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It Came From the Back Room #40
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 (these are featured at the discount racks at the west end of the store for a couple of weeks after each post, and then go to the discount racks on the east end of the store for a few weeks, and then disappear into our warehouses, so get them while you can). I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school semester starting up again), this amounts to … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, Marvel, Promotions, Reviews
Tagged Dr. Strange, Frank Brunner, Gene Colan, Marshall Rogers, Marvel, Paul Smith, Roger Stern, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Steve Englehart
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Ask the Professor: Marvel Cover Variants
We got something last week we haven’t gotten in quite a while: an “Ask The Professor” question, from fan Greg Beesch. Here it is: Question for the Professor: I have Marvel comics from the late ’70s thru the mid ’80s. There are variations in the top left symbols and UPC (when UPCs were introduced). In my youthful exuberance I had both a subscription (brown wrapped comic) and went to the news stand, so I have two of the same in a number of cases, with different top left corner and UPC (UPC or, say, Spidey face) that seems to be … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, Marvel
Tagged cover variations, direct market, price variants, Whitman
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It Came From the Back Room #37
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 (these are featured at the discount racks at the west end of the store for two weeks after each post, and then go to the discount racks on the east end of the store for a few weeks, and then disappear into our warehouses, so get them while you can). I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school semester in full gear), this amounts to a two-year … Continue reading
Posted in Marvel, Promotions, Reviews
Tagged Alan Davis, Chris Claremont, Excalibur, Exiles, Judd Winick, Warren Ellis
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It Came From the Back Room #35
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 (these are featured at the discount racks at the west end of the store for two weeks after each post, and then go to the discount racks on the east end of the store for a few weeks, and then disappear into our warehouses, so get them while you can). I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school semester in full gear), this amounts to a two-year … Continue reading
Posted in Marvel, Promotions, Reviews
Tagged Adam Warren, Buscema, Carlos Pacheco, Fantastic Four, Jim Lee, Mark Waid, Mike Wieringo, Paul Ryan, Steve Englehart, Tom Defalco, Walt Simonson
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It Came From the Back Room #33
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 (especially with the school semester in full gear), this amounts to a two-year project. This week, the focus continues to be on the letter “F,” and on discount comics featuring a series that Marvel has frequently billed as “The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine” — the Fantastic Four. Fantastic Four — Volume One The FF was Marvel’s first Silver Age superhero book, of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, Marvel, Promotions, Reviews
Tagged Fantastic Four, Jack Kirby, John Byrne, Stan Lee
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