Singer and company were trying to recapture the old magic by using top artists and the same format as the original Tower series (but with fewer ads!). For two bucks (the major sticking point as far as most fans were concerned in the days of seventy-five cent/one dollar comics). Agents (which he published under the Deluxe imprint) gave us George ( New Teen Tit a ns) Perez, Keith ( Legio n of Super-Heroes) Giffen, Dave ( Uncanny X-Men) Cockrum, Jerry ( All-Star Squadron) Ordway, Rich (70s star) Buckler, and even legends like Steve Ditko and Murphy Anderson between its covers. Listen, when you're a young comics fan and you hear that a much-loved comicbook is making a comeback with the hottest artists of the day at the helm, you don't ask questions, you just buy. According to Singer, regardless of any agreements between Tower and John C., the Agents were public domain and anyone could publish T.A. David was studying to be a lawyer, and his quizzical mind learned what Jim Shooter had learned-or at least, believed: Tower Comics had failed to properly copyright its T.H.U. And then there was the furor caused by John C.'s sometime acquaintance/employee, David M. The folks at Archie had let him down by making his books low priority. This time out, we look at the last d ays.īy the mid-80s, John Carbanaro's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Last Week, we looked at the early days of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R.
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