I was picking up Infinity Inc out of momentum and this period really sucked. Roy was spending more time revisiting old All-Star stories than creating new Infinity stories. Classic X-Men was almost to the Byrne years. Question was really, really dark, but intriguing. JLI was coming into full on comedy glory and Suicide Squad was the book for action and intrigue. I finally sampled Scout, with the Handbook and was hooked, hunting down the old issues over the next couple of years (found the last one I needed in an antique shop, in a mall).

August 1987.
Action 594
Adventure of Superman 434
Amazing Spider-Man 294
Avengers 285
Badger 31
Batman 413
Captain Atom 9
Cerebus 101
DP7 13
FP7 annual
Detective Comics 580
Doc Savage 1
Doom Patrol 2
FF 308
Firestorm 65
Flash 6
GI Joe 65
GI Joe Special Missions 8
Grimjack 41
Hawkman 16
Iron Man 224
LSH 40
Ms Tree 41
Nexus 40
Peter Parker 132
Punisher 4
Question 10
Silver Surfer 5
Silver Blade 3
Star Trek 44
Suicide Squad 7
Swamp Thin 66
Thor 385
Warlord 123
West Coast Avengers 27
Wild Dog 3
WW 10

Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters #7
Alien Encounters #14
American Flagg #47
Book of Night #2
Cerebus #101
Enchanter #3
Grendel #11
Justice League International #7
Marvel Fanfare #35
Shadow #4
Swamp Thing #66

! not many big two there... I might have gotten that Question issue though, but not 100% sure

Favorite issues of the month would have been : Cerebus #101 & Shadow #4.

Slash Maraud #1

That's the only one I can say for sure, looking at Mike's News-stand. It's possible I also bought Swamp Thing #66, since I was following it throughout the Alan Moore run, but I don't recognise this month's cover so apparently not.

Ah, that would explain it, thanks. Good to see you back Arthur, BTW.

Only things I recognise from Mike's site:

Miracleman #12
Slash Maraud #2 & 3

all great comics that I still rate highly today.

I have some questions about a few of the things I missed at the time:

Conan the Barbarian and Conan the King: how good were these series at the time? I don't know much about the creators listed, writers like Owsley and Karr, artists like Semeikis.

Phantom Stranger drawn by Mignola? That seems like it must have been pretty good to look at, if nothing else. How was it?

The Shadow drawn by Sinkiewicz: sounds like a good match of style and character - did it work?

Silver Surfer: I'm a huge fan of Englehart's writing in the 70s but feel a bit sceptical about his 80s Marvel/DC work: any Englehart fans out there have an opinion on his Surfer?

Underworld: again, I don't know the writer, Robert Fleming, but a crime series drawn by Ernie Colon sounds like it should have potential. Anyone read this one?

Jim Owsley is another name for Christopher Priest, who crafted one of my favorite Black Panther runs, but his Conan was just ok at best. Conan the King was uneven at best.

The Sienkewicz art on Shadow is great, but only lasted the first arc. Hefler was writing and riffing a bit off the Chaykin mini, but it was a very non-traditional take on the Shadow which underperformed commercially. It is more of an interesting series than a good one.

Mignola's art, paired with P. Craig Russell on inks, was gorgeous, but the story by Kupperberg was a let down. It tried to build on the conflict between the Lords of Order and Chaos established in the Dr. Fate books of the time, but it fell flat overall. Great visuals, weak story.

Englehart's Surfer run is a tale of two cities. The earlier stuff, with Marshall Rogers on art is very good. But he started having issues with Marvel overall, especially on his FF run and it affected his stuff on Surfer. Rogers left and Englehart's stuff became uninspired and felt like filler to get issues out rather than stories worth telling by the end of his run when he was ousted for Starlin to take over the book.

Underworld I know nothing about.

-M