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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 13, 2013 19:20:59 GMT -5
I sold off a run of Epic illustrated, so this #1 is one that was picked up in a bulk collection later. I had about 3 or more copies of #6 when it came out, so this is from my original collection and it was bought new. This has always been one of my favorite Neal Adams covers. Tentacles are cool. Epic Illustrated #1 Epic Illustrated #6 Defiant1
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Post by gowaltrip on Jan 15, 2013 11:08:36 GMT -5
I sold off a run of Epic illustrated, so this #1 is one that was picked up in a bulk collection later. I had about 3 or more copies of #6 when it came out, so this is from my original collection and it was bought new. This has always been one of my favorite Neal Adams covers. Tentacles are cool. Epic Illustrated #1 Epic Illustrated #6 Defiant1 I'm not sure which came first, Epic or Dazzler but I know me and my friends were suckered into the Marvel hype machine by both. I remember Dazzler was like the first comic to be offered exclusively at comic stores and I remember having to travel to Hampton (across the tunnel for us) to get a copy. Actually, we bought multiple copies in childhood speculation and then realize it was a dud. The same could be said for Epic. Stan talked it up for about 3 months prior in his soapbox and other outlets and it had us wondering what it could possibly be? Me and my friends were drawn into the hype. We had to have it! I remember getting it and being mostly disappointed. It was a mere magazine. Not even that special to us. It seemed to cater to an older audience than we currently were. I'm not sure if I remember this correctly but I feel like there was a Silver Surfer comic pages that seemed to be the highlight to us. The rest was not anything we wanted. In both cases, we were left disappointed and I think we didn't buy as heavy into the Marvel hype machine after that. We were very young. Live and learn I guess..
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 15, 2013 20:37:08 GMT -5
I sold off a run of Epic illustrated, so this #1 is one that was picked up in a bulk collection later. I had about 3 or more copies of #6 when it came out, so this is from my original collection and it was bought new. This has always been one of my favorite Neal Adams covers. Tentacles are cool. Epic Illustrated #1 Epic Illustrated #6 Defiant1 I'm not sure which came first, Epic or Dazzler but I know me and my friends were suckered into the Marvel hype machine by both. I remember Dazzler was like the first comic to be offered exclusively at comic stores and I remember having to travel to Hampton (across the tunnel for us) to get a copy. Actually, we bought multiple copies in childhood speculation and then realize it was a dud. The same could be said for Epic. Stan talked it up for about 3 months prior in his soapbox and other outlets and it had us wondering what it could possibly be? Me and my friends were drawn into the hype. We had to have it! I remember getting it and being mostly disappointed. It was a mere magazine. Not even that special to us. It seemed to cater to an older audience than we currently were. I'm not sure if I remember this correctly but I feel like there was a Silver Surfer comic pages that seemed to be the highlight to us. The rest was not anything we wanted. In both cases, we were left disappointed and I think we didn't buy as heavy into the Marvel hype machine after that. We were very young. Live and learn I guess.. I liked Dazzler and thought it was cool. Epic seemed like a letdown, but looking at them now they seem a lot more cool now than they did then. You are thinking of the John Byrne Silver Surfer one-shot. It's nice, but they printed a shitload. The odd thing is that I don't see them surface very often. I don't even see Dazzler #1 surface that often. It's weird. Defiant1
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Post by Brother J on Jan 17, 2013 0:14:23 GMT -5
Since he was talking Epic Magazine, I thought he was thinking of the "Last Galactus Story" pages from John Byrne, although I'm not sure if the Surfer was in those issues. They also came pretty late in the run of Epic Magazine.
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 17, 2013 3:55:29 GMT -5
Since he was talking Epic Magazine, I thought he was thinking of the "Last Galactus Story" pages from John Byrne, although I'm not sure if the Surfer was in those issues. They also came pretty late in the run of Epic Magazine. I considered that. Given the time frame, I'm sure he's talking the one-shot. These were all big deals. This is when I went from buying one copy of something... to buying three. Later I was buying five or six copies each of Frank Miller Daredevils. Stan Lee had held tight control over the Silver Surfer after the first series was cancelled. He eventually let the Silver Surfer be in the Defenders. By the time the one-shot came out, it was Silver Surfer's first big solo comic in a LONG time. Defiant1
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Post by gowaltrip on Jan 17, 2013 10:58:27 GMT -5
Since he was talking Epic Magazine, I thought he was thinking of the "Last Galactus Story" pages from John Byrne, although I'm not sure if the Surfer was in those issues. They also came pretty late in the run of Epic Magazine. I considered that. Given the time frame, I'm sure he's talking the one-shot. These were all big deals. This is when I went from buying one copy of something... to buying three. Later I was buying five or six copies each of Frank Miller Daredevils. Stan Lee had held tight control over the Silver Surfer after the first series was cancelled. He eventually let the Silver Surfer be in the Defenders. By the time the one-shot came out, it was Silver Surfer's first big solo comic in a LONG time. Defiant1 That might have been it Brother J. I don't remember the exact comic pages that were in Epic #1. I just remember there was like a 6 or 12 page comic in there in full color. That was the highlight of the magazine for a 13 year old kid that I was at the time and I don't even remember what it was. I wanted to say Surfer and I did. It may have been Galactus. You may be right. I feel like it was something cosmic. My memory over that book is fuzzy. I haven't seen the inside of that book since I was like 14. I'm going strictly on 30 years in the past memory. But I'm sure there was some comic pages in it. The rest was adult fantasy articles I believe and we couldn't have cared less. Does anybody know for sure?
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 17, 2013 17:39:21 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure Silver Surfer was in it after I quit buying it. It was later in the timeline if I'm not mistaken. Epic didn't appeal to me at the time, but looking at those issues above, I feel that there was some impressive talent working on them at a time when those talents weren't producing much comics work.
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