Hondo!

Plus, it gave us this from Christopher Plummer's Random Roles:
"Starcrash. Oh, my God. There are two things I can say about that: One, give me Rome any day. I’ll do porno in Rome, as long as I can get to Rome. "
He also talks about Caroline Munro.
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Another Star Crash fan here. When trying to explain its appeal I usually say, "Imagine being told to rip off Star Wars and Barbarella at the same time with a budget of approximately five dollars."

If nothing else The Black Hole gave us the Ernest Borgnine action figure.

No question about it.

Having only been exposed to a few Man-Wolf stories before, I remember reading about the Stargod stuff in the Official Handbook and having the same reaction. Plus, I was fascinated by the weird sock/shoe things he had on in the illustration that left his toes exposed. (So he could use his foot claws, presumably.)

Seconded. But fair warning that it's a lot like finding out how the sausage is made.

It may have been done largely to dominate display racks, but those '80s Baxter paper reprints were a great way for fans to catch up on famous runs.

I'm pretty sure that the Magus was originally played by Marjoe Gortner.

With John Carter I couldn't understand how an avowed fan such as Stanton could get the tone so wrong. Who could read ERB's light, breezy, and joyous books and make something so dour and self-serious? I'm not sure ERB's John Carter—a man who loves to fight—would work on screen today but I do know that wasn't what…

The stuff at the end with Kong in the city was so beautiful—and beautifully done—that it made me angry to have sat through so much filler and extraneous action.

Too much like nails on a chalkboard for me.

Too true. You can't give enough credit to LSH for legitimizing Darkseid as a great villain. Maybe it would've happened anyway during the great resurgence of interest in Kirby later in the '80s, but maybe not.

I remember reading those dueling editorials when they came out and being so, so confused.

Most of the time. Sometimes he carved them in with his fingernails. Which always bothered me.

Swamp Thing's time in space could easily fit on this list. Was that the first time Thanagarians were portrayed as scary? If so, another example of Moore being ahead of the curve.

Agreed on all counts. Well put.

Or Malcom I-IX

Meatloaf, in his love of melodrama and bombast: The William Shatner of Rock.
(Said with all fondness for both.)