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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2015 20:58:44 GMT -5
I would say Archie comics. crimebuster is the only one I ever knew to actively look for back issues.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 11, 2015 21:45:52 GMT -5
I would say Archie comics. crimebuster is the only one I ever knew to actively look for back issues. Actually, he helped me in my search for some a while back! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2015 22:07:19 GMT -5
What's wrong with you guys? IT'S THE SAME STORY EVERY ISSUE, JUST A DIFFERENT COVER!!!!
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 12, 2015 14:05:39 GMT -5
I recall that Jez was collecting Archies as well.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 12, 2015 14:51:01 GMT -5
I recall that Jez was collecting Archies as well. I've read my share as well. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 12, 2015 14:59:00 GMT -5
For the purposes of a joke in a comic strip I'm drawing I have a character living in a comic shop hiding in boxes of comics that he KNOWS will never be looked at because they are so non-collectable. So the question I have is, what should be written on the box? My first thought would be 'Atlas Seaboard' but I'm sure you guys have better suggestions. Help please? My submission would be:
What could be worse?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 14:59:24 GMT -5
I've got quite a few issues of Archie myself.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 12, 2015 16:05:36 GMT -5
Superman #75? Spawn #1? Maybe those Big Boy comics they gave away at the restaurants?
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Post by junkmonkey on Nov 12, 2015 21:03:28 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I think I'm going to go with the Archie comics. To make the joke funny - to make any joke funny - the detail has to be common enough knowledge for most people to get it. Otherwise you end up writing gags that only three people will understand. I remember hearing Terry Pratchett saying he did a lot of research on ancient Egypt before writing Pyramids and realised he was writing a book that only he and three Egyptologists would find funny - so he watched a lot of Cecil B Demile movies and started again.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 14, 2015 7:02:41 GMT -5
I recall that Jez was collecting Archies as well. I've read my share as well. I read them too, but a collection, cmon.... |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 14, 2015 9:05:40 GMT -5
For the purposes of a joke in a comic strip I'm drawing I have a character living in a comic shop hiding in boxes of comics that he KNOWS will never be looked at because they are so non-collectable. So the question I have is, what should be written on the box? My first thought would be 'Atlas Seaboard' but I'm sure you guys have better suggestions. Help please? My submission would be:
What could be worse?
The reprint "special edition" could be worse:  |
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 14, 2015 10:57:13 GMT -5
I would have said the original X-Force #1. There are thousands of them out there, rotting away in discount boxes.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2015 11:42:39 GMT -5
Superman #75? Spawn #1? Maybe those Big Boy comics they gave away at the restaurants?
I got a couple of those Big Boy Comic Books when I was visiting LA/California in the early 60's ... |
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Post by MDG on Nov 14, 2015 11:48:37 GMT -5
Superman #75? Spawn #1? Maybe those Big Boy comics they gave away at the restaurants?
I got a couple of those Big Boy Comic Books when I was visiting LA/California in the early 60's ... The Ditko issue of Big Boy is probably collectible. |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 14, 2015 12:01:51 GMT -5
I've read my share as well. I read them too, but a collection, cmon.... I have a 1,000 page Archie digest from a year or two ago, collecting random issues from the 1940s up to the early 2010s. That's all the Archie I'll ever need to own. You've read one, you've kinda read 'em all. |
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