Ken Aldred

Unfortunately, for UK readers the title went non-distributed with issue 121, and was unavailable as a newsstand pence copy until the early 80s. So, most of us were deprived of the significant developments that occurred during the classic Conway run. I didn't pick up an imported cent copy until late 1977.

As we've seen here, it doesn't necessarily have to be anything iconic such as ASM 122 or Batman 251. As well as the panels in the classic Adams issue I chose, around the same time, as a kid, I was just as blown away by Michael Golden's art. One of my most-fondly remembered issues of his is Batman Family 20, and I'll post this really nice Man-Bat two-pager...

Yup. This is all I've got... A few later on in the Silver Age, but I'm more a Bronze specialist.

Ultra high grade pedigree copies. Extremely impressive.

Not much modern artwork yet. I'd have expected some Artgerm and Del'otto covers, given their popularity.

The cover choices I posted earlier are very familiar and a bit obvious, but I’d also choose this one by Richard Corben, titled ‘Night on Bald Mountain’...

The Wrightson cover would be the grail, though.

Frank Frazetta’s cover for Weird Science-Fantasy 29 Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum’s cover to Giant-Size X- Men 1 Adam Hughes’ Supergirl variant for Legion of Super-Heroes 23 Jock’s brilliant Joker cover for Detective Comics 880 Neal Adams cover for X-Men 58

After a bit of Googling, I discovered that it was John Constantine and a hippy character called Chester Williams who nicked a few of Swamp Thing’s tubers for their side effects. Still my original from-memory post wasn’t bad, as I haven’t read the stories in years.

In some issues of Swamp Thing, the character consumed psychotropic tubers. A potato is a tuber, so you might be interested in checking out that Alan Moore run.

Currently in a purist phase, where I'm only really interested in reading and appreciating the stories and art. The speculation frenzy and price hikes burned out my interest in chasing after original copies, either raw or slabbed, and I've found it much more interesting to liberate myself from that group, move on into the digital medium and have access to the widest range of old and modern titles with extreme ease, and no secondary market restrictions.

Thanks . Educational. In the U.K. we have something called a Whoopee Cushion. If you press down on top of the cap, does it make a similar, flatulence-like sound?

Good stuff. I got the first Dreadstar Omnibus in a digital Humble Bundle this year.

That should get you through into the New Year nicely.

I'd expect that from one of the biggest Thanos fans here. It is very tempting.

Miles Morales

Being British, I had no idea about that. But, one could argue then that I have little excuse for not recognising the Robin Hood hat in the Thanos panel.

A good example. Basically he's a living Cosmic Cube, with a limited radius around himself within which he can alter physical laws and the nature of reality. Great character. Made in a lab, so to speak, in FF 20.

The Archie version looks more like a crown to me rather than the closer-fitting, cut-up cloth cap seen in the Riverdale series.

Flash does have the Infinite Mass Punch to counter with...

There's also Starr the Slayer, promoted as the "Conan tryout" from Chamber of Darkness 4...

I quite like that. Could also be a Cubist-influenced interpretation of an elephant. Nullifier, tape dispenser, bike switch, sculpture - you can't help but be impressed by its versatility.

If discussing horror, Richard Corben deserves a mention. Up there with Wrightson as the two standout horror artists of that time.

It’s really badly drawn. Looks more like a tape dispenser.