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I'm putting that down as a "no" then. Thanks HebiFicks!

Awesome, Ann. Glad you found it. Sorry to hear the circumstances, though.

Thank you, Rick.

I try to be philosophical about these things.

Today on "This old LCS..."

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes... # 216... the introduction of Tyroc.

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes... #222....a Return of Tyroc. Slowly rebuilding my Legion collection. Don't think I have those two, haven't looked in a while.

KaaaaaaaaRate Kiiiiiid numero UNO! That's right kids, the first issue of Val's own book with cover by the one, the only, the probably grumpy until he's had his morning coffee....Iron Mike Grell.

Tangentially related, because of the Super connection... Justice League of America #119...Winer takes...ummm, weiner take....Dammit! Winner Takes All!

And finally, for the delightfully divergent...Super-Team Family number 4. Because...sexual intercourse it!

Recently picked up Superboy and the Legion #220 and #240 at my LCS. He's had a lot of back issue bargains lately.

And on today's deep dive... Flea Market Finds! Yes, friends, took the boy to the flea market cause he loves bargain buying the army surplus and knife store...and found...

Legionnaires 3 Number 4

The New Teen Titans Baxter edition #9.

Big 1st Issue ARAK son of thunder NUMBER 1! Never read it before, but it was a number one for .50$.

And finally, The Fury of Firestorm The Nuclear Man #'s 2, 8, and 31.

Ahhhh...Jose Luis Garcia Lopez! Pure bliss.

JLGL was one of the most under-rated artists going. His stuff was always great, and his women were always beautiful or interesting without being "super"sexed up.

Love the '80s finds Rick. I've not read Arak, so it will be interesting to hear what you think of that. I had thought it was a COnway book, but a quick search tells me it's Thomas. Considering the number of Conan books Thomas did, I wonder if there are parallels in Arak.

:nods: on JLGL.

I think my first look at his work was in a Spanish version of Atari Force #12.
I'd not see his Titans work until Baxter reprinted in the newsstand version. I didn't think I got some of those issues at the time either. Too much whiny Azrael probably distracted me from the great art.

You should've done what I did -- ignore the word balloons.

Even Azrael's poses were whiny.

I think of it as having a lot of overwrought characters. Wolfman must have looked at the praise coming in for those issues and thought the readers wanted more angsty tears.

... checks with Ibby if it's too soon to comment on Kole's legs... sounds of desolate sobbing and who's who clutching indicates that it is...

I have to admit, when the previous owner of Legends Comics, Denny, passed away, I was worried. But, the new owners have taken up the mantle well. And part of the evidence for this is the fact that when I said I'm working on rebuilding my Legion collection, they listened.

Yesterday, in my pull was about 15 legion books that had come in to the store and they set them aside for me. Now, I had most of them, so I only got a few. But that's not the point. I treat my LCS well (or try to and try to remember my manners) and they do this for their customers. That's a good store.

So, yesterday I picked up copies of

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #205, the 100 page spectacular.

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #211, the Element Lad and Roxxas story.

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #230, the Creature who Conned the Legion.

And, The Legion of Super-Heroes #296, What do you do the day after doomsday?

Me Likey!

Glad to hear that, Rick. What a wonderful thing.

That Bronze Age Element Lad/Roxxas story still kicks like a mule today. The raw rage that Grell gave to Jan's facial expressions...whew.

Yeah, I got Jan's origin story reasonably early on, which was as much about his mystery powers. I'd been used to him as a more passive leader in the Baxter issues (well, Tales issues I was getting)/ That Roxxas story of Grell's gave an insight to what was really going on in his head.

Sorry, folks, was in a hurry this week, didn't have time to peruse, and just picked up some new stuff, nothing vintage. Kind of a bummer, but my LCS, Legends, is pretty good, so it's on me, not them that I didn't.

No need to apologize, Rick. Not every week can be a treasure trove.

Meanwhile, with my LCS gone, I'm considering trying a little experiment with my go-to online store -- order one of those value packs of 30 to 35 comics for a reasonable 13 dollars.

Anyone have any experience with getting those things online? Advice?

Let us know how that goes, Ann. I'm always gonna try my lcs first, but sometimes they have trouble.

Well, Saturday was free comic book day and the LCS was full. That makes me happy for them. But, I didn't really get a chance to peruse the back issue bins. That makes me sad for me..

*Dramatic sigh* My lcs got 61 new boxes of back issues in, but the boy was with me, sittin' in the truck. Damn video games on phones. Anyway, it's over 90 degrees here in SC already, so I couldn't stay in the store long enough to peruse. But, bein' the cool guys they are at Legends, they just went ahead and tole'me that there wasn't any silverage Legion, Flash or GL in the boxes. Nuthin' like it, even, heavens ta' murgatroid!

So, I just got a few new things.

Gawd they tryin as hard as they can to kill Nightwing. Storyline sucks. Art is all line-y and indistinct. Coloring is murky and ...well...blah. Combine all these components and frankly it isn't a book I really wanna read.

Justice League 24. World Forger....bats goes bad (yeah, right. Anyone seein' a 'replaces desaad to take down darkside' thing goin' on here?) 'sokay, nice art...really nice coloring. Needs more Hawkgirl.

Terrifics... gotta say, not a letdown after Lemire left. Pleasant surprise.

Shazam 5. Not bad. Johns is writing, and Eaglesham is leading a great art and coloring crew. Or should I say anchoring anyway, don't know if he's lead or not. Anyway, the Shazam family's trippin through the psychedelic wonderland. Nice.

Aquaman...this book was cruisin'. It was crushin' it. Then, about ten or twelve issues ago...what the serious sexual intercourse happened? The end of the previous storyline with rath or raith or somesuch...the new old forgotten gods storyline, now, mamma shark....what's next, baby shark? Just....naw. And the art and color vary greatly, even in the middle of a story...or book, it seems.

Lots of unexpected costs last couple of weeks, not including having to dig a new well and replace the pump, so...short list.

Hawkman 12 and13. Venditti on writing, Hitch on art for first 12. If you aren't reading this book, please check it out. It's like Legion to me, criminally lost and underrated character but is being done very well.

Justice League 25. Yep, issue behind, but so far it's only okay to me. Not impressed by Forger. Art not great either.

Aquaman. Well....shit. Don't know who Kelly Sue Deconnick is, but I'm hoping they are gone soon. But, can't blame it only on writer. Art has been murky and dark since the traitor storyline. But this story really ain't getting my motor running. And just a year ago this was one of the best books on the racks.

I'll agree with you on Hawkman. Venditti is doing a real good job playing off of all of Hawkman's past lives.

Hawkman is one of several gems one of my FB groups turned me onto.

I do hope to get
More development of the deathbringers at some point. We’re they really just a bunch of people who one day decided to murder the universe? Are they a single culture or diverse people drawn together by their mutual desire to murder the universe? Was their leader also their founder?

I admit I binged the series very quickly. Maybe a slower more careful reading would have revealed some of those answers.

What I found today...

Original Justice League of America's number 78 and 79.
Baxter series Legion of Super-Heroes numbers 24 and 25.

I found many more Legion books but I had them all that I saw.

I also found several old Hawkman books that I put in my pull.

Pretty good haul for me.

I also picked up the new Terrifics, which has maintained a very good pull ability for me. Justice League 28, and Aquaman 50. I really hate to say it because it's been so good the last several books, but the new writer and the new art isn't up to snuff for the ways it's been lately. Starting with Peter David, they really turned the character around from the joke it had been since the saturday morning cartoon. This isn't cartoony dude that talks to fish, but it's missing something.

Baxter Legion 24 and 25 -- w00t! The latter is one of my single favorite Legion issues of all time...except for the last page. But even so, I gave it something like 9 on a 10 scale when we covered it for the Archives Re-Read a while ago.

Hope you'll share your thoughts on 25 after you read it, Rick.

Thanks, too, for mentioning PAD's Aquaman run. Too many young'uns don't know that he made it possible for the 21st Century Aquaman to even be around in the first place!

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