tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post6148513701769956503..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Avengers #53Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-34376394198792685812018-08-31T18:06:10.467-05:002018-08-31T18:06:10.467-05:00// ”This is the first time such a unique dual-issu...<br><i>// ”This is the first time such a unique dual-issue project has been attempted in any comic mag” //</i><br /><br />A <i>Marvel</i> comic mag, perhaps, but not <i>any</i> comic mag.<br /><br />The oldest example that came to mind that I could easily confirm was the Captain Nazi story running from <i>Master Comics</i> #21 to <i>Whiz Comics</i> #25 and back to <i>Master Comics</i> #22 in late 1941. Captain Marvel guest-stars in Bulletman’s feature in the first part, whose final panel is a blurb telling readers to “read next month’s issue of <i>Whiz Comics</i>!” The end of <i>that</i> issue’s installment, which is the introduction of Freddy Freeman and his origin as Captain Marvel Jr. in Captain Marvel’s feature, promotes the saga’s continuation in “the January <i>Master Comics</i> … on sale Dec. 5th”. That issue has Freddy Freeman pop up in Bulletman’s feature to tell him, “I just got over from <i>Whiz Comics. Billy Batson</i> sent me over here to <i>Master Comics</i>” — the kind of thing from that era that might’ve bugged me as a kid but I totally adore now — and tracking down Captain Nazi as Captain Marvel Jr. There’s a potential No-Prize attempt in noting that none of the actual issue numbers are mentioned, at least not based on my cursory scan right now, but on-sale and/or cover dates were the more prevalent reference back then as a matter of practicality derived from comic mags being, well, <i>mags.</i><br /><br />Only a couple of weeks before <i>Master Comics</i> #21, <i>All-Star Comics</i> #8 gave us the introduction and (the start of the) origin of Wonder Woman favorably positioned after the issue’s Justice Society of America tale. “Follow the adventures of Wonder Woman in <i>Sensation Comics</i>!”, reads the page after that story’s conclusion, with a look at #1’s cover and a note that it’s “on sale about Nov. 7th” — but one has to admit that said page is a house advertisement rather than part of the preceding story and that said story doesn’t itself embed a blurb about its continuation. Plus there’s no crossover between features as it’s all <i>Wonder Woman</i>.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-85324736319196026662018-08-26T03:26:16.013-05:002018-08-26T03:26:16.013-05:00Also, this matter now funnily became a cross-blog ...Also, this matter now funnily became a cross-blog comments crossover. Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-27968951668028365452018-08-25T10:48:49.906-05:002018-08-25T10:48:49.906-05:00fnord12 at Supermegamonkey has the end blurb from ...fnord12 at Supermegamonkey has the end blurb from SUSPENSE #80: "<i>Special Notice: So spectacular is this epic battle, that mighty Marvel is presenting it in two different magazines! So, for the dazzling conclusion of this smashing saga, don't dare miss Astonish #82, on sale now! This is the first time such a unique dual-issue project has been attempted in any comic mag, so don't make us regret it, hear?</i>"<br /><br />They certainly do claim it's the first ever. And probably don't regret.<br /><br />One could get a fun comic blog segment of reviewing such cross-title stories of decades past. Nutshell info of the long-since cancelled titles in question; does the story tie to a larger story arc of the respective titles or is a character essentially guest-starring in his own book; whose villain they are fighting etc.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-90127247048480827802018-08-24T17:37:39.003-05:002018-08-24T17:37:39.003-05:00I was thinking the same thing, Teemu. Stories cont...I was thinking the same thing, Teemu. Stories continuing directly from a cliffhanger in one title to an issue of another title had their start even earlier than I'd imagined!Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-91691489515691463912018-08-24T15:43:58.442-05:002018-08-24T15:43:58.442-05:00Certainly that's treated as the first conventi...Certainly that's treated as the first conventional one though <a href="https://marvelcrossovers.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">The (Almost) Complete Marvel Comics Guide</a> identifies a few earlier cases where themes ran across issues or stories fed off events in each other.Tim Roll-Pickeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-12939255195071596282018-08-24T07:58:13.989-05:002018-08-24T07:58:13.989-05:00A couple of years earlier (August 1966) the Iron M...A couple of years earlier (August 1966) the Iron Man story in Tales of Suspense #80 concluded in the Sub-Mariner story in Tales to Astonish #82. I <i>think</i> that's the first Marvel crossover.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-14843077001953964452018-08-23T11:26:51.910-05:002018-08-23T11:26:51.910-05:00It represents the first direct crossover involving...<i>It represents the first direct crossover involving the X-Men (in that, a story which began in one series continues and/or concludes in another, as opposed to just the X-Men guest-starring in another book)</i><br /><br />The question of that kind of crossovers' emergence came up very recently over at Matt's <i>Not A Hoax</i> blog. I see this instance predates the DOCTOR STRANGE/SUB-MARINER/HULK "Defenders" crossover by a year, but is even this the first one, by Marvel or in general? Teemunoreply@blogger.com