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Conrad_Birdie posted:Todd Nuack!!! I forgot he got his start with Extreme Studios. He's a super nice dude in person, too. Endless Mike posted:I'm glad to see Rai #0 is still the hottest poo poo around As it will be forever. 
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The fact that Chic Stone inked this is... something.
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My sealed Superman #75 came! And as X-O said, no, the plastic didn't destroy everything. It all seems totally fine, and the comic itself is in good shape for a 30 year old book.   Not a bad package for $2.50 cover price - a comic (albeit one that is 100% splash pages), a cheap armband, a good-size poster, some stamps (I'm annoyed these aren't stickers), an in-universe news story, and a trading card
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I believe that's the 'Funeral For a Friend" poster with the overhead procession of heroes following the casket right? I had that poster on my closet door for YEARS after it.
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X-O posted:I believe that's the 'Funeral For a Friend" poster with the overhead procession of heroes following the casket right? I had that poster on my closet door for YEARS after it. That's the one! It has a handy dandy checklist on it, so you can stare at it knowing which comics will undoubtedly be worth millions in just a few years' time.
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Oh poo poo, I forgot about the poster! Yeah, I had that up for years as well (cause I opened mine cause gently caress keeping poo poo sealed in general, but also cause it’d rot, as has been clearly proven here :/ ). Anyone remember a double sided poster from around that time with a bat-coffin surrounded by every era/version of Superman on one side and a Supes coffin surrounded by Bat-mans on the other?
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The funeral procession is quite an iconic image. I never had the poster (I never even read the Death of Superman until this year when I picked up a second hand copy of the trade) but I remember seeing that image everywhere ( in DC comic) Also I am thinking Scorpion Corps wasn't long for this world. What terrible art.
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Wizard Magazine Issue #27 November 1993 Cover   Contents   Magic Words!     Wizard News      Gimmicks: Bonus or Bogus?   Exposing Covert Activities      The Unexplored Medium     Eight to the Fore       Manga Mania      All Dressed Up      Doomsayer     Leapin' Lizards    Brutes and Babes     Fan Art!   Hunk & Babe  Comic Watch  The Top 10   Todd McFarlane's E.G.O.  Wizard Profile  Random Ads      
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That Usagi Yojimbo costume is amazing
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Seeing praise for Jim Balent’s art is surreal, to say the least.
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the kid in that wolverine costume is 11 and they make fun of his weight in the index. theres that mean spirited humor i remember
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Darthemed posted:Seeing praise for Jim Balent’s art is surreal, to say the least. A shame there was never an article on his breakdown over being taken off Catwoman.
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Jul 6, 2022 19:39
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That McFarlane oped is amazingly hilarious
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Jul 6, 2022 19:55
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Soonmot posted:That McFarlane oped is amazingly hilarious It's a monthly 'feature' for a long while.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:13
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Is Todd mad at retailers not getting what they ordered?
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Dawgstar posted:Is Todd mad at retailers not getting what they ordered? Todd is mad for people doing what Todd wanted them to do originally but no longer wants them to do.
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Wizard's Top 10: Where Are They Now?? Issue 25, September 1993 #1 Batman #497 (Bane badly breaks Batman): This one's got a bunch of sales. Unslabbed we're looking at about $5, while slabbed vary, but no more than $100. QUARTER BIN FODDER #3 Bloodshot #7 (first full appearance of Ninjak): A number of listings with no sales. QUARTER BIN FODDER #5 Spawn #2 (this actually first appeared in the previous issue but I missed it. Whoops! Anyway, first appearance of Violator and a low print run): There's a handful of listings, but no sales. QUARTER BIN FODDER Issue 26, October 1993 #1 Superman: The Man of Steel #25 (Superman returns): One copy sold for $15. Another sold for $0.99. Another bunch didn't sell at all. QUARTER BIN FODDER #8 Action Comics #689 (Wait, no, Superman actually returns here): One copy sold for $2. QUARTER BIN FODDER #10 The Adventures of Superman #466 (origin of Cyborg Superman): One copy sold for $0.98. QUARTER BIN FODDER Issue 27, November 1993 #1 Daredevil #320 (Fall from Grace Part 1): It sold as part of lots that sold for $5 for $10+ comics. QUARTER BIN FODDER #4 Daredevil #319 (Fall from Grace Prologue): See above, though one slabbed 9.8 copy sold for $117.50. Still gonna call this one QUARTER BIN FODDER though. #6 Prime #2 (low print run, pedophile writer): One copy sold for $1.50. QUARTER BIN FODDER #10 Superman #82 (foil cover and no for real Superman returns this time, but in his real costume): I can't find any completed sales. QUARTER BIN FODDER Endless Mike fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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Wizard Magazine Issue #28 December 1993 Cover (Unfortunately this is a trifold cover, the third page of which is lost to time as my copy is not in mint condition!)   Contents   Magic Words!      Wizard News       Comic Economics   Aye Carumba!       Next!      Breaking From The Herd/b]     Chronicling The Maxx     Western Heroes     Brutes and Babes     Fan Art!     Hunk & Babe  Comic Watch  The Top 10   Todd McFarlane's E.G.O.  Wizard Profile  Random Ads       As an aside. My mother passed about six months ago and as part of that I gathered and scanned all the family photos I could find at the time. I have this as dated in early November '93. Here is photographic evidence of me getting this issue in a package with other comics at a surprise birthday party. I would have been turning 10 at the time. Luckily this is likely the only photographic evidence of me owning a Wizard Magazine. 
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Jul 6, 2022 23:22
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gently caress yeah WIZARD RINGS
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Endless Mike posted:gently caress yeah WIZARD RINGS Yeah, they made light of how dumb that was in their 10th anniversary issue. 
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Sad news for this thread. https://twitter.com/bleedingcool/status/1544811576762433536
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Ah drat, that sucks. Yeah his name is all over this thread.
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Came here to share that post. Pat WAS Wizard to me. Sad.
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I know Pat did so much more, but to me I always associated him with Magic Words. It's weird to say but I really do think that Magic Words was my favorite Wizard feature. When I really got into Wizard it was always the first thing after the contents page so it was naturally the first thing I read every issue. I loved reading the questions and answers from fans and it was always a fun read.
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I see that 'Todd complains about the industry' is going to be a thing in his column.
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X-O posted:Yeah, they made light of how dumb that was in their 10th anniversary issue.
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i suppose the description of that babe entry could have been worse?
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drat. Yeah I only know Pat through his work in Wizard, so I’ve basically been reading his words in one way or another for at least half of my life. That stinks.
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Soonmot posted:i suppose the description of that babe entry could have been worse? It's about as good as we can expect from Wizard in '93, but in keeping with the book itself. I've not read Mantra for probably 25 years, but I remember they never really *did* anything with the concept beyond "Ugh! Bras!".
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BooDooBoo posted:It's about as good as we can expect from Wizard in '93, but in keeping with the book itself. Pretty much. Although they eventually put the original soul(?) back in Mantra's body and she had a magic pregnancy, so that's nice. The guy who'd been in her body got his own body back and hung around for a bit as her boyfriend because... I don't even want to try and untangle those dynamics.
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Dawgstar posted:Pretty much. Although they eventually put the original soul(?) back in Mantra's body and she had a magic pregnancy, so that's nice. The guy who'd been in her body got his own body back and hung around for a bit as her boyfriend because... I don't even want to try and untangle those dynamics. It was a very odd book, the Writer had dipped his toes in the same sort of plot with Camelot 3000, but Mantra was just not great. I remember they shared her body for a while, got possessed and made a baby called Necromantra who was sold to evil wizards? I'd go check but I'm 100% certain my Ultraverse books got recycled years ago, and there's sure as hell no trades! Would Ultraverse count as lost media, Thor Ragnarok *sorta* used Topaz in a very vague way.? BooDooBoo fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jul 7, 2022 |
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And then the Ultraverse combined with the Marvel Universe and Mantra became a 16 year girl whose costume had a habit of disappearing in crowded places.
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BooDooBoo posted:Would Ultraverse count as lost media? No, not even remotely. There's tens of thousands of copies out there. If you want to read it, you can buy the original issues and it's just a matter of having the cash. Or there's probably some  options.I'm actually kind of annoyed at how some people in the past year or so have decided "lost media" just means "something I can't easily find".
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honestly, if you can't buy something except for second hand, gently caress it. creators aren't getting anything from your purchase anyways. Was Wizard still around when Crossgen started? I enjoyed so many of those titles, did they get pushed there?
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Soonmot posted:Was Wizard still around when Crossgen started? I enjoyed so many of those titles, did they get pushed there? Yes, and very much yes.
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If I wasn't lazy I would compile a list of all the publishers and lines mentioned/advertised in Wizard that no longer exist. Stuff like Legend, Lightning, Sky, Triumphant, Revolution, Now etc. Not all of those had articles written about them outside of Wizard News but there were a lot of random companies that seem to have lasted no more than a year or so.
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Madkal posted:If I wasn't lazy I would compile a list of all the publishers and lines mentioned/advertised in Wizard that no longer exist. Stuff like Legend, Lightning, Sky, Triumphant, Revolution, Now etc. Not all of those had articles written about them outside of Wizard News but there were a lot of random companies that seem to have lasted no more than a year or so. RIP to the real ones. 
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Hell yeah, my favorite writer and artist, The Creators
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Endless Mike posted:Hell yeah, my favorite writer and artist, The Creators And first appearances! Of Major characters! ARComics has a very No Name Brand power behind it.
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Madkal posted:If I wasn't lazy I would compile a list of all the publishers and lines mentioned/advertised in Wizard that no longer exist. Stuff like Legend, Lightning, Sky, Triumphant, Revolution, Now etc. Not all of those had articles written about them outside of Wizard News but there were a lot of random companies that seem to have lasted no more than a year or so. Now lasted quite a while, they were making licensed books in the 80's. Madkal posted:And first appearances! Of Major characters! They published one comic: ARComics Premier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXkxWleZL4s This was the only breakdown of what is in it that I could find.
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