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Post by hondobrode on May 7, 2016 20:41:14 GMT -5
I mentioned this in another thread awhie back, but I think it qualifies to be here. It's a hardcover annual published in Britain in 1985 which reprints part of DC's original Super Powers limited series, as well as a couple of random issues of DC Comics Presents and The Brave & the Bold. Which doesn't sound odd at all, until you find out that it was published by Marvel UK, as part of an ultimately abortive attempt to launch a line of Marvel produced British DC reprints...  And an amazing Kirby cover that I've never seen. Thanks for sharing! That's an original Kirby, not a reprinted cover ? I haven't look at the originals in so long I wouldn't know. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 7, 2016 21:01:08 GMT -5
Fantasy Illustrated #1  -the first and only issue of a comic fantasy magazine by a publisher called New Media Publishing. It featured work by P.Craig Russell, Steve Ditko, Steve Englehart, Don McGregor, Mark Evanier, Steve Leialoha, Mike Sekowsky, Tom Sutton and Al Gordon-a lot of talent but it went nowhere (as did the company). Magazine sized, black and white book with color cover released in 1982. I stubled across it in a Goodwill Store about 3 years ago. It followed on the heels of a similar star-studded but unsuccessful venture by the same publisher called Adventure Illustrated...  in 1981, this time with a Starlin cover. This one I have never run across and am still looking for a copy. -M I have both of those. NMP I believe also printed Comics Feature, one of the harder-to-find zines from the 80's. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 7, 2016 21:31:20 GMT -5
AGS beat me to the punch with Warlock 5. I'm pretty sure I have it but have never read it. It looks like one of the better b&w titles of the 80's. Hadn't heard of that Wham-O comic until a few years ago. Gotta get me one sometime. One of my favorites is from 3D Cosmic (1982), Battle For a Three Dimensional World, with story by Ray Zone, and art by Jack Kirby and Mike Thibodeaux.  Zone, being a 3-D fanatic, writes the story of hero Stereon in the third dimension fighting the evil two dimensional witch Circe, who sends her "flatties" out to attack the creators of the 3-D process. It gives Zone a chance to write a story explaining the history and people behind 3-D and play to Kirby's strengths with the story playing to Kirby's strengths and really boasting that deep, deep 3-D.
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on May 7, 2016 22:03:41 GMT -5
And an amazing Kirby cover that I've never seen. Thanks for sharing! That's an original Kirby, not a reprinted cover ? I haven't look at the originals in so long I wouldn't know. My mistake, it's actually a reprint of the cover of Super Powers #2. The coloring is a bit different on this annual, I'd say it's much better. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 7, 2016 22:04:20 GMT -5
thanks for the clarification
Great cover !
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 7, 2016 22:27:35 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 22:47:19 GMT -5
Coming out in the wake of Heroes Against Hunger from DC and Heroes for Hope form Marvel was anothe rpost-Live Aid Hunger benefit book, this one an indy one shot from Tiger Comics in 1987:  Phantasy Against Hunger featuring a creative roster of never-knowns, well known veterans and future superstars, among those contributing Art Adams, Jim Aparo, Rich Buckler, Jose Garcia-Lopez, Dan Parent, John Romita Sr., Bill Sienkewicz and others under a Kevin Nowlan cover. I never saw this one on the stands when it came out, but found in a bargain bin several years later. -M |
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Post by chaykinstevens on May 8, 2016 9:22:49 GMT -5
This is one I ran across in a dollar bin a few years ago and never knew existed...  I was a big fan of R.A.W. and his works in my twenties. -M Rip Off Press picked up this series for three issues, the first of which was a partially redrawn version of the self-published issue you have. LinkThere are plans to make those issues available as a free download along with an unpublished fourth issue. Link |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 8, 2016 9:59:23 GMT -5
Here's some obscure late 90ies comics I purchased a while ago that are more interesting now than then :    Back then, Antartic Press wasn't just about US manga and its Gold Digger franchise, it also had some odd post Miller euro pulp comics, most of those fully illustrated and painted by the then newcomer Esad Ribic, who went on to work for Vertigo before more recently becoming one of Marvel's top artists (Secret War was all by him). It's quite amazing to see how accomplished he already was then. Sure, his storytelling has become clearer and his coloring more subtle, but still, those are great forgotten cheap comics. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 8, 2016 14:17:21 GMT -5
These little beauties are some of the unauthorized reprints published by IW comics, the company of Israel Waldman, back in the Silver Age.   |
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Post by tolworthy on May 8, 2016 14:36:40 GMT -5
Here's some obscure late 90ies comics I purchased a while ago that are more interesting now than then : That doesn't look like Ron Renz at all. And I'm surprised he was big enough to justify a tribute mag like that. Maybe he wasn't, and that's why it folded. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 8, 2016 18:38:18 GMT -5
 1973 little b&w 5" x 7" with Basil Wolverton greatness |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on May 8, 2016 22:07:42 GMT -5
 Captain Zilog! #1 (1979)
It was 1979, and the microcontroller manufacturing company Zilog Inc. had just released the Z8000, a 16-bit microprocessor for computers, and wanted to come up with an eye-popping brochure for their latest product at the upcoming Wescon conference. Lou Brooks wrote and designed the idea, while the legendary Joe Kubert provided the pencils, and by adding a rich amount of four-color brightness Captain Zilog was born. It's a bit strange to read about the kind of technology we had way back in 1979. To see 8 megabytes of computing power as the godsend back then is a thing to behold. The Zilog Z8000 CPU went on to become one of the first true multi-user systems that could share resources before networking became common, but was soon overshadowed by Intel brand microprocessors in the early 80's. This Captain Zilog comic was only distributed during the Wescon '79 conference, and therefore insanely rare. If you perhaps stumble upon a copy, I'd say it's well worth a purchase just for the Kubert artwork alone. |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on May 8, 2016 22:23:17 GMT -5
 L.I.F.E. Brigade #1 (Blue Comet, 1986)Call this one a guilty pleasure of mine. Created by C.A. Stormon, L.I.F.E. Brigade #1 features a bevy of interesting (and slightly neurotic) characters: Long John Lazer: Leader of the Brigade. Can shoot a lazer-beam from his left eye, which has caused that side of his face to mutate John into one ugly mofo. The mullet doesn't help! The Ray Gun Kid: Sports a weird-looking helmet and two generic guns. No one knows much about him. Rochel Windraven: An Indian Shaman with spiritual powers such as ESP and teleportation. The Blue Comet: Silly looking hero that can fly around space and wields the power of a comet. The Atomic Oracle: A powerful robot that was discovered and built by the Brigade. Looks like a ripoff of Acroyear of Micronauts fame. The L.I.F.E. Brigade are on a mission to find a new planet that can sustain life when they spy a group of armored aliens burying a large box. Blue Comet uses his powers to open the box, and the group finds parts to build a "Totally Radical!" robot, which in turn joins the team. The Brigade then helps the Atomic Oracle retrieve his "self" computer-chip, which is hidden deep within the caves of a small moon. Once they retrieve the chip they are attacked by armored aliens, where they proceed to obliterate every alien in sight...in one panel! Stormon's artwork was bizarre enough to enjoy this generic space opera from hell. |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2016 22:58:15 GMT -5
Steve Woron's Survivors passed from one small press publisher to another with its mix of good girl art and super-hero stories. What makes this particular issue of it unique...  is that it was published by Burnside Comics, which produced exactly one book and was owned by and headquartered in the first comic shop I ever went to in CT, and which was my lcs until I moved away for college-The Bookie located on Burnside Avenue in East Hartford, CT, owned and operated by the late Hal Kinney, who graduated form sci-fi fandom to comics fandom in the 60s and was one of the first to open a comic shop in CT, and who knew many of the creators who lived in CT but commuted to NYC to work at the big 2. -M |
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