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i was going to ask this on the comics journal message board but they still haven't sent me my password so...have any of you read the old cc beck/otto binder captain marvel comics? they're pretty highly regarded, but they don't seem to be in print anywhere, except for some $50 dc archives books that seem to include a lot of non-beck/binder stuff. i've only read one, in that old smithsonian collection, but it came so close to my ideal of what superhero comics should be (basically witty stories for kids, drawn in that 50s/60s batman/superman cartoony style, only way better than that) that i'm dying to get my hands on more of it. can anyone help?

oh and um, feel free to talk about other incarnations of CM, if you want.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 16 September 2005 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link

this has been your "J.D. asking abt old-timey comics" post of the week.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 16 September 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

In DC's recent Greatest Imaginary Stories Ever Told there's a late 40s Beck (I think) Captain Marvel story where Atomic War breaks out and Cap is helpless as the world around him is decimated! It's ASTOUNDINGLY bleak, and then the last panel has Billy Batson at WHIZ radio (or TV?) saying, "And that's why you don't start an atomic war!"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

six years pass...

So the new Captain Marvel is the erstwhile Ms. Marvel. This series has a female lead character who can punch people and do things and is drawn with actual plausible muscles and is written by a woman and passes the Bechdel test in the first issue. Everyone should buy it so they don't cancel it. I'm excited about it.

― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Monday, 30 July 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link

But ultimately will always be 1000x worse than reading CC Beck.

― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Monday, 30 July 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

so you can do a month trial subscription to marvel unlimited for a penny right now (promocode: PENNY). the normal price seems like a pretty good deal if you regularly read comics but aren't a collector necessarily. anyhow i've been reading this new captain marvel and it's a lot of fun, thoroughly enjoying.

― balls, Saturday, 25 July 2015 03:17 (eight years ago) link

I do not get the praise. I'm a year into DeConnick's run and it's just as flat and uninteresting as Brian Reed's run. I'm generally a cheerleader for smaller scale superhero stuff with lots of interpersonal moments but this is doing nothing for me, particularly in comparison to the other Marvel Now! relaunch titles, which were mostly surprisingly good.

― Party Your Body (Old Lunch), Saturday, 25 July 2015 04:04 (eight years ago) link

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