Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Groove's Faves: "Full House--Dragon's High!" by Gillis, Miller, and McLeod
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Today's subject is a true-blue fave: Marvel Two-In-One #51 (February 1979). That George Perez/Joe Sinnott cover featuring The Thing, The Beast, Ms. Marvel, Wonder Man, and Nick Fury comin' atcha was enough to tug a quartet of dimes out of Teen Groove's pocket, but when I got inside the covers and saw the awesomely far-out art by that new guy Frank Miller and the magnificent Bob McLeod--my mind was officially blown! Writer Peter Gillis could have adapted a Mork and Mindy plot for all I cared, but (thankfully), he didn't. He gave us a cool action/espionage tale (that started out as a friendly poker game), allowing for some great character moments and some sweetly choreographed battle scenes. Yep, this one's an all-time fave, baby! Can you dig it?
Oh, I can dig it all right. This is one of my personal favorites as well, one of the best done-in-one issues of that entire period. It's pure superhero fun from cover to cover.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was drawn back into comics in the mid-00s, this was one of the first comics I re-acquired.
Such an interesting art job.
ReplyDeleteThere's stuff that looks Millerish like the splash on page 5, but they seem to Steranko a bit on the Nick Fury stuff (the Fury face on the bottom of page 8) while the panel with Thing and Ms Marvel look purely Starlin.
Yeah, this story rocks! I guess Miller took a few hints from Steranko and then just knocked it out of the park... Gillis knows how to write, too...
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