I've got the Essential as well as the original issues and yep, have to agree!

I guess I'm about the same age as you Andrew, or a bit older. I was lucky to get the first Starlin issue of Warlock / Strange Tales when it came out, and raised catholic I knew exactly where Jim was coming from. Those two annuals that end the story were like gold if you could get them at the time :)

Yay!

100%. The early Thomas / Freidrich / everybody stuff is an interesting mess. The Starlin stuff is him working out his religious & industry issues in mind-blowing ways, similiar but different to what McGregor was doing in Killraven & Black Panther at the time. Intensely personal but accessible

Steve Gerber & Gene Colan on Howard The Duck.
Steve Gerber & everyone on Man-Thing.
Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers & Terry Austin on Batman.
Roy Thomas & John Buscema on Conan.
Don McGregor & Craig Russell on Killraven
Kirby on anything.
That'll do for starters!

Eek! She'd go mad! 😆

My mum used to take everything down the day after Boxing Day: 'No Tut / Toot. It's over, in the bin.' Ruthless!

Jack Kirby, creator of The Silver Surfer, posing at his poolside.

The King Jack Kirby Silver Surfing.
Oh, you're welcome.

'He looked at the world through crap coloured glasses.
Which was pretty much the way he looked at it without them too.'
Damnation Alley
Roger Zelazny

It was good to see you as much as I did this year, 'cos clearly you never slept! 😉

AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top [Official Music Video], Full HD (Remaster, Resync and Upscale) YouTube video by Enhanced Music Videos

Everything is terrible and the world is on fire, but a friend of mine who thinks Coldplay are good has just told me he's discovered Bon Scott and AC/DC and this song. There is hope, my friends.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qk...

First issue of Deathlok aarg still missing that one.

My online gang doing their thing big stylee. Go!

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Today would've been my fantastic Mum's 80th birthday. She was one of the first, and longest surviving, kidney transplant patients in the UK.
Without organ donation, she wouldn't've lived and I wouldn't even exist, so if you can, and feel able to, please register at: www.organdonation.nhs.uk

Big bucks!

I just thought, that must've cost Image or whoever, a fortune, that ad

Fin yeah, that's great though. I think that might've been the tour where they cancelled in my town 'cos Bruce got ill, but Steve Harris & Nicko showed up anyway and drank with the fans for a bit, so disappointed, but that was cool of them.

Definitely one of their best, and Pete Way was so cool. Waysted as well, when they started, were great.

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Hahah! Genuinely made me spit my drink out 😂

Yeah it really is, congrats!

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Hey I can always skip across town and sell my photos to the Daily Planet... 🤪

You're not fooling anyone, Jonah.

No joke, or hot take or all that shit, genuinely the best, sharpest strip he ever wrote. Have at me, social media! 😉

I'll ask around on the art slack site I'm on

Rian: The Fontmeister General

Alien, Mighty World Of Marvel, The Studio and especially Epic - Hell yes, that man

It's one of the EC Comics holidays that Bill Gaines took all the MAD magazine gang on, so very possibly yeah 👍