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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
It Came From the Back Room #22
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 breaking the regular alphabetical pattern, and time-traveling back to stuff I pulled a year ago (before I started doing these writeups). Why? Because it’s a comic character who’s hot right now, with a movie, a crossover event miniseries, and a new number-one issue all calling attention to him: The Mighty Thor We can pass … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, Marvel, News & Promos, Reviews
Tagged Beta Ray Bill, Dan Jurgens, John Romita Jr, Mike Deodato, Ron Frenz, Simonson, Thor, Tom Defalco, Warren Ellis
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It Came From the Back Room #21
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 continuing the letter “I,” and featuring the second half of The Invincible Iron Man. In our last episode, we got up to the end of Shellhead’s first run, which ended with issue #332, in 1996. If you’d like to see some high-end offerings of those early issues, check our stock here, here, here and … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, Marvel, News & Promos, Reviews
Tagged Heroes Reborn, Heroes Return, Iron Man, Kurt Busiek, Matt Fraction, Mike Grell, Salvador Larroca, Warren Ellis
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