Coming off of the story told in Secret Origins #5, Roy Thomas wrote a four-issue miniseries in 1988 that tells the story of the next adventure of the Crimson Avenger, this time illustrated by Greg Brooks and Mike Gustovich. I had grabbed the first three issues of the series as part of my haul for …
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What do I do with these Ultraverse comics?
In the big box of independent comics that I'm making my way through (and nearing the end of), there are several comics from Malibu's Ultraverse line. I'm sure that anyone who was collecting comics back in the early 1990s is familiar with them and may have even dabbled in them. If you're not, just know …
Fighting the Independents, 7/18/19-7/24/19
And now we come to early Nineties Image Comics. Granted, we've been here before because I've mentioned Brigade, but what I decided to do this time around was grab all of the early Image books that were in my independent comics longbox and read through them. Whomever owned these comics before me seemed to like …
Fighting the Independents, 7/14/19-7/17/19
I'm throwing all of these away, so the answer to the running question, Keep, Sell, Donate, or Trash?, is trash. That's not to say that all of these are bad reads--in fact, some of them are fairly interesting--but none of them were worth holding on to the individual comics. I will say, though, that I …
Twenty-One Issues of Marvel Age in One Review
If there's anything that is indicative of this accumulation disease that I have, it's the fact that at one point, I needed to seek out a few issues of Marvel Age for use in both "In Country" and my 2017-2018 podcast miniseries "Origin Story" and that eventually led to me just grabbing an issue of the …
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Fighting the Independents, 6/13/19-7/13/19
Vacation and a break from comics reading to read books and watch movies has slowed my progress through the box of independent comic books that I'm looking to pare down, but I do have six books that I can give quick verdicts on. A number of these were books that I actually never paid for …
Quasar #14, 18, 33, 47, 51
All right, Gene, ya got me. To put that into context, about two years ago, I met Gene in person for the first time at the Baltimore Comic-Con. As we spent time comparing notes on who we met, who we talked to, and what we bought, he handed me this pile of Quasar comic books. …
Justice League America #99
The only reason I have this comic is that I once thought I was going to spend episode 99 of Pop Culture Affidavit going over 9 #99 issues from the 1990s. I already owned one of those and bought a couple more, this among them. Otherwise, I wouldn't have touched this issue. It's the epitome …
Secret Origins #19, 20, 22, 23, Annual 1
I continue to make my way through this pile of 1980s Secret Origins books that I accumulated via Shortboxtober a couple of years ago. Right now, I'm still in the first half of the series where Roy Thomas was still the driving force behind it and was ensuring that the origins of classic DC superheroes …
X-Men: Mutant Genesis
So this was a digital graphic novel from one of Amazon's deep-discount Marvel sales that I got for about $1.99 a while ago and I had been saving it for when I was completely done with my Essential X-Men volumes (and had read what was in between). But I am only up to the first …
The Uncollecting 