Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #37

By: The Kirbydotter

The Kirbydotter — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:01:49 +0000

I remember buying BLACK GOLIATH #1 the first time I went into a specialized comicbook store (in the late 70's).

I might have picked up number two later, but didn't go further with the series. It wasn't a bad character as I remember it. I think I was put off by the art of George Tuska (probably, once again, horribly inked by Vince Coletta)

I sure dig that Kirby cover with Stiltman!

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:53:22 +0000

"Yeah, I liked him too, and it sucks that â€œimportantâ€ events are always used to cull less popular characters like that. I was actually touched by his farewell in Civil War tho."

I liked in The Sentry where it mentions a hero dying, but it isn't shown on panel, and no name is given.
You get the drama of life and death, without a character going to waste.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:16:13 +0000

I have literally zero interest in Hudlin's Black Panther series. He's used every black Marvel hero so far, hasn't he?

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:09:07 +0000

What a shock, Dan Slott remembers him, but the fact that Hudlin used him is completly ignored.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:07:24 +0000

Comics.org credits Kirby with the cover pencils, yeah.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:05:58 +0000

Hey, here's a question: Was Jack Kirby involved in the cover art for Black Goliath No. 4 up there? It looks unmistakably Kirby. Too Kirby to be the work of any of the carefully-trained imitators Marvel employed throughout the 1970s, if you ask me. I know Kirby came back to Marvel for a spell in that period, to create Devil Dinosaur and Machine Man (Two great suggestions for this list at some point, by the way) and the idea he didn't scratch out a cover or two while he was around isn't out of the question. But in the time before it was taboo for cover artists to hide their name in a corner somewhere, is there any real way to know for sure?

By: Ian Astheimer

Ian Astheimer — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:26:43 +0000

A Black Goliath profile and no mention of The Champions or Marvel Two-in-One #76? You're slipping, Mr. Bill.

By: The Mutt

The Mutt — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:26:07 +0000

Bill Foster returns in Attack of the 50 Ft. Zombie!

By: The Mad Monkey

The Mad Monkey — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:51:56 +0000

Elijah...
No...that cover was "The King"...
In the 70's, he was one of the two predominant cover artists at Marvel. The other being Gil Kane.
It's almost like Marvel knew what they were doing back then...

By: Sleestak

Sleestak — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:13:38 +0000

In case anyone hasn't noticed all the adult, old school heroes are being slowly replaced by teen-agers. Marvel appears to be infusing a Legacy Character aspect to their universe like DC did. Bill Foster's young relation is working on the Pym Formula, Young Avengers all over the place, Runaways are the Defenders, etc.

Replacing standard characters with new versions with their own story might be a better idea than rebooting to year One every decade or so.

By: Nik

Nik — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:57:14 +0000

Man, i love the Black Goliath. He was always one of my favorite C-list heroes for some reason... I even hunted down all five issues of the comic on ebay a while back.

And man, the punk way Millar killed him in Civil War is reason #201,023 why that comic sucks goat testes.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:22:37 +0000

Iâ€™m going by childhood memories here, but didnâ€™t Black Goliath die once already? In an issue of Marvel Two-In-One in the early 80â€™s? I remember Spider-Woman was the guest star that issueâ€¦

He was dying of radiation poisoning, but a blood transfusion from Spider-Woman saved him.

By: Annoyed Grunt

Annoyed Grunt — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:00:30 +0000

Hey, if you work hard perfecting your giant abs you're going to want to show them off.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:54:52 +0000

Not to disrespect the dead, but what was with his costume? Why the rectangular opening over his abs?

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:13:19 +0000

I'm going by childhood memories here, but didn't Black Goliath die once already? In an issue of Marvel Two-In-One in the early 80's? I remember Spider-Woman was the guest star that issue...

By: Elijah

Elijah — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:46:22 +0000

Yeah, I liked him too, and it sucks that "important" events are always used to cull less popular characters like that. I was actually touched by his farewell in Civil War tho.

I assume the cover to issue 4 is just a very good faux Kirby, yes?