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The above art, I believe, was created for the "Bone: First Encounters" retail poster series, or I guess it might have been the other way around, that is, posters were made of the first two new covers drawn for the Image reissues. There are at least two in that poster series, the above with Thorn from issue #2 and one with the Red Dragon using the illustration from issue #1. I was going through my posters and found those two as well as 1995 Bone calendar poster from Comic Images. At the end of the original series, there was also a nifty retailer incentive poster showing all of the original covers and some of those were signed by Jeff. I've been meaning to scan those (along with a lot of other posters) so I can add the pictures to this thread, but like a lot of other things, I haven't got to it yet .Someday...

If it's longtime comic book buyers specifically, I'm saying they don't matter to the producers of the films at all. They (well, we) are a very, very small portion of the ticket buyers for any of these movies, which is a big part of why there is no attempt to cater to us, and why our collective complaints, whether mild or intense, will continue to fall on deaf ears. The non-comic reader ticket sales alone will ensure the movies keep getting made, and those folks lack both ability and reason to complain like us about these matters. All they have to do is stop going to movies and stop watching the TV shows, but will they? Youtube videos sure won't be convincing them one way or the other, so while it might feel good to vent along with them, they are ultimately a colossal waste of time.

Awesome! It looks like it's The Atom #33 from November 1967, and Captain Marvel #8 from December 1968 That might be a copy of Blackhawk at the bottom.

Sad, but true. Imagine using that same energy to, for instance, create better stories instead of just deriding the ones that currently exist to a mob for profits.

Oof, youtube videos over this? Professional complainers will never not crack me up. All of these MCU projects cost the same to view as what you'd pay for a couple of monthly comic books, most of which are terrible. I couldn't imagine spending longer than the 60 seconds I took to write this post on any of this stuff.

When does Copper end these days? This might be a little too recent, but here's an Age of Apocalypse dangling sign. Approx. 10x10 with a hole at the top so a retailer could hang it with a string taped/pinned to the sealing. My 90's LCS owner was pretty cool with the promo stuff beyond the things intended as giveaways. Any ad materials on display were given for the asking once he finished with them, and sometimes he'd sell unused stuff like this, usually for cheap.

Some early 2000s Image Top Cow posters featuring art by SIL VES TRI and friends.

Those various free promos by the comic shop cash register were the best, a little something extra. I still have the Watchmen "Smiley Face" pin I got from a Redondo Beach, CA comic store while the series was ongoing. Is there an existing thread for showing off that kind of stuff?

I got my Booster Gold #1 for a dollar about 20 years ago. I was happy to get the 80's Blue Beetle #1 in that same box. I remember them looking nice, but I have no idea what shape they're in. It's probably time to take a look with both of them getting the live-action treatment. I liked them well enough as humor characters in the JL/JLI series that followed "Legends", but I never did read those solo series. I picked up the first issues really as an afterthought. A lot of those whims are paying off these days which is nice.

I remember buying a couple of those Grendels at the 7-11 on the corner of Rosecrans and Hawthorne Blvd in Hawthorne, CA when they were new, so they would've looked just like those. I haven't looked at my Grendels in a long time, but I might still have those same UPC issues. Comico had some pretty good newsstand distribution for a minute there. There are lots of 7-11s in the South Bay and most of them had a big rack of comics in the mid to late 80's.

Here's a couple of autograph cards using the same classic Bradstreet cover image. The Mike Baron is from the 2008 Marvel Masterpieces III writer autographs set and the card signed by Tim himself is from 2013 Marvel Beginnings III.

Interesting to see so many responses with Harvey Comics' Richie Rich on them. One of those single monthly issues from late '78, maybe early '79 is surely the first comic I ever bought with my own money from the Hudson Street Snappy-Mart in Silver City, NM, when I was around 8 years old. The "Poor Little Rich Kid" had so many different titles on the rack at that time, though, I doubt I could pick the actual issue I bought out of a lineup. Not too long after, I was given some of those '70's DC Treasuries (Superman, MR. Tracy, JSA, Captain Marvel) and reading those over and over along with the increasing popularity in the early 80's of Spider-Man and the X-Men all culminating in "Secret Wars" (comics I could read for free at the Safeway Supermarket) made me a lifelong fan of superhero comics, I also remember our family having a copy of the Marvel Star Wars Treasury in 1977/78 and I actually fashioned a comic book out of the daily newspaper Spider-Man strip starting with his origin that I think had kicked the strip off. I'd asked the neighbors for a couple of months of the Daily Breeze newspapers (Lawndale, CA) they had stacked on their front porch. I wanted the Star Wars ads from the movie sections when I asked, but I ended up clipping out all of Spidey strips from them and pasting them in order into a scrapbook. Those would probably be the first comics I "owned", around age 6, but I definitely didn't buy either one of those. Great stories, fellas, keep 'em coming!

Bolland is still very active. Recent covers include Swamp Thing, Joker, 2000 AD 45th Anniversary, plus "One Bad Day" variants for Riddler, Ra's Al Ghul, Penguin, Bane, Catwoman, Clayface, and Two-Face, just to name a few. As for JSC, I understand why people like him, and granted, this is a poster (although it could easily be a wraparound cover), but try to imagine him doing something like this where multiple characters have distinct face and body types. I just don't see it.

I'm a big fan of Ross, Hughes, and Artgerm. I'd add Brian Bolland and Frank Cho to the top tier, as well.

That, and the Flaming Carrot/TMNT crossover cover. The poster was part of a series of TMNT posters, possibly the only ones from Mirage themselves. I have that one as well as one of the others with the art not by McFarlane. I think there are at least two more. This set utilized a higher quality, thicker paper than what is usually used for posters. 30 years down the line, you gotta figure the Todd is the most valuable of the bunch.

"The Pro" and "Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe" make two highly regarded one-shots for writer Garth Ennis, who specializes in the form. He did some great ones for "Preacher", too. I loved Comico's "Gumby Summer Fun Special" by Bob Burden and Arthur Adams, although I don't know if the "Gumby Winter Fun Special" that came later disqualifies it. (Different writer, but again drawn by Adams). The Bongo Comics line, towards the end, had a series of about 15 one-shots featuring different Simpsons characters starring in their own book. Each title had it's own name and was #1 (and only) in the series, but they were released regularly, a new one every three months. Some of those are pretty great.

Ah, yes, Majestic at the end of everything, a truly classic story. Imagine if some of these stories Moore had written for knockoff characters, Supreme in particular, had actually used Superman/Batman, etc, in them. The "top 10 stories" lists for the big icons would have to be rewritten. But, unfortunately, that wasn't a Wildstorm Special, but rather is from Wildstorm Spotlight, a 4 issue anthology series. I'm so sorry, please turn in your membership.

Watchmen is in a class by itself, and plenty of other good ones have been named, so along with many of those, I'd go with: Jimmy Corrigan and Rusty Brown by Chris Ware From Hell by Moore/Campbell Bratpack & Maximortal by Rick Veitch The One by Rick Veitch Hawkworld by Truman Shadow by Chaykin Demon by Matt Wagner The 3 Vertigo Jonah Hex minis by Lansdale/Truman Longshot by Nocenti/Adams the 3 D*cks miniseries by Ennis/McCrea

...plus Todd McFarlane, Jeff Purves, Adam Kubert, Deodato Jr., a Walt Simonson drawn mini-series within the regular title, and the George Perez drawn "Future Imperfect" mini-series introducing Maestro, the future Hulk!

That Sienkiewicz poster mentioned on the previous page may have been promotional only, but boy, is it a beauty. Here's the original painting from CAF: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1314465

2000 A.D. Grendel Groo Greatest 100+ issue sustained run in a long-running title is probably Peter David's run from "Incredible Hulk". ASM was pretty solid from around #235 to #335.

People who can't help themselves even here, where the rules are clearly spelled out, must be a whole lot of fun to know in person. Give it a rest already. If you're trying to argue that stuff on a comic book forum that explicitly frowns upon it, it's because you've already lost everywhere else.

Lee, Lau, Cho, and Chew (or Jim, Stanley, Frank, and Derrick).

Just tell the same story, but set it on a different planet that's like our own, but specifically stated to not be our own. And make sure to not use any colors of people we have here on Earth. Watch some episodes of the original Star Trek. They had it down pretty well.

Was just going through the Marvel Previews catalog and was surprised to see there's a hardcover omnibus coming in August for Marvel Age which will include the first 34 issues and Annual 1 from the 1980's Marvel house magazine. Never thought I'd see something like that. I wonder if they'll do the entire series which ran 140 issues and 4 annuals. It might depend on how well the first volume sells.