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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN num: 9781401212537
ISBN number: 1401212530
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 560
Printing Date: June 06, 2007
Publishing house: DC Comics
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: June 06, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 531892
Studio: DC Comics
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Over 500 pages of classic adventures are included in this value-priced volume collecting one of the most unusual series ever from DC Comics.
On an unnamed, uncharted Pacific island, dinosaurs continued to thrive while World War II raged across the globe. It is on this island that members of the U.S. Armed Forces found themselves -- armed only with standard issue weapons against the deadliest predators ever to roam the Earth.
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I looked forward to this title for months. Only when I sat down to read it did I realize just how poor my memory of childhood titles is.
Basically this is the same set of three or four, at most, stories retold again and again.
Soldiers end up on a mysterious island, are attacked by various monsters, throw grenades and fire weapons to kill monsters, escape. Repeat.
The silliest thing is not the repetition. No, it's the trio of acrobat brothers who make apperances again and again.
I have not finished the book and probably never will. What's the point after reading the same storyline ten times in a row?
I have enjoyed the other Showcase Presents titles but this is definetly not one I will buy a sequel, if there is one, to.
There are so many other great DC series that could and should have been produced instead.
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Definitely a crazy idea from a strange time.
400 or 500 pages of this stuff may be overkill for modern readers. How did we stand the sheer silliness in such massive doses?
We didn't. At the time we did not have a comic shop to go to every week and the titles themselves were often deivered irregularly to the grocery store. Continuity and characterization was not something we looked for, just sheer entertainment value for 12 cents. The single issue was what we had and the whole world had to be inside, no on going mini-series, Maxi-event cross over stuff.
Rolled up in a back pocket, the comic would accompany me on my bike (with tassles on the handlebars!) to my friend Ricky Fitzgeralds or Tim Howell and we would swap whatever it was that they had acquired with their allowance and enjoy ourselves with no need for dark angst or tragedy driven growth.
Dinosaurs and automatic weapons? Oh yeah! Abandon all belief and logic and read 'em all, one at a time on a rainy day in your bedroom or under a tree in the park.
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It's 500+ pages of G.I.'s fighting dinosaurs! What more do you need to know? Yes, it feels a little like reading the same story over and over and over again. So? G.I's fighting dinosaurs! As brilliant in concept as it is in execution.
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Holy Cow!! Dinosaurs AND WW II action!! What boy could resist? DC wasn't letting any grass grow under their feet in this '60s series (although someone on the team obviously was over fond of submarines). Just don't try to read the stories yourself as you'll only go mad.
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The 3 stars is for what I remember of The War That Time Forgot. Even as a kid, I could only say it was alright.
OK, WWII and dinosaurs. OK, limited (very limited) characterization. OK, dumb stories. OK, not exactly knock-your-socks-off art (like I could do any better).
Still, from little acorns grow mighty oaks.
The War That Time Forgot is an integral part of Darwyn Cooke's NEW FRONTIER, an absolutely smashing maxi-series re-imagining DC Comics' Silver Age. Cooke takes all the old comic tropes and makes them new again, and relevant both to the times that they occurred in, and to today.
I can't tell you how TWTTF figures into NEW FRONTIER. That would definitely be a spoiler, and I have too much respect for Cooke's work to do that. Cooke himself has much respect for his source materials and their authors, and honors them with his imagination and very apparent love of and for the medium.
And hey, what's wrong with WWII and dinosaurs? Unbelievable, you say?
You believe a man can fly, don't you?
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