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Whatcha got?
Whatcha want?

Me, I got a bunch of Batman stuff, everything from the Giffen/DeMatteis JLI, and an almost random assortment of DC stuff throughout the ages.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

MM:AS #2
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3GAG8DSVX8JN007TMVWL3G56UT

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I've got JLI also, and Justice League: Task Force (for Priest reasons). Plus The Ray, Morrison's run on Doom Patrol, Black Panther (again, Priest's run), Flex Mentallo, Zenith, Sam and Max, and Priest's Spider-Man/Wolverine #1.. So if you like Christopher Priest/James Owsley stories, I may be able to help ;). Oh, and the first 25 issues of Peter Milligan's Shade.

If anybody has Kill Your Boyfriend, I would be very grateful if I could get a copy. Why on earth Vertigo doesn't reprint it, I don't know.

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 9 September 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

thank you huk-l for the martian manhunter series - it is lovely!

― dave k, Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes, thanks Huk!

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DJK16YRPX00935GMYV527GA7M

I still haven't finished reading #2 so NO SPOILING or I'll take it back.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

er, the above link is MM:AS #3, btw.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Thanks dude! I've been jonesing for more MM all weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

any chance of a YSI of the new she-hulk series everyone's excited about?

― etc, Monday, 12 September 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

The whole thing's in print in two TPBs, if you don't know

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Yes, buy it so they will make more!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 September 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Martian Manhunter and She-Hulk should be a couple! (see my comments on the Favourite Characters poll for why) (even though my She-Hulk comments have yet to appear)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

no, I didn't, kit - thanks! not too expensive through amazon, either (though classing NZ as a pacific island for shipping = blah) . . .

― etc, Monday, 12 September 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

ok, for people who were/are waiting for paperback - top ten: the 49'ers - http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3MC6T0GD29EQI0XE50975Q3WLG

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 15 September 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Justice League of America #87 EEEYA-HAHAHA!
http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2M8WVTJQB47AH22IZG5FQJA24K

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

You are a true ilx hero, Huk.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

i only got the first 3 pages for some reason... is it me or the file that is corrupt??

― dave k, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Link's not working for me. Does King Batman actually say "EEEYA--HAHAHA!" in the story?

― Chris F. (servoret), Thursday, 6 October 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

did noone dl mine? :(

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 6 October 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

Wow, they're really get frisky with Zatanna at the end.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 6 October 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

I'd already read a mate's copy blount, otherwise... who knows?

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 6 October 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I already had procured a copy in advance of my buying the softback when it comes out. Thanks, though!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 6 October 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Blount, I didn't need to D/L it - I BOUGHT IT!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

ysi won't load for me...boohoo.

My previous enthusiasm was from a computer away from my house, unfortunately.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

okay i got it to work - kudos to huk-l!! sure puts all this mindwiping stuff in perspective doesn't it??

― dave k, Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Does King Batman actually say "EEEYA--HAHAHA!" in the story?

Disappointingly, he only manages a "HA HA HA HEE HEE HA HE HE".

Also, GLUGG!

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/Philip_Alderman/batglug.jpg

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Silver Age Comics don't hold a candle to Silver Age Covers.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

i thought this comic fucking ruled huk, if i was a kid and i'd read this it woulda blown my mind.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

WHAT IS UP WITH THAT LAST PANEL?

Is GL actually trying for the reach-around? Or is he going for FLASH!?!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #1. Thanks to Slocki for telling me how to make .cbz files.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Awesome!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

WHAT IS UP WITH THAT LAST PANEL?

hahaha i was just coming here to post about that!! first everyone is just obviously erotically obsessed with zatanna then they all molest her at once!! it's a group grope!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 9 October 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Man, that's weird. I've written and erased about five posts, and it all boils down to "man, that's weird."

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 9 October 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

I have JPGs of:

Jimmy Olsen #1-40
Lois Lane #1-40
Superboy #1-40
2000 A.D. #1-51
The 1st 40 storylines of Lee Falk's Phantom (Sundays)
Witzend #1-8
Cancelled Comics Cavalcade #1 & 2

I'm in a busy time with work right now, but I can put up one or two comics a day -- what do you want first?

In the meantime, here's Jerry Lewis #97 — "Jerry Meets Batman".

If anybody has .cbrs of Queen and Country, I'd love to see them. I dl'ed the first three issues and they're great, but I'm right in the middle of a cliffhanger!

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

WPS -- they're up on s++ls++k...

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I searched there, and so far have only found one person who has them. Q'd up, but the connection keeps failing. I'll keep searching.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Can anyone hook me up with the Countdown to Infinite Crisis thing from last spring? I'm trying to get caught up and that seems like a natural place to start.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 15 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Witzend #1, 1966:

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1E4NAGZ33ZOWD2LITK4SXEHJWP

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Adam.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I downloaded this. What is it?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

B&W semiprozine published by Wally Wood with a lot of the later EC artists: Wood, Al Williamson, Angelo Torres... Frazetta back cover.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I just googled some info, and the "Sinner" 4-pager is written and drawn by Archie Goodwin.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

cool!

Although I've been reading Feiffer's interview with Gary Groth, ca 1988 so I'm getting a LOT of Wood-bashing.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Witzend #2, 1967:

http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0RHJV10YWEZJG0FAQQQ0NRWLB0

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

B&B #84 Batman & Sgt. Rock (1069)
http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1Y3IP1W6M4NSN24LHYET6RVGZO

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the Witzend! Those Williamson and Wood stories reminded me a lot of Xenozoic Tales. Was their work of this era the primary inspiration for that series? (I haven't read a lot of the Warren B+W comics-- were they similar to this?) And isn't Ditko's Mr. A the "secret project" mentioned in the editorial of the first issue? I'd love to read some of that! (In fact, if I could make a request-- does anyone have the Mysterious Suspense one shot available for upload?)

Oh yeah, I finally read that King Batman comic today-- that story was TERRIBLE! Was Mike Friedrich not the worst fan-turned-pro ever to write for DC? (Didn't he also do a Harlan Ellison tribute issue of JLA that was embarrassingly näive?) That thing didn't even have a proper ending! The Avengers crossover came out of nowhere and lasted for all of four pages! And the Zatanna material-- holy shit! Nice pick, Huk!

I liked the Batman/Sgt. Rock thing, too, especially with Bruce Wayne not aging a day in 25 years, even though the "present-day" Rock and the Nazi both look like they're pushing 60! That's the way to keep your comics continuity straight, dammit! Forget "ten years later" schemes and constantly updated origins, all the superhero comics should be like this!

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 21 October 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

Can anyone hook me up with the Countdown to Infinite Crisis thing from last spring?

As a follow-up, I spent ALL LAST SATURDAY reading all the stupid fucking miniserieses. Day of Vengeance was mildly amusing. That is all.

― adam (adam), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

All of them could have done with more Detective Chimp in a space suit/a bat cowl/a leather&spikes villain outfit.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

> If anybody has Kill Your Boyfriend, I would be very grateful if I could get a copy. Why on earth Vertigo doesn't reprint it, I don't know.

they did, some years apart. i have one of each, somewhere (big bond fan)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Busy with stuff at the moment, but Witzend #3-8 are on the way.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Witzend #3, 1967: http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1NO89T3HGHYZB0LJP24SXR3TN1

Includes a 5-page Mr. A story by Ditko, a 9-page Frazetta story, two Kurtzman "Hey Look" pages, more Reed Crandall ERB Portfolio, "Pipsqueak Papers" by Wood, and more very early Art Spiegelman. I never realized the extent that this title was the bridge between generations.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 October 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Oh, yes, I know about the reprint - I should have said that I don't understand why they don't keep it in print like most of their backlist.

― carson dial (carson dial), Saturday, 22 October 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Mr A should actually fight a man made of straw.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

I just zipped #4 and discovered one of the Mr. A pages is buggy -- black except for the top 1/4" or so. Forgot to answer Chris F. -- yes, Xenozoic Tales is very much a homage to the Frazetta/Williamson/Wood/Torres stuff from later EC sf titles, which carried over into Witzend, and also into the Warren mags to an extent.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Are you saying that Ditko's arguments are less than perfectly rational, Vic? Hurm...

Unfortunately, for our dissemination and perusal of these copyrighted materials, we have all been proved evil, irrational, and anti-value-- thanks anyways, Rock! (I dug the Wood story this issue, too.)

― I wouldn't feel too guilty if I were you (servoret), Sunday, 23 October 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

fantastic four unstable molecules!!

http://rapidshare.de/files/4307079/Fantastic_Four_-_Un_B419434.zip.html

does anyone have enigma or failing that jerry lewis??

― k t (matchstick), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

File /files/4307079/Fantastic_Four_-_Un_B419434.zip.html has been deleted.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

oh ballzville

i can re-up that and flex mentallo if anyone needs it overnight

― k t (matchstick), Sunday, 23 October 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, not the most original thing I've ever said. Still, that Mr A story would've been loads more effective if Ditko had dialed down the OTT weeping parents and made their arguments slightly more rational - as it was, the 'you let him die yes die' scene held absolutely no resonance at all. But that's nothing billions of critics haven't already said.

Animan on the other hand rocks! Where was he is issue 3 eh? Did he ever come back?

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

#4 and 5 coming up. (I'll keep putting these things up until I'm told to stop.)

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Witzend #4, 1968. Mr. A (one page missing), Pipsqueak Papers, way too much Roger Brand, bizarre Bill Pearson/Grass Green story, Frazetta back cover, etc.

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=249HKHX00CFM03F8MZ13WJ3MR2

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Witzend #5, 1968. More of the same minus Ditko, plus Vaughn Bode, Steranko, "JAF" (aka James Frankfort, a cartoonist who had work in the Village Voice from 1955-1974).

http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=34X2KHNHBAFHJ3F5GVC54910HT

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

as it was, the 'you let him die yes die' scene held absolutely no resonance at all.

I dunno about that-- I found it chilling that the kid falls off of one of Ditko's patented flagpoles, especially since the way that he's posed grappling the thing is a perfect echo of a panel from the first ASM annual, in the scene where Spider-Man loses his powers temporarily b/c of anxiety attacks! I didn't mean to accuse you of unoriginality BTW-- I just didn't want to bore anyone by actually analyzing Ditko's bogus arguments. (I.e., if no one is actually perfectly "good" or "evil" in real life, then good and evil can't possibly exist as absolute values-- and so, Ditko's "objective" and draconian metaphysics of morals is proven the correct one and liberals are dumb. WTF?) (And wouldn't a really "objective" person be a nihilist? Hurm...)

(I don't think I realized it before, but what I thought was most jarring and unlikely about Rorschach's portrayal in Watchmen-- i.e., his self-consciousness about his value system being self-imposed-- is really a maybe-not-clever-enough parody of Ditko's sweaty antagonists, who constantly spout off self-critiques revealing themselves as hypocrites! Geez... Reminds me of the thread about needing to be a geek to understand comics-- subtext crossing over into text at that point to thoroughly baffle anyone who hasn't read their Mr. A...)

― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Well, it didn't help that Mr A's closing speech was punctuated by giant 'SAVE ME!' and 'AAAAAAHHHH' effects - that was just funny.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

The Mr A in 4 is about a hundred times better... I'm actually pumped for more Mr A now. And Ditko's got some great names! Krebs! Icer! Roden!

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Isn't the OTTness of it all the near saving grace of his creative decline? (But it's really too bad that he developed his tin ear-- why couldn't all of his Objectivist comics have been as humane and well executed as The Hawk and the Dove?)

Krebs! Icer! Roden!

Yeah, I think he did justly win his lifetime achievement award for "bad" character names. Some of the superhero names are great too; e.g., "Shag" for his Creeper analogue, and "D. Skys" for a master of disguise.

― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Haha, you thought Mr. A was strident, wait'll you see The Avenging World. #6 uploading now, link momentarily.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

Okay, Witzend #6, adding Jeff Jones to the mix and spot color on the covers.

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1E03M8XN36YUK0VC6N3VKUK7JP

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Ditko's art in the Avenging World is fantastic, but unfortunately it's loopy in the extreme. But good god, the grin of unholy evil on the face of the mugger as the Neutralist reaches his compromise! I'll take that to my grave.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Yeah... but I think the guy on the right is just as effective...look how miserable being in the right makes him. The vignette's subtitle is "to be right is to be a loser"... Ditko has to be miserable at his life of martyred correctness a lot of the time, y'know. I guess it's that way with most Rand-ites.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

Witzend #7, 1970. Berni Wrightson, Gray Morrow, a really disgusting Vaughn Bode cover, Ditko's Avenging World, and a Mr. A parody in the same issue: "Mr. E, Master of Mayhem, by $teve Diktato."

http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=08IKQSIB7IGPQ3QWCRXMT1MEBK

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Witzend #8, the last "regular" issue. I believe a few more issues dribbled out over the years, but this was the last of the main run, and it ended with a big of a whimper, except for Poe's "City in the Sea" illustrated by Frazetta.

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3CUTXN83WFJ940H4B3LH8HT079

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Micronauts: Teh New Voyages #1

Peter B Gillis celebrates the Micronauts' return to the newstand by starting the first issue with a 3-page metaphysical soliloquy by an asteroid.

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3SQMT95B86C84038EQSIIOLKNB

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

OK this is the big one!

EAGLE #1 (from 1982, with photo stories)

DOOMLORD! SGT STREETWISE! THE TOWER KING!

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3P26S4PJ64NAZ2NALZXSQGC5YK

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Not that anyone asked for it, but here's the first volume of Nihei Tsutomu's Blame! epilogue:
http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3NYPL1Y7RUDOT1DF0DGNDRU24E

Badly translated, unmirrored (= read right to left), the story makes even less sense than usual, but the art--!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 19 December 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

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