HarrisonJohn

I have no interest in DC or its characters but the 1st time I saw that cover I headed straight to ebay to see what they were going for.

Or the title just needed another adjective, like The Wonderful Fantasic Four.

I also thought it was Mag net o rather than mag neat o until the movies and still read it as Mag net o anyway.

In the 70s/80's newsstands were usually sold on spinner racks, which left those books prone to damage. I remember I would never buy those when I saw them because they always looked beat up. My LCS always seemed to have a mix of both in their back issue stock.

Request for X-Factor Forever (Marvel, 2010)

"375th anniversary" doesn't sound quite right unless every issue is an anniversary.

I'm always shocked at how bad this is;

I left some books like this unintentionally and was surprised to eventually find them in better condition. They may have spent a few years like that, though. Still, it works and it's free.

^ he looks a lot like Hugh Jackman

Have been going to Lake George since the 80's and have never seen a comic store. Google shows a nice looking store in nearby Saratoga called The Comic Depot https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x89de30c9216cc005:0x3571d994ae959e16!2m19!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m13!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!3m1!7e115!4shttps://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname%3D107203166043013513026%26id%3D6429414696026389218%26target%3DPHOTO!5s+-+Google+Search&imagekey=!1e3!2s-1d-SqNhse7w/WTnemf5UOuI/AAAAAAAAWj8/Oy-r8_sNisYluzcVUhOkbmT6MSJtQH1cQCLIBGAYYCw

Could it be this? http://www.recalledcomics.com/Dazzler1ErrorVariant.php

The first issue was the best selling Marvel comic for that month. Pretty impressive for a reprint. By the end I don't even remember seeing it at my LCS anymore.

Weren't ads in comics generally junky stuff? Not really big name brands so much.

There's a Classic X-Men omnibus coming in December if anyone is interested.

My favorite, and it took me years to catch it

I think in most cases the subscription copy would likely take a beating too? I had a subscription when I was a kid, and I didn't care about condition, but we had the slot in the door thing so it always ended up folded. I think they were just mailed in a brown piece of paper.

I don't think it's politics. In the 80's they had a black woman leading the X-Men and Northstar was gay. These were stories that naturally unfolded in their books. I'm guessing, the way click bait works, marvel gets some free internet press every time they do something with a minority character and they just put all their stock into that. But fans don't really care. And it doesn't bring in new readers.

The thing is, who is going to say "wow xxx is black/ female etc now just like me!" It's so lazy that it's insulting. It alienates readers new and old. I don't know the exact story but I see She-Hulk is the star of the Hulk book. Shouldn't it be called She-Hulk? But She-Hulk doesn't sell, I guess, so here we will force her on you with the title Hulk. I see there's a Jean Grey book (one of my favorite characters) but I see that she's a teenager now and I assume the book will cater to that and so I have no interest. When I was a teen I was reading these characters as adults.

They lost me with their spitefulness towards their X-Men franchise and all the renumbering. I was in Midtown recently looking at the new books and I saw that The Simpsons comic is in the 200s which to me says success and longevity, then I looked at the blur of Marvel books and I don't think I saw anything beyond the teen numbers. Even if something is good it will be cancelled within a few issues so why bother? Blaming readers not wanting diversity shows nobody will take blame and nothing will be fixed. It's a shame.

I can see comics becoming "cool" like vinyl.