Crimebuster

That's also a very early atomic bomb cover. I believe the On Sale date was some time in October, 1945. The story inside is about as brutal as the cover suggests. There's a panel where a cop gets shot in the face.

I like that they gave her a classic butt shot pose even though you can't even see her butt due to that cloak. I guess it's just the only pose for a woman the artist knew how to draw? Also, is someone holding that lightsaber? It sort of looks like it's just resting on an end table.

Yep. (thumbs u

Thanks to the eagle eye of boardie rjpb, it recently came to my attention that Crimebuster stories from Boy Comics were published for a number of years in Argentina in a title called Justy. Not only was Crimebuster in this anthology, he was actually the lead feature, with Justy being the new name the Argentinian publisher gave the character. In addition, every issue apparently featured a brand new cover, never published in America! I'm not sure exactly how long the title ran, but it seemed to span the entirety of the 1950's and into the early 60's, long after Boy Comics had been cancelled here. I have just received two issues of Justy from a gentleman in Argentina. He had several more, but unfrtouantely I'm strapped for cash and this was all I could muster. It's too bad, because there are some seriously cool covers on these comics, much cooler for the most part than the covers Biro was doing in the later years. Here's the awesome cover for Justy #38, which came out in 1955: And the inside front cover: Here's a fantastic cover for Special #1 (I think - it might be Special #2) from 1956: The back cover: Inside front cover: There are a number of issues relatively cheap still on ebay from the same seller. I looked through a couple and while I recgonize the stories in most, or at least the artists, there was one issue from 1960 that looked like it may have been an original story done by the Argentinan publisher. I'm not sure, I'd have to look into it further, but it was a Curtiss Tech era story, but with art that didn't quite look right for that time period; it certainly wasn't by Joe Kubert. Very exciting stuff! Hopefully I'll get more of these some day. Thanks again to rjpb for the heads up.

It's my understanding that Gordon was from the comics, just newer comics, so I have no clue who he is. The main Inhumans aren't likely to show up on the show because there is an Inhumans movie coming out in 2019.

They are both in All-Star #69, the co-first appearance of The Huntress, but I don't think they met since Huntress was just cameoing in the shadows. Huntress joined the team shortly after, though, so it would have to be somewhere in All-Star #70-72 I'd think.

I'm sorry, but what exactly was the significance of this book supposed to be again that is causing it to "heat up"? -J. 4th printing of the first appearance of Boba Fett. So chasing "first appearances" of movie characters in comic books that are adaptations from other media really is a thing now? Speculators must be looking for pretty much anything to buy now. Guess if it worked for Harley Quinn/ BA 12, why not this. -J. He-Man, Transformers, and GI Joe spring to mind, but I am not sure what came first, the show or the comic. All three appeared in the comics before the TV shows.

Another vote for Showcase #97. Very underrated in my opinion.

Swamp Thing #25 called. It wants its nonsense back.

I think it's Kate Bishop, aka Hawkeye II. Though I don't get what she has to do with the theme of this cover.

So that's how they make hot pockets!

It's because, in addition to the much better cover, DC Super Stars #17 has a full length Huntress solo story that gives us her detailed origin, including the death of Catwoman. Unless I am mistaken, All-Star #69 is just a cameo. I don't have a copy handy, but I think she only appears in a panel or two. Someone else can probably confirm.

It's not going out on much of a limb to say that you'd have a much better reading experience with runs of Master of Kung Fu and Unknown Soldier than you would Superman from this period. Value aside.

From Marvel's website: So even Marvel know's there were vast changes made to the character from when she was introduced as a blonde British lady to becoming an Asian spy. If we're just going to throw random facepalms at people, then please, allow me to give your rebuttal a few of these: In the section you quote, the "new powers" include: 1) a temporary ability to be undetectable to machines, which happened in #227 before she entered the Siege Perilous, and ended when she entered it, so that is moot 2) teleportation powers from The Crimson Dawn, which didn't even first appear until #330 3) and powers she gained by swapping abilities with Jean Grey, which has nothing to do with going through the Siege Perilous and again happened much later So do all the issues where she gains these three other sets of powers also represent the debuts of entirely new characters? The only supposed "new power" she gained with #256 was the psychic knife -- which wasn't a new power at all, but simply a focused manifestation of her telepathy/mental bolts, which she could already do. The fact that she looked Asian and had a new costume, I mean, so what? Just because the graphic redesign was successful in making the character more popular does not make it her first appearance.

It's the same character, with the same name and the same powers. #256 isn't Psylocke's first appearance any more than #260 is the first appearance of Colossus. "I didn't care about the character before she became a hot ninja" is not sufficient grounds for claiming this to be a first appearance.

Here's an Avengers issue I tried to do myself. This is Copper Age, but since the thread is here... I drew this in early 1989. Right around the time I turned 16. As you can see, I have recently elected President George H.W. Bush standing over the defeated Avengers. I had plotted out a massive storyline, something like 16 issues, involving the Space Phantom switching places with President Bush, taking over the government and conquering the world. Little did I know that the person who would actually destroy the Avengers wasn't President Bush at all, but rather Brian Bendis. I have no idea why I had the Punisher on the team, as that makes no sense. I drew this shortly after #300 came out, hence my decision to make this #400. As it turned out, I think my version of this issue was, in fact, better than the actual #400. Pages 1-2: We start with Daredevil fighting Captain America in what seems to be an empty void: Pages 3-4: Turns out they are just sparring - of course, that's how every comic seemed to start at the time, a battle that turned out to be Captain America sparring with someone - but Spider-man (?!) interrupts them to tell them something major is going down. And it involves an homage to Avengers #102! Only, on Hydrobase! Pages 5-6: This sequence is obviously my response to John Byrne totally crapping on and destroying the Vision in the pages of WCA because he thought that he, instead of Vision, should be shtupping Wanda. I fixed this by having Wonder Man's brain patterns re-grafted into Vision's mind - a-la the way Jocasta was created in #162 - and as we can see by the smiling Vision, it totally worked. Pages 7-8: This creates a problem, though. With the Vision gone, the team is shorthanded. Luckily, it turns out that Hellcat is here, and she wants to rejoin! And even more fortuitously, I had a copy of #144 to totally swipe! Hurray! Page 8, as you can see, is just thumbnails. I have thumbnails all the way up to Page 13, but this is as far as I actually drew. Short version: The Mad Thinker attacks the team with a new version of the Lethal Legion that includes Living Laser, Taskmaster, Grim Reaper and a couple other villains whose names I didn't write down. They then go into a Gardner Fox style story where they have individual battles.

When I saw the topic, I thought you meant amateur or semi-pro comics that were published by fans, rather than stuff we drew ourselves. I do have some stuff I drew myself somewhere, but it's more Copper Age. I'll try to dig some out. But for Bronze Age, I came across this a while back at a comic shop and had to buy it - it's an amateur, self-published sci-fi/fantasy pastiche called The Books of Zomxathxia vol. 1. This was put out in 1976 by Wendy Snow, who was a regular on the comic con circuit at the time as a Red Sonja cosplayer. Through this, she met Red Sonja artist Franke Thorne, who was also into cosplay, and who apparently encouraged her to do this: She put out a second volume in 1977, which I haven't tracked down yet, though there are at least a couple copies floating around online. I believe she did become a professional artist and eventually did some pro comics work almost 20 years later on a vampire comic called Night's Children.

The final issue of Transformers was listed as #80 in a 4 issue limited series --Phil You guys know those were jokes, right...? yep... just wanted to point out that it's been done before... --Phil Technically, it's been done since - Transformers #80 came out two years after Justice #32.

Archie has finally announced the release date for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2: April 15. Additionally, they announced a new imprint for their horror titles: Archie Horror. This will include Afterlife with Archie, Chilling Tales of Sabrina, and an as-yet unannounced third title. The article in EW also includes a short preview of #2: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/19/archie-comics-announces-new-horror-imprint-teases-series

Archie has finally announced the release date for Afterlife with Archie #8: May 6. Additionally, they announced a new imprint for their horror titles: Archie Horror. This will include Afterlife with Archie, Chilling Tales of Sabrina, and an as-yet unannounced third title. They also unveiled the new cover for #8, since the previously announced cover was used as the cover for the 2nd printing of #7: Finally, the article also includes a short preview of #8: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/19/archie-comics-announces-new-horror-imprint-teases-series

Unless Predator blows out Archie's legs with that laser cannon of his. Well, he'd still be one step ahead of Pop Tate:

The Gisele variant for the upcoming Archie vs. Predator #3 is a must have for Archie fans in my opinion. Here's her take on the classic "three on a soda" trope:

This month's issue of Alter Ego has an interview with Gerry Conway, who scripted a few issues of Kamandi, and he had some interesting comments about how successful the series actually was. He said that Kamandi wasn't necessarily selling any better than Kirby's Fourth World stuff, but Carmine Infantino was basically a terrible editor in chief. According to Conway, Infantino didn't make decisions based on how well books were actually selling, but rather on how well he thought they should be selling. Infantino just didn't understand the Fourth World stuff, so he didn't think it would sell well in the long run, and therefore he cancelled it all. But Kamandi was a simple enough idea for him to understand, so he figured it would probably sell better than it actually was selling, and therefore he kept publishing it. So if Conway is to be believed, Kamandi lasted much longer not because it was actually more successful, but because Infantino felt it should be. And because he didn't get the Fourth World stuff it was all cancelled despite equivalent sales.

Great book. One of my favorites. Took me a good while to find a nice copy that is centered, with both bullets complete. Centered copies of these 20 cent DC issues can be a real challenge!

Really underrated book. (thumbs u