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« on: April 14, 2018, 09:35:27 AM »
Yesterday I put up my new Alex 9 Drawer from Ikea and I love it. 3 drawers fit all my double digests. I tried stacking the flater comics and it didnt work :/
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« on: April 13, 2018, 04:38:39 AM »
ARCHIE'S BIG BOOK VOL. 3: ROCK 'N' ROLL  | Original appearance: | | story title: | | writer: | artist: | | | 1960s: | | | | | | | | LIFE WITH ARCHIE #72 | Apr. 1968 | "Labor of Love" | 11 pages | Frank Doyle | Dan DeCarlo | | | ARCHIE #185 | Sept. 1968 | "Music Soothes" | 6 pages | Frank Doyle | Harry Lucey | | | 1970s: | | | | | | | | EVERYTHING'S ARCHIE #8 | Jun. 1970 | "Mister Appetite" | 6 pages | Frank Doyle | Harry Lucey | | | LIFE WITH ARCHIE #120 | Apr. 1972 | "Reggie Mantle, Super Star" | 12 pages | Dick Malmgren | Bob Bolling | | | EVERYTHING'S ARCHIE #21 | Aug. 1972 | "Bubble Trouble" | 5 pages | George Gladir | Bill Vigoda | | | ARCHIE'S T.V. LAUGH-OUT #37 | Feb. 1976 | "Group Gripe" | 5 pages | George Gladir | Harry Lucey | | | 1980s: | | | | | | | | EVERYTHING'S ARCHIE #111 (?) | May 1984 | "Sign Off!" | 5 pages | Frank Doyle | Dan DeCarlo Jr. | | | ARCHIE'S T.V. LAUGH-OUT #96 | Aug. 1984 | "Rock n' Roll Is Here to Stay See" | 5 pages | George Gladir | Stan Goldberg | | | ARCHIE'S T.V. LAUGH-OUT #98 | Dec. 1984 | SABRINA in "Monster Melody" | 6 pages | George Gladir | Stan Goldberg | | | EVERYTHING'S ARCHIE #129 | May 1987 | The Vocal | 5 pages | George Gladir | Stan Goldberg | | | EVERYTHING'S ARCHIE #135 (?) | Mar. 1988 | "The Name of the Game" | 6 pages | Frank Doyle | Dan DeCarlo Jr. | | | 1990s: | | | | | | | | EVERYTHING'S ARCHIE #148 | Mar. 1990 | "The Fame Game" | 5 pages | George Gladir | Doug Crane | | | ARCHIE & FRIENDS #16 | Nov. 1995 | CHUCK CLAYTON in "What's In A Name?" | 5 pages | Bill Golliher | Bill Golliher | | | SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (1997) #7 | Nov. 1997 | SABRINA in "Mr. Hoagland's Opus" | 6 pages | Bill Golliher | Dan DeCarlo | | | 2000s: | | | | | | | | ARCHIE & FRIENDS #52 | Dec. 2001 | JOSIE in "Oh Solo Mio" | 11 pages | Dan Parent | Holly Golightly | | | SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (2000) #41 | Mar. 2003 | SABRINA in "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" | 6 pages | Holly Golightly | Holly Golightly | | | ARCHIE & FRIENDS #124 | Dec. 2008 | "Battle of the Bands" - Part 1 | 22 pages | Jane Smith Fisher | Stan Goldberg | | | ARCHIE & FRIENDS #125 | Jan. 2009 | "Battle of the Bands" - Part 2 | 22 pages | Jane Smith Fisher | Stan Goldberg | | | ARCHIE & FRIENDS #134 | Oct. 2009 | "The Archies in New York" | 12 pages | Hal Lifson | Dan Parent | | | 2010s: | | | | | | | | ARCHIE #623 | Sept. 2011 | "Banded Together!" | 22 pages | Dan Parent | Fernando Ruiz | | | ARCHIE #625 | Nov. 2011 | "Send in the Clowns!" | 22 pages | Alex Simmons | Dan Parent | | | | | THE ARCHIES' ROCKIN' WORLD TOUR!: | | | | | | ARCHIE #650 | Jan. 2014 | Part 1 - "Bollywood Love!" | 20 pages | Dan Parent | Dan Parent | | | ARCHIE #651 | Feb. 2014 | Part 2 - "Love on the Road" | 20 pages | Dan Parent | Dan Parent | | | ARCHIE #652 | Mar. 2014 | Part 3 - "Blunder Down Under!" | 20 pages | Dan Parent | Dan Parent | | | ARCHIE #653 | Apr. 2014 | Part 4 - "Close to the Borderline" | 20 pages | Dan Parent | Dan Parent | |
Curiously, while the original dates of publication are sourced for these stories, the actual titles and issue numbers of the comic books they appeared in do not appear in the credits in this trade collection. I've tried to source those comics here (with a couple of guesses when I couldn't confirm the original appearance for certain). All of the stories (except for three Sabrina stories, one Josie story, and one Chuck Clayton story) feature The Archies, unless noted in the story titles above. Not a bad collection overall, but one could have hoped for more classic stories from the sixties and seventies... but actually, the best stories in this collection are the most recent ones from the 2010s. "Battle of the Bands", the two-parter from ARCHIE & FRIENDS #124-125 is kind of a slight story. Not bad per se as Archies stories go, if it were a standard 5 or 6-pager... maybe even a 12-pager. But at 44 pages, it takes up far too much space in this collection that could have been devoted to better stories. Since they did reprint both "The Archies Rockin' World Tour" 4-parter, and "Banded Together!" which preceded it, both of which advance the romance story of Archie and Valerie, they probably should have reprinted the whole "Archies and Josie & the Pussycats" multi-parter that kicked off the (then-)surprising love story, so you could see the whole thing (apart from the future timeline where Archie Marries Valerie, already reprinted in the "Rock and Roll Romance" trade collection). They could definitely have left out "Oh Solo Mio" (good story though it is), since that one appeared in both last Fall's BEST OF JOSIE trade collection, and last month's B&V FRIENDS JUMBO COMICS digest, and of course, the entire "Rockin' World Tour" arc appeared in its own trade collection back in December 2014 (under the slightly modified title ARCHIE - ROCKIN' THE WORLD!) as Volume 24 of the Archie & Friends All-Stars series (on better paper, too). As an aside, the previous collection's title modification was a result of there already having been a previous volume (No. 11) in the Archie & Friends All-Stars series released back in July of 2011, entitled ARCHIE: WORLD TOUR (which collected the multipart story from ARCHIE & FRIENDS #117-120). Not bad, but not what I was expecting. I was expecting to see reprints of all those musical guest-stars not included in previous trades, like Lady Gaga, the Veronicas, and the School Gyrls, plus the usual stories where celebrity pop stars of the day are alluded to, but not named as such. While I was slightly underwhelmed, all things considered I guess I should just be grateful they didn't waste my time by reprinting that Archies one-shot from last year, and shut up and be happy about it.
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« on: April 12, 2018, 02:33:22 AM »
04-05 to 04-11-18:
HEART THROBS #1, 2, & 4 (of 4) [Vertigo 1999]
MY TERRIBLE ROMANCE #1 [Apr. 1994]
COWBOY LOVE nn [1998]
THRILLING LOVE 3-D [3-D ZONE #17, 1989]
CONFESSIONS, ROMANCES, SECRETS and TEMPTATIONS TP by John Benson [May 2008]
TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE: Classic Love Comics Retold! TP by Jeanne Martinet [Jun. 2001]
MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX: Another Kind of Love TP [Feb. 2007]
WELCOME TO THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS #1 (of 3) [1995]
B & V FRIENDS JUMBO COMICS #260
BETTY AND VERONICA JUMBO COMICS #262
THE ARCHIES #6 (of 7)
ARCHIE'S BIG BOOK VOL 03: ROCK 'N' ROLL TP
ANGEL LOVE #5, 8 (1986)
BINKY'S BUDDIES #6 (Dec. 1969)
THAT WILKIN BOY #14 (Sept. 1971)
MADHOUSE GLADS #80 (Sept. 1971)
JUGHEAD #7 (Aug. 1988)
LAUGH #284 (Dec. 1974)
BETTY AND VERONICA #35 (Nov. 1990)
BETTY AND VERONICA #90 (Aug. 1995)
BETTY #14 (Jun. 1994)
ARCHIE 3000! #10 (Aug. 1990)
TITANS #22
WONDER WOMAN #44
DETECTIVE COMICS #978
BATMAN #44
THANOS #18
CAPTAIN AMERICA #700
RESIDENT ALIEN: ALIEN IN NEW YORK #1 (of 4)
DRY COUNTY #2 (of ?)
GIDEON FALLS # 1 & 2
MARS ATTACKS KISS (one-shot) [Jan. 2013]
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« on: April 10, 2018, 12:15:49 PM »
Youtube
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« on: April 10, 2018, 09:18:31 AM »
I have not been on Twitter because my computer doesn't work anymore. I miss it too. We are try to get a laptop.
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« on: April 09, 2018, 02:17:06 AM »
...I knew that already. I ordered it knowing that. Thank you. [size=78%]More later. [/size]
Okay, that's good. It momentarily crossed my mind since they're starting to reprint collections of consecutive issues from older series like COSMO, LIFE WITH ARCHIE, and ARCHIE AT RIVERDALE HIGH that maybe they had decided to do a collection of older issues of REGGIE. I would kill  for a collection of the older REGGIE issues from #1-18, or even just a collection of REGGIE AND ME #19-23 (the Evilheart issues!)
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« on: April 08, 2018, 12:19:09 AM »
I glanced at bits and pieces of LWA, but I just had the time to read it from the beginning. When I saw the volumes, I started. That's how I approach reading older comics. I get the whole thing in a major storyline at one time.... 😁
Well, that's pretty much how I started to get serious about Archie Comics. I'd read some of the recent floppy comics here and there, in a casual way, just borrowing them or reading them in the store (because my LCS owner is a long-time friend). I'll often try things that look interesting, or just for the curiosity factor. That's often true of things that might smack of some marketing gimmick ("Okay, let's see what this crap is all about...") that I have a negative/cynical attitude towards. I did not at first connect the Death of Archie thing with "The Married Life" over in LIFE WITH ARCHIE magazine (although I obviously knew of that already) because I saw the floppy comic format issues first. I was surprised by the whole convoluted backstory leading into DoA, as I mentioned, so then I made it a point to read both the Archie Marries trade collection, and all of The Married Life TPBs, starting with the first. LWA in magazine form was a turn-off to me as a comic book collector, with the cover blurbs and short articles about Justin Bieber like some teen magazine. Then I started seeking out all of the other trade collections of then-recent multipart stories ((anything I could still order through Diamond Comics or Amazon, or whatever original issues I could find of multipart stories like ARCHIE MEETS KISS, etc.). Then "just" the SABRINA, JOSIE, and B&V trade collections... then KEVIN KELLER, because it was a short-run series and easy to get my hands on. Then ALL the rest of the ACP trade collections, then those 1000 Page Comics digest whoppers. Ongoing digest titles were the very last thing I began reading, some six or eight months after I'd read Death of Archie, unless you count the ongoing search for non-reprinted back issues. Then I started spending hours and hours online reading databases, Wikipedia and other sources of info about Archie Comics, getting a feel for the company history and compiling want lists. And the rest is history...
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« on: April 07, 2018, 10:20:00 PM »
Thanks Vegan Jughead. I like it a lot because I have blue eyes. I love black hair with blue eyes.
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« on: April 06, 2018, 10:22:21 PM »
Yesterday I actually dyed my hair Bright Black - Starry Night - #21. It's Feria.
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« on: April 02, 2018, 10:47:21 PM »
No reading today but I got a package from Midtown Comics which I will open tomorrow.
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« on: April 02, 2018, 01:32:22 AM »
03-29 to 04-01-18:
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN: FRED FREDERICKS SUNDAYS HC VOL 01 [1965-1969]
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN: FRED FREDERICKS DAILIES HC VOL 01 [1965-1967]
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN: LEE FALK & PHIL DAVIS DAILIES HC VOL 01 [1934-1936]
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN: LEE FALK & PHIL DAVIS SUNDAYS HC VOL 01 [1935-1937]
Lee Falk created Mandrake (the first comics superhero with magic powers) in 1934, when he was a 19 year-old college sophomore, and continued to write the strip until his death in 1999. In the early years Mandrake had true mystical abilities, although as time went on, all these fantastic manifestations began to be explained as powerful illusions created by Mandrake through a form of instant super-hypnosis. "MANDRAKE GESTURES HYPNOTICALLY" was a caption oft-repeated. Telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, levitation, psychometry, astral projection, invisibility, and metamorphosis were only a basic selection of Mandrake's vast array of powers. Mandrake was trained in the mystic arts at the Collegium Magikos, hidden in the Tibetan Himalayas, presided over by Headmaster Theron (who was later revealed as both Mandrake's father, and the father of Luciphor [unbeknown to Mandrake, he was his half-brother, who later became his arch-enemy the Cobra]), yet Mandrake's powers always seemed to be somewhere between true magick and parapsychological talents, plus having mastered all the standard craft of traditional stage magicians. Whether mystical or psychic in nature, Mandrake's abilities served him well as he travelled the globe, opposing criminals and all forms of injustice. He, together with his constant companions, the faithful aide Lothar (an African prince of immense strength who forsook his throne for a life of adventure), and the exotically beautiful Princess Narda of the tiny kingdom of Cockaigne (whom Mandrake finally married in 1997 after a 62-year courtship) endured in newspapers for nearly 80 years.
For the first 30 years, Phil Davis was the artist. Fred Fredericks took over the strip in 1965 (both dailies and Sundays) after Davis' death, and drew it until his retirement in 2013 (and he did double-duty after Lee Falk's death by writing the strip from 1999 until the end). Mandrake survives in reruns, but the Phantom, Lee Falk's other comic strip superhero (the first to wear a colorful form-fitting costume and mask, although without any superpowers) goes on and on.
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« on: April 01, 2018, 07:27:33 PM »
Keeping up with Waid's ARCHIE (I knew Mark when) and ASTRO CITY whenever it comes out.
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« on: March 31, 2018, 10:05:24 AM »
Yes, DCR, that's what I mean, the Blondie issue. Sorry, I guess #7 is the next and final issue.
You just gotta love it when as a subscriber you wind up getting an issue weeks earlier than retail consumers. Doesn't happen for me with my digest subs all that often, but it DOES happen occasionally.
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« on: March 29, 2018, 07:08:08 PM »
The Archies is back up on Amazon with #6 available for pre-order.
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