HarrisonJohn

I'm thinking the re-launch was going to be called Uncanny X-Men and that's what Claremont means about the original title. Maybe dropped because they launched with "Giant Size" in the title and indicia? Then later "All New, All Different".

The tub is also on top of the rug.

On ‎9‎/‎26‎/‎2018 at 11:12 AM, RockMyAmadeus said:

What must have been really obnoxious is that 1981 wasn't that far into the "comics specialty store" era that there weren't still a significant percentage of readers who only know of, and bought comics through, the newsstand, so Dazzler #2 might have left a good chunk of them scratching their heads, saying "how did I miss the first issue..?"

Can you imagine any other sort of industry getting away with something like that? Forcing their customers to different places to buy their products?

There's a Dazzler pin-up in the back of issue #2 and at the bottom there's a message about hearing that some of you are having trouble finding issue #1, write to our circulation department for a list of retailers selling issue 1 at cover price.

He draws like a 6th grader draws in their notebook during Math class.

My guess is it ended up in a discount book store.

I'm a Hulk 180 AND 181 baby. (7/74)

I saw this discussed recently around here, I don't remember which thread. I think the general consensus was that comic shops would not have newsstand editions via Diamond. Collecting in the 80's, my LCS would always have 100% direct for their new releases, but their back issue boxes  were always a mix (so, collecting runs, I would end up with both). I don't know where their old stock came from, but I suspected they may have bought leftover newsstand from a seller somewhere.

From what I remember the X-Men covers were released one a week, not all at once, so stores may have placed orders assuming each cover released would see less demand, which would put Magneto at the end of the line (but before the deluxe).

A Rob Liefeld cover model prepares for work;

2 minutes ago, kav said:

 

It looks like a whole cover of that (Cyclops isn't even aiming in the same direction as the others).

2 hours ago, B2D327 said:

The original inspiration 

All this offers is the name, which I think they would have come up with anyway once they were thinking of a Canadian mutant.

A lot of this cover strikes me as being familiar, I wonder if some of it was lifted from elsewhere. Or is it intentional?

For the titles I collected I bought 2; opened one and kept the other sealed, both bagged and boarded.

I have a 9.8 (old label) that has something similar looking on the front cover. It looks like someone cut the corner with a scissor as close as they could get to the edge and now the little piece is just sort of hanging off. I thought it's probably a printing defect, either ignored or missed by CGC.

On ‎9‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 7:46 PM, kav said:

A hook means the reader goes wtf-what is happening?  Most SA books had such covers, especially DC.  That doesnt happen with a mere painted cover of some hero in a dramatic pose, no matter how well executed.  There is absolutely no wtf in a hero with fist clenched.  In fact, modern books have virtually no wtf at all-it's just "here's the hero, doing what they do.  Again.  Look how well it's painted".

I think those covers may have died out partially because a lot of them were misleading.

7 minutes ago, TheWatcher said:

Oh man, I SO remember the castle and garage

 

Yeah I feel like every kid must have had them along with the big wheels... the horror one seems kind of random, I must have been a couple of years older but it took me forever to remember what it was exactly and locate it online.

A few weeks ago I read somewhere here that Iron Man 76 is a reprint of Iron Man 9 (again, with Hulk on cover)- this was the first I ever heard of a non-reprint title Marvel series that ran a reprint as a new issue. Never saw it in my years of collecting other titles (though I was aware of fill-in issues). So also Ghost Rider 10. Are there other examples?

A curiosity, at best.

In the 80's/ early 90's my local comic store always sold a mix of direct and newsstand. That months new comics were direct, but their back issues were always a mix. I don't know if they were buying collections from people with newsstands often, or if they were maybe buying extra stock off someone? So I always had a mix.

On ‎6‎/‎9‎/‎2017 at 2:43 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Has this been seen already? Spotted it on GCD:

https://www.comics.org/issue/89028/cover/4/

Odd that the Hulk's face is different (and the top banner)?

It's the original artwork