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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 22, 2021 23:52:53 GMT -5
That DC Comics Presents #41 is a catch and one of those comics which deserves to be a lot more appreciated than it is. I'd say it's worth it for the Jose Luis Garcia Lopez artwork alone but that would be doing a strong disservice to Marty Pasko's excellent tale which should have inspired more Superman/Joker encounters. It also contains the first Roy Thomas/Gene Colan Wonder Woman story, which comes between WW #287 and #288. I'm not sure whose idea it was to have a title reboot start in an entirely different series, but it was a stupid idea! Weird - I guess I had supposed that what we were getting here was something already accounted for in Wonder Woman. Hadn't realized that wasn't the case. It is a good story from what I remember.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2021 1:18:52 GMT -5
It also contains the first Roy Thomas/Gene Colan Wonder Woman story, which comes between WW #287 and #288. I'm not sure whose idea it was to have a title reboot start in an entirely different series, but it was a stupid idea! Weird - I guess I had supposed that what we were getting here was something already accounted for in Wonder Woman. Hadn't realized that wasn't the case. It is a good story from what I remember. DC did that frequently in that era. The New Teen Titans debuting in an insert in Dc Comics Presents #26, Amethyst in Legion #298, Night Force in New Teen Titans #21, etc. I guess the idea was to get people to read it in a book they already were buying before the first issue to get people interested enough to buy the first issue. Since Wonder Woman wasn't a big seller, and a new creative team wasn't likely to get people to try it sight unseen, it was a gamble to put it in front of the eyes of existing customers to other books to see if they could entice them to buy Wonder Woman when it came out, consumers who would NOT have given the book a second look otherwise. -M
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2021 15:52:33 GMT -5
One more comic related item I picked up at HBP yesterday, not a comic but comic prose by Christopher Priest featuring Alan Scott... -M
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 23, 2021 16:23:28 GMT -5
I went to Ollies today and picked up a few goodies. The last time I was there (maybe almost a year ago?) they had a Golden Age JSA Archives which I unfortunately didn't get, and told myself that I'd get it today if it was still there. Of course, it wasn't, but I still got some neat stuff. This World's Finest reprints some 60's World's Finest comics, and the Archie is a collection of reprints from various archie comics with fantasy or horror (as in Halloween) themes. It seems to be mostly newer stuff, though there's at least some stuff from the 80's. The book on the right here reprints the Superman/Doomsday series from the 90's, as well as Doomsday Annual #1. The Solo and Lando books are not classics, but they looked interesting, and I just decided to throw them in here. They also had a Newsboy Legion hardcover collection of Golden Age comics, but I passed on that. I'm not made of money!
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 23, 2021 16:35:02 GMT -5
It also contains the first Roy Thomas/Gene Colan Wonder Woman story, which comes between WW #287 and #288. I'm not sure whose idea it was to have a title reboot start in an entirely different series, but it was a stupid idea! It was a marketing fad at the time. They did the same thing with ALL-STAR SQUADRON and THE NEW TEEN TITANS, I think. Probably others I bet.
The WONDER WOMAN thing probably seems even stupider than the others, as it involved a series that was already being published, not a new one.
Crazy enough, while I liked Gene Colan on WW, I was MUCH happier when Roy Thomas got the HELL off the book, replaced by Gary Cohn & Dan Mishkin. They became my favorite WW writers of the time.
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 23, 2021 16:43:42 GMT -5
There needs to be a big hardcover collection of that Jonny Quest series. I loved the first year of Comico's JONNY QUEST, where each issue they had big name artists fighting for a chance to do an issue.
The "CLASSICS" mini was ASTONISHING. Doug Wildey, the CREATOR of the TV show, getting to do comic-book adaptations of 3 of his favorite episodes. WOW.
Did you know, I believe it was when Cartoon Central ran a block of "Boomerang" after midnights on Saturdays, when they re-ran JQ with brand-new CLEAR SHARP UNCUT prints of the show (and only ONE commercial break in the middle), they actually SURGICALLY removed Wildey's big signature from the end credits? They didn't want his name listed as the show's creator anymore! WTF??
I had a beef with Comico when they decided to keep JQ going... with a regular creative team... and it was a pair of guys who, while "okay", I wasn't thrilled with. They weren't nearly as impressive as ANY of the big names who'd done the first year.
I wrote to complain about it. Actually got a reply from an editor, who said, "Well, WE like it!" Sales apparently TANKED shortly after, and it got cancelled.
Someone once argued, the license-owner PULLED BACK the license... well... couldn't this be because SALES WENT THRU THE FLOOR? (Some people just love to argue for the sake of being contradictory.)
"Well WE like it" was the exact same words a DC editor said when I complained about the new art on SUPERBOY... less than 6 months before that book got canned for PLUNGING sales. Uh huh.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 26, 2021 14:39:24 GMT -5
Went to my CS in Jersey and picked up dollar books. I couldn't resist the Neal Adams cover on GI Combat 202 and I never read a Herbie comic. I'm filling out the Bwahaha Ha JL series
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 26, 2021 14:40:56 GMT -5
More JL and filling out some Superman books.
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 26, 2021 14:43:46 GMT -5
I have too much love for this issue. As I've said before, it got me into Japanese Period Dramas and comic books. Have plans to get a mint copy and have Dixon sign it someday One more comic related item I picked up at HBP yesterday, not a comic but comic prose by Christopher Priest featuring Alan Scott... Comic book novels has always struck me as a bizarre idea (had a few that came into my possession from my mom, think I gave them away, not really knowing what to do with them), might have to pick that one up. Love Alan and Priest
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 26, 2021 15:24:53 GMT -5
Went to my CS in Jersey and picked up dollar books. I couldn't resist the Neal Adams cover on GI Combat 202 and I need read a Herbie comic. I'm filling out the Bwahaha Ha JL series Good ones! I love Dollar Comics (though I never got into war comics) and absolutely love the Giffen/DeMatties Justice League!
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 27, 2021 19:32:31 GMT -5
Got this in the mail and it completes my 72 issue Boys run. Yeah, It's the Dynamite reprint edition but It fills the spot until the original #1 comes back to earth in price.
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Post by arfetto on Sept 28, 2021 17:25:50 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 28, 2021 19:08:00 GMT -5
Nice colors on that book.
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 28, 2021 19:37:41 GMT -5
that artwork is gorgeous and reminds me a ton of Moebius
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 29, 2021 23:13:17 GMT -5
Came across an extraordinary find in a thrift store a couple of days ago - a signed copy of Jack Kirby: Heroes and Villains from 1987.
I had no idea what it was when I picked it up - the cover is all black with the title embossed in same - and was hoping that I'd find a collection of old reprinted stories contained within. What I found was about 130 pages of black and white sketches of everyone from Superman and Spider-Man and Doctor Doom to The Fighting American, Blastaar, The Invincible Man, and, well... pretty much any character he worked on and some he didn't.
It's a limited edition reproduction of a sketchbook he gave his wife (mine is numbered 461/1000) and it's signed. I paid $15 for it and found only two copies online for sale - one asking for $450 and the other $1500. Not something which happens often to me and if I didn't know that the store from which I purchased it doesn't actually send the money they make from their sales to their affiliated charity (they instead weigh all donations when they come in and then send a percentage based on that to the charity) I'd feel pretty skeezy about it.
Anyone know what this book generally goes for or is it too scarce to really pinpoint?
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