Showing posts with label 1986. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1986. Show all posts

Monday, June 30, 2025

ITEM # The Twisted Tales of Bruce Jones # 1 – 4

Published by Eclipse Comics in 1986, The Twisted Tales of Bruce Jones was a four-issue limited series highlighting the storytelling skills of American artist and novelist Bruce Jones. The series was originally slated for publication by Pacific Comics, but the company went bankrupt, and Eclipse picked it up.
The series is an anthology of Jones' fantasy and science fiction work, and is intended for mature readers.

 

Friday, June 27, 2025

ITEM # Maus #1 – 2 by Art Spiegelman

Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale and Maus II – the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler’s Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival – and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents. A contemporary classic of immeasurable significance.

 

Sunday, May 4, 2025

ITEM # Batman – The Dark Knight Returns #1 – 4

 The Dark Knight Returns is a 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Janson, and published by DC Comics. When the series was collected into a single volume later that year, the story title for the first issue was applied to the entire series. The Dark Knight Returns tells the story of Bruce Wayne, who at 55 years old returns from retirement to fight crime and faces opposition from the Gotham City police force and the United States government.



Thursday, May 1, 2025

ITEM # The Shadow Vol. 2 #1 – 4

 4-part mini-series from Howard Chaykin, revamping The Shadow character into a contemporary setting and injecting it with some trademark extreme violence. Although not received too enthusiastically by traditional Shadow fans, the series did well and lead into an ongoing series The Shadow (1987).



Tuesday, March 25, 2025

ITEM # History of the DC Universe #1 – 2 (1986)


he History of the DC Universe, tells the story of the newly merged Earths, after the events of ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ maxi-series. In an effort to organize the status quo of the DC Universe after the Crisis, Marv Wolfman and George Perez collaborated on a two part prestige format history of the DCU. Full of detailed illustrations, these two volumes chronicled every major event from the dawn of time through the far flung future worlds of the Legion of Super Heroes and the Flash’s rogue Abra Kadabra. With appearances by nearly every major DC hero, the title put to rest most questions about how the timeline of various Earths destroyed during Crisis now blended into one.



ITEM # Classic X-Men #1 – 45 (1986-1990)

This series reprinted the Chris Claremont/Dave Cockrum/John Byrne run of The X-Men/The Uncanny X-Men (The original series renamed from The X-Men to The Uncanny X-Men after Classic X-Men renamed to X-Men Classic). Additionally, early issues of the series also included additional panels to contextualize the stories with events occurring in Marvel continuity at the time, as well as back-up stories giving a “behind-the-scenes” look into the main story. Continues into X-Men Classic with #46. In between Classic X-Men #13 – Phoenix Unleashed! and Classic X-Men #14 – Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!; What Stuff Our Dreams Are Made Of… ;, The X-Men #106 – Dark Shroud Of The Past! was not reprinted. Similarly between Classic X-Men #16 – Home are the Heroes! and Classic X-Men #17 – Mindgames!, The X-Men #110 – The ‘X’-Sanction! is not reprinted.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

ITEM # Dark Horse Presents #1 – 157 (1986-2000)

Dark Horse Presents (DHP) is an eighty-page, monthly anthology comic published by Dark Horse Comics. It is the first comic book ever printed and published by Dark Horse Comics, however this is the third incarnation and second print volume of DHP.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

ITEM # 0800 RED SONJA # 1 - 13

The second ongoing Red Sonja series from Marvel. After this, nothing was done with the Red Sonja character, and the rights to publish her adventures where sold to Dynamite entertainment

 

ITEM # 0714 STAR COMICS MAGAZINE # 1 - 13

ISSUE 11 IS MISSING

 

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

ITEM # 0627 PRIORITY WHITE HEAT # 1 - 2


 

ITEM # 0496 X FACTOR VOL. 1 # 1 - 149 + ANNUALS

X-Factor launched in 1986, featuring an eponymous team composed of the five original X-Men. In 1991, the founding members were incorporated back into the regular X-Men series, and X-Factor relaunched as a U.S. government-sponsored team incorporating many secondary characters from the X-Men myths. The series was canceled in 1998.

 

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Saturday, January 25, 2025

ITEM # 2921 JONNY QUEST # 1 - 31

Jonny Quest is a comic series published by Comico in an ongoing format from 1986-1988, which was how long their license held, with low sales stopping any point of renewal. Comico was the first company to publish an ongoing series for Jonny Quest, with Western Publishing publishing a single issue in 1964.