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You Crivs could be forgiven for thinking I've lost interest in collecting comics, given the amount of toys and other things I write about on this blog, but such is not the case. To prove it, here are several of my recent comicbook acquisitions, some newly released, others from last year (but which I've only just purchased). Above is a Facsimile Edition of All Star Comics #3 featuring the Justice Society Of America, so let's now take a look at the others one-by-one.
I still have my original copies of these two Spidey mags, but I just can't resist Marvel's and DC's facsimile issues. Hard for me to accept that these two comics were first released around 40 years ago, nearly two-thirds of my life away. Number 260 will be released soon, then I'll have facsimiles of a trilogy of The Amazing Spider-Man mags initially published in the '80s. Don't let them pass you by.
Below, an updated facsimile of House Of Secrets #92, featuring the first appearance of the Swamp Thing, but not the Alec Holland incarnation. No, he came later - what we have here is Alex Olsen's moss-encrusted mockery of a man. DC now place the unsightly bar code box on the back cover, which works better for mags that never had a bar code originally. Unfortunately, they still haven't spotted and corrected a clumsy lettering touch-up which renders a speech balloon confusing (see below after cover).
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| 'At me funeral' - eh? A shoddy touch-up of missing letters. Original on the right |
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| The ever-intrusive bar code on the 2019 facsimile |
Police Comics #1, below, contains the debuts of Plastic Man and Phantom Lady, and is a nice one to add to any self-respecting collection. DC are even getting better at reproducing the ads which originally appeared in these periodicals, some of which in previous facsimiles have been pretty ropey and not up to scratch.
JLA #1 gets the facsimile treatment (below), with the bar code once again being delegated to the back cover so as not to blight the front of the mag. Hey, I've even included it here so that you can see what I'm talking about. Doesn't look so bad on the back, does it? As with HOS #92, no doubt they'll start reprinting other previous facsimiles in this way and I'll have to buy again the ones I already have. I wish Marvel would start putting the bar code on the back of their facsimiles too.
Oops, almost forgot! Also snagged Neal Adams' last major work for Marvel, The Fantastic Four - Antithesis. Below is the collected softcover edition, same size as a regular comicbook, but I also got the larger Treasury Edition, the better to see Neal's artwork in greater detail. The covers are the same so I won't repeat the image.
Oops again - another recently acquired item I forgot to show you. Easy enough to remedy that little oversight, so here it is. Remember now, it's for your eyes only. (Yes, I know that's another Bond movie, but I was being clever.) This UK comic was later reprinted in DC's Showcase #43, though black characters were recoloured white and some dialogue was changed.
Thought you might like to see the cover (even though I don't own it), so that's it below. As stated in the previous paragraph, this issue was a US reprint of the one above.
