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Post by DubipR on May 5, 2016 16:37:16 GMT -5
Here's a one-shot rarity Published by Marvel in the late 60s but really was affiliated with their men's sweat magazine line All Bill Everett art- collection of comic strip stories from various men's mags. The art is gorgeous as are the women  Still one of my Classic Comic White Whales I need to own. Gorgeous Bill Ward artwork inside.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 5, 2016 16:41:28 GMT -5
This one I bought in 1995 strictly for the M. Kaluta cover. From the publisher Dark Fantasy and only lasting 2 issues (at least that's all I ever saw) the title was Donna Mia
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Post by MDG on May 5, 2016 18:57:33 GMT -5
Here's a one-shot rarity Published by Marvel in the late 60s but really was affiliated with their men's sweat magazine line All Bill Everett art- collection of comic strip stories from various men's mags. The art is gorgeous as are the women Still one of my Classic Comic White Whales I need to own. Gorgeous Bill Ward artwork inside.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 5, 2016 19:15:43 GMT -5
Another obscurity, bought these from the newstands in 1968. At first, I had no idea that they were actually Marvel Comics.The didn't identify it as such until #3 They were very slightly risque, reprinting 1 page or single panel cartoons from their men's sweat magazine line. Only 3 issues came out. Here it is... Groovy
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Post by foxley on May 5, 2016 20:29:15 GMT -5
This one I bought in 1995 strictly for the M. Kaluta cover. From the publisher Dark Fantasy and only lasting 2 issues (at least that's all I ever saw) the title was Donna Mia
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on May 5, 2016 23:28:25 GMT -5
 The Skull Killer (Pulp Mania Inc., 1975)Writer: Brendan FaulknerArtist: Gary TerryQuoting from an older review I did on this one: |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2016 23:37:39 GMT -5
 Dr. Weird Special Edition-Big BAng Comics 1994 collecting fanzine work featuring the character Dr. Weird, scripts by (pre-Game of Thrones) George RR. Martin, among others, all art by not yet turned pro Jim Starlin and Howard Keltner -M |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on May 5, 2016 23:39:53 GMT -5
^^^^ Good one MRP. I have this also. If you're a fan of Starlin you're going to want to check this out.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2016 23:46:49 GMT -5
Duringthe 1980s B&W boom, a new company (still around btw) called Americomics or AC started up, putting out a loinf og B&W super-hero books but getting covers by established veterans, up and comers and and stars of the comic industry including.... George Perez:  Jerry Ordway:   Pat Broderick:  yes they published Blue Beetle books after Charlton collapsed before DC got the rights Steve Lightle (inked by Ordway):  and Paul Gulacy:  I always snag these when I see them in bargain bins. They are not half bad reads either, but definitely don't liv eup to the quality of the covers in mast cases. -M |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2016 23:52:09 GMT -5
Another Gulacy cover for them...  and an early Dave Dorman piece...  and Erik Larsen...  and Michael William Kaluta...  -M |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 6, 2016 0:51:32 GMT -5
I bought all those AC comics when they came out in the early 1980s. I wouldn't exactly call them obscure, comic shops seemed to have ordered them in substancial numbers at that time. Those appeared the same time as when Pacific Comics and Eclipse started. The rarer and more difficult to find was the earlier Bill Black pro-zines where many of those characters made their debuts. Those were B&W magazine size and mostly availablre only through mail order. When the direct market emerged, Bill Black jumped in with those above color comics
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 1:06:49 GMT -5
The Colt Special with the Gulacy cover was the first I read of those, and it was color cover, black and white interiors. I forgot some of them had color interiors, but not all. I vaguely remember them when they came out and none of the lcs I went to in high school ever ordered shelf copies of these, it was pull list only and only the issues that had pull requests for them ever even came into those shops, so my impression of them, and a lot of the small press indy books at the time, was that they were pretty obscure. I didn't even see copies of them in back issue bins when I lived on the east coast, neither in shops nor at cons, I didn't rediscover them until I came across the Gulacy cover on the Colt Special after I had moved out here about 10 years ago, so our experiences on how obscure they are seem to differ and were subjective based on our anecdotal experiences. I still very rarely see them out int he wild. I could order them from Lonestar (well some of them anyways-others are out of stock and not on their buy list so doubtful they will turn up there), but in some ways I still consider that cheating on the hunt. I do buy stuff from them from time to time when I have trade credit or I see something at an auction at the right price, but I still prefer to hunt and find stuff in person, it's par tof the fun of still being active in the hobby for me.
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Post by tingramretro on May 6, 2016 1:11:13 GMT -5
Another Gulacy cover for them... and an early Dave Dorman piece... and Erik Larsen... and Michael William Kaluta... -M Nightveil started her life at AC as the Blue Bulleteer, although of course, everybody knew she was really Phantom Lady, who Bill Black had mistakenly assumed was actually a public domain character and then hastily renamed...  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 6, 2016 1:27:08 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm going by the New York City stores that I frequented back then and I guess since they where highly trafficked, those stores ordered a lot of copies of those early direct market merchandise. Americomics was basically color for the first year or too and then switched to B & W. Lots of those issues sat on the shelves and then were easily available to find in back issue bins until retailers cut back on ordering them .
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 6, 2016 1:30:57 GMT -5
Prior to the Americomics brand, as I mentioned, Bill Black was doing upscale, mail order fanzine comic magazines. The company was originally called Paragon Publishing. Here's examples  Looks like he put together a collection of them recently  |
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