|
|
Post by hondobrode on Oct 3, 2017 21:33:36 GMT -5
 Post-Crisis Roy Thomas tried to continue what he had going with his Earth-2 mojo by creating these dopplegangers in lieu of having Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman and associates available. I liked Brian Murray's art and admired what Thomas was trying to do here despite it not quite reaching the same level of popularity as Infinity Inc, his previous title. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2017 15:49:35 GMT -5
On sale in November 1987I'm at university as a freshman and have my pull list still at the shop back home and won't pick this stuff up 'til Thanksgiving (the pull lasts until X-Mas break then stops as it's too much for my meager budget) What I got... Action #597 Adventures of Superman #438 Amazing Spider-Man #298 Avengers #289 Batman #417 Blackhawk #1 Detective #583 Elquest Siege at Blue Mountain #5 Flash #10 Forever People #2 Green Arrow #2 Green Lantern #222 Justice League International #11 Marvel Masterworks Vol. 1 (Spider-Man) Marvel Masterworks Vol. 2 (FF) (I was an early adopter of the these and bough the first 5 or 6 before money got tight-it was my first extended exposure to early Marvel stuff outside of the Origins and Son of Origins books that had the first issues), and the Avengers issues I had bought when I started collecting seriously senior year of high school ( I had picked up 2, 3, 5-11 in the first year of collecting Avengers seriously) Millennium #8 Secret Origins #24 (had to get the Dr. Fate story) Solo Avengers #4 Spectre #11 Superman 15 Uncanny X-Men #227 West Coast Avengers #30 (terrible, terrible issue and I dropped it when I got back to the shop) Wonder Woman #14 World of Krypton 4 X-Factor 26 -M |
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Nov 1, 2017 16:12:42 GMT -5
                       As you can see, my comic collecting activities exploded. it was my senior year of college and I was about to become a naval officer, with money to burn and a couple of great comic shops to feed my habit. Blackhawk was confusing and, ultimately, disappointing; but, it had a hell of a promotional poster...  Millennium, mercifully, came to an end (and a horrible one, at that) and we could all forget about it. That was where I started to take a more cynical eye to DC's crossover mini-series, though Invasion was a bit of an improvement, the following year. Infinity, Inc had reached a point where I just wanted it to end, rather than hope it would start improving (I had held on for a while, in those hopes). Meanwhile, batman meets the Wall!!! Doom Patrol #6 was my last issue, until well after Morrison had taken over (around the time of his Liefeld parody). I really, REALLY hated Erik Larson's art. Kupperberg's story hadn't exactly been wowing me. I had mostly picked it up for Steve Lightle's art and that was now gone. Doc Savage petered out with a blah ending to a blah mini-series. It would take until the Millennium Doc Savage comic before I thought I was reading Doc Savage, in a comic. Saga of Ra's al Ghul was classic Batman (with neal Adams! and Irv Novick) and Captain Atom and the Question were cruising right along. Peacemaker was another story. New America and Swords of Texas helped kink the first volume of Scout with the upcoming next phase, as we see legion of Man schenanigans in other parts of the world and see Rosa Winter start her heel turn. Classic X-Men continued to provide much better X-Men stories than in the regular book, even though they were from the same writer. JLI continued to be great fun and Miracleman was hitting its climax. I wasn't a big fan of byrne's take on Krypton; but, Mike Mignola helped make this more palatable, to me. This series made me reassess his art and I was a fan ever since. Fafhrd and Gray Mouser helped there, as well. Grell was really starting to build a compelling Green Arrow series. |
|
|
|
Post by brutalis on Nov 2, 2017 7:53:47 GMT -5
November 1987 age 25 and i was a busy buyer.
Action 597
Adv Superman 438
Avengers 289
Badger 34
Batman 417
Blackhawk 1
Capt Amercia 339
Capt Atom 12
Capt Atom annual
Cerebus 104
DP7 17
Detective 583
Doc Savage 4
Doom Patrol 6
FF 312
Firestorm 69
Flash 10
GI Joe 69
Green Arrow 2
Grimjack 44
Iron Man 228
Justice Machine 11
LOSH 44
Ms Tree 43
Nexus 43
Psi Force 17
Punisher 7
Question 13
Shadow 8
Silver Surfer 9
Silverblade 7
Solo Avengers 4
Star Trek 48
Star Trek next Gen 1
Suicide Squad 10
Thor 389
Warlord 127
West Coast Avengers 30
WW 14
|
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 19:07:36 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 19:14:51 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 19:19:58 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 19:26:55 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 19:31:17 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 19:32:59 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 19:39:35 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 19:46:56 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by berkley on Nov 3, 2017 20:52:07 GMT -5
From Mike's News-stand for November 1987:Miracleman #13Slash Maraud #5I feel like I was buying a lot more comics than this back in the 80s but either they don't appear on Mike's web-site or my memory is playing me false. These were two good ones, though. |
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 4, 2017 9:39:13 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Nov 4, 2017 9:58:54 GMT -5
|
|
