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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 8, 2022 16:07:55 GMT -5
kirby101, I used to go to Passaic Book Center in Passaic back in the early 70s, and years later in Montclair, too, when they opened a store there. Old-fashioned used bookstores, both filled to overflowing with all kinds of printed matter.
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Post by foxley on Jun 8, 2022 16:18:12 GMT -5
Green Arrow Annual #4 (1991, DC, Mike Grell) Fun fact for those of you who haven't read this issue: it's a robin Robin Hood story co-written by Mark Ryan who played Nasir in the Robin of Sherwood TV series.
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 8, 2022 16:29:56 GMT -5
So I wanted to post Spider-Man Annual #1. I remember how excited I was when I received this with mo back issue order from Passaic Comics in 1973. Those Ditko splash pages of all the villains were so cool. But I decided to post Spider-Man Annual #6, because it's a reprint of Annual #1, but Romita drew a cover that was so much better than Ditko's. Here is a link to the cover of Annual #1, which I won't post the image in case someone else wants to use it. On the other hand I will post the original art for this Romita masterpiece. Undoubtedly. This was the way a Spider-Man battle scene--the expressions on the villains' faces...Spider-Man caught in action--should be depicted. "Defining" would be a serious understatement for the way Romita transformed Spider-Man.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 8, 2022 17:54:32 GMT -5
Conan Annual (a.k.a. King-size Special Issue) #1 (Marvel, 1973)
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 8, 2022 19:40:14 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Jun 8, 2022 20:08:57 GMT -5
What a shame that everyone here seems to loathe Marvel books...
Giant-Size Man-Things seem to be strangely popular though ...
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Post by Farrar on Jun 8, 2022 20:14:24 GMT -5
Super DC Giant #S-21 I have a few copies of this comic, I love this cover--and I think I had a print or poster of this many years ago
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Post by berkley on Jun 8, 2022 20:14:34 GMT -5
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 8, 2022 21:31:44 GMT -5
I know I saw this cover when I was younger - perhaps around the time it came out (if so, I would have been six) and it was strange watching Super Powers on Saturday mornings and stumbling upon something like whenever I happened to stumble upon it. Batman never looked like this before - so lifelike, so shadowy, wearing an outfit which creases the way real material does. That center image is so perfect, the cover itself so realistic, but I still can't figure out what it's trying to convey. Four faces of Batman, I guess. If so, the bottom two are pretty clear, but the other two? You've got me.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 8, 2022 21:46:44 GMT -5
In with an iconic comic... Superman Annual 11
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 11, 2022 19:23:56 GMT -5
Super DC Giant #S-21 I have a few copies of this comic, I love this cover--and I think I had a print or poster of this many years ago Remember when this issue's cover artist Charlie Armentano posted here a few times?
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Post by MDG on Jun 11, 2022 20:19:39 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Jun 11, 2022 23:31:07 GMT -5
Fantastic Four King-Size Special 8
This was a big comic for me as a kid. One of the many reprints that enabled me to appreciate the earlier FF and the earlier 1960s Marvel in general that I'd been too young to read the first time around.
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Post by berkley on Jun 11, 2022 23:33:08 GMT -5
Super DC Giant #S-21 I have a few copies of this comic, I love this cover--and I think I had a print or poster of this many years ago Remember when this issue's cover artist Charlie Armentano posted here a few times? I do not - great cover, though. What did he have to say? I'm certainly motivated to look for more of his work based on this one sample.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 12, 2022 9:40:47 GMT -5
Remember when this issue's cover artist Charlie Armentano posted here a few times? I do not - great cover, though. What did he have to say? I'm certainly motivated to look for more of his work based on this one sample. There's very little else published in comics, I think just the back cover of DC SUPER_SPECTACULAR #5. He shared that he was an associate of Bob Larkin, and modeled for several of Larkin's cover paintings. He's easy to spot once you know!
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