My wants list

I just thought I'd put this online so I can check it on my phone if I ever need to. Also if anyone is looking to trade or anything.

Marvel

Claw

4

Conan

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24 37 38 39 40 197 199 200 209 215 222 224 226 227 241 242 247 248 249

Annuals 1, 2, 3, 9, 12

Giant Size Conan 1, 4, 5

Darkhawk

48, 49, 50

Hulk, The Incredible (200 - 450)

201, 203, 204, 206, 211, 212, 215 216 219 222 224 225 226 227 233 241 243 250 263 271 288 289 290 292 293 297, 301, 302 306, 307, 308, 310, 315, 316, 317, 319, 320, 342, 345, 347, 444 449 450

Iron Man (100 - 332)

101 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 121 128 147 150 170 206 302 303 304 308 314 

Kull the Conqueror (series 3)

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Luke Cage/Power Man/Heroes for Hire

2, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 63, 119, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125

Man-Thing (1974)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Man-Thing (1979)

7 9 10

Marvel two-in-one

2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10

Marvel Team-Up

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 50, 65, 66, 68, 76, 95, 103, 107, 108, 109, 110, 116, 145

Power Pack

32 33 34 37 38 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62

Red Sonja (1977) 1st Series

15

Red Sonja (1983) 2nd Series

1 2

She-Hulk, Sensational 

24, 25, 26, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 48, 49,  51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60

Skull the Slayer

1 4

Spider-Man

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 25 31 32 33 36 37 44 47 50 51 52 53 54 57 58 60

Spider-Man 2099

1, 6, 22, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46

Spider-Man, Web of 

1 31 63 100

Thor

349 351 352 353 364 365 367 368 369 371 372 373 375 376 377 378 379 382 390 453

Werewolf by Night

1, 2, 5, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 40, 42, 43 

DC

Adventure

248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 271 272 273 274 275 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 293 294 295 296 298 299 302 304 305 306 307 308 311 314 316 318 321 322 328 331 344 354 358 361 368 370 381 382 390 415 425 426 427 446 447 462 471 472 493 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 503 

series 2

1 516 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 527

All Star Section Eight

1, 2, 4, 5, 6

Animal Man

86 87 89

Arak, Son of Thunder

25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 37, 38, 45, 49, 50

Bat Lash (2008)

2, 3, 5, 6

Batman
289 294 296 301 304 308 314 320 321 358 366 368 373 381 386 387 400 426

Batman Family

6 8 12 13 15 17 18 19

Blitzkrieg

1 2 4

Blue and Gold

6 7

Bomba

1 3 5 6 7

Brave and the Bold

42 43 50 52 54 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 63 65 66 70 75 79 82 84 86 88 89 92 94 95 96

Captain Atom

25 42

Challenge

8 12

Claw

4

Creeper

1 2 3 5 6

Curse of Brimstone
11

DC Comics Presents

47

DC Special
3 10 11 12 18 20 22 24 29

DC Super-Stars

2, 3, 11, 14, 16, 17

Detective Comics

388, 389, 392 393 394 395 396 398 399 400 401 402 403 406 408 409 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 438 443 445 446  452 453 454 457 458 459 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 473 474 475 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 488 489 490 491 513, 518, 520, 524, 532 540, 546 549 550 552 553 554

Doom Patrol (1964)

96 97 100 101 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 118 119 120 121

Fate, Book of  (box D)

12

Fate (box D)

18, 22

Female Furies
3 4 5

Flash 

159 165 190 244 251 258

Four Star Spectacular

3

From Beyond the Unknown

3 6 9 16 21

Fury of Firestorm (New 52)
17 19

Ghosts

2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 17 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

 29 30 31 32 35 38 40 41 43 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 57 58 61 63 64 66 67 68 69 70 74 78 85 87 88 90 100 103 105 106 107

Green Lantern (Vol 1)

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 26, 32, 37, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 59, 61, 64, 65, 73, 79, 80, 83, 86, 87, 88

Guy Gardner

38 39 42 43 44

Hercules Unbound

3

Inferior Five

1 2 4 5 7 8 9 10 12

Isis

4 6

Jimmy Olsen

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 134

JLA vol 1 #100+

132, 137, 145, 146, 160

Kobra

4

Legionnaires

70, 73, 77, 78, 80, 81

Annual 3

Legion of Superheroes (1984)

21 22 23 25 26 30 35 36 38 39 40 45 48 51 52 53 54 55 60

Legion of Superheroes (1989)

 81 82 83 100 124 125

The Legion of Superheroes/Superboy (80+)

 82 83 84 85 86 87 89 91 92 93 95 97 98 99 100 101 104 110 113 131 168 171 180 182 186 187 (change title)

218, 231, 243, 244, 245

Lois Lane

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Metal Men

3 6 7  21 28 32 41

Metal Men

10 11

Metamorpho

1 2 4 5 6 7 8 12 13 15 16

Mister Miracle

1 6 10 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

My Greatest Adventure

80

New Talent Showcase

 9 16 18 19

New Teen Titans (1st series)

86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91

New Teen Titans (2nd series)

9 21 22 23 24 25 27 39 41 43 44 46 47 55 69 71 99 112, 113, 128, 129, 130

Omega Men

12 15 16 17 18 19 20 27 30 31 32 34 36 37 38

Preacher

1 2 3 4 9 10 11 13 14

Prez

1

Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter

4 8

Rip Hunter

2 3 6 8 10 12 15 21 22 28

Secrets of the Haunted House

3 4 5 6 7 9 15 16 19

Shadow

8 9

Sideways

9

Silencer, The

4 8

Strange Adventures

219, 227, 228, 236

The Super Friends
7 9 14

Super-team Family

9, 13, 14, 15

Superman (original run)

252 255 262 278 293 304 307 310 317 328 329 375 391 399 420

Superman (Rebirth)

10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29, 33

(Superman) Action Comics

486 488 489 500 528 538 543 544 551 553 556 562 565 566 567 569 570 571 574 575 576 577 578 580 591 753 754 756

Superwoman

2, 15, 18

Super Powers (vol 1)

1 2 3 4

Teen Titans Spotlight 

13, 17

Terrifics, The

21 22

Vigilante (1983)

17

Weird Mystery Tales

1 2 3 6 7 9 10 11 13 14 18 19 21 24

World's Finest

135 140 141 142 143 144 147 148 153, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 180, 184, 187, 198, 199, 205, 215, 217, 227, 228, 241,  246, 247, 248, 249, 251, 254, 263, 264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 272, 273, 276, 278, 279, 280, 284, 307, 315, 318, 319, 323 

Annual 1

World's Finest (Huntress/Power Girl)

8 17 18 23 27 28 29 30 31 32

Impact

Black Hood (Impact Comics)

annual

Crucible
2 4 5

The Fly

annual

Shield

annual

Others

Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett) (Charlton)

1, 2, 3, 52

Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast

5

Kull - Hate Witch

1 3 4

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

3, 4, 5, 6

Mandrake the Magician

2 3 4 9 

Midnight Tales

1 2 3 4 9 10 11 12 15 18

Providence

2

Tom Strong's Terrific Tales

9 10 11 12

Counting Comics - 34

The totals so far were

DC = 8945

Marvel = 1088

Others = 214



Avengers

167, 182, 195, 222, 226, 243, 246, 250, 261, 263, 264, 271, 273 - 280, 282, 283, 286 - 289, 292, 298 - 301, 303 - 313, 315 - 324, 326 - 363, 365 - 376

Annual

16, 23

Avengers/Squadron Supreme Annual 1998

Avengers: The Terminatrix Objective

1 - 4

Marvel Team-Up

94, 114, 124, 127, 134, 144, 148

Marvel Tales starring Spider-Man

142, 161, 163 - 165, 190, 198, 199, 201, 202, 205 - 210, 212, 214, 220, 221, 226, 231, 234, 237 - 240, 266, 267

Web of Spider-Man

8, 17, 19. 20, 21, 23 - 25, 27, 28, 30, 32 - 36, 39, 46 - 62, 65 - 75, 77, 79, 80, 82, 85, 86, 90 - 93, 95

Spider-Man

18 - 24, 26 - 29, 35, 49, 59

The Spectacular Spider-Man

59, 83, 96, 97, 108, 116, 117, 119, 122 - 130, 132 - 137, 139, 141, 142, 146, 148 - 168, 170 - 178, 185 - 187, 189 - 194

Annual 13

Spider-Man 2099

18, 19, 24

The Amazing Spider-Man

101 (reprint), 238, 259, 270, 272, 279, 280, 281, 283 - 292, 294 - 299, 301, 303, 304, 311 - 347, 349 - 351, 360, 362 - 364, 367 - 371, 376, 381, 382

Annual 28

Marvel selects Spider-Man

2, 3, 4

The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man (1991)

1 - 4


So that's
Marvel = 369

Making the running total now at -

DC = 8945

Marvel = 1457

Others = 214

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My Birthday Books - 12

Here's another look at some more of my awesome Birthday Books, check 'em out folks 😀

Strange Suspense Stories #9

 Grade - VG

Cover - Jim Aparo
Story - Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, Fred Himes, and Mo Marcus

Art - ?

Ammortu's Moon
Neville Smyth is an explorer in Central Africa, when his guide Kajal is fatally wounded by a buffalo a local medicine man called Ammortu manages to save his life much to Neville's shock. His assisstant Helen Bliss comments on the strangeness of the green hued moon that night, Neville ponders that the moon shouldn't be like that at all at this time of the month. Ammortu claims that the moon healed Kajal and ot appears to have dissapeared after the healing ritual. Kajal is changed after the healing and seems to be in a hypnotic state under Ammortu's influenece He later saves the life of a rich chief and it seems that he takes all the riches of those that he cures. Neville and Helen confront Ammortu and he threatens and sets his controlled minions onto them. They spy on him later and discover that the strange green moon is actually an alien space craft, the plan is that Ammortu will use his powers to heal the leaders of the World some day and will control them to the aliens advantage. Neville makes Ammortu a gift of 'Green Fire' a 100 pound lump of pure uranium, it's green hue matches the 'moon' so he travels up to the ship with it as a gift to his alien masters and the modern machinery around it somehow causes it to explode!! The thralls of Ammortu are freed from his influence with the witch doctor's death. 

There is a 1 page text story next "The Ghost of Gonzales Garcia"

A House Needs a Friend
Fred Corby a real estate agent is showing the Sims around an old house, "a house where no living people should ever live again! That is what the neighbours say..." The unwelcoming spirit of Fothergill Tate, he cursed the house it seems. During his life Tate ruined a man's life and then killed him in a duel, he fixed his oppenents pistol so it was loaded but had no firing pin, the sabotaged pistol from that fateful day graces the mantelpiece. Spooked by a flying vase they leave but Mrs Sims has dropped an earring inside she returns for it seemingly under the spell of Fothergill's spirit, he wants her to live in the house with him forevermore. Mr Sims comes to her rescue and the spirit tussles with him, Mrs Sims points the tampered gun at Fothergill and by some miracle it fires at him and he drops to the floor and fades away. Mrs Sims ponders "I did a funny, didn't I Walt? I shot a man who wasn't there with a gun that couldn't work!" They decide to buy the now ghost free house and in the last panel we see that although Tate's spirit has been banished he hasn't gone far as he stands by a tree in the garden staring at the house.

Behold Beauty
This last one I won't go into as I used it as one of my 13 Nights of Halloween series of videos recently, so you can just watch that here for the full story.

All I can say is Divina was no lady!!

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #70

 Grade - ?

Cover - John Severin
Story - Gary Friedrich

Art - Dick Ayers/John Severin

The Missouri Marauders!
The Howling Commandos meet up with a bunch of guys with a similar temperment and grit for fighting Nazis, the Missouri Marauders. This is their 1st appearance and I think only appearance almost with the story completed in #71. The Marauders were National Guardsmen who had recieved the best Commando training and were to link up with the yowling yahoos for their 1st combat mission. Fury is not happy to play nursemaid to a bunch of green hillbillies and the Marauders are a proud bunch of testosterone fueled tough guys. In a pub in London they get into a fight with some sailors, they go to hightail it out and bump into and get into a fight with Fury and Dum Dum Duggan on their way in! They have to stop fighting as they are due at base in an hour to get on a plane to drop into France. Once on the ground in enemy territory they are to blow a bridge up together, they are abrasive towards each other but soon begin to impress each other with their grit and determination as they rally against harsh odds in trying to complete their mission.
Nick Fury, Agent of Shield #14

Grade - ?

Cover - Herb Trimpe/Sam Grainger
Story - Gary Friedrich

Art - Herb Trimpe/Sam Grainger

A Day in the Life
I guess Nick survived that mission in France from the last comic as here he is now heading up Shield. The question is though will he survive this day in his life? After 2 weeks of observation inside the psycho-projector he is sent home by Dr Kraus his examiner, Fury has no memory of his testing and feels like he's had a hard night partying. Agent 72 of Hydra has been tasked to kill him within 24 hours and is trying his darndest to complete his task or risk his superiors deadly wrath. He puts gas in Fury's shower and a guillotine in his cupboard both of which traps are narrowly avoided. He has to take out 2 agents on his way out of his building and then narrowly avoids electrocution from a rigged shaver socket on his flying car on the way up to the Shield helicarrier. He has to parachute onto the heli-carrier after his car malfunctions! Once on board he has a meeting with the Gaffer a tech guy who shows him a new flying bicycle, then goes to his office for some shut eye. He has some interaction with an Agent Huff, his secretary, who is ga-ga for him (this is her 1st and only appearance in the comic though). We see that Nick's own agents are spying on him as part of his psycho-projector observation, Kraus is convinced he is a double agent!! In previous issues there was a run in with a Super-Patriot and the death of a Shield agent that he says has him suspicious but it turns out that he himself is actually Hydra agent 72. Dum Dum Duggan has him sussed though, he breaks cover gassing Duggan then goes to assassinate Fury. He has a bead on him when Agent Huff disturbs him giving Nick the chance to get the drop on him. Other Shield agents come to try and apprehend Kraus/72 but he jet packs away. Nick hugs Huff to thank her for her efforts but is still concerned thinking to himself as to why the Super-Patriot looked so much like him when he was unmasked!!

Next Ish: The Assassination of Nick Fury!

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Looking at some comics

Some cool old Superman comics


Just a few pick ups at Forbidden Planet, mainly from the cheap bins


I went to Birmingham Comic Con


Got some old Justice League of America


More comics for my Alpha Flight run


I did a live stream and opened a couple of packages

Another comic in the post


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My Birmingham Comic Con Comics

I went to my 1st comic con, it was a pain in the butt and the feet and the wallet. I got a few books though, it's a shame the cheap bins were few and far between. I didn't really do much filming in the con but here's a look at the comics I picked up.




    

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My Birthday Books - 10

Here we go again with another look at a trio of my birthday books.

The Incredible Hulk #119

  Grade - VG (4.0)

Cover - Herb Trimpe
Story - Stan Lee

Art - Herb Trimpe

At the Mercy of... Maximus the Mad!
Upon awakening on the island of Costa Salvador, Bruce Banner finds himself unable to think clearly, which turns out to be caused by a statue in the nearby village that emanates hypnotic pulses which subjugate the inhabitants to the will of the Great One. Angered Banner transforms to his great green raging counterpart and goes to the castle on the island to show that no 'great one' is mightier than the Hulk.

In the US President Nixon is informed that contact has been lost with Costa Salvador so tells General Ross and Major Talbot to stop their hulk-hunting and to go to the island to investigate what is happening there instead.


The so called "Great One" turns out to be Maximus, the exiled Inhuman prince, he is accompanied by his band of evil Inhumans: Aiero, Falcona, Leonus, Nebulo, Stallior, and Timberius. Having failed to rule the Hidden Land of the Inhumans, Maximus intends to slowly take over the entire world with similar statues put in strategic locations all over the world, slowly putting everyone under his control. The group fight to keep Hulk out but he proves to be a match for each of them. Eventually the military show up and Maximus tries to use Hulk's dislike of the military and their joint outcast status to sway him to join him. The last panel shows a frustrated Hulk fighting to make a decision, with the blurb promising next week, "The Dread Decision". Buy #120 to see how he goes with that, I will say that Betty Ross is with the army forces accompanying her father the General so she may well appeal to the jade juggernaut.

According to Marvel Wiki this book has the 1st appearance of  Richard Nixon as a topical reference, haha that makes this a most unusual key if you ask me! Go HERE for more fun facts about Nixon in Marvel comics, including his time as a zombie would-be world destroyer!! Also this is the 1st time Costa Salvador is used.

Dr. Strange #182

  Grade - GD (1.8)

Cover - Gene Colan
Story - Roy Thomas

Art - Gene Colan/Tom Palmer

And Juggernaut Makes Three!
Dr Strange is in the Nightmare dimension where he is still trapped (from the last issue) by the Eye of Agamotto. He is facing his old foe Nightmare who has captured Eternity (in #180) and is using it's power to threaten the Earth by collapsing the past and the future onto the present! Whilst Nightmare was boasting Strange summoned Juggernaut who was trapped in the Dream dimension at this point and he turns up and battles Nightmare as he is sure that Stephen is the key to him getting back to the Earthly realm. With his enormous strength plus some eldritch talent he has picked up whilst in exile Juggernaut is able to distract Nightmare long enough for Strange to escape the Eye's hold on him. Seeing this the 2 battling villains strike out at him together as one. Strange has cast an illusion though instead of hitting him the blasts strike at the bonds that hold Eternity fast and it is free. It belittle Nightmare saying that the time he was held were as nothing to him, essentially saying that Nightmare was beneath his contemplation. He consigns the 2 villains into oblivion and ushers Strange back through the void between worlds to his Sanctum Sanctorum. There he discovers, (through the fact that his name changes on a telegram he received), that Eternity has rewarded him for his help by providing him with the new alias of Stephen Sanders. I'm not sure why, I guess it must be to do with other events that happened in Strange's life around this time. I'm also not sure why he wears a blue/black mask as well in this comic, I'd not seen that before.

As I was looking through this I wasn't aware of how fragile this comic was and the cover came off!! 😢

Star-Spangled War Stories: Enemy Ace #146

 Grade - VG

Cover - Joe Kubert
Story - ?

Art - Russ Heath

Enemy Ace
In both the stories in this issue they are framed as tales told by Von Hammer, the 'enemy ace' to Klaus a new German pilot who is petrified of going up in a papier-mache' coffin.

In the 1st tale he tells of an American pilot newly arrived at a French air base during WWI, he is the 1st US pilot to fly with them and is determined to prove his worthiness in the air to show his gallic comrades that his countrymen can cut it in air battles. On his 1st night they play a game of darts with balloons tied to a board, he is able to hit the red balloon that symbolised 'Hawk' an enemy ace. His colleagues though fear that rather than bagging Hawk, he will just be a plump pigeon to be devoured by him. Next day on his 1st trip up he falls for Hawk's ploy and barely survives the ordeal and is grounded by his commander. 

Sometime later he is incensed when the Hawk downs a comrade just as he was coming in to land. He leaps in a plane and gives chase unable to get a bead on Hawk who leads him a merry chase right back to his own airbase where he promptly shoots the yank down again. Hawk plans to keep the American Leutenant prisoner but he flees climbing onboard a hot air balloon on the base. He takes up the machine gun on board and miraculously takes out Hawk in an arial balloon vs fokker dogfight!!

Brother Enemy!
Klaus is still unconvinced so Von Hammer tells him another story, in it we hear of twin brothers Richard and Carl who were seperated when they escaped in different life rafts from a sinking ship in a disaster that claimed both of their parents. Adopted into different foster homes they lost touch till they were grown up and war was declared, now a pilot Richard is determned to meet Carl and asks all over for people to be on the lookout for his twin.

Soon he is flying into war and on a bomb run gets into a dogfight with an enemy ace, he cuts his foes oil line which clouds their goggles, he goes in for the kill and sees the enemy pilot is his twin! He can not kill him and his flight team can not understand why he didn't finish him off. He doesn't tell them his fantastic story and they are angry with him, then in a second attempt to bomb the same target they again meet in the air. This time Carl gets the drop on Richard and it goes the same way he's about to deliver the killing blow when he sees that it's his twin. He too can not kill his twin.

Before a 3rd sortie both brothers are called out by their commanding officers and ordered to show no quarter for the enemy. They take to the air and go at each other in earnest but neither are able to gain the upper hand until they run out of bullets and ram each other in the air. Carl is knocked out but Richard grabs him from the falling wreckage and I assume parachutes down to the ground safely with him. It looks more like they emerge from the twisted wreckage of the 2 planes actually and there's no sign of a parachute anywhere!? Maybe it's ghosts of the two brothers who greet each other face to face on the ground.

The comic ends with a few cartoons but there is no resumption of the framing story so we never know if Von Hammer's tales help to convince the cowardly (actually very sensible) Klaus to do his duty.


    

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My Birthday Books - 8

It's time for another of my weekly look at some of my birthday books.

The Mighty Avengers #68

  Grade - ?

Cover - Sal Buscema/Sam Grainger
Story - Roy Thomas

Art - Sal Buscema

"...And We Battle for the Earth!"
This issue begins with The Avengers and a Shield team storming the underground base of Ultron-6, just before they reach the evil megalomaniac robot he pulls a switch to engulf Manhatten in a fiery cataclysm!! Luckilly it doesn't trigger properly and he manages to escape. It turns out it was Vision who destroyed Ultron-6's bomb, he been forced by a type of post-hypnotic command to re-construct Ultron back in Avengers #66. The effort of some recent battle causes him to collapse, Hank Pym tries charging him with solar energy to no avail and so uses a rudimentry mind probe to skim his mind looking for a weakness to destroy Ultron. They discover he is picturing the Molecular Rearranger the only device able to shape Adamantium, the metal of which the robot is made. Pym makes a trip to Wakanda to borrow some Vibranium from Black Panther then sets an obvious trap for Ultron using eminent physicist Dr. Myron MacLain the only man who knows the formula for Adamantium as bait. Ultron sees through it but assured of his own power he decides to trip it so he can get the Dr. and force him to make an army of Adamantium robots under his command. The trap is set in the U.N. building, calling himself the ultimate Ultron now the megalomaniac mechanoid attacks and is met in battle by The Avengers. He is a match for their power and captures Dr. MacLain and uses a mind draining device built into his body to steal the knowlege from his mind. This turns out to all have been a more intricate trap though than Ultron could have envisioned, the Dr. is Pym in disguise, his sub-conscious mind filled with a short phrase that causes Ultron to go mad and explode. (The Vibranium they borrowed was used to shield the blast.) The phrase is revealed to be from the bible, the commandment "thou shalt not kill".

Black Panther's chief advisor, Taku debuts in this issue.

The Twilight Zone #30

  Grade - VG

Cover - George Wilson

The number on the cover is 10016-909 but apparently this is #30. It's a very strange way of numbering but that's the Twilight Zone for you I suppose. This is an anthology type comic with suspenseful, mystery, and spooky stories done in the style of the classic TV series "The Twilight Zone" which starred Rod Serling as it's host.

Tall Timber

Art - Joe Certa

A logger Madera climbs an ancient redwood, an "immense sentry of time" intending to cut it's branches, he feel dizzy on his ascent then spots a forest fire below. He climbs downs and finds that he has been transported into the past somehow. He is captured by natives and imprisoned alongside a spanish conquistador. The pair are tied up to a tree and left to die as sacrifice. They manage to escape and Madera discovers that the conquistador is his ancestor. He climbs back up the tree and upon descending finds he is back in his own time, he refuses to cut down the tree.

The Vanishing Hero

Art by Joe Certa.

text story

A 1 page article/story about a ghost soldier Marshall Dickerson alleged to have shown up during various wars in history.

   In The Cards

Art - Bob Jenney

Another article/story based on the life of World land and water speed record holder Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald who followed him in the pursuit of speed records. It's alleged that the night before he died attempting a new water record he was playing Solitaire and drew a Queen and Ace of spades apparently mirroring the cards that Mary Queen of Scots drew the night before her beheading. He sees this as an omen of his own death and the next day his premonition proves to have been correct! 

Made In Hong Kong

Art - Win Mortimer

Bill Portland is having an odd day, he has headaches, memory loss and blackouts. He feels a strange urge to buy a TV and has a strange feeling when he finds it was made in Hong Kong. Still dizzy he turns on the set to see a the face of a man he knows to be Won Lee which prompts him immediately to get a flight to Hong Kong. Whilst on the plane he seems to go back in time, he's flying a plane during war and is shot down over China by a Japanese pilot. Concussed he is pulled from the plane and delivered to allied Chinese soldiers by Won Lee. As Portland is carried off he tells Lee that, "I have seen a time many years from now! A time when a message will come from you and I will come for you!" I take this to mean that the start of the story is him having a concussion vision of the future! 

The Phantom Balloon

Art - Win Mortimer

This is the end of a trio of time related stories in this issue. This time a solo hot-air balloonist Ernie Greco rises through the clouds and veers dangerously towards a deadly storm cloud. He sees another balloonist seemingly in an old style vintage balloon named The Grey Eagle. Just then a fire starts on his balloon dooming him but Grey Eagle's occupant throws him a rope rescuing him. Grey Eagles pilot is silent and dressed in old-fashioned clothing. Greco awakes suddenly back on solid ground with no sign of any balloons in the sky, a passing old-timer tells him that there was once a balloon about 2 hundred years ago called Grey Eagle that "Folks say he went up and never came down!"

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Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner #17

 Grade - ?

Cover - Marie Severin/Joe Gaudioso/Sam Rosen
Story - Roy Thomas

Art - Marie Severin/Jay Hawk

From the Stars.. The Stalker!
A traitorous priest Kormok with designs on ruling New Atlantis says that a vision from Father Neptune requires Namor the Sub-Mariner to take the sacred trident to be reforged in the brazier of the living flame on the site of the original Atlantis. Kormok has forged an alliance with an alien race the Alpha Centaurians, they will take out Namor for him to allow Kormok to usurp him in his abscence. Little does the traitor know of their real intention, to steal the Earth's water. Dynorr the Stalker is waiting for Namor along his journey to ambush and capture him. Namor is able to best him twice in battle but Stalker has allies aboard a spaceship which is able to capture "The Avenging Son" Namor using a funnel beam that we see is suctioning him up from the water up into space. Stalker is seen in the last panel gloating "..you shall NEVER return!!" If he ever should return he will have to face Kormok who has wasted no time in usurping his crown.

This issue has a lot of 1st appearance's in it; Kormok, Dynorr the Stalker, Yennon, Obtu, the Alpha Centurions and their planet Alpha Centauri A. I don't think any of them went on to have more than a handful of appearances in Marvel comics.


So that's the books for this week, tune in next week for a look at 3 more of my birthday books.

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Counting Comics - 16

It's Wednesday so I am going to be looking at and counting some more of my lovely comics. I started the week with

DC = 4384

Marvel = 59

Others = 53

I picked up a nice haul this week too

DC = 59
Marvel = 1
Others = 5

Here's today's count

Batman Unseen (2009 - 10)

1,2, 5

This 5 parter was created by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones and features a new foe for old pointy ears. When bizarre death start happening across the city Batman goes to investigate. Witnesses report a horrific skinless man who fades from view after commiting his deeds, Batman is facing an Invisible Man, how do you find a villain who can't be seen?

Lord Havok and the Extremists (2007 - 08)

1 - 6

Lord Havok and the Extremists is a Countdown tie-in miniseries detailing some of the history of Earth-8, the origins of the members of The Extremists, and the events that take place on Angor leading up to Lord Havok and The Extremists joining Monarch's army. They first appeared in Justice League Europe (not America as I think I said in the video) #15 in June 1990 created by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Bart Sears.

Red Tornado (2009 - 10)

1 - 4, 6

His cybernetic body was created by the super-villain T.O. Morrow, although he is actually a sentient wind elemental named Ulthoon powering the robot. Using the alias John Smith he poses as a human and has a human wife named Kathy Sutton and a daughter named Traya, residing with him in Happy Harbor. Red Tornado was created by Gardner Fox and Dick Dillin, first appearing in Justice League of America #64. (1968) 

Joker's Asylum (2008)

Scarecrow #1

Poison Ivy #1

Penguin #1

Joker #1

This came in two volumes it seems and this is the 1st, I came across the Two-Face issue of this set a while back in my videos and was able to reunite it with the rest of it's set. I don't know if I have Vol 2? I don't recall it, it's a shame if I don't andanother thing to blame my comic shop for haha These volumes were just a solo story of 10 of the nutters from the Batman rogue's gallery. I'm not sure if there was a theme or a connection between the stories at all, it's been too long since I read them and I couldn't find much info in a googly-woogly search.

Two Face Year One

1, 2

This was released in July 2008 to coincide with The Dark Knight, although it is set in the comics' continuity and not the film's.
It chronicles the origin of Two-Face also known as Harvey Dent D.A., one of Batman's archfoes; the first issue details the downfall of Harvey Dent, and the second issue focuses on Two-Face as he runs for re-election.

Doom Patrol (2009)

1

The Doom Patrol were created by Arnold Drake, Bruno Premiani, Murray Boltinoff, and Bob Haney, first appearing in My Greatest Adventure #80. (1963) This is the 5th volume of their book, I'm not sure why I only got issue 1 and none of the others.

Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal (2010)

2 - 4

I wonder if I have part 1 of this anywhere!! I really should have been more mindful of my books when they came in but I was collecting so many at that time that I never really had myself organised!! Oh well this is why I have silly gaps all over the place. And even some doubles!! This details life beginning again for Roy "Arsenal" Harper after the events of Final Extreme Naughty Bum Justice* or something like that where his daugher Lian got killed and he had his arm ripped off by Prometheus. In constant pain he resorted back to drugs and alienated all his friends, it's a bit of a car-crash comic! 
(*I just looked it up it was Justice League: Cry for Justice)

Batman/Doc Savage Special #1 (2010)

Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. Clark Savage, Jr. first appeared in March 1933 in the first issue of Doc Savage Magazine. Because of the success of the Shadow, who had his own pulp magazine, the publishers Street & Smith quickly launched this pulp title. Unlike the Shadow, Clark Savage, "Doc" to his friends, had no special powers, but was raised from birth by his father and other scientists to become one of the most perfect human beings in terms of strength, intelligence, and physical abilities. 

No less a person than Stan "The Man" Lee himself has credited him as being the forerunner to modern superheroes. I've seen him teaming up with Marvel and DC heroes in the past, I am guessing that DC must currently have the rights to his use.

Batman Odyssey (2010)

2

Neal Adams is a fantastic artist but by all accounts he should really leave the story writing to the writers. This is another of those mystery comics where I am not sure quite why I only have the one issue.... and #2 at that!! Comic shop shenanigans is all I can put it down to.

Suicide Squad (2007 - 08)

1 - 8

A surprisingly short run here from the Suicide Squad, apparently it was always meant as only a mini-series and centres on Squad mainman Rick Flag. After he is believed dead, Rick resurfaces on the dinosaur-infested island of Skartaris alongside his enemy Rustam. The pair work together to survive but Flag is forced to kill Rustam once they discover a way home. Afterward, he becomes a prisoner of war in Qurac for four years. Flag rejoins the Suicide Squad after he is rescued by Bronze Tiger. There is more but you'll have to buy the book to find out!

Countdown to Mystery (2007 - 08)

1 - 8

This series is a dual feature, with two separate stories. One story focuses on Dr. Kent V. Nelson, the new Doctor Fate, while the other focuses on the actions of Eclipso, and the new Spectre, Crispus Allen. Dr Nelson's Grand Uncle was Kent Nelson the original Dr Fate who debuted in More Fun Comics Vol 1 #55, (May, 1940).

Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters (2006 - 07)

1 - 8

This team formed in the Battle for Bludhaven books with Uncle Sam, Phantom Lady, Freedom Fighters, Black Condor & Ray. I believe they were all new iterations of the characters who were originally made up entirely of characters DC had acquired legally from Quality Comics in a takeover, although they have expanded since then. The concept was created by Len Wein and Dick Dillin, first appearing in Justice League of America #107. (1973) 

Mystery in Space (2006 - 07)

1 - 8

Volume 1 of this book ran for 110 issues from 1951 to 1966, with a further seven issues continuing the numbering during a 1980s revival of the title. DC revived Mystery in Space between November 2006 and August 2007 as an eight issue limited series written by Jim Starlin and drawn by Shane Davis. This series featured a new Captain Comet, in a detective story set in the far reaches of the DC Universe. The first seven issues also contained a backup story starring The Weird from the eponymous 1988 miniseries, with art by Starlin. Neither character appeared in the original Mystery In Space series.

The Helmet of Fate (2007)

Detective Chimp #1

Ibis the Invincible #1

Sargon the Sorceror #1

Zauriel #1

Black Alice #1

The helmet of Nabu travelled from likely candidate to likely candidate in the DC Universe looking for a successor to wear it. Eventually it finds original wearer Kent Nelson's Grand-Nephew! I'm so glad it never chose the chimp! haha imagine if it did, that might have blown a few people's tiny minds.

Countdown to Adventure (2007 - 08)

1 - 8

This details life after 52 I think when Animal Man, Starfire, and Adam Strange were lost in space for a year. They are back on Earth and Rann now and things happen as they always do in comics, but I can't remember what and the DC wiki isn't big on info either. I know that God wannabe ugly Lady Styxx rears her ugly head again.

Salvation Run (2008)

1 - 7

Who exactly said it was cool to imprison a load of people on another planet with no law and no protection to live or die? A heck load of DC villains all get transported to an alien world and obviously they turn it into a harmonic utopia where all is harmony and nothing is bad. The whole series shows them fashioning huts and catching fish and living an idyllic lifestyle.*

(* This review was kindly provided by Bizarro, you am not thanking me)

Tales of the Unexpected

featuring The Spectre (2006 - 07)

1 - 8

Crispus Allen the supernatural Spectre with the goatee stars in this book with Doctor Thirteen in the back up tales. The original vol of this title ran for 104 issues between 1956 and 1968. After issue #104, it was renamed simply "The Unexpected", changing focus from science-fiction to horror and ran til #222.

Brave and the Bold (2007 - 10)

1 - 35

You just have to love some Brave and the Bold, it was always Batman plus one other back in my youth, this new volume changed the format up a little but it was still very cool to get very short, often self-contained in 1 book stories featuring cool collaborations of DC characeters you might not see working together otherwise. This was one of the 1st comics I recall getting as a kid, with a team up with Dr Fate and another with Plastic Man, both from 1979, being 2 of the earlist books I can remember buying.

Outsiders (2003 - 07)

1 - 50

The series followed the break-up of the Titans after the events of Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day and included former Titans members Nightwing and Arsenal. The rest of the initial line-up included Jade, Indigo and Shift(an aspect of Metamorpho). The series also introduced two new characters, Grace and Thunder. Following cancellation, the team was re-organized as the second incarnation of Batman and the Outsiders.

Outsiders Annual #1 (2007)

Not too sure what happens, but Arsenal quits the team in this book and Captain Boomerang, Jr joins. So too does Metamorpho, with this being the last appearance of Shift who was some kind of aspect of Metamorpho, I am guessing that Shift shifts or Metamorphs into Metamorpho. Try that out as a new tongue twister I bet you can't say it 5 times quickly.

Teen Titans/Outsiders

Secret Files & Origins 2005

Terror Titans (2008 - 09)

1 - 6

The Terror Titans are a team of villainous counterparts to the Teen Titans. Their original membership included legacy versions of Clock King, Copperhead, Disruptor, Dreadbolt, and Persuader. They were assembled by Clock King who uses his powers to manipulate them by promising things they want. In this mini Ravager joins the team, the foolish traitorous nincompoop and we see of M'gann M'orzz (Miss Martian) posing as Star-Spangled Kid.

Teen Titans Go! (2004)

1 - 3

This a rather silly cartoon but in a fun way, not that I've seen that many of them really but anything that can appeal to the kids and hopefully grow a new bunch of comic book fans is great by me.

Teen Titans (2003 - 2011)

1/2 - 90, 92

(Totally copied and pasted from Wikipedia, cos screw hard work)

Writer Geoff Johns' Teen Titans series began in 2003, after a three issue mini-series entitled "Titans/Young Justice Graduation Day", which saw the death of Donna Troy and Lilith, along with the disbanding of the 1998–2002 Titans roster and the Young Justice team. The relaunch came on the heels of the debut of the Teen Titans cartoon on Cartoon Network and reflected DC Comics chief executive Dan DiDio's desire to rehabilitate the Titans as one of DC's top franchise. Launched at the same time was a companion series, a revived version of "The Outsiders" which featured Nightwing and Arsenal, along with several other Titans members (Captain Marvel Jr. and Starfire).

The series featured several of the main teenage heroes from the Young Justice roster (Robin, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Impulse) and Starfire, Cyborg and Changeling (now rebranded Beast Boy to reflect the cartoon). Raven later returned to the team, reborn in a new teenage body while Jericho was brought back, having escaped death by possessing and laying dormant inside his father Deathstroke's mind.

The series renewed interest in the Titans, but drew sharp complaints due to shifts in the personalities of the various Young Justice characters. Most notably, the decision to have Impulse rebrand himself Kid Flash and the decision to jettison his happy-go-lucky person in favor of a more serious personality. The series, under Geoff Johns, also dramatically retconned Superboy's origin with the revelation that he was a hybrid clone based on the combined DNA of Superman and Lex Luthor.

I found #91 it was in another place! Yay! Hold on though!! What the crap, DC Wiki says this book ran till #100 what the bloody hell happened to the rest of the run?? I suspect Comic Shop cock-ups again!! 

Teen Titans Annual #1 (2006)

Chemo has blown up in Bludhaven making it a disaster zone and Robin and most of the Titans are there to try to help sort out the rescue efforts, thwarted by the Fearsome Five. Meanwhile in Smallville, Superboy Kon-El is in recovery after recently getting seriously injured by Superboy-Prime. Wonder Girl is visiting with him and they make whoopee, hubba-hubba.

Teen Titans Annual #1 (2009)

The prelude to Deathtrap which I think was a crossover between the Teen Titans, Titans and Vigilante.

Supergirl (2005)

2

Teen Titans: Legion Special 

I am getting tired now, so, yeah this is Teen Titans and Legion I guess haha teaming up or something

Titans East Special #1 (2008)

I had a feeling that lots of people died in this one but according to the Wiki it was just Power Boy who bit the bullet. Maybe it just looked like a lot snuffed it, I can't recall now and the Wiki has no synopsis so meh, I need to start reading these books again and stop writing about them!!

Teen Titans Lost Annual #1 (2008)

In a fun comic romp harking back to their chronological early days the Teen Titans save President Kennedy from an alien kidnap plot! This is not really a 'lost' comic it is just presented as one, although it was originally solicited as a 2003 Elseworlds comic.

Teen Titans: Year One (2008)

1, 5

Perhaps inspired by the lost annual here's another comic throwing back to a simpler but probably less elightened time in comic history.

Vigilante (2009)

5, 6 

I have never collected a full Vigilante run and considering how many people have used the name this is quite a surprise really. I have nothing against the character but I just have never really picked up any of their books regularly over the years. Or if I did then I've forgotten, which is surprisingly possible!! I think so far 9 people have assumed the Vigilante name!!

Teen Titans: Cold Case # 1 (2011)

Hmm nothing much about this on DC Wiki but there is no Kid Flash or Impulse in the team, I wonder if this book is following up from when the Rogue's Gallery of the Flash finally managed to slow a Flash down long enough to kill him!! The Flash they killed was #4 Bart Allen who started out as Impulse, became Kid Flash then after a trip forward then back again in time became all grown up and then sadly got all dead. 😒

Titans (2008 - 2011)

1 - 13, 15 - 26, 28 - 30

I found 27 in another place. God knows what happened to 14 though Grrrrrrrr!! This is the Teen Titans all grown up basically, all the Teens you know and loved, but a bit older.... and in some cases wiser. 

Titans Villains for Hire Special (2010)

Oh my god, you killed Atom, you bastards!! Deathstroke is not an anti-hero, he killed Wintergreen who was kind of his Alfred years ago and in this book he killed Atom (Ryan Choi), Deathstroke is not an anti-hero he's a f*&%ing dick. And not in a nice Grayson kind of way.

OK so the count for today is
DC = 314

Making the running total after this week of

DC = 4757

Marvel = 60

Others = 58