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Starlin/McDonnell Dreadstar

This is the second (following Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!) in a series of posts spotlighting less-often-read (by me) runs of three of my favorite series. Whenever I'm in the mood to re-read Dreadstar, I will generally go to the "Metamorphis Odys

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The Art of the Amazing Spider-Man

As I mentioned yesterday, this item flew in entirely beneath my radar. But neither the solicitation I posted yesterday (to the "Your Favorite Things of the Year" discussion) nor the back cover copy tells exactly what's inside, and the book is shrinkw

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Comics shipping week of Nov. 4, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

ALIENS VS AVENGERS #2 (OF 4, $7.99)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BLOOD HUNT TP ($19.99)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EPIC COLLECTION VOL 28: WEB LIFE, WEB DEATH TP ($44.99)

AVENGERS #20 ($3.99)

BLOOD HUNTERS #4 (OF 5, $3.99)

CAPTAIN AMERICA

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Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!

This is the first post in a projected series of three. Whenever I go back to re-read a particular favorite series of mine, I generally go to the best of the run, which is often the beginning. Many series feature a resurgance in creativity later in th

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MARVEL PREVIEWS #38 – JANUARY 2025 SHIPPING PRODUCT

DEADPOOL/WOLVERINE #1

BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • JOSHUA CASSARA (A/C)

GALLERY VARIANT COVER BY JOSHUA CASSARA • Variant Cover by GREG CAPULLO

VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER

VARIANT COVER BY JEROME OPEÑA • VARIANT COVER

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Archie Comics January Solicits / November Previews

ARCHIE IS MR. JUSTICE #2 (of 4)

BRAND NEW ARCHIE PREMIUM EVENT LIMITED SERIES! Mr. Justice’s heroic deeds have started to catch attention—for better or for worse! But when he gets entangled with Veronica Lodge, the daughter of the man who’s turning t

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TITAN COMICS JANUARY 2025 SOLICITS

COMICS

LENORE: THE TIME WAR #1 (OF 3)

(W/A) Roman Dirge

Publisher: Titan Comics

FC, 32pp, $3.99, On Sale January 29, 2025

The much-celebrated return of Roman Dirge’s unique, anarchic and cult classic character LENORE: THE CUTE LITTLE DEAD GIRL in her

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Scout

The first Scout series (1985) took place in 1999 (#1-7) and 2002 (#8-24). The second Scout series, War Shamen (1988), took place in 2015 (with a framing device set in 2030) and ended with ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uᴉɐɯ ǝɥʇ ɟo ɥʇɐǝp ǝɥʇ. At that point, Timothy Truman

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Comics shipping week of Oct. 28, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #60 ($7.99)

CAPTAIN AMERICA #14 ($4.99)

CHASM: CURSE OF KAINE #3 (OF 4, $3.99)

DEADPOOL #6 2ND PTG ROGE ANTONIO VARIANT ($3.99)

DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #3 (OF 5, $3.99)

GHOST RIDER EPIC COLLECT VOL 2: THE SA

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Godzilla: The Original Marvel Years

Despite being a life-long G-fan, I didn't buy this series (written by Doug Moench and drawn by Herb Trimpe) when it was new. I did buy the first and last issues years later, but didn't feel the need to collect the series as backissues. When I had the

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Comics shipping week of Oct. 14, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

ALIEN: ROMULUS ANNUAL #1 ($4.99)

AVENGERS #19 ($3.99)

BLADE RED BAND #1 (OF 5) RED FOIL VAR (POLYBAGGED, $PI)

BLOOD HUNT TP ($19.99)

CAPTAIN AMERICA MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION VOL 2: DEATH OF D TP ($49.99)

CAPTAIN MARVEL

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Green Lantern Civil Corps Special #1 Reactions (SPOILERS)

As is my custom, here are some random images for spoiler space:

My version of the "Suicide Squad"

Baserd on its newsstand release date, in another universe, this could have been the last issue of Fantastic Four:
 

1. On the cover I have, Hal Jordan is

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Comics shipping week of Oct. 7, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

ALIENS VS AVENGERS #1 2ND PTG ESAD RIBIC VARIANT (OF 4, $7.99)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #261 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #2 (OF 5, $3.99)

BLOOD HUNTERS #3 (OF 5, $3.99)

CRYPT OF SHADOWS #1 (ONE-SHOT, $4.99)

DARE

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Tales by Timothy Truman

Before Grimjack, before Starslayer, Timothy Truman worked for TSR on a variety of RPG-related projects, including "Daral of Gondwane" by the great Gardner Fox, surely one of his last stories. Other stories include "Braskan Gambit" and "Starmerchant,"

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Mandrake Mystery Theater

Over the course of a long weekend in the '90s, I once watched Lawrence Olivier's movie version of Hamlet, followed by Mel Gibson's, followed by Kenneth Branagh's. Then I read First Comics' Classics Illustrated version. As truncated as it was (to fit

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Random Spouting Off About Comics

Cross-Posted from Facebook

I've always said that if Marvel had just had Jim Starlin put out a book once a year of all double page spreads of all of Marvel's heroes and villains fighting each other in interesting locales and without bothering with any

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Re-Action Figures: Pre-Code covers become glow-in-the-dark action figures

"The past is never dead. It's never even past." -- William Faulkner

Some company named Super7 (or maybe PX, it's unclear) has announced four glow-in-the dark action figures from pre-Code horror comics. Not ongoing characters, mind you -- just single

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Comics shipping week of Oct. 7, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #59 ($4.99)

BLADE RED BAND #1 (OF 5, POLYBAGGED, $4.99)

CONQUEST 2099 #1 (OF 5, $4.99)

EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #2 ($3.99)

FANTASTIC FOUR #26 ($3.99)

FANTASTIC FOUR EPIC COLLECT VOL 1: WORLDS GREATEST COMIC TP

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Warp

Warp is the very first series published by the fledgling First Comics. I came to First Comics in a roundabout way: Marvel/Epic's Coyote crossover brought me to Badger, which in turn brought me to Nexus, which in turn brought me to everything else. I'

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Starslayer - The Log of the Jolly Roger

"[Mike] Grell created a Celtic barbarian in the time of the Roman Empire who, at the moment of his death, is yanked into a far-flung future where he becomes a space pirate and freedom fighter aboard a star-roving vessel shaped like a Spanish Galleon

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