Wallowing in Marvelous Nostalgia
As a follow-up to the
previous
entry, here's
a site
that offers a summary of every single issue of
Marvel Two-In-One,
including
#58
(although the overview probably still doesn't offer enough context to
make sense of that scene). I like that the site tracks whether or
not each issue makes reference to "Clobberin' Time!" or the Thing's
Aunt Petunia. Be sure to check out the
cover galleries.
And add MTIO to the list of Essentials I'd like to see in the
future. I love that the Thing was generally stuck with B- and
C-list heroes as guest-stars in his book, while Spidey got all the "big
name" heroes over in
Marvel
Team-Up. In my mind, that only increases the appeal of
MTIO.
The MTIO site led me to another fun distraction,
The Unofficial Marvel Value
Stamps Index. Those who read Marvel comics in the
mid-Seventies will undoubtedly remember these goofy stamps.
Whether or not you look back on these stamps fondly probably depends on
how much financial damage
you did to your collection by cutting up your comics.
Finally,
this site
has more (much, much more) than
Marvel-related
characters, but I particularly love the Micro-Hero versions of the
Heroes
for Hire characters, the
Earth
X interpretations, and all the
What If
variations. I also like the page dedicated to
Amalgam
characters, but that's mainly due to my unclean love of the Amalgam
concept. (I'm probably the only comic fan out there who'd like to
see a yearly Amalgam anthology. Wasn't that an idea that was
tossed around at one point, or am I just completely allowing my strange
desires to distort my memories again?).
