I got Death in the Family from the library. I flipped through it. I’m usually a little more excited about this kind of thing.

I don’t think I’m gonna read it just yet. I’m free tomorrow but I’ll be very busy Monday and Tuesday, and then I’m going to visit family in Steilacoom, Wash., in the Tacoma area.

I’ll be gone a week. I’ll read it when I get back.

Shaxper I inherited a newspaper clipping in the issue that’s the death of Jason Todd. I’ll snap picture and post it later on today.

I also have a fascination with this story. My parents bought a TPB of it for me at Six Flags way before I started buying comics and it’s always been interesting to me even before I knew about the call in line for readers.

And I agree those Mignola covers are amazing. And’ve been partial to Aparo’s Joker even when I had no other basis other than Batman TAS

If I still had the phone bill that listed 900# charge I incurred for voting to kill Jason Todd, I would send it to you, alas it was a bill accrued in a college dorm that didn't survive the end of the semester clean up.


-M

Just once, and I honestly don't remember how much it was. I just remember taking crap for calling a 900 number as some didn't believe it was comic related.

-M

1988

How young and bold we were!

Just to remind me of what was going on in comic book world, I looked at Mike’s Amazing World to see what other comics were on sale at the time as Batman #429, cover-dated January 1989.

www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=1&year=1989

I wasn’t buying very many comics regularly at this point.

I lived a few blocks from Hollywood Boulevard at this point, and there was a huge newsstand on Ivar that I walked by once or twice a week, and that was where I got most of my comics.

I was buying Cerebus every month. Jaka’s Story was the current storyline in late 1988. They didn’t always have it I at the newsstand. So every two or three months, I would go to a comic shop (there were several) to get any issues I had missed.

What else was on going on in the comics?

Action Comics #633 to #637 went on sale. I bought this on and off for the whole time it was weekly. The newsstand would often have the last three or four issues and I would grab the ones I missed. Sometimes. I had all the issues from #601 to about #620, and then it’s pretty spotty for a while. But I recognize all of these covers. I think I started buying them regularly at the end. Then ACW was over.

I read all my issues a few years ago. For the most part, it’s very entertaining. I wish I had all of them!

Avengers #299 was on sale. I didn’t buy it. I hadn’t bought it regularly for more than a year. But I’m mentioning it because I did buy #300.

Black Orchid #2 came out. I didn’t buy it, and I still have never read it. I’m just mentioning it because I know it’s a well-known comic, written by Neil Gaiman.

Dave Sim had started reprinting the early Cerebus comics in a series called Cerebus Bi-Weekly. #4 and #5 came out this month. I definitely had both of these.

The Doom Patrol revival came to an end with #18. I didn’t have this issue, but I had bought three or four issues during its run.

The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told HC came out this month. I don’t think I bought it right away but I’m pretty sure I splurged within a month or two because I had to have it. I read it until it fell apart.

Sandman #1 came out. I didn’t start Sandman reading until Season of Mists.

Secret Origins #36, with Green Lantern and Poison Ivy. If I had seen it, I would have bought it. I didn’t get a copy until a few years later.

Suicide Squad #23. I was reading it sporadically at this point. The cover doesn’t look familiar so I don’t think I read this particular issue.

I was also reading the Superman comics off and on and Superman #27 is definitely one that I had.

Thor #399 is another one I definitely had. I was buying Thor regularly at this point, although I probably missed a few issues. Still, I’m sure I had 80% of the issues from #395 to #430.

I didn’t read V for Vendetta until much later, but I did want to call attention to #7, which came out this month.

And that’s it. That’s all I bought cover-dated January 1989. Cerebus, Cerebus reprints, Action Comics Weekly, Thor, one issue of Superman, and The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told.