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It Came From the Back Room #29
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed, this amounts to a two-year project. This week, we’re nearing the end of the letter “G,” and that means one of Marvel’s weirder creations: Ghost Rider This was part of the early-’70s horror boom, which saw vampires, zombies, werewolves and other creatures of the night all suddenly popular, and all jostling for comics-rack space (not to mention magazine-rack exposure, as Marvel’s black-and-white horror … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, News & Promos
Tagged Garth Ennis, Ghost Rider, Jim Starlin, John Byrne, Marvel Comics, Mike Ploog, Tony Isabella
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It Came From the Back Room #26
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed, this amounts to a two-year project. This week, we’re looking at a couple of DC bargains from the end of the letter “H,” and some indy titles from the beginning of the letter “G” : Hellblazer Alan Moore’s occult trickster, who first appeared in Swamp Thing looking almost exactly like Sting (the Police lead singer of the early ’80s, not the easy-listening jazz … Continue reading
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Tagged Garth Ennis, Gatecrasher, Grendel, Grimjack, Hawkgirl, Hellblazer, Hitman, Howard Chaykin, John McCrea, Matt Wagner, Steve Dillon, Tim Truman
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Gene Colan Art Exhibit
Here are the five Colan pages being displayed at the store this week, through Saturday — and at the July 4 sale! — and, no, none of them are being sold….: This is from Tomb of Dracula #9, page 10; inks by Vince Colletta and words by Marv Wolfman. Evan Dorkin said last week that Colan’s art was like “dreams on paper,” and this is a good example: the hand-drawn panel borders radiating from the center; the use of … is it whiteout?… to indicate fog; the bottom image of Dracula on the ground in the shadows, weak but still … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, News and Events
Tagged Daredevil, Gene Colan, Howard the Duck, original art, Sub-Mariner, Tomb of Dracula
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Fresh Eyes on Old Books #24
All right folks, it’s been a long weekend, the X-men movie was rad, and now I’m reading old stuff. Let’s do this! Hawkman #5 from 1964 So I completely don’t understand the Shadow Thief. He’s a guy who steals stuff, but is basically like Kitty Pryde, unable to be touched. But how does he steal things if he’s only a shadow? It’s logic like this that makes me smarter than the 60s! Hawkman is using his bow and arrow to try to shoot the Shadow Thief, and this story is all about finding a way to stop the untouchable villain. … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, DC, Marvel, Reviews
Tagged DC, Hawkman, Metamorpho, Sea Devils, Silver Age
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It Came From the Back Room #23
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed, this amounts to a two-year project. This week, we’re doing miscellaneous Marvel and DC “I” books, and, as always, discount copies are available on the rack near my corner by the west end of the store: Identity Crisis This was one of DC’s first attempts to make its mainstream superhero comics more “adult,” almost seven years ago now, and they got a lot … Continue reading
