Ken Aldred

What are those? Chamber of Darkness 4, Starr the Slayer by Thomas and Smith

Very true with many of Jack Davis’ horror stories, where at times there’s obvious ‘completion backward’ ; a certain gory ending imagined first, and then a 6-page scenario leading up to that.

Action 1 and Detective 27 are anthologies with a lot of crappy, unreadable, coma-inducing filler material and a few pages of significance, otherwise incredibly boring. No wonder so many copies were binned, back then.

I can’t stand Basil Wolverton’s artwork, especially those ugly covers he seemed to specialise in.

Good taste. That was the first 1 to 100 run I put together in the late 70s, when I started collecting seriously. The early issues weren't easy for me to get hold of at that time, up in the north of England.

Savage Tales 1 for its relative scarcity. Savage Tales 2 and 3 for the classic BWS 'Red Nails' story.

I believe it was to bring it in line with the rest of Europe. Not joking or being political.

I felt that his solo work was very different tonally, readable enough at times, occasionally far too wordy, as with the Avengers Annual, but not at the level of his collaborations with Byrne. And, far better than his late 90s X-Men material, which I found to be practically unreadable.

Byrne left, and Claremont's ADD had the run of the place. I do not think that most people realize the amount of influence to the story that Byrne actually contributed. whatever the case, I agree that everything after byrne stunk terribly. Most overrated series of all time. I find Claremont's work without Byrne to be quite cold and soulless. Also, overly verbose. I recently re-read Avengers Annual 10, which was quite ridiculous in this respect. Michael Golden did some great, detailed art in this book, but the panels often look almost miniaturised because of the writer's word density, and best magnified on a tablet to appreciate them properly.

That would be impressive, but the standard 1080p version is itself superb on mid-size TVs.

Those oversized Famous First Editions get everywhere.

Nothing that special, really.

With the mention of tarns, this would be somewhere in the Lake District?

I still have my complete set of these. A nice selection of reprints.

Thats a weak excuse soldier. On your feet boy!!! Tell me about it! Tell you what, then, I'll seriously consider getting a copy of the IDW Al Williamson, Empire Strikes Back Artist Edition.

Sad that I had to pass on a discounted, signed, limited edition copy of the IDW Xenozoic Tales / Mark Schultz Artist Edition at the last London con. Too big and difficult to lug home north by train.

Tweeted out by DC plus being mentioned and shown in the main article about his death on CNN and probably elsewhere...book is going to fetch stupid prices over the next few days. The money would have to be very stupid before I part with mine. Yup. It has some fantastic Neal Adams artwork. Very nice book.

Oh for 's sake. Really? Kismet? You've got to be kidding. At this point essentially ANY new character is worth holding onto. When Amazing Spider-Man 172 becomes a key - that's when we bail. No love for Rocket Racer? Only if there's a team-up with Big Wheel, otherwise it would be a bit lame.

The female version of Warlock possibly in GOTG 2. Her / Ayesha / Paragon.

Oh wow, that looked horrible. It ended up feeling like you were watching a boring, really cheap TV movie where nothing much actually happened, not something produced for the big screen.

You had a superb copy. I was quite surprised at how vibrant its cover looked.

My first thought for this scenario would be Captain America 1. Much more energetic Kirby artwork, Hitler getting seven bells knocked out of him on the cover, and a great-looking, all-time classic super-hero design. But, having seen a high grade Marvel 1, the blue cover is very bright and attractive, and would really stand out if you saw it fresh on the newsstand. You'd be drawn to both of them. Overall, though, as Captain America is one of my favourite characters, easily his first appearance for me.