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Speaking of horror covers...look at what is the main cover on their calendar this year. And if you don't buy any calendars from these guys, you should. They are cool and very high quality and can detach if you want to hang or frame them.
2025 Vintage Horror Comics Calendar - Asgard Press https://www.asgardpress.com/wp-conte...5CAL-front.jpg https://www.asgardpress.com/wp-conte...25CAL-back.jpg |
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Oh wow, thanks, I think I need to buy this calendar. And nice to see that the best cover is in December, my birthday month. :)
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I forgot that Topps published comics. :lol:
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Originally Posted by cultshock
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I forgot that Topps published comics. :lol:
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The only thing I remember about Topps comics was their X-Files series.
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I remember that Dracula comic mainly because Mignola did the interior and not just the covers. IIRC it was polybagged with a card (I mean it's Topps, right?). I also seem to remember them doing Kirby comics, not sure if that was public domain stuff or if they actually licensed it.
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Yeah, Topps started publishing comics during the glut of the early 1990s.
They didn't really have much of anything notable... mostly licensed stuff like X-Files, Jurassic Park, and some other properties... Xena, Friday the Thirteenth, maybe, I can't really recall. X-Files and the Mignola Dracula adaption are probably the most notable things they published. And they also had some Jack Kirby scraps from the 1970s... Secret City Saga and Satan's Six... that got a lot of hype but little interest. Everyone was already spending all of their money on Image and Valiant, and Kirby's name had no marquee value for anyone under thirty at that time. And outside of some horribly dated character concepts and designs, Kirby had nothing to do with those titles. I did buy X-Files for a while (which featured nice early artwork from Charlie Adlard, who would later go on to become the artist for The Walking Dead and trippy McKean-ish covers from Miram Kim), the Mignola and Morato Dracula series, the Neil Gaiman Elric: One Life Furnished in Early Moorcock one-shot, and the handful of Ray Bradbury anthology books they published. |
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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
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Yeah, Topps started publishing comics during the glut of the early 1990s.
They didn't really have much of anything notable... mostly licensed stuff like X-Files, Jurassic Park, and some other properties... Xena, Friday the Thirteenth, maybe, I can't really recall. X-Files and the Mignola Dracula adaption are probably the most notable things they published. And they also had some Jack Kirby scraps from the 1970s... Secret City Saga and Satan's Six... that got a lot of hype but little interest. Everyone was already spending all of their money on Image and Valiant, and Kirby's name had no marquee value for anyone under thirty at that time. And outside of some horribly dated character concepts and designs, Kirby had nothing to do with those titles. I did buy X-Files for a while (which featured nice early artwork from Charlie Adlard, who would later go on to become the artist for The Walking Dead and trippy McKean-ish covers from Miram Kim), the Mignola and Morato Dracula series, the Neil Gaiman Elric: One Life Furnished in Early Moorcock one-shot, and the handful of Ray Bradbury anthology books they published. |
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Yeah, I forgot about a lot of that stuff through the fog of the 90s comic book glut. I don't recall the Gaiman Elric one-shot but it sounds interesting.
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Originally Posted by cultshock
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Yeah, I forgot about a lot of that stuff through the fog of the 90s comic book glut. I don't recall the Gaiman Elric one-shot but it sounds interesting.
The other somewhat notable comic from Topps was Zorro, which ran for 12 issues. That spun off Lady Rawhide, Topps' addition to the Bad-Girl era. My favorite Topps series was The Lone Ranger and Tonto; a 4 issue mini written by Joe R. Lansdale and drawn by Tim Truman. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...fa72cc7cf4.jpg Another interesting title was Jackie Chan's Spartan X. As a big Jackie Chan fan, this was right up my alley. And made all the better by artwork by none other than Michael Golden. I'm not saying that it was good, just that I loved it. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...c7e1233aa3.jpg They were also known for their Mars Attacks comics, which had a bit of a resurgence after Tim Burton's movie came out in the 90s, but I didn't buy any of those. |
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I'm a sucker for those 70s gothic romance/horror comics, DC did some too:
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^Very Dark Shadows looking!
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Iirc, I got lucky several years and got a complete set on ebay super cheap. Used to have a quest to someday own every DC horror book, but think I’ve given that up.
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Yeah, I forgot about a lot of that stuff through the fog of the 90s comic book glut. I don't recall the Gaiman Elric one-shot but it sounds interesting.
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That was an interesting title, it started as a humor comic in the 40s but switched to a horror comic in the early 50s when the horror comic fad was in full swing.
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This is a creepy-ass cover. I love that the boy is covering the dog's mouth. Nice touch.
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Weird Mystery is a title pretty sure I never saw on the newsstand. I bought pretty much every DC horror title I saw, but my local convenience and drug stores seemed to just get House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Unexpected, and Witching Hour.
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That Weird Mystery cover really is fantastic and eerie as heck. Also, that Haunted Love cover is phenomenal. I immediately said to myself when viewing the cover that the ghostly form of the woman is gorgeous, just some really great artwork.
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These old horror/mystery comics reminded me of this Fantagraphics / Marvel collaboration that will reprint comics like these under a “Lost Marvels” banner, starting with the nine issues of TOWER OF SHADOWS (which then became CREATURES ON THE LOOSE). I’m not sure how many old series like these have been collected by either DC or Marvel, but it seems like a lot of them have been MIA forever.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...bf0915cd4.jpeg The never-collected horror anthology series featuring stories by Jim Steranko, Neal Adams, Barry Windsor-Smith, Stan Lee, John Buscema, and other Silver Age masters. In 1969, with its revolutionary superhero line well established, Marvel took a chance on the kind of supernatural, EC-style anthology series that had been banned since the formation of the Comics Code in the 1950s. Tower of Shadows featured a staggering array of artists and writers, including Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, and Bernie Wrightson, to name a few. Freed from the conventions of the superhero adventure, these creators brought their storytelling skills to a more quietly sinister genre, producing atmospheric gems of twisted suspense and sardonic horror. Not only do these nine issues feature Marvel’s best creators working at their peak, but Tower of Shadowsis one of the lost, never-collected Marvels. In the first of a new series of Lost Marvels, Fantagraphics and Marvel join forces to introduce these pages to a new generation of readers and restore this series to its rightful place in comics history. This gorgeous volume brings every Tower of Shadows story and cover to life in vivid color and features background and analysis by comics journalist Michael Dean. Full-color illustrations throughout |
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I might have to check that out, I never read the comic but am a big fan of a lot of the artists involved (Smith, Adams, Steranko, Wrightson, Wood, Craig, etc.).
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