Comic Reader Résumé: July, 1985

I'll need to take a moment to orient myself to July of 1985. The gap between my buying comics from this period new and a few years after as back stock is narrowing, and I technically haven't written a blog post for this project in nearly a decade, with age assuredly a greater factor in my recall capacity. I'm pretty sure All-Star Squadron #50 was in 1988's grocery sack o' comics, but it was conceivably in a 1989 quarter bin as well. Either way, the draw was a tie-in to Crisis On Infinite Earths, and not the hoary old farts that populated that book on the monthly. I specifically remember checking out the archival covers at the back of the book, and there was a time years later when I became very invested in DC history. Even at its peak, I doubt I could have slogged through a book this drab for continuity minutia so immediately irrelevant. More assuredly in a bin was DC Comics Presents Annual #4, a much better looking book thanks to the combination of Ed Barreto and Jerry Ordway, but even less a consideration with its tale of Superwoman and Pre-Crisis Luthors plagiarizing the Sivanas one last time. Nathaniel Dusk II #1 was the second time I would start and not finish a mini-series starring the eponymous Depression-era private investigator by Don McGregor and Gene Colan. If more than two issues of either had been in the bins, maybe things would have worked out different.

My half-brother had a mild interest in Firelord, the herald of Galactus with the flaming Q-Tip, so he probably had a copy of either Amazing Spider-Man #269 or #270, but he didn't care enough to have both, and I didn't care enough to keep track of which. The debut issue of the yearlong Eternals was definitely something I flipped through on the newsstand and never touched again, beginning a lifelong disinterest in that property. I still think Alan Kupperberg gets a bad rap in general, but it probably didn't hurt my more favorable opinion that Mark Farmer inked him on Blue Devil #17. That said, he's a bit too "straight" for the lighthearted misadventures, leaning too seriously into a Crisis tie-in revolving around The Fisherman and seemingly sentient raindrops. For reasons unknown, I skipped or was deprived of the following issue. Brian Bolland's Black Book #1 definitely got fished out of the cheapie bin for the reliably sumptuous art, but this child of the '80s was only going to get so much out of color reprints of British anthology lifts of '60s Hammer Horror tropes. By choice or not, it swiftly left my possession.

I knew I remembered Whilce Portacio inking Arthur Adams at some early point in their careers, and there's no other embellisher to obscure that fact in Longshot #2. Both admittedly improve by leaps and bounds from this point, but there's something about the dark edge Portacio lends Adams that is never recaptured after this. Again, I read my brother's copies of the mini-series, most likely in 1986 or '87, and it was scarring. Longshot stumbles into a job as a stuntman, and when he's grievously injured in the job, the director discreetly dumps his body in a bayou. I remember well the press coverage of the tragic deaths on the set of the Twilight Zone movie, and while John Landis technically remains one of my favorite directors from that period, I retain a great deal of animosity toward his smug face to this day. It's not hard to see the parallel Ann Nocenti was barely reaching for, and there's even a passing physical resemblance, although he's clearly amalgamated with Spielberg and Lucas. The third issue also supposedly shipped this month, though that's difficult to fathom with the level of detailing going into every page. You can really see the influence Adams had on J. Scott Campbell and Rob Liefeld in these early efforts, not that either artist ever reached even this level of craft. The story is a twisted take on It's a Wonderful Life, where a schlimazel tries to take his own life, but lands on Longshot's floating body. The alien has some sort of healing factor, and proceeds to demonstrate his inherent, obscene good luck on a misadventure where the schlimazel takes every knock. In the end, he's so battered and disaffected that suicide holds no more interest, as he'd rather return home to the suddenly desired voices of the nag and brats that first drove him to the attempt.

Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 is assuredly a prime collecting memory, for the month, year, and ever. I never cared a lick about football, but I managed to grow into and would quite soon at this point grow out of a Houston Oilers winter coat with a blue breast, silver sleeves, and red cuffs. Some teenage girls were running the counter at the mall Waldenbooks, and thought I was so cute with my Nicholas Bradford haircut that they gave me a copy of the double-length key issue featuring the death of Supergirl. I took the copy with me on a Greyhound bus ride from Houston to Colorado Spring to visit my stepfather's brother's family, the occasional comics fans from whom I'd gotten and never returned that Spider-Man team-up treasury. I think the younger brother held a grudge, because he was nasty towards me the rest of the time I barely knew him. Anyway, the sci-fi scale and air of tragedy from Crisis permeated my action figure play in a way Secret Wars never had. The art by Perez & Ordway was incredible, I got a primer in essential DC/Green Lantern lore, and was introduced to scores of new characters in the best possible presentation within the minuscule space. I've read enough entertaining Maid of Might stories to not diminish her by calling this her best, but certainly there are few super-hero deaths that still resonate as much as this one. The less effective but longer lasting death of the Barry Allen Flash in the next issue was part of my buddy's grocery sack bounty.

After a lapse in Web-Head interest, I came back strong for The All New, All Daring Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #107. It was a pretty mean feat for semi-disgraced swiper Rich Buckler and that one moonlighting guy from marketing working under Marvel's only African-American editor. The story would end up revealing the death of Jean DeWolff, a literally disposable gender-swapped Commissioner Gordon at a time when Spidey's main squeeze was a Catwoman lift. The amount of blood and the framing of Captain DeWolff's murder were so shocking that I showed it to my comics disinterested girlfriend. Daredevil shows up partway through, and the tone of his title seemed to be borrowed as well. Jim Owsley would catch all kinds of hell for this bold new direction, but he was on to something with this Peter David guy, and anyway, Owsley would eventually literally make a whole other name for himself as Christopher Priest.

Unbeknownst to myself, Dreadstar and Company #5 presented the penultimate issue of that newsstand reprint series of the 1983 Baxter format direct sales only title. While still plentiful in its violent action and advancement of plot, it still becomes a welcome comic romp by the midpoint, necessary after several uncommonly bleak issues. Marvel Age Annual #1 had the novel and likely costly idea of having the creative teams of most of their current comics produce a single page story to advertise current events in their titles. This was followed by mostly text-only teasers for upcoming events in those titles and the broader Marvel production slate. I read my brother's copy at a later date, which I suppose was my first taste of intentionally watching commercials on YouTube that I gladly skipped when they were actually airing on television.

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Comic Reader Résumé Podcast #14

The Business Year

(Second Quarter - 1985)

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Ambush Bug #2-4, Blue Devil #14-16, Dreadstar and Company #2-4, Elfquest #1-2, Fantastic Four #281, Fist of Khonshu: Moon Knight #4, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #37-38, Longshot #1, The Losers Special #1, Ms. Tree 3-D #1, Muppet Babies #2, Secret Wars II #1, Tales of the Teen Titans #55, Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Volume VI, and more! Plus a look at Spring films & television of 1985...

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• April, 1985
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Comic Reader Résumé Podcast #13

The Business Year

(First Quarter - 1985)

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Amazing Spider-Man #264, Blue Devil #11, Captain America #305, Daredevil #220, Dreadstar and Company #1, Ewoks #1, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #36, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #6, New Mutants #29, Rocket Raccoon #1, Sectaurs #1, Tales of the Teen Titans #52 & 54, Uncanny X-Men #192-193, Web of Spider-Man #1, and more! Plus a look at early films & television of 1985...

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• January, 1985
• February, 1985
• March, 1985
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Ambush Bug, Blue Devil, Captain America, Captain Britain, Daredevil, Dreadstar, Dune, G.I. Joe, Kitty Pryde, Moon Knight, New Teen Titans, Police Academy, Robotech, Rocket Raccoon, Sectaurs, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Wolverine, X-Men, Comic Reader Résumé

Comic Reader Résumé Podcast #12

Recall (Winter 1984)

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Amazing Spider-Man #262, Conqueror of the Barren Earth #1, Fantastic Four #275, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #31-33, G.I. Joe Yearbook #1, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #3-5, Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #10-12, The New Defenders #141, New Teen Titans #4, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #99, Robotech Defenders #1, Thing #22, Uncanny X-Men #191 and more! Plus a look at Fall films & television of 1984...

“Transcripts”

• October, 1984
• November, 1984
• December, 1984
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Comic Reader Résumé Podcast #11

Sabbatical (Fall 1984)

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Buckaroo Banzai #1, Alpha Flight #17, Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #8-9, Blue Devil #6-7, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1-2, Thing #19, X-Men Annual #8, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #29-30 and more! Plus a look at more summer films of 1984...

“Transcripts”

• August, 1984
• September, 1984
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• Facebook
• rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com
• Comment on Résumé page or Rolled Spine Podcasts.

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Volume XII
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Meanwhile... Mr. Fixit, Illegal Machine, & Diabolu Frank ask, "...and where is The Batman?" While we couldn't omit all references to Nolan or Snyder, we more or less stick to the movie at hand, and keep the talk down to about a third of the, let's be honest, unreasonably long running time of the film. How do Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, and Paul Dano stack up in these iconic roles? Somehow, Andy Serkis' Michael Caine impression doesn't come up. Not much in the way of hot takes, with a disproportionate focus on director Matt Reeves, grunge appropriation and... tattoos?

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2021 “Primal Force” fanfic commission art by Brad Green

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Spinning out from “Lords of the Ultra-Realm” and continuing along similar lines as “Justice League Extreme #1”, I got so jazzed about playing with DC's obscure and unfamiliar sword & sorcery characters that I ask to expand to a diptych. Since I was more or less doing a comics adaptation of the Warlord toy line with the first one, this was a lot less formed of an idea. I hadn't realized when I made the ask that the artist wasn't even advertising commissions at the time, and I here I was asking for two without having a clear idea of exactly who I'd even want.

Thankfully, Brad Green put up with my nonsense (again) and delivered another dynamic piece (again again.) The main reason I wanted to do this was because I was so impressed with Beowulf's 1970s design, and I knew Anj would love to see the Dragon Slayer again. I was such a pain about art direction on the first commission that I tried to keep quiet this time, but I was pleased that Green recognized the same aesthetic appeal and fore-fronted the dude.

I kind of robbed Claw the Unconquered and skewed the premise, but I just really prefer John Chan's design over Valcan Scaramax's Conan repaint. I also was reliant on prexisting logos for the project, and Primal Force was a great fit. The Asian representation was a bonus, but more so, Green threw so much into Claw (especially his sick namesake extremity) that I'd argue this is the best drawing of the character ever. The original Starfire checked a lot of the same boxes, including stretching the gag, but I think including her just enriched it with the Moorcock vibe her co-creator David Michelinie strove for in connecting her to Star Hunters and Claw.

Stalker #1 was one of the first comics I ever owned, so this was my greatest sentimental favorite. Between the two pieces, I also got to revisit a bunch of characters I'd been tantalized with by the 1983 DC Sampler, so Arion helped to round out the lot. Aside from an insane artistic rookie season that included a young Bernie Wrightson, I never had much in for Nightmaster, but his premise and swordcraft sure fit this scene. The only real oddball is Anima, but her dual nature and dark fantasy ties kept drawing me to use her. She weirdly fits here, and with the Marvel Family, another player in my premise. She's even kind of a Johnny Thunder revamp, and you may have noticed that I have a spot for New Bloods.

I continue to admire Brad Greens ability to not only balance out bunches of diverse (and conversely somewhat repetitive) characters, but to find ways to give each their own spotlight while doing things that are visually interesting. Five of these people have swords, but they're all swinging in different directions, striking unique poses, telling you a bit about themselves as individuals. I like to change things up and work with different artists, but when Ive got the opportunity to get a piece from someone this good, it's hard to pass that up!

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2021 “Lords of the Ultra-Realm” fanfic commission art by Brad Green

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Continuing along similar lines as “Justice League Extreme #1”, I asked digital artist Brad Green to produce another mock cover to promote a fanfic figment of mine. This time I wanted to Enter the Lost World of The Warlord, the cheap knock-off Masters of the Universe figures produced exclusively for K-Mart by Remco Toys that I loved as a kid. Several characters from Mike Grell's Skartaris were assigned to me for Who’s Editing #14: No Man Escapes the Editors, so I went whole hog and involved the entire line (even The Warrior Beasts.)

I've got to be honest, from personal experience, I usually hire African-American artists to draw Black characters because other artists seem to struggle with that subject. Thankfully, Green does not have that problem, as he accurately and attractively rendered Bloodwynd and now Machiste. The warrior-king is featured prominently here, with lush rendering in the muscles that recalls the Philippine artists responsible for most of these Frazetta-type titles the the '70s & '80s. He ended up being a pivotal figure in my story, the leader of the group, so I'm glad that was reflected here.

Next we have a lovely Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, who was not in the toy line. However, she was slated to star in one of her own in the mid-80s, until She-Ra, Princess of Power stole her thunder. So besides adding some gender representation, her inclusion is also a nod to what could have been. A shredded Travis Morgan, namesake of the line, is my favorite of the figures present.

I was tempted to use the short-lived Mohawk Arak Red-Hand from when I was introduced to him in the DC Sampler. Green favored the more classic visage of the Son of Thunder from the toy line, plus I ended up using his lookalike descendant Arak Wind-Walker in the story, so it was all to the good. We get a huge Hercules Unbound, and where some would have wanted the ornate late-series redesign by Walt Simonson, I favored the earlier José Luis Garcia-Lopez/Wally Wood look. Finally, one of my all-time favorite toys was named for Mikola Rostov, but the had little in common. I was sorely tempted to send Green toy reference, but that wouldn't have been a remotely accurate take on the comic character, and I felt like that would be too much of a liberty with the premise.

I needed logos for my project, and it made sense to recycle DC IP. I always thought Lords of the Ultra-Realm looked metal and had boss house ads. As research, I finally read the mini-series, and even did write-ups for Comic Vine. It wasn't great, but the premise was very promising, so I borrowed liberally from it for this project. Seeing Green's presentation art shape up really got me jazzed, and as usual, he did an excellent job with the illustration. It was so nice, in fact, that I asked him twice. That's a story for next week, though...

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Volume X
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