Batman/Punisher : Lake of Fire

Batman/Punisher: Lake of Fire

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Description

Punisher teams up with the replacement Batman whose brutal tactics compliment one another.

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way By Stan Lee

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Preface  

You know how it is. You intend to paint the barn, or mow the lawn, tidy up your

room, or write a book—but you keep putting it off because there are a zillion other

things you’d rather do. Well, that’s the way it was with me. I've spent so many

years as editor, art director and writer of so many superhero yarns that I just

couldn't bring myself to write the one book that I knew would have to be written

sooner or later-the one book that Marvel fans everywhere always ask for when-

ever I deliver one of my lilting little lectures on some campus or other. Namely,

the hook you’re now so gratefully grasping in your pencil-smudged little paws.

Why has it been so eagerly requested? Simple. You see, while there's a veritable

plethora of “How to Draw“ manuals gallantly glorifying any bookseller's shelves,

up to now there’s been no book available to tell a budding young Buscema, or

Kirby, Colan or Kane how to draw comic book superheroes, and-most importantly

-how to do it in the mildly magnificent Marvel style. 

Yep, I knew I’d hate to write

it someday, and it all came together when Big John organized his comic book

workshop.

Early in '75 Johnny toId me he was going to teach a course in drawing for the

comics. My curiosity aroused, I visited one of his classes and was absolutely

amazed at the quality and depth of his instruction. You know how rare it is to find

the foremost person in some field who can actually teach as well as perform.

Well, take it from me, I had certainly found him that day-and I was doubly

fortunate in that he was a longtime friend as well as a co-worker at Marvel Comics.

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

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Story : Tintin, a reporter for Le Petit Vingtième, is sent with his dog Snowy on an assignment to the Soviet Union, departing from Brussels. En route to Moscow, an agent of the OGPU - the Soviet secret police - sabotages the train and declares the reporter to be a "dirty little bourgeois". The Berlin Police blame Tintin for the bombing but he escapes to the border of the Soviet Union. Following closely, the OGPU agent finds Tintin and brings him before the local Commissar's office, instructing the Commissar to make the reporter "disappear ... accidentally". Escaping again, Tintin finds "how the Soviets fool the poor idiots who still believe in a Red Paradise" by burning bundles of straw and clanging metal in order to trick visiting English Marxists into believing that non-operational Soviet factories are productive.

In observing a Soviet election, Tintin finds that the Communists coerce people to vote for their list by pointing guns at them, and that apparently productive factories are just hollow shells intended to fool British communists by burning hay to produce smoke and hitting large sheets of corrugated iron to imitate the sound of machinery. In wandering the streets of Moscow, he discovers that Soviet authorities hand out bread to starving children only if they declare themselves Communists; if they fail to do so, the children are beaten and refused food. Due to the relegation of the bulk of Russia's wheat crop to export, so as to maintain the illusion that Russia is wealthy and can therefore afford to send huge quantities away, Moscow is experiencing severe famine. Thus, the Communist leadership plans to pillage productive farms. Tintin manages to save several kulaks by warning them of the approaching troops, but is again captured when he attracts the attention of a military officer.