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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 13, 2018 15:50:42 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? Sooooo many. I used to be able to buy those B&W explosion books by the pound by the mid to late 90s. Some day I should go through all that crap and figure out what I have. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2018 19:29:30 GMT -5
Sorry, I don't have one ... I used to in the 90's and I gave that book away. Just to let everyone here knows that.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 13, 2018 19:50:20 GMT -5
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. It--or rather the Four Color issue the Forest Service giveaway was taken from--was #5 on my Twelve Favorite Comic Books list in CCF '14. Cei-U! I summon the confirmation! |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jan 13, 2018 20:22:31 GMT -5
The Cartoon History of the Nuclear Arms Race, a one-shot self-published by my old pal Nils Osmar, is obscure enough that it isn't listed in the Grand Comics Database. I might have to do something about that next time I have that box out of the vault (aka the office closet). Other than that, it's probably a toss-up between Gold Key's City Surgeon #1-and-only, starring a rugged emergency room doctor, and Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon #1, a (mildly) adult 1969 Wally Wood-edited comic distributed through the military PX system. I have that issue of Heroes, Inc! A great comic. You remind me I own a copy of The Incredible Rocky, a sort of underground edu-comic about the awfulness of the Rockefeller family. archive.org/details/TheIncredibleRockyVs.ThePowerOfThePeopleFeaturingAmerikasRichestTwo of the more obscure things would be Hot Stuf #8 and Quest Presents Lance Carrigan #1. I will allow the people here to determine which is more obscure. Hot Stuf' ran less than 10 issues I think and Quest series I have no idea. I just know I have it sitting near the bottom of my read pile. I have that issue of Hot Stuf' and about half the others. I love the series and covet the rest of them. |
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Post by brianf on Jan 13, 2018 22:31:04 GMT -5
I own a few mini comics by Brian Sendelbach of 'Smell of Steve' fame - can't find their covers on line, but I own this more professional release too  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 14, 2018 3:13:32 GMT -5
I had a copy of the Smokey the Bear one that. I think, I got in school, in the early 70s. I had a few of Solson black & whites (who rivaled Blackthorne for the purveyor of the cheapest knock-offs)....  Reagan's Raiders is not that obscure; but you didn't necessarily run across it that much. I had that first issue, where Deathlok makes an unapproved cameo.  I had this one, because who didn't like ninjas, in the 80s?  I had the first issue of this, which I got for like 50 cents or something. Pretty amateurish art inside.  I had this little gem, which was one of the worst instruction pieces I ever encountered. I can safely say I got all of these for well below cover price; but, it was still a waste of money. I still can't understand how Solson stayed in business as long as it did. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 3:45:04 GMT -5
A few more obscure ones in my collection... Galaxia Magazine #1...  Colonia by Jeff Nicholson...  Grimoire from Speakeasy (still a favorite of my wife's raccoon mystics and all that)  The Colt Special from AC Comics (featuring a Gulacy cover)  I have a bunch of hero stuff from AC during this period, I think Dragonfly is my favorite of them though...  but I have a fondness for anthologies and they had a tryout book called Americomics...  with a cover by George Perez. Image put out a lot of books between the days of the founding seven and the revival of the brand as a haven for creator-owned stuff that fell between the cracks, like this book...  and this...  and this...  and this...  that caught my attention but no one else seems to have gotten and some Cthulhu stuff from offbeat publishers like Millennium...  or Brian Lumley stuff from Caliber...  even some Marvel stuff no one seemed to notice int he ealry days of Joe Quesada's tenure...   forgotten one-shots from Pacific...  the benefit comics I am not sure anyone bought...  a book about a cowboy mummy...  one of my favorite forgotten Vertigo series no one seems to remember...  I like obscure comics, so I seem to have a lot of them in my stacks. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 3:48:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure how obscure this one is, as I was turned on to it by someone here (Crimebuster maybe?) back hen we were still at the old place, but when I looked for issues no one seemed to have heard of it...  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 3:50:01 GMT -5
Another anthology, this one a one-shot put together by then students at the Joe Kubert School...  -M |
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Post by MDG on Jan 14, 2018 9:05:01 GMT -5
When my wife at the time was working for a local weekly newspaper, she came home with six issues and a press kit for Very Vicki  |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jan 14, 2018 11:40:11 GMT -5
A few more obscure ones in my collection... Galaxia Magazine #1... the benefit comics I am not sure anyone bought... one of my favorite forgotten Vertigo series no one seems to remember... I like obscure comics, so I seem to have a lot of them in my stacks. -M Galaxia featured a character Rich Buckler recycled with the very least of cosmetic changes at both Atlas (as Demon Hunter) and Marvel (as Devil Slayer). I've got Phantasy Against Hunger, as part of my Jim Aparo collection. The Unseen Hand is a favorite. Few people realize that this was a Vertigo remake of Jason's Quest, from Showcase. It's remarkably faithful to Mike Sekowsky's original, although it's not acknowledged anywhere in the comic itself, excepting that the title character has been rechristened "Mike." |
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Post by MDG on Jan 14, 2018 12:40:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 13:30:50 GMT -5
 Probably this one. My aunts brother was the publisher and managed to put out two issues of the anthology before Sundragon comics were never heard from again. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 13:33:25 GMT -5
Well, I don't have any just yet in my collection but the most obscure comic that I've been searching for occasionally is this:  Miranda by Lance Parkin and Allan Bednar. There were only three issues released by UK imprint Comeuppance Comics. Back in 2001, Lance Parkin wrote Father Time, a novel within the BBC's Doctor Who line featuring the Eighth Doctor. Within the story, the Doctor, due to recent events in previous novels, has lost his memory and is recuperating back on Earth where he encounters a 10 year old girl named Miranda who curiously has two hearts like he does. Investigating further leads the Doctor to discovering Miranda's hidden connection to the far future (and possibly to Gallifrey) and the threat that has returned to the past to kill her. Along the way, he ends up adopting her and raising her till she turns 16 whereupon the threat is resolved and Miranda returns to her rightful place in the far future. The comic was meant to detail some of her adventures in the future. (Miranda herself appeared in two more BBC novels). I just loved how Parkin established her character and built up their relationship within that book and was quite thrilled to learn of his work here continuing her adventures. But it's very scarce, at least on this side of the pond. eBay will sporadically have listings for it (but never as a lot). I’d have to dig through my long boxes, but I’m pretty sure I have the first two. I never knew there was a third. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 1:10:56 GMT -5
Another obscure one in my stash...  -M |
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