Bold, Marvel Team-Up, and Marvel Two-in-One. Superman was the only one who didn't get a new title when his team-up book, DC Comics Presents, was cancelled.

Brave & the Bold was replaced by Batman & the Outsiders, Marvel Team-Up by Web of Spider-Man, and Two-In-One by the Thing.

Hey, I just started up a CCL store to sell off my stuff. Check it out: Bronze Age Bargains

(Say, Pun, do you get any kind of Ponzi-scheme kickback since you first recommended CCL to me months ago?)

Has anyone here read Hack/Slash? I was thinking about picking up a trade or two to see what it's like. It looks interesting.

I was just curious if anyone had any recommendations for or against.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HACK/slash

Hand magic can resurrect the dead (and Skrullectra used it to bring back Echo), so maybe that's how they got Mockingbird back?

It's worse than we feared!!
www.dccomics.com/dcu/comics/?cm=10540

This:
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hmm? what? i see nothing!

loved villians united and the secret six mini. looking forward to the first collection of this.

gail simone's a great writer.

yeah, i heard about this guy. he's a douche.

another write up about it mentioned that his grandmother's not speaking to him anymore. good for her.

douche.

There hasn't been a whole lot happening in the Panther books aside from the wedding and T'Challa and Storm hanging out with the F4 for a while. That and an almost random parade of black heroes in the Marvel U through the book.

T'Challa does have a sister, she was just taken by Killmonger, then freed. I think she was among the recent challengers to the Panther title as well, but I'd have to pull the books and look through them to be sure. His mom is around too. My guess, though, would have to be one of T'Challas bodyguard women. Those chicks are badass, though one is dead and I thought the other was a Skrull but she was in the last SI crossover book, so I guess not.

Dave Cockrum

On the heels of a well-received run as the penciller for DC's Legion of Superheroes, Cockrum moved to Marvel on took on the assignment of creating an all-new, all-different X-Men.

Cockrum is an artist I'm really torn about. His art is noteworthy for the visual imagination of the characters and settings he created. He not only designed most of the new X-Men, but followed that up with two big teams of alien guest stars--the Starjammers and the Imperial guard.

But on the other hand, his art was usually slightly marred by stiff figures and expressions, static layouts, and overly-heavy line-work. There were exceptions--issues where the art was unreservedly great. I'd guess this would have to do with deadline pressures and/or working with the right inker, but I'm only guessing.

But it can't be denied that he helped conceive the new X-Men, a concept that transformed the X-Men from a C-list title on a five-year hiatus, to Marvel's biggest franchise, a phenomenon that changed comic books forever.


From the first appearance of the new X-Men in Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975 (probably the most valuable issue of its era):






From the first regular issue of the all-new X-Men, X-Men #94:




The death of Thunderbird from X-Men #95:




From X-Men #97 in 1976:


(Prof X's first prophetic dream about the approaching arrival of Empress Lilandra.)


From X-Men #98:




For the first few issues the covers of the new X-Men were handled by Gil Kane, but Cockrum soon took over the task. His covers were pretty similar to his interior art: imaginative and colorful, but kind of stiff and life-less. Here's a well-remembered anniversary issue cover:




The last issue of Cockrum's first run on the title was #107. I'd say it was the best issue he did, whether that may have been because of less deadline pressure, or a better fit of inker in the person of Dan Green:

The splash page of #107 in 1977:


A classic group shot of this era's X-Men.


After John Byrne took over the interior art, Cockrum continued handling most of the covers for a while. Again, it may have been due to less time constraints or better inking (now from the exemplary Terry Austin) these were much better than when he was the regular artist, (though I still would rather have had Byrne covers in all honesty.)

From #109 in 1978:




After John Byrne's epochal run on the title ended in 1981, Cockrum returned to the book. I think I like his second run on the book a little better than his first, although there is still a certain stiffness to it, and all of his X-Men work is really overshadowed by the John Byrne run that it bracketed.




From #148




From #156




Cockrum's second run on the X-Men ended with issue #164 in 1982.


Dave Cockrum profiles at wiki and at lambiek. Pun's House Obit thread.

it doesn't matter. it's magic

holy balls reboot

sick find!

It's going to be in some fairly rare and valuable company. All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder valuable. Wow.

just thought some of you guys would get a kick out of this. a guy at comic book resources does a regular column about comic urban legends. some of em are pretty interesting.

goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/06/23/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-history/

No, but there's a lot of flashbacks about him and he's had 2 specials made about him.

No, actually, there's just been 2 issues proper since that "give back to the community" one, carrying on where that issue left off, and dealing with what caused all the Iron Fists (besides Orson) to die at age 33. It looks like the heroin Orson got hooked on somehow stopped him from being found(does something to his blood?).

minor spoilers ahead

my hatred for the post one more day spider-man has been no secret. i tried to give it a chance but could only make it about 3 months into it. after 5 months of not reading spider-man (for the first time in my 18 years of reading. while i may not have always read amazing, i did always read at least ONE of the main marvel U spidey titles) i decided to give this "new ways to die" story a try. i figured it was dan slott (easily the best of the writing team they set up) and romita jr, plus plus venom (including eddie brock), if any story has a chance, it's this one.

so i picked up parts 1 and 2 and low and behold it wasn't that bad. in fact it was a fairly enjoyable read. especially part 2 as things really picked up. norman osborn and the thunderbolts showed up, it was pretty cool.

but here's where the issue really got me:

peter actually acknowledged that people used to know who he was, and that he did something to make them forget. that's right. amazing spider-man doesn't exist in some sort of continuity bubble. nor is he an idiot who is just accepting that his entire history doesn't make any sense.

basically, what happened was spidey came home and found norman in his apt. norman wanted parker to help find spider-man, be cause he knew he had a relationship with him to get all those photos he always gets. to which peter said to himself (paraphrasing) "right, he don't know anymore. nobody remembers who i am. what we did is still in place"

so he may not know about the whole mephisto thing, but he does know things used to be different and that he did something to change it all.

i find the prospect very intriguing. it'll be nice to have them show me how they undid everything JMS spent 7 years doing, rather than just magicly undoing everything JMS spent 7 years doing.

INCONCEIVABLE!

Headlocked from Visionary comics.

I heard about the first book many moons ago, heard good things, but keep forgetting to pick it up. It's a decent, if markish read available online.

I'm gonna have to have this one ordered for me so I don't forget it.

They always have the option of just having Wally retire to spend more time with his kids though. He can be a supporting character then and occasional guest star as well. Or keep him as A Flash, like Jay Garrick is, but have him Justice Leauge and Titans, while Barry gets the main book back.