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A case of someone having replica reprints not counting on collectors noticing this post, but people semi-familiar with comics seeing this and thinking they're going to get a bargain. Seller will sell the replicas for a few grand and repeat the scam somewhere else.

The matinee is a totally different show, folks! *rim shot*

We could start an act and play Atlantic City at this point!

If Kirby created The Codpiece this might be a game changer. Someone contact TwoMorrows immediately.

Mark Evanier is LYING.

But! If he had, I would have hoped for Sinnott to ink it. Not that I don't love me some Royer, but imagine the Sinnott swirly goodness on The Codpiece's piece!

I have so much respect for you Kav, but your point here is invalid since Kirby never created THE CODPIECE

A shame that these crucial qualities could not be found in one individual!

I light-heartedly want to say that you guys are being a little rough on the Marvel photo cover(s). Kids were maybe slightly less jaded in 1982 or whenever that thing came out and it may have been something cool for them to see in a pre-CGI world. I remember being a kid in elementary school when someone brought in the Amazing Spider-Man with the photo cover (that has Peter- excuse me, the actor/model portraying Peter Parker)- standing there, unmasked- and the kids discussing it, like did Spider-Man "really" look like that, and so forth. You guys are maybe applying your current sensibilities to looking at something from like 40 years ago. Sometimes corny stuff is fun!

Looking at the credits, all I can say about this is that it took two Editors to edit this story.

The first comic shop I ever went to was Comics & Robots in Wilmington, Delaware. I remember it vividly and it was 1987 so I was 7 years old and it was magical; it was in a basement (!) and the guy who owned it, I remember he had Hulk #6 with the Ditko cover hanging up by the register. I was very into the Hulk at that time and he was very good to me and very patient and also introduced me to The Defenders (in a 25 cent box!), which I would have been unaware of, so I got a few copies of The Defenders as well and can still remember the specific issues. In fact, this may have been 1986 as I remember him showing me Byrne's Hulk issue of Marvel Fanfare on the wall, so it's around that era. I was very young but was hardcore into comics and my recall for those years is pretty spot on. I remember going to that store into 1992 and then I think the owner retired or/and just did conventions but I'm not sure. I believe he was also a teacher, which is why he may have been so cool to a very young fan. Whenever I was in there, I remember realizing I was the only little kid shopping.

Let's also not forget Joe Kubert was literally working in comics at age 12 (!!) until his 80s', spanning every decade of comics. And yes, it's a good point to consider the impact he's had on the field just with his school alone. Very good points.

kav you just made it really hard to give you this specific issue CGC 2.5 as a holiday gift now

Joe Jusko was apparently a weight lifting fellow back then; I vaguely recall an editorial explaining why they went with a photo cover. Elliot R Brown probably did this as I've also read how he handled all of Marvel's photo covers. (update: I literally just typed a second before noticing Brown's credit is helpfully right there next to the upc box) I think you guys are a little too harsh! Some kid probably thought this was cool as cosplay was a thing of the future for the most part. We have to always remember, if adults really walked around in the costumes as they're drawn in the comics, they'd look incredibly stupid.

That's Joe Jusko as Captain America, actually. As I recall, Cap and Spidey fight Vermin.

I second that.

For a moment I thought you were showing me that was YOU, commenting on that post back in 2011! I don't know man, the storytelling looks clear and just that cover, helpfully showing "insufficiently_thoughtful_person" and "brick" is pretty entertaining!

http://jimshooter.com/2011/10/science-fiction-vs-science-fantasy.html/

Jim Shooter is known for being outspoken about writers lacking any general science knowledge. I avoided all of that X stuff in the 90s' as much as I could but I'd be surprised Larry Hama lacked some degree of knowledge about anatomy as he's such a renaissance man. Then again, and I don't mean this in any flip manner or tone, he might have just been like, "it's comics, it's escapism, we don't need to think that deeply about this stuff" which I would also concur with

That depends; who has access to the secret chamber? If there's a specific sect of us who are part of this inner circle I would like to be considered for inclusion. We can have the chamber door be at the Mt Rushmore of letterers, with the entrance panel right below the sculpture of Artie Simek. (Joe Rosen would just be too obvious)

Well, as it specifies comic artists you could leave off 'Stan the Man'. If anyone wants to start a Mount Rushmore of Editors, Writers, Colorists, Letterers, we could get real nuts!

Honestly, I think the majority of fandom can be fickle and it's just like a person who only listens to one genre of music. I think you can enjoy Neal Adams and Curt Swan and neither have to compete with each other. I think you can dig 70s' Bronze Age Marvel books and critically acclaimed Fantagraphics books; but it's always the one-or-the-other thinking that limits the medium.

They ALWAYS looked like that in the nineties; I don't think anyone could take that logically or seriously, the same way many character's capes are all over the place.

Yeah, it's all subjective regardless of majority view. As I said earlier, Al Milgrom's Hulk stands out to be because I vividly remember buying those issues at 7-11 when I was 7 years old and being captivated by them. I'm sure many people have similar experiences that lends to their appreciation of an individual artist. I've always found Byrne really bland and not that captivating.