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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2018 0:45:16 GMT -5
erg apparently someone is selling a copy (Dr. Weird) on Amazon for $27 in Fine, looking at ebay, I found the 2 zines they originally appeared in for about $20 a piece but the '94 special was $25 OBO. I swear I saw copies at a show this year in dollar bins though. I'll keep my eye out for cheap copies for anyone who is interested though. -M Please count me as one of the interested! Done. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 13, 2018 1:45:24 GMT -5
Let's see, I had Tom Artis' Black Terror, of which he only did one issue. It was solicited in Advance, not sure about Previews. It looked like it was rushed, as the first half to 2/3 is fully inked and the second half to third is very lightly inked. Not sure how many of those made it outside of Springfield, IL, where he was living. I got mine at my LCS, in Charleston, SC (where I was stationed), then moved back to the Springfield area and later met Artis. I have the Heroes, Inc, having got it from Joseph Koch, Inc, who seemed to have tons of them. I also had that Dr Weird Special. I seemed to have been about the only person I know of who picked up Tales of the Bog, a self-published book that came out in the late 90s/early 2000s. It had a nice art style, with some Walt Kelly influence, and had a good mixture of humor and character study. Less well known favorites were Slave Labor's Scarlet Thunder, from their Amaze, Inc line, which features a pair of speedsters in WW2. I had all four issues SLG published. I also had Boondoggle, from Caliber which was a kid-centric humor title. I had the Wonder Comics single issue of the Hero Alliance, which followed the Pied Piper-published graphic novel and preceded the Innovation reprinting and continuation of the graphic novel and series.     Now, if you want to get obscure mainstream, I had a few of the Harvey Heroes books, that Joe Simon edited...    |
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Post by berkley on Jan 13, 2018 2:22:13 GMT -5
Not sure how obscure Canadian magazine Orb was but I only ever saw this one issue on the stands back in the day, though I've since managed to find the rest online:  |
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Post by MDG on Jan 13, 2018 9:49:47 GMT -5
Not sure how obscure Canadian magazine Orb was but I only ever saw this one issue on the stands back in the day, though I've since managed to find the rest online: I bought the first issue of Orb at a newsstand near my grandparents' house, which was in Michigan neat the Canadian border. IIRC it had Gene and Dan Day work in it, and maybe T. Casey Brennan. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Jan 13, 2018 11:58:45 GMT -5
Norm Breyfogle wrote and drew a Superman and a couple of Batman stories as a kid from the ages of roughly nine to 13 and had them available on his website if not elsewhere. He gave me a copy when I met him about 10 years back and they're pretty fun. Some of the spelling mistakes are humorous, such as when Superman loses his powers and thinks to himself "I never used to get tired before ether" when that should have been "either". The other thing which Superman never had to do before "either" was shave which Breyfogle illustrates by having Clark Kent shave the moment he gets home after having his powers taken from him by kryptonite. I couldn't, therefore, help but laugh when in the Batman story following, Breyfogle has Batman wake up in the hospital only to almost immediately ask a doctor "Can I use your bathroom! I need a shave!" which leads to an homage of sorts to his earlier story from about two years prior. It's as if Breyfogle sat down to plot these stories, thought to himself "hmmm, what should I write about? I mean obviously, I'll have to have a scene in there somewhere of the hero shaving, that goes without saying, but what else should I have him do?" Here's another obscure book I have to mention (actually, a series of them): When I was in London, England I found myself flipping through some Mad magazines in a comic store. A lot of them I recognized but there were a number of them with covers so crude that my first thought was that they had to be knockoffs.    It turns out that in the UK, Mad magazine would fairly frequently feature different covers from the ones released over here. It was a pretty strange sensation seeing these, I mean, I'm sure I've seen every Mad cover from the 1960's-1990's but here are issues from that same time period that I was seeing for the same time. "That's not Mad #182!" Well, actually it is. |
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Post by Jesse on Jan 13, 2018 12:28:59 GMT -5
Probably this copy of Little Jim Bob Big Foot #1 signed by creator Doug Baron who I met way back at the Pittsburgh Comicon in 1996.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 13, 2018 12:43:19 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 13, 2018 12:49:25 GMT -5
I don't have much that's very obscure. I do have some stuff from the black & white boom, much of which I honestly don't remember and that haven't seen the light of day in 30-35 years. Such as...  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 13, 2018 13:01:10 GMT -5
I don't have much that's very obscure. I do have some stuff from the black & white boom, much of which I honestly don't remember and that haven't seen the light of day in 30-35 years. Such as... Is that spoof of something? Just how many genetically altered hand-to-hand combat-trained groups of rodents, reptiles, amphibians and marsupials were running around back then? |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 13, 2018 13:22:17 GMT -5
Well, I guess these are somewhat obscure... I've seen that Smokey the Bear and Thrilling Adventure Stories before, but Poppo and The Crusaders are utterly new to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2018 13:24:46 GMT -5
Well, I guess these are somewhat obscure... I've seen that Smokey the Bear and Thrilling Adventure Stories before, but Poppo and The Crusaders are utterly new to me. I think Kurt has mentioned that Smokey and the Bear comic before as being one of his all time favorites or earliest books he ever had. -M |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 13, 2018 13:40:26 GMT -5
Well, I guess these are somewhat obscure... I've seen that Smokey the Bear and Thrilling Adventure Stories before, but Poppo and The Crusaders are utterly new to me. was a supermarket giveaway/tie-in to a 50s TV show. Drawn by Charles Biro, Crimebuster! Crusaders was a Jack Chick production. Surprised?  |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 13, 2018 13:49:51 GMT -5
I've seen that Smokey the Bear and Thrilling Adventure Stories before, but Poppo and The Crusaders are utterly new to me. I think Kurt has mentioned that Smokey and the Bear comic before as being one of his all time favorites or earliest books he ever had. -M I was pretty sure he used it somewhere in a Classic Comics Christmas -- perhaps his favorite comic -- but I wasn't positive. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 13, 2018 14:07:07 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 13, 2018 15:48:40 GMT -5
Well, I guess these are somewhat obscure... I've seen that Smokey the Bear and Thrilling Adventure Stories before, but Poppo and The Crusaders are utterly new to me. The U.S. Forest Service gives away a reprint of part of that Smokey the Bear comic at the county fairs here. |
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