Aweandlorder Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 On 1/16/2018 at 11:21 PM, comiconxion said: Agreed - Albedo (which prided itself on being the premiere funny animal book) debuted in 1983, a year before the Turtles. And the Erma Felna story appeared in 1979 in the Huzzah fanzine long before the Turtles. Bingo! The 80s (mainly) B&W boom was infested with what was referred to back then as the Anthropomorphic era. The difference between those books and, say, funny animals were that they were targeting a more mature audience. Albedo was probably the first book to start the whole movement, but Steve Gallacci was admittedly inspired by Richard & Wendi of Elfquest fame. I would even trace it to Reed Waller's Vootie. The turtles were basically taking the p**s on all things trending at the time, mutants, ninjas and anthropomorphism. Neither Kevin or Peter thought their book should be taken seriously. Especially not with that title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 On 1/18/2018 at 4:13 PM, Toz said: Fish Police is one of the few runs I will never sell.There is atleast one copy in 9.8 that I watched on ebay a few years back.I was short on cash at the time. My run is in storage, but just wanted to join in on the praise for Fish Police. Amazing book, playing with some similar ideas as the Grant Morrison run on Animal Man, but Fish Police was there first. An amazing book. Just don't mention the cartoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szav Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 9 hours ago, OtherEric said: My run is in storage, but just wanted to join in on the praise for Fish Police. Amazing book, playing with some similar ideas as the Grant Morrison run on Animal Man, but Fish Police was there first. An amazing book. Just don't mention the cartoon. Apologies to the Fishheads for lumping Fish Police into this topic in my original post! I actually never bought any fish police back in the day because they were lumped together with all these more blatant knockoffs (the ones that follow the age/deformity/martial-art/animal title format) by my LCS’s and flea market dealers in their “its gonna cost $25 because I said it’s the next TMNT even though it’s brand new and not actually rare section.” The actual timing of all these coming out is a little fuzzy to me as I stopped collecting for about 20 years after 1990 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwoogieman Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 (edited) How about an official parody from Mirage Studios instead of a knock-off? They're Keen, Teen and Turnip Green! Edited January 21, 2018 by mrwoogieman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterio Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 On 1/14/2018 at 8:11 AM, Toz said: Great thread folks but how bout some cover scans I can't resist these out of 50 cent/dollar boxes when they are VF or better. Haven't found a ton, but I do have a few. Haven't seen any that are anywhere near 9.8 potential. szav and BigLeagueCHEW 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisFB Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 This is awesome. I have nearly all of these! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatfund Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 (edited) The titles I enjoyed were: Critters (and Yosagi Yojimbo in his own title) Albedo Fish Police and one I really liked a lot Trollords Edited January 22, 2018 by boatfund szav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweandlorder Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 11 hours ago, boatfund said: The titles I enjoyed were: Critters (and Yosagi Yojimbo in his own title) Albedo Fish Police and one I really liked a lot Trollords These were all 20-30$ a book for the first issues. I can imagine if CGC existed back then they would be 200 books each ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aweandlorder Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 With the exception of Albedo of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwoogieman Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Mighty Tiny - Mouse Marines A little late to the party by 1991, but the cover is cool! BigLeagueCHEW, Otter1775 and szav 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwoogieman Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 BigLeagueCHEW, szav and mysterio 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwoogieman Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Complete with glasses! mysterio and szav 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwoogieman Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 BigLeagueCHEW and szav 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mrwoogieman Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I've got more of these somewhere around here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comiconxion Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Don't have a copy handy, but there was Deathcrazed Teenage Superheroes as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szav Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 8 hours ago, mrwoogieman said: I've got more of these somewhere around here.... Grrat stuff! Keep them coming... I’ll post a few when I’m back in town and get a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM8 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 On 1/21/2018 at 1:53 PM, mrwoogieman said: How about an official parody from Mirage Studios instead of a knock-off? They're Keen, Teen and Turnip Green! I didn't make the connection at first, but Mirage actually coming out with a parody is funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanfingh Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Link to a couple of BtB #1 in 9.8. Mine is signed by Mike Richardson, who wrote it. The 1st 6-8 issues are my favorite indy B&W run of the 80's. I probably had 10-12 copies of #1 and only this one had any chance of being 9.8. I think the main reason they are rare is because no one is/has been looking for them. But they are not all 9.8, that is fo sho' http://www.myslabbedcomics.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=21184&GSub=1910 http://www.myslabbedcomics.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=10276&GSub=776 Aweandlorder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
