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Don't be gay,Nowie.

Fuck off Gerald.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-return-of-the-proper-legion-of-super-heroes-at-dc-comics/

Maybe a new LSH series spinning out of this. Fingers crossed and hope it's good.

Just think if it happened under Biden's watch...

And the spin is it’s the reporter who is the villain for exposing them. It wasn’t long ago that national security was a shared value between the parties, Trump and maga land have jettisoned that. We are in big trouble with these guys.

They all seem very comfortable telling obvious lies.

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From JOHN CARTER OF MARS 24, May 1979, and other May and June Marvel issues.

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/John-Carter-Warlord-of-Mars/Issue-24?id=83658

NEWS-STAND DEALER: "Sorry, we're all sold out."
SPIDERMAN: "Life has no meaning without my latest Marvels !"





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More Golden MICRONAUTS goodness, in these promotional ads. Run in advance of the first issue, possibly continuing to run during the early issues.
Michael Golden illustrated issues 1-12

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A Jackson Guice pin-up from 1983, that likely doubled as an ad.
I'd have tto dig through my issues to tell you which it appeared in.

Guice did MICRONAUTS 48-58, his first series for Marvel, that immediately propelled him to stardom.


Guice did a nice portfolio of pin-ups in MARVEL FANFARE 9, June-July 1983, that showed off his ability and talent with a number of Marvel characters, that I think helped him get better assignments beyond MICRONAUTS.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Marvel-Fanfare-1982/Issue-9?id=73428

That MARVEL FANFARE issue came out the same month as MICRONAUTS 53, and Guice's run on the series ended with MICRONAUTS 58, May 1984.

A 4-issue X-MEN / MICRONAUTS miniseries began in Jan-April 1984
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-X-Men-and-the-Micronauts/Issue-1?id=90610

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From the earlier Milk Duds contest ads, the Doctor Doom offering of the set.

As seen in CONAN THE BARBARIAN 92, Nov 1978.
And also in CONAN THE BARBARIAN 93, Dec 1978 issue. And other Marvel titles out in the same months.
Also JOHN CARTER OF MARS 18 and 19, the same months.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/John-Carter-Warlord-of-Mars/Issue-18?id=83643
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/John-Carter-Warlord-of-Mars/Issue-19?id=83645

Real winner you picked there, Dave.

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Yeah, you just explained why I stopped buying new books about 15 to 20 years ago.

They re-booted all my favorite characters so many times that I no longer recognized them or could keep track of all the re-boots, so I just completely lost interest.
I got tired of giving new titles a shot, and after spending a considerable amount of money, just being consistently disappointed with the new versions I was reading.


Nice wraparound cover, though.





Maybe there's still some great stuff still out there I haven't seen, but I'm frankly tired of paying money for material that consistently disappoints me, to find it worth the effort to keep buying.

Bored with the constantly re-booted new work, I've increasingly in recent years been exploring past eras of comics history, that I find to have a higher ratio of good stuff.
Such as SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN across its entire 20-year run.
And there is extensive past work left to explore, by the likes of O'Neil, Thomas, Moench, Gulacy, Aparo, McGregor, Morrow, Wood, Williamson, Englehart, Infantino, Nino, Kubert, Kirby, Ditko, Dowling, Macklin, Corben, Jaxon, and countless others.

I prefer the work from earlier eras, where they had distinctive styles and innovation, opening up completely new ground
As contrasted with the recent era's constant re-boots and re-treads of the same stories over and over.

He voted for it because he believed it was the least worst choice. A shut down would have given Trump and his toadies free rein to even be more destructive. They fired essential people on our nuclear stuff and last I heard was struggling to get them back. Stupid and dangerous. We are all watching our country being dismantled for the benefit of the very wealthy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/chuck-schumer-democrats-funding-bill

Chuck supported a republican bill so now his so called friends. want him to quit. I don't like Chuck but I'm impressed he supported this bill with the Republicans. Maybe Chuck is on his way to becoming a republican.

https://www.mensjournal.com/sports/george-foreman-kids-sons-named-george-foreman

[quote] Foreman also discussed the decision in an interview with CBN, saying, "I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you’re going to get hit as many times as I’ve been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you’re not going to remember many names.'"/quote]

https://www.tmz.com/2025/03/21/george-foreman-dead/

Anyone here try one of the grills he was selling? Are they good grills?

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/d...omics-mark-waid-jerry-ordway-todd-nauck/

I'm sure this will be established set in stone DC history until they Reboot everything even before the series is done.

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And this litle diddy from X-FACTOR ANNUAL 4, from 1989.


full issue at :
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/X-Factor-1986/Annual-4?id=40942

Wow !

First the lead story, with a wild 25-page collaboration of Byrne story and pencils, with Simonson inks.

Then the above-shown 10-page story by Ralph Macchio, with Byrne pencils and inks. That is as good or better than the lead story, with some really creepy elements.

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And by John Byrne. This page is from FF 258. It took some probing of the long-term memory to recall precisely where I'd seen it.
Byrne did some great Doctor Doom stories and pin-up pages, in FF 236, and 246-247, and in 258-260.
















And...



It took Byrne a few issues to build up to it. But he certainly got around to including Doom in future FF issues.
And then some.

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Fantastic-Four-1961/Issue-236?id=26934

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Fantastic-Four-1961/Issue-246?id=26945
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Fantastic-Four-1961/Issue-247?id=26946

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Fantastic-Four-1961/Issue-258?id=26958
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Fantastic-Four-1961/Issue-259?id=26959
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Fantastic-Four-1961/Issue-260?id=26961

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https://wallpapercrafter.com/desktop6/1511098-Comics-Doctor-Doom-Comic-Fantastic-Four-720P.jpg



Another impressive Doctor Doom page.
With link to a larger version.

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From he cover of FF 33, in 2021.

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Doctor Doom again, by Jack Kirby.
This one done as part of a set of Marvel fandom posters, offered in ads in Marvel titles, circa 1968-1970.

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A great Doctor Doom page, by Bob Layton.
I'm guessing circa 1980-1981, around the time Layton did a fantastic Iron Man / Doctor Doom story in IRON MAN 149- 150

full issues at: .
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Iron-Man-1968/Issue-149?id=19357
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Iron-Man-1968/Issue-150?id=19359

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A Twinkies ad with Hulk just seems to me a natural --and fun--- combination.





Likewise this 1981 Marvel subscription ad.



This one from MICRONAUTS 36, cover-dated Dec 1981 (that would have been on the stands in Sept 1981).
And MICRONAUTS 37, cover-dated Jan 1982 (that would have been on the stands in Oct 1981), and other titles published these same months.
Another subscripion ad by Marie Severin.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Captain-America-1968/Issue-264?id=9506

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An advance house ad for the surprisingly good Defalco and Trimpe/Windsor-Smith MACHINE MAN four-issue miniseries, back in 1984.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Machine-Man-1984/Issue-1?id=59526

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A broader Marvel Comics subscription ad for their entire line of comics.
From MARVEL TEAM-UP 68, April 1978, and other Marvel issues the same month.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/John-Carter-Warlord-of-Mars/Issue-11?id=83627
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/John-Carter-Warlord-of-Mars/Issue-3?id=83669

It appears to be images from various Marvel comics, pulled and pasted in a collage of art panels in this ad.
That I can recognize, Howard the Duck by Brunner, Conan by Gil Kane, and Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin.
It has a similar look to several New York Comic Con posters of the period, by John Buscema and others.