Post by Tana Nile on Apr 6, 2007 11:30:26 GMT -5
Journey Into Mystery 114
"The Stronger I am, the Sooner I Die!"
writer: Stan Lee
artist: Jack Kirby
inker: Chic Stone
letterer: Sam Rosen
This issue features the first appearance of Crusher Creel, the Absorbing Man.
While Thor battles a spy in a dragster (!), Loki schemes in far-off Asgard. He creates a potion (that looks like a pill), and drops it into the glass of prison inmate Crusher Creel. Creel immediately goes bananas and using his new powers, busts out of prison.
Some time later, Dr. Don Blake is treating a reporter for an injured arm. He learns the man was chasing an escaped con with super powers. Blake decides to investigate. Thor finds Creel and the two fight, while the reporter, Hobbs, watches. Suddenly a mist appears around the combatants and Thor is transported to Asgard. Balder explains that Loki has captured Jane Foster! The two ride off to save her. Meanwhile on Earth, Creel assumes Thor has run and revels in his victory.
There is also a Tales of Asgard story, "The Golden Apples", which is essentially Little Red Riding Hood, Asgard-style.
This was a very action-packed issue, although the beginning sequence, with the drag-racing spy, seemed really out of place! We also have no real reason for Loki choosing Creel to receive these powers, other than he is "...brutal, savage, consumed with hatred for mankind!" I guess that's good enough.
We get some pretty cool demonstations of Creel's powers, as he takes on the forms of metals, rocks and even absorbs Thor's weather controlling powers. There's one part where the thunder god says he is creating a whirlwind, but what we see is the whirlwind all around Thor's body, ala the villain known as Whirlwind. He seems to be spinning at a high rate of speed. It seemed like in the early issues, Thor was similar to Superman, in that he was able to exhibit all kinds of powers out of nowhere. His hammer even "tingles" when he is closing in on Creel! Does it have an "uru sense"??
Kirby's art does not have the more refined look it would gain later on, but the dynamic, powerful nature of his work is more than evident. This really feels like a heck of a fight.
All in all, entertaining, although little more happens in this issue than the fight.
"The Stronger I am, the Sooner I Die!"
writer: Stan Lee
artist: Jack Kirby
inker: Chic Stone
letterer: Sam Rosen
This issue features the first appearance of Crusher Creel, the Absorbing Man.
While Thor battles a spy in a dragster (!), Loki schemes in far-off Asgard. He creates a potion (that looks like a pill), and drops it into the glass of prison inmate Crusher Creel. Creel immediately goes bananas and using his new powers, busts out of prison.
Some time later, Dr. Don Blake is treating a reporter for an injured arm. He learns the man was chasing an escaped con with super powers. Blake decides to investigate. Thor finds Creel and the two fight, while the reporter, Hobbs, watches. Suddenly a mist appears around the combatants and Thor is transported to Asgard. Balder explains that Loki has captured Jane Foster! The two ride off to save her. Meanwhile on Earth, Creel assumes Thor has run and revels in his victory.
There is also a Tales of Asgard story, "The Golden Apples", which is essentially Little Red Riding Hood, Asgard-style.
This was a very action-packed issue, although the beginning sequence, with the drag-racing spy, seemed really out of place! We also have no real reason for Loki choosing Creel to receive these powers, other than he is "...brutal, savage, consumed with hatred for mankind!" I guess that's good enough.
We get some pretty cool demonstations of Creel's powers, as he takes on the forms of metals, rocks and even absorbs Thor's weather controlling powers. There's one part where the thunder god says he is creating a whirlwind, but what we see is the whirlwind all around Thor's body, ala the villain known as Whirlwind. He seems to be spinning at a high rate of speed. It seemed like in the early issues, Thor was similar to Superman, in that he was able to exhibit all kinds of powers out of nowhere. His hammer even "tingles" when he is closing in on Creel! Does it have an "uru sense"??
Kirby's art does not have the more refined look it would gain later on, but the dynamic, powerful nature of his work is more than evident. This really feels like a heck of a fight.
All in all, entertaining, although little more happens in this issue than the fight.
Naaah...!!! I better keep it clean... 