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

#81 part 1:

Avengers West Coast (1992)

Birds of Prey (2005)

DC Comics Presents: Ambush Bug! (1985)

Firestorm (1989)

Flash: It may only be the cover, but Nightwing and Starfire drawn by Alan Davis? Yes, please. (1993)

Green Lantern: Following the events of the Final Night, the DCU holds a funeral for Hal Jordan. In attendance? John Constantine and Swamp Thing. Suddenly the ending to Brightest Day doesn’t seem so out of the blue. (1996) 

JSA: Geoff Johns run on the title comes to an end. Eventually, this series will end and turn into Justice Society of America with Johns, Dale Eaglesham (who drew this issue) and Alex Ross as the main creative team. (2006)

To be continued in part 2…

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PS/ If that GL cover looks familiar, here ya go:

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

#91 part 2:

Legion of Super-Heroes: If you ever needed an image of why this era was called the Archie Legion, this is a pretty good example. (1997)

Marvel Two-in-One: Tell me that’s not the greatest bait-and-switch cover ever? Usually the title logo features “Thing and…” and lists a secondary character. This one doesn’t do that. That omission plus the “pointy ears” shadow just screams that Marvel was playfully hinting at Batman. Can you see it? It wasn’t that way in the issue itself, but the cover alone demanded a place in my collection when I found it in back issue bins. (1982)

New Titans: See how closely the costumes of Nightwing and Pantha resemble each other? That always bothered me. Especially since Pantha’s came first. You would think they would look at the new Nightwing version and say - Oh no. Can’t use it. It wasn’t even like they were trying to do some subtle character connection either. Bleh. (1992)

Peter Parker, Spectacular Spider-Man: I’m not 100% certain but this may just be the earliest comic I ever read that featured Blob. (1984)

Teen Titans (2011)

Warlord (1985)

Wolverine: With this issue, Wolverine returns from the Age of Apocalypse story. I collected every X book once that event wrapped up. This one didn’t go over too well with the new starting point. (1995)

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

#98 part 2:

Legion of Super-Heroes: Love Phantom Girl of the Legion. Not that the ones shown here fit the bill. Apparition (the one with the cape) is from the Archie Legion. And Phase (the one with the short hair) used to be Phantom Girl when she was with L.E.G.I.O.N. And then Zero Hour bungled all that up. (1997)

Marvel Comics Presents (1992)

New Titans: They aren’t the versions I like the most, but I do like this cover by Tom Grummett and Al Vey. Oye that Nightwing costume. (1993)

Spider-Man: “Final Chapter” which leads to the revamping of both Amazing Spider-Man (which eventually gets its numbering restored) and the next short lived Peter Parker: Spider-Man series. (1998)

Teen Titans (2011)

Wolverine (1996)

Wonder Woman (1995)

X-Men: Future X-Men by Alan Davis. (2000)

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

#101

Avengers West Coast: The penultimate issue of the run, although it’ll always be “West Coast Avengers” to me. (1993)

Birds of Prey (2007)

Excalibur (1996)

Green Arrow: Rather than lose an arm at the hands of Superman, shades of Dark Knight Returns, Ollie Queen goes boom! It would take another six years for his return at the hands of Kevin Smith. (1995)

Green Lantern: The X-Men have traveled from the past to a future they don’t like! Oh wait…I mean Hal Jordan! A novice, first-year Hal Jordan travels from the past to a future he doesn’t like. Sorry. I don’t know why that happened. (1998)

Marvel Comics Presents (1992)

New Titans: If ever there was a signpost along the way that dictates where a series goes wrong, this issue is it. (1993)

Nightwing: Scott McDaniel returns to the title to draw the six-part Chuck Dixon/Scott Beatty Year One storyarc! (2005)

Superman: The last consecutive issue I would pick up following all the various arcs of the Death of Superman years. From here until the Loeb run it’s all random issues, anniversaries, short arcs, etc. (1995)

Thunderbolts: Featuring artwork by Dave Ross, who, thirteen years earlier, also drew the AWC issue above. (2006)

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Limit reached, continued here:

Wolverine (1996)

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Wonder Woman: This issue kicks off the three year, two-star pantied, John Byrne run. I look back on these stories as a solid work with a few wonky tales here and there. The Donna Troy/WW connection that Byrne kicked up was never my favorite, but I really dug his restoration of a Golden Age Wonder Woman into the DC mythos. If you can find them cheap, it’s definitely worth a read. (1995)

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X-Men (2000)

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And from the never read/never owned file:

Amazing Spider-Man: First appearance of Morbius, the Living Vampire!

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Uncanny X-Men: Thirty-six years before the events of Avengers vs X-Men, the Phoenix makes her first appearance! And although it’ll be retconned ten years later, as far as readers knew at this time, Phoenix is Jean Grey. (1976)

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

#106

Birds of Prey (2007)

Green Lantern (1998)

Marvel Comics Presents (1992)

New Titans (1994)

Nightwing (2005)

Wolverine (1996)

Wonder Woman (1996)

X-Factor: Hologram covers! (1994)

X-Force (2000)

X-Men (2000)

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And from the never read/never owned file (as well as the social awareness file apparently):

Alpha Flight: Northstar is (dun dun dun) gay! (1992)

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Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane: Lois is (dun dun dun) curious (black)! (1970)

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

#113

Birds of Prey: Sean McKeever’s first issue. My last. (2008)

Flash: I have a letter in this issue in the LOC. That’s important, yes? (1996)

JLA (2005)

New Titans: A fairly standard Dick Grayson/Nightwing story with art by Bill Jaaska. Jaaska’s work was not well received but there was something about it that I actually didn’t mind. Nightwing leaves the Titans with this issue. (1994)

Nightwing: Oh look! Nighting in red! Where have I see that before? (2005)

Wonder Woman: Cassie Sandsmark becomes the new Wonder Girl. (1996)

X-Factor (1995)

X-Men (2001)

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And from the never read/never owned file:

Flash: First appearance of the Trickster! (1960)