Doctor Solar #7

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:35:26 pm

My bro just came back from Vegas and he brought me a very fine copy of Doctor Solar #7 (Gold Key series).

I haven't read it yet (which I will do

), but I flipped through the pages.

It has two Doctor Solar stories and one Professor Harbinger story.

The first story deals with an underwater city (something which could have been cool at VALIANT) and the second one deals with a meteor (very standard Superman-esque plot).

The art loosk very cool, much better than most modern comics, actually.

Zero_UK · Post by **Zero_UK** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:38:38 am

ManofTheAtom wrote:My bro just came back from Vegas and he brought me a very fine copy of Doctor Solar #7 (Gold Key series).

The first story deals with an underwater city (something which could have been cool at VALIANT) and the second one deals with a meteor (very standard Superman-esque plot).

A very nice issue to have, MOTA.
I am pretty sure that we did have an undersea city in Valiant. It was either in Magnus or Rai.
Zero

myron · Post by **myron** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:01:17 am

Zero wrote:
ManofTheAtom wrote:My bro just came back from Vegas and he brought me a very fine copy of Doctor Solar #7 (Gold Key series).

The first story deals with an underwater city (something which could have been cool at VALIANT) and the second one deals with a meteor (very standard Superman-esque plot).
A very nice issue to have, MOTA.
I am pretty sure that we did have an undersea city in Valiant. It was either in Magnus or Rai.
Zero

1-A's residence was underwater...don't recall an entire city (re-reading entire magnus run at the moment...)

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:32:13 pm

I may be wrong, but didn't the original Rai's son (the one who turned evil and wore the X-0 Commando armor) have his robot factory underwater? It's in post-Birthquake Magnus

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:20:03 pm

may be wrong, but didn't the original Rai's son (the one who turned evil and wore the X-0 Commando armor) have his robot factory underwater? It's in post-Birthquake Magnus

You are right. I kinda liked those issues of Magnus that combined the entire future world (Magnus, Rai, Psi-Lords) they were some of the better future Valiants after Unity

Zero_UK · Post by **Zero_UK** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 8:58:04 am

Ryan wrote:I may be wrong, but didn't the original Rai's son (the one who turned evil and wore the X-0 Commando armor) have his robot factory underwater? It's in post-Birthquake Magnus

True, but the story I remember concerned a whole city which had declared itself independent. It had escaped the Malev war. That's all I remember.
Zero

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:15:52 am

Zero wrote:True, but the story I remember concerned a whole city which had declared itself independent. It had escaped the Malev war. That's all I remember.
Zero

Ah yes, Rai 33.

/Magnus

Zero_UK · Post by **Zero_UK** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 2:35:23 pm

magnusr wrote:
Zero wrote:True, but the story I remember concerned a whole city which had declared itself independent. It had escaped the Malev war. That's all I remember.
Zero
Ah yes, Rai 33.

/Magnus

You are right, and so was Ryan. I just reread Rai#33. The city is called Magellan. Issue #33 was the last Rai, but the story continues in Magnus #49 (Birthquake).
Were there any previous uses of Magellan? There is also an underwater city in Gold Key Magnus #5. I shall read that next to look for any influences on this story arc.
I thought that the art on Rai #33 was superb. A bit of a contrast to Magnus #49 unfortunately.
Fascinating stuff!

Zero

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:07:43 pm

dellamorte wrote: I kinda liked those issues of Magnus that combined the entire future world (Magnus, Rai, Psi-Lords) they were some of the better future Valiants after Unity

I agree, Magnus was one of the few titles that actually improved after Birthquake. And the funny thing is that it was also one of the few titles that didn't get any of the 'big name' talent. hmmm.....

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:25:27 pm

I didn't really like Giffen's Magnus.

I hated it what he did with 1-A. It was kindda lame.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:53:57 am

ManofTheAtom wrote:I didn't really like Giffen's Magnus.

I hated it what he did with 1-A. It was kindda lame.

I wasn't a huge fan of Giffen's Magnus either, but I definitely prefer it to any of the Ostrander stuff. At least Giffen was trying to do some things.

but when I say post-BQ Magnus, I'm talking more about the Bedard issues with Rai merged in. Those were fun

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:57:44 am

I liked the Ostrander stuff. The art in those comics was very cool.

I really liked the Malev Emperor.

And the Malev War is one of my favorite Magnus arcs.

I liked very little of what came after that. I hated the time jump in issue 38, I saw no reason for it.

I like second generation characters like Torque and Obadiah, but I think that the way it happened in Magnus was a little forced.

There was still a lot that could have been done with Magnus in the years following the Malev War.

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:58:26 am

Ryan wrote:I'm talking more about the Bedard issues with Rai merged in. Those were fun

Gotta say I liked Bedard's writing a lot. Good craftmanship with care for details.

/Magnus

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