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THOR E I VENDICATORI EDITORIALE CORNO
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1978
Dopo una lunga e sofferta parentesi vendicativa, nell’ episodio principale tornano le estrinsecazioni solipsistiche del dio del tuono THOR purtroppo però mai del del tutto solo ma sempre implementato e (male) accompagnato dal pappamolle Balder, dai trasandati ed indecenti Tre Guerrieri e dal temperamentale signore del fuoco Firelord. E’ anche il quinto sospirato capitolo della estenuante saga dodecalogica ed escatologica di IF ASGARD SHOULD PERISH (Se Asgard cadesse)
contiene inoltre : PANTERA NERA (che in gesto di solidarietà all’ indignazione di Balotelli contro i “buuu” razzisti si batte anch’egli contro i coristi screanzati e xenofobi del Ku Klux Klan) e IL GOLIA NERO ( a reiterare senza equivoci nè indugi la linea etica ed ideologica della testata ormai manifestamente ed improntamente reazionaria e cameratesca )
CONDIZIONI BUONISSIME, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
GRANDISSIMA DISPONIBILITA’ DI TUTTI I SUPEREROI CORNO E NON
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“The Fury of Firelord” / LA FURIA DEL SIGNORE DEL FUOCO
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Emory Lewis (First appearance)
- Fernando(First appearance)
- President Juan Elmirez (First appearance)
Locations:
Items:
Synopsis
The Asgardians are in Jane’s apartment, when news comes on of
Firelord leading a rebellion in Costa Verde. In Asgard, Igron is now
Odin’s advisor, and Balder believes Odin to now be insane. Back on
Earth, Thor and Jane fight the rebels and Firelord, until Thor falls
under the Gypsy’s spell like Firelord.
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“Death-Riders On the Horizon” / I CAVALIERI DELLA MORTE
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Monica Lynne
- Kevin Trublood
- Jessica Lynne
Villains:
- Soul-Strangler (First appearance)
- The Klan
Other Characters:
- Caleb
- Joshua
- Hector
- Ellie
Locations:
Items:
- Sonar Gliders
Synopsis
This is an unusual title, even
for this series, in that it’s another acknowledgement of the US
Bicentennial. But unlike Captain America or Dr. Strange, the Black
Panther doesn’t travel back in time. He sits an listens to a story told
by Monica Lynne’s mother. And this story only goes back 100 years, to
around 1876, not long after the Ku Klux Klan was formed.
It’s a story about a recently freed slave who is warned by the Klan not to go to the Freedman’s Bureau, but he does anyway, only to find a pair of corrupt carpet bagging politicians.
And on his way home he is lynched by the Klan.
That’s depressing, but what makes the story more interesting is that
while her mother is telling it, Monica imagines an alternate version
where the Black Panther was there at the time (typically the format is
such that the real version of the story is on the left page while
Monica’s fantasy version is on the right), helping the story’s
protagonist stand up to the Klan and putting the politicians in their
place.
It’s almost like a Django Unchained style revenge fantasy, although of course the Panther is not lethally violent.
The main Klansman in the story is called the Soul Strangler.
Not sure if he was intended to eventually have some connection to the
Dragon Circle alternative “Clan” seen in issue #19; we haven’t really
heard much about them since that initial issue.
Outside of all of that, i really liked seeing the Panther show up to this issue in a Wakandan Sonar Glider.
Notes
- Reality becomes intwined with a local Georgia legend as T’Challa becomes part of Monica Lynne’s fantasy. The Soul-Strangler and Caleb will return to Earth-616 in later issues of Marvel Premiere.
- Billy Graham, artist on this
series since issue #10, leaves after page 5 of this issue (“pursuing the
sweet lure of the stage and the performing arts”). He’s replaced by
Richard Buckler, who drew the first three Black Panther issues of Jungle
Action (#6-7).
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“White Fire, Atomic Death!” / MORTE ATOMICA (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
- Black Goliath (Bill Foster)
Villains:
- Atom-Smasher
- Ambrose Connors
Other Characters:
- Talia Kruma
- Herbert Bell
- Dale West
Locations:
- Los Angeles
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
The next day our nigger hero goes back to work at Stark Industries’ west coast
facility and puts his “whiz kids” on the job of tracking down the Atom
Smasher.
They think they’re building a device for the police; they don’t know
that Foster is Black Goliath. Goliath catches up with the Atom Smasher
again, but a mysterious bald cigar-smoking guy with the eight
jeweled rings orders to assassinate them (He will turn out to be Ambrose Connors, an executive from
CTE, as shown in back-up story “Swashbuclers” in Marvel Fanfare #3, in Italy in SPECIALE MARVEL FANFARE # 1 , Star Comics, 1990 (It will also
be revealed that the Atom Smasher’s brother had him killed, but that
obviously wasn’t the original intent).
