Hooray for Wally Wood

Wallace Wood

Thanks to his (literally) stellar work on the EC Comics line, Wallace Allan Wood (1927-1981) is widely considered America's greatest science fiction cartoonist, but he was also one of the brightest lights of the early Mad comic ("Superduperman") and, later, a pioneering alternative/underground cartoonist/publisher with his magazine witzend.

"Wood's work seemed like snapshots of a lush and vibrant reality where even madmen, monsters and mayhem possessed a stately grace. There might be pandemonium but, oddly, the panic never seemed to reach the eyes of Wood's regal heroes." - Geoff Boucher, The Los Angeles Times

"Legendary artist [Wally] Wood mastered every comic-book genre -- humor (he was one of Mad's first artists), horror, superheroes, war — but is best known for the 1950s science-fiction stories he drew for EC Comics, in which, one commentator noted, he 'began drawing things into panels that no human being seemed capable of before.' His heroic spacemen, intricate rocket ships, and frightening aliens embodied classic space opera, and his influence remains visible in the work of many leading comics artists today." - Gordon Flagg, Booklist

Robert Dennis: Marvel Saga #3 Stat Replacement/Restoration



As purchased, with a photocopied title logo stat at the top. Art by Ron Frenz and John Byrne.



With carefully color-matched and re-sized title logo stat and additional caption boxes added.

Marvel Saga #3, February 1986 : "Book III: A Gathering of Dooms"

Wraparound cover by Ron Frenz and John Byrne. The Official History of the Marvel Universe continues as we witness the complete origin and history of Prince Namor and his first strike against the surface world. Plus, the conclusion to Spider-Man's origin, as well as the complete origin of Doctor Doom and his very first battle with the Fantastic Four. And, we meet the mysterious man known as Professor X. Featuring excerpts from Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962) , Fantastic Four #4 and #5 (1961), Fantastic Four Annual #1 and #2, Marvel Mystery Comics  #9 (1939), Sub-Mariner #1 and #8 (1968), Incredible Hulk #2 (1962) , Uncanny X-Men #38 (1963), and Giant Size Invaders #1 (1975).

Doctor Doom Says: Buy Marvel Hedge Funds

With prices in the gold market crashing like a lead zeppelin, I've converted my life savings completely to Marvel currency.

Towards the Integrative

In Fritjof Capra’s vision of an emerging ecological paradigm, he calls for a shift in current thinking and values  -- from self-assertion to integration. These two systems, the self-assertive and the integrative, are essential aspects of all living systems. What is healthiest for all is a dynamic balance; an overemphasis of one tendency and neglect of the other is unhealthy. As you might guess, Western industrial culture has overemphasized the self-assertive at the expense of the integrative.

Mr. Capra writes in The Web of Life, “Power, in the sense of domination over others, is excessive self-assertion. The social structure in which it is exerted most effectively is the hierarchy. Indeed, our political, military, and the corporate structures are hierarchically ordered. Most of these men, and a few women, have come to see their position in the hierarchy as part of their identity, and thus the shift to a different system of values generates existential fear in them.

However, there is another kind of power, one that is more appropriate for the new paradigm -- power as influence over others. The ideal structure for exerting this kind of power is not the hierarchy but the network, which is also the central metaphor of ecology. The paradigm shift thus includes a shift in social organization from hierarchies to networks.”

                            Thinking

Self Assertive                               Integrative

rational                                         intuitive

analysis                                         synthesis

reductionist                                  holistic

linear                                             nonlinear

                             Values

Self Assertive                               Integrative

expansion                                     conservation

competition                                 cooperation

quantity                                        quality

domination                                  partnership

Doctor Doom says, "It's time for your year-end review."

Satroialist Marvel Style: Doctor Doom and the Incredible Hulk