Drawn by: Al Milgrom
Originally purchased: no idea
Repurchased: Found in old box
Ok, I love Captain Marvel. Especially in his 70s cosmic awareness incarnation. To a young kid in the 70s, Captain Marvel was all kinds of awesome. Sadly, issue 49 is not one his better outings.
The issue begins with Captain Marvel callously throwing Rick Jones into the Negative Zone.
"Why are you doing this to meeee!"
In the Negative Zone, Rick finds himself surrounded by baddies.
But never fear, it was all just a dream. Rick awakens to find himself on a farm where he has a little internal dialogue to explain that he and Marvel are tied together by the Nega-bands and that when Marvel is on Earth, Rick is in the Negative Zone.
Doctor Tara shows up to explain she actually a Kree stuck on Earth and needs Captain Marvel's help. Oh she needs some lovin' too.
That's right people, Rick Jones was a player in 1970s comics too. Also notice Rick has known this woman all of five minutes. Don't tell me he doesn't have any super-powers.
After a roll in the hay, Rick is informed by Doctor Tara's collegue, Dr. Mac-Ronn, that Ronan is on Earth. Also the lady serving the pancakes has Princess Leia hair.
Rick reluctantly changes into Captain Marvel. Try that pose, it's not easy.
Marvel flies off to find Ronan while Tara and Mac-Ronn follow because Tara is fascinated with them. Yeah lady you just want to make sure nothing happens to your boy-toy Rick Jones. Also there's some sort of virus growing. Confused yet? It get worse.
You see there's also a Kree Sentry Robot that's absorbed the brain patterns of some Mexican banditos, also he's turned some peasant into the Cheetah. That's right, the robot has absorbed the brain patterns of Mexican bandits.
Also they're on some sort of anti-captialist rampage. But before they can finish turning Mexico into a socialist paradise they're put under the thrall of anoher.
Marvel spots the Sentry and the Cheetah, and propmtly forgets all about Ronin.
Marvel, the Sentry, and the Cheetah fight but their battle is interupted by the arrival of Ronin. And he's apparently been driven crazy by that virus. Also he's got some serious joint issues because normal people don't stand like that.
Marvel demonstrates his modern dance steps.
Ronin kills Doctor Tara and then laughs about it.
Captain Marvel get's all cosmicy, defeats the Sentry which depowers the cheetah.
And then pummels Ronin for a while.
And then walks away while the piano music from the Hulk plays.
So how does this hold up? Wow, is this thing a mess. It's terrible. I mean bad. Bad art, bad writing, I guess the lettering is ok but hey when's the last time you bought a comic for the lettering.
The letter page. You know what I notice. They printed people's full name and address in the letter pages back then. Crazy. I especially like the letter of Charles L. Ehrenpreis of 777 East 14th Avenue Apt 102 Denver Colorado. Who notes that "issues divisible by fifty have a tendency to bomb anyway." How long do you think he spent working out that theory?
By the way Mar-vell do you really thinking threatening people is the best way to get them to write?
Marvel bullpen bulletins including Stan Lee's Soapbox.
Hostess
King Kong - the most exciting orignial motion picture event of all time.
I can think of several things wrong with that description.
(I apologize for the quality of some of these scans. I upgraded to Mountain Lion and it broke my scanner drivers.)
Next time: We look at the first issue of one of the best comics of the 1980s.
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