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X-O posted:Wizard Magazine Issue #12 August 1992 Nothing makes me want to try a new book more than showcasing their main character, tiny gremlin in a suit with Mega Man Robot Master hands.
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I haven't read the last three pages. I will when I am at work and have some time to kill and need a good long read. I just want to say thank you so much for doing this, for this service, for taking up the call, answering the bell, and so on and so on. I used to read Wizard cover to cover in the early 2000's and have many fond memories of the frivolous bs in there. This thread has just become my favourite and I haven't even read it yet.
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Jun 14, 2022 00:36
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Cartridgeblowers posted:Nothing makes me want to try a new book more than showcasing their main character, tiny gremlin in a suit with Mega Man Robot Master hands. The dreaded reverse Vulcan salute!
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Jun 14, 2022 00:52
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X-O posted:Wizard Magazine Issue #12 August 1992 Peter de Tina is almost certainly the concept artist of the same name. I wasn't familiar with his work beforehand but his style caught my eye so I figured I'd google. He's been working in animation and video games for awhile and you can see a definite throughline from his work now and this 30 year old fanart. So good for him!
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Jun 14, 2022 00:55
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I’ve just read the OP, and I want to say — Wizard Magazine was my childhood, so I am very much looking forward to reading ALL of this. You’re doing the lord’s work, XO.
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Jun 14, 2022 01:17
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Jim Lee always seemed like a good guy, that was a nice interview. Lots of good art in the fan art section this month too. That Hulk drawing is great.
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Jun 14, 2022 01:46
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Wizard Magazine Issue #13 September 1992 Cover  Contents   Wizard News    Article of Note     Article of Note    Article of Note     Brutes and Babes   Fan Art!     Top 10 Heroes and Villains   The Top 10   Magic Words!     Random Ads   
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Jun 14, 2022 02:28
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I need votes yay or nay on the following. Don't go out of your way to vote unless you back up your reasoning. Coming up soon in a few issues they start doing monthly cosplay articles. Do we want to actually unleash these back into the world? Are people ready for content of such a quality like early '90s cosplay? What say you thread readers?
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Jun 14, 2022 02:38
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X-O posted:Wizard Magazine Issue #13 September 1992 I think Chris Battle also went on to a successful career in animation, working on stuff like Ahh! Real Monsters, Dexter's Lab, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Teen Titans Go and more-- at least the location and the style seem to match up.
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Jun 14, 2022 02:46
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#10 MOST POPULAR MORBIUS!!!! hell yeah most popular character for thirty years, i know he's only going upwards from here edit: who's the gold robot in the fan art this issue, i do not recognize them
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Jun 14, 2022 03:04
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X-O posted:I need votes yay or nay on the following. Don't go out of your way to vote unless you back up your reasoning. Coming up soon in a few issues they start doing monthly cosplay articles. Do we want to actually unleash these back into the world? Are people ready for content of such a quality like early '90s cosplay? What say you thread readers? LETS GOOOOOOO
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Jun 14, 2022 03:20
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How Wonderful! posted:I think Chris Battle also went on to a successful career in animation, working on stuff like Ahh! Real Monsters, Dexter's Lab, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Teen Titans Go and more-- at least the location and the style seem to match up. Please keep doing this. It's very cool to hear that some of these people went on to actually have successful careers.
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Jun 14, 2022 03:26
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X-O posted:I need votes yay or nay on the following. Don't go out of your way to vote unless you back up your reasoning. Coming up soon in a few issues they start doing monthly cosplay articles. Do we want to actually unleash these back into the world? Are people ready for content of such a quality like early '90s cosplay? What say you thread readers? I think it would be cool to look back and see that kind of stuff through today's lens. As long as people don't get too mean spirited. Or less mean spirited than Wizard themselves? I seem to remember a cornucopia of fat jokes at the submitters expense.
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X-O posted:Wizard Magazine Issue #13 September 1992 Wizard understood and the millennium of Morb was upon us and it was Morbin time.
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Jun 14, 2022 04:17
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I say yes to the cosplay pics, it should be interesting looking back on how it was done before internet shopping was a thing and it would have been much harder to get what you wanted from local stores. And as was mentioned, Wizard is probably much more harsh on some of the pictures than most posters here would be.
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I’m voting yes solely because this was still the era of (for me at least) small cons in failing old school hotels that were also record conventions and quasi-legal to flat out illegal gunshows all in some dilapidated hotel ballroom that was maybe fancy in like 1953 but was just musty red velour curtains and carpet straight out of the Shining (this was south Texas). I don’t remember cosplay being a thing, at least not as we think of it today, and I’m honestly curious as to what it looked like in ‘92 or whenever it starts up. I’m guessing it’s more a “booth-babe” thing that early? And yeah, I’m sure it’s gonna be some real lovely misogynistic/homophonic crap but in addition to chronicling it I think it’d be interesting to have the dude bro reactions from the time. I didn’t think cosplay really took off til like the mid 2000’s, I don’t really remember it being called that or being a thing separate from say Trekkies dressing up at Trek conventions
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Wizard Magazine Issue #14 October 1992 Cover  Contents   Wizard News     Article of Note    Article of Note    Article of Note         Article of Note     Brutes and Babes    Fan Art!     Top 10 Heroes and Villains MIA this issue for some reason.Weird. The Top 10   Magic Words!     Random Ads   
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Jun 14, 2022 13:01
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NGL: I miss the cover art having the wizard robe and hat (or even just sash). It was more fun than just art of whoever they're featuring.
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Soonmot posted:#10 MOST POPULAR MORBIUS!!!! Part of Magnus Robot Fighter's supporting cast, apparently.
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Jun 14, 2022 14:52
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X-O posted:I need votes yay or nay on the following. Don't go out of your way to vote unless you back up your reasoning. Coming up soon in a few issues they start doing monthly cosplay articles. Do we want to actually unleash these back into the world? Are people ready for content of such a quality like early '90s cosplay? What say you thread readers? Abso-loving-lutely. Let's see some people with more enthusiasm than talent having fun!
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Jun 14, 2022 15:17
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I'm pretty firmly in the "YES" crew for cosplay photos. It's one of those art forms that's really interesting, and it'll be cool to see early American versions (idk when Japan got big into it). That said, if they get a bit too nasty about the cosplayers, maybe put it behind spoilers?
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Endless Mike posted:NGL: I miss the cover art having the wizard robe and hat (or even just sash). It was more fun than just art of whoever they're featuring. yeah, i was gonna mention this looks like the first issue to ditch the wizard theme on the cover. Also: big YES on cosplay
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X-O posted:I need votes yay or nay on the following. Don't go out of your way to vote unless you back up your reasoning. Coming up soon in a few issues they start doing monthly cosplay articles. Do we want to actually unleash these back into the world? Are people ready for content of such a quality like early '90s cosplay? What say you thread readers? I vote yay because I am curious what people were cosplaying in the 90's. I assume that every article was about someone cosplaying character of the decade Dawn. Prove me wrong.
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Endless Mike posted:I'm pretty firmly in the "YES" crew for cosplay photos. It's one of those art forms that's really interesting, and it'll be cool to see early American versions (idk when Japan got big into it). The very first sci-fi convention all the way back in 1939 had people dressing in costumes. It was a staple of the con scene literally as long as there have been cons. And the same was true in Japan. Though sci-fi cons didn't kick off there until much later, people wore costumes to those very first ones.
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Wizard Magazine Issue #15 November 1992 Cover   Contents   In Memoriam: Joe Shuster  Wizard News     Article of Note     Article of Note     Article of Note     Article of Note    Brutes and Babes    Fan Art!     Top 10 Heroes and Villains Still missing? How am I ever going to know how cool Venom and Cable are in comparison to each other? The Top 10   Magic Words!     Random Ads      
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The existence of Northern Exposure trading cards tells you everything about how insane the collectibles market was in the 90s.
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X-O posted:Wizard Magazine Issue #14 October 1992 Michael "Gorilla" Pasquale seems to have done a lot of work straddling the line of fan and pro, but a lot of his social media presence looks to have been scrubbed, possibly over a ghosted Kickstarter project. Which is a shame because a lot of the art I saw was really nice.
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I've kinda of become amazed at how a lot of the fan art is better than the stuff actually in the books in the '90s.
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I keep checking the fan art to see if there are any future superstar artists there. Also it is amazing how little of a presence DC had compared to Marvel. I think Mavel was basically just cranking it out in the early 90's while DC was focusing more on just chugging along and not doing anything too crazy. It kind of payed off in the end as Marvel got too bloated (just look at all the stuff about them in the Wizard issues) whereas DC could hardly come up with any hip new characters but still had some solid lines. Also all the way on page one is an interview with the Simonsons which is worth reading as it pretty much predicted the collapse of comic books after the boom years before stuff like Image came out. They mention the idea of people buying multiple titles expecting an investment which makes no sense if everyone is buying multiple titles. They mention how it isn't sustainable, and they mention the style over substance. I remember reading a keynote address by Gaiman in his book of non fiction writing where he is giving a speech to a bunch of comic pros. He predicted the very same thing and how they can save comics by not chasing sales but rather putting out good products. It's kind of fascinating to see people calling this out in the early 90s.
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Madkal posted:I keep checking the fan art to see if there are any future superstar artists there. Also it is amazing how little of a presence DC had compared to Marvel. I think Mavel was basically just cranking it out in the early 90's while DC was focusing more on just chugging along and not doing anything too crazy. It kind of payed off in the end as Marvel got too bloated (just look at all the stuff about them in the Wizard issues) whereas DC could hardly come up with any hip new characters but still had some solid lines. There is a future superstar coming up later. This is not my scan, but it pops up several issues ahead of where we are. 
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X-O posted:I've kinda of become amazed at how a lot of the fan art is better than the stuff actually in the books in the '90s. I respect the kids who freehand drew something that looks a bit rough and sent it in over the kids who traced.
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This is the first issue where there were more non-marvel titles than marvel in the top 10. They stopped top 10 heroes and villains because everyone had Morbius fever.
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Random Stranger posted:I respect the kids who freehand drew something that looks a bit rough and sent it in over the kids who traced. Kids who grew up to be pencilers vs kids who grew up to be inkers.
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The year is 2022. Let's see who the top 4 (why not) heroes/villains are 
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Goodbye 1992! Wizard Magazine Issue #16 December 1992 Cover   Contents   Guest Editorial  Wizard News        Article of Note     Article of Note    Article of Note    Article of Note     Article of Note     Brutes and Babes    Fan Art!   All Dressed Up   Top 10 Heroes and Villains I have been forsaken by my God. The Top 10   Magic Words!    Random Ads      
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Crap, I can't believe my boxes are leaching acid into my comics!
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Jun 14, 2022 21:23
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They lied to us about poly bags and boards!!!!! The horror.
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Six valiant titles in the top ten!
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This issue is the most interesting to me yet. I seem to remember The Maxx being unbelievably popular with Wizard, and it looks like this issue is where it all started. Why did they think the Street Fighter movie was sure to be excessively violent? Were they confusing Street Fighter with Mortal Kombat? Them being excited over the torture trading cards being in full color comes off as a little weird.
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Soonmot posted:Six valiant titles in the top ten! It becomes funny when even in the recaps Wizard starts to say things like 'it's not that they're important issues BUT THOSE PRINT RUNS THO."
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