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Post by hondobrode on Dec 10, 2015 15:26:31 GMT -5
Yeah, I too love well-worn comics that kids had fun with.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 10, 2015 15:45:03 GMT -5
I bought a "mutant" comic new off the shelf several years ago. It was an issue of The Titans, which the first & last several pages were the Titans comic, but then a bunch of pages in the middle were from the then-current issue of JSA. Don't know how the middle of one comic made it into a different comic, but I had to go buy another copy of the Titans issue to read the story.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 10, 2015 16:21:41 GMT -5
DC you are clever !
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 10, 2015 17:13:26 GMT -5
From my collection, it's a Golden Age double cover - October, 1952:  Ah, that's just a printing defect. That's not personality to me. That's Steve at Val-u-Print showing up for work drunk. Unless someone drew a penis on it, of course. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 23, 2016 22:58:28 GMT -5
I just found this stamped on the back of a board of Excalibur #6 that I just recently bought at a local shop and thought it was interesting to share. i.imgur.com/EgnN1ue.jpgEdit:Ron Lim art yay! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 7:22:23 GMT -5
I just found this stamped on the back of a board of Excalibur #6 that I just recently bought at a local shop and thought it was interesting to share. i.imgur.com/EgnN1ue.jpgEdit:Ron Lim art yay! That's kind of cool! I wonder why it's there? |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 24, 2016 11:45:24 GMT -5
I just found this stamped on the back of a board of Excalibur #6 that I just recently bought at a local shop and thought it was interesting to share. i.imgur.com/EgnN1ue.jpgEdit:Ron Lim art yay! That's kind of cool! I wonder why it's there? Dunno. It's kind of weird. I googled the place, but it doesn't come up if they even exist or have a website. It's a town up by Tulsa somewhere, but I never go up that way so have no idea. It might be as old as close to when the comic book was released. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 24, 2016 16:22:54 GMT -5
I've told this story at the old boards, but I bought a "comic with personality" in Nashville, 1993.
I think it was a back issue of JLA--one of the annual JSA crossovers (one with a Joe Kubert cover, as I recall).
The first thing I noticed was that there was a number written in pencil at the bottom of every page. Every page.
Next I noticed words circled on every page. Random words, it first appeared.
But as I read the comic, I noticed a pattern in the circled words. They were all either numbers (10, 50, "one", "two", etc.), homophones of numbers ("to", "too", "for", etc.) or otherwise based on numbers ("once", "second", etc.). Even if the words in question didn't have a numerical meaning (e.g. "I've only got seconds to deactivate that bomb!"), they were circled.
A few calculations confirmed that the numbers penciled at the bottoms of the pages were the sums of the numbers that were circled on that page.
I think I checked every page for errors. The sums were all correct, and I didn't see any "number words" that the mysterious previous owner had missed. That doesn't surprise me, as I assume I was looking at the work of a "Rain Man" who was obsessed with numbers, and unlikely to make mistakes.
A few days later, I bought another back issue from the same store, and it had the same kinds of penciled calculations on every page.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 18:01:40 GMT -5
That's kind of cool! I wonder why it's there? Dunno. It's kind of weird. I googled the place, but it doesn't come up if they even exist or have a website. It's a town up by Tulsa somewhere, but I never go up that way so have no idea. It might be as old as close to when the comic book was released. LOL! You say "old" like 1987 was that long ago. Shit. It was. :/ |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 22:48:39 GMT -5
Dunno. It's kind of weird. I googled the place, but it doesn't come up if they even exist or have a website. It's a town up by Tulsa somewhere, but I never go up that way so have no idea. It might be as old as close to when the comic book was released. LOL! You say "old" like 1987 was that long ago. Shit. It was. :/ High school class of 1987 here, please don't remind me how long ago it was! -M |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 7:16:56 GMT -5
LOL! You say "old" like 1987 was that long ago. Shit. It was. :/ High school class of 1987 here, please don't remind me how long ago it was! -M I was considerably younger, but I still remember 1987 like it was practically yesterday. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 20, 2016 12:21:53 GMT -5
Just saw this as I was about to read my Haunt of Horror #5. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 20, 2016 14:13:01 GMT -5
LOL! You say "old" like 1987 was that long ago. Shit. It was. :/ High school class of 1987 here, please don't remind me how long ago it was! -M Class of 84, here. By the way, that Batman coloring book, from earlier in the thread? I had that! Did not have the penis edition, though. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Nov 20, 2016 17:46:30 GMT -5
I used to have a copy of Freedom Fighters #15, throughout which someone had drawn hairy dicks on the characters. The artist, of the comic not the graffiti, was named Dick Ayers.
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