Ken Aldred

Miller / Mazzucchelli

I'm not a GA collector, but not exactly tough to recognise the quality there. Incredible books.

Make Mine Mylar. Although, the new slabs are nice.

At a UK comic mart I wanted to quickly look over an ungraded raw comic, to which the dealer said... 'Oh, God, you're not going to take it out, are you? I spent all last night bagging and boarding those!' Most impressive. Thankfully, he never appeared again.

Very heartfelt.

Yup. That's what killed Comics International magazine in the mid-2000s; going to quarterly issues and having nothing but old news that you'd read for free on websites such as CBR a couple of months before.

Does quarterly publication still work? Years ago, the UK's Comics International magazine changed from monthly to quarterly and lasted barely six issues.

Actually, got me interested in checking. AF 15 was published same month she died, August 1962.

Must've been her last film. She died around the same time AF 15 was published.

Up until around 2006 I would keep accurate records of every book I purchased using a simple card file system. Too many at that stage, and likely too lazy, to transfer the details into a spreadsheet format. Then, I stopped updating the file, but my memory is good enough not to buy multiples of books I already own unless it was done deliberately, such as a second ultra-high-grade slabbed copy. Not much of a dilemma now as I've gone digital.

My favourite as a kid in the 70s was the plain chocolate Toffee Crisp bar. Can't get them now.

Another vote for Chic Stone. Great work with Kirby over his Thor pencil art for Journey Into Mystery. Far superior to Vince "The Eraser" Colletta.

I just watched it on Blu-ray. Under all the explicit violence, an excellent story. The best X-Men film. Very moving.

Kanigher, Kubert, Redondo, Golden. A lot to like there.

Extremely impressive first issue. One of my favourite Modern comic writers. Nice artwork. I hope it ends up being the DC equivalent to his brilliant Vision series.

In the Avengers Annual 7 / Marvel Two-In-One Annual 2 crossover story, The Avengers have another battle with his alien henchmen, but that story is far more significant to the Thanos Saga as a whole. It has some classic scenes; especially Warlock's.

Very enjoyable series. Decent read. Also, try to find a reading copy of Batman Family 20.

Comics, at the time Marvel arrived, were a bit set in their ways and formulaic. Despite being another formula in itself, Lee introduced stories which felt different, with more angst, bickering and family dynamics. Difficult to see how you could devise something new with the same level of general, wide-ranging appeal.

If you click on the dot to the left of the title, it should take you to the first unread post.

I prefer curry on my fries / chips. A popular English alternative.

I like using the new board format. No problem adjusting.

And poutine. Don't forget that.

Sounds great. I have all of the Legion Archives, being a huge fan of the Silver Age books since I started reading comics in the 70s. Lots of enjoyable material in there, but most of all for me the Shooter / Swan and Bates / Cockrum periods.

I have the Seiko £120 version of the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. More budget-priced, like my comic collecting.

I think his style got much simpler and cleaner in the 80s, but the shading in his 70s work was quite dark and gritty in places, and really did suit characters such as Batman and The Spectre, as you can see in those covers.