u/Many_Bat_

Kiddo picked this out for me the other fortnight.

Live (for the conquest of Eternia?)

Laugh

Love (being bad?)

Only took a little mental gymnastics to get there.

It's been a less than fabulous day, in a challenging week, during a grim year; and while it's nothing too fancy - taking a much needed break with a couple cheap figures to put a smile back on my face.

I have a shelf display box for the Mightys, which is nice.

I'm renovating, took a break, pulled out a random comic from a box. Tomb of Dracula #53, Marvel Comics Group 1976.

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These things were always convoluted, been some time since I read 'em, but on page 3 Daimon Hellstrom and Hannibal King exhume dead Blade.

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While they're yacking on they mention the following;

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Human Blade's mother was bitten by Deacon Frost, creating a human vampire hybrid, which had been running around the entire time separate from human Blade. When they meet up and touched as adults they absorbed into a single entity with two distinct personas. Man, '76 Marvel was crazy, I'm glad the '98 movie didn't try to adapt that.

I recently picked up a cheesy '75 reprint of 'The Ghost Legion' (retitle of The Spook Legion) when I grabbed an L Sprague de Camp novel from my bookstore. I don't own anything else Doc Savage except for the 1st issue of the magazine comic from '75. I've always enjoyed the character, and drew parallels to Conan/Howard's writing - he's a prime specimen of a human mortal to the point of anomaly, he outshines his peers and enemies alike, the writing is also unabashedly focused on his description.

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He wears jodhpurs, doesn't seem intently focused on blood letting, gold, beer or women. However I still see similarities due to the era he was created. Anybody else have treasures, opinions or advice on where to look into the character more?

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(The Doc Savage sub on Reddit has been dead 5 years, else I would have posted there)

Factory sealed (hence the angled shots to avoid light feedback). Just sits in my LP collection, thought I'd share it here.

It's available on YouTube:

[Here] (https://youtu.be/1fHYDK1v8bs?si=9MJ4BiBIa-T9j2g8)

It's a bit gee whizz, Conan sounds like Flash Gordon but it's still fun.

Bless my local thrift store, they count their jigsaw pieces.

Donnie's my favourite, nice to have him in the foreground.

I know opinions on L Sprague are definitely to the negative bit I grew up on the old Conan paperbacks with his editing and forewords and those gorgeous Frazetta covers. So I couldn't really pass on this at my local bookstore. Great covers on tacky paperbacks, that's me - anybody read it? Should I just expect it to be derivative of Howard's writing?

Macaroni, butter, edam, goji berries, olive oil, black salt, spring onion, BBQ sauce.

Two servings; I'm a happy animal.

I'm vintage through and through, and never heavily She-Ra'd. Occasionally pick up contemporary stuff if passing through a store. Shadow Weaver has a cool aesthetic. Just wondered, is it dismissive as a design choice to have looming Hordak eyes, a 40th celebration She-Ra emblem, but still keep the title 'He-Man and the Masters of the Universe' when she's 200% a 'She-Ra' character? Why do you think the designers took that path?

Rediscovery. Originally scored this, and other prints, from a box on the street when I was living in Aus. Sun faded, water damaged, tatty - but I feel like that fits the aesthetic better anyways.