Old Comics

I've been going through my old comics, deciding if there's anything I want to give away. Precis: Man, I own some odd stuff.

• Avengers #300, circa 1988: Captain America put together an interim team around this point, consisting of himself (going by just "The Captain" at that point, 'cause he'd been fired), Thor, Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman (who were supposed to be taking a break from superheroing) and Gilgamesh, the Forgotten One. Yeah, that's right, "The Forgotten One". The guy with the bull's-head helmet? Yeah, yoinks, that was an odd team.
• Daredevil circa 1988: I'd forgotten how odd Daredevil by Ann Nocenti and John Romita, Jr. was, but it was pretty good, too.
• Underworld Unleashed: Apokolips: Dark Uprising and Batman: Devil's Asylum: Yeah, whoopee, two Underwear Unwashed spinoffs in which we see how scary the villain Neron is in comics in which there's a lot of sound 'n fury, but no actual changes to the status quo.
• Unknown Soldier and Doctor Thirteen (both 1997): What do these comics have in common? They both take old DC characters who hadn't gotten a lot of play (a war hero and a "ghost-breaker") and update them for the 90s by making them thoroughly unlikeable and borderline psychotic.
• The raw cynicism of Avengers: Disassembled still appalls me.
• Fantastic Four, circa 1992: Oh, yes, the saga of the FF versus "Occulus The Unforgiving!" DeFalco is truly not the best writer the FF ever had. Yeesh.