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| Copyright DC COMICS |
When you get to around my age, the things in life to which you can look forward decrease with each passing year. Sure, you can 'look forward' to increasing deafness, failing eyesight, muscular aches and pains, sagging posture, reduced mobility, mental fatigue (and, if you're really unlucky, baldness and no teeth), as well as looming death, but those are hardly prospects from which you can extract any sense of anticipatory joy. (As for myself, I still have the looks and vitality of a teenager - in an old photo somewhere.)
So what does that leave? The postman striding up to your front door with a package or two, containing some of life's treasures - comicbooks! Today's delivery included Man-Bat Vs. Batman, a 1984 Special reprinting the first three Man-Bat tales, which I already have in another couple of collections of Neal Adams' work. However, this format is better because it's an actual comicbook and less wieldy to read when resting in either of my two favourite positions - reclining on my bed with comic in hand, or perched on the porcelain with comic on my lap. (That's another aspect of old age - more visits to the toilet - if you can make it in time. The delights that lay ahead of you in your golden years, eh, readers?)
The other comic I received today was one of the latest True Believers mags, this one featuring The Black Widow. Don't be fooled by the cover of the TB, as The Inhumans strip isn't anywhere to be found inside, 'just' two Black Widow tales drawn by John Buscema, from the first two issues of the original mag. (Readers are bound to be confused when Marvel realease an Inhumans TB with the same cover.) Anyway, thought I'd share the covers and a page or three from these two pulsating publications, just to show you what you're missing - if you don't already have them that is. Can't wait to see what tomorrow's delivery is going to bring.
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| My original issue alongside the TB comic |
