This is an issue I didn't know existed until I was thumbing through the back issue bins during my LCS' "Shortboxtober" event. I saw the cover and that it was by the same creative team as the Huntress series I'd recently purchased on eBay. And while it does feature several JLI members, the story is …
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The Huntress (1989) #17-19
So we finally get Batman. I'm sure that one of the reasons that this ongoing series existed in the first place was because of the pre-Crisis Helena Wayne character and the idea that comic fans who knew of her would see the connection to Batman and that would sell the book. In fact, I'm surprised …
The Huntress (1989) #14-16
One of the more dominant tropes of "urban" action movies and shows that started with The French Connection and ran right through the Steven Seagal flicks of the early 1990s was that of a neighborhood that resembled a war zone more than an actual city streetscape. I imagine this had to do with New York …
The Huntress (1989) #13
After two six-issue storylines, we get a one-and-done story where Helena Bertinelli is dealing with the fallout from everything that she has been through with her family, the mob, the serial killer, and the mob. It's presented at the very beginning as her being pulled in two different directions and literally being torn apart in …
The Huntress (1989) #7-12
After taking us through Helena Bertinelli's rather brutal origin story in issues #1-6 of her solo series, Joey Cavalieri, Joe Staton, and Bob Smith had the task of following that up with a storyline that kept the reader interested. Personally, I think this is actually harder than an initial arc, much like the second season …
The Huntress (1989) #1-6
My experience with The Huntress as a character begins with the end of her first version; specifically, her death in Crisis on Infinite Earths. As a result, I never had much of an attachment to Helena Wayne and when when I first encountered Helena Bertinelli in a Detective Comics two-parter in the fall of 1992, …
Raver #1
Professor Alan is to blame for this one. And yes, I mean blame ... but in the nicest way possible. Over the holidays, the man spent his well-earned quarters on a number of comic books for his friends and in the package I received was Raver #1 from Malibu Comics. Published in 1993, it was …
Detective Comics #556
So here's one that I had been familiar with but had never read because the cover image was used on one of the introduction pages of The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told. It's also one that, if I had owned it back in the day, I would have definitely held onto because even though there's …
Ambush Bug (1985) #1-4
Humor comics can be hard to pull off. Okay, they can actually be pretty easy to pull off if you're looking to make a quick sale and have some cheap laughs. But if you want it to stay funny well beyond its publication, that's a bit tougher. I think Ambush Bug, probably more than any …
The Adventures of Superman #424-425
A slight cheat here because I have read Adventures of Superman #424 multiple times--in fact, I bought my original copy off the stands back in 1987. But in the 30+ years since the book's publication, I had not read #425 (or #426--my collection had always gone 424, 427, 428, and then a few random ones …
The Uncollecting 