Favorite Dead Universe Covers
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- Draco
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StarBrand wrote:Iron Jaw 1. Loved this comic. Dude had an Iron Jaw.
Loved the comic and the cover when i was about 12.
I picked it up randomly in my quest to buy any comics that existed.
I already had Conan on the go and this comic was good enough to make me want more.
Nice pick and well done on straying off the NU.


Draco wrote:StarBrand wrote:Iron Jaw 1. Loved this comic. Dude had an Iron Jaw.
Loved the comic and the cover when i was about 12.
I picked it up randomly in my quest to buy any comics that existed.
I already had Conan on the go and this comic was good enough to make me want more.
Nice pick and well done on straying off the NU.
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I loved Iron Jaw when it was coming out, and Atlas (Seaboard) in general. This makes me want to go back and read a few to see if I still dig 'em.StarBrand wrote:Draco wrote:StarBrand wrote:Iron Jaw 1. Loved this comic. Dude had an Iron Jaw.
Loved the comic and the cover when i was about 12.
I picked it up randomly in my quest to buy any comics that existed.
I already had Conan on the go and this comic was good enough to make me want more.
Nice pick and well done on straying off the NU.
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- Draco
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I finally picked up one of the Devilina mags.StarBrand wrote:I loved Iron Jaw when it was coming out, and Atlas (Seaboard) in general. This makes me want to go back and read a few to see if I still dig 'em.StarBrand wrote:Draco wrote:StarBrand wrote:Iron Jaw 1. Loved this comic. Dude had an Iron Jaw.
Loved the comic and the cover when i was about 12.
I picked it up randomly in my quest to buy any comics that existed.
I already had Conan on the go and this comic was good enough to make me want more.
Nice pick and well done on straying off the NU.
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only taken me 20+ years.

- Draco
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I didn't realize that was Atlas. Maybe I forgot. lolDraco wrote:Atlas, one of the annoying mags they published that you never see this side of the world, granted i may have even had them at one point and not realised they were Atlas, but certainly not in the last 15 years.StarBrand wrote:Who published those, Draco?
I was picking up Atlas when I was a kid off the racks at convenience markets. They had spotty distribution.
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Here are my favorites:
Marvel Transformers #5

and
Marvel Transformers #12

Now I know someone is probably thinking but Transformers is not a dead universe because IDW is publishing new Transformers with the same looking characters in comics and while that is true, IDW's Transformers: G1 Universe is NOT connected too or even the same universe as Marvel's series, there has been no new official material based on Marvel's Transformers comics since Transformers: Generation 2 #12 which was pretty much the end of the Marvel Transformers and G.I. Joe Universe.
So I consider the Marvel US and UK Transformers and G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (aka Action Force in the UK) a Dead Universe.
Marvel Transformers #5

and
Marvel Transformers #12

Now I know someone is probably thinking but Transformers is not a dead universe because IDW is publishing new Transformers with the same looking characters in comics and while that is true, IDW's Transformers: G1 Universe is NOT connected too or even the same universe as Marvel's series, there has been no new official material based on Marvel's Transformers comics since Transformers: Generation 2 #12 which was pretty much the end of the Marvel Transformers and G.I. Joe Universe.
So I consider the Marvel US and UK Transformers and G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (aka Action Force in the UK) a Dead Universe.
Nice.Cyberstrike wrote:Here are my favorites:
Marvel Transformers #5
and
Marvel Transformers #12
Now I know someone is probably thinking but Transformers is not a dead universe because IDW is publishing new Transformers with the same looking characters in comics and while that is true, IDW's Transformers: G1 Universe is NOT connected too or even the same universe as Marvel's series, there has been no new official material based on Marvel's Transformers comics since Transformers: Generation 2 #12 which was pretty much the end of the Marvel Transformers and G.I. Joe Universe.
So I consider the Marvel US and UK Transformers and G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (aka Action Force in the UK) a Dead Universe.

- Draco
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- Draco
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It certiantly is better than the painted cover #1 which is borders on the stupid looking. Shockwave (the character on #5) is one of those characters when drawn right, he downright scary, when drawn wrong he looks stupid beyond reason.Draco wrote:Always loved the TF # 5 cover, although i have never been a fan of the TF.
Painted covers of that quality were very random of those times for Marvel.
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Some of the material is pretty bad, but there are some great flashes. Thrilling Adventure Stories #2 may be the single best B&W magazine ever. Under a Neal Adams cover, Goodwin & Simonson (immediately post-Manhunter), Russ Heath, John Severin, Alex Toth and even Jack Sparling.StarBrand wrote:I really need to start pursuing a set of Atlas myself.
Chaykin's two issues of The Scorpion, Larry Hama on Wulf, Iron Jaw, and the team of Archie Goodwin, Steve Ditko and Wally Wood on The Destructor...
Planet of Vampires is at the very least a good set-up (with two pretty cool Pat Broderick-Neal Adams covers).
JCVaughn wrote:Some of the material is pretty bad, but there are some great flashes. Thrilling Adventure Stories #2 may be the single best B&W magazine ever. Under a Neal Adams cover, Goodwin & Simonson (immediately post-Manhunter), Russ Heath, John Severin, Alex Toth and even Jack Sparling.StarBrand wrote:I really need to start pursuing a set of Atlas myself.
Chaykin's two issues of The Scorpion, Larry Hama on Wulf, Iron Jaw, and the team of Archie Goodwin, Steve Ditko and Wally Wood on The Destructor...
Planet of Vampires is at the very least a good set-up (with two pretty cool Pat Broderick-Neal Adams covers).
