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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 2, 2016 14:22:12 GMT -5
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 2, 2016 15:59:27 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2016 16:28:33 GMT -5
I was cutting way back in '96 but what I did get included...
JLA 1-I was still enraptured with Morrison at this point, but this was one of the series where the shine began to come off his work for me. I met Howard Porter who was a customer at one of the shops in CT I frequented at this time and he did a signing for #1. Nice guy, very excited to be working on the book. Was only the second time I ever had a book signed by a creator.
Kurt Busiek's Astro City #3
Leave it to Chance 3-this may have been my favorite book at the time
Night Force 2-kind of meh but I loved the series concept
Seekers into the Mystery 12-DeMatteis navel gazing, but still an enjoyable read for that
Spectre 49-a never miss book for me
Spider-Man Hobgoblin Lives 1-Stern got me to buy a Spidey comic for the first time in a few years, but I don't think I came back for #2
Starlord 2-Timothy Zahn at Marvel...
Starman 26-another book I liked a lot more then than in subsequent rereads, but still like it now, just not as much as I did then
-M
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2016 18:44:16 GMT -5
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 6, 2016 23:11:02 GMT -5
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 17, 2016 0:55:42 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 2:22:31 GMT -5
The 90s...sigh, what I was getting in December 1996 as I was finishing up grad school... Barry Windsor Smith Storyteller #3 loved, loved loved the oversized format, but only liked the stories within Batman 539-I was actually grooving on the Kelly Jones art at the time, and I think this was a Deadman story and I dug Jones' Deadman too Batman/Captain America-I know others here really dug this, I was disappointed at the time and haven't revisited it since. I no longer own it but if I see one on the cheap I might give it another try Challengers of the Unknown #1 (the Night Force revival led me to give most of the DC Weirdoverse books a try-I did skip Books of Fate though) DC Marvel All Access 4 was all disappointing to me, I kept waiting for the story to hav ea point and it never did Elektra 4-ok the Doc appearance got me to buy it, I like Elektra too but hadn't given this series a try, I did with this issue and didn't get another Hulk 450-that ole Doc Magic got me to pick it up again, but this time I stuck around for a while on David's run Invisibles #1 this book was right up my alley in terms of other stuff I was into at the time JLA 2 I was into Morrison a this point, and having just met Howard Porter at a tore signing I was way into this book. Not one I enjoyed when I revisited it though. Marvel Shadows & Light #1-Marvel's answer to Batman Black and White, but it had good stuff-a Michael Golden Doc Strange story got me there but I also grooved to a John Paul Leon Wolvie story and LAdronn on anything is worth a look. New Gods #15 I wa son the fence on the Byrne stuff but loved the Simonson back ups when they happened so kept buying Night Force 3-I was discovering I didn't like this as much as the Colan series, but liked it enough to keep buying a few more issues Seekers into the Mystery #13-I was bitterly disappointed this book got cancelled before JM DeMatteis finished what he wanted to do with it and had to rush the ending Spectre #50-I was so hyped for the Haunting of America storyline and it's still one of my favorites Starman 27-this and Spectre were my 2 favorite books at the time this was the era where I finally figured out and put into practice the idea that you didn't have to buy all of a company's books to enjoy the ones you liked and you didn't hav eto keep buying a book because you had a full run up to that point, so I was buying what interested me and dropping what didn't, so my buy list was in constant flux except for a handful of staples. -M |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 1, 2016 11:26:13 GMT -5
December 1996
Aliens:Lovesick #1
Batman Plus #1
Batman/Captain America #1
Batman:Legends of the Dark Knight #91
Cable #40
Captain America #4
Daredevil #361
Deadpool #2
Detective Comics #706
Domino #2
Fantastic Four #4
Ghost Rider #82
Green Lantern #83
Oh My Goddess:Robot Wars #1
Robin #38
Silver Surfer #125
Spider-Man #77
Tales of Age of Apocalypse #1
Uncanny X-Men #341
Weapon Zero/Silver Surfer #1
Wolverine #110
X-Men #61
Back Issue
Batman:Shadow of the Bat #59
Cartoon Network Presents Space Ghost #1
Marvel Fanfare #6
Superman/Wonder Woman:Whom Gods Destroy #3
Thrillkiller #2
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 14:36:01 GMT -5
Batman:Legends of the Dark Knight #91
Batman:The Long Halloween #3
Gen 13 Bootleg #2
Green Arrow #117
Green Lantern #83
Hellblazer #110
JLA #2
Nightwing #5
Robin #38
Star Wars:Tales of the Jedi – The Golden Age of the Sith #3
Star Wars:X-Wing Rogue Squadron #14
I think I was just a month or two away from my first actual pull list.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 2, 2016 1:13:28 GMT -5
           By this point, my tatstes had moved out of the mainstream, for the most part. Batman Adventures (and, thus, Batman & Robin Adventures) was the only decent Batman book, in my eyes (with the odd storyline in Legends of the Dark Knight). Thrillkiller was right up my alley, with Chaykin and Brerton doing pulpy fun. The Question was a visit with an old friend. Starman and Power of Shazam were the only two superhero books I was getting monthly (Astro City wasn't always monthly). Batman/Captain America and Space Ghost were just good fun. Terminal City was the best book out there, for satirical fun and mystery, plus retro-futurism gone bad. Then, there is where my head really was, the eclectic independents. Storyteller was awesome BWS, in giant size. Cud was a favorite the moment I discovered it. I wasn't much for the Undergrounds; but, I was warming to that sensibility and Terry Laban was hilarious. Negative Burn was outdoing Dark Horse Presents, in my eyes and this includes a continuation of Christopher Moeller's Iron Empires, in a short story (across 3 issues or so) which was not reprinted in the two trades that Dark Horse put out. These were black & white; but, so was "The Crossing" and Dark Horse colored it in the trade. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2017 2:44:12 GMT -5
It was January 1997 and it felt like good comics were hard to find, but here's what I found at the time... Baman 540-Kelly Jones has a unique style I grooved to at the time Bug #1-it was Micronauts related, so I bought it, but it wasn't good... Invisibles 2-I was still infatuated with Morrison's stuff at the time and I was grooving to this series because I had read all the stuff Morrison was drawing from when he was writing it, so it felt comfortably familiar to me Jack Kirby's Fourth World #1-it looked good and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't what I was hoping for either JLA 3-liked it then, hasn't aged well with me at all Kurt Busiek's Astro City 4 Seekers into the Mystery #14-I still lament DeMAtteis couldn't finish this series the way he wanted to and had to rush it to its conclusion Spectre 51 Starman 28 Untold Tales of Spider-Man 19-probably the last time I truly enjoyed a Spidey series -M |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 1, 2017 2:52:39 GMT -5
I tend to skip the late '90s when acquiring and reading comics, but I do have a few runs that stretch through this era:
Batman #540
Detective Comics #707
Excalibur #107
Kurt Busiek's Astro City #4
Magnus Robot Fighter #1
Magnus Robot Fighter #1 [Variant]
Nightwing #6
Sandman Mystery Theatre #48
Usagi Yojimbo #9
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 1, 2017 19:19:08 GMT -5
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 2, 2017 9:55:45 GMT -5
January 1997
2099:World of Tomorrow #7
Batman #540
Batman:Legends of the Dark Knight #92
Bettie Page Comics:Spicy Adventure #1
Bug #1
Cable #41
Captain America #5
Daredevil #362
Daredevil/Batman #1
Dark Horse Presents #117
Deadpool #3
Domino #3
Ghost Rider #83
Green Lantern #84
Robin #39
Silver Surfer #126
Uncanny X-Men #342
WildC.A.T.s #32
Wolverine #111
Back Issue
Batman:Shadow of the Bat #60
Detective Comics #707
Spawn the Impaler #3
Superman/Wonder Woman:Whom Gods Destroy #4
Thrillkiller #3
X-Factor #132
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 23:19:19 GMT -5
Books on sale in Feb 1997...What I got... Adventures in the DC Universe #1-fun comics in a time when a lot weren't Barry Windsor Smith Storyteller #5-loved the oversized format Batman 541-Kelly Jones and the Spectre! Invisibles #3 back when I found Grant Morrison still readable... JLA #4 ditto Jack Kirby's Fourth World #2 a valiant attempt at Forth World stuff that jsut missed Kurt Busiek's Astro City #5 Leave it to Chance #4-a sorely missed book that ended too soon Shade #1-Shade was probably my favorite thing about Robinson's Starman Spectre 52 Starman 29 I was buying less and enjoying more, but I was still missing some good books form outside the big 2. -M
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