COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Marvel Feature 1 Modern
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1399013002
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Woohoo! Look at me! I have my own comic. Here, in only my ninth appearance - my fist solo appearance. Glad I got the same kind of traction as Kull. Oh wait, Kull's name is in the actual title of the book and Kull the Conqueror 1 is like his third appearance. At least I'm not Thongorr. Oh wait, he got his tryout series two years ago. And it was eight issues long. (ok - secretly I like Thongorr too - I'm picking on his 8 issue tryout in Creatures on the Loose; it's good stuff).
Let's take a look at this cover - it's a special one, most of the RS covers are by Frank Thorne, but not this one. Gil Kane & John Romita teamed up to create this image. We've got a pretty solid ant's eye view of Sonja leaping, I say leaping, into the fray; we've got a knock off Skeletor from the Spirit Halloween Store (occupying a former box retailer near you now!), a definite snake on the right, and a thing that looks like a snake on LSD on the left; and some sexless, cloven hooved, ape men? I guess. There's a damn lot going on here. I can't really say much about Sonja's stance, since she's surrendered any leverage of footwork in exchange for a mighty jump from the temple doorway high above into the ape men. One of them has clearly lost the battle trying to maintain his huge upper torso balanced on his wee tiny hooves and has fallen backward. The other two - one looks like they're trying to catch Sonja and the other is making the most ineffectual use of a spear of some sort. Try stabbing. It's a stabby weapon. Which can be braced against the ground even, if you duck your big, dumb head down. Although...I do have to admit, that Sonja's use of her sword at the moment wouldn't exactly inspire fear in my little simian brain. It's just in a really awkward position over her head with her elbow at a weird angle. Anyway - if she's leaping, she should be leaping beside her target of choice and swinging to intersect the soft tissue of the neck in the sweet part of her sword arc. I'm not sure what she's doing with her dagger either - in that hand the point should be directed right at the snake (not the LSD snake) to prevent it from striking. Really it's her best choice to make the snake work around the point to get at her. Like rapier work.
Overall, there's just so much going on in this image - but it does convey a sense of motion and a sense of urgency. Partly from the temple in the background being canted one direction and the line of the spearhead through Sonja's head being canted the other. Of course the word balloons are totally unnecessary to convey the image and should never have been added. The same is true for the "First Issue" blurb - no, really, it's 1975, we can see the actual issue number in the corner. It's a 1. Remove these two word boxes - and yeah - maybe it's a pretty good cover image.
And maybe that's enough to separate me from my hard earned cash.
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