Adventures of Deadman in the National Lampoon!

Ever since I read reprints of the Adams Deadman series I’ve been a passionate fan of all things Deadman. So one day while searching for Deadman related comics I found a crazy fun comic on E-Bay. It was a magazine size comic with the title “The Adventures of Deadman”. Well the character on the cover had a cape like Deadman but no mask. I didn’t know what it was but I knew had to have it!

Dash Shaw’s Amazing Spider-Man!

Strange Tales is one of the most exciting comics I’ve read in a long time. It presents so many different and truly original takes on traditional Marvel characters that it’s just breathtaking and truly inspiring! 

Hey! It's A Four Color Alan Moore! (Moore's appearances in his own comics)

It’s always fun to find little unexpected Easter Eggs in your comics. It’s extra fun when it’s one of your favorite comic writers the way Alan Moore is mine.

Deadman's Brick Battle Ground!

Deadaman's 

Adventure Comics #465

Deadman's Adventure Comics!

About the time of the big DC Implosion of 1978, DC and Paul Levitz turned one of their oldest titles, Adventure Comics, into an anthology comic. It would feature some of DC’s more popular heroes like Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern and some fan favorites like the New Gods, The Justice Society of America and Deadman.

Adventure Comics #459, Oct 1978

The Hellboy himself, Mike Mignola; A retrospective part 1

I think Mike Mignola is one of the most exciting creators in modern comics.  

First, because his work is so powerful and unique and second, for carving out an equally unique and successful niche for himself in the modern cut-throat world of comics. Not only has he drawn and written countless graphic novels in the last 20 years, he’s also had several successful Hellboy spinoffs series like BPRD,  Abe Sapien and Lobster Johnson, plus 2 Hellboy feature films and 2 animation films! When you talk about modern comic geniuses Mike has to be up there with the best of them. So it's strange and interesting to think that this comic luminary started out as a lowly inker for Marvel comics in the early 80's!

Liberatore's Sax Blues!

"She started sulking. Women always fall for sax players, don't ask me why."

Gaetano Liberatore is a great Italian artist most famous for his android creation that appeared in Heavy Metal Magazine, Ranxerox. In the January, 1985 issue of Heavy Metal he did a stunning little 8 page piece called “Sax Blues”. It’s one of the few non-Ranx things he did in America.

I included the cover of October 1985 Heavy Metal Magazine (rather than the one it appeared in) because the girl on the cover looks like the girl in the story.