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comicbooks·Comic Booksbydil

What publishers do you like outside of Marvel, DC, Image, and Dark Horse?

I enjoy the more humorous comics from Ahoy like My Bad and The Wrong Earth.

Favorite evil superman take is Iredeemable from Boom.

Valiant 2012-2024 is my favorite superhero verse, I really enjoyed going through all of it.

Rick and morty comics from oni are surprisingly decent and do a great job filling the void when wanting more episodes.

Curious about what people like coming from mad cave, boom, dynamite, oni, ahoy, etc.

What is your favorite lesser known publisher? One that you think no one else here is aware of.

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comicbooks·Comic BooksbyJohnnyEnzyme

One for Jordan-- the redoinkulously amazing cover of "The Shadow," July, 1941 (and an archive for the curious)

So this was actually a pulp magazine as I understand it, which ran concurrent with The Shadow comics, but each one of those was like a monthly novella, so to speak. In other words, few pictures, and mainly a little book. In magazine form!

Anyway, there's a boatload to say about The Shadow, originally created as a narration device for radio as I understand it, but in terms of superhero stuff? Basically a godfather of the bubbling cauldron of creativity, from which sprung a landslide of famous DC badasses. (correct me if I'm wrong, but Marvel's (mainly Stan Lee's) creation process started a couple decades later?)

Bloody hell... these covers are absolutely STUPENDOUS: (total index right here)
https://antifandom.com/thelivingshadow/wiki/Shadow_Magazine/Covers

Couple examples:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thelivingshadow/images/c/c4/Shadow_Magazine_Vol_1_73.jpg


https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thelivingshadow/images/e/eb/Shadow_Magazine_Vol_1_173.jpg


https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thelivingshadow/images/a/ad/Shadow_Magazine_Vol_1_220.jpg

Oof, this silly-ass post brought to you by the makers of Ovaltine!
Or, uh... Johnny at EGN?

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comicbooks·Comic Booksbyglimse

In The Sentry, Reed Richards calls Doctor Strange "Steven"

I'm not a big comic reader but every once in awhile, my best friend will show up with a comic he thinks I should read. He's never been wrong - last time it was Ultimate Martian Manhunter, this time it was The Sentry.

The only Marvel movie I've seen in the past decade is End Game so we both thought it was really funny that I caught this. He correctly calls him "Stephen" a few pages later.

As for the comic itself - it's an awesome self-contained story that unfolds very nicely. The artwork is amazing and diverse as you read through different hero's perspectives. I've never been a big Hulk fan but wow, his section was my favorite??

I really liked the timeframe, too. Something happens and something had to be done. But the comic isn't about the something...it's about the anticipation of doing it. Cool idea built on top of another cool idea with a really good conclusion.

!!SPOILER WARNING!!

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler For the most part, I assumed The Sentry was a classic superhero I just wasn't familiar with. And ironically, the part that clued me in was knowing Bruce Banner did not 'get better' in a watchtower. But I still wasn't certain until the end.

Meanwhile, my friend went in knowing he wasn't real AND that every flashback story was fake but was still doubting himself by the end. :::

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