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I was, and still am, obsessed with Erik Larsen’s work, it was cool seeing Savage Dragon get a lot of love in Wizard as the market was burning itself down. I think Erik only did a couple covers for the magazine, plus that Wizard comicon special that had the Image jam piece for the cover, but he had a few big write ups, and for a good stretch, there were monthly spotlights of the current issue being solicited. The only 1/2 issues I ever mailed away for were Savage Dragon and the Maxx.
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It’s crazy how uninterested I was in David Lapham’s Valiant work and how blown away I was when finally exposed to his stuff on Stray Bullets.
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The print runs on those comics in that era were ridiculous, I think the only reason why some of those books retained their value was either due to artificial scarcity (the platinum Spider-Man issue that was a retailer incentive if they ordered a poo poo load of the regular book) or books that were under the radar and “only” had a print run in the 10s of thousands instead of 100,000.
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I’m sure most of you guys know but the Cartoonist Kayfabe boys started off their YouTube channel doing flip throughs of Wizard Magazine. I think they’re up to issue 40, but they started flipping through actual comics and art books as they found the Wizard content really sparse and lacking. It’s a great channel and the Wizard flip throughs are full of comic insider stuff since they’re both working professionals in the comic book field. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8lIJMKRos
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Jun 10, 2022 23:35
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That’s exactly what it was. They want you to buy multiple copies of the same book. They still do.
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Jun 15, 2022 04:27
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That Erik Larsen letter in that issue’s Magic Words is wild, talk about leaving it all on the table.
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Jun 24, 2022 00:58
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I remember being really pissed that Image cancelled Trencher but kept on Pitt, Trencher was a reliable monthly book that looked like nothing else on the rack. Pitt meanwhile looked like literally nothing on the rack since each issue was released years apart.
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Jun 24, 2022 20:43
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Hero Illustrated really made the big push with ashcans, I remember that magazine came with a free one as opposed to the free trading card that would come with the early Wizard mags. Wizard got into the ashcan game later, along with the mail away 1/2 issue comics.
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Jul 12, 2022 17:16
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Peter David dunking on McFarlane for having the word “ca-ca” show up in Spawn even tho Alan Moore was the one who wrote that issue will never not be funny to me.
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Jul 15, 2022 19:25
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I bought a lot of comics on eBay and the seller threw in a copy of prophet 3 for free. I immediately thought of wizard and this thread.
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Jul 26, 2022 06:35
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The Savage Dragon cartoon premiered in 95 and lasted two seasons. The episodes were mostly self contained, but there was a crossover episode with a character that jumped through multiple cartoons that aired on the USA network. The first season is pretty forgettable, but the second season had a pretty cool animated opening and unique title cards drawn by Larsen.
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Aug 3, 2022 19:13
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I hope plasmer shows up in the mcu
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Sep 13, 2022 18:35
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I wish there were scans available of the more obscure comics and toy magazines, I’m surprised more stuff like this isn’t up on archive.org or something.
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Nov 15, 2022 06:01
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I would love if someone uploaded all the old comic book and toy magazines to archive.org. I dream of flipping through those old mags looking at unreleased star wars toys prototypes or rough pencils/b&w inks of upcoming comics.
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Aug 18, 2023 18:24
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Endless Mike posted:How fuckin' much did they have to pay Alex Ross for two multi-page covers!? More like how much was wizard pulling in that they could afford two Alex Ross multi-page covers
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very risky blowjob posted:also anyone who hasn't read the don simpson stuff in this issue's palmer's picks, stop hurting yourself and fix it He’s putting out a Megaton Man collection soon which I cannot wait for.
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