tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post6840025448703423349..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-aminations in January 2018...and Beyond! Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-55693173661282838832018-01-11T08:40:08.097-06:002018-01-11T08:40:08.097-06:00I’d been waiting for this post as the most appropr...<br>I’d been waiting for this post as the most appropriate place to drop a question and a link — then I missed the opportunity to do so in a timely fashion. <i>Sigh.</i><br /><br />Question: Does anyone “here” own a copy of Marvel’s <i>Crazy</i> Magazine #88, dated July 1982, from which photocopies or scans could be sent my way? I’m gathering stuff for a potential article on variations of the Dark Phoenix Saga and that issue has a parody consisting of 11 pages of material from <i>X-Men</i> #134-138 re-scripted by Jim Owsley. Wherever/however/whenever I do get hold of the sequence I’ll pass it along to Austin should he ever indulge in a retro post on parodies like this and — just keeping it to Marvel’s own publications — stories in <i>What The—?!</i> and <i>Not Brand Ecch</i>.<br /><br />Link: <i>The Hollywood Reporter</i> posted <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/x-men-animated-series-story-90s-cartoon-hit-1052263" rel="nofollow">an oral history of <i>X-Men: The Animated Series</i></a> a couple of months ago. I’m not sure I ever watched as much as one complete episode, having no attachment to the comics at the time and being turned off by the animation, but I came away from this piece impressed with the passion those making it possessed and by hearing it was so heavily serialized — enough to want to check it out one day for sure.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-72628140415793391882018-01-03T10:40:54.647-06:002018-01-03T10:40:54.647-06:00"The comic book industry may have been crumbl..."<b>The comic book industry may have been crumbling, putting Marvel on the path towards bankruptcy, but you'd be hard-pressed to know that judging by the X-books of the time.</b>"<br /><br />Totally with you here. I mean, I was aware of some books I read getting cancelled around 1994-95, such as the 2099 stuff, but I mainly just read X-Men and Spider-Man at this point, and both of those kept going strong -- plus I was a teenager and didn't pay attention to the financial side of any of this, nor did I read any sort of fanzines, WIZARD, etc. -- so the Marvel bankruptcy announcement took me by complete surprise!<br /><br />(I still remember asking the owner of our local shop if that meant Marvel would close shop and cancel everything, but he assured me that was not the case; they would just be scaling back.)Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-9860375217793252812018-01-02T11:56:54.607-06:002018-01-02T11:56:54.607-06:00Yeah, I'm in the Twin Cities. Midway Books is ...Yeah, I'm in the Twin Cities. Midway Books is pretty fantastic - I put together a nearly full run of TRANSFORMERS, along with some other stuff, on the cheap via their basement back in the day. I've also found a few decent-priced copies of my beloved Three Investigators books there through the years. <br /><br />But I really need to find a digital copy - which I'm sure I can do via...less than legal means (since it's not available via Marvel Unlimited or for purchase digitally). I just wasn't in a position to do that over the last couple weeks, so I punted coverage of it for now (since it's not exactly essential X-Men reading). Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-26959722227600953012018-01-01T20:15:32.835-06:002018-01-01T20:15:32.835-06:00You're based in the Twin Cities correct?
If y...You're based in the Twin Cities correct?<br /><br />If you're looking for physical copies of Thunderstrike #2 & 3, I bet Midway Books have about 50 of each in their basement. There are one or two longboxes full of X-Men #1's down there. I put together a near full run of New Mutants, X-Factor, and MCP for pennies on the dollar.<br /><br />Outpost 2000 have boxes and boxes of random comics from the 80's and 90's but they require extensive digging as that stuff is not organized at all.I Grok Spocknoreply@blogger.com