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C'Mon, Own Up: What's In Your Collection That You're Kind of Embarassed You Have?

post #1 of 61
1/6/07 at 3:20pm
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I figure I can't be the only one.

I'm not talking about stuff people may have bought for you when you were too young to have your own money or go to the store unaccompanied. I think I have a Ricjie Rich or 2 in the bottom of the bins, purchased by a well-meaning but clueless Grandma or Aunt.

No, what I mean is stuff you bought all on your own, that when you stumble across it today makes you say" "What was I THINKING?!"

For me it was. . . and I can barely bring myself to type this, but for reasons that have long since escaped me, I bought the first few issues of marvel's "Sectaurs", based on the toy line of the same name. This toy crossover didn't fare nearly as well as say the Transformers or G.I. Joe or the Micronauts, and wasn't around long. I'd like to think I stopped purchasing them voluntarily before the end of the series' run, but I honestly can't recall.

So 'fess up: what skeletons are hiding in your comic closet?
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post #2 of 61
1/6/07 at 4:12pm
My collection of two children. I plan to sell them on ebay very soon.
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post #3 of 61
1/6/07 at 4:37pm
I had two copies of NFL Superpro #1, I gave one to a friend last Christmas as a gag gift, all bagged, boarded and boxed. If I could have afforded to have it sent away to that company that grades books then seals them in those hard plastic display cases, I would have. It's fucking terrible, and I have no idea why I bought it, but it's a pretty entertaining read for how bad it is.

The majority of Image Comics early titles, excluding the Savage Dragon and the Maxx. I still have a few others that I enjoy for the artwork(Spawn, for instance), but most of the stories are pretty awful. You think Liefeld is bad? He was fucking Van Gogh compared to Marat Micheals(no idea if I spelled that right, but he was a "poor man's Liefeld"... HA!), who drew one of Liefeld's other books, the title escapes me at the moment, it's probably for the best.

A whole lot of #1 issues that are horrible(including the aforementioned Superpro). Yes, I am partly responsible for the fall of the industry in the early 90's. Sorry guys.
In my defense, I was young, and it wasn't my money in a lot of cases.
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post #4 of 61
1/6/07 at 4:41pm
I used to have some...disney...comics.
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post #5 of 61
1/6/07 at 5:10pm
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg
I can barely bring myself to type this, but for reasons that have long since escaped me, I bought the first few issues of marvel's "Sectaurs", based on the toy line of the same name.
Perhaps we can form a support group. I have this as well; in my/our defense, I'd say it was a fairly interesting sword-and-sorcery concept that just fell flat.

Oh yeah, I have the complete run of the US1 12-issue maxi-series.
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post #6 of 61
1/6/07 at 6:56pm
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Originally Posted by Detonathor
I used to have some...disney...comics.
I WISH I still had the Uncle Scrooge comic where they discovered the Philosopher's Stone in Daedalus' labyrinth. The details were quite well-researched-- a great introduction to history and mythology for a seven-year-old nerd.

I'm kind of embarrassed that I fell for the mini-hype regarding The Four Fists of Science. It was a great concept that quickly devolved into wannabe Alan Moore, the printing was so dark some pages were illegible, and half the characters were difficult to distinguish from each other in a good light. Still, I'm glad a local artist got some press.
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post #7 of 61
1/6/07 at 7:17pm
i bought the first issue of the War Machine comic in the 90s. it's still in a box somewhere....

i actually worked at a comic shop and found myself buying comics that I had no interest in. I have an issue of Morbius, too (from the whole Midnight Sons thing).
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post #8 of 61
1/6/07 at 9:38pm
I've got four Walking Dead trades... four!!! It took me that long to realise that Kirkman is an embarrassingly bad writer.
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post #9 of 61
1/6/07 at 9:39pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Chavez
Perhaps we can form a support group. I have this as well; in my/our defense, I'd say it was a fairly interesting sword-and-sorcery concept that just fell flat.

Oh yeah, I have the complete run of the US1 12-issue maxi-series.
Thank GOD I wasn't the only one! LOL!

As for US 1 though, you're on your own. If memory serves, that was based on tyco toys, too. Sort of an alternative to the toy train with trucks, right? How the HELL could they write a comic around that?
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post #10 of 61
1/6/07 at 9:54pm
I actually stole the first issue of 'Mr. T and the T-Force' from my wife's ex-husband; after perusing it I definitely wondered why I bothered.

I also, when I was younger, collected every single issue of the Jurassic Park comic book mini-series from Topps (on account of how much I fell in love with that film when it came out), and was rewarded with a hack-neyed comic book rendition of the film (although in its defense, it did include elements from the book that weren't in the movie, giving it a vaguely different feel). I was tempted to collect the Demolition Man Topps comic series, but never did.
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post #11 of 61
1/6/07 at 10:00pm
If we're talking about Carl Barks or Floyd Gottfredson, or their successors, than Disney comics are nothing to be ashamed of. If they're good enough for Lucas and Spielberg...

I've got a handful of comics that I bought as curiousities, or for the goof factor, so those probably don't count. Stuff like "Rom" and "Atari Force". And in fact they turned out to be better than I would have expected.
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post #12 of 61
1/6/07 at 10:58pm
For awhile there, I had the "Die Another Day" in my DVD collection (and I'm not a big Bond fan either). I won't say how it got there, but I did pay money for it and I was the one that purchased it. I have since pawned it and now the sore thumb is Crash.

Edit: Sorry, didn't see this was in the comics section as I clicked on the front page (although I guess this section could be about anything).
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post #13 of 61
1/6/07 at 11:38pm
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Originally Posted by Desert Squirrel
Edit: Sorry, didn't see this was in the comics section as I clicked on the front page (although I guess this section could be about anything).
Oh, you think so, huh? Peruse the "Are we Diggin' on the heroes TV Show?" Thread for the apparent law of the land on that score, and the apparent disdain for the word "Diggin'", which I see appears in your signature line. Run now, while you still can!
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post #14 of 61
1/7/07 at 1:05am
If it makes you toy-tie-in victims feel any better, here's some serious appreciation for the Micronauts comic and the ROM comic.

Nothing yet on Atari Force. Or Sectaurs.
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post #15 of 61
1/7/07 at 1:31am
Micronauts had potential, dammit, but they never really explored their universe. I remember one issue where they laid out all the different worlds - aquatic, desert, arctic, a negative zone - ao much potential, but they never really delved into it. Rom and the Dire Wraiths had some high points, especially that issue where the wraiths just go in and murder everyone in that small town, even the kittens. And Atari Force was pretty solid through the first dozen issues.

I have one old Punisher issue where Punny wishes he could go down to Congress and 'kill all the liberal democrats.' It's good for media class.
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post #16 of 61
1/7/07 at 1:51am
I have all the Spawn comics from 1 to 117. I'm sure thats gotta count as a skeleton right?
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post #17 of 61
1/7/07 at 2:06am
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg
For me it was. . . and I can barely bring myself to type this, but for reasons that have long since escaped me, I bought the first few issues of marvel's "Sectaurs", based on the toy line of the same name. This toy crossover didn't fare nearly as well as say the Transformers or G.I. Joe or the Micronauts, and wasn't around long. I'd like to think I stopped purchasing them voluntarily before the end of the series' run, but I honestly can't recall.
No shame there. The TV show wasn't bad. Somewhere I have the entire run of:
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post #18 of 61
1/7/07 at 4:22am
Armagedon Criterion Collection
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post #19 of 61
1/7/07 at 4:33am
Now those are big fucking robots.

So the Dire Wraiths are from ROM: Spaceknight? I only knew 'em from a couple X-Men comics I got from somewhere.

As for embarrassing comics, I own one where Captain America takes on the Asthema Monster, one where the New Warriors battle crack cocaine, and a cruddy issue of Cadillacs & Dinosaurs missing its cover. I also bought a few issues of Spider-Man Adventures (comics tie-ins of episodes of the 90s cartoon) when the show was on as a kid that are basically rehashes of actual in-continuity classic storylines from decades ago. And I still have a few... gulp... DC comics lying on the bottom of my pile that my grandma gave me back when I was 7 or 8, including what might be the first appearance of that leather-jacket-wearing clone Super-Boy from right after the death of Superman. Nobody must ever know.
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post #20 of 61
1/7/07 at 5:00am
Brigade #4. Worst comic I've ever read. It's barely a comic, really.

I keep it to remind myself...never again.
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post #21 of 61
1/7/07 at 12:16pm
Youngblood #1.. hammers the point home that the future of the comics industry (at least back then) could be summed up in one name: ROB LIEFELD.
I never saw so many 8 foot legs with pointy feet in my life. Guns that would vaporize foes and give the wielders triple hernias. Musculature that was the dream of many a steroid abuser. Boobs with their own gravitational pull. Speed lines... EVERYWHERE. Constipated facial expressions. And the worst coloring jobs I've ever seen in 30 years of collecting.

Oh, it's so bad. Not even in a "so bad it's good" way, or a "you gotta see how bad this book is" way. Just bad.

And I have a copy of an early Wizard magazine with a Liefeld cover on it, too.
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post #22 of 61
1/7/07 at 3:48pm
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Originally Posted by Madman Mundt
Brigade #4. Worst comic I've ever read. It's barely a comic, really.

I keep it to remind myself...never again.
Brigade, that was the one. Liefeld is terrible, no doubt, but at least he has his own style(counts for something, right?). That guy who drew Brigade was just a Liefeld rip-off artist. That's kind of the lowest of the low.
I need to look and see if I have Brigade number 4. I'm sure I do, as I bought pretty much all of the early Image books.
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post #23 of 61
1/7/07 at 4:19pm
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg
As for US 1 though, you're on your own. If memory serves, that was based on tyco toys, too. Sort of an alternative to the toy train with trucks, right? How the HELL could they write a comic around that?
Well, see, Ulysses Solomon (US) Archer (U.S.A. - get it?) was with his brother, who was a trucker, and they got run off the road by this rogue trucker called The Highwayman, so when US came out of the coma after the accident, he found out his brother's body had never been found in the wreck and dedicated his life to finding the Highwayman; to do this he had to build a super-truck, aka US 1. While hunting down the Highwayman, he has various adventures, including some run-ins with mysterious aliens who talk like CBers....


...well, I guess I could have just answered "badly" and saved everyone some time.
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post #24 of 61
1/7/07 at 4:21pm
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Originally Posted by Subotai
Rom and the Dire Wraiths had some high points, especially that issue where the wraiths just go in and murder everyone in that small town, even the kittens.
I didn't collect Rom, but the odd issue or two that I picked up were pretty cool.

I was big into Alpha Flight, and they had a crossover in the ROM comic that was pretty well done.
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post #25 of 61
1/7/07 at 4:24pm
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Originally Posted by Timothy225
Youngblood #1.. hammers the point home that the future of the comics industry (at least back then) could be summed up in one name: ROB LIEFELD.
I never saw so many 8 foot legs with pointy feet in my life. Guns that would vaporize foes and give the wielders triple hernias. Musculature that was the dream of many a steroid abuser. Boobs with their own gravitational pull. Speed lines... EVERYWHERE. Constipated facial expressions. And the worst coloring jobs I've ever seen in 30 years of collecting.

Oh, it's so bad. Not even in a "so bad it's good" way, or a "you gotta see how bad this book is" way. Just bad.

And I have a copy of an early Wizard magazine with a Liefeld cover on it, too.
I have what I THINK is the first ever Liefeld drawn comic - Marvel's What If...? had an early 90s revival and he did What if Wolverine were an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.?. It was very plot light and Liefeld's art was still overly-stylized but it looked like the editors had reigned him in.

It was distinctive but not the virtual parody that it would go on to be.
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post #26 of 61
1/7/07 at 6:01pm
I have that issue. His work was, dare I say, better for being reigned in. What the hell happened since then, however...

Remember the Levi's commercial he did that was directed by Spike Lee?
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post #27 of 61
1/7/07 at 6:14pm
I've got a couple issues of the toy inspired Team America. A bunch of Evel Knievel types who fight crime when not racing.

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post #28 of 61
1/7/07 at 6:32pm
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Originally Posted by Chavez
I didn't collect Rom, but the odd issue or two that I picked up were pretty cool.

I was big into Alpha Flight, and they had a crossover in the ROM comic that was pretty well done.
Yeah, and IIRC it later turned out that Forge's neutralizer, the one that zapped Storm's powers, could also zap the wraiths - when the wraiths tried to take over the earth it turned into one of the epic-level battles a la the Beyonder.

I also had some early issues of Vigilante. Most of it was pretty cheesy, but there was a two-issue arc about a victim of child abuse which was pretty solid.

And also Kickers, Inc. - another priceless excerpt of the New Universe - several high-profile members of the New York NFL team take after the Equalizer.
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post #29 of 61
1/7/07 at 6:53pm
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Originally Posted by Subotai
I also had some early issues of Vigilante. Most of it was pretty cheesy, but there was a two-issue arc about a victim of child abuse which was pretty solid.
That story was in an Alan Moore TPB. Great writing, ratcheted up the tension and kept you on the edge of your seat. VERY unexpected ending, as well.
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post #30 of 61
1/7/07 at 6:54pm
What's Vigilante doing in here? That was one of my favorite series. Great stuff.
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post #31 of 61
1/7/07 at 6:57pm
Ah yes,the great age when Marvel was heavily into tie ins...almost all of which flopped.
Marvel blew a lot of time and effort trying to repeat the huge sucess they had with their "Star Wars" tie ins.
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post #32 of 61
1/7/07 at 9:55pm
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Originally Posted by Chavez
...well, I guess I could have just answered "badly" and saved everyone some time.

Oh, but I am SO glad you didn't. . . .
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post #33 of 61
1/7/07 at 9:58pm
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Originally Posted by Chavez
I didn't collect Rom, but the odd issue or two that I picked up were pretty cool.

I was big into Alpha Flight, and they had a crossover in the ROM comic that was pretty well done.
I got one where they crossed over into "The Avengers" somewhere. It wasn't as bad as I would've otherwise expected, either. Did anyone else actually have the Rom the Spaceknight action figure?
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post #34 of 61
1/8/07 at 12:26am
Back in the day - no, but I did have Baron Karza and Force Commander with the detachable arms.
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post #35 of 61
1/8/07 at 10:29am
Iggy, still have my Rom figure - still works like a dream, too! I also have the full run of Rom (hey, I liked it, what can I say - although the last few issues were drawn by Steve Ditko, and weren't his best work).
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post #36 of 61
1/8/07 at 5:46pm
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Originally Posted by Timothy225
Iggy, still have my Rom figure - still works like a dream, too! I also have the full run of Rom (hey, I liked it, what can I say - although the last few issues were drawn by Steve Ditko, and weren't his best work).
They don't make toys like that anymore, do they?

As for Steve Ditko, calling something his best work is, in the immortal words of Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, "roughly equivalent to being the best hockey player in all of Ecuador." I NEVER liked his artwork.
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post #37 of 61
1/8/07 at 5:48pm
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Originally Posted by Subotai
Back in the day - no, but I did have Baron Karza and Force Commander with the detachable arms.
No Force Commander for me, but did have Baron Karza and Andromeda, his horse. along w/ a whole slew of other Micronauts.
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post #38 of 61
1/8/07 at 7:18pm
I don't have a lot of the crap I bought anymore as I shit-canned it all. I bought a good deal of Image books. I gave a few issues of Power Pack a whirl. Tried the New Universe. I still have The New Mutants and West Coast Avengers. I had a few issues of Team America as well. I even gave a shot to some selected titles of STAR comics. Remember STAR comics? Anyone? I bought issues of Top Dog, Planet Terry, Royal Roy, and Star Wars: Droids. All drek to be sure. I'll post again if I remember any more crap. Oh I also bought pretty much any Marvel limited series which almost always wound up being junk.
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post #39 of 61
1/8/07 at 7:21pm
I have all four issues of Marvel's Brute Force mini series.
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post #40 of 61
1/8/07 at 11:41pm
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Originally Posted by Mad Man Mundt
I even gave a shot to some selected titles of STAR comics. Remember STAR comics? Anyone? I bought issues of Top Dog, Planet Terry, Royal Roy, and Star Wars: Droids.
I loved Peter Porker.



I also bought a lot of Marvel mini-series because I liked having the entire story, even if it was a forgettable one.
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post #41 of 61
1/8/07 at 11:48pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Wood
I loved Peter Porker.



I also bought a lot of Marvel mini-series because I liked having the entire story, even if it was a forgettable one.
I have the FIRST Marvel mini-series, Contest of Champions - though I wouldn't have mentioned it otherwise, because it's pretty decent. Sort of a precursor to Secret Wars.
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post #42 of 61
1/9/07 at 12:03am
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Originally Posted by Chavez
I have the FIRST Marvel mini-series, Contest of Champions - though I wouldn't have mentioned it otherwise, because it's pretty decent. Sort of a precursor to Secret Wars.
After consulting Mile High...

That looks pretty damn cool. I should hunt down a copy sometime. How do you know it's the first mini-series though?
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post #43 of 61
1/9/07 at 12:10am
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Originally Posted by Chris Wood
After consulting Mile High...

That looks pretty damn cool. I should hunt down a copy sometime. How do you know it's the first mini-series though?
Well, let's say "so far as I know" it was the first series CALLED a mini-series. I have never seen/heard of one existing previous to that. I believe it came out at roughly the same time as the first Hercules LS.
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post #44 of 61
1/9/07 at 12:22am
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Originally Posted by Chavez
I believe it came out at roughly the same time as the first Hercules LS.
Hah, I think I have that. Or is it the 2nd?
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post #45 of 61
1/9/07 at 12:28am
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Originally Posted by Chris Wood
Hah, I think I have that. Or is it the 2nd?
If Herc has some gray hair and is wearing red and black, it's the 2nd. If he looks young and is wearing green, it's the 1st.
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post #46 of 61
1/9/07 at 12:29am
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Originally Posted by Chris Wood
I loved Peter Porker.
I still have that issue where Ducktor Doom becomes an unwilling pop star.

Instead of Mary Jane Watson - Mary Jane Waterbuffalo. Classic.
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post #47 of 61
1/9/07 at 1:51am
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Originally Posted by Chavez
If Herc has some gray hair and is wearing red and black, it's the 2nd. If he looks young and is wearing green, it's the 1st.
Hmm, not sure. I seem to remember him being an Avenger around that time...

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I still have that issue where Ducktor Doom becomes an unwilling pop star.
I think that first issue was pretty funny, but the joke got played out rather quickly.
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post #48 of 61
1/9/07 at 6:22pm
Peter Porker was actually sort of good, which is why I didn't mention it as crap. I do, however, suspect it was Marvel's attempt to cash in on Captain Carrot and The Zoo Crew. I also had or still have Contest of Champions. Pretty good but it did introduce a bunch of crap characters because they created champions of other countries. Blitzkrieg (Germany), Collective Man(China), Defensor (Argentina), Peregrine (France), Shamrock (Ireland), and Talisman (Austrailia). It's funny that they had these d listers on the two contest rosters. Of course I'd want Sabra and Collective Man on my team while Mr. Fantastic and The Vision do nothing.
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post #49 of 61
1/9/07 at 9:41pm
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Originally Posted by Mad Man Mundt
Peter Porker was actually sort of good, which is why I didn't mention it as crap. I do, however, suspect it was Marvel's attempt to cash in on Captain Carrot and The Zoo Crew.
CCatZC was good fun. More bad puns per issue than any book short of Archie comics.
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I also had or still have Contest of Champions. Pretty good but it did introduce a bunch of crap characters because they created champions of other countries. Blitzkrieg (Germany), Collective Man(China), Defensor (Argentina), Peregrine (France), Shamrock (Ireland), and Talisman (Austrailia). It's funny that they had these d listers on the two contest rosters. Of course I'd want Sabra and Collective Man on my team while Mr. Fantastic and The Vision do nothing.
Hey, nobody's perfect - even Secret Wars begat Secret Wars II.

I'd want Sabra on my team, but that's just because I've got a thing for Jew princesses.
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post #50 of 61
1/9/07 at 9:52pm
Yeah but you realize once you married her she'd stop sucking your cock, don't you?
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