peter john rios

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

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Cerebus (1988)

Flash (1996)

JLA (2005)

Man of Steel (2001)

New Titans (1994)

New X-Men: And she hasn’t been the same since! This is the issue where Professor Xavier outs himself as a mutant. (2001)

Nightwing (2006)

Superman: Featuring a Preview for Dan Jurgens’ Teen Titans series. (1996)

Wolverine (1997)

X-Factor (1995)

Reached the ten image limit so I’ll finish it out here with:

Wonder Woman: Champion, as seen on the cover in ice, eventually turns out to be Heracles in disguise. It’s a character/identity that I actually really liked and wanted to see more of in the WW book. (1996)

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And from the never read/never owned file:

Iron Man: David Michelinie and Bob Layton join John Romita Jr (who started in the issue prior to this) to jumpstart the title and to finally give the character a definitive run. (1978)

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.

#145

Brave and the Bold: It’s hard for me to pass up Jim Aparo-drawn Phantom Stranger! (1978)

Flash: Flash Family cover by Steve Lightle! Chain Lightning was kind of a miss for me when it initially came out. The whole Cobalt Blue/Barry Allen twin brother angle never really hooked me but I am curious to see what my reaction would be now (if I still had the issues). I feel like there are better Mark Waid stories down the road. (1999)

Marvel Team-Up: Kinda wish he looked like that in the second Iron Man movie, no? (1984)

New X-Men: He’s not Weapon X. He’s Weapon Ten. (2003)

Robin (2006)

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

#150

Flash: It’s the end of the Chain Lightning storyline that will kick off the Dark Flash saga. Crisis-philes need to pick this issue up! (1999)

Girls Love Stories: No idea where this comes from. Perhaps a hand me down from my uncle? I just saw the cover and knew I had it in my collection. Haha. There are no credits that I can find for this issue inside the pages itself but there is a pin-up page encouraging girls to wear short skirts so as to expose more of their legs. Sounds right to me. (1970)

Iron Man: Handed down from my uncle, this is probably one of the earliest, if not the earliest, Iron Man issues I ever read. And with that John Romita Jr art with Bob Layton inking, and taking place in Camelot, yea - this captured my childhood imagination. Doom and Stark working together, marveling about each others’ brilliance as they use their suits to get back to their own time, was such a great sequence. (1981)

Marvel Team-Up: The final issue of the series with a subtle Barry Windsor-Smith cover. I knew it was a Greg LaRocque drawn issue, I didn’t realize Louise Simonson was the writer. (1985)

New X-Men: Jean Grey dies. And has been dead (more or less) since this issue. We shall see, hm? (2004)

Nightwing (2009)

Robin (2006)