Ken Aldred

Reminds me of this...

My favourite Adam Hughes cover, and favourite variant cover ever. (I've posted it enough times.) My raw cost me £1-80, cover price, when it was new in at the LCS.

I only have the Showcase reprint book. But, Phantom Stranger is a good read. That'd be quite wrong. One of the best series of the Bronze Age. Classic version of The Spectre.

Jim Aparo did some really nice artwork. Adams covers.

A shame that this classic wasn't a first issue...

Jon Sable, Freelance (56 issues)

Something as significant as SOTI should be noted. It’s not just a bit of history, but had a profound effect on the development of the comics medium for many years; both censorship in the mainstream and uncontrolled expression by those working in the underground a decade or so later. I’m also going to join a few other boardies here in expressing my (lifelong) admiration for the absolute brilliance of New Trend EC comics.

That sounds too much like BS, literally, so Deadeye would be safer.

Dreadstar was a very good read as well, but again, bargain bin material.

Excellent series. There's only really issue 54, the first appearance of Michael Holt / Mr Terrific, of note for the speculators.

Ambush Bug's various mini-series together aren't worth anything, but they often have hilarious moments. Whether not collected, or an unspoken of, guilty pleasure for many, who knows?

I know. Incredible that there aren't more mustelid-influenced characters. They tend to be very tough and aggressive animals. Perfect anti-heroes.

Omega The Unknown The Shadow (80s series by Andy Helfer, Kyle Baker, Bill Sienkiewicz and Marshall Rogers) Grimjack

The 80s issues written by John Ostrander are good reads, and some nice Adams-influenced art by Tom Grindberg.

As per the thread title, many least collectible in this thread... Comics with little value but great actual content, as per the first post example of Nexus, is a different discussion.

A good book. I’m from a similarly grim, blue-collar northern background, and used to do a lot of long-distance running at school and afterwards, so it’s totally relatable. You know me well.

Always great to see you back again ! Comics have always been a reliable way to soften the blow of tough situations, especially as drawn-out as this year's have been.

Good stuff. They were quite inventive stories.

The first one-shot issue by Harlan Ellison and Neal Adams was, as was the first issue of the continued series. The Hellraiser prestige format comics were as well.

I'm the same - 70s childhood nostalgia for that title alone. He did have a very old school style that suited the material's wartime setting. I suspect that a common criticism would be a dislike for his dislocated, rag doll figurework poses, which you can see in his Captain America comics, such as the well-known Nomad panel. Someone else can post that one. Again.

To his credit, at least Robbins’ art was entirely his own work, and, unlike Greg Land, for example, didn’t have modern, easy access to a wide range of ‘online research materials’ to trace from.

I think that at the time we were understandably shocked, traumatised, saddened and angry at such an atrocity, and were looking for some way to deal with the immense overload of grief. As a form of unloading and catharsis for the writer, he goes too far with the Doom sequence. Kingpin, a New Yorker, is the most believable, but not an unmotivated, self-interested, foreign, dictatorial, Latverian psychopath.

Awesome Mix Vol 1 from Guardians of the Galaxy. A brilliantly-selected compilation.