Descrizione
GLI ETERNI
EDITORIALE CORNO, 1978
Se qui da noi la definizione GLI ETERNI evoca irrimediabilmente entità immortali, inalienabili ed incombenti quali Giorgio Napolitano, Silvio Berlusconi, Maurizio Costanzo, Pierferdinando Casini, Corrado Augias e Pippo Baudo, in america invece è una serie supereroistica a fumetti classica ed intramontabile ( ETERNALS in lingua originale ) che deve il suo successo e la sua popolarità non a scandali, processi , rumours di collusioni con mafia e malavita, presunti crimini dal colletto bianco e bustarelle ma solamente e immensamente ai magnifici disegni dell’ indimenticabile re JACK KIRBY
Questa è la favolosa serie gigante Corno che ha fatto conoscere in Italia la superba saga SF-fantasy , e ne è rimasta l’ unica pubblicazione nostrana per decenni, fino al masterwork integrale uscito pochi anni fa e puff ! oggi già disperatamente ed inesorabilmente esaurito
Tra l’ altro la collana ospita anche altro materiale eccellente, ristampato poco o addirittura mai, un po’ per dimenticanza, un po’ per pigrizia, un po’ per ignoranza , un po’ per accidia, un po’ per impedimenti oggettivi : MACHINE-MAN , NOVA , 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY , OMEGA , GUARDIANS OF GALAXY , LUNAR alias MOON KNIGHT alias IL CAVALIERE DELLA LUNA, CYBERNUS / DEATHLOK the demolisher , 3-D MAN, e c’è persino un episodio di X-Men di Claremont & Byrne sull’ ultimo numero, il 29.
in questo albo : continuano le saghe degli ETERNI, di NOVA (nella cui storia compare per la prima volta la testolina di diamante di Archibald Dyker) e di OMEGA (quest’ultimo con lo scontroso HULK a fargli da occasionale e sgradita compagnia) mentre prosegue pure la pubblicazione della espansione seriale di 2001 ODISSEA NELLO SPAZIO ad opera di Jack Kirby che segue a ruota la graphic novel della Treasury Edition in formato gigante con il suo personalissimo adattamento a fumetti del film di Stanley Kubrick ispirato a sua volta al romanzo di Arthur C. Clarke (quella di questa collana resta a tutt’oggi l’unica edizione italiana mai prodotta , infatti la miniserie non è tuttora ristampabile per il drastico ed inflessibile veto della casa di produzione cinematografica MGM detentrice dei diritti che non ha mai gradito questa stupenda versione considerandola invece una interpretazione arbitraria ed incoerente, poco aderente e troppo divergente dai canoni concettuali fondamentali e dai cardini di senso assiomatici dell’ opera originale, se non addirittura lesiva nei confronti della leggendaria pellicola)
CONDIZIONI : QUASI OTTIME , L’ALBO NON E’ DI RESA
LEGENDA STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE
condizioni ECCELLENTI (o anche EDICOLA e/o MAGAZZINO) = si intende un oggetto nuovo e perfetto oppure usato senza difetti e praticamente ancora come nuovo, tenendone per quest’ultimo caso in conto ovviamente la datazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 8,5 e 9,8 (non assegniamo punteggi superiori a 9,8 perchè trattasi di tipi ideali a ns avviso più teorici e scolastici che reali e concreti, ogni manufatto umano in natura ha una percentuale insita e congenita seppur infinitesimale di imperfezione)
condizioni OTTIME = oggetto nuovo (o talora anche usato ma maneggiato e conservato con molta cura) in cui non si riscontra alcun difetto rilevante e degno di nota, tutt’al più qualche minimo segno di lettura o di uso ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 7 e 8,5
condizioni BUONISSIME = oggetto usato (ed in taluni casi anche fondo di magazzino soggetto a piccole usure del tempo) con lievi imperfezioni e difetti poco vistosi, generalmente molto marginali ed appena percepibili ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 5,5 e 7
condizioni MOLTO BUONE = oggetto usato con imperfezioni vistose e difetti abbastanza spiccati, pur se non completamente invalidanti (generalmente specificati nel dettaglio alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto); corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 4 e 5,5
condizioni PIU’ CHE BUONE / MEDIOCRI = oggetto usato con imperfezioni e difetti evidenti, smaccati, madornali ed invalidanti, assolutamente non collezionabile tuttavia idoneo per la semplice lettura o documentazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale inferiore a 4
per eventuali ulteriori dettagli aggiuntivi e specifici si prega di fare sempre riferimento alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto
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“The Night of the Demons!” / LA NOTTE DELL’ INCUBO
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Unnamed New Yorkers
- NYPD
- Celestials
- Arishem
- Gammenon the Gatherer (First appearance)
- Merlin (Only in flashback)
- Ulysses’ crew (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- North America
- Atlantic Ocean
- South America
- Greece (flashback)
- King Arthur’s Court in Camelot (flashback)
- Olympia (Appears on a mirror screen)
Items:
- Brain Mine (First appearance)
- Flamers
- Sersi’s mirror
Vehicles:
Synopsis
Ikaris flies over Manhattan and begins fighting Kro’s Deviant armies.
Realizing that Flame Guns are useless against an Eternal, one of the
Deviants fires a brain-mine at Ikaris. The projectile strikes him in the
head and he falls to a rooftop unconscious. A flying Deviant scoops him
up and takes him to Kro’s raiding vessel.
Nearby, Sersi keeps an eye on Margo.
Margo is still coming to
grips with learning about the existence of Eternals and Deviants. She
tells Margo of the time that she turned the armies of Ulysses into pigs,
as well as the time that she worked alongside Merlin at the court of
King Arthur. A group of Deviants burst into the penthouse and attack.
Sersi uses her powers to divert their flame weapons. She then turns them
into lizards.
Meanwhile, Kro loads Ikaris’ unconscious body into a torpedo and
launches him deep into the sea.
From within the City of the Space Gods,
Ajak monitors the Deviant attack on New York. He learns of Ikaris’
defeat and retrieves the capsule containing his body. Afterwards, Doctor
Damian and he turn and watch the progress of Arishem the Judge and the
Fourth Celestial Host as they continue to survey the Inca ruins.
Trivia
- About her past as Circe, Sersi
says “The Greek storytellers never spell my name right!”. Ironically,
neither can Marvel Comics storytellers. In issue #3, her name is spelled
“Sersy”, but it is spelled correctly in this issue and in subsequent
appearances. Compounding the name confusion issue, Sersi mistakenly
refers to Margo as Carol at one point in this issue (page 13).
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“Vira the She-Demon” / VIRA LA DONNA DEMONE !
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Featured Characters:
- Vira
- Vera Gentry
Supporting Characters:
- Monolith (aka “Stone-Spirit”)
Antagonists:
- Hostile aliens
Other Characters:
- Vera’s neighbors (holograms)
Locations:
- Ganymede
- Condominium (hologram)
Synopsis
The issue starts in the distant past where the monolith instructs Vira on how to rule through fear.
Then the story shifts to the future where Vera Gentry is attacked on Ganymede
by an alien squadron.
Vera is transported into a California condo
facsimile by the monolith.
Here she rapidly ages until she dies and is
converted by the monolith into an embryo-type creature referred to as a
‘new seed’ to explore the galaxy.
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“–The Deadly Diamondhead Is Ready to Strike!” / — TESTA DI DIAMANTE E’ PRONTO A COLPIRE !
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Charles Rider
- Robert Rider
- Gloria Rider
- Ginger Jaye
- Bernie Dillon
- Roger ‘Caps’ Cooper
- Mike Burley
- Donna-Lee Dover
Antagonists:
- Diamondhead (First appearance)
- Desttructoid
- Megaman (First appearance) (Unnamed)
Other Characters:
Locations:
Items:
- Diamondhead’s Herobots
- Diamondhead’s Robot, The Destructoid
Synopsis
Diamondhead
trains in his hideout destroying all his test robots and other attack
systems with ease. He thinks about the only person he fears; “The
Dreaded One”. This is the same person The Condor and Powerhouse were
afraid of. Diamondhead aims to be the head crimelord in New York City.
He reminisces about how he used to play the ‘bad-guys’ when he was
younger, how he was a golden gloves boxer in his teens, and the events
leading up to him becoming diamondhead: While trying to steal precious
gems from a science institute he tripped into a diamond-powered laser
and was transformed into a bring made out of diamond. The scene switches
to Rich’s house, where Rich’s father sends him to bed with no supper
for fighting with Mike in school. His mother later sneaks up with a
steak sandwich for him. She explains that his father is under a lot of
stress with his new job as a principal of another school. Later, Rick
changes to his Nova costume and flies around to relax. His helmet tunes
into the police radio band, and he learns of a shootout at the park. He
flies over and gets shot a number of times, and after dismissing the
criminals he realizes he is also bulletproof. One of the criminals
escapes in a car and Nova follows and captures him too by ripping out
the steering wheel and simply standing in front of the car. The next day
at Harry S. Truman school, Rich, Ginger, ‘Caps’ and Bernie bump into
Mike and Donna-Lee. Mike punches Rich for spilling spaghetti over him
(see last issue), and Rich (forgetting his Nova powers) punches back
knocking Mike to the floor. Mike gets back up and chases Rich, where he
runs into a dead end and flies over a wall before Mike catches up to
him. The scene changes back to diamondhead, where he robs a gold
reserve, an armoured car and a bnnk all in one day. He then lets himself
get arrested and sent to prison. There, he steals a box which was found
on Powerhouse when he was arrested and escapes. Back at the Rider
household, Rich is playing Monopoly with his brother Robert, who has won
the last 176 games in a row. They hear on the radio that Diamondhead
escaped from prison and Rich leaves to find him. Nova is shocked when he
hears his mother on the police radio, then remembers shes a civilian
dispatcher for the police. He finds where Diamondhead is just to see a
man get thrown out the window. After saving him he flies in the window.
Diamondhead is inside and delivers Nova a punch that sends him flying,
where he has to grab a building to stop himself.
He actually feels this
punch and realises he isn’t as invulnerable as he thought. When he
returns, Diamondhead is missing and heads downstairs to catch him as he
leaves. Again, Nova is dealt a massive punch and is sent across the
street. Nova decides to train more when this is over. He flies into
Diamondhead, tackles him then punches him on the jaw, almost breaking
his hand. Nova is smashed onto the ground and Diamondhead flees onto a
train track. Again Nova follows him where they collide and Nova is once
again bested.
Over at Cap’s house Bernie leaves after a meeting, and
Caps gets confronted by an unknown person who he supposedly murdered.
Back on the train track, Nova punches Diamondhead, dodges a punch, and
delivers a kick to his head. Nova is distracted when his mothers voice
comes on the police band again and is punched right through a building
and into the sky. A train approaches and Diamondhead leaps on top of it.
Nova eventually catches up to Diamondhead, and warns him of a low train
tunnel. Diamondhead doesn’t believe him and hits it, knocking him into
the tunnel, where he manages to hide. He is then approached by The
Condor, where they team up to get rid of Nova and defeat the Dreaded
One.
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“Welcome To Hell’s Kitchen!” / LA PENTOLA DEL DIAVOLO (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- The Incredible Hulk
- Dr.Thomas Barrow
- Amber Grant
- Ruth Hart
- Gramps (First appearance)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Marty (thief)
- NYPD
- Officer Bob
- Rose (egg cream maker)
- Zach (vagrant)
- Ruth’s friend in prison (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Hell’s Kitchen
- Ruth and Amber’s apartment – 431 44th St.
- 9th Ave.
- Rose & Bob’s Candy Store
- Gramps’ Second-Hand Shop
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
At night, the Unknown encounters some men robbing a pawn store and
fights them off, catching a bullet in his shoulder in the process, a
pain that is felt by James-Michael not far away. The Unknown’s heroism
is appreciated by the store’s owner, “Gramps”, who treats his wound and
offers him a place to stay and work, not minding such a silent
conversation partner to keep him company.
The day after that, Amber, Ruth, and James-Michael go out to get
egg creams at a shop nearby the pawn store. Bruce Banner also happens to
be in the area, passed out near an alley after the Hulk left the
Central Park Zoo. After getting pushed around by vagrants claiming he’s
taken their spot, Banner changes back into the Hulk and starts to
rampage, endangering James-Michael and spurring the Unknown into action
to protect him.
As a photographer, Amber enthusiastically takes pictures
of the battle. The fight is ended by the sudden arrival of Electro,
whose electric blast knocks both the Unknown and Hulk out and abducts
the Unknown to help repair the android he took earlier. At the same
time, James-Michael falls unconscious and is near-death, as if struck by
lightning.
Trivia
- Omega’s confrontation with the Hulk takes place on the same day as Defenders #35 (in Italy in DIFC #3), and Defenders #36 (in Italy in DIFC #4) picks up about an hour after Hulk’s departure.
a disposizione moltissimi numeri delle altre serie Corno , Star e Marvel, sono gradite le mancoliste.
