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Post by Action Ace on Jul 2, 2015 18:22:18 GMT -5
I guess we should complete the set.  Comics on sale July 1995comics I bought in the dying days of the comics speculator/boom era Action Comics #713: the Triangle Era was also crashing and burning at this time Adventures of Superman #527: I did like Alpha Centurion though Adventures of Superman Annual #7: Year One was the theme this year and these tended to be a pretty good set of Annuals Aquaman #12 Argus #5: I liked the Bloodlines heroes more than most Avengers: The Crossing #1: I have sinned....*sob* Batman #522 Batman Adventures #35 Batman Annual #19 Batman: Shadow of the Bat #42: skipped LODK this month Black Lightning #8 Captain America #443 Damage #16 Detective Comics #689 Doom 2099 #33: as a back issue Dream Team #1: I liked the Ultraverse a little too much Extreme Justice #8: maybe this thread wasn't such a good idea Fantastic Four Unplugged #1: as a back issue Fate #11: as a back issue Flash #105 Godzilla #2 Godzilla vs. Hero Zero #1: I liked some of the Comic's Greatest World characters Golden Age TPB: I already had the issues and this great mini series is still my favorite James Robinson story Green Lantern #66 Hardcase #25 Icon #29: yep, I liked a few parts of Milestone too.. Impulse #6 Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny #4: as a back issue Justice League America #103 Justice League Task Force #27 Legion of Super-Heroes #72 Legionnaires #29 Legionnaires Annual #2 New Titans #125: my last issue Nightwing #1 Power of Prime #1: my favorite Ultraverse character Power of Shazam! #7 Prime #25 Prime vs. The Incredible Hulk #0: Prime was everywhere this month Ray #16 Robin #20 Ruins #2: as a back issue Showcase '95 #8 Skrull Kill Crew #1: as a back issue Sovereign 7 #3: my last issue Spectre #33 Star Trek: The Next Generation #75: as a back issue Star Wars: Droids #4: in a TPB Star Wars: X-Wing Squadron #1: in a TPB Starman #11 Static #27: my favorite Milestone character Steel #19 Steel Annual #2 Superboy #19 Superman #104 Superman vs. Aliens #3 Superman: Man of Steel #48 Ultraforce #10: as a back issue Ultraforce/ Avengers Prelude: as a back issue Ultraverse Year One: Death of the Squad #4: as I said, I liked the Ultraverse a little too much Untold Tales of Spider-Man #1: an all time great series at just 99cents an issue Wonder Woman #101: I said at the time, "thank goodness John Byrne is taking over the book." 50 new issues, 11 back issues and a TPB anyone else with comic skeletons in the closet they want to share... |
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Post by Pharozonk on Jul 2, 2015 18:32:28 GMT -5
I have:
Amazing Spider-man #405
X-Factor #114
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2015 20:00:30 GMT -5
Ballistic #1
Batman Adventures #35
Cable #23
Cerebus #196
Cerebus World Tour Book #1
Cyblade/Shi: The Battle For Independents #1
Elfquest: Hidden Years #22
Elfquest: Jink #6
Elfquest: New Blood #29
Excalibur #89
Gen 13 #4
Generation X #7
Sandman Midnight Theatre #1
Sergio Aragones Groo #8
Uncanny X-Men #324
Wetworks #9
Wildcats #22
Wolverine #92
Wolverine '95 #1
Wolverine/Gambit: Victims #1
X-Factor #114
X-Factor #114
X-Force #45
X-Man #7
X-Men #44
X-Men: The Early Years #17
Most bought either through back issue purchases (The Elfquest stuff came from Chuck or eBay) or through collection purchases (All the X-Men and Image stuff)
But I do remember buying a couple of these right off the rack. Groo was one of my last LCS purchases it looks like.I think 8 of these are still in my collection.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 2, 2015 20:28:02 GMT -5
I'm too young for the 40 and 30 years ago threads, and I was already out and jaded with the industry by the time of this thread  |
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Post by Pharozonk on Jul 2, 2015 21:35:04 GMT -5
I'm too young for the 40 and 30 years ago threads, and I was already out and jaded with the industry by the time of this thread Poor shax. He doesn't know whether to tell the kids to get off his lawn or whether he's the kid on their lawn.  |
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Post by JKCarrier on Jul 2, 2015 21:50:30 GMT -5
Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot #1
Cerebus #196
Cerebus World Tour Book #1
Cyblade/Shi:The Battle for Independents #1
Madman Comics #8
Shadow and Doc Savage #1
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2015 22:35:03 GMT -5
Bought nothing that I see on Mike's News-stand for July 1995 at the time and the only thing I've read since is Preacher. And even now I see little or nothing on there that I'd consider reading apart from Preacher and Cerebus, which I still haven't gotten round to. Truly a dismal era for comics, in my view.
However, I don't think Mike shows the books I was reading back then - whatever the Hernandez brothers were doing at the time, Julie Doucet's Dirty Plotte series, Clowes's Eightball, and so on.
(edit: on second look, I see there's a Paul Gulacy comic I must have missed at the time, Eternal Warrior #36. I'll be searching for the back issue of that one.)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2015 23:00:17 GMT -5
Ugh, my buying habits in the 90s were atrocious. My pull list was basically all mainstream Marvel, Malibu and select DC books...though in '95 I was in grad school and had cut back a tiny bit...
from other than Marvel I got...
Aquaman 12
Batman 522 and Annual 19
Chiaroscurro: The Private Life of Leonardo #3
Codename Firearm #2-3
Curse of Rune 3
Detective Comics 689
Ghostdancing 6
Hardcase 25
Invisibles 12
Necromantra/Lord Pumpkin 4
Mantra 23
Nightman 22
Power of Prime 1
Power of Shazam 7
Prime 25
Prime v. Incredible Hulk 0
Sandman 71
Sandman Midnight Theatre 1
Showcase '95 8
Sovereign 7 3
Spectre 33
Ultraforce 10
Ultraforce/Avengers Prelude 1
Wonder Woman 101
and then just about every mainstream Marvel super-hero book except 2099 and the Punisher books.
Yeah I had too much discretionary money and not enough discretion in my buying habits at the time. It changed when I finished grad school and suddenly had to start paying back all those student loans...
By contrast, what I still have form that era is Dr. Strange Sorcerer Supreme 81, Spectre 33, Chiaroscurro 10 and the Conan stuff in floppy, Sandman and the Invisibles in trade. My wife has some of the X-books formt he time in her collection, but mine from the time are gone.
I think I've added the Shaman's Tears issue and maybe the Fate and Hawkman issues as bargain bin fodder sinc ethen, but not sure.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 2, 2015 23:38:21 GMT -5
Bought nothing that I see on Mike's News-stand for July 1995 at the time and the only thing I've read since is Preacher. And even now I see little or nothing on there that I'd consider reading apart from Preacher and Cerebus, which I still haven't gotten round to. Truly a dismal era for comics, in my view. Going to have to disagree here. There was a LOT of bad. But there was plenty of good. Just like every other time in comics history. Preacher, Sandman, Sandman Mystery Theater, Spectre were all excellent. Books of Magic was sporadically brilliant. Power of Shazam was a good solid superhero book as was Starman. I'm sure there was more, but that's a good start. |
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Post by coke & comics on Jul 3, 2015 0:47:34 GMT -5
At this point, I own basically all the Marvel comics from the month, and nothing else besides the bat-books.
At the time... I'd still have been subscribing to a lot of the 2099 books. Otherwise I tended not to get books right as they came out, often a few months behind. But pretty close to its coming out, I read...
Amazing Spider-Man #405 (I know the Clone Saga all too well)
Avengers #390
Avengers: The Crossing #1 (Probably the single worst story in Avengers history.)
Captain America #443 (Being paralyzed sold for the bat-titles, so...)
Doom 2099 #33 (I loved Doom taking over America. The issue a few months earlier where he actually did it was great. But the One Nation Under Doom saga dragged some by this point)
New Warriors #62 (a clone saga tie-in!)
Spectacular Spider-Man #227
Spider-Man #62
Spider-Man 2099 #35 (still subscribing, but the series really lost something when Leonardi left)
Spider-Man Unlimited #10
Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage Omega (Maximum Clonage is the worst story of the Clone Saga. Think about that. Even so, I still rank The Crossing as the worst story of the month)
Uncanny X-Men #324 (I loved my first X-Men comic and read it for years thereafter. Not sure why.)
Web of Spider-Man #128
X-Men #44
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Some good comics from the month that I read later:
Spider-Man: The Lost Years #2 (One of the best stories of the Clone Saga. Dematteis is one of the best writers to write Spider-Man, but his best Spidey stories read nothing like a Spidey story)
Wolverine/Gambit: Victims #1 (one of my early exposures to the Loeb/Sale team. Great book)
It would be a few years yet before it occurred to me to read a non-Marvel comic.
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Post by berkley on Jul 3, 2015 3:32:04 GMT -5
Bought nothing that I see on Mike's News-stand for July 1995 at the time and the only thing I've read since is Preacher. And even now I see little or nothing on there that I'd consider reading apart from Preacher and Cerebus, which I still haven't gotten round to. Truly a dismal era for comics, in my view. Going to have to disagree here. There was a LOT of bad. But there was plenty of good. Just like every other time in comics history. Preacher, Sandman, Sandman Mystery Theater, Spectre were all excellent. Books of Magic was sporadically brilliant. Power of Shazam was a good solid superhero book as was Starman. I'm sure there was more, but that's a good start. How dare you disagree with me, sah! Damn your impudence! More seriously - or at least more specifically - of the things you listed there, I do like Preacher. Sandman, and Gaiman in general, I've never taken to, but I freely admit that I've become prejudiced against him through the misfortune of having read his work-for-hire Marvel stuff, which I think has ranged from mediocre (1642, or whatever it was) to terrible (Eternals) before independent books like Sandman and its spin-offs. I'll take your recommendations of Shazam, Spectre, and Starman under advisement. More generally, I stand by my view of the 90s as a weak period for mainstream comics. I'm sure there were good things out there - some of my own favourite comics were from that time, even though they don't appear on Mike's News-stand - but they were swamped by a plethora of crap. Yeah, I know, that's pretty much always true to some extent in any period and in any field - but some extents are more extensive than others. |
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 3, 2015 21:28:45 GMT -5
Off my list, I'd recommend the following most of all...
Batman Adventures
Flash
Golden Age TPB
the Legion books
Power of Shazam
Robin
Spectre
Superboy
Untold Tales of Spider-Man
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 3, 2015 21:35:46 GMT -5
This was about, oh, a year, year and a half after I started a pull.
I was getting most of non-X Marvel...all of 2099, anything Avengers related, Untold Tales, New Warriors, FF.
DC I was getting Aquaman, Steel, Superboy, I think a couple Supes Triangles (not sure), Nightwing, Green Lantern... I think Green Arrow (I remember those sparkly covers). Maybe a Star Wars book or two. Pretty sure I'd realized Image was garbage by then. Books of Magic (my only non-superhero book).
Probably a couple others...a few look familar, but I don't recall seeing them in my piles
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 4, 2015 14:14:11 GMT -5
Batman Adventures
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Post by Action Ace on Aug 1, 2015 22:11:49 GMT -5
Comics I bought AUGUST 1995Action Comics #714 Adventures of Superman #528 Aquaman #13 Argus #6 Avengers/ Ultraforce #1 Batman #523 Batman Adventures #36 (sadly this was Mike Parobeck's last issue) Batman Chronicles #2 Batman: Shadow of the Bat #43 Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #3 Batman: Vengeance of Bane #2 Black Lightning #9 Captain America #444 (Waid's first issue of a great era for Cap) Damage #17 Darkseid vs. Galactus: The Hunger #1 Detective Comics #690 Extreme Justice #9 Fate #12 (bought as a back issue) Flash #106 Godzilla #3 Green Lantern #67 Green Lantern Annual #4 Hardcase #26 Icon #30 Impulse #7 Justice League America #104 Justice League Task Force #28 KURT BUSIEK'S ASTRO CITY #1 (for my money, the best series of all time) Legion of Super-Heroes #73 Legionnaires #30 Nightwing #2 Power of Prime #2, 3 Power of Shazam! #8 Prime #26 Ray #17 Robin #21 Shadowdragon Annual #1 (proof that I'd buy virtually anything Superman related) Showcase '95 #9 Skrull Kill Crew #2: as a back issue Spectre #34 Star Wars: X-Wing Squadron #2: as a TPB Starman #12 Static #28 Steel #20 Superboy #20 Superman #105 Superman: Man of Steel #49 Superman: Man of Tomorrow #2 Ultraforce/ Avengers #1 Ultravrse: Year Two #1: as a back issue Untold Tales of Spider-Man #2 Wonder Woman #102 |
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