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Obscure Comic Book Questions

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osymandus

15:52 / 29.09.03

Ok heres a dozzy !

In the Metabaron series , what was so odd about the conception of the latest and current Metabaron !!

bob

21:52 / 30.09.03

If it helps anyone to help answer my question I discovered much to my dismay that Matt's Heavy Metal run was sporadic at best and the strips are not in a consecutive series of issues. Some here and there and everywhere!

Man, this is going to be one of the hardest hunts I have had to date. Much, much less likely to be completed than my almost complete GrimJack collection...

bob

22:09 / 30.09.03

Speaking of GrimJack and getting back from making my first thread ever YAY! but I am scared...does one of you comic gurus know if there were any more than 81 issues of GrimJack produced? When First Comics folded were there any issues that came out that I might have missed because of the confusion raised for collectors when another comic company goes tits up?

dlotemp

00:41 / 01.10.03

81 issues was it for Grimjack. Subsequent appearances have been rare because of ownership questions and wrangling. Last I heard was that Mike Baron was still trying to secure rights. Grimjack and Munden's Bar made an uncredited cameo in the NEXUS mini-series NIGHTMARE IN BLUE, issue #2.

Baz Auckland

00:47 / 03.12.03

Can someone explain this graffiti I just saw?

There's a band called 'Hot Times' playing next week at some bar. Their poster is a picture of Stan Lee with a word bubble saying the band name, date, location etc.

One one of the posters however, someone had written in marker: "Jack Kirby Will Have His Revenge"

...is there a story there? Or is it just humourous graffiti?

FinderWolf

13:19 / 03.12.03

I would hazard a guess that Jack didn't get nearly as much money from the characters that he co-created with Stan. (Stan received regular income from Marvel as Publisher Emeritus until recently, I don't think Jack got very much if anything from the 70s on from Marvel)

Also, Stan Lee is reported to have taken more credit for his role in the creation of some of the major Marvel characters than he deserved. As in, Stan said it was a 50/50 cocreation in terms of who contributed what to a given charactere, whereas maybe in some cases it was 70 Jack/30 Stan.

Jack also claimed he came up with a LOT of the plots and character ideas for many FF stories, and all Stan did was dialogue them and contribute a few ideas here and there. But Jack never received co-plotting credit on these. Lots of stuff like that is out there in the comic press about Jack's gripes about Stan. So that's what they're talking about, I bet.

quinine92001

15:51 / 19.12.03

It was the end of the seventies-early eighties. My brother had a thick book with comic book stories as well as written stories in it. I would hazard to say that it was a graphic novel before graphic novels existed. I don't remember the name of it but I do remember some details.1) On the front cover there was a giant cloaked figure holding an open book a la Destiny from the Endless who was also drawn to resemble a mountain. Thousands of people were walking into his cloak, the creases of which wound around him like mountain passes.2) I think there was a story about two scantily clad women captured by a female Nazi and whips were involved. There might have been strong sexual content. Does anyone remember this book? Am I crazy or is this a memory implant left by those pesky aliens again.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

08:04 / 12.04.07

Also in the late 70's or early 80's in Britian there was a comic that came out, the same size and format of Victor and Warlord but it was an SF comic. I believe it was banned and I think Alan Moore may have been involved in the comic, does anyone have any idea what it was called?

Benny the Ball

08:34 / 12.04.07

The only stuff from that period that isn't marvel uk and 2000ad that Moore worked on was Warrior, wasn't it? Don't think it was banned though, just ran for 30 or so issues before sales got the better of it.

sleazenation

08:45 / 12.04.07

I think you might be thinking of Action a UK comic from the mid 70's that wasn't so much banned as denuded of all the violence that was had been the comics main appeal. Sales plummeted and it was later merged with Battle.

I'm not aware of Alan Moore ever having worked on it though - I think it came out slightly before he made his comics debut...

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

10:51 / 12.04.07

Thanks guys. Sleaze is right, I'm pretty sure it was Action and no I don't think Moore was involved, though Pat Mills was. I actually had a couple of issues of this at the time (I suspect my parents threw them away).

Thanks for the link. It was all the hype around Grindhouse that for some reason got me thinking about it. I'd love to see something like this today.

I'm trying to track down a copy of Martin Barker's book about the comic but not having a great deal of luck.

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