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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Apr 7, 2017 19:46:01 GMT -5
Picked this up because of the cover and my unfamiliarity with Red Circle Comics...
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Post by MDG on Apr 8, 2017 9:14:49 GMT -5
The Red Circle books are generally good. Lots of Gray Morrow, occasional Toth. Stories range from okay to pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2017 11:25:50 GMT -5
The Red Circle books are generally good. Lots of Gray Morrow, occasional Toth. Stories range from okay to pretty good. I am a fan of the Red Red Circle Sorcery/Chilling Adventures in Sorcery series, or at least the issues of it I have (about half the series). -M
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 8, 2017 11:58:22 GMT -5
The covers are great
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Post by spoon on Apr 8, 2017 22:04:01 GMT -5
After reading the Jill Lepore book about the creation of Wonder Woman, I bought Wonder Woman Archives volume 4. It was really out of curiosity to read Marston's writing. I knew the art was putrid.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 9, 2017 4:00:26 GMT -5
They are, but I wonder if the art inside holds up to the same standard? I have never heard of Red Circle comics before. This community continues to teach me things.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 11:51:44 GMT -5
They are, but I wonder if the art inside holds up to the same standard? I have never heard of Red Circle comics before. This community continues to teach me things. They were anthologies-the first couple issues featured Sabrina as the horror host and featured art by Archie stalwarts Stan Goldberg and Dan DeCarlo. With #3 they drop the "As Told by Sabrina" part of the title and Gray Morrow comes on board. #3 is all Morrow art. #4 features Morrow, Dick Giordano and Vincente Alcazar, and #5 Morrow and Alcazar. Stories are by Morrow, Don Glut, Phil Seuling, Larry Hama and others. With #7 the title changed from Chilling Adventures in Sorcery to Red Circle Sorcery, but Morrow is still the driving force. #7 fetaures art by Morrow, Alcazar, Howard Chaykin, Carlos Pino, Ed Davis & Bruce Jones, with stories by Steve Skeates, Mary Skreanes, Carol & Phil Seuling, and others. #9 has Morrow, Frank Throne, Pino and Alex Toth doing art, with the usual cast of writers. #10 Morrow, Toth, Pat Boyette, Alcazar and Pino on art. The final issue #11, has Morrow and Alcazar, and uncredited story that GCD thinks is JAck Abel and/or Ernie Colon, Gerry Mooney and Boyette. So you always get Morrow covers and at least 1-2 stories by him in each issue. The rest rotates, but it is a pretty solid stable of artists they used and the interiors range form solid to fantastic in most cases. -M
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 9, 2017 18:51:03 GMT -5
I ordered this a couple of days ago: Monster of Frankenstein #18! And I won a couple more issues of Detective from eBay auctions: Detective Comics #375! Detective Comics #394 - The special bible quotes issue!
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Apr 9, 2017 21:08:47 GMT -5
^ Love Batman from that era....dark and gloomy covers that really capture the mood. The 'Tec ish is a great batmobile cover! And I have always wanted to get some of those Frankenstein books. The covers look great. Awesome buys!
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Post by MDG on Apr 10, 2017 5:28:14 GMT -5
They are, but I wonder if the art inside holds up to the same standard? I have never heard of Red Circle comics before. This community continues to teach me things. They were anthologies-the first couple issues featured Sabrina as the horror host and featured art by Archie stalwarts Stan Goldberg and Dan DeCarlo. .... The lede is buried here, in that no one has said that Red Circle was an imprint of Archie. In fact the Sabrina issues were Archie, not Red Circle.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 10, 2017 10:50:26 GMT -5
^ Love Batman from that era....dark and gloomy covers that really capture the mood. The 'Tec ish is a great batmobile cover! And I have always wanted to get some of those Frankenstein books. The covers look great. Awesome buys! Subjectively speaking, I love Marvel's 1970s Frankenstein series! Bronze Age Bonkers! The first six issues or so are a very loose re-telling of the book. It's set in the 1890s and some intrepid adventurers have dug the monster out of the Arctic ice, so the events of the novel are related by the captain of the ship and then after they release the monster, he tells his side of the story. Mike Ploog art! Then he wanders around the 1890s for a while, including a run-in with the last of the Frankensteins and then a multi-part adventure with Dracula! Then the setting moves to modern-day (1970s) and the series goes completely off the rails! It's nuts! I have every issue up to #10, but only half of the remaining 8 issues. This has been a long-term project as I bought the first six issues in the late 1970s when they were only a few years old. I got them for 50 cents each. Objectively, I think most comic book fans probably consider the series to be a bit of a mess. Especially after the initial six issues. But I like it!
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Post by bor on Apr 11, 2017 2:11:06 GMT -5
^ Love Batman from that era....dark and gloomy covers that really capture the mood. The 'Tec ish is a great batmobile cover! And I have always wanted to get some of those Frankenstein books. The covers look great. Awesome buys! Subjectively speaking, I love Marvel's 1970s Frankenstein series! Bronze Age Bonkers! The first six issues or so are a very loose re-telling of the book. It's set in the 1890s and some intrepid adventurers have dug the monster out of the Arctic ice, so the events of the novel are related by the captain of the ship and then after they release the monster, he tells his side of the story. Mike Ploog art! Then he wanders around the 1890s for a while, including a run-in with the last of the Frankensteins and then a multi-part adventure with Dracula! Then the setting moves to modern-day (1970s) and the series goes completely off the rails! It's nuts! I have every issue up to #10, but only half of the remaining 8 issues. This has been a long-term project as I bought the first six issues in the late 1970s when they were only a few years old. I got them for 50 cents each. Objectively, I think most comic book fans probably consider the series to be a bit of a mess. Especially after the initial six issues. But I like it!
I recently read most of this stuff in collected edition and I must say I am one of those that really did not enjoy much after it moved to modern day. It was mostly very enjoyable before that but the later issues just felt lacking in some way.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 11, 2017 16:15:57 GMT -5
I got these 2 beauties in the mail today.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 11, 2017 19:39:05 GMT -5
The oldest LCS in Pittsburgh (40+ years and still going strong) had their annual anniversary sale over the past couple of weeks, so I took the opportunity of some deep discounts to pick up the following: The three ASM give me everything from #141 through 400, the GS WBN was on my want list, and the Cap #175 is a replacement for my original copy, which I found was in really rough shape when I was rereading Englehart's run over the past few weeks. The two Fantastic Four books move me closer to having all floppies from #100 up (just six more to go), and the three Red Wolf issues finish that short run. This large chunk of Daredevil puts me closer to having everything in floppie from #63 up (DD Masterworks #6 ends at that issue). At this point, I only need #'s 65, 67, and 68 to finish off the floppies, and then I'll have everything up through the run that ended with issue #119 back in 2009, plus I have the first six Masterworks to give me a copy of every story through that point.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Apr 12, 2017 17:10:44 GMT -5
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