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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 22, 2022 10:53:25 GMT -5
Another month in which I currently own (or used to own) every comic on my list:
Amazing Spider-Man #18 Atom #15 Avengers #9 Brave and the Bold #56 Daredevil #4 Detective Comics #332 Fantastic Four #32 Green Lanern #32 Hawkman #4 Journey into Mystery #109 Magnus, Robot Fighter #8 Sgt. Fury #11 Strange Tales #126 Tales of Suspense #59 Tales to Astonish #61 Two-Gun Kid #72
... all priced at 12 cents, leaving eight cents which, combined with the six cents left from the last round, lets me treat myself to
Korak, Son of Tarzan #5
Cei-U! I summon the good reading!
So, did your mom toss them out? My mom still had *her* comics from her childhood in storage, so no. Over the last 30 years or so, I've sold or given away chunks of my Silver Age collection as I acquired the stories in other formats (Archives, Masterworks, etc.). What I've held on to are runs either featuring favorite characters (Batman, Iron Man, JLA), artists (Kirby, Colan, John Buscema), oe both.
Cei-U! I summon the rationale!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 22, 2022 6:36:06 GMT -5
Another month in which I currently own (or used to own) every comic on my list:
Amazing Spider-Man #18 Atom #15 Avengers #9 Brave and the Bold #56 Daredevil #4 Detective Comics #332 Fantastic Four #32 Green Lanern #32 Hawkman #4 Journey into Mystery #109 Magnus, Robot Fighter #8 Sgt. Fury #11 Strange Tales #126 Tales of Suspense #59 Tales to Astonish #61 Two-Gun Kid #72
... all priced at 12 cents, leaving eight cents which, combined with the six cents left from the last round, lets me treat myself to
Korak, Son of Tarzan #5
Cei-U! I summon the good reading!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 22, 2022 6:21:51 GMT -5
I bought a comic, was beaming from ear to ear, got ready to put it with the rest, opened the drawer to slot it in and.....there it was.
Bought a book I forgot I already had....
Only a tenner and I'll sell the spare without any bother but still....I need to take better stock of what I own.
This is the beginning of the end. I have bought many duplicates in the last 5 years. You need impeccable record keeping to avoid my fate. I had to buy the same five issues of Master of Kung Fu three times before it finally sunk in that I needed to compile an accurate inventory of my collection and be diligent in keeping it up to date.
Cei-U! I summon the lesson learned!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 19, 2022 5:58:22 GMT -5
Pretty sure it's not gonna be top first-wave Image titles...
I don’t think Kurt has ever read an Image book. Not true. I've read Spawn #1 and the entire 1963 series.
Cei-U! It counts!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 18, 2022 14:26:00 GMT -5
Cei-U! One week until the reveal of our 2022 CCF Twelve Days of Christmas topic. I am excited. It's something to look forward to in an otherwise stress-filled autumn this year. -M It's a good one this year.
Cei-U! I summon the tease!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 18, 2022 12:32:10 GMT -5
I'm not a huge fan of the original Galactus story but he is definitely a character who was revisited waaay too often. And Thanos should never have reappeared after Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2.
Cei-U! I summon the overexposure!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 12, 2022 8:21:13 GMT -5
Thank the comics gods Byrne never got his hands on the Shazam characters. I still shudder when I think about the grotesque dwarf he tried to pass off as Billy Batson in Legends.
Cei-U! I summon the vehement "Oh, HELL, no!"
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 12, 2022 6:00:22 GMT -5
You must really hate Bill Mantlo. Did he do it too? Either it's a new one on me or I've forgotten all about it. Are you kidding? Micronauts was practically nothing but pilferage (well done but pilferage all the same) from other intellectual properties including Star Waes, Kirby's Fourth World, and Marvel's own Guardians of the Galaxy. One of his Hulk stories liberally borrowed from a Harlan Ellison short story, getting Marvel in dutch with the notoriously litigious Mr. E. And, yes, he sometimes also used songs and albums for his story titles.
Cei-U! I summon the mooch!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 11, 2022 6:56:15 GMT -5
It's Steve Bissette, not Bissonette.
Cei-U! Just sayin'!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 11, 2022 6:50:36 GMT -5
Basically, the executive in charge of publishing. They oversee all publications form a company and decide what gets printed and what doesn't. The details of all that get delegated; but, that is the main job. Within that, they can affect many other things. For instance, when Jenette Kahn took over as DC Publisher, she worked to institute programs like royalties and incentives, to instill loyalty in creative talent and give them a reason to give their best effort and create. It paid off big, even in the compromised form it took, compared to what she had envisioned. They also decide their editorial structure and the editors report to them, or the executive in charge of the editorial department reports to them, depending on the structure. They handle the "big picture" things, like what do I want our line of publications to look like, what kind of content will we publish, what kind of talent do we seek, what are our goals in publishing, beyond the purely monetary. They might determine that they want to focus more on a female market and perhaps create a new editorial position to oversee a line of books aimed specifically at women, then let that editor recruit talent and develop books. For instance, when DC wanted to build a talent pool beyond the traditional, they aggressively recruited talent from the UK. Karen Berger ended up being the editor who worked with most of them, which led to the foundation of the Vertigo line. I don't know the exact details of how that all came about, but, it was part of changes that Kahn either instituted or pushed her executives to develop to revitalize DC. Thanks for the detailed write-up! I had always noticed that DC carried a Publisher credit while Marvel credited an Editor-in-Chief, so I wondered if they were similar positions with different titles. Seems like there might be some overlap, but it sounds like Publisher has more of a business focus, while EiC is more people-oriented. Would that be accurate? More or less. It can vary wildly from company to company. In the Golden and Atomic Ages, "publisher" was frequently synonymous with "owner." This was especially trur of those comics lines that were divisions of larger businesses, where the publisher of record left the day-to-day operations up to the EiC and/or the art director. There were those publishers like Max and Bill Gaines, Lev Gleason, and Quality's Busy Arnold, however, who genuinely cared about their product and whose lines reflected their priorities and personalities. Ther were far fewer of these types by te Silver Age. Certainly, DC's Irwin Donenfeld, Archie's John Goldwater, and Marvel's Martin Goodman were primarily business oriented rather than creative. And then, when big corporations began buying up comics companies, the publisher of record rarely paid attention to anything other than the sales charts, Stan Lee, afer his promotion to publisher in '72, being the rare excption. I'm unfamiliar with today's comics, so someone else will have to fill you in on how it works here in the 21st century.
Cei-U! I summon the lowdown!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 8, 2022 9:45:55 GMT -5
The Bullpen Bulletin page that ran the month Marvel's first Doc Savage comic debuted noted that "yep, we've got THE SHADOW lined up in weeks to come, also." Obviously, they didn't, as the Kaluta-drawn DC book premiered a year later. I can't help wondering what a Marvel Shadow would've looked (and read) like. Cei-U! Who knows what evil lurks...?
I missed that announcement. I thought Marvel did a pretty good job with Doc Savage - apart from the artwork, which was only middling, especially in the black and white mag. I wonder who would have drawn the Shadow - Gene Colan?
Oh man, a Colan-drawn Shadow?! I want to move to the alternste eality where this happened!
Cei-U! Ohh, Uaaatuuuuu...
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 8, 2022 7:07:29 GMT -5
I gave it a 6.5. It wasn't quite as good as Dark Phoenix but it was the storyline that really sold me on the Claremont/Byrne/Austin X-Men. It didn't hurt that it included Polaris and Madrox, two of my favorite minor mutant heroes.
Cei-U! I summon the Stornoway ferry!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 8, 2022 7:00:06 GMT -5
I gave it a 5, not so much as a statement on its quality (it's p;retty good, actually, and it gave us Senator Kelly and the new Brotherhood) but as the beginning of Claremont's incessant revisitation of this storyline, leading to Rachel Summers, Nimrod, Bishop, and all the rest of the time travel bushwah that plagued thee book thereafter and was about as enjoyable as watching a leper pick his scabs.
Cei-U! I summon the continuity clusterf**k!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 8, 2022 6:51:01 GMT -5
Hey driver1980 , I wish Fish and Chips were a thing in the US. I love it. The closest we ever had was a franchise called Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips. It was a fast food joint in the vain of McDonald's and Burger King. I remember eating there in the early 80's. There eas also H. Salt, Esquire, which I think was only on the West Coast. They served "English-style" fish and chips, complete with vinegar and (pseudo-)newspaper wrapping. There was one less than five blocks from our house so we ate there at least twice a month. The building is still there but it's a Chinese restaurant now. Been trying to find f&c as good as H. Salt's for some 40 years. Skipper's fell short, alas, but the Harmon Brewery in downtown Tacoma comes darm close, as confirmed agaain when Karly and I had lunch there after the Grit City Comic Show on the 22nd.
Zcei-U! I summon the omgoing quest!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 8, 2022 4:02:33 GMT -5
1 through 6 plus 13 were all part of my childhood. I'm nostalgic for none of it except 13.
Cei-U! I summon Saturday afternoon at the movies!
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