joe_collector

Exactly.

Laugh it up Einstein, and even for someone of your obviously-limited imagination you should be able to understand that Copper or Modern simply cannot keep getting extended ad infinitum. What happens in 2050? 2075? 2100? Assuming humankind is still around and we have comics, is Copper going to get 50 years and Modern another 50 years? At some point we need an age to define the early-90's to mid-2000's, and that is what I am referring to.

Still waiting to see these Variants...

Probably, if you went to the proper MODERN forum.

The left edge is way off, but the right edge is almost straight. Open it in a graphics program and using the top-edge as your guide, compare it to the bottom edge. Even accounting for some visual warping that is a big difference.

The Manhunter (short) series was mined for virtually every great character of the 70's, not to mention was the basis for Frank Miller's DD work.

Sorry, they are all buried and as many on here know, they are just a "mass of stuff" right now.

I have one, it's one of the Amazing Spider-man issues. I think 172.

Is that book badly miscut or is something going on in the photo?

Obviously I am talking about the entire market a whole, as "one guy" cannot exist in a vacuum when selling readily-available CGC comics - it's one big pool.

Come on, you've never read his comments about V for Vendetta or how he "put a curse" on the Watchmen production"? The guy lives to rail against the Hollywood adaptation machine, but then is the ultimate hypocrite by doing the same thing and Moore-adapting literary classics to comics.

That's exactly what I'm saying - there is a "cost" associated with getting a 9.8 and sellers have to make money.

LOL, you act as if these characters are real - here's a hint, the WRITERS create all this FICTIONAL content and can do whatever they want. So when Jane Foster suddenly becomes Thor, a writer, editor and likely publisher decided to do this. Get it?

Welcome to the boards, Mr Moore. Seriously, no one else could believe that utter BS. Seriously, he takes incredibly well know, classic, literary characters like Dr Jekyl & Mister Hyde, The Invisible Man, Prof. Moriarty, Fu Manchu, Captain Nemo, Allan Quartermain, Ishmael, among many others, and simply because he thinks of a more "superhero team name" for the characters, these are somehow "his own original creation"? Remember, this has nothing to do with public domain (which is based on monetary compensation), and even if these books are in the PD, I can't just scan a copy of Sherlock Holmes and put my name on it.

And what other original creations would those be that were adapted into movies? LOEG is long-existing characters, so is From Hell, albeit non-fiction, and even so, he hated all those movies, along with Constantine, which he partially created. I have never heard a good word about anything that Moore was remotely involved with in comics, and was subsequently taken over and adapted by someone else.

This sounds like Alan Moore fanboy-speak, as there is absolutely no disputing that Moore used and abused existing and extremely recognizable literary characters, created by giants of the literary world, and I don't care if he called it "My Butt in a Frying Pan". The title means absolutely nothing.

He made a intuitive leap of logic and rather than fruitlessly trying to decode that artifact-filled image, he stuck with the Watcher (which it clearly was) and understood that in that era, What If was really the Watcher's main gig and he really didn't guest-star on any consistent basis. Plus, you can tell it's a thicker, non-standard sized book (which is why I was thinking it might be a Charlton or something with their shingle-like paper quality), which again points to the square-bound What If series. It was good work, and like many of us, I made the mistake of concentrating on the artifacts on the image too much. bronze_rules didn't and went for the glory.

I felt that way reading "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" which was pompous, irritating and quite hypocritical of Moore. He constantly rails on about Hollywood and DC taking his creations and turning them into something else, and he goes and rapes (literally) some of the literary world's most classic and important characters, and seems to not understand the hypocrisy.

The problem with Watchmen was that they made a hugely significant change to the ending (which is alright, given the medium) but then kept the rest of the story 99% loyal to the graphic novel. The movie then made no logical sense, and you had characters (especially Manhattan) acting exactly the same and spouting the same dialogue as the GN when their entire character motivation should have done a 180.

I think it was the "let's turn everyone female" that did it, and even the female readers hated it - they wanted NEW female characters, not retrofit the classic male ones.

Same thing here. That change from Bronze to Copper circa '80-'81 was a real harsh one, and the art just went into the toilet on most titles - even ASM was bad and stuff like Avengers and MTU was unreadable. Things picked up a year or so later, but I was long gone.

Post the Purple Italian one.

Hey, when someone clearly titles something "Foreign book variants" it's not weird to expect some actual variants.

And eat.

Those must have been on the spinner rack in late-August/early-September (we went back the day before school started), as they are all MIA from my collection and all lost in the Great Camping Fiasco. It's amazing how all those issues cut a thin line through my childhood collection and I have ALL the issues from the previous month like Avengers 128, FF 151, MTU 26, Defenders 16, Thor 228... though I did lost Hulk 180 but I think I brought that with me along with ASM 137. http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1974,_November