OK, maybe not...but it's definitely in the running.
There are some stories that are timeless...and then there are some that are so completely of one particular era, it's like stepping aboard a time machine.
From the blurb on the cover...
...to the title in"Black Power Salute Font" (along with "John Lennon lyric" font)...
...to Sam Wilson's strained relations with peeps in his neighborhood...
...to the chapter break...
...to the title of the next chapter (!)...
...to more extraordinary lingo...
...to strife...
...to the completely insane revelation that The Man, the leader of the People's Militia who has been fomenting riots, is really...
...to the militants reaction to that stunning revelation...
...to Cap and the Falcon discussing race relations...
...this book just screams 70s, doesn't it?
Thank you, Gary Friedrich and John Romita Sr, for making us love again in Captain America #143 (1971).
There are some stories that are timeless...and then there are some that are so completely of one particular era, it's like stepping aboard a time machine.
From the blurb on the cover...
...to the title in"Black Power Salute Font" (along with "John Lennon lyric" font)...
...to Sam Wilson's strained relations with peeps in his neighborhood...
...to the chapter break...
...to the title of the next chapter (!)...
...to more extraordinary lingo...
...to strife...
...to the completely insane revelation that The Man, the leader of the People's Militia who has been fomenting riots, is really...
...to the militants reaction to that stunning revelation...
...to Cap and the Falcon discussing race relations...
...this book just screams 70s, doesn't it?Thank you, Gary Friedrich and John Romita Sr, for making us love again in Captain America #143 (1971).
It's certainly a glorious snapshot of the first half of the '70s: the not-1960s-but-still-not-the-Disco-half Seventies. The first half of the decade brings back "fond" memories of urban blight, Blaxploitation, funky TV music, leftover late '60s New Left radicalism, and HUGE muttonchop sideburns.
ReplyDeleteGod, how I love it so.