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“Weaknesses: Nicotine, Self-Hatred.”

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So the response to the Final ’90s Countdown survey is going fairly well, people are mostly avoiding the excess conversation there and leaving their choices. I have noticed that quite a few titles are being suggested that I (gulp) don’t really have anything to say about, so I’m gonna have to muster all my blogging powers to discuss them. I’ll say more about this when I actually start going over everything.

Anyhoo, get in there and cast your vote (after reading the instructions of course)!

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Last week we got ourselves a new facsimile edition of a Swamp Thing comic book, this time being Swamp Thing #37 from 1985, the (supposed) first appearance of everyone’s favorite magical Englishman, John Constantine.

And since we are living in the Modern Age of Comical Books, there are variants a’plenty. Did your pal Mike get one of each? Oh yes he did.

There’s the standard issue regular cover:


The “Mondo” variant, with the image redrawn:


…and an ad on the back where you can buy a poster of same:


Then of course there’s the “action figure” variant:


…the back cover of which is detailed with figures I wish they’d actually make in this supposed Super Powers line:


No cigarettes in sight, but he does have his Flame Hex:


Cover D is the foil covered version, which doesn’t scan very well, but I assure you it’s plenty shiny:


And rounding out this batch of funnybooks is the blank cover, where you can get your favorite artist to draw a picture of Swampy on a motorcycle, Easy Rider style:


Now I mentioned above that this was the “supposed” first appearance of Constantine. That would be because there are some who think…well, here, I wrote about this back in 2004, but rather than send you to that heavily link-rotted entry, I’ll just reprint the pertinent info, sans dead links:

“And then there’s pal Mark, he of Dorothy of Oz fame, who makes the (I believe) very correct claim that in issue 25 of Saga of The Swamp Thing, it’s a caricature of Sting, not John Constantine, who makes an appearance. However, due to the physical similarities, some people have claimed that issue 25 marks a ‘cameo’ appearance of Constantine, predating his actual first appearance by over a year. In fact, look at this exchange in the letters column of Swamp Thing #54 (Nov 1986):

“‘Close scrutiny has brought forth one fascinating observation I’d like to share with you concerning Mr. Constantine. Everyone knows he made his debut in ST #37. But has anyone taken a close look at issue #25? … In panel 2 [of page 21] a sobbing Abigail Cable is standing next to – yeah, that’s right – John Constantine! I always wondered how Constantine could have known so much about Abby and Swampy. The bloke must’ve been following them around for months, maybe years.’

“And the official editorial reply, from Karen Berger her own self:

“‘Aren’t you the observant one…. Great spotting on Constantine’s first appearance.’

“I’m sure this is just Karen keeping a fan happy, but I’m sure you see where the confusion comes in.

“Anyway, the very reason Constantine was created was because the Swamp Thing artists at the time (Steve Bissette and John Totleben) wanted to have Sting as a character in the series….”

Okay, back to 2025 Mike now, the one with the tricky back and the eye problems. Here’s the specific panel from #25 we’re all talkin’ about here:


Mmmmm…yeah, unless that was John during his time performing in the punk band Mucous Membrane, I don’t think the character we know and love would be caught dead dressed like that. Or maybe he would, that John fella is hard to pin down.

Anyway, this “is it or isn’t it?” has been a bone of contention for years, where even the Hot Comics Apps (as of three years ago) couldn’t keep their story straight. (Warning: I do link back to that 2004 post there…honestly, don’t click on the links if you go read it.)

Now what Swamp Thing comic should get a facsimile next? Frankly, I’m pushing for them to publish a proper, finished and colored comic book version of the 1970s unpublished Swamp Thing #25. Or, for an actual published comic, Brave and the Bold #176 from 1981, the Batman/Swampy team-up by the writer of the then-forthcoming Saga of the Swamp Thing series, and drawn by Jim Aparo. That’s a good’un.

Which one would you pick?

That panel is from Boris the Bear #5, if you’re wondering.

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So anyway, remember that Swamp Thing storyline in the mid-late-ish 1980s where Swamp Thing was banished from the Earth via nefarious means, and he found himself on the planet Rann and had to grow himself a new body from the local vegetation?


And we find out, via the Champion of Rann (and native Earthman) Adam Strange that “Swamp Thing” in Rannese is “Smalsh-Yegger?”


 
 

Yes, that’s right, “Smalsh-Yegger!”

Well, thanks to those mad geniuses at Todd McFarlane’s toy factory, you can now relive the excitement with an action figure based on that exact adventure!


Here’s the back of the box:


Here’s a better look at the whole figure and his bonus parts:


And here’s a look inside the box, showing the figure’s stand and a trading card, neither of which I haven’t felt like figuring out how to remove without entirely trashing the lining:


Pretty cool figure, I think, if somewhat…inexplicable why they picked this exact moment in the character’s history to immortalize in a nearly foot tall articulated plastic homunculus. It is a nice figure, despite being extremely micro-marketed at me and possibly me alone, with an eye-catching paint job and lots of detail.

For a half-second, I thought maybe the figure had the wrong eye color, the yellow irises on red as per Swampy’s normal look, and as shown on the original cover to #57 and on the figure’s box itself. But the eyes on the toy:


…do reflect how they appear in the comics’ story pages, more or less:


I keep telling myself “I don’t need any more toys” and then I say “well, I need yet another Swamp Thing figure” and here I am, making space in the Swamp Thing Room at the house for yet another addition, right there next to the slippers.

Now, DC, if you’re taking requests….

Sometimes I wonder about the first three demoncats.

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It’s that weird time between Christmas and New Year’s Day, when all crime is legal, so I’m gonna hold off on Wolverine Talk for a tiny bit. Do I have more to say about Wolverine comics? Oh yes indeedy I do.

I also wanted to remind everyone that I’m looking for your comics industry predictions for 2025! I haven’t been hitting the reminders too hard either here or on social media, so I don’t have much of a turnout yet. Hopefully I’ll get a few more submissions, especially once I start reviewing the predictions from last year…that always seems to goose the numbers.

Now let’s go ahead and wrap up the last couple of inquiries from the most recent Question Time post:

Bob Stec goes this way with

“What is Swamp Thing’s middle name?”

Leonard. Or Bernard. Or both. “Swamp Leonard Bernard Thing, Esq.” So sayeth me, Michael Ricardo Anatoly Sterling!

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And wrapping up that Question Time post is demoncat_4, with another Swamp Thing question

“if dc ever finaly mostly as a tie in to james gunn future swamp thing film finaly publishes the infamous swamp thing meets jesus issue swamp thing 88 how many issues will you order for your store and how many for your self.”

That…is an interesting question, actually. The art, by the late Michael Zulli, is pretty much done (judging by some photocopies I may or may not have seen, I admit nothing). And given some of the shenanigans DC has published in the interim (including Preacher, where the main antagonist is, well, God), the relatively reverent Swamp Thing meets Jesus story would hardly cause a ripple now, I think.

At the time the comic was supposed to be published, in the late ’80s, the industry was in the midst of getting more attention from the general public, laying the groundwork for the ’90s boom. That meant more sales and more presence in “real world” media…both good and bad. And DC, with a Bat-movie in hand and possibly more on the way, and with plenty of zealots and blame-placers ready to find simple reasons for their kids being assholes, comics became a real target.

Not saying it doesn’t happen now, but with your comic readership being, on average, about equal to the number of people who read my grocery lists (and stop doing that, you weirdos), the Usual Suspects have moved on to new targets that will get them more publicity. And this planned cover for the issue might have raised an eyebrow or two from the naysayers then:


…I suspect it would fly more under the radar now. (If the story gets mixed in with other reprints in a trade paperback, it’ll definitely slide on by, but let’s contiue assuming a single-issue release.)

Let’s say DC said “okay, the time is nigh for us to finally publish this comic” and they put out a “facsimile” of a comic that never was, Swamp Thing #88, The Tale Too Hot for TV. Who would buy this now, about 35 years on.

Well, if they go with this cover:


…I suspect they’d fly off the shelves, and not just into the hands of elderly Swamp Thing fans, such as myself. So, yeah, I’d probably order a pretty good number of these for the shop.

And speaking of me, as I so rarely do here…how many would I buy? Well, one of each cover, natch…the regular cover, the foil cover, the 1 in 25 variant cover. That would suffice.

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And that’s that! I’ll be back to Wolverine Talk next week, probably, and in the meantime…give me more predictions!

The best way to start off Year 22 of Progressive Ruin.

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Some of you folks may remember my old pal Batfatty, the most enigmatic member of the Associated Comics and Pop Culture Webloggers of Ventura County, CA and Outlying Environs (which is, as always, ACAPCWOVCCAOE for short). Well, he’s appeared out of the shadows to gift me with this swell item:


Look more closely, and you will see:


Yes, he got this signed for me by the legendary Len Wein some time ago, but the plan was to also get it signed by Bernie Wrightson, and, well, you know. Various things got in the way of getting it shipped out to me, but Batfatty perseveres, as he always does, and got it into my hands. It arrived yesterday, on the 21st anniversary of this very website, as is fitting.

Batfatty also told me that he chatted with Mr. Wein a while, informing him of my site and my love of Swamp Thing. So, there’s a very good chance my site was visited by the cocreator of my favorite character! A nice thought to have in these trying times. A big thanks to Batfatty for this wonderful gift!

Swamp Thing versus Despero, coming soon.

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Okay, you Swampheads…keep an eye out for Justice League Unlimited #1, the new series debuting today at a good comic shop near you, or even mine. Specifically, I’m talking about variant cover “D” with art by Howard Porter:


…where our favorite muck-encrusted mockery of a man is hanging out:

You can also find our floral friend on variant cover “E” by Ed Benes, off to the side there apparently making room for less-important characters:


A closer look:


So, can we expect a Swamp Thing-focused Justice League adventure in this book in the near future? One can hope!

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And let’s take a look at one more of your questions:

Wayne sez

“Mike. What are the odds that this was the original concept for THE THREE JOKERS?”

Wayne is referring to the pic I used as the header for the initial questions post, which I’ll reproduce here at slightly smaller size:


…and Three Jokers, for those who haven’t heard, was an intended out-of-contintuity story resolving an in-continuity mystery that was later Chip Zdarsky tried to make part of regular continuity in a one-off panel but I’m pretty sure everyone’s just trying to move past the whole thing. Anyway, it proposed that there literally three different people as The Joker, which is dumb and by extension makes Batman seem dumb as well.

Wayne was just being silly, which is fine, but it reminded me of some entries from the Bobby London’s 1986-1992 run on the Popeye comic strip. Specifically, instances where there were multiple versions of the same character.

Well, this one doesn’t really count, I guess, as we see Popeye being reverted into versions of himself from previous years, which I thought was a nice image:


But the storyline I specifically wanted to note was the one where Bluto returns to bedevil Popeye, this time with an army of multiple versions of Brutus:


Okay, I’m gonna let Mark Evanier explain why Brutus replaced Bluto for a time in the comics an’ such. But here you go, Wayne, Bobby London’s dozen-ish Brutuses laugh mockingly at the stinginess of only Three Jokers.

“Wedding? I didn’t see no swamp priest there.”

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So comics artist Ron Randall spoke a bit about working with Alan Moore on Saga of Swamp Thing #33 from the mid-1980s. So if you click on the pic above, or on this link right here, you’ll be whisked away to a thread of posts on Bluesky where Mr. Randall has nothing but good things to say about the experience.

Issue #33 is, of course, this one:


…in which they reprint the very first Swamp Thing story from House of Secrets #92, the cover for which inspired the Saga cover above. Said reprint was incorporated into that new story by Moore and Randall.

Now, as I recall, this was a bit of a last second fill-in, as the story originally intended for issue #33 was the so-called “wedding of Swamp Thing and Abby,” as seen in this coming comics listing from Amazing Heroes #58:


However, the story was pushed back to #34, and the new story for #33 was announced here in Amazing Heroes #59:

And just so it’s clear, the “wedding” story is the one that is probably better known as the “Swampy and Abby Have Sex” issue, the one with this cover:

But anyway, for being a “fill-in” story, what ended up being in #33 had a huge impact on the Swamp Thing milieu, as it introduced the idea that was an ongoing chain of Swamp Things through Earth’s history. The Alex Olsen Swamp Thing in the House of Secrets story was just one of the many that had preceded. This establishes the groundwork for Swamp Thing’s status as an Earth Elemental (though he was called an elemental in the earlier Swamp Thing Annual #2, hinting at what was to come) and the eventual creation of the Parliament of Trees.

So, for a reprint issue, quite a lot got accomplished. Was Moore heading in this direction anyway, or was having to churn out a fill-in story worked around the original introductory tale of the character the inspiration for this major addition to the mythos? Honestly, I don’t know…I bet he said in an interview somewhere. I’ll have to keep an eye out.

Just add this to all the other dumb hills I’m dying on.

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As anyone who’s been reading this site for a while knows, due to the various eyeball issues I’ve had over the last few years, I fell behind on my comics reading, and I’m still behind even ’til today. While things have improved healthwise in regards to my eyes, I do read a little slower than I used to, and comics ain’t comin’ out any less quickly, so the backlog continues apace.

As such, sometimes — well, usually — I don’t read comics the very week they come out, which is even more sad considering that with the new distributors in play, I often get the new books a week ahead of their official release and I still don’t read ’em until a week or three later.

Which is a long way of me telling you “I just read the last couple of issues of John Constantine Hellblazer: Dead in America series.” Specifically, I wanted to talk here about issue #8 by Simon Spurrier and Lisandro Estherren, in which these panels appeared, with John complaining about the Demon saying his name wrong:


…and a little later, here’s the Demon mocking John by deliberately mispronouncing the name:


YESSSSSS. The battle, once conceded by me when the musician Sting, the inspiration for Constantine, pronounced the name with “-teen,” rages once again thanks to this beautiful, beautiful creative team.

The first salvo was fired back in 1988 in Swamp Thing #73 by Rick Veitch and Alfredo Alcala:


So the war is back on! Take that, too many media adaptations getting his name wrong! Yes, this is the hill I’m dying on.

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Speaking of being behind on reading, I finally got around to a couple of graphic novels. First up was Palooka-ville #24, the latest in Seth’s volumes of comics and photography an’ such.


The series started as a standard black and white comic book in 1991, transitioning to a small hardcover with issue #20 in 2010. If you’re looking at the years and issue numbers there, yes, the publication is very sporadic, with the previous issue coming out in 2017.

This issue came out July of last year, and I just got around to reading it now, in case you’re wondering just how far behind I am on things. So, you know, it’s probably good it took several years for this come out. Now I’m ready for the next issue in, say, 2031.

With all this time passing just with the most recent volume, I’d forgotten details about it from when I originally ordered it in February 2023. I was reading the first part of the book, with Seth relating stories of his teenage employment at a small inn, in which he mentions someone recognizing him because of his “funny voice.” That had me thinking “huh, I wonder what Seth’s voice sounds like, I wonder if I can find a video with him talking and hear it for myself.”

Then I get to the next feature of the book, which is a series of photographs showing some behind the scenes stuff for the short film of Seth’s puppetry, included as a DVD in this book.

I’d completely forgotten there was a DVD. It’s been well over a year and a half since I ordered it, and over a year since I obtained it, so yeah, no duh I forgot. But I just thought it was amusing that I started the book with the thought “what does Seth sound like?” and then discovering that right here in the book is a way for me to hear what he sounds like.

This short film is good, by the way. It’s essentially one of Seth’s melancholy strips brought to life. And Seth’s voice sounds perfectly fine, not funny at all.

The next book I finally got to was Grendel: Devil by the Deed Master Edition, which is a new 200 page expanded retelling of the original Grendel by his creator Matt Wagner (and colored in a black, white and red palette by his son, Brennan).


Now this book came out last November, so it hasn’t been quite a year yet. And, being a very longtime Grendel fan, I went for the signed and numbered slipcased edition, with a tipped in autographed plate featuring a new Grendel illustration.

At 200 pages, it is something like five times the length of the original “completed” version of this story, the one that ran as back-ups in the first Mage mini-series. The extra pages, I believe, incorporate events from the various comics about the original Grendel, Hunter Rose, that were published after the Devil by the Deed story, though I’ve not read those in a while so beyond some vague memories I can’t say for certain.

This new version continues the conceit of the previous one, taking the format of a book examining the double life of Hunter Rose after his death and the revelation of all his secrets, via blocks of text accompanying illustrations. It’s not a traditional panel-by-panel, dialogue-and-captions, comic book, putting the reader a step removed from the story’s events. Which, I think, is an effective tactic, adding to the mystery and mythic weight of the proceedings.

Speaking of mystery, there is a point in the book where the “author” notes that some pages were removed from Grendel’s journals regarding a particular event. Enough detail of the event is given that I seem to recall it from one of the other, later stories, but I need to check (and actually have pulled out the comics themselves to look when I have a chance). If I recall correctly, this involved some supernatural elements which do exist in the Grendel milieu, but I’m guessing Wagner wanted to keep those to a minium in this mostly-grounded initial story. Argent, the wolf-like monstrous “hero” of the story, the counterpoint to Grendel’s elegant and attractive villainy, remains as the one outright fanciful aspect of this crime story…outside the guy in the costume leaping around the city, natch.

I still wonder what would have happened if Wagner had been able to finish the very first version of the story, intended as a six-issue mini-series but cancelled after three. It was…crude, but energetic, with what I still think are striking covers. It was told in the traditional comic book style, and it would have been interesting to see what story elements from the later retellings would have had their origins in the unseen chapters of this original comic. It’s hard to imagine the depth of the later twists and turns being conveyed quite as well with the standard comic storytelling, Wagner’s youthful abilities aside.

I’ll tell you one thing, though…the book ends with an “author’s credit” for the fictional writer of this tell-all of Grendel, who is the star of the first story of the 1986 series. Which of course made me want to pull those out and reread them. Sigh. And that’s how your pal Mike got even more behind on current comics, because he keeps wanting to look at his old ones again.

The national nightmare of 1972 is over.

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So in The Comic Reader #87 from 1972, it was announced that some mailed Bernie Wrightson pages from Swamp Thing #2 had gone missing, with FOUL PLAY suspected. But here the next month’s issue, #88, we find…


…that the true culprit was the U.S. Postal Service all along! DARN YOU AND YOUR PERFIDY, 15-YEAR-OLD LOUIS DEJOY!

Anyhoo, let’s go back to some of the open questions we had on Monday’s post about 1986 comics ordering, now that I’d had a chance to bend the ear of my former boss Ralph about just what going on back then in Ye Olden Pre-Mike Tymes.

First off, that issue of GrimJack, #26, that had the first color Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story: yes, Ralph ordered high on this. And yes, as I said, there appeared to be plenty left over, and Ralph confirmed that it did not sell all that well off the new shelf upon release.

Here, let’s look at that cover:


The TMNT story is blurbed right there at the top, above the logo. The cover image itself is a little busy, and the blurb itself doesn’t stand out quite as sharply as it could. Plus, the font doesn’t grab the Turtles fan’s eye quite as much as an actual Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle logo would have done, I’d think. And maybe if the main cover image itself had featured the Turtles, or even an inset pic of them in one of the top corners, that might have attracted more attention.

But this is all 20-20 hindsight editing, and what’s done is done. As I said, it did move some copies out of the back issue bins in following years, but it was never a huge draw. But that’s just one store’s experience, maybe it moved tons of copies elsewhere. Every clientele is different.

Now, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents…this wasn’t a question I’d posed in the previous post or anything, but I was just curious. How, I asked Ralph, did the Deluxe Comics edition of the comic whose name is a pain to type sell?

Ralph, himself a big fan of said property, noted that the initial issues of the Deluxe series (actually titled Wally Wood’s…) did quite well. And it’s no surprise, with some solid creators as George Pérez, Jerry Ordway, Keith Giffen, Steve Ditko, Dave Cockrum, and more on those early installments. But by the end of the run some of those folks had departed, and while the teams remaining on the book were perfectly fine, maybe the steam had run out a little. And the legal problems the book faced didn’t help, cutting it down after its fifth issue. Whatever the reason, interest in the series had waned by that point anyway.

And finally, that whole “Marvel’s New Universe” thing. That’s probably the subject of a whole post (or whole series of posts) just on its own, but I’ll try to keep it short and sweet here. My question to Ralph was “were people excited about the New Universe ahead of its release?” and his answer was “yes, very much so.” This was an exciting event in a time when Big Events weren’t an everyday thing in comics, and the last events that had happened, Crisis on Infinite Earths and Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, hadn’t killed interest. As Ralph put it, the fans weren’t quite as jaded yet.

Did that extend to ancillary products like, say, comic news magazines with articles on the New Universe project? Sure, to the extent that there were fans who bought stuff like this. Obviously, not everyone who reads comics is interested in how the sausage is made, the comics themselves being enough, but the news/views mag sales did wax and wane with featured topics and New Universe was a point of interest. Here is Something Big that Marvel was about to launch, and interest is high.

And when it did launch, yes, it sold quite well. But for various reasons, the interest dropped off and the whole initiative crawled to a halt within about three or four years. Again, there’s a lot of ground to cover in regards to the Life and Death of the New Universe and I’m not doing that today. Suffice to say, it started big, then became less so, with the occasional bump upwards (like when John Byrne took over Star Brand). Eventually the New Universe (specifically the aforementioned Star Brand) became a plot point in Mark Gruenwald’s Quasar and the whole NU concept has popped up at Marvel in various forms ever since.

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Okay, next week, I’ll try to be talk about topics from this decade. No guarantees, thoough!

BREAKING SWAMP THING NEWS!!!

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…From Et Cetera & The Comics Reader #87 (1972):


I’m not sure I’d heard about this, or if I had I’ve forgotten in my dotage. I presume the art was found, since there are photos of some of those pages in the IDW Bernie Wrightson Artist Edition.

I’m still looking at the Comic Readers I acquired recently, so I’ll keep an eye out if there’s a follow-up blurb in a future issue.

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Speaking of ‘zines, I’ve been perusing yet another one, Inside Comics #2 from Summer 1974. There’s a few pages of classified ads, mostly want lists and selling offers, but there’s a big ol’ section just for announcements like THESE:


Well, I don’t know how you did it, Bruce, but it’s fifty years later and comics are still here! Well done!


I wonder if he got one. I mean, $20 for this dumb comic printed on the worst paper and the Hulk isn’t even colored correctly? Take that guy’s money and run.


I…um, look, this is depressing, look away, look away.


This is clearly a transcription of some of what was said in those erased bits from Nixon’s White House tapes. Very timely on this person’s part.


MAAAAAAN, deep burn on Rascally Roy here. Someone wasn’t happy with the state of Marvel, with a bonus reference to the apparent paper shortages of the time.


Well, that’s one way to advertise your shop, I suppose. You can’t make it up!

House of Secrets #92s.

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So this week DC is releasing a new facsimile edition (including all the original ads an’ such) of House of Secrets #92 from 1971, featuring the first appearance of Swamp Thing by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Here are the different flavors you can pick up:

You can get the plain ol’ version with a standard comic cover:


You can get the “blank sketch cover” in a lovely shade of green, upon which you can get your favorite artist to draw, I don’t know, the Heap or Man-Thing or whatever:


You can get the shiny foil-covered edition, and the scan I made ain’t the greatest, but if you’ve been in a comic shop lately, you know what this particular enhancement should look like:


And most surprisingly, in a bit of collaboration between Warner’s comic book division and those other divisions that make theoretically money, we get a version of this comic with a cardstock cover plugging the forthcoming Beetlejuice Beetlejuice sequel (art by Kelley Jones):


Yes, that means four more versions of this comic to add to my collection of House of Secrets #92 reprints and, of course, my original copy of the actual thing.

A long, long time ago (about 18 years now!) I did post here listing all the versions of this comic that I own. I keep meaning to update it, and have occasionally listed new reprints of the story here and there in subsequent posts. Thus, the plan is this: creating a new page on this site devoted solely to House of Secrets #92, with notes on the various reprints in either single comic book form or in trade paperback/hardcover.

This is kind of a last second decision, so I have nothing ready to go just yet, since I kind of have to track down where all my copies of these reprints have gotten off to. My collection at home remains in some disarray, though I’ve been making progress in getting it under control of late. But I do want to gather together all my reprints, do fresh new scans, and put ’em all in one standalone place that I can point to and say “look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.”

So there we go…nearly 21 years of doing this site, and I can still find ways to make my life more difficult. But at least it’s additional incentive to get my comic act together at home.