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Post by driver1980 on May 23, 2024 7:17:58 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on May 23, 2024 17:53:16 GMT -5
Very happy to see more old british comics back in print. Kind of a shame that all we have now is 2000AD and Beano |
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Post by driver1980 on May 24, 2024 8:47:52 GMT -5
Very happy to see more old british comics back in print. Kind of a shame that all we have now is 2000AD and Beano Indeed. In the 80s, there was so much choice: the aforementioned comics, but also war comics such as Warlord, sports comics such as Roy of the Rovers, action comics such as Eagle, etc. And about a million humour comics even if some were very derivative. It’s depressing to enter a WHSmith store now. The majority of the comics are Marvel reprints, published by Panini Comics. That’s nice as far as availability is concerned, but when you see only a few original ones (2 weekly ones, plus the monthly Judge Dredd The Megazine), it reminds you of what has changed. I believe there are a few niche titles available in comic stores, but I’m not certain any of them are on anything other than a sporadic schedule. |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 24, 2024 9:35:12 GMT -5
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Post by driver1980 on May 24, 2024 9:35:58 GMT -5
Thank you!
I think they did one or two specials, but a ten-issue series should be fun.
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Post by Confessor on May 25, 2024 1:42:34 GMT -5
I am soooo getting that hardcover. Scream! comic...gone, but not forgotten. |
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Post by berkley on May 25, 2024 2:36:17 GMT -5
I am soooo getting that hardcover. Scream! comic...gone, but not forgotten.
I was thinking it might be out of my price range ($89 Canadian) but now that you mentioned hardcover, is there any chance of it coming out in a cheaper softcover edition, does anyone think?
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Post by driver1980 on May 25, 2024 3:46:25 GMT -5
I am soooo getting that hardcover. Scream! comic...gone, but not forgotten.
I was thinking it might be out of my price range ($89 Canadian) but now that you mentioned hardcover, is there any chance of it coming out in a cheaper softcover edition, does anyone think?
I can’t swear to this, but I don’t recall Rebellion offering softcover editions. They don’t seem as flexible as other publishers. |
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Post by Confessor on May 25, 2024 9:02:02 GMT -5
I was thinking it might be out of my price range ($89 Canadian) but now that you mentioned hardcover, is there any chance of it coming out in a cheaper softcover edition, does anyone think?
I can’t swear to this, but I don’t recall Rebellion offering softcover editions. They don’t seem as flexible as other publishers. There have been a number of softcover collections of various Scream! strips in the past... Monster, The Dracula File, and a couple of The Thirteenth Floor volumes. So it's possible this might get a softcover release at some point, I suppose. The big selling point with this hardcover is that it reprints all of the 15-issue run of Scream! in it's entirety, which is just gonna be nostalgia heaven for me. |
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Post by driver1980 on May 25, 2024 9:09:10 GMT -5
I wonder if they’ll include letters pages. And wasn’t there an advice column from Ghastly McNasty? Those things seem old hat now. I do remember some Eagle issues giving away £2 postal orders to the letter of the month. What would £2 get you now? A can of Pepsi and a Cadbury’s chocolate bar? I wonder if £2 would even cover that. Confessor , it’s probably best you just order 2 copies and send one to me, eh? The economy needs help; if you do that you’ll be giving more business to Royal Mail, and that’ll create tax revenue that will probably fix a pothole around here…  |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 31, 2024 15:48:45 GMT -5
Here's a pic of Kirby doing an in store signing, not sure of the date, trying to make out the books on the shelf to give it some time context...  -M |
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Post by tartanphantom on May 31, 2024 16:11:07 GMT -5
Here's a pic of Kirby doing an in store signing, not sure of the date, trying to make out the books on the shelf to give it some time context... -M The issue of Starslayer #4 in the dead center of the picture, and the issue of Comics Scene Magazine #2 would put it in somewhere the summer of 1982, at least that was my first thought--
However, looking further, there is also a copy of ROM #40 (cover date March 1983), and the Conan one-shot special, which is also dated early 1983. This would more likely put the actual date somewhere in late Autumn/ Winter 1982.
Then inclusion of Silver Star #1 in the top right of the shelf would also support my revised projection of November-December 1982.
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Post by jason on May 31, 2024 16:33:13 GMT -5
I went to a local pawn shop today, and they had a bunch of "valuable" comics under glass (no real rarities, all under $100) The most expensive one, going for $73 was of all things, Hansi: The Girl Who Loved the Swastika. Isnt that comic just known for it's cover art? If infamous covers are getting more valuable, how much is pregnant Quasar (#29) going for now?
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Post by tartanphantom on May 31, 2024 16:42:49 GMT -5
I went to a local pawn shop today, and they had a bunch of "valuable" comics under glass (no real rarities, all under $100) The most expensive one, going for $73 was of all things, Hansi: The Girl Who Loved the Swastika. Isnt that comic just known for it's cover art? If infamous covers are getting more valuable, how much is pregnant Quasar (#29) going for now?
Pretty much. If anyone would bother to actually read the story within, they would find out that it actually anything but pro-fascist. But hey-- it's become a cult collectible for the cover art alone.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 31, 2024 17:04:42 GMT -5
I went to a local pawn shop today, and they had a bunch of "valuable" comics under glass (no real rarities, all under $100) The most expensive one, going for $73 was of all things, Hansi: The Girl Who Loved the Swastika. Isnt that comic just known for it's cover art? If infamous covers are getting more valuable, how much is pregnant Quasar (#29) going for now?
Pretty much. If anyone would bother to actually read the story within, they would find out that it actually anything but pro-fascist. But hey-- it's become a cult collectible for the cover art alone.
The price is because it's become an internet phenomenon. Just like the Rifleman log cover and the various Archie covers that can be read as double entendres. |
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