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THIS IS THE BRAND SPANKING NEW 2008 INTERNATIONAL EDITION WITH A BRAND NEW COVER BY DAVE GIBBONS! Amazon.com Review
Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller s The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen
a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller s fantastic,
subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of
the genre s finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen
in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the
1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist
combination) and has continued to gather praise since. The story
concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and
discredit them. Moore s characterization is as sophisticated as any
novel s. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the
storytelling; rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power
and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making adult comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD s Rogue Trooper
and DC s Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore s paranoid mood
perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying
themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the
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US MAD MAGAZINE COMPLETE COLLECTION
In a moment of madness – and due to the declining share market – I’ve decided to ‘test the comic book market’ and offer my wonderful US Mad Magazine collection for sale. EVERY issue of American Mad Magazine since 1952. There are over 500 magazines from issue number 1 to now.
This is a one-off opportunity as I won’t be offering the collection for sale again (at least not in the short term).
I’m not a dealer … just a Mad Magazine fan who (thanks to eBay) happens to have collected all the magazines. It’s taken me quite a few years to get them … so the starting price of this auction represents the amount that I can bear to let them go for. Comics would be quite a good investment for someone wanting something a little different. In fact, if someone has the time to list each magazine individually, you’d probably make a tidy profit, especially if you sell to the US, with our dollar the way it is.
Every magazine is in a special plastic storage bag, and acid free backing board. They are beautifully boxed and have been carefully stored for years. A majority of the issues (probably over 300) are in mint condition, with hundreds of them in their original mailing wrapper, complete with the subscription notices still intact.
Interested bidders should email me, and I’ll send you a more detailed list which describes Issues 1 to 23 in quite a bit of detail.
Without doubt they are the most collectible and most valuable. They come in a lockable metal box, ...
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