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I doubt the pop mentioned for MCP 117 has anything to do with Ravage. Key Collector mentioned in a post that it's the first meeting of Venom and Wolverine.

Yes, that was the Superior Spider-man story. Only a matter of time before we see Superior Spider-verse, with Kraven, Doc Ock, Venom, Spidey's clone, etc.

Maybe we'll adopt Wolverine's definition of "hunting" (as shown in the Classic X-Men #25 backup story)

Is the Top Cow Hardcore the same storyline as the Skybound series, or something else entirely with the same title?

I saw it available from Sad Lemon.

I see an eBay listing claiming it's been optioned, but couldn't find a news source. There's a preview in the 2014 I Is for Image Preview

This one is nice:

He illustrated Eddie Brock's arm in WSM 18

I started reading Uncanny X-men in the early 200s, so Silvestri was the first artist that I associated with the book. I enjoyed his work, but he wasn't a huge star amongst fans then. It's probably only once he co-founded Image that people started considering him an important influence (especially towards the late '90s, when Top Cow was the big star of the Image studios).

I read the series but that was probably 30 years ago. Don't remember much of it. Are they doing anything with her in the comics now?

Dylan: It's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Malibu/Ultraverse: HardCASE MIlestone: HardWARE Image: HardCORE Valiant: H.A.R.D. Corps

Ultimate Nick Fury first appears in Ultimate Team-Up #5

The annuals sometimes had short stories (like 4 pages) to promote an upcoming comic. It might be that same annual that had a teaser for Damage Control. I think Annual 3 was entirely told as if it was a talkshow, illustrated by Fred Hembeck.

McFarlane was definitely big for a few years before the widely accepted end of the Copper Age. Liefeld, too, to a lesser extent. Jim Lee was just getting going, but was probably second only to McFarlane for at least a year during Copper. But the idea that they defined the following age is just another indication that we need another age. Because I see a wide variety of styles being popular as indicative of comics now, whereas the flashiness of "the Image style" (not that they were all the same, but definitely they tended to be similarly all in-your-face) was definitely a driving force then.

This is basically what Marvel did with X-Men. X-men became Uncanny X-men, and then they introduced a new X-Men title. Granted the time lines are way different, since the X-Men title change happened long before they introduced a new title.

What's kinda crazy is that a key Marvel book from around the same time could easily sell for $600 in CGC 9.8, but recently a CGC 9.9 of Superman 1 only went for that much. This might end up being a major bargain: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324524072010?hash=item4b8f245c4a%3Ag%3APtgAAOSwxjZgUKUj&nma=true&si=sYFZpAP8jgg2HhKdrZ3u8RpT1os%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I'm not disagreeing that it's probably undervalued, but I think a lot of the revised origin in the comics was a reflection of what they did in the highly popular Reeve movie.

I wouldn't call Byrne's X-Men work Copper. I would say Alpha Flight feels solidly Copper though. Arguably his FF run as well, although most place those early issues in the Bronze Age. If we look at the titles that Byrne and Miller were popular for both writing and illustrating, that doesn't happen until 1981 & 1982.

If one cover happened to be printed at 10% of the numbers of the other, then I could understand the less available one being hunted after. But I imagine that doesn't make as much of a difference if the split is something like 60/40. In that case, people are going to go after the art that they like (unless they're looking to get both). In the case of FSWW, I think the trade dress of 1A and the cover art makes it more appealing than 1B, although the B cover is still decent.

When i first moved into my apartment in NYC, I stored my comics at a storage locker on Long Island while I figured out where I was going to put them. Sometime after I moved my stuff in, a pipe burst and there was some minor flooding. You could see based on the paint affected that the flooding spread to just a unit or so away from mine. Probably would have ruined a good number of boxes if it had reached mine. And since some were stacked, if the structural integrity of the bottom ones were compromised by water, the whole thing could have come down.

Add a second plastic bag, upside down over the first one. Moisture may still be a problem, but if there are no holes in the bags, should prevent water getting to the slab. Now, if you're storing them in a basement and it fills with several feet of water, that's a different story, but I'm assuming the question was about water spraying down only.

I guess I mixed up my Als. SO maybe the Imposion was not quite as much of a catalyst. But that doesn't change what happened in 1982; that's still a better year for the beginning of Copper.

I think the catalyst for the Copper Age was the DC implosion, but I wouldn't say it started until a few years later. I think, on the business side of things, creator rights and highly popular licensed properties are two big threads of the Copper Age. The DC Implosion resulted in the departure of both Archie Goodwin and Larry Hama (along with many others) from DC; they would both land at Marvel, where Goodwin oversaw the Epic Comics line (launched in 1982), and Larry Hama created the backstory for the licensed property that would be a juggernaut of the early Copper Age, G.I. Joe, also launched in 1982. So I think 1982 is a good date to start the Copper Age. As with all ages, it's not like everything shifted at once. There was some change, and the industry slowly reacted to that change. Also note the first highly popular limited series debuted in 1982.

Maybe "Iconic cover" is only used when there's not much else going on in the issue, but people love the cover. But still, the 301 cover art was used in the corner box for Marvel comics throughout 1992, celebrating Spider-man's 30th anniversary. (I guess it's common to think it's the art for 300, since people think of that issue when they think of the pose, but it's the classic costume.) It's also been used plenty of other places, especially since he ditched the black costume after issue 300.