Comic Book Haul thanks to ‪@AWESTRUCKPODCAST‬

Hey everyone, AKAPAD here!

A huge shoutout and massive thank you to my longtime friend and fellow comic obsessive, Mark (one half of the awesome All Stuck Comics / Awestruck Podcast duo alongside Rob). After years of geeking out together, Mark surprised me with an epic box of comics perfectly tailored to my tastes — a true physical manifestation of our shared passion for the medium.

In this video and post, I’m diving into the haul: flipping through highlights, sharing stories behind the books, spotlighting killer art from legends like Adam Kubert, Scott McDaniel, Rob Liefeld, Angel Medina, Jay Lee, and many more, while also touching on ’90s bangers, deep cuts, indie gems, and the golden era of comic shop culture that the Awestruck Podcast keeps alive so well.

Whether you’re into high-grade ’90s books, WildStorm/Extreme vibes, obscure runs, or just love hearing passionate collectors talk shop, this one’s for you. Mark and Rob’s podcast captures that old-school comic shop energy — the recommendations, the debates, the community — and this haul is proof of how special that connection still is.

Thanks again, Mark and the whole Awestruck crew — you guys rock!

Grab a drink, settle in, and let’s dig into this haul together. Drop your thoughts in the comments: What’s the best book you’ve ever received from a fellow collector?

[00:00:15]
The video opens with an informal introduction describing a comic book haul arranged by Mark, a longtime friend and fellow comic collector. The host mentions a quick reading method developed from extensively reading comics and previews the content of the video: exploring a box of comics gifted by Mark. The box features a logo with two heads, representing hosts Rob and Mark of the All Stuck Comics podcast, which focuses on comic book culture and history. The goal is to reveal aspects of the host’s taste in comics through Mark’s selections while also highlighting Mark and Rob’s podcast work.

[00:01:25]
Mark and Rob produce two weekly shows featuring comic book reviews, news, and special topics. Notably, Rob has a passion for foil comics, leading to in-depth thematic podcasts such as “foiled again.” The host reflects on the historical importance of comic shops as community hubs where readers of all ages and experience levels socialized, exchanged recommendations, and built comic-reading knowledge. Comic shops were pillars featuring new releases, back issues, and trade paperbacks (which only became prominent in the 2010s). Clerks often built relationships with customers, tracking their interests and holding back key issues to foster engagement and sales. This dynamic, now diminished, is well documented and alive in the All Stuck Comics podcast, recreating the social and commercial environment of South Jersey comic shops.

[00:03:44]
Through the podcast’s conversation style, complex comic book industry developments and storytelling choices are unpacked, including:

• Character and creative team shifts (e.g., Peter David’s Aquaman, Kyle Rainer’s impact on Hal Jordan)
• Story arcs such as Wolverine Volume 3, where the character transformed into a feral animal
• Marvel’s tonal changes to characters like Hulk (“Mr. Blueface” phase)
• The curation role of comic shops in guiding readers between new releases and older, classic issues

The podcast’s value lies in preserving detailed comic book lore and industry connections that form an intrinsic part of comic fandom culture.

[00:07:10]
The host shares personal anecdotes about Mark as an obsessive, knowledgeable comic book enthusiast deeply familiar with his tastes, especially independent comics and high-grade ’90s comics (referred to as “the ’9s”). This box, a few years in the making, is described as a physical manifestation of their friendship and mutual comic book passions.

[00:08:28]
The video explores numerous notable comics from the box, highlighting artists, writers, and historical significance.

• Multiversity (DC Comics) — A Jim Lee/Grant Morrison collaboration; the book is noted for its attempt to unify DC’s fragmented multiverse post-Identity Crisis and the New 52 reboot. The host admits prior ignorance of Jim Lee’s involvement in drawing a version of Superman with Nazi affiliations in an alternate history. The failure of Multiversity symbolizes DC’s ongoing struggles to cohesively manage its expansive universe.
• Amalgam Comics (Magneto and his Magnetic Men, Jeff Matsuda) — Multiple copies are valuable for organizing and filing by artist and thematic series.
• Tarzan of the Apes #1 (Adam Kubert) — Praised for its artwork, highlighting Kubert’s significance though the host owns few Kubert-centric comics.
• Batman 591 (Scott McDaniel) — Desired for its quality and as a representation of Scott McDaniel’s impactful work, especially his Nightwing run with Chuck Dixon.
• Various New 52 Annuals (#5) and crossover events like Zero Hour are included to broaden the channel’s coverage beyond ’90s comics.

[00:13:44]
Additional highlights reflect on newer comics and notable cover art:

• Batman: Son of Batman (Adam Kubert) — Introduced as part of the host’s limited Kubert collection, emphasizing appreciation for his pencil work.
• Deathstroke #9 (Rob Liefeld) — A missing piece for the host, showing the value of receiving key issues.
• Marvel crossovers involving cosmic characters like Galactus, John Byrne’s Fantastic Four, and Dark Star characters are briefly noted for their importance in late-’90s comic continuity.
• The Demon by Matt Wagner is described as a comic deep cut appreciated by readers knowledgeable in obscure but significant titles.

[00:16:08]
The video continues exploring cult phenomena:

• Doom Patrol #53 (Ken Stacey art, “jack Kirby style”) — Highlighting a trio of DC titles Doom Patrol, Animal Man, and Shade the Changing Man noted for non-mainstream, influential storytelling.
• Annuals that served as interconnected crossover events are discussed historically, marking the evolution from disparate annuals to multimedia crossover story arcs.
• Wild Storm Wednesday is mentioned as a channel segment recognizing high-quality artists like Travis Shereé and Carlos Pacheco, especially on titles such as Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #6.
• The host references collecting multiple copies of key comics, filing them under various organizing systems (by writer, artist, or theme).

[00:20:06]
The haul features a mixture of vintage and less mainstream works:

• Hitman by Garth Ennis and Doug Mahnke is recognized as a precursor to “The Boys,” lauded for its storytelling.
• Some emphasis on Invasion: Alien Alliance and Judge Dredd comics, reflecting the blend of American and British comic influences.
• Lobo crossover issues drawn in Keith Griffin’s “Trencher style,” a niche but beloved aesthetic.
• The host reflects nostalgically on the cycle of character reboots, such as Manhunter by Walter Simonson, highlighting ongoing experimentation in DC’s character portfolio.
• A complex promotional folding cover and oversized posters featuring Adam Kubert art are mentioned as rare finds for dedicated collectors.

[00:24:48]
Reading techniques are discussed: the host describes reading for speed to initially absorb content and then re-reading for deeper understanding, noting that revisiting isolated issues from prolific runs can provide fresh insights into the medium and creators’ work.

[00:26:06]
Several comics spotlight artistic teams and runs:

• New Titans #114 (Tom Rainey cover), Omega Man Titans Spotlight by Eric Larson, and Outsiders Annual #1 emphasize lesser-known but quality runs.
• The Question Quarterly (Dennis O’Neil, Joe Quesada) and key work by Richard Dragon, Chuck Dixon, and Scott McDaniel on Nightwing demonstrate sustained excellence in DC series.
• The host reflects on McDaniel’s career span and lamented his gradual withdrawal from mainstream comics despite notable talent.

[00:28:53]
The host notes The Ring mini-series (Rory Thomas, Gil Kane) as a precious find, emphasizing prestige format comics of the 1990s that blended fantasy and sci-fi to push the boundaries of mainstream superhero comics.
Robin 3000, with P. Craig Russell art, is cited as emblematic of DC’s attempt to appeal to the heavy metal and mature fantasy audience during the 1990s.
Additionally, Scarecrow and DC One Million miniseries are highlighted for their thematic depth and creative involvement from top names like Tom Gmet and John Byrne.

[00:31:22]
The host situates several milestones in the 1990s/early 2000s comics:

• Ghost Rider #15 glow-in-the-dark cover touted as the best of its kind.
• Spectrum #1 and Superboy/DC One Million crossovers reflect major promotional and thematic events.
• Emphasis is placed on Tom Gmet’s underrated contributions, suggesting his work deserves wider recognition.
• Additional rare runs like Action Comics #600 and related Superman stories are referenced as upcoming video prospects.

[00:36:52]
Rob Liefeld’s legacy is critically examined, including:

• Warlord #131 bonus book featuring early Liefeld work.
• Liefeld’s controversial runs on Teen Titans, Wolverine, and Deathstroke during the New 52 relaunch.
• The host recognizes Liefeld’s short-lived resurgence but notes long-term fan and critical resistance to his style changes.
• Liefeld’s collaborations with artists like the Dodsons and Seth Fisher on Wonder Woman are included as rarities in the box.

[00:38:58]
Angel Medina’s contribution is noted, with special mention of his work on Kiss Psycho Circus (written by Brian Haberlin), considered a visually stunning and highly readable series. Medina’s significance alongside Rob Liefeld and Eric Larson as major talents during the Megaton Era is emphasized.

[00:40:53]
The host remarks on notable Marvel comics including:

• Avengers #386 “Taking Aim” prelude, previously little explored on the channel.
• Artists associated with this era like Jimmy Chong (CrossGen) and significant storylines like Young Avengers: The Children of Tomorrow.
• Bart Sears’ Captain America/Falcon art specifically praised as stand-out work.
• Marvel UK’s Death’s Head 2, Liam Sharp’s art, and Excalibur #57-58 are considered important keys.
• Early 2000s Image Comics like Ghost Rider (Salvador Laroca art) and Guardians of the Galaxy #25 (Jim Valentino) are personal favorites.

[00:44:15]
The host mentions personal hobby projects and the ongoing comic haul process interspersed with daily life episodes, emphasizing the slow-but-steady compilation method of the collection.

[00:46:39]
Returning to the comics, further highlights include:

• Appreciation for the Cubert brothers’ work on Ghost Rider, including issue 29 and 76.
• Extensive Jay Lee run on Sub-Mariner with layouts by John Byrne; the host praises Lee’s innovation and influence on ’90s comics styles.
• Chris Hunter’s work on the Neymar Sub-Mariner run is slated for future profile.
• Multiple organizing strategies such as filing under talent, artist, or series are discussed, exemplified by New Mutants Annual #5, which features Rob Liefeld and Art to Bear.
• The presence of Noctturn 1-4 and related comics pointing towards contemporary independent titles.

[00:58:09]
The haul covers obscure and overlooked titles from Marvel and others:

• Doctrine (Marvel, Image-comic style), Punisher Word Journal #30 (Mark Texeira art), Dark Rain (JRJR art), and Silver Surfer: Dangerous Artifacts showcase the wide variety.
• Soviet Super Soldiers (Angel Medina art) is cited as underappreciated alongside creators such as McFarland and Spawn.
• Various 2000s-era Image Comics talents (Mark Texeira, John Clearly, Jim Valentino) appear throughout.
• Jay Lee’s Spider-Man issues and Spider-Man Legacy of Evil (Kyle Hotz art) are noted, suggesting new video exploration.
• The fading but historically significant careers of artists like Mark Texeira are lamented.

[01:03:22]
The host emphasizes the importance of developing a discerning eye for comics, critiquing overrated works and praising overlooked artists such as Tom Lyle and Kyle Hotz. Fiona Staples and Archie titles are mentioned, alongside Grenle, an independent novel-like comic. Wizard Magazine #21 with Jay Lee cover art is noted as a prize item and inspiration.

[01:22:11]
Additional independent and chaotic comics are explored:

• Titles from Chaos Comics with Thunder Mace, Thumping Guts, Terraformers, Star Gods, and Shatter are spotlighted.
• The Nicole Simpson story and Life Brigade continue the host’s interest in comics blending real-world events and fictional narrative.
• The focus shifts to Wild Storm’s heyday featuring Thundercats, Dreamwave Transformers, and G.I. Joe runs.
• Image Comics’ early collaborations and crossovers such as Supreme Madness are highlighted.
• The allure of early ’90s talent Bart Sears and Scott Collins is reaffirmed by showcasing covers and stories.

[01:27:14]
The video wraps up by spotlighting the final comics and thanking Mark as well as the All Stuck Comics podcast, noting:

• Rare and prized issues like Action Comics #600 and Annual #99 with notable creators like Leon and Joe Casey on Cable.
• Discussion of Joe Casey’s interrupted run on Cable due to Rob Liefeld’s involvement leading to controversial narrative shifts.
• The host reaffirms commitment to reading and presenting a mix of classic and unknown comics, emphasizing discovering new creators and enduring artistic legacies.
• Several ID Invictus (independent) comics and promotional gimmick comics (e.g., unstable, unstapled formats) are cited.
• Closing remarks celebrate the joy of comic collecting, reading, and sharing community-driven content.

Summary Table of Key Themes and Highlights

Key Insights

• Comic book shops once formed essential cultural and social nodes for comic fandom; this is now largely documented through podcasting and archival efforts by individuals like Rob and Mark.
• The ’90s comics era remains a core focus for appreciation, blending high-impact artists with experimental storytelling and crossover events.
• Multiple copies of certain comics are kept intentionally for filing purposes, highlighting a collector’s nuanced archival system.
• Revisiting isolated issues from key runs is a valuable exercise to rediscover forgotten artists, writers, and themes in comics history.
• Emerging and obscure comics, as well as non-mainstream publishers, receive attention in balance with canonical mainstream titles, underscoring a broad and inclusive approach to comic culture.
• Editorial decisions and shifts in publishing practice over decades have created tension in fan response, especially regarding the career and style of Rob Liefeld.
• Significant emphasis on artistic legacies (e.g., Adam Kubert, John Byrne, Bart Sears, Liam Sharp) reveals how artist influence defines generations of reading experience.

Conclusion

This video offers an extensive, passionate exploration of a comic haul gifted by Mark to the host, tying personal history, comics culture, artistic appreciation, and industry critique into a single narrative. The discussion paints a detailed picture of comic collecting as both a personal passion and a cultural practice, revealing the complexities behind reading, organizing, and cherishing comics from multiple eras and publishers. It champions the preservation of comic shop culture and lauds the contributions of overlooked and iconic creators alike, promising future in-depth content based on this and similar collections.

The Transcript for this episode.

00:00:15
That’s how we open up a video, guys. Welcome to This is a little bit like I kind of work here kind of, but anyway, sometimes we do quick videos. We have this and and I’m jumping right to this video. I’m going to release it as quickly as possible. The and the reason is I got to read like I developed a reading method of just reading a lot of comic books very quickly. But what we have here like along the box, it’s a logo and it’s like two heads. See, I’m previsualizing the post-p production.

00:00:50
It’s Rob and and Mark. Mark is a dear friend of mine. Uh I’ve I profiled him. I spoke about him on his channel and on streams uh time and time again. What we have here is Mark gave me doubles of his comics because the guy comic book hunts every single week weekend. Uh I think that’s all he does in in life right now. And uh we’re all jealous for it. But so a lot of it is like things that he he you know he’s friends with me. We’ve known each other for a long time. Uh, these are things that he thinks would

00:01:25
appeal to me for all kinds of different reasons. And I thought it would be fun to go through the box because we’re going to do two things here. We’re going to reveal myself through Mark’s eyes and then we’re going to preview upcoming content. And holy crap, there’s uh a lot of good stuff here. We do that post at all times during the video. But let let me just say something about these guys. So Mark and Rob, they they have two weekly shows. They do comic book reviews. They do comic book news. And

00:01:56
they, you know, also do like special topics and special features. Uh for example, uh Rob loves foil comics. So they did like a foiled again podcast. Uh it’s probably like one of my favorites of the the off-topic stuff. But if we discuss the importance of comic shops and a lot of us we we reminisce about remmanise yeah you know the days of just you showed up on Friday and then became a Wednesday but you you would just go to the comic shop buy your new books and yeah if you hung out there for 10 20 minutes just be

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like a slew of other individuals and and and throughout the years you would you would uh become friendly with everyone and comic shops kind of became a little bit of a community center and you had young and old and people who were like veteran readers and they they could help guide you. So, it’s a little bit of like the importance of comic shops having like all the new stuff uh well stocked back issues and at the time though, right? Like trade paperbacks really weren’t a thing until like the 2010s and

00:03:10
hard covers. We’re so spoiled with reprints right now. But like the comic shop needs to hit like all three of these pillars. Uh a lot of times the store owner or the store clerk, they’re too busy to to help you. So we we now look back at the absolute importance of the comic shop and and we can correlate that with a yeah you know like some of the slide or the the this part of the industry collapsing. But what happens like with that, right? But what gets lost though is the bantainer is the the

00:03:44
the minutia of you know I I will always go to it Peter David Aquaman harpoon hand right like is do we like Kyle Riner uh Rainer right like what they did to Hal uh every like these are the the conversations that you would hear uh I I remember Wolverine like volume three uh volume right volume three where uh it he wasn’t Wolverine he was like a feral animal or when when Marvel pivoted uh the Hulk into the the Mr. Blueface where the storytelling just became like you know a it became a little bit like molasses

00:04:30
right so like within comic shops like someone would buy something new and be like look if you don’t like that you know you take the person you you you bring them to the back issues and you say look you can read this Hulk like you start reading the Hulk at at this point uh you know come in as often as you can uh you Sometimes you write down their name and when you got new inventory, new collections, you would put things aside for people and then sometimes just like cold call them and be like, “Look, I got

00:05:02
more of that Captain America run that we were talking about.” Uh this is a yeah like the the mechanics of comic shops and through all of this would be conversation and you would have conversations and within the ownership of the comic store those conversations would be converted into sales. This is a long way but I feel like you know uh long time coming. These two guys here, Rob and Mark, if you want to know what it was like to hang out in a South Jersey comic book shop, you you listen to the show, you

00:05:42
watch the show, you subscribe to the show, cuz I don’t think anyone right now is doing what these two guys are doing. They’re Yeah. like 140 episodes deep already. They they they’ve been through like a couple errors of the show, meaning good shows, bad shows, uh well researched, not researched, but it’s it’s the idea that they’re consistent, that they’re regular, and sometimes these two guys just want to talk. They they just want and and it could be a slow news week, but you show

00:06:17
up, they’re there. This is the best recreation that we have, the best documentation we have of this environment. All Stuck Comics podcast is absolutely significant for that documentation. I was a part of the comic book scene during when Rob and Mark uh both worked in in New Jersey comic shops. I was always like, you know, the pretty much the outlier cause uh yeah and what the the reasons of is a therapy session that we’re not doing here. But no, aka patterns. What we have in this video is Mark, who is a obsessive

00:07:10
comic book super freak. Him and I, we talk a lot. We’ve had endless conversations. He knows my taste level. He knows my curiosity level. Uh he kind of knows my my importance of the the true independent comic books. We document and we buy as many of those as possible. Everything to do with the ‘9s. He is an AKA pattern. Uh he he comments and talks to me about so many of of my videos. But yeah, this is him uh through a couple years uh yeah, collecting doubles, buying doubles by accident uh

00:07:45
and then building a box for me that this, believe it or not, this is a a few years in the making. So, a a little bit of myself is revealed in here. This is how Mark sees me is is I just I love this exercise. I don’t know. I think it’s it’s it’s original comic book YouTube content. So, without wasting any more time, let’s look at some comics. Okay, now now we can go now. Get the coffee. And excuse my the top of my head. I’m getting a little bit cut off. Multiversity. I had no idea this effing book existed.

00:08:28
Uh, some of the illustrations are there. It’s a Jimly. It’s a Jimly comic. Jimly Grank Morrison. Uh, Jim Lee draws our boy Shitler. I never knew Jim Lee officially drew our boy Adolf. This is So, here’s And yeah, Mark knows how much I I you know, we Wild Storm Wednesdays. Here’s the thing, right? Mult the failure of Multiversity uh is really kind of like the end of DC Comics where they they were trying to unify everything to expand the universe to utilize like every single possible

00:09:13
idea that they could uh cherrypick everything from elseorlds and just roll it into DC proper but have like a tapestry for it. And you know, we kind of look at everything um you know, post identity crisis. So we go Identity Crisis, we go into Multiversity, we get into the New 52, and then ever since like New 52, uh they never got that that universe together again. uh mo the failure of Multiversity and just the way it didn’t and I you kind of see it where it was a all hands on deck event big release

00:09:54
the best of the best are working on it and it doesn’t quite like the engine doesn’t quite turn over uh absolute tragedy but had no idea that Jim Lee was a part of it on this level I didn’t know he drew like a giant issue with Grant Morrison and and you know like right I mean look see he’s he’s hommining himself right there with the uh right the red this isn’t the red song is this the red song Superman right it’s no cuz red song Superman was Russian this is the the German Superman so

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whichever one oh my god oh my evil history alternate versions of Superman forget so we had this one we talked about it on this channel a lot. But Magneto and his magnetic men, Jeff Maxuda, this is amalgam. Now, the reason why this is important is really for filing. Uh me having multiple copies of this is fine because this goes into my Jeff Matsuda section of my comic book or filing organizing and this also goes into my amalgam. So, it’s great to have an extra copy. Tarzan of the Apes issue one.

00:11:12
I mean, do we have to talk about this freaking artwork with our boy Cubert? I mean, let I’m trying I’m trying to get Here we go. Right. Cubert rocking and rolling. Critical. I don’t have many Cuberts. Uh I do I do have one of his like art blocks that maybe we’ll do on on the Saturday. This is a Batman 591. And I do not have enough Scott McDaniel of any of the errors of Scott McDaniel. So, this is welcomed. Uh, this is just one of those things I might just read and do a video on because I love that so much. And it’s

00:11:53
I like the random comic book discussions that we do on this channel. I do want to say though uh a little bit of the importance of digesting comics where you you remember an artist or a writer. This is Ed Rub Baker too by the way. You remember these guys uh you may not have a run but you come across one issue of that run or of that time and you just say you know what let me just read this as if I don’t know anything. And it’s one of the best techniques to reopen your eyes to the quality of some of this

00:12:25
stuff. Uh, welcome here back annual five. I I believe this is new 52. I can’t speak on anything in this. Uh, and we’ve been trying to do a little bit more with the newer uh newer comics. Uh, I just feel like to add perspective because we are a ‘9s focused channel to add I’m like I’m fumbling my words, but to to get better perspective, we have to be more versed with the newer things. So this is why annual five is welcomed again too. Good random read. Here we go. Beginning of tomorrow zero

00:13:03
hour with one of my oh my god like the Joker side covers of this time are some of the best. Zero Hour has been on the channel’s radar radar for quite some time to to truly profile Zero Hour, which is a smaller reboot, but not as significant at the time that you would compare Zero Hour to Crisis of Infinite Earths. Zero Hour, uh, very much there. Great crossover, very effective, great slight reboot, like little baby of a reboot. I would like to do all of this. This might be the only Zero Hour I have

00:13:44
at this point, but I’m sure he kept it for me because of that Joker silent cover. And also the interiors, we have a a mashup. Lots of good artwork there. Uh here we go. Speaking of Cubert, Batman, son of Batman. Son of Batman. Damon, son of Oh my god. Damon, son of Batman. We welcome anything Cuber any of the I mean jeez some of this too. He’s got some of his like some of the coloring though. Jeez. I think some of this is pencled. I mean guys look at this dude. So this is huge. Uh again I not I don’t have much of a

00:14:24
cubert section but it’s not like the cubert section wasn’t coming. That’s what she said. Uh a little bit of a newer book. Uh so he’s welcomed in two areas. Uh, speaking of new 52 shocking I don’t have Deathstroke number nine with our boy Rob Lifelo. Isn’t that nuts? I don’t have this. I have it now. Huge. And we talk like the a lot of the comic book crossovers that we talk about, discuss that I bring to you guys on this channel. Uh, we get good comments, we get good interactions.

00:14:57
This is one of the best. during a time where everything was a comical crossover. We’re talking Galactis. We’re talking Dark Side, The Hunger, John Burn. Uh gez, this is And I believe, right, like is this like a back door in in John Burn wrapping up his Fantastic 4 run? I I I believe so. I remember reading this thinking that, but at the time I was doing nothing but reading the John Burke Fantastic 4 run. So, welcome uh Travis, Dark Stars. Welcome. The demon by Matt Ragner Matt Wagner here.

00:15:35
You if you guys don’t know just the significance of this issue. This is a I view this as a comic book deep cut that you know only comic book readers know about. Great addition there, Mark. Thank you. Batman detective comics. We have Rooker. We have a little bit of the Rucker. So like this is I don’t have a Rucker section. I don’t have it. I don’t even have a detective comics section. This would go into a little bit of a general box for me, but it would be to read this, memorize it,

00:16:08
get refamiliar with it to apply it to a later video because this is also during a little bit of a cultural shift of Batman. Uh, we we can kind of say this is little bit around the time where the Dark Knight truly started to take over DC comics. Doom Force one. We have this. We’re just making fun of Rob Lifel, but we kind of make fun of him enough on this channel. Oh my god. Doom Patrol 53. I didn’t know this. The Ken Stacy issue. Oh my. Ken Stacy doing his Jack Kirby again. Why it’s

00:16:47
there was one time for DC the three books you read it had nothing to do with Neil and that dream character it was Doom Patrol Animal Man and Shade the Changing Man that was your reading exact reading order for DC Extreme Justice number one we profiled this so that’s a double double doesn’t matter we will take it cuz you know what happens a lot of times I do videos and I marker them up and I need But good copy. H I forgot about this cover. Why is it? Why is it? And do we do we have interior? Yeah. Travis Shereé

00:17:26
Interiors the Flash. 1992 Eclipypo Darkness Within multic company crossover cuz that’s how we you guys remember annuals at one time became crossovers like they and then all the annual. So Marvel and DC would have like pocket crossovers for annuals. You would get like three or four titles and they they all had interconnected stories and then eventually all of the annuals became one big event crossover and then annuals just kind of like went away. But we have I mean this is going to be a great one for Wild Storm Wednesday.

00:18:01
Travis Shereé drawing a flash annual. That’s just the first little baby stack. Let’s pull the other. I see some green. What’s I mean guys, just for the cover, just for the vein sky, human sunshine beam, Ethan rocking and rolling. Jeez, he draws. I mean, his stuff though is just I mean, even just like the storytelling again, he’s working off of Jeff John scripts. I think the there was a harmony of these. So, we also got Carlos Pacheco, EVS, the greatest Green Lantern artist of all time. He should still like DC

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should still be utilizing them. Uh, huge book. I love the Alex Frost cover. How do I file this? This is another one I would need three maybe four copies of. Uh, we need this for Jeff John section, Carlos Pacheco section, uh, EBS section, Alex section, Green Laner and Corpse Quarterly issue six. Is is this just a charade cover? Charade. Oh, no. No. Looks like we have Hold up here. Do we have interior? Look like it for a second. No. Jim Ballot. Okay. Yeah. Oh, no. We do have a Shereé. We do have Shereé interior. Holy crap.

00:19:25
Look at that. Here we go. So, another big wild storm Wednesday. Uh, he saw me buy this. Uh, so, oh, we also have a a company. We went to the comic shop. So, there’s another short box haul coming video. I recently bought this for a August release. We will profile John Stewart. Post crisis John Stewart. By the way, what you see mosaic uh big push. Remember back in the day, you would go into a comic shop, everything would be mosaic. And think about it, for $1.25, you could try that book that they had uh

00:20:06
promotional green laner glow-in-the-dark rings for. Guys, really cool stuff. I never read this, so when we do the video, it will be uh around the first time reading it. Hitman Lobo, that stupid bastard. Jeez. And do we forget how awesome Hiddy was? Hitman was a Gar Anis. This was the boys before the boys. Way better than The Boys, by the way. Doug M drawing it. That’s a huge uh We have Tom McFarland. Infinity Inc. We have Tom McFarland invasion here. Alien Alliance. I I own this, but it’s, you know, like it’s kind

00:20:50
of good to have a double. Uh the actually Oh, wow. He Okay, so we have all three. I have not had all three. Why do we So, this is almost like like a couple videos in one. I view uh The Alien Alliance Invasion book one as Tom Far’s best drawn issue ever. But then we get Bart Sears who later saved the Violator miniseries when Greg Kupo couldn’t finish it. I believe Greg Kolo uh stumbled into alcohol. Couldn’t finish it. But I mean guys like like this is a Tom that that we love. Yeah. But Barcel comes in with

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issue three and finishes it. And Barcave saved Tom and Carl his butt twice. Interesting comic book. Uh, that’s cool. Judge Dread issue four. This is the Avon Omen one. And oh my god, I feel like we we’ve done this. Did we? I may have already shot a video on this and never released it, but absolute random thing random thing for him to have for me in here. I don’t think he did. Like I’ve read that recently. Okay. Lobo the biz. We have Lobo Infant side with uh you know Keith Griffin doing his

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trencher style. It’s funny how Oh no, no, no. This is biz. This is all biz. Wow. It’s almost like it was Keith Keith Griffin’s trencher style, which is the cover. It did. I can’t even tell who drew this right now. Yeah, it says Keith Griffin. Keith Griffin draws this in a it’s a crossover of his trencher style which we see clearly on the cover and it’s part B fizzley but holy crap though. Yeah. Uh everyone talks about Trencher. No one talks about this which makes this then we have issue

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one, issue two, issue three. Wow. He gave me the whole four issue miniseries. Uh I feel like we have to rush this one out. I don’t even have trencher as as much as I see that on social media. Uh this is I know Mark Mark’s showing me what he likes here, but this is also Zero Hour. Manhunter for maybe the third or fourth time in DC comics gets another idea reboot revamp. This character kind of goes all the way back uh somewhat made famous by Walter Simson. Uh the artist for this is somewhat of a of a uh interest for Mark.

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And here we go, Vincent Gia Rano. And most recently on Olra, they were discussing one of his dark uh dark horse books. And yeah, this is just a random dude that Mark tracks. And again, this is why we connect to comic book commentators because it doesn’t matter who the commentator is, they will like something you never heard of. And that’s yeah, learning about it is valuable. The new challengers can’t even speak on this. And wow, what is this? What? I don’t even know what this is. It’s like a folding cover thing

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that interconnects. I don’t know what this is. This is a weird promo. I just knocked my hat. Okay. Wow. Giant poster. Cubert drawing. I mean, yeah, guys, I can’t speak on this, but again, I love the random reads. Like, a lot of times when I go through a box like the books like this or like that Bane issue I showed you earlier will be like the first things I jump on. I’ve been very dedicated, very into uh being able to like read and go through comics very relatively quick at least to

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know like the guts and to kind of go back and and reread. That’s a little bit of the the reading process now. Like we read for speed and then we read to memorize the new Titans Changing of the Guard. This is Yeah, this is huge. I believe uh Mark may have had this for I’m not sure maybe because Mark also organizes a lot. We organize for writers and artists first and then we kind of like have our methods from from there. Uh he may have got this may maybe Rick Mazize. I’m not sure why he would. Maybe he just

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ended up with a double. But again, absolutely random. But there is I have a little bit of in my general comic book box. There’s a little bit of like entries for revamps or or in series reboots. So teen new new Titans, not new Teen Titans, New Titans 114. Yeah, this also has a Tom Rainey cover, so it could be. But then again, if it’s Tom Rainey, we put that in the Wild Storm box. Omega Man Titans Spotlight drawn by Eric Larson. Uh, I still don’t know what to do with Eric Larson on this

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channel. Outsiders. I believe we right we did this. We already did this one. If not, I shot a video on Outsiders Annual number one. Kevin Nolan, Mike Far. Uh, just it was one of my videos on like this is the definition of a good comic. This is why why we make good comics. You know, the the good comics are the ones you never heard of, guys. The question quarterly Dennis O’Neal, right? Trying to see some of the style here. Joe Casada. Oh my early Joe Q. Wow, this is awesome. Early Joe Q question number three. Wow.

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So getting back to following people, Richard Dragon, Chuck Dixon, Scott McDaniel. Uh, so these two guys, they really do the best Nightwing Nightwing run of all time. They kind of break up. Scott McDaniel, who came off of uh, you know, Daredevil, what was it? The uh, Fall from Grace, right? The metal Daredevil, the one that everyone pretends that they hate that never really read it. McDaniel goes from from revamping Daredevil, bringing back Electra, like huge stuff. Like I believe his one of his Daredevil Electra drawings became a

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statue by I think it was who did that statue guys? I’m thinking asylum. It could have been a asylum statue, but either way, True Impact at DC, Nightwing, like Superman, then Batman, then Green Arrow, like then this. And at that point, I would say, I mean, what year is this? At this point, we really don’t see Scott McDaniel like ever again. He kind of fades into the night. Uh, just one of the great talents of the time. He should still be drawing to this day. I do see him post on social every now and again.

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We’re going to we’re going to do these and no one’s going to watch that video. The ring. Oh my god. Rory Thomas, Gil Kane, guys. Prestige format minion series. I mean, how much of a gift is this? Four issues. I don’t have to go crazy. I I can’t we a big chunk of my comic book reading are things I can’t do a video on cuz I don’t have like a fourth issue or third issue but I’m so curious about things that you know like I read to learn it and then yeah Robin 3000. So

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here’s the crazy thing. I had these. I I want to say I got these when these came out cuz I thought the artwork was just I mean maybe like just to show you guys a little bit. The covers don’t do it justice. This is really DC Comics stepping into the heavy metal audience like a thousand%. But just like giving the best in the industry time and space to work and do things and and uh you know we all want your original idea but if your original idea and we can retrofit it into Robin 3000 uh good for

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everyone and we can sell it and that’s kind of like a little bit of what like faded from DC and Marvel where throughout the 70s and and into the 90s you would just get like fantasy like it There would be a lot of fantasy and high science fiction in American comics by the big publishers. And these were just like ideas. They were like throwing [ __ ] to a wall, seeing what stuck. And there’s just so many gems in those two decades. Robin 3000, P. Craig Russell. I mean, guys, how do you not want to read

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this right now? Earth 3000. I love it. I don’t know if they ever went back to it cuz now all the else worlds and everything gets reexplored. Uh, Robin, Son of Batman. Yeah, I can’t speak on it. I really can’t, but we will read read it. We’ll read it. Scarecrow. So, this is this was a great gimmick. So this might be like so they did like the DC one millennial where all the DC characters were like one million years into the future. That was one like I think that was Tangent Comics. That

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was one of their like DC’s best just unified like theme events where uh everyone that was with DC at the time worked on this and like if you want to call it a crossover but it was more of a event. Uh that might have had like 16 to 18 comics. By the way, a very close second or third is this where they did the villains. All the villains got highlighted for like a month. It might have been like a month or two. There’s 12 or 13 of these. Uh the dark side one, not not dark side, right? Is it dark

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side? I think the Jason Pearson draws the the dark side one. But this is Oh my god. is Duncan Verudo, Peter Milligan too, but Duncan, you know, we like him from Alpha Flight and uh he had like a cliffhanger, right? Like Duncan too, Men of Action, Ben 10 and Jump Cut. We changed the shirt, we got some iced coffee and we’re still talking about So anyway, that dark side that I was just talking of, I keep that on my desk, by the way. But yeah, guys, got a phone call. AC’s kicking. Philly is like 90 degrees

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today. It’s you literally walk outside and you you melt. And I know I know this show goes and this YouTube channel, this whole effort of mine goes coast to coast. It goes around the entire world. I know it’s hotter in other areas, but 90° with little humidity is still it’ll kill you. Ghost Rider 15. So many of you, the non constructive, non-critical thinking you that we do this, I put as much effort in this channel so I can wake you up. Get comic book woke with me because this is the

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greatest glow-in-the-dark cover of all time. It is not Ghost Rider 15. That is obvious and facious. Spectrum number one, also a great series. Uh, thank you, Mark, too. The I I’d love having this back in my collection. We’re not even halfway done yet. So, anyway, uh, too, uh, what happened there, right? I got a phone call. We’re smack dab middle, uh, I would say like the middle of of my work day right now. The the morning has passed a little. We we did some shooting, took some phone calls, had to do some emails and and

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cheers. Welcome to Peter A. Duca’s life. The last boy on Earth, Super Boy meets Command again. DC Comics always going to the well of Jack Jack Kirby. This is also Tom Gmet who is in my view probably top five underrated guys in comic book history. I believe he’s still with us. He’s still out there kicking there. There was probably like a 10-year arc where nothing that Tom drew was not perfect. He He always in my view, he always should have had a Fantastic Four run. We have Well, speaking of DC 1

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Million, wow, how I did not know this was here, guys. If this doesn’t at least give me some levels of credibility, we have Super Boy. We have OMAC. That’s the crossover for the 1 million version of Super Boy for this DC. We have to say this is might be their absolute best promotion inner company crossover or interconnected theme. Uh it’s it’s so good. Can’t wait to read this. I haven’t read this. Armageddon 2001 Superman. Uh we were already talking right when annuals to uh annuals were a lot of work. I have

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this I believe I had this into for a video for quite some time. Having two of them gives me an opportunity to marker it up. It’s not just Dane Jurgens that we’re focused on here. is also Lee Weeks in his uh let’s just say in his grownup mature phase absolutely optimized I can’t speak on this at all Superman Lois and Clark uh is it related to the TV show maybe but even like Jurgens coming in adding to the TV show because right we all know the comics connect to these to to the show’s lore. Uh did Jurgens do any

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Smallville comics? I don’t know. I feel like he should back to team Titans. Now we’re just at Titans sellout. Uh this is just like a Tom Gmet run here. But look at the proportions here and just like tell me that this guy is not an absolute weapon. I mean just and I’m talking to Mark directly ju just in these alone are going to just float around here for for quite some time. And I have a round of comic book layouts to jump on. Some aka Packers reached out to me for layout help, but I know Mark’s obsessed with

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this. So, this is the art to bear proposed, right? Uh I believe there’s pages of this and a 24 by 36 poster. The art tar nightwing series that never came to fruition has two major images. This is one of them and the other one is that poster, but we’re we’re kind of here for the groom. So, this is another one I would need like two or three copies of this. Back to it always goes back to Rob Lifel. Do we have two Rob Lifeelds here? No, we don’t. So, Lifefeld, just so you know, has a Warlord issue. I I forget

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what issue. Mark. Oh, wait. This is it. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, this is it. bonus book right here. So, Rob Lyfeld, Warlord bon uh Warlord 131. There’s a bonus book in here. That’s a early life. I mean, yeah, when life was like, right, drawing full stories, right? That faded correct. Well, holy crap, Mark. Thank you for that. Holy crap, that’s huge. But we get his team tightens and I’m not against this run. I’m not against that they were trying to tap into what is it the arcade comics. Rob

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Livefeld. Not the awesome comics but the arcade comics. And Livefeld when he was sick of driving companies into the ground tried to go back to the well with Marvel and DC. Nothing lasted more than a few issues. And then Jim Lee gave him uh yet another huge opportunity with New 52 as we just saw with that tournament here, Deathstroke uh issue nine. Uh I’m always big on issue ones just I just love issue ones. Now issue, not that I agree with the constantly reumbering of issue ones, but we have a Wonder Woman issue one here

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that uh I am not familiar with, but it’s got the Dodsons and that’s that’s a Woodro Wilson, Happy Dale, Devils, the Devils in the Dessert. Oh, Andrew Dab. Yeah, Seth Fisher. So Mark being as much of a reader as he is, he drills into things like this and uh he’s the type of comic book reader that can go on and on and on on and on about something that you never even heard of, would never even suspect would exist. But again, Allstar Comics podcast, what they what they’re wonderful and focusing on is that comic

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shop atmosphere. Uh this is going to go to the top of the pile to read. Oh, and it’s apparently two issues. Two nice thick boy prestige formats. Yeah, we’re gonna enjoy this. A little bit random, but not really. So, see a little bit of you guys. So, if you see this cover, and let’s just say you’re able to like zoom in and have a look, right? And you see this cover and you may not know the art style, but I some of you should. And I know the you can you can read the credits there.

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This is Angel Medina who in my view gave Todd McFarland the best run of any McFarland published book with Kiss Psycho Circus. Kiss Psycho Circus is so readable. Believe it was written by Brian Habberlin. Visually absolutely stunning to do what they did with Kiss in that series. Jaw-dropping. when he was done with that, we all know he should have and still should be working for Marvel comics. This guy goes back uh you know shared shared comic book space with Rob Lyfeld during the Megaton days. It was Angel Medina,

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Robfeld, Eric Larson, three of the big talents that come out of there. Uh I’m not familiar with this Avengers 386 Taking aim prelude. Taking aim to a Avengers uh storyline I’m not familiar with. So this is a double read. Uh somewhat on the radar of this channel for quite some time but never executed is I’m just going to show it to you guys. This era of the Avengers long on this channel’s radar for multiple reasons. I don’t even want to like spoil any of it. I was just going back and forth with

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this guy, Jimmy Chong. We know him from science crossgen in my view. This is another guy and this is, you know, I believe precross gen. I just want to say this guy should still be working at Marvel. I believe he has a Marvel house style. uh, Young Avengers, if you look that up, is a sem, um, the Kang, the Children of Tomorrow. Um, first six issues of that, I might be butchering what the the story line is, but that has a hard cover that’s about 30 bucks, a deluxe size. It’s worth every penny. His illustrative power by

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that time in his career is of note. Uh, we discussed this, but it’s good to have an extra copy. I don’t I think we’ve only discussed this when I had the trade paperback. Uh this is one of the best renditions of a Captain America non-Captain America, right? Because we’re dealing with a copy. I’m trying to get a a good shot here, but it’s Bart Sears. He’s drawing Captain America. He’s drawing the Falcon. Crazy proportions here. Uh what what just one of my favorite all time Let me

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just draw something moments. in American comics. Uh Mark is huge on Marvel UK. He knows I I am huge too in Death’s Head and Liam Sharp. This is uh Death Head 2 issue three. I do not have this. We’ll be reading it. Uh this is huge cuz I I consider these big time keys. I have Excalibur 57. I don’t think I have I’m pretty sure I don’t have 58. This is the Joe. Uh, Jomad Excalibur. We’ll talk about these on this channel. I believe he only did two, so we have two. I only had one previously, so that

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kickstarts the video. Cycling back to our boy Joey Q. Uh, no one really talks about the Jo Ghost Rider. I love the loose style for this. Who did this one? Salvador. All right. So, we all have much of a Salvador section, but Salvador is of the 2000s, like something to come to emerge out of the image comics era when the writers took the industry back and you know, Salvador Laroka and uh Carlos Pacheco, but Salvador would have a amazing run on Extreme X-Men. Uh, I was telling I did pull this out when Mark gave me the box

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because I could tell I could just tell what this book was from. Foil cover, foil etched Valentino, Guardians of the Galaxy 25 Galactis. I was I explained because we got cheese stakes. So we we get cheese steaks. We we took a little break from this haul since then. Now we we got more computer parts. Uh I completely rebuilt my Spongebob Game Boy. Like I’ve done so many things. I’m in the process. Where’s it at? Right here. I mean one of the greatest games of all time there. If you don’t have I mean the

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this this S the Game Boy SP whatever this this Game Boy you know the one with the flippy. It’s Spongebob too by the way. Uh, this thing was completely in like pieces. I’m I’m like the hinges, everything. Uh, I bought another one to replace uh parts on on on the board. Uh, this is completely rebuilt from scratch. Uh, but this has immense sentimental value to me and I just could not let it go. Even though I could have bought I think a new one for 200 and I think probably spent about 80 bucks to to

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rebuild this thing and I could have saved myself some time. So I’ve done that. Uh we recorded other videos. I’m currently rebuilding this Microsoft Zoom. These are these are hobby things. These are things I do just to occupy myself. But uh we were in the process of I mean gez got multiple laptops. We were in the process of doing a comic book haul that, you know, since the video because a couple weeks a couple effing weeks went by. Uh, and like this is this is where we are. I was going through a box of comics with you

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guys uh with these two guys uh on the bottom of the screen. Uh, if you can’t tell, it’s early in the morning. I just did a I just shot a video about the Kitty D’s channel getting copyright struck by Liam Gray. Uh which really I mean I think I should have been angrier when I shot that, but it took me like three or four times to get what I wanted to out uh in that video cuz I think it’s horrific. Uh I do. But either way, like we we left off and I kind of know where we left off. Two like maybe like a full

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week a week and change go by. So like mentally I know where I stopped which is I was making a point about Ghost Rider 29 which we don’t we don’t give enough credit to the Cubert brothers and right like we don’t give enough credit to the Cubert brothers in my view they’re like of this the first three years of this Ghost Rider the 90s Ghost Rider I mean we have Javier Salters we have Mark Texaria with uh the the 15 glow-in-the-dark cover, one of the greatest gimmick covers of all time.

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Like we we hyperfocus on just those two guys and we kind of forget that. Here’s the crazy thing. So like my my buddy Mark from Allstroke, Ghost Rider 76, he he put this one in there, but excuse me, but it’s Salvador Salvador Laroko. And look, it’s got this crazy sideways cover. So I mean there’s like fiveyear gap between these two and we often forget that this ghost rider kind of ended with the top cow devil’s reign and top cow redesign like really crazy art but nothing but nothing but crazy artwork and it’s

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it’s a solid read and I love exercises like this reading issue 29 and then jumping all the way to issue 76. So, previously took just where we left off. We left off with he got me the Joe Excalibur issues. I might be repeating myself, but I believe I don’t have 57, which is the stronger looking issue. We all love Liam Sharp. He gets me anything Liam Sharper saves it for me. Uh, you just can’t deny this guy. He’s still rock and rolling. I love that Liam uh making headlines with his code name

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work. This is the one I was waiting to get to. Guardians of the Galaxy 25 holof foil etched cover. A lot of trading cards had this effect, namely the marble masterpieces, the Joe JCO ones. I was telling him, so we’re uh we were getting cheese steaks and we’re sitting outside of one of the the parks in in Hadenfield, right? Uh the the lake, what’s the lake? Uh anyway, we’re sitting outside eating cheese steaks and I pulled this out of the box cuz he he brought the back box and it’s

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just in the morning. It was 11 o’clock. We’re eating cheese steaks and and I’m telling Mark what this issue meant to me. I haven’t experienced this issue since I got rid of my comic book collection. I remember rushing home. I bought this at a local comic shop, Rainbow Comics, back uh Blackwood, New Jersey. Monty, RIP Monty, Casey the dog, Ella, his his wife. This was at one time the biggest book I ever read. I I didn’t understand alternate timelines. I didn’t understand that this like kind of didn’t qualify

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technically as a Marvel comic. This was just a elongated what if comic. But I love this series so much read and and I don’t think I read more than past 25 and then like the image stuff kind of happened and you know this quickly just got it just fell into the realm of forgetfulness. We will be profiling Guardians of the Galaxy issue 25, The Coming of Galactis, because this is such a banger issue. And for anyone that wants to argue if Valentino should have been a part of Image, you just have to read this. And I think this kind

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should help clarify that. Okay, moving on. Marvel fanfare number three. And here’s the crazy thing. So, here we go. We’re we’re talking we’re back talking about this guy. So Ghost Rider kind of gets uh you know like an updated push. Uh he gets like a run of new artists like you know Salvador later like graduates to X-Men. Well, we said, you know, the character kind of ended with a top cow. And this is Pop M here who did some really cool stuff for Rob Blackfeld, Extreme Suit, Maximum

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Press for Asylum. Tom Cow redesigns the Ghost Rider and the character kind of at that point really slipped slipped away. But if you I’m trying to get like a good picture. This is that design and Pop M was in in my view just like the right guy to kind of showcase it and it’s just crazy that this version of Ghost Rider has like limited traction. People make fun of it. Uh when Trent Tranigua from Creed came on for Ghost Rider, this this is the template that they were saying look look like Pop drew the character

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and the character kind of had like certain style and proportions and and we liked it. We would like to see more. So when he came on for I believe at that point Ghost Rider volume three or four uh the Gail Simone one miniseries uh meant to be maybe like a monthly didn’t quite get there. uh you know like people just don’t see sometimes like that’s how editorial works because like you kind of have a template it doesn’t really get this get get the chance you yeah you know like a year or two go by and it’s

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like you can kind of try and that’s that’s where like the institutional knowledge inside of a comic book office publishing office really helps and we’re we’re we’re really not there anymore we’re institutional knowledge left in comics Marvel Comics. Here we go. 92. Speaking of Ghost Rider, same Keith. We 92 is important because it popularized the phone cord rips shreds. That same Yeah, sure. Should I put the the lights on too? Sorry, everyone. Felt like we were in in the dark there. But yeah, so even even

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like Rob Lyfeld copied the way how say uh St. Keith did his like tethering, his reps, his cords, uh just like like this cover is so much of what we liked and are addicted to about ’90s comics where like all the like these like little it’s really about the details and it just it was a time where common things in comics got rethought and it felt like it they were getting rethought of in real time cuz every time you would go to the comic shop and you’ll see this right here like there there was just something new in

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the variation and this could have been like even same Keith like it’s hard to see but same Keith like the way he drew Cable’s arm was just like new and Cable too at the time a new character the like the hair on Wolverine’s like triceps there like every time you would go to the comic shop and one of those times was was this with Jay Lee coming out of nowhere drawing. Yeah. A John Burn pilot. I I believe one or two of these has John Burn layouts, but this what we saw here of Jay Lee and Submariner.

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It was just like oh my god. Like you could not get enough. I mean look at this cover here issue 32. Look at Neymar and look at Dr. Doom. Okay. it it like everything was just new and hitting at at the comic shop. So Mark gets me this allstar comics gets me the ent he says the entire Jay Lee Neymore run is here and I said well you have it going all the way up to Scott Collins cuz Scott Collins uh does his Jay Lee emulation but from this point on like and this is where Submariner like Mariner the the title

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launched by John Burn John Burn who reformatted the character character who I think did fantastic things with with the character, but Jaylen comes in and just reverses it. So, from this point, like from this point on, right? Like this is why you bought him working with Extreme Studios. This is why you bought Wild Cat’s trilogy. And then like this style so new, so addicting once Jay Lee changes his look. I just feel like a segment of the fandom never really forgave him. But yeah, guys, I mean, how generous is I mean

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this generous and just being organized, right? Like like this is what this is why I don’t mind spending like a couple bucks working with someone that’s shipping to me or something off of eBay or a marketplace for example because if you organized it for me I’m eternally grateful. That’s one less thing I have to do. Neymar I’m not familiar. I’m not I don’t know. Yeah. Amy Smith. Wow. Chris Hunter. Wow. Chris Hunter draws this story in this I that’s a name you guys may not know

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like let me just show you like guys that that’s an upcoming video here Chris Hunter one of the unsung guys that come up uh within the 90s uh Neymar Smariner volume three but he knows I’m a big SE guy I believe that’s I mean every single book in here I can I can pinpoint why Mark included it, which is kind of why we’re making Allstar Comics sponsor this. I told him with this here that I cannot have enough of the New Mutants annual five just based on my filing uh cuz you kind of want this to go under

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within your Xbox. You want this to go with New Mutants. Uh if you file under talent as I do. Yeah. Jeez. Uh all the stories in here. I mean, we have a Rob Lifeeld. I believe we have a art to bear in here somewhere. I mean, it’s just like you you can file this five or six different ways. And I can Yeah. Mark Bagley. Like it’s this is one of the underrated alltime annual bangers just on talent alone, just on the people uh that participate in it. But either way, aka Yeah, we have look another Yeah, a

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full on blah blah story. live talent. Uh I can’t get enough of this one. So he included this just because he had all four of them. But so we go, you know, we we meet up. We have our cheese stakes. We go to New Jersey comic shop and I bought comics to support Noctturn 1 through 4 because you know like I we’re comic book hunting. We’re comic book shopping. All of my comic book, like everything I do, like outside maybe stuff like this is about comic book videos and content and and positionings and theories or a

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thesis that I’m essentially building. I purchased comics to explain something here. So, we got Doctrine that no one talks about from Marvel comics that looks a little bit like an image comic, believe it or not. We will discuss this with some of the contemporaries that compliment Noctturn and let me know in the comments if any of them come to mind. But there’s an another video coming of the haul from from later today or this day. Uh you you’ll see some of those within the haul. Punisher Word

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Journal 30. I mean flat out Mark Tex. He’s got some really really good action in this. I’m trying to get I mean with Ghost Rider Jason Pearson cover. Uh this is just one of the uh again like what made 90s like a lot of the the 90s efforts like so freaking cool where uh you just get like just some of the randomness of it all like Punisher Wolverine Grimly uh Punisher Ghost Rider Mark Tex like it’s just like that’s this is great actually. Uh, these books I thought would resonate more. They just haven’t. But the end,

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this was like a really cool subline because Marvel did like the end everything. And I believe the end ended with a Jim Stardin like Thanos the end trilogy. Like wild stuff. What’s also good is the end X-Men. We will discuss this just off of the Corbin. Uh jeez. Like it this might be one of his all-time efforts. I believe like you know like people just want to talk about heavy metal with Corbin. But he you know like that cage uh miniseries that he did really good stuff. We have uh I believe I do have

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this but we have a great pull out the meme Vogue when the memore I I believe it was Vogue Vogue or Vanity Fair. This is what this cover is paying homage to, making fun of, giving a nod to, but this is a Greco Polo effort. I’m pretty sure I have this, but uh it’s also maybe cuz you know John Burn does this with She-Hulk. Very popular thing to make fun of back in the day. Uh here we go. News flash. Something I’m not familiar with. Jason Pearson though, Punisher Annual One, but you know, I don’t know what year, I

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don’t know what volume, but this already looks pretty effing cool. So, that that might just be a random review, random drop. Dark Rain, the list Punisher number one. Who like Oh, yeah. Oh, this is a JRJR. Very cool. I This is back. Yeah, I I still like JRJR. I know people they will give commentary on his his newer style, but this guy I mean gez he’s got like it’s Wolverine versus Punisher. Just really cool stuff. Not familiar with it. I read I do know Dark Rain, you know, like I was I was still reading

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regularly uh through Dark Rain. Silver Surfer. This is Dangerous Artifacts. Ron Mars, Cladio Callstini, a name not mentioned enough. Uh, this again could just be a absolute random review. Uh, I can’t speak on the contents. I cannot, but that’s why we do random reviews sometimes so we get to have fun and read things. Uh, I brought this up a couple times. Angel Medina, our boy from Kiss Psycho Circus, Soviet Super Soldiers. Uh you like you still even his work here and you see what he does with McFarland

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and and Spawn like this is the second greatest spawn artist. It’s Kolo this guy McFarland like that’s that that’s your tier. You think that that he he would come out of all of the MCON stuff and just take over all the Spider-Man like become like the style guy, become uh the the licensing would use his artwork just so on and so forth and it never happens. And it’s it it’s one of the biggest question marks because even when we look at his earlier stuff and he’s someone too like he goes back to

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early Larson, early Rob Blackfeld with uh you know Big Bang with um Megaton Megaton Comics. What you know we profiled that here. Uh again though like just one of the great question marks in comic book history. Uh, we’re not done with Jay Lee because we have some Jay Lee as Spider-Man. Maybe we’ll do this. Maybe. I don’t think these are well drawn issues. I think that I think people that pretend these are great. Uh, you got to develop the eye. I’m sorry. You got to get a little bit better with how you’re

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looking at comics. Maybe we’ll do those. Jeez, there’s just so much here. Spider-Man 54 Ben. I have realized that spider noir cuz I tried since since we shot this video uh spider spider neurore uh Nick Cage was not on Amazon. how it is, but I for like my setup, I can’t there’s no way for me to get it in black and white. So, I’m not watching it if it’s not black and white. But I realized that that version is a Ben Riley Spider-Man like offshoot, not Peter Parker. So confusing.

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This is a giant size flip book. But we have uh Tom Lyall here. And Tom Lyel is a name I don’t speak about enough on this channel. Uh I in my view Tom Lyle is a ‘9s staple. So maybe we’ll like Right. But I don’t have a lot of Tom Ly. So maybe Mark is trying to tell me something there. He lives. He prows Spider-Man. Right. I’ve seen this cover. I’ve never This is Kyle Hots. That’s jeez. Uh, speaking of right, Kyle Hos should be drawing major books right now. This guy. Uh, yeah, we will discuss that

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just cuz I like this dude’s artwork. I’m not familiar with that. Spider-Man, Legacy of Evil. Speaking of Mark Tex, again, these guys are still living today. not getting work from the big publishers. You there there was a time where Mark Tex could not there was no mess. There was no doing anything wrong and you just wanted him to keep working for Marvel comics. And and this is a little bit what frustrates a lot of individuals when we talk 90s comics because it does seem like something was lost, something

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faded, uh something yet to return. It’s almost like like the end of Excalibur where you know like you you throw the sword back into the lady of the lake uh for King Arthur to later return to reclaim the sword and well that’s really none of these comics tangled web spiders. This is Is this my food here? No, this is Paul Pope. Paul Pope, the guy we do not speak of enough on this channel, Tangled Web, great anthology driven series. Uh this is really when the initiative at Marvel was uh throw everything to a wall. uh

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hire everybody like h like may like again the 2000s like 2000s to maybe like 2015 was the last run where uh everything was attempted and sort of the pursuit to keep talent away from like other publishers like really really like the publishing position very interesting Star-Lord magazine with our boy John Burns we will profile this I know we’re, you know, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is dead, but we still like the inspirations for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I feel like we’ve done really good work on Guardians of

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the Galaxy on this channel. This is upcoming. Uh, this was an absolute surprise and you know, like is a part of a main I don’t know. Shadow Hunt continues. Young Bloodood volume two issue seven. This is where Rob Lifel starts to break away from Image and he he brings everything to maximum press and maximum press doesn’t last too long. This is also of a time where uh I do have a video upcoming of like another right of the we’re mixing up our our words here. The extreme studios crossovers and I’m

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talking about even things like Shadow Hunt. stream studios uh period had so many crossovers monthly that it’s it’s tough to keep track of, but it’s definitely of note and just shows uh how how Rob Lifel’s greatest discovery was Eric Stevenson. It wasn’t any of the art guys. Eric Stevenson, the way how he guides everything through absolute crossover madness. Uh, you had things like Shadow Hunt, you had the the an angel quest, you know, right, I believe. And then you had like Glory, Evangeline

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crossovers, then you had uh Babe Watch. Like, it’s really like uh Extreme Madness, Extreme uh Supreme Madness, Supreme Apocalypse, I believe. Like those are two. Maybe Apocalypse was one. I’m just like it’s it’s a lot. And that’s outside of the company events like Extreme Destroyer, Extreme Sacrifice, Extreme Prejudice, and uh all of this ended around yet another crossover which was hate. Uh I’m not sure if hate uh and hate was supposed to go into the next big crawl. I mean, it’s

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uh for like a new universe, the level of crossover really was impressive from Extreme just from a publishing like standpoint. Tales of the Marvel universe, guys. We have Mark Wade. We have Mr. Cubert here. Uh, he just we can’t get enough of I mean, I know we got ideas about Cubert, but I I do believe both of the Cubert brothers as absolute weapons and lynch pins to post image Marvel. Uh, this is and we have Carlos Pacheco here on the cover. Uh, this is of note. Uh, yeah, the video. Uh this is something I have been longing to

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bring to the channel. William Shackner’s Tech World got multiple, right? Multiple movies, syndicated TV show, trading cards, no action figures, no tech world and novel line, right? Like this this is tech world was almost like Shadows of the Empire. Uh it was like media everywhere outside of a major movie. Like really cool stuff. What if starring Saber-Tooth? And we have here yet I mean jeez, look at that. Look at this splash page. This is one of the uh under the radar whatifs. And yeah, Adnet landing plot

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Frank Terrain who his Punisher issues are just ridiculous. That’s I mean one of the absolute you know hold your ears [ __ ] things that come out of cartoonist Kf Fake was the attention and explosion of those Punisher issues. Wolverine 51 with our I mean there’s a lot of Cubert in here and I am happy and grateful. Thank you Mark. X Force 15 with more of our boy. Not Rob Lifeeld. X Force 15. Already we’re getting as far away from Rob Lifeld as possible. The Rob Lifeeld plot threads do not last too long once he

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gets into Image. I know he likes to say otherwise. More Joe Madden. Uh 345. Maggot was cool. Maggot was a cool character. X-Men Legends one, Brett Booth. Holy crap. I had no idea this was in here. Wow, we are almost going to streamline this for Wild Storm Wednesday. I’m put This one already gets put to the side. Speaking of Brett Booth, I have these, but they’re already torn up. So, thank you, Mark. Uh, these are two nicer copies of Backlash Spider-Man. Uh, always grateful. And speaking of beat up

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copies, I do have a beat up copy of Holistic number one, Blood Trrick. Uh, I tried reading this. I did a video. I got, you know, maybe I’ll just jump to issue three. I thought this was one of the most overrated mumbo jumbo books out there and now there just seems to be so many uh barbarian books. This barbarian trend right now in comics is got to go. our boy here, Ed McGinness. The way we like Ed McInness. I don’t know if I have uh rules of the game menu, right? So, it’s hard for me to keep track of the

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Fighting Americans that I do have because there’s so many alternate covers. Again, this is why I’m against alternate covers, but wow. Uh, great addition. Speaking of Ed McInness, I don’t have enough of these, but this is where McInness and Joe Casey had the best Superman book on the market. Joe Casey, Worlds at War, also Superman, but Joe Kelly. Really good stuff. Like maybe the last great Superman, like epic. This Mr. Majestic, thanks to Wild Storm was the best Superman book on the market at

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the time. It really was. And I know it’s it’s an allegory, but there uh speaking of JR Jr. cannot just get enough of this run with Dane Jurgens. I believe he was on to issue 25 th this is also of a time where I was really just absolutely into everything JR Jr was doing cuz I it just felt like a return. A lot of the Marvel books again post Onslaught had there was a directive to get these characters back. And you know what was the big thing with this series? The alter ego came back. Really good stuff. We have uh Ratio

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Jones the 1% and this I Yeah. Oh, Carrie Angels. I am not familiar with this at all, but I believe it is a Kerry Kyle Andrews, which Mark knows I absolutely love. He draws big too now. Like if you follow him, like all his alternate covers, Soul Saga 5, I believe my version, uh Mark, if you’re still watching this, is this deep. That’s what she said. My copy of Soul Saga 5 is like water wrinkled like three quarters. So good replacement there. Uh spawn 25. Cannot have enough of spawn 25 because we file

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this in McFarland in spawn and in top cow marks of all of the image exover. Speaking of crossovers, Mark Sylvestri really did like Mark Sylvestri and Tom McFarland because McFarland did Cyber Force issue seven or eight and you know like should is that even that might be in here. I just I have a feeling that’s always somewhere. But either way, those two guys, they were the the the two books of the Exover Spawn and X Force that really did good issues. And the again too, the um the uh or not X Force, Cyber Force, the

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Cyber Force issue 7, issue 8 and Spawn 25 really were about uh doing good work and not screwing over the other guy. Um, Eric Larson, you know, redrrew his issue. And then we have the weird Jim Valentino Young Bloodood issue and um the the Jim Lee Savage Dragon really was not a Jim Lee issue. That was more of a Wildstone Productions production. Uh, Starg Henge issue two, which we do not have more Liam Sharp. Thank you, Mark. Speaking of, and Rob knows how much I like John Clearly and Pey, Petty, Pedi, this guy.

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These are the two guys along with Tranigua and Mac. Martin from Hall of Heroes in my view uh that really did the best in capturing what we loved about McFarland at the time uh at this point forgotten, underrated, all of it. But again, Supreme Madness, another inner like giant crossover of Extreme Studios, which leans into my point earlier, get cycling back to Ed McInness. Thundercats really like this time I you had Thundercats from Wildtorm. You had the new G.I. Joe series. You had Dreamwave with Transformers. I mean, it

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was a fun time to go back into the comic shop. We’re still not done. We have this. But again, we did do a nice video on Ripclaw, Warblade, Endangered Species. I mean, look at this is during the Killer Instinct crossover. I mean, I I just did a video where I’m kind of uh lusting over the return of Cyber Force, and I kind of didn’t mention Misery enough in that video. Misery is such a cool throughine uh within the Cyber Force lore. Uh great character. It’s really the Image Comics uh early Image

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Comics Gan Gray, but she’s like so much more lethal and I think hotter. But anyway, Warchild maximum press just always always good to get. Uh I’m not a just so you guys know, I’m not a Chap Yapper. Uh I I think Chap Yap is uh you know, he’s he’s a good illustrator. I don’t know, right? Like I think he was he he grew out of drawing comics. Uh later Chapak way better, but I don’t think he was ever ready for Team Young Bloodood. Wild Wildsiders, which we have some of. I may have the zero issue for

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this. I think this was only three issues. This was a part of Jay Scott like making a book to maybe like uh it was an inside joke where he did it to like settle an argument or something. I don’t know. I forget the full backstory, but I know Wizard uh highlighted that when they were promoting Wildsiders. There should be a Wildsiders comic uh video coming, but I need more of the comics. Bart Sears, Exo, Manow, Tur Rock, Dinosaur Hunter. I I don’t care what anyone says. These are so well illustrated. You cannot have

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enough of this era series. Now, later when he would like kind of cycle on, cycle back onto EXO, the quality shifts. But in my view, like you know, again, we have that Captain America Falcon from earlier. Uh he was shining all the way into uh the first which was from Crossgen Comics. He like I believe that’s kind of where like Bart Sears fully maybe like faded into the night, but you could we at this point Exomomania War like 14 like you could not get enough of this guy. You you you just couldn’t. Seeds

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survival one uh sideways comic. Oh, story and art. Scott Collins. Wow. I mean, guys, that’s why we all hang out here. You get two Scott Collins references in one AK pad video, but this just looks like awesome. Not familiar with it, but I’m in. And Scott Collins yet again shifting his style. Cool. Uh Archie. So yeah. Oh, Mark Wade. Fiona Staples. I don’t have enough Fiona Staples, but this is of note. Uh Mark loves Archie. Uh he he’s the one that told me about uh Riverdale. The the the Oh my

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god, look at all of these effing covers. Like this is when you know the comics are cut. But yeah, uh, season one, Riverdale. One of the great season ones in in TV history. But yeah, guys, not familiar with this. I will be reading it though. Grenle, here we go. Wow. What? Look at all of the names on this. It’s a who’s who. Grenle, too. When a great independent. This is almost more Wow. This is more of a of a of a short story. It’s more of a novel than than a comic book. Uh not familiar, but yeah, this is on I I I’ve

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had a Grenle like video kind of building for a while. Maybe like we’ll get there. We have a Wizard 21 here uh with the with the Jay Lee cover, right? And then there’s like a bill inside like the the full cover never got printed, right? There was like two more panels to this. But look, Young Bloodood Strike File, everything I was talking about of why we were just drawn to to this guy, pun intended. This at this at this point in the history of this channel, this is the only copy of Wizard

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magazine I issue 21. And well, I guess that’s going to kickstart something. Speaking of John, clearly um Manny Clark, too. I forgot that name. Petey, Maggie Clark, John Clearly. These were your McFarland uh analoges, but they I think they were all good. They all had their high points and low points, Undertaker, Chaos Comics. Yeah, we were heavy on Chaos Comics. Uh like the my focus on chaos chaos comics led into Wild Storm Wednesday, Extreme Mondays, and Top Cow Tuesday. Uh but the the Chaos Comics stuff never got like

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traction. But earlier I would live stream on Twitter and do Chaos Comics if you guys remember. Thunder Mace, these are just good black and white book. Uh Mark knows I focus on these thumping guts which we uh I believe we already profile we talked about this here. Thumping guts look that one up. Terraformers Shaper excuse me of worlds. Kelly Jones start future which I have copies of. I may not I may not have number one. So that’s great. Star Gods, which we featured. I believe that’s also water

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davage. I might even spilled coffee on that. Star God, Scott Clark from Wildtorm Productions. This was an action figure that never came out. Should have came out. Uh, cool stuff though. Cool stuff. Shatter I have copies of uh believe again Shatter number one. May not have it. I don’t think I do. Savage Ninja, we profiled that. The Nicole Simpson story. Did we do this? The way how this, if you read the OJ side of this, when they break down the timeline, the comic book breaks down the timeline,

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it really makes you question uh if he had enough time to to do it, doesn’t mean he didn’t know about it. So to, you know, Life Brigade, I like want to say I have other issues of this that I read to maybe uh talk about. I like sometimes doing videos where I I might have an issue two or issue five of something and I just want to like present the series to you guys. That’s kind of what we do on Fridays. Cray here, Gauntlet Comics. We are not familiar with this from Silverline. Okay. Gosh.

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Going back to Liam. God. Going back to Liam, uh, Liam Sharp, Verarito, Danzig. This may have been mentioned before because you know we were kind of I was hoping to do more Liam Sharp uh maybe like a year or so. I wanted to shift a little bit of the focus on my like Thursday and at the time even Monday because we weren’t doing extreme Mondays yet. But I wanted to shift some of the windows we had on this channel for Liam Sharp and Ron Limb and kind of have a reviving door of guys that we would

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return to. I know I talked I spoke about this but I don’t think we we’ve done goth. So very cool but verat too another publisher largely for guy from the ‘9s breakdowns. We are not familiar with this but look at that cover. I want to say that pose has been referenced before. We have a wild back cover there. Yeah. Uh this one uh I have to say it. We got to streamline this. Just looking at some of these pages. We’re streamlining that one. Nightmare. So here’s the crazy thing. So uh later

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today, later this day, I keep saying today later on this day, I would get uh Nightmare 1 through five. I never knew Nightmare went that deep. Nor did I realize that Nightmare Zero is the chromium cover, not issue one. Like very So Extreme Studios Maximum Press, they’re Chromium covers at this time of note because they do look fantastic. This and Aveneline number one and I believe Aveneline Glory crossover uh and Prophet volume two, the Steven Pla like Chrome covers. Awesome stuff, guys. Awesome stuff. And we have the last of

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the stack. So, the box is now empty. Sponsored by All Struck Comics podcast with Rob and Mark. Young Bloodood number two. Blood Strike number two. Blood Strike, which I don’t think. Okay. Just Rob Black stuff. Uh yeah, I mean I’m not against reading this. I Carl Assat Assalter from Homage Studios too, by the way. This is This is listed as volume two. Big props. Okay, it’s a volume two. Wow. No way. Oh, here we go. So, the I know these videos do nothing. They’re trash, but we have to do them. and the things

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we discuss in videos like I will say I’ll put this right here in the pile action comics 600 it’s not just a 600 the commentary around this is everything we’ve lost annual 99 the 99 right uh the Marvel annuals 1999 this is uh Leon here who did a amazing run on Cable Amazing Inhumans uh miniseries. That might have been Marvel Max, but man, look at this guy. Holy crap. See, like people will talk about Tom Scioli. They’re like, “Oh, he did the Jack Kirby with Godland and Joe Casey.”

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Leon and Leon and Joe Casey on cable is I mean, it’s it’s a Woodro Wilson. Uh Mark knows how much I love Leon and I would not familiar with this. Not gotta be honest, not familiar. Uh and speaking of Joe Casey, Lron uh got derailed when Rob Lifel came on board, returned to cable and completely I mean Jesus. Here here’s the thing. what Joe Casey had cooking leading to Cable 75 where he was going to finally fight Apocalypse. Think about that. Eight years. This cable fighting Apocalypse as significant

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as when Hogan finally fought Sting NWO WCW, right? Like the building of that storyline as significant. But it’s not just that Rob Black Lifel came on to draw this. It’s that he he immediately starts to erase everything Joe Casey built. What Joe Casey was building was truly magnificent. And Rob Lyfeld simply could have had Joe Casey right and Robel draw. And that I think would have but I I think this too a lot of ill will came through this because people didn’t like it. They didn’t like Lyfeld

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on Teen Titans. They didn’t like Lyfeld on Wolverine. And I know Liveel says there was a sales boost and all this other stuff, but long term like no, it’s all really like short-term crap. Uh comic book publishing is a long form game or at least it should have been or was back then. Super. Oh jeez. Uh yeah, I I remember telling telling Mark this because I did pull this out when we were eating uh cheese steaks. Here’s uh if you really want like a hot take, guys. Superman special number one. Let’s get

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the year. Let’s get the year. 1992. This might be Walt Simson’s best work. It’s It’s not the work. It’s definitely not cyber force zero co. So we are Oh jeez, this is awesome. We’re trying to focus on new things. We’re trying to focus on right like expanding ourselves a little bit. We have Jeez, look at I mean I think Mark said this took three years to illustrate. Alex Hley Hley who did that awesome uh T-Rex poster for Rob Zombie for the T-Rex Rob Zombie movie. Go look up that

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poster. Uh right, it’s Alex Wley. I’m trying to get the uh man I realize that Titan Productions had See, we talk about this. This is like a lot of people just to publish a comic, isn’t it? And I can’t even find who uh I can’t find the credits. It’s Alex H. Right. Alex. Yeah. Wow. Uh we can already This is code name the Barbarian from what I can and forgive me. Issue 25. This is magnificent. Holy crap. That goes right into the immediate to-do pile. Uh let’s I’m I’m going to save one

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for last. ID Invictus Studios. We have Invictus. I don’t know if we have ID, though. This is great. This is fantastic. Awesome. Spotlight. We spotlighted this. You guys really enjoyed this video. Tim Tyler in the back. We have Bart Sears and his work for Wizard magazine produced its own series and it was called Bruce and Beast which was his story uh his article his howto article in Wizard magazine and let’s just say the gimmicks for this are still confusing to this day. Uh, I have the the weird gimmick one where it’s just

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it’s not a it’s an unstable unstapled comic book that comes in. It’s like it’s a plastic holder. It’s a plastic case. Uh, I guess maybe we should talk about that soon. We have Dale Kon Dragon Rain. Dragon, what is the name of this book? Dragon Rain. And you can see jeez like Kon really just from another world like Kon really might be what like the greatest whenever you like have his work like the further you go back it’s still good. like he might have like the greatest arc

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and it’s just wild to me that he’s not doing measurable work today. Uh speaking of Tim Tim Taylor, right, Tim Tyler, who is a friend of the channel, Fathom Comics, Blood Rain number one. This is a quick go-to. This blew my mind when I first saw this because like I said, we were kind of going through some of these when we were eating. She states, um, we will be asking a simple question. How did we do the blood? How do you do the red spotting on this? If you guys were able to to see that there is red throughout

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this book. Uh, wow. Holy crap. And then uh see Olaf, guys. This is our colorist. This is uh Olympics. We owe uh a lot of what we love about the ‘9s to this guy, to Steve Olaf. And he had his own creation. It was called Armature. Look like a little bit of a bone, right? Like Yeah. Like I think of bone when I see this. And here’s the crazy thing. My AK powders just had a little bit of a run. Got a little bit of attention, but it pulls in. We can kind we you can see it. It pulls in modern day coloring, but

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Steve Oliff is just one of the names not mentioned enough in ’90s comics, but this also has a max appearance. And because of that, that gets streamlined. So, just so you guys know, just from this box, even though I didn’t start off that way from like the reintroduction of this video, the ones we’re jumping to right away, X-Men Legacy number one, breakdowns, Action Comic 600, Coname the Barbarian issue 25, Blood Rain one, Armature one. Okay, so a lot couple Friday videos there. something like Action Comics 600. You

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can look for that on a Thursday and X-Men Legends number one would be the Wild Storm. So Mark and the sponsor. No, keep in mind uh Mark gave me this box and I, you know, I’m grateful and I again I I love the guy. Uh there there was no arrangement for this to be a Allstrong Comics podcast sponsorship. No arrangement. I made that I I’m sponsoring them as a thank you. So, I just got to be clear on that. But guys, uh cheers to cheers to reading comics and uh as as much as many as familiar faces are in this stack. There is some

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uh unknown. I love the unknown. So, I I just get immensely excited. But today’s a work day. The sun’s Yeah, the sun’s coming up. I got to get to work and I’m going to pack some of these in my but yeah. So, we’re still go we’re not quite out of the video yet. Dallas, by the way, uh he just jumped up on one of my uh window sills and completely busted the silver gator. So, we got we got to do some repair work. But the last two uh magazine issue seven and here we go. naive interdimensional commando koalas.

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And I already started reading this. I think I posted it on on X. The artwork is I think it’s it’s very high-end. I think of all the TM NT inspired ripoff kind of uh making fun books. This is one of the best. And this one radioactive black belt hamsters makes their appearance. So guys, anyway, thank you all struck. Can’t wait. We got so many comics to bring you guys. On to the next. Let’s go.

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