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Early FF Annuals (#1-6)

Marvel annuals used to be truly special in the early days, but there came a time when someone at Marvel came up with the "neat idea" to monetize them by linking them together in a massive "event" to "force" readers to buy them all. For me, the "gold

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DC Comics solicitations for February 2025

ABSOLUTE BATMAN #5

Written by SCOTT SNYDER

Art and cover by NICK DRAGOTTA

Variant covers by JOËLLE JONES and IAN BERTRAM

1:25 variant cover by NIKOLAS DRAPER-IVEY

1:50 variant cover by CLAY & SETH MANN

$4.99 US | 24 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card sto

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Comics shipping week of Dec. 2, 2024

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ALL NEW VENOM #1 ($4.99)
AVENGERS #21 ($3.99)
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #4 (OF 5, $3.99)
AVENGERS BY JED MACKAY VOL 3: BLOOD HUNT TP ($15.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS VOL 3 HC (NEW PTG, $125.00)
CONQUEST 2099 #4 (OF 5, $3.99)
DE

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The Tick

I was in on The Tick from the very beginning, thanks mainly to the fact that the owner of my LCS at the time was convinced it was going to be "the next Cerebus." As it turned oout, it was much more like the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, however

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Fish Police

I no longer remember when or why I started reading Fish Police by Steve Moncuse, but I suspect it was around the time he made the leap from Fishwrap Production to Comico, and from black & white to color. He self-published the first 11 issues beginnin

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Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 5

There is a certain cachet among fans somewhat older than I being able to say that their first issue of Fantastic Four was #1.

I have always been... pleased that my first issue was #126.

It is also the issue which leads off Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 5

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Comics shipping week of Nov. 25, 2024

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #62 ($4.99)

BLADE RED BAND #2 (OF 5, POLYBAGGED, $4.99)

DAZZLER #3 (OF 4, $3.99)

DEADPOOL BY CODY ZIGLAR VOL 1: BLOOD BOND TP ($17.99)

DOCTOR DOOM BY CANTWELL & LARROCA TP ($34.99)

DOCTOR STRANGE BY J

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2025 Free Comic Book Day

The press releases for FCBD 2025 have begun.

 

MARVEL REVEALS ITS 2025 FREE COMIC BOOK DAY TITLES INCLUDING NEW STORIES STARRING THE FANTASTIC FOUR, X-MEN AND MORE

See what Marvel has in store for Free Comic Day 2025! 

New York, NY— November 18, 2024

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Munden's Bar

Earth-J has been out of phase with Cynosure for far too long, but lately I've been doing some time travelling and have discovered that the gateway still exists on the Earth-J of the past. "Munden's Bar" was the back-up feature in most issues of Grimj

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Comics shipping week of Nov. 18, 2024

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #262 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY ZEB WELLS  VOL 11: GOING GREEN TP ($19.99)

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #3 (OF 5, $3.99)

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

DAREDEVIL #15 ($4.99)

DEADPOOL

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Miscellaneous New Universes

I have been living in the late '80s recently (actually I have been commuting back and forth), and it occured to me that I have read almost  the entire First Comics series Crossroads over the course of various discussions. I read issues #1-2 as part o

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Magnus, Robot Fighter

I recently posted about Western Publishing's Dr. Solar, Man of the Atom and Turok, Son of Stone. Here now are my thoughts on the third of the Dell/Gold Key triumvirate, Magnus, Robot Fighter, the best (IMO) of the three. I first became interested in

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Sable, Return of the Hunter

This is the third (following Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! and the Starlin/McDonnell run of Dreadstar) 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 read some Jon Sable,

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Comics shipping week of Nov. 11, 2024

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #61 ($4.99) 

AVENGERS EPIC COLLECT VOL 13: SEASONS OF THE WITCH  TP ($44.99)

BLOOD HUNTERS: ONCE MORE INTO THE DARKNESS TP ($19.99)

CAPTAIN AMERICA #15 ($4.99) 

CONQUEST 2099 #3 (OF 5, $3.99)

DEADPOO

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Airboy

My three favorite Eclipse titles are (alphabetically) Airboy, Miracleman and Scout. I didn't start reading any of them from the very beginning, but Airboy was the only one I collected entirely ex post facto. I bought the entire run all at once at a q

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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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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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