Thanks to everyone who's mailed in for some of these comics. I'm in the process of moving house and so everythings getting boxed and packed and I can't send anything out at the moment. Once I've moved got sorted, I'll start up again. I'll revise the list, so it's nice and up-to-date and I'll there'll be some new stuff too. Try again towards the end of 2003. Jez.
I'm giving away these comics to anyone who wants to read them, because I'm unlikely to read
them again. That doesn't mean that this is a load of tat though. Most of them I still think are
pretty good - I've just got too many to keep and somethings got to go. Actually there are a few
real gems in here, and there may well be something for the Morrison, Milligan or Grant completist.
Like I said, you can have them for nothing as long as you'll give them a good home, although if
you want a big pile we'll talk about splitting postage. Have a read through, see what you want and email me.
Here goes.
Batman
Lots - issues 416 to 490. That includes a good part of Jim Starlin's run (including Ten Nights of the Beast and a Death In the Family were Robin gets it), Batman Year 3, Milligan and Dwyer's excellent Dark Knight, Dark City and good strong long Grant and Breyfogle run (I'll admit it - I cried when Killer Croc got killed.) All this top viligante goodness, plus annuals 9 to 15, Vengence of Bane, Shadow of the Gun, and odd issues of Shadow of the Bat.
Detective Comics
Big run - issues 593 to 657 and Annuals 2-5. Lots of Batman. Highlights include scads and scads of Norm "he's fantastic" Breyfogle artwork, mainly illustrating Wagner and Grant stories, 598-600 by Samm "Batman Movie script" Hamm and Denys Cowan, and a couple of short Pete Milligan runs.
Phantom Stranger mini-series
Pants story by Paul Kupperberg, fantastic art by the wet-dream-team of Mike Mignola and
P. Craig Russell
Wonder Woman
8 - 25, which is most of George Perez's run, plus 40 and 50
Wasteland
Close and Ostrander's wierd horror anthology. Issues 2 and 10
Valor
Spun out from some big cross-over or other (Invasion maybe?). Goes nowhere but has nice
Mark Bright artwork. Issues 1-7
Christmas with the Superheroes
Cheesy anthologies - new stories and reprints. Some nice Chadwick and Shanower work I
remember. Two issues.
Armageddon: Inferno mini-series
Another ropey cross-over spin off. What was I thinking? High-points provided by
Walt Simonson and Art Adams, but not enough to really spend money on. Good job I'm giving it
away.
House of Mystery, Swing With Scooter, Young Love
Everybody should read at least one issue of these comics. Swing with Scooter bops out at
you from 1966, with swinging Joe Orlando art daddio. Young Love aches with tear-jerking Robert
Kanigher stories ("I Love Her, But She's A Nun!") and House of Mystery makes you wonder just how
it managed to be the spawning ground of Swamp Thing, Sandman and the whole of the early Vertigo
line. Must haves.
Crimson Avenger mini-series
Set during the Second World War this is a tidy if not exactly earth-shattering little series.
Hawkworld
1-32 + annuals. Complete run of the follow-up series to Tim Truman's mini-series. Solid writing and occasionally spectacular artwork.
Congorilla, Stanley and his Monster, Plastic Man
Small but perfectly formed mini-series.
Secret Origins
Let's see. A few issues including Zatara and Zatanna, the all Gorilla issue (top!), Flash's Rogues Gallery,
The Mudpack which crosses over into Detective, the all headquarters issue (including Morrison on either JLA
Mountain or the Legion clubhouse - JLA Mountain I think), Ambush Bug/Rex the Wonder Dog/Stanley and his Monster,
Flash of two worlds (that man Morrison again) and yet more Flash.