Comments on: Top 70 Most Iconic Marvel Panels of All-Time: #50-41

By: Panji Sudoyo

Panji Sudoyo — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:04:01 +0000

A lot of my generation of readers would probably go for Panel # 46 and 45 because not only did it come from two of the most popular artists of the time (90′s), but they came from two of the comics that we most remember as well (Uncanny X-men # 268 hooked me into comics. Damn you!!), but strangely for me, Panel # 50 stands out from this batch.
I haven’t even read the story and i’m still awestruck by it!!
I have a mind to go to eBay right now and find out if i can get that story.
Pretty cool.

By: JoeMac

JoeMac — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:57:07 +0000

Ah, got you DanCJ. Fair enough.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:19:14 +0000

@DanCJ:

You don’t recognise any of these panels? I suppose you haven’t been reading Marvel comics very long.

I’ve been reading comics for 23 years, but I’ve always been more of a DC man. All the same I do know the events of those three panels you mentioned – I just don’t specifically recognise the panels and have never seen them homaged, so I can’t see them as very iconic.

By: G

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:43:56 +0000

So was the Peter/MJ panel done by Gil Kane? I know he did “The Night Gwen Stacy Died”.

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By: David C

David C — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:09:07 +0000

It’s a fun thing to look at these panels, but it would be nice to publish exactly where the panels appear. I remember how much I loved John Byrne’s run on Alpha Flight, but I bet there are a lot of people out there who would have trouble placing panel #44

By: JoeMac

JoeMac — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:33:45 +0000

@DanCJ:

You don’t recognise any of these panels? I suppose you haven’t been reading Marvel comics very long. The death of the Green Goblin as it ties in with the death of Gwen Stacy is arguable the most famous Spidey story ever, and what elevated Green Goblin to his status of #1 Spidey villian. Plus it was replicated in the first movie.

The death of Bucky (panel 42) is referenced probably once a year if not more in Captain America for the past 40 years, and maybe once every two or three years in the Avengers. It is one of the largest events in Marvel history, and for a long time it was considered one of the irreversible Marvel deaths (along with Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy).

The Fantastic Four’s ship getting bombarded with cosmic radiation is the origin of not only the FF, but essentially the entire Marvel Universe, and is arguable the single most famous event in all of Marvel History. Plus, again, a variation of it was in the movie.

The seven panels before these are a bit more obscure, but those three final panels are all part of the very foundation of Marvel comics. Even if you never saw the actual panels themselves, surely you must be tangentially familiar with them and the events they encapsulate, no? I mean, unless you’ve been reading Marvel comics for only a couple of years or so, I guess.

By: LouReedRichards

LouReedRichards — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:20:20 +0000

I’m suddenly very afraid that Wolverine in the sewer will be #1.
That or that Iron Man panel, oh wait…

By: dgmagill

dgmagill — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:34:22 +0000

2 down (Odin and his sons, The Kid who Collected Spider-Man), 8 left on my list. While I think the four hand will be high, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the burglar be #1.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:14:45 +0000

DC will be 75 next year.

Cheers,

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:29:28 +0000

I’ve read less than a dozen Marvel comic books in my life, but this is awesome. When do we get a DC list?

By: asxz

asxz — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:10:13 +0000

Nary an X-Men panel in sight and so many to choose from. Something Dark Phoenix-y I bet, although I wouldn’t mind seeing the first reveal of Stryfe as Cable’s clone. We should have a “fastball special” in there and a bamf or two.

Back to Spider-Man and we must get MJ telling her tiger that he hit the jackpot. One of my fave for showcasing Spidey’s exuberance comes just after he was sick and was unmasked by Doc Ock. Feeling better, he somersaults across the room and says “I feel like a zillion bucks”. Love it.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:54:35 +0000

I don’t recognise a single one of these panels (though I can tell what even a few of them are) so it seems right to me that they’re all this low.

So far none of my votes have turned up

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:24:18 +0000

Hehe, I know you’d like that to be #1.

Sadly, it is not.

By: fourthworlder

fourthworlder — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:20:53 +0000

usually b.s., sure, these things, you bet. but let’s get down to it – - – .
so in the end it’ll be
1- FF four hands, 2- spidey recognizes the burglar, 3- scott and jean yelling names at each other, and 4- gwen’s little snap.
Right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:12:39 +0000

these things are usually B.S.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:53:52 +0000

All of my votes are still to come. Yay, populism!

By: stephen cade

stephen cade — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:43:12 +0000

Hmm, Gobby dies at his own hands (or glider) is that low?

It deserves better–as others mentioned.

They did that scene quite well in the movie.
I saw it start and I was waiting for it, and it proceeded as I imagined it.
Pretty cool.

Most of my votes are still to appear–and I’m sure at least a handful will make the top 10.

By: Da Fug

Da Fug — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:15:57 +0000

I didn’t vote for the cosmic rays panel because, for some reason, my memory of what that panel looks like is different from what it actually looks like I’ll have to reread FF #1 sometime to see if the spaceship panel in my head is actually in there. And I didn’t vote for Cap/Bucky because I haven’t read many Cap comics except for the Brubaker run and that’s my only exposure to that event at all. So this is the kind of thing that happens when EVERYONE is encouraged to vote regardless of how much of the entire Marvel catalog they’ve actually read.

And I think I could look at the Goblin chunk panel all day. BOOOO on it placing so low.

By: DanT

DanT — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:54:45 +0000

None of my 10 has shown yet. Either I’m a good picker, or alot of people are crappy pirckers along with me.