Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 33 October 1990. Batman in 3-D, Swamp Thing: Love and Death, Who’s Who Binder, The Greatest 1950’s Stories Ever Told, plus interviews with Roger Stern, Jerry Ordway and Dan…
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 31 August 1990. Batman: A Lonely Place Of Dying, Swamp Thing, Ms. Tree, plus an interview with Grant Morrison.
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 28 April 1990. The Demon, Bugs Bunny, Shade The Changing Man, V For Vendetta, The Prisoner, plus an interview with John Costanza.
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 23 November 1989. The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told, Superboy, Time Masters, plus an interview with Adam Hughes.
52 weeks. 52 different writers. 2 trade paperbacks or hardcovers a week. Each week I’ll take a look at a different writer and read two different collected editions from within that person’s repertoire to help in the examination of their…
52 weeks. 52 different writers. 2 trade paperbacks or hardcovers a week. Each week I’ll take a look at a different writer and read two different collected editions from within that person’s repertoire to help in the examination of their…
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 15 March 1989. Skreemer, Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told and Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters trade paperbacks, plus Mike Grell interviewed.
52 weeks. 52 different writers. 2 trade paperbacks or hardcovers a week. Each week I’ll take a look at a different writer and read two different collected editions from within that person’s repertoire to help in the examination of their…
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 14 February 1989. The Janus Directive, Batman Buttons, Blasters, The Legend Of Aquaman, plus Paul Kupperberg interviewed.
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 13, January 1989. Justice League Europe, Hero Hotline, Gilgamesh II, The Private Files Of The Shadow, The Phantom, plus Kurt Schaffenberger interviewed.
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 11 November 1988. The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told, The Catwoman, plus Denny O’Neil interviewed.
52 weeks. 52 different writers. 2 trade paperbacks or hardcovers a week. Each week I’ll take a look at a different writer and read two different collected editions from within that person’s repertoire to help in the examination of their…
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 5 May 1988. Hawk & Dove by “DC discovery” Rob Liefeld, Haywire, Starman, Best Of The Brave And The Bold, plus Karl Kesel interviewed.
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 3 March 1988. Power Of The Atom, COPS, Batman: The Cult, The World Of Metropolis, plus William Messner-Loebs interviewed.
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 2 February 1988. Wow, what a month. Batman: The Killing Joke, History Of The DC Universe hardcover, Action Comics Weekly, plus a profile on Mike Baron.
52 weeks. 52 different writers. 2 trade paperbacks or hardcovers a week. Each week I’ll take a look at a different writer and read two different collected editions from within that person’s repertoire to help in the examination of their…
A clean and precise look at Michael Turner’s output for DC, Superman/Batman: Michael Turner Gallery Edition will make a fan out of most readers. The art of comics legend Michael Turner is seen for the first time in it’s original…
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Releases October '86. John Byrne's The Man Of Steel gets the cover and Batman 400 the back.
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Releases September '86. The Watchmen gets the cover, and justly so, using Gibbon's first ad image for the series. The History Of The DC Universe gets the back cover, and lots of interesting items in between.
A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Releases August '86. Some real gems here including Heroes Against Hunger, The Dark Knight Returns and The Shadow, but Angel Love gets the cover...