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Never read. Each was bought in twos. One bagged and backed and boxed the other for reading and long gone. Bagged backed boxed never exposed to light or moisture pages as white as day they came off the press. Ballpark value at 9 lowest grade each. (Closer 9.8 if not 10) just intrested in all issue graded @ 9 value as complete sets Marvel set 1 D.C. set 2 fair auction est value. Real collection!
Found this series recommendation through YouTube Shorts, either from Tsaava or ComicsUnlocked. Unfortunately forgot the name.
I know it's not Marvel or DC for sure due to its highly adult themes. Most likely indy. The story goes:
Main character is a superhero that has fallen on hard times. He is hated by just about everyone in the superhero world, civilian or otherwise. He was a member of a team, but they all hate him too. The reason why the team split is because he broke up a happy relationship two of his teammates had.
It's later revealed that he was coerced into it during a mission, all because his best friend was impotent and his wife couldn't get pregnant. After this the story follows him trying to clear his name/redeem himself despite still being hated by just about everyone for what he did. I can't remember the color of his costume but I know he had facial hair during the early stages of the story.
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so ive recently taken a liking to Psylocke with the recent marvel rivals and othe fighting games x-men children of the atom and marvel vs capcom.
i wanted to read her story. the only thing i know so far is that there are 2 psylockes the original one who is a Japanese woman and then a British girl who somehow switches bodies with her.
where do i start?
BEAR WITH ME bc i've spent actual hours looking but also don't have a ton of info it had midpollo and jenny (she was a toddler in this so likeee 2000-2007 i think) and the plot had something about being gay i think a gay villain killing het couples? and the panel/cover i remember was midnighter and apollo in kinda sexy fits and i think M holding riding crop ??? ive gone through comicgeeks appearances and haven't found it, so either its obscure or was canceled and only had one art?
and no it's not these. but similar vibe https://x.com/jay_not_wayne/status/1876050750067113995?s=46&t=-J1LO_0AGtl2Ol00WJ-BXw
I’m writing a fanfic story taking place in the Marvel Universe that depicts a post apocalyptic world under the tyrannical reign of Ultron. The story takes place through the lense of everybody’s favorite web head as the few remaining heroes struggle to overthrow Ultron. While I do know lots of different aspects of the Marvel Universe, I do not know anything about the Inhumans at all, I don’t trust the tv show as accurate material and I don’t have any Inhuman focused comics. So in fear of misunderstanding how they work I just have them completely absent from the story. Everybody from Black Bolt to Miss Marvel just isn’t mentioned in any fashion. I don’t know if I wanna make it so the Terragen Mist thing never happened or if these characters do exist just on their own in the background and are never mentioned. I don’t know how to approach this and need advice, whether that’s helping me equip myself with enough knowledge to include them in the story or helping me figure out a satisfactory reason for their absence. I appreciate any and all constructive feedback on this topic.
I want to say this was from the early 2000s, maybe the late 90s. I don't know which run, or even which series. Here's what I do remember:
I know that's, like, nothing to go on, but I'm hoping it's enough?
I say this because many Marvel heroes would be considered DC villains due to their realism.
I'm searching for a comic which featured a young boy who has to outsmart a crew of evil ghost pirates.
It was a longer issue, not a series. I believe the boy lived with his grandpa/grandparents.
There was a second volume, featuring a villian with gray skin wearing a talking hat.
The comic may be of french or british origin, from the late 80s to late 90s.
That's all i remember.
Thanks in advance.
Like is it always an inevitability that the future is always going to be dark for mutant-kind?
Clive was born a prince, he never abuses his social class and instead views it as duty mainly to protect and serve his people of Rosaria. After he was betrayed by his mother and enslaved as a soldier, he joined with outlaw Cid to free Bearers from tyranny and oppression and discover the Dominant of Ifrit who destroyed Rosaria and killed Joshua.
However the truth of him being the Dominant of Ifrit made him suffer an existential depression but he still carried on with his mission to free Bearers from oppression and eventually destroying Mothercrystals once he realized they are the cause of the ecological decay known as the Blight. However to his amazement, Clive realized that Joshua survived and revealed him of an evil entity's known as Ultima's master plan to absorb all magic for himself while dooming humanity thus Clive vows to fight Ultima. In the end, Clive believes in freedom, equality and fairness for everyone and is willing to fight for it even divine beings like Ultima to make it happen.
I think the Justice League would sympathize and empathize with him but his willingness to use lethal force would definitely be a source of contention since he is basically a revolutionary hero in an otherwise feudal world
Basically, the title. I've read both JLD vol.1 and 2, but only just found out they also had backup stories on the regular JL series, which have now been collected.
As these worth getting? Are they desperate to the other series and/or add much to the lore?
Thanks in advance.
Does anyone know when Guy Gardner got his ring in relation to Hal or John Stewart?
I'm wondering with Guy Gardner being in the new Superman movie and he seems fairly established with his ring and what this could mean in relation to Hal or John.
How far along are three other lanterns and how experienced are they with their rings?
Hello everyone! I am new to this community, but for some posts that have seen, I feel that may enjoy it a lot. Why do I need your help?
Because recently, I won on an auction a very are item. It's a barf-bag signed by a lot of artists, from the Dallas Fantasy Fair in 1993. What would love is to identify each of them. I know some names (given by the auction house) like Sergio Aragonés, Scott McCloud, Kerry Gamel and more, but many of them are missing. know it will be difficult, but maybe for someone it is like a kind of challenge hahaha. But some of them they seem truly impossible!! It won't let me attach photos, if anyone is curious, you can write me privately!!
Any help will be greatly appreciated! And if someone considers that I should pay him something for the work, I wouldn't mind doing it. My private messages are open! Again, thanks P.D: The only one recognize is Jim Woodring hahaha.
I’m on a quest to find a specific comic book from the early 1990s. It had a somewhat dark tone, with prominent heroes dying. For instance, on one page, Cyclops is pierced through the chest with a plasma beam and then again in the face as Jean Grey attempts to rescue him from the battlefield. Mr. Fantastic is stretched out and defeated, while Professor X gazes over a team obliterated. They were fighting off an alien/robot invasion or something similar, possibly called the Pysche Wars, which I believe was based in Europe and not part of the traditional Western comic run for the X-Men.
Any of this sound familiar? It’s not infinitely gauntlet.
I remember they even had an animated project for a movie But it was cancelled
So I recall a while back reading about a guy that set up plots in such a way that regardless of the outcome he always benefited. For the life of me I can recall what it's called
I'm trying to find a specific page where daredevil explains how his radar sense works. He's 'looking' someone in the face and one panel shows how he gets the shape from echolocation, how he can feel the heat from their skin, how he can smell their sweat and hormones, etc and each sense gets a different looking panel, and at the end it shows them all combined to give him an accurate interpretation of what someone looks like.
looking to buy someone a comic as a gift. Venom and Carnage are their favorites. I can get Spiderman #316a with Venom's first cover appearance or #361 with Carnage's first ever appearance. can someone please lend insight on which is the better comic to get?
In what comic book issue was Earth-Four first named?
I just remembered about Terraxia, a character created by Thanos using the Infinity Gauntlet during the “Infinity Gauntlet” storyline. Terraxia was made to be a companion for Thanos and shares his physical characteristics, including the purple skin and immense size.
This makes me an ideal. What if Thanos and Terraxia were to have offspring, it’s likely that their children would inherit some of their physical traits, such as the purple skin and considerable strength. Given Thanos’ gene, their offspring might also exhibit unique mutations or abilities. This species may be called Thanites
Say there's a crossover universe between DC and Marvel. Not like Amalgam, but a universe where DC and Marvel's characters coexist, more or less.
How would the Avengers and Justice League operate and who would be on each team? Would there be heroes on both teams?
So if Lex gets a cancerous disease via prolonged Kryptonite exposure how does Batman not suffer from the same disease?
Hi all, I was a huge fan of Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men growing up in the early 2000s. I fell off in the 2010s, I understand at something the Ultimate universe was destroyed in the new Secret Wars which is why Miles Morales is in the mainline continuity, but for some reason Ultimate Marvel is back and I'm hearing great things about it.
What would be a good jumping on point? Mostly interested in Ultimate Spider-Man but I may check out Avengers/ X-Men, do I need to read Secret Wars and whatever story it was that recreated this universe?
A number of years ago I read a Batman run where essentially there is a new mystery force taking Gotham City where it is almost a hive mind of dopplegangers made of soil or some other substance. Both Penguin and the Ventriloquist are involved and are aware of this entity.
I have tried searching for one off Batman villains as I am pretty certain this is the only time they have appeared, but no luck.
For some reason much of the plot eludes me other than certain moments involving an apartment building that is affiliated with this enemy and Penguin in a helicopter blasting away.
I remember reading a compilation book of comic strips in the early 90s. It had lots of different characters from various companies - I think including Casper, Spider-Man, Batman, etc It may have been a charity book. I read it in the UK but I’m fairly sure it was American in origin. I remember it being quite a large trim and thick.
Can anyone help me find an Uncle Scrooge comic where he buys a bakery and puts in automation? The cakes were originally individually made and decorated so they were all unique. Scrooge’s assembly line meant that all the cakes were the same and he lost customers. I read it in the UK Disney comic in the mid to late 80s I think.