16 Tuesday Jul 2013
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Hiya, Chuck! You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t f%#$ with Wolverine’s sense of smell. He is the bullshit detector of the Marvel Universe, sniffing out aliens, robots, holograms, phantoms, fake costumes, and psychic projections. This is a Jim Lee panel we like so much that we cut it out and put it on the wall.
Collector’s Guide:
– from X-men #1; Marvel, 1991.
06 Saturday Jul 2013
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Brandon Choi, Brett Booth, Image Comics, Indie Comics, Jim Lee, Sean Ruffner, Stormwatch, Trevor Scott
It’s fashionable among comic book fans to insult the mainstream books of the 1990’s. The early Image comics make a particularly favorite target for this bombast.
But, those of us who survived the Bronze Age should recall that a huge segment of fandom has entered a nostalgic period of their lives where they recall growing up with books like these. They treasure getting into comics as a result of these books as much as any of the older crowd fondly recalls some random Gil Kane or Gerry Conway book. As Paul at Longbox Graveyard likes to say, “The Golden Age of Comics is Twelve.” And who are we to insult another fans golden age?
Plus, we should treat these books with a bit of respect since now children born during the Clinton Presidency are old enough to buy booze legally. Now that we’re all drinking buddies and comics fans, cut the 90’s some slack!
Regardless of our egalitarian philosophy, it’s true that most of these once-hyped early Image books can be found in clearance bins across the nation for mere pennies. If you get a major nostalgia wave and need Near Mint copies, you can get most of them for about a dollar.
Stormwatch is one example. While the title matured under the direction of Warren Ellis and Tom Raney, it was just your average 90’s book in the beginning. We find a lot of the art quite fun, despite how unashamedly it wears Jim Lee’s influence on its sleeve. In today’s gallery you can find some excerpts from the fourth issue. It had a lot of creative concepts (like Henry Bendix) that Ellis would mine for gold some day, so it’s interesting to see its early development as an entirely mainstream 90’s effort.
Collector’s Guide:– From Stormwatch #4; Image, 1993.
Created and plotted by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee.
Written by Sean Ruffner. Art by Brett Booth and Trevor Scott.
24 Monday Jun 2013
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Collector’s Guide:
From Batman Hush. Story by Jeph Loeb; Pencils by Jim Lee, inks by Scott Williams. Colors by Alex Sinclair.
– Collected in the Batman Hush Complete Edition; 2009, DC Comics.
– Originally printed as Batman #608-619
– Reprinted in Batman Hush TPB (2004) and Batman Hush Hardcover (2003)
05 Wednesday Jun 2013
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Collector’s Guide:
From Batman Hush. Story by Jeph Loeb; Pencils by Jim Lee, inks by Scott Williams. Colors by Alex Sinclair.
– Collected in the Batman Hush Complete Edition; 2009, DC Comics.
– Originally printed as Batman #608-619
– Reprinted in Batman Hush TPB (2004) and Batman Hush Hardcover (2003)
29 Wednesday May 2013
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22 Wednesday May 2013
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Collector’s Guide:
From Batman Hush. Story by Jeph Loeb; Pencils by Jim Lee, inks by Scott Williams. Colors by Alex Sinclair.
– Collected in the Batman Hush Complete Edition; 2009, DC Comics.
– Originally printed as Batman #608-619
– Reprinted in Batman Hush TPB (2004) and Batman Hush Hardcover (2003)
15 Wednesday May 2013
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Collector’s Guide:
From Batman Hush. Story by Jeph Loeb; Pencils by Jim Lee, inks by Scott Williams. Colors by Alex Sinclair.
– Collected in the Batman Hush Complete Edition; 2009, DC Comics.
– Originally printed as Batman #608-619
– Reprinted in Batman Hush TPB (2004) and Batman Hush Hardcover (2003)
Gallery also includes images from All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder.
– Collected in All Star Batman Hardcover and Paperback.
08 Wednesday May 2013
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Collector’s Guide:
– From All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder; DC Comics, 2005-2008.
– #1-9 Collected in All Star Batman Hardcover and Paperback.
Story by Frank Miller;
Pencils by Jim lee, inks by Scott Williams. Colors by Alex Sinclair.
01 Wednesday May 2013
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Collector’s Guide:
– From All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder; DC Comics, 2005-2008.
Story by Frank Miller;
Pencils by Jim lee, inks by Scott Williams. Colors by Alex Sinclair.
– #1-9 Collected in All Star Batman Hardcover and Paperback.
17 Wednesday Apr 2013
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Collector’s Guide:
From Batman Hush. Story by Jeph Loeb; Pencils by Jim Lee, inks by Scott Williams. Colors by Alex Sinclair.
– Collected in the Batman Hush Complete Edition; 2009, DC Comics.
– Originally printed as Batman #608-619
– Reprinted in Batman Hush TPB (2004) and Batman Hush Hardcover (2003)
10 Wednesday Apr 2013
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Collector’s Guide:
– From 100 Bullets #26
– Reprinted in 100 Bullets TPB #4
– Reprinted in 100 Bullets Deluxe Hardcover #2
03 Wednesday Apr 2013
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Image Comics, Jim Lee, Scott Lobdell, Travis Charest, WildC.A.T.S, Wildcats, Wolverine, X-men, Zealot
Travis Charest draws Wolverine and Zealot taking on the daemonites from the WildC.A.T.s series. Only here, the nasty aliens inhabit the bodies of Nazis in the 1940s. Aliens masterminding the Third Reich may not be the most original science fiction idea, but Charest and Scott Lobdell make it a solidly entertaining tale in the vein of Indiana Jones. Cool Jim Lee cover, too!
Image and Marvel made four WildC.A.T.s X-Men crossovers: Golden Age, Silver Age, Modern Age, and Dark Age, each with a different creative team. The first three also came in 3-D, and look pretty awesome.
In these pre-adamantium days, Wolverine doesn’t pop his claws. He opts for strapping some nasty hardware to his wrists, even though we’d seen four years earlier in Fatal Attractions that the claws were part of him. In these carefree days before Wolverine’s past became laid bare by Origins, he is also shown going by the name Logan in WW2 – not James Howlett. But don’t worry. You don’t need to be a continuity expert to kick back and enjoy this story! You can enjoy the first 1/3 in our gallery below.
Collector’s Guide:
– From WildC.A.T.s X-Men The Golden Age #1; Image/Marvel, 1997.
– Also available in 3-D
– Reprinted in Wildcats/X-Men TPB #1
– See all WildC.A.T.s X-Men crossovers
27 Wednesday Mar 2013
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After becoming a fan favorite for his work on X-men, Jim Lee helped found Image Comics in 1992. He began work on his own super-team, the WildC.A.T.s. Jim unleashed his artistic creativity on numerous mind-blowing splash pages, double splashes, and four-page fold-outs. This week we’ll take a look at some of our favorites!
Collector’s Guide:
– From WildC.A.T.s Vol. 1, #5; Image.
20 Wednesday Mar 2013
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Image Comics, Indie Comics, Jim Lee, Spartan, Voodoo, WildC.A.T.S, Wildcats
After becoming a fan favorite for his work on X-men, Jim Lee helped found Image Comics in 1992. He began work on his own super-team, the WildC.A.T.s. Jim unleashed his artistic creativity on numerous mind-blowing splash pages, double splashes, and four-page fold-outs. This week we’ll take a look at some of our favorites!
Collector’s Guide:
– From WildC.A.T.s Vol. 1, #9
13 Wednesday Mar 2013
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Grifter, Image Comics, Indie Comics, Jim Lee, WildC.A.T.S, Wildcats, Zealot
After becoming a fan favorite for his work on X-men, Jim Lee helped found Image Comics in 1992. He began work on his own super-team, the WildC.A.T.s. Jim unleashed his artistic creativity on numerous mind-blowing splash pages, double splashes, and four-page fold-outs. This week we’ll take a look at some of our favorites!
Collector’s Guide:
– From WildC.A.T.s Vol. 1, #5; Image.
06 Wednesday Mar 2013
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After becoming a fan favorite for his work on X-men, Jim Lee helped found Image Comics in 1992. He began work on his own super-team, the WildC.A.T.s. Jim unleashed his artistic creativity on numerous mind-blowing splash pages, double splashes, and four-page fold-outs. This week we’ll take a look at some of our favorites!
Collector’s Guide:
– From WildC.A.T.s Vol. 1 #6-7; Image.
27 Wednesday Feb 2013
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After becoming a fan favorite for his work on X-men, Jim Lee helped found Image Comics in 1992. He began work on his own super-team, the WildC.A.T.s. Jim unleashed his artistic creativity on numerous mind-blowing splash pages, double splashes, and four-page fold-outs. This week we’ll take a look at some of our favorites!
Collector’s Guide:
– From WildC.A.T.s Vol. 1, #7; Image.
09 Friday Dec 2011
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Welcome to the Wolverine Gallery! It’s an ongoing project, so just click Wolverine Gallery to see everything in this virtual exhibition!
Collector’s Guide:
– From the interior of the back cover of Wolverine #50.
It’s the one with the cool “ripped” cover that looks like a manila file folder with claw marks in it. Yes, they really put holes in the cover – you can see the first page through it!
Dig Jim Lee? So do we. Click Jim Lee if you don’t believe us. We have some sweet posters and wrap-around covers from his X-men days.
13 Tuesday Sep 2011
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Ahhhh, at last: Jim Lee‘s double page spread of X-men villains. Right click that bad boy and make it your desk top or we’re telling Magneto where you live.
Collector’s Guide:
– From X-Men #1, edition 1E wrap-around.
Did you catch Jim Lee X-Men Posters 1 and Jim Lee X-Men Posters 2?
11 Sunday Sep 2011
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Marvel did a reprint of good old X-Men #1, but with the 4 separate covers as one complete wrap-around. It’s been re-colored as well, and on high-quality paper. The inside cover (pictured below) is a second poster, and Jim Lee drew a number of additional two-page spreads for the interior. The coolest one is the one with all the villains.
Collector’s Guide:
– From X-Men #1, edition 1E wrap-around
November 2011 update: We saw a 20-year anniversary reprint of X-Men #1 at the comic shop the other day. Looked like a lot of it had been recolored again. It looked good! Maybe Marvel will chalk up a few more sales on the highest selling issue of all time. But, it’s hard to believe anybody’s buying it at retail when you can get the original dirt cheap – including the four separate covers!
