#first issues

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Portraits of the MC5 by the artist Linz in the first issue of CREEM magazine, March 1969.

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Yesterday I posted a bunch of Spider-Man #1s, and looked through the McFarlane launch issue for the first time since the ‘90s. This wasn’t my original copy — I had the yellow background version that came polybagged, bought on a trip to Toronto in summer of 1990. The layouts are amazing, but good god, the art…

Leafing through it brought back a lot of memories: my parents were building a new house, my dad’s contractor uncle was in town to help him (he was cool cause he taught me québécois cuss words en tabarnac and had a TV in his truck). We had temporarily moved into a semi-detached house on the same street where a bunch of friends lived, but once moved into the new one, the rest of the summer was filled with a creeping anxiety that due to the outskirts location of the new house, I had to change schools. Had never been the new kid before. The first few months of the school year were dreadful but things levelled out.

But the good parts of that summer: hitting corner stores in hopes of finding an X-Men issue. Collecting baseball cards. Having a little mini TV in my bedroom and one of those see-through phones. The Dick Tracy movie. Watching The Little Mermaid ad nauseum with my little brother and cousin, playing Metal Gear and The Adventures of Link for a whole week when another cousin loaned us his NES while they were on vacation. Seeing The Jetsons movie with William and Guy. Spending birthday money on Kenner’s Dark Knight Collection action figures. Learning BASIC at a computer camp. Signing up for cub scouts. Seeing Count Yorga, Vampire on late-nite TV. Finishing Police Quest on my XT.

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A few Marvel firsts.

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DC Comics First Issues Coming October 2019

Hey friends, I am back with more comic book solicitations for the month of October and for a change I am not skipping a day because tomorrow is the New York Comic Con and I will have my hands full for sure. Let’s get right down to business shall we?

BASKETFUL OF HEADS #1 written by JOE HILL art by LEOMACS backup story art by CREDIT cover by REIKO MURAKAMI card stock variant cover by JOSHUA…

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Marvel Comics First Issues Coming October 2019

We are only days away from the mega-media event known as New York Comic Con and in case you didn’t see me mentioning this already, PiercingMetal is once again attending as a member of the Press to bring you some sights and scenes and a world of coolness. In the interest of time I am not going to say much more and just share the debuts and special edition happenings from the Marvel Comics side of…

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Tornado No 1: Free Turbo-Flyer! Plus The U.K.'s First Real Live Super Hero!

Tornado No 1: Free Turbo-Flyer! Plus The U.K.’s First Real Live Super Hero!

So far everything in this blog has been a re-read. All those times I’ve guessed how a Future-Shock ends, I’ve read that story before. It may have been thirty years ago, but there’s a possibility that I’m remembering rather than working out the ending. This is different. I bought a full run of the 22 issues of Tornado for this blog and have not yet read them. Everything I know about Tornado I know…

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Marvel Announces "The Dawn Of X" w 6 New Series Coming This Fall

Marvel Announces “The Dawn Of X” w 6 New Series Coming This Fall

The Press Release: With just days until HOUSE OF X #1 hits store shelves, Marvel announced six brand-new ongoing series with a suite of all-star creative teams to take mutantkind further than they’ve ever gone before, kicking off with X-MEN, EXCALIBUR, MARAUDERS, NEW MUTANTS, FALLEN ANGELS, AND X-FORCE!

Announced at Marvel’s Next Big Thing panel at San Diego Comic Con, these new series will…

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