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Post by tolworthy on Jan 2, 2022 18:54:58 GMT -5
Sometimes people just want to be rid of the damn thing. Reminds me of many years ago (pre Internet) when I answered a newspaper ad selling old comics. Some kid was selling his collection at 10p per issue. It was a good price, and I spent about half an hour on his living room floor, choosing exactly the ones I wanted. After I left, the kid ran after me in the street and said I could have the rest of them for a quid. Obviously I was the only person who took an interest. That was a very pleasant surprise!
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 2, 2022 19:55:41 GMT -5
Sometimes people just want to be rid of the damn thing. Reminds me of many years ago (pre Internet) when I answered a newspaper ad selling old comics. Some kid was selling his collection at 10p per issue. It was a good price, and I spent about half an hour on his living room floor, choosing exactly the ones I wanted. After I left, the kid ran after me in the street and said I could have the rest of them for a quid. Obviously I was the only person who took an interest. That was a very pleasant surprise!
I can only imagine stacks of 2000 AD or VIZ for 10p each! I'd take the lot...
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 2, 2022 20:10:51 GMT -5
As someone who's been out of the comics loop for 20 years, it blows my mind that Image publishes critically acclaimed comics. And they still publish things like Spawn and Savage Dragon, almost to their embarrassment. It's weird to think think that the company was once founded as a cohesive, maturely told **uncontrollably laughter**, superhero universe
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 2, 2022 20:54:41 GMT -5
Had Valentino not been involved with the group, I kind of doubt that would be the case. His indie connections brought in the first wave of non-superhero material, when they got Jeff Smith and Colleen Doran to bring Bone and A Distant Soil (respectively) to the company. It blossomed from there. I have trouble seeing many of the others being as open to the wider range of material that came their way, unless they were someone with a big name. Maybe Jim Lee, though Wildstorm, before the sale to DC, wasn't that varied, beyond superhero & sci-fi/fantasy. Larsen, possibly, though, if memory serves, he was a voice for thinning out some of the smaller books that Valentino brought in, after a while.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2022 13:01:28 GMT -5
I can't read Portuguese but I'd still lap up one of these (in much better condition) if only out of rote....besides, I have the original US edition and reprints which I can read along with to follow the story. My #1 book of the bronze age.
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Post by commond on Feb 2, 2022 6:07:42 GMT -5
Tom Mandrake drew an amazing Spectre, and a terrible Superman. There. I said it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 2, 2022 6:13:27 GMT -5
Tom Mandrake drew an amazing Spectre, and a terrible Superman. There. I said it. He has a certain style suited to more street level type stories. He did a nice Batman and a Sidekicks series for an independent publisher years back.
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 2, 2022 8:15:23 GMT -5
Tom Mandrake drew an amazing Spectre, and a terrible Superman. There. I said it.
I won't argue with that line of thinking.
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Post by MDG on Feb 2, 2022 9:00:03 GMT -5
Tom Mandrake drew an amazing Spectre, and a terrible Superman. There. I said it.
I won't argue with that line of thinking.
I still have a soft spot for Spanner's Galaxy
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 2, 2022 9:42:09 GMT -5
Tom Mandrake drew an amazing Spectre, and a terrible Superman. There. I said it. As far as I am concerned Mandrake, much like Kelley Jones, was more fitted for "darker" characters. So yes I agree with you.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 2, 2022 9:45:52 GMT -5
Had Valentino not been involved with the group, I kind of doubt that would be the case. His indie connections brought in the first wave of non-superhero material, when they got Jeff Smith and Colleen Doran to bring Bone and A Distant Soil (respectively) to the company. It blossomed from there. I have trouble seeing many of the others being as open to the wider range of material that came their way, unless they were someone with a big name. Maybe Jim Lee, though Wildstorm, before the sale to DC, wasn't that varied, beyond superhero & sci-fi/fantasy. Larsen, possibly, though, if memory serves, he was a voice for thinning out some of the smaller books that Valentino brought in, after a while. Well Wildstorm gave us Wildcats and Travis Charest so all is forgiven. :-)
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Post by impulse on Feb 2, 2022 10:01:42 GMT -5
Had Valentino not been involved with the group, I kind of doubt that would be the case. His indie connections brought in the first wave of non-superhero material, when they got Jeff Smith and Colleen Doran to bring Bone and A Distant Soil (respectively) to the company. It blossomed from there. I have trouble seeing many of the others being as open to the wider range of material that came their way, unless they were someone with a big name. Maybe Jim Lee, though Wildstorm, before the sale to DC, wasn't that varied, beyond superhero & sci-fi/fantasy. Larsen, possibly, though, if memory serves, he was a voice for thinning out some of the smaller books that Valentino brought in, after a while. Well Wildstorm gave us Wildcats and Travis Charest so all is forgiven. :-) If only that man could draw faster.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 2, 2022 10:18:35 GMT -5
Well Wildstorm gave us Wildcats and Travis Charest so all is forgiven. :-) If only that man could draw faster. Very true. But when you see the beauty that is Wildcats/X-Men crossover all is forgiven.
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Post by impulse on Feb 2, 2022 10:21:55 GMT -5
I'm not mad. I just want more.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 2, 2022 10:35:18 GMT -5
Tom Mandrake drew an amazing Spectre, and a terrible Superman. There. I said it. Mandrake is, at heart, a horror artist. If you follow him on social media most of his commission work and the stuff he does for fun is horror related. So...yeah, he rocks at stuff like Spectre. He also does faboo westerns.
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