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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    I had a minty pair of those as well.
  2. Ken Aldred
    In the UK you could see it starting to hit hard around 1994. Talking of Pre-Unity Valiants, 1993, a copy of Harbinger 1 was £100, by summer / autumn 1994 you could find them for £5.
  3. Ken Aldred
    I've never owned more than 2 copies of any issue at any one time. My first was Savage Tales 1.
  4. Ken Aldred
    Creepy's more of a challenge.
  5. Ken Aldred
    And, he'd been just another writer in the industry for two decades until he finally devised his winning SA Marvel formula. Hardly a charmed, instant sensation. A lot of perseverance.
  6. Ken Aldred
    It seemed to me that the speculator boom really hit the UK in 1990, noticing that the London shops started hiking their prices up on back issues. I suggested 1991 because I recall the signs of real excess then, such as racks and racks of bagged X-Force 1.
  7. Ken Aldred
    Rom's actually quite a consistently readable comic. Not bad at all.
  8. Ken Aldred
    It's no Devil Dinosaur.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Back then this was quite common with comic shops in small, English towns. The shop employees would know everyone in town, and knew you weren't local, and so they would pretend to be closed.
  10. Ken Aldred
    I've never used dcindexes's Newsstand feature to compare number of titles published now vs the early 90s speculator boom period. That would be interesting.
  11. Ken Aldred
    I'm at 100 % digital now.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Highest sales figures in the 90s speculator years, say, 1991 or 1992. Followed by a contraction / recession in the mid-to-late 90s. Nothing approaching millions in sales presently.
  13. Ken Aldred
    Overall, the colours still work quite well on that one. I've seen worse.
  14. Ken Aldred
    Yup. He's very old, likely in poor health, has recently lost his wife, is quite vulnerable, and if he's employing a financial team they should've been more competent and alert under the circumstances.
  15. Ken Aldred
    The only other story arc I recall from the post-Claremont issues you have there is the origin story for 'ninja' Psylocke.
  16. Ken Aldred
    Charlie Brooker went in the opposite direction, from being best-known for several review shows on British television to being a very successful and respected screenwriter with his excellent Black Mirror series.
  17. Ken Aldred
    Watchmen Director's Cut, Sucker Punch, Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman Ultimate Edition, enjoyed them all. He doesn't deserve the extreme negativity.
  18. Ken Aldred
    Yup. You've reminded me that a complete run of Legion of Super-Heroes would be a great achievement. Lots of nice stuff during the GA period.
  19. Ken Aldred
    I did comics on sale in 1993, hence the inclusion of Marvels and Mad Love, dated early 1994.
  20. Ken Aldred
    Some mini-series... and...
  21. Ken Aldred
    In the UK, we use cheques instead.
  22. Ken Aldred
    I've just recently re-read the entire Claremont run, and it still looks like the work of a young and clearly very talented artist.
  23. Ken Aldred
    I thought the earlier Claremont-written Uncanny X-Men run was enjoyable, but the later, offshoot X-Men title was disappointing.
  24. Ken Aldred
    +1 I still have the Frankenstein portfolio, and the detail in the prints is just incredible, as is the gothic mood evoked by them. I can only imagine how stunning the originals would look. It's understandable why creating these masterpieces took such a toll on Wrightson.
  25. Ken Aldred
    +1 A guilty pleasure, but very entertaining.