I'd been inserting issues of Secret Origins into my reading when I wanted to take a break from getting through runs of other books, such as Suicide Squad, although I'm going to have to find an alternative because I have all of seven or eight issues left before I have read through what I own. …
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Suicide Squad #20, 21, 22
These are the last three issues in my Suicide Squad run before a hole appears. I'm getting pretty close to owning the entire run, but the problem with getting the issues I have left is that they are the ones that feature early Oracle appearances and are therefore hard to come by on the cheap. …
Secret Origins #29, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39
So my intermittent reading of Secret Origins stories continues as I take time out from Suicide Squad or other books in order to check in with some good one-and-done stories, some of which have direct connection to stories that are being told or will be told in the then-current DCU, so you get a little …
Essential X-Men Vol 1., Phoenix: The Untold Story, What If …? (Vol. 1) #27
I guess the most obvious thing to say is that the Chris Claremont/John Byrne run is probably the most celebrated run on Uncanny X-Men. Not that there aren't others that are held up in high esteem by readers who are more more experienced X-fans than myself, but the run that encompasses both the Dark Phoenix …
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Suicide Squad Annual #1
I've always thought that annuals can be a big letdown. Granted, my high-water mark for annuals are the New Teen Titans annuals of the early 1980s and G.I. Joe Yearbook #3, so I may have set the bar a little too high. But throughout my comics collecting career, I've read a lot of annuals that …
Suicide Squad #17-19
Heading into the end of its second year and having a supernatural superhero story behind them, issues 17 and 18 of Suicide Squad see the rturn of The Jihad, the "all-terrorist" group that is sort of the anti-squad, or this book's version of The Fearsome Five. It's a ... well, I don't want to say …
DC Graphic Novel #1: Star Raiders
Graphic novels are ubiquitous these days but back in the early 1980s were a fairly new concept, and something you could only get at one of the few comic book stores that had begun popping up as the direct market began to take hold. Later in the decade and the early 1990s, stores like Waldenbooks …
