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Post by shaxper on Feb 11, 2024 12:39:57 GMT -5
I like Betty's outfit on that cover - very '70s! It makes her look just a bit older or more mature than usual, which makes me wonder, has there ever been a series where the Archie characters were taken a few years ahead, say into their mid twenties or later?
Paging shaxper Here's a chance for you to talked about the Married Life with Archie, which I know is one of your favorites, and which I know very little of the details of except that it exists. -M Oh my. Well the guy you really want to talk to is Crimebuster, as he wrote extensively about that specific issue back at the old CBR. Suffice to say, he enjoys that story a lot more than I do. Life with Archie is a favorite of mine just because of its experimental nature. It was always trying to set itself apart from the other titles, often by leaning in to whatever the cultural zeitgeist of the era was, and often to an embarrassing extent. In this case, they took a stab at horror. I find their racing/muscle car era utterly unreadable, but a lot of the rest really works. I particularly enjoyed the earliest issues, which were more about writing a feature-length narrative and using it to educate readers on a topic. Often times, they were travel adventures, which was a lot of fun. EDIT: Ohhhh, you're talking about Life with Archie: THE MARRIED LIFE, one of my top twenty comic runs of all time. Well, here you go: classiccomics.org/thread/4327/episode-life-archie-married-shaxper |
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 11, 2024 23:39:55 GMT -5
Paging shaxper Here's a chance for you to talked about the Married Life with Archie, which I know is one of your favorites, and which I know very little of the details of except that it exists. -M Oh my. Well the guy you really want to talk to is Crimebuster , as he wrote extensively about that specific issue back at the old CBR. Suffice to say, he enjoys that story a lot more than I do. Oh yeah, I love Life with Archie #125. The cover story is one of the best three or four stories in the whole series for me. It's a straight up horror story about an evil teddy bear trying to murder Betty. No spoilers but it ends in a way suggesting there may be a follow up... which there eventually was, 30 years later!  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2024 12:40:51 GMT -5
My dealer got this for me, a VF hardcover Mad Forever from 1959. Getting one of these without the dust-jacket in tatters is difficult but this one is near perfect, with just a couple of 1/4 inch tears on the front and back. Given its age its previous owner took good care of it. The price wasn't clipped either. I believe it was the second hardcover Mad released in the late 50s, that one should follow eventually.
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Post by tonebone on Feb 14, 2024 14:57:35 GMT -5
My dealer got this for me, a VF hardcover Mad Forever from 1959. Getting one of these without the dust-jacket in tatters is difficult but this one is near perfect, with just a couple of 1/4 inch tears on the front and back. Given its age its previous owner took good care of it. The price wasn't clipped either. I believe it was the second hardcover Mad released in the late 50s, that one should follow eventually.
WOW! For a MAD fan, that's the Holy Grail! Again, I'm jealous! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2024 23:20:08 GMT -5
The movie is my favourite western of all time, so I thought I'd give this 2009 series a shot after noticing it only quite recently.
Negotiated a good deal with blondie...
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Post by Confessor on Feb 15, 2024 4:51:05 GMT -5
The movie is my favourite western of all time, so I thought I'd give this 2009 series a shot after noticing it only quite recently. Negotiated a good deal with blondie... Is that an adaptation of the movie? Or all new tales starring the Man With No Name? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2024 10:13:37 GMT -5
Is that an adaptation of the movie? Or all new tales starring the Man With No Name?
New tales which are heavily influenced by the movie.
This bit below from the internet covers it.
These eight issues comprise three different story arcs. In the first story arc, titled ‘Dead Man’s Hand’, taking up issues one through five, our hero teams up with a Confederate deserter named Devereaux, and seeks to waylay a French train carrying a fortune in gold. Unfortunately, a bandido named Jugador and his homicidal followers are looking for the same train…….along with a detachment of ill-tempered French soldiers.........
In the second story arc, ‘You Live, You Die, I Choose’, our hero confronts vengeful Apaches, and a besieged desert outpost.
In the third story arc, ‘The Gold is Mine, the Grave is Yours’, a recently freed convict heads to Denver, Colorado, in search of the gold he had given to a former sweetheart; The Man with No Name comes along to join in the mayhem.
Chuck Dixon is a veteran comics writer and he knows how to script a Western title, keeping his plots straightforward and direct and the cast of characters manageable. Dixon also is adept at carrying the dry humor of the films into this series; it’s not at all unusual to see the bad guys hoisted by their own petards, often to the accompaniment of droll commentary by the Man with No Name.
As with the other ‘Man with No Name’ titles published by Dynamite, the licensing deal does not include the rights to Clint Eastwood’s likeness, nor the likenesses of the other actors in the films, so the lead character is conveniently often depicted with his face hidden in darkness, or by the brim of his hat. That said, despite the restriction on depicting Eastwood, artist Esteve Polls does a reasonably good job of rendering the character.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2024 16:22:35 GMT -5
I'm gonna cheat and post the latest Kickstarter project , Dreadstar from Jim Starlin.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2024 10:09:39 GMT -5
This was a curiousity pick up, as it checked several boxes.
- it's a
Golden Silver-Age 10c Atlas comic from 1957, making it the first of its kind in my stash. - it's in really nice shape...a clean and press might take it into VF territory
- looked it up on Mile High where it's listed for a ghastly $652 in FINE lol....got it on the bay for $10.50
I'm not sure if it's a Casper knock off, or the other way around...
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Feb 20, 2024 13:43:46 GMT -5
I'm gonna cheat and post the latest Kickstarter project , Dreadstar from Jim Starlin.  I just got the e-mail that mine was being shipped yesterday. -M |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 20, 2024 15:11:52 GMT -5
I saw Superman Family #166 for $2.80 on eBay and I had to get that.
Edited to add: I bought it because it’s the only 100-Page Super-Spectacular issue of Superman Family that I don’t have, and $2.80 seemed like great price, even if it’s a bit beat up. But I just now looked at the story index at Mike’s Amazing World. There’s a story called “Superbaby Captures the Pumpkin Gang”! And also a story from Tales of the Bizarro World titled “Car 54, Get Lost!”!
It’s a g*dd*mm bargain at twice the price!
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Post by Confessor on Feb 20, 2024 16:42:59 GMT -5
I picked up the Monster Masterworks book from the late '80s for a good price off of eBay last week.  This collects a load of those old, weird monster tales that were published in late '50s or early '60s in comics like Amazing Fantasy, Tales to Astonish, and Strange Tales. The majority of the stories in this volume were produced by the team of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, though there are a few Steve Ditko drawn stories in here too. |
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Post by MDG on Feb 20, 2024 17:16:56 GMT -5
I picked up the Monster Masterworks book from the late '80s for a good price off of eBay last week. This collects a load of those old, weird monster tales that were published in late '50s or early '60s in comics like Amazing Fantasy, Tales to Astonish, and Strange Tales. The majority of the stories in this volume were produced by the team of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, though there are a few Steve Ditko drawn stories in here too. It's a fun book, but whoever colored the cover (I can't believe it was Simonson himself) just made everything look like mud. And someone chose the worst possible typeface to do the names over that roof. |
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Feb 20, 2024 19:52:00 GMT -5
Ha, yeah I've always wondered what the heck was with the Fall color scheme for that trade
I think that may be the oldest trade in my collection, as far as how long I've had it that is. I think I got it shortly after it was published because I was already a big Kirby fan at age 11 or whatever
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Post by Confessor on Feb 21, 2024 1:47:55 GMT -5
I picked up the Monster Masterworks book from the late '80s for a good price off of eBay last week. This collects a load of those old, weird monster tales that were published in late '50s or early '60s in comics like Amazing Fantasy, Tales to Astonish, and Strange Tales. The majority of the stories in this volume were produced by the team of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, though there are a few Steve Ditko drawn stories in here too. It's a fun book, but whoever colored the cover (I can't believe it was Simonson himself) just made everything look like mud. And someone chose the worst possible typeface to do the names over that roof. The interior colour reproduction is pretty nice. It uses old style Benday-dots rather than the garish solid colour of the Masterworks and Omnibuses. I kinda wish more vintage Marvel comics were reprinted that way. |
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