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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: Comic News
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Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 10:38:16 EDT
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Getting a few items out of the way first:

(1) I should have added an address for the publisher of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA
TURTLES. It's Mirage Studios, P.O. Box 1408, Dover, NH  03820. Cost is $1.50
plus $.50 postage and handling per copy.

(2) I found out what X-Men work Jerry Ordway is going to be doing, though I
don't happen to remember where I read it. He's doing a one or two part X-Men
WHAT IF? story.

(3) Yes, Jeff, RONIN is only a six-issue series. Thank God! Otherwise, it'd be
A.D. 2000 before we saw the end of it.

(4) About British comics, Jeff, I'm not that knowlegable about them myself,
but I'm learning as time goes by. I'll try to detail what I know in a later
posting (I don't have the time right now). What I recommend, if you want to
start at the top, is to pick up a set of WARRIOR (issue #20 just appeared
the other week; back issues are not all that hard to come across, and they
can usually be had for cover price, which is $2.00). Pacific Comics is going
to be publishing two bi-monthly comics of reprints from WARRIOR, PRESSBUTTON
and CHALLENGER, starting in a couple of months. PRESSBUTTON will reprint the
"Pressbutton and Laser Eraser" strip, which is lots of fun. CHALLENGER, will
reprint a few of the other strips, most notably "V for Vendetta" by Alan
(SWAMP THING) Moore, which is probably the best strip in WARRIOR. But it's
still worth picking up a set of WARRIOR because it'll be way ahead of the
Pacific reprints. "V for Vendetta" is good enough that it's worth buying
WARRIOR for alone. And so is "Marvelman", which is also by Alan Moore, and
is my personal favorite strip from that comic. As yet, reprints of "Marvel-
man" are not in the works, so WARRIOR is the only place you can get it, and
even though it's only 6-8 pages an issue, it's a great 6-8 pages. Be warned,
though, if you go hunting for back issues, that #4 is labeled as a "Summer
Special" on the cover, rather than as #4.

*******

From THE COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE, 6 July 1984 and 13 July 1984:

(1) Sol Brodsky, Marvel's vice-president in charge of special projects, died on
June 4th. Long-time Marvel readers will probably recognize the name, though he's
been out of the limelight for a long while.

(2) Marvel is cancelling MARVEL TEAM-UP with #150, which will guest-star the
X-Men. In its place will be a third regular Spider-Man title, THE WEB OF SPIDER-
MAN. The reasons given for the change was that it was becoming more difficult to
arrange team-ups each issue. TWOS-M will be tied in with the other two Spider-
Man titles much more closely than MT-U was.

(3) First Comics is preparing their first mini-series: THE P.I.'S, featuring a
team-up of Mike Mauser and Ms. Tree (!) with E-Man and Mike Mist as guest-stars.
It'll run 3 issues, and the first issue will be out in September (with a January
cover date). It'll fit into the E-Man continuity, and while it is running, E-MAN
will be temporarily on a bi-monthly schedule, to alternate with the mini-series,
which will also be bi-monthly. Max Collins and Terry Beatty, the writer and
artist, respectively, of MS. TREE will script and ink, respectively, THE P.I.'S.
Joe Staton, E-MAN's writer/artist, will pencil.

(4) SOMERSET HOLMES has been optioned for a movie by Ed Pressman. Bruce Jones
and April Campbell have been signed on to write the screenplay. "A major star,
who cannot be named while negotaitions are still under way, has expressed great
interest in playing the lead role.

***

I suppose I should, in return for "stealing" news out of the CBG, put in a plug
for same (even though I myself don't have a subscription -- I get hand-me-down
copies from a friend). It's a weekly tabloid newspaper, with news, features,
lots of funny cartoons (one issue, for example, featured a parody, DOOM COUNTY,
with Milo, Opus, Victor Von Doom, and The Silver Surfer), and lots of ads (its
main purpose in life is to be an adzine). One can occasionally find interesting
items in the ads. The rates are $10/26 issues, $19/52 issues, $36/104 issues.
The address is THE COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE, 700 E. State St., Iola, WI, 54990. You
can also pay for your sub with Mastercard/Visa. I believe that if you write to
them and ask, they'll send you a free trial issue.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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