Ken Aldred

Pretty much essential add-ons for an EC collector, with work from many of the company's artists such as, from memory; Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel, Angelo Torres, Wally Wood, Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, John Severin and Joe Orlando.

Creepy 1. Frazetta qualifies as great art, I believe. The first dozen or so issues of Creepy and Eerie contain stories written by Archie Goodwin, one of the best creators from the late Silver Age to Bronze Age. Alternatively, for some great war stories, Blazing Combat 1.

You're in the right section. They're Bronze Age books.

He's no Fin Fang Foom. Nidhogg vs Fin Fang Foom, though?

Being intolerant of it myself, that's a frightening thought. If we work with the idea of a gluten-intolerant Galactus, then there’s the prospect of an explosive follow-through and flatus shockwave on a planet-destroying level. It would've been interesting to see Kirby's visual interpretation of that.

It's inevitable with his diet that, sooner or later, he would develop severe constipation.

Action Comics 340

Metamorpho 16

If we are talking cosmic level, in online lists The One Above All often gets picked as the most powerful Marvel character. I remember a Fantastic Four comic in which he appeared to the team in the form of Jack Kirby.

Good choice, but Odin’s supposed to be even harder. Not that you’d guess it from the film version.

You've clearly never been prescribed Paxil.

Great choice. Despite his shortcomings, a decent taste in music and kind to space cetaceans.

To be fair, Steve, I did manage to keep it serious. I was resisting the temptation to post my favourite joke character, Cheeks the Toy Wonder. Oh, well, that didn't last long. I tried, anyway.

The thread would be no fun if everyone did it. Someone's got to be relatively obscure, for balance.

Although shipping to the UK back in the early 90s was very slow, by surface mail, I agree that their packing was excellent.

This reminded me about another of my all-time favourite characters with super-strength, Ferro Lad of the Legion of Super-Heroes, one with an equally tragic history, and an influence on Colossus for Dave Cockrum.

Darkseid or Thanos. Combination of intellect, physical power, and attitude.

It seems that Mile High uses a very advanced pricing algorithm, once which is generally very, very confusing. As a result, I suspect it's something to do with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle formula. The physicist, not the character played by Bryan Cranston.

Yup. True for most of their catalogue. I just used to stick to the cheap specials section. Once I'd exhausted that option, too pricey.

He was scarier still in Rogue One, in his Uncanny Valley, CGI form.

I wouldn't turn down a free Hulk 181, but, I can imagine someone really jaded saying 'No, I'll pass. It's such a mediocre story.'

The last game was extremely dated, including the humour. Even if that was improved, maybe he’d still sound a lot like a Deadpool clone?

Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror were interesting bands to watch live. An unexpected bonus one evening at the University of London's Student Union bar, late 80s. Very entertaining and memorable, Jimmers. Easily the two most relentlessly aggressive I've ever seen.

I’ve found myself happiest over the last couple of years by being comfortably distanced from situations involving ‘thrill of the hunt’ scenarios and their inevitable, emotional comedown at the post-acquisition stage, by focusing solely on reading digital comics. I’ve often seen details in the remastered art that were hidden or obliterated by the original, poor-quality newsprint, and have enjoyed reading the stories again from a perspective very different to my teen or twenty-something years, and have discovered new details or subtext in the writing. The complete opposite to the extreme, predatory, speculation frenzy we’re seeing around us at present. I already have enough of the keys that are most significant to me and, at current prices, I can leave the rest to the more affluent or feral.