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Covers of comics that are (or have been) in my collection at one point or another.

#114

Flash: Wally meets the Tornado Twins! (1996)

JLA (2005)

Man of Steel (2001)

New Titans: This issue leads into the Zero Hour issue which changes up the team. Nightwing, Starfire, Red Star, etc are all gone. Enter Minion, Mirage, Damage, Impulse, and, eventually, Kyle Rayner, Supergirl and others. (1994)

New X-Men: Grant Morrison. Frank Quitely. New X-Men. Oh yea. (2001)

Nightwing (2006)

Warlord: Skartaris meets Apokolips. (1987)

Wonder Woman (1996)

X-Factor (1995)

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And from the never read/never owned file:

Journey Into Mystery: First appearance of the Absorbing Man! (1965)

Covers of comics that are (or have been) in my collection at one point or another.

#115

Cerebus (1988)

Flash (1996)

Man of Steel: He’s a beast of an artist to this day, and having only read a few issues of Major Bummer at the time, these Our Worlds at War stories drawn by Doug Mahnke brought him even more to my attention. (2001)

New Titans (1994)

New X-Men: The death of Genosha. (2001)

Nightwing (2006)

Warlord: I think this is the first issue to hit this series of posts. Purchased because of the Legends crossover although I did collect a small run of Warlord issues a few years earlier than this. I even had a few early issues of the series from my uncle’s collection which were Mike Grell drawn issues with those fabulous two page spreads. (1987)

Wolverine (1997)

Wonder Woman (1996)

X-Factor (1995)

Reached the limit, so I’ll finish here:

JLA: Taking place after the events of Identity Crisis (which, along with this storyarc, harkens back to Justice League of America vol.1 issues 166-168), the JLA battle the Secret Society of Super-Villains (one of my favorite villain groups). Chris Batista art. Geoff Johns with Allan Heinberg (who at the time was five issues into his Young Avengers). A great Batman/Martian Manhunter/Catwoman scene. An even better cliffhanger. Just a great JLA story for the time. (2005)

Covers of comics that are (or have been) in my collection at one point or another.

#121

Green Lantern (1979)

Hellblazer (1998)

JLA (2005)

Legion of Super-Heroes: For the Phil Jimenez cover. (1999)

New Titans (1995)

New X-Men: One of the better ‘Nuff Said silent issues. (2002)

Nightwing (2006)

Power Man and Iron Fist: Secret Wars II rears its head! (1986)

Wonder Woman (1997)

X-Factor (1996)

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From the never read/never owned file:

Batman: First appearance of Mr. Zero - who will be known as Mr. Freeze! (1959)

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Amazing Spider-Man: The death of Gwen Stacy! (1973)

Covers of comics that are (or have been) in my collection at one point or another.

#127

Flash: Picked up this three issue story that brought a few Flash Rogues back from the dead (from Underworld Unleashed). Plus, the cover grabbed me - and now I see why: J.H. Williams, baby! (1997)

Hellblazer (1998)

New Titans (1995)

New X-Men: One of my favorite covers of the run by Frank Quitely. (2002)

Nightwing (2007)

Wonder Woman (1997)

X-Factor (1996)

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From the never read/never owned file:

Superman: First appearance of Titano the Super-Ape! (1959)

And:

Thor: Yet another cover depicting the fallen hero in arms, this one from the 60s. (1966)

Covers of comics that are (or have been) in my collection at one point or another.

#128

Flash (1997)

Green Lantern: Not entirely sure why I picked up this issue. It’s not in my collection anymore to check. Maybe for its Donna Troy appearance? (2000)

Hellblazer (1998)

Man of Steel (2002)

New Titans (1995)

New X-Men: First appearance of Fantomex! (2002)

Nightwing (2007)

Wonder Woman: Another Faces of the DCU cover month entry, this one by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez. Remember how I was supposed to do an ongoing Tumblr series of posts on him? (1997)

X-Factor (1996)

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And from the read but never owned file:

Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle. Tony Stark gets the shakes. (1979)

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And from the never read/never owned file:

Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane: See? Told you this imagery didn’t begin with Uncanny X-Men 136. (1972)

Covers of comics that are (or have been) in my collection at one point or another.

#130

Defenders: Another good Frank Cirocco cover featuring Valkyrie. (1984)

Flash: Mark Waid and company take a year off allowing Grant Morrison with Mark Millar to play in the Flash sandbox. First order of business? Break Wally’s legs! (1997)

Green Arrow (1998)

Hellblazer (1998)

New Titans: Totally forgot this was coming up! The Perez cover is an homage to his cover on New Teen Titans vol.1 #1. For the issue itself, I think I read it only once and I have a very limited knowledge of what actually happened inside. Cyborg was all wonked out, I think Changeling could only change into imaginary beasts, Starfire and Raven were merged, Donna Troy was a Darkstar. Yeesh. Definitely ended with a whimper, an unfortunate example of editorial and the creative team not exactly mixing. (1996)

New X-Men (2002)

Nightwing (2007)

Wonder Woman (1998)

X-Factor (1997)

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From the read but never owned file:

Uncanny X-Men: First appearance of… Dazzler! (1980)

Covers of comics that are (or have been) in my collection at one point or another.

#131

Defenders (1984)

Flash (1997)

Hellblazer (1998)

New X-Men: Scott and Emma. The future begins. (2002)

Nightwing (2007)

Wonder Woman: A World War II-era JSA series by Byrne? I might’ve read that. (1998)

X-Factor (1997)