Sweet Flea-Market Finds Again, Again:

~So, I made it out to the The Dirt-Mall this past Saturday and spent a whopping THREE DOLLARS!

Here's what I got:

The TOP 10 Best, Most Greatest, Marvel Comics / Superheroes EVER Of All The Times!!!

-Not my opinions... This is cold, HARD fact.  

These are simply the best Marvel Comics / Characters that have EVER been produced!!!

You can disagree- but you'd just be wrong. 









...and a loser!

So, let's get it started with-

-Fox Kids & Marvel Comics bring you: SOLARMAN!

~The #1 issue I'll be talking about in this post is an adaptation of the cartoon show's failed pilot- originally made, and released on VHS in 1989 to tie-in with the Marvel comic of the same name; Solarman (penciled by Jim Mooney, and created by David Oliphant.) It eventually aired as a "special" in 1992, on Fox Kids.

The episode clocks in at around 22 minutes long... Now, how long does it usually take you to read a standard super-hero comic? -Five, maybe seven minutes? Ten to twelve minutes at the most.  So, right from the start- they have to condense the script down by, at least, half... and it's Stan Lee who adapts this too!  -That combination makes this comic SO hilariously, generically, matter-of-factly straight-forward.  I can't stop laughing at it, and reading these ridiculous conversations aloud (which really freaks out my cat)... 

-I just had to share some of this little gem with you.

 

UBIQUITOUSLY STANDARD-SPACE-PLOT MODE HAS BEEN INITIATED:

The Weird Hookers:

~Because what better way to remind the reader who The Weird is... than with space-hookers?

 From Mystery In Space with Captain Comet #6 by Jim Starlin and Al Milgrom

The Local Comic Shop of my youth...

~Check it out, Mental Organisms!
                                                   Clout:

 Yup, that's fourteen-year-old Me, at my local Comic Shop of the time, as "A customer"!  

In retrospect... it is kind of worrisome that I had NO idea my picture was being taken by a stranger...

Sweet Flea-Market Finds Again:

Well, I spent $5 on some back-issues today at The Dirt-Mall:

-I picked up some stuff I needed, some books I wanted, and some just for the fuck of it- I mean, twenty-five cents each?  Right?


More after the jump-

Sweet Flea-Market Finds:

~For anyone who does not know- I absolutely love going out to the local Dirt-Mall. I always find comics, action-figures, and/or games on the cheap (I used to make YouTube videos about my hauls), and I just got back from my first visit in 2014.

 Of course, being winter still- there are no outside vendors... and that's who always has the really good stuff. The indoor vendors are always the same people, and most of them seldomly have new merchandise. At any rate; there are two booths inside that always have back-issue-bargain-bins, and here's what I picked up for only 33.333333 cents each:

Nobody's Favorite Superhero: Captain Atom (Part 1)

Just let me start by saying- My Gods!  Look at his fucking hair:

-And those sideburns!:

-Little Things In Comics: Nova!

It's the little things in comics that make me laugh... like when I'm reading Nova #1 and have to wonder to myself: Did... did Richard Rider's eyes just puke?:

-Yes, yes they did...

Mountain Dew is TERRIBLE for you, you guys!

So, in this issue- Gladiator shows up for a fight:

Little Things: Cosmic Edition!

~Sometimes you end up laughing out loud because shit's just THAT bad-ass!

Case in point- this sequence from Cosmic Powers Unlimited #1:

~All Quasar- all the time!

From Quasar #9:

You know... I'm beginning to think Wendell Vaughn has some serious Superman-envy.

The Little Things In Comics: Malibu Edition!!!

Oh, you know it's the littlest things in comics that will make me laugh... like every single time Smoke says "Toasty!" in Mortal Kombat: Battlewave-

From issue #2:

 (Loved the little 'No Smoking' sign, too!)

Then again in issue #3:

It’s still the little things…

...in comics that make me laugh.
Like when they gave Thor an intervention!:

 

...from Thor #430
"WWHHAA-AAAAAA-AAT!?!?!?"

I guess being the alter-ego of a super-hero would really make you look more than just scatter-brained or forgetful... I'm surprised no one ever accused Peter Parker of being on Meth.
...because he acts like he's on Methamphetamines.

It’s the little things…

...in comics that always make me laugh.

-Like an "UNUSED" garbage-chute:

-Really? How fucking convenient... Fuck you, Ultraseven! -You belong in actual trash!!!

~More 'Little Things'...

Because it's the little things in comics that make me laugh… things like "hey, m' butt's on fire!!" from Entity's Zen: Intergalactic Ninja #3:

-Poor Garbage-Man... his butt is on fire.

...or there's that one time Zen's "Hypership Battle-Pod" had a clearly visible giant robo-penis in Intergalactic Ninja: StarQuest #6: