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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Marvel's Further Adventures of Indiana Jones were pretty awesome. I think. I liked 'em a lot when I was five.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I love Comics Should Be Good, but they need to get rid of the huge graphic at the top. I don't like having to scroll down to see if there's a new entry.

Anyway, ROM and GI Joe (and Transformers UK) are probably the classic examples of big-in-the-80s comics that present reprint problems because of the licensing -- ROM was even a Marvel Universe title, with Rick Jones, Spidey appearances, and ties to the Skrulls (although in most other ways it played like a late-90s sci fi drama).

I had a subscription to Indiana Jones when I was a kid, from my aunt (she got my little brother Ewoks, from Marvel's Star imprint) -- when the title was cancelled and I still had like seven issues left, they let you pick any comic you wanted to fill the subscription, and I went with Marvel Fanfare since it was so much more expensive. Score.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and I guess the many Star Wars comics are the biggest licensed comic success story by a mile.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

I bought the first issue of the Ford Fairlane comic. I didn't know who ADC was, I just thought it looked cool and rock&roll.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

I was really into the G.I. Joe comic book...Larry Hama threw up a entertaining smokescreen with all of the Stormshadow and Snake Eyes ninja hoo-ha.

I have the first issue of the Madballs comic. Supershittytothemax.

― ng-unit, Monday, 27 February 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Any of the Dark Horse "Aliens" and "Aliens vs. Predator" comics are search-worthy, too. The comics spawned novelizations and even the rebirth of the movie franchise (woefully executed though it was, with slo-mo shots right out of Schumacher's "Batman & Robin", flashy character redesigns, etc.).

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Dark Horse has pretty much ruled at licensing. AND flipped it around w/ Hellboy!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I liked the Terminator comics. Was that Dark Horse?

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

There's an out-of-print Alien vs. Predator comic that I loved at the time. Claremont wrote one too, and Alex Maleev drew another!

I didn't mind that recent Aeon Flux mini-series, but I haven't seen the movie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Terminator was either Dark Horse or Now, I think? Now was the big licensor after Marvel and before Dark Horse (although I don't think they ever had Star Wars, so they don't really qualify for that family tree; but they did have Ghostbusters!)

Another "Marvel was really hoping for the success of fellow toy comics GI Joe/Transformers/ROM" that I was suckered into buying: Sectaurs.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

NOW had the Terminator license (along with Married with Children and the Green Hornet) first. Then Dark Horse picked it up. The Dark Horse ones were better, but nowhere near as good as the Aliens and/or Predator stuff. Jim Woodring worked on an Aliens series and Evan Dorkin did a Predator one, which seems really strange now.

― ng-unit, Monday, 27 February 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

I still have the entire ROM series, boxed up. Some of those last Ditko issues are painfully stiff, action-wise. But then, the series had moments of greatness, like when the Dire Wraiths were mercilessly absorbing various people like Brandy's first boyfriend, and later the original Torpedo. Well-realized world from toy license beginnings.

And Micronauts - can't forget them! I won a No-Prize thanks to that series. I liked that one when it was more cute than serious. Didn't they eventually kill Commander Rann?

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

I always forget the Micronauts are a toy comic! I mean ... I don't exactly, I have actual Micronaut toys in my house, but I just don't think of the comic as a toy spinoff. Weird. Classic, but I barely remember any of it except trying to work out the differences between the various get-there-by-shrinking universes.

Damn, I would so buy an Essential Micronauts.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Okay, "actual toys in my house" = I found Time Traveller's severed head and that red spinny shield thing of Acroyear's (iirc) in my mother's basement and put them in my pocket.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Bug was my favorite.

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

I liked the tik he tik talked.

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Micronauts was what got me into comics. I kid you not. Micronauts #29 was a particular brain bender, where the team was shot into the head of then-comatose Comander Rann post a SHIELD/Micronauts HYDRA/Karza team up, but instead of going all FANTASTIC VOYAGE, they went all crazy, with the final villain being revealed as Nightmare. Total craziness.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

The Wikipedia write-up on the Micronauts is great. Caught up with the characters, since I didn't read the second series.

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Classic: Sapphire & Steel and also the Morrison Steed & Mrs Peel.
Dud: Doctor Who (apparently).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Morrison's first two Dr Who stories were GREBT!

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Dud: Doctor Who (apparently)

Says who? The Mills & Wagner strips are as good as anything in early 2000AD, and there's years of quality stuff after that.

Unless you meant those really poor TV Comic strips from the sixties. "Die, hideous creature! Die!" etc.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:09 (twenty years ago)

in a store today i saw a star wars graphic novel called "jabba the hut: the art of the deal"

HAHAHAHAHA

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Written by Jim Woodring, no less.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:18 (twenty years ago)

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― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:37 (twenty years ago)

Tis a fine line between Pushpaw and Aliens: Kidnapped.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:44 (twenty years ago)

I think I got that Jabba comic, I recall it being really great, double-cross on triple-cross action!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:52 (twenty years ago)

does he take on trump?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

fanboy "the apprentice: jabba the hutt" movie NOW!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/a/alpig.jpg

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

You've probably all read this already, but: Seanbaby tackles Mr.T comics

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Robocop vs Terminator

Written by Frank Miller

Drawn by Walt Simonson

Best American licensed comic book I've read

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Yes!

S also - the Magnus: Robot Fighter / Predator 2-part DH mini by John Ostrander & Lee Weeks.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Can I recommend the British reprint editions of Terminator, Indiana Jones and, most of all, Aliens? They were particularly well edited and... well all right, they were thrown together cash cows... They did sell well - Aliens levelled out at 40k, and was bugger all effort.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

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