Crimebuster
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 22, 2024 22:18:27 GMT -5
Ever encounter a comic book title you've never heard of before that actually has a ton of issues out?
I just saw an ad for a comic being published by Antarctic Comics about furries. It's called Furrlough.
It's on issue #196!
It's been running since 1991 -- that's 33 years!
What long running comic titles did you encounter late in the game that made you wonder how you've never heard of them before?
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 22, 2024 23:28:53 GMT -5
A bunch of British comics are weekly so.... probably one of those. I can only name the Beano, 2000Ad, Warrior, and Mighty World of Marvel.
I think Antarctic publishes the highest numbered creator owned US comic, (Gold Digger?) but I've never read it. (Or maybe anything they published... did they put out Licensable Bear?)
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 23, 2024 3:09:18 GMT -5
Knights of the Dinner Table from Kenzer is on issue 317 and FemForce from AC ran to 192 from 1985-2021.
I knew Kenzer as a game publisher and knew KODT as a gag strip appearing in game mags, but didn't realize until a couple years back it had been running continuously as a comic since 1994. I had only ever seen special giveaway issues I had gotten at cons. I guess, I was aware of the comic but not how long running it was. Same with FemForce. I know a local creator who had done some inking for the book, so was aware of it, but not how long it had run.
One I know of, that surprises me how long it has been going, is DC's Looney Tunes book, it's at 281 issues and going strong as a bi-monthly book. It launched at DC in '94.
-M
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Post by riv86672 on Oct 23, 2024 6:28:55 GMT -5
A bunch of British comics are weekly so.... probably one of those. I can only name the Beano, 2000Ad, Warrior, and Mighty World of Marvel. ^^^This. When I first got to this site I opened up the “Classic covers One by One” thread and saw a few of those books, looked at the issue numbers, said to myself “nope”, and haven’t gone back in. I’d never even heard of those books other that 2000AD that I can recall. |
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Post by commond on Oct 23, 2024 7:48:21 GMT -5
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Post by shaxper on Oct 23, 2024 8:02:53 GMT -5
Four Color has been dead and gone for decades, but I was in my 20s before I realized it had run in excess of a thousand issues.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 23, 2024 8:38:07 GMT -5
A bunch of British comics are weekly so.... probably one of those. I can only name the Beano, 2000Ad, Warrior, and Mighty World of Marvel. I think Antarctic publishes the highest numbered creator owned US comic, ( Gold Digger?) but I've never read it. (Or maybe anything they published... did they put out Licensable Bear?) This is the first title that came to mind. I saw an issue with a cover that caught my attention and started reading it. I think the third volume had something like 200 plus issues. The second volume, which is where I started reading, where lower issues numbers, so I assume either Fred Perry got on his game and/or the title finally started selling issues for volume three to be much higher in issue numbers. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 23, 2024 8:59:44 GMT -5
I saw the artwork for the Knights of the dinner table comic.
Amateurish.
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 23, 2024 9:04:17 GMT -5
Ever encounter a comic book title you've never heard of before that actually has a ton of issues out? I just saw an ad for a comic being published by Antarctic Comics about furries. It's called Furrlough. It's on issue #196! It's been running since 1991 -- that's 33 years! What long running comic titles did you encounter late in the game that made you wonder how you've never heard of them before? Years after it ended, I was surprised to learn that one of Sonic the Hedgehog’s comics had ran for 290 issues between 1993 and 2017. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 23, 2024 9:18:24 GMT -5
By the rubric of the title, I don't know. Because I've never heard of it.
That Gold Digger comic shocked me because I had absolutely never heard of it until it was touted for pushing 300.
Not nearly as many issues as any cited here, but one that surprised me because of the slightness of the gag and the difficulty of translating it to comics was that the Road Runner comic book lasted 51 issues.
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Post by rberman on Oct 23, 2024 11:46:15 GMT -5
Check out the Italians. Tex Willier has been running since the 1940s and is up to issue #760-something now. Nathan Never and Martin Mystere both crossed their 400th monthly issue recently. Dampyr is just a baby to them, not quite 300 issues long yet. And each issue of these comics runs around 94 pages, although each page is about 3/4 the size of an American page.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 23, 2024 15:26:46 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd only heard of Gold Digger a few years ago, and was similarly surprised at how long it's been in publication.
A few others I'd only recently - like in the last five or so years - learned about and couldn't believe had lasted so long were Soulsearchers and Company, which ran to just over 80 issues from the early 1990s to the late '00s, and an Elvira series that ran over that same period and had over 160 issues (both were published by Claypool).
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Post by jason on Oct 23, 2024 15:47:35 GMT -5
I just found out Femforce is still around. I remember hearing about it in Rovin's Encyclopedia of Superheroes back in the 80s, but I figured it was just an 80s title that was at short lived as some of the other indie titles in there.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Oct 24, 2024 13:46:46 GMT -5
Was going through the monthly order catalog on Comics Hub this afternoon and saw another Antarctic title I wasn't aware of...Ninja High School soliciting issues #197 and 198.
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Post by rberman on Oct 24, 2024 14:45:18 GMT -5
Was going through the monthly order catalog on Comics Hub this afternoon and saw another Antarctic title I wasn't aware of...Ninja High School soliciting issues #197 and 198. -M Yes, Ben Dunn has been doing this for a long time. I have a few early pages. Here's a pair from 2021: www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1968292 |
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