Comics UK

This would make a great quiz show, identifying a comic from a single panel. I was reading an Essentials volume (clue) and was struck by this panel. Very refreshing to have an alien who's name is unpronounceable rather than saying "I am Threlg from Planet X".

Very interesting, Steve: I actually remember this frame from donkey's years back! [unless this story device was used ad-infinitum by the same publishers]

Let's see if someone can identify the story first: however I hope you will give the basics of the story's conclusion [maybe whole-page scan representations of crucial plotlines?] later though.

Definately looks familiar to me!

Great idea for a thread, by the way.

That's from Avengers 4, the one where Captain America comes back. Or as I knew it, Terrific No.2.

NP wrote:That's from Avengers 4, the one where Captain America comes back. Or as I knew it, Terrific No.2.

Avengers 4 definitely, but it was reprinted in Smash! not Terrific, Nigel. (Terrific No.1 and 2 reprinted The Avengers from issue 6.)

stevezodiac wrote:Very refreshing to have an alien who's name is unpronounceable rather than saying "I am Threlg from Planet X".

I might be completely wrong about this, but I think Leonard Nimoy's character in Star Trek wasn't actually called Spock - he was referred to as such by the humans as his real name was unpronounceable via their puny human gobs.

I wasn't that impressed with other sections of this story. Captain America is thawed out after twenty years frozen in ice and within minutes is showing the Avengers his athletic skills. He remembers the Eskimos who worshipped him even though he would have been in a coma and couldn't have been aware of them.

Power comics were so keen on un-Americanizing the stories (eg replacing fire hydrants with no parking signs <when they remembered, so street scenes had poor continuity> and deleting chunks of text relating to the cold war) that I'm surprised they didn't rename the frozen fellow to Captain Birdseye!

Anyone who has seen Kill Bill vol 1 will know it took Uma Thurman 17 hours just to wiggle her toes after being in a coma. (Mind you I don't think it would have gone down well with 60s Marvel fans if Cap had taken several issues before he could actually take part in the action). Maybe we can credit the super soldier serum with his rapid recovery.