panels from [Uncanny] X-Men #123 (July 1979), scripted by Chris Claremont, co-plotted and breakdowns by John Byrne, pencils and inks by Glynis Wein, letters by Tom Orzechowski
Scott Summers not quite "getting the concept" of dating somebody new...
Wolverine at his most cultured...
Storm in the shower...
Heck, Storm in her bathrobe!
But flip between the story pages and you'll find two ads in this comic book that are, only in modern retrospect, creepy and a little unsettling in their juxtaposition: two ads featuring major sports figures of the seventies who ain't quite the heroes now that they were then:
Oh dear. Those were innocent times, weren't they? Well, the rest of the comic at least is still fun, and Spider-Man's still a hero. That is, when he ain't bustin' up New York City public phone booths:
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4 comments:
Okay...I have been checking out your blog for months and enjoying what I see and sharing it with my firends and just today, just now, I discovered your alt-text goodness. I get to go back and read it all again. Wow...I...wow.
Oh heck, this WAS a good story. Arcade of course, is ridiculous, but I still possess a certain fondness for his giant pinball machine.
This was my first exposure to the X-Men. I have a little black and white digest of this somewhere. I love commie Colossus in it and the various Wolverines. Good times.
See? Those lousy X-men were a corrupting influence on everyone!
And ... awww, heck, I loved Arcade. I really, really did. I thought he was hilarious.
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