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So....a week ago I was in Colorado Springs. We (the gigantor extended family) were having an after-Christmas holiday, and we'd made it to Acacia Park in the middle of downtown Springs, I saw the word books across the street, and found a small used bookstore that had nothing of interest to me, until I saw this Galaxy magazine with the classic Wally Wood cover. 3 bucks. Stepping out of the bookstore, I saw almost directly in front of me a comic shop. It had nothing of interest to me, until I saw this reprint of the first Black Panther by Jack Kirby. 4 bucks. After ringing up, I see Vampire Tales #2 hanging behind the counter (you know, the mag that had the beauty black'n white of Steranko's At The Stroke Of Midnight! that was originally seen colorized in Tower of Shadows #1). 75 bucks. Nope, I said to myself, self, I like you a lot, and I got no problem spend'n 7 bucks on you just for grins, but I'm not THAT crazy about you to drop 75 bucks on a story I already have in TOS, and besides that,self, you can search Vampire Tales on here from 5 years ago to see it in b&w
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It's amazing how Steranko's work lingers in the memory. He did so very little of it overall, but it's burned into my brain. That ToS story was a stunner, and still is.
ReplyDeleteOh, true ALL dat. In the seventies, a buddy and I took all the Nick Fury by Steranko and made it into a homemade novel. Forty years after that, I saw some trade paperback compilations that sorta/kinda came close, but no cigar
DeleteYou made the right call; there's no way you should pay more than a buck or two for a reprint (though the zips are so good on that, I wonder if Steranko himself did the job. Probably was Dan Adkins, who was on staff and had worked with Steranko back in the Shield days). Garage sales, flea markets and overstuffed comic shops might yield a more reasonable price, if you're patient. It doesn't seem that long ago that a lot of the weird 70's stuff was in junk boxes at the bottom of dealer tables, selling for peanuts.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I miss those perfect synchronicities when I realize sump'n is great shakes right before everybody does
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