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In the course of my ongoing quest to tidy my messy bookshelves, I have encountered the non-comics equivalent of TPB spines not lining up because the company changed their logo etc. Here is one of my bookshelves:  Let's zoom in:  For goodness' sake, Zorro publisher. 
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Years and years ago, the first time I ever went into a comic shop, I found this comic where the front cover featured "Green Sinestro, Bat-Penguin and Super-Luthor" but never bought it or read it. I've recently looked it up and that cover is for a "Silver Age No. 1" one-shot from 2000 by Brian Bolland. But was that itself based on a real comic with "Green Sinestro, Bat-Penguin and Super-Luthor"? Was it a reprint? It might just be the passage of time (i.e. almost 15 years) but I'm almost convinced that the comic I saw must have been a legit Justice League issue from the 1960s. 
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Jul 11, 2017 11:58
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Well, 10 year old me was convinced that it was an authentic 1960s back issue so it obviously worked.  One other thing I remember from an early trip to the comic shop was Dragon Ball Z comics in the American comics format; left-to-right, A5 (?) paper size etc. Now that is something I've definitely mistakenly remembered. EDIT: I love getaway driver Batman at the bottom here: 
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Jul 11, 2017 15:20
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I've just realised that Doc Ock has a sort of German-sounding accent in the Spider-Man '94 cartoon because it was supposed to tie in with the James Cameron movie which was going to feature Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ock.
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Jul 12, 2017 12:37
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Lightning Lord posted:Probably why he was so buff too. I wonder if Cameron was going to put Arnie in the green and orange armour.
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Jul 13, 2017 16:18
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I think the most memorable thing about Malibu today is probably Ryu holding Ken's scalp going, "KEN! MY OLDEST FRIEND! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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Jul 14, 2017 13:31
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Rhyno posted:Goddamn lovely day. I'm scared who #3 will be. Doctor Who. 
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Jul 17, 2017 08:49
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I like that retro looking cover.
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Jul 19, 2017 13:50
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You'll know Richard Starkings and Tom Frame if you've read any British comics from the 80s. Those guys monopolised everything published by Fleetway between them.
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Jul 23, 2017 11:31
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The Question IRL posted:So I have been listening to a book on Audible called "Professor Moriarty and the Hound of the D'Aubervilles." Kim Newman is a huge Marvel fan and credits two things as setting him on the path to becoming a writer: the first is sitting up late to watch the Béla Lugosi Dracula movie when he was a kid; the second is his grandmother buying him a Marvel comic. I think that book's great. I love the Legion of Late Victorian Super-Villains assembled by Moriarty in the last story. It's loosely set in the same continuity as Newman's Diogenes Club stories, which I recommend if you can get hold of them, as is a similar novel called Angels of Music, which is Charlie's Angels in Paris during La Belle Époque, in which the Angels are (initially) Christine Daae, Trilby O'Farrell and Irene Adler and Charlie is the Phantom of the Opera.
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Jul 26, 2017 13:33
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Gaz-L posted:Newman also dresses like Doc Holiday in every picture I've ever seen of him. I believe he also used to carry a cane with a sword in it. I'm not sure if he beats Alan Moore for obscure metatextual references but he comes close if he doesn't. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Jul 26, 2017 |
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Jul 26, 2017 17:09
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