Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Comic News (and an anecdote) Message-ID: <3502@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Sep-84 03:31:57 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3502 Posted: Sun Sep 2 03:31:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Sep-84 04:22:34 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 113 I know I skipped a few issues, but most of that is now old data (pay it no mind) From THE COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE: 31 August 1984: (1) Alan Moore is quitting WARRIOR (sob!!!). He will continue on "Marvelman" un- til the end of the current storyline and on "V for Vendetta" until the end of the third storyline. (2) Gerry Conway is leaving SUN DEVILS and ATARI FORCE to concentrate on JLA and FIRESTORM. SUN DEVILS will be scripted by artist Dan Jurgens; ATARI FORCE will be scripted by --- can you *believe* this one?! --- Mike (NEXUS, BADGER) Baron. (3) Joe Kubert's errant maxi-series, THE REDEEMER, is finally almost completed and will soon be scheduled by DC. However, because of his commitments elsewhere (which are responsible for his lateness in the first place), it'll only be a six issue mini-series rather than a twelve issue maxi-series. (4) Walter Koenig (do I *really* have to tell you who he is?) will be writing a special issue of the STAR TREK comic. Apparently, he's a comics fan and wants a try at writing a comic (he has written some tv scripts before). Needless to say, the story centers around Chekov. (5) Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen are working on a LEGION OF SUBSTITUTE HEROES SPECIAL for release on or around April Fools' Day. I wonder if it's a rematch with Ambush Bug... (6) Following MAN BAT VS. THE BATMAN, the Baxter reprint series will feature 3 issues of Dr. Fate reprints, with art by Simonson, giffen, and Staton (gee, now I can get rid of those FLASH issues....) ********** From THE COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE, 7 September 1984: (1) DC is planning to do a "V" (you know, the "Return of the Battle for the Con- quest Beneath the Planet of the Son of the Ghost of the Nazi Space Lizards") comic. Marv Wolfman edits, Cary Bates writes, and Carmine Infantino probably draws. (2) Mike Barr is contracted to write a Batman graphic novel. (3) THE ELEMENTALS was a commercial success (it sold out) and will be going monthly with #4. I have my doubts that Comico (which I understand is pronounced Com-ee'-co, not Com'-ee-co) can get a monthly comic out, but they certainly can't be worse than Pacific or Eclipse. (4) Speaking of Eclipse, the Masked Man will be getting his own comic, to start in a couple of months. That's the good news. The bad news is that it's replacing ECLIPSE MONTHLY. Personally, I think this is a *bad* move. As much as I like the Masked Man, I think the 10-page length suits him perfectly (as the 7-pager fits The Spirit). Secondly, where the hell are we going to see "Rio"??? (5) CAMELOT 3000 #12 has been finished (well, it hadn't been completely inked by the time this issue of CBG went to press, but it's most likely done by *now*), but it has yet to be scheduled. ********** The 31 August CBG also had an editorial that was so amusing, that I *have* to share it, as much as I find it distasteful to reprint a substantial amount of material from it: "At the Chicago Comic Con, a man from Pittsburgh, about 30 years old, set up a table with many unopened shipping boxes. He was assisted by his mother and was selling his own collection. "One of his first customers was a boy of about 14, new to comics collecting, who came up and asked about THE X-MEN. The boy said he had been told that that was a desirable comic to collect, and did the man have any. "The man consulted a green notebook, checked his code numbers on the unopened boxes, pulled out a box, and opened it to reveal read-only-once copies of X-MEN. He sold the boy issues #94 through 126, along with GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1. Cost: $10 for #94, cover price for the rest --- about $36. "A crowd soon assembled and other bargains were being bought. A nearby dealer, angry at the man's naivete (and perhaps at the competition), handed him a copy of Bob Overstreet's COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE and suggested he educate himself and price the comics according to the GUIDE. "So he did. He charged the *lowest* price listed for each comic --- all were mint or near-mint --- unless that was lower than cover price, in which case he charged cover price. "The man who told us the story left his own table and picked up some bargains of his own, such as a complete run of DAREDEVIL from #60 on (including all the Frank Miller issues) for $30 and a run of WARLORD from #1 to the present (in- cluding the first appearance in FIRST ISSUE SPECIAL) for $20. "Meanwhile, the lucky kid who had started comics collecting with a set of the new X-MEN for $36, remained blissfully unaware of his incredible good fortune. He sat down on the stairway outside the dealer room and began to read GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1. "A dealer saw him, went back to his table, got a Mylar Snug and the offset-paper reprint edition, took the comic out of the kid's hands, put it in the Mylar Snug and gave the kid the reprint, telling him to read that instead and to keep the original in the Mylar Snug. "The kid and his parents hastily gathered everything together and left in a hur- ry, obviously convinced that they were in the midst of a convention of lunatics. --- Don and Maggie Thompson --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA