What's On Your Comic Pull-List?

I've only read a couple of issues, but those few issues really
captured me. I'd really like to read the whole thing someday.

Do you know how many total issues there were?
 

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Viking Bastard said:
I've only read a couple of issues, but those few issues really
captured me. I'd really like to read the whole thing someday.

Do you know how many total issues there were?
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Well, that particular series is in a box beneath other comic boxes in my closet, so I couldn't dig it out. However, looking through my records, it says 70 issues (and I have the complete run). Also, I have one annual, but I don't know if there were any more than that since I usually don't collect annuals.

I also have something called Sandman Midnight Theatre #1 (a one-shot as far as I know). I might be mistaking this for the annual, but I think the story on this one goes something like this:

In DC continuity, they explained that a sorcerer tried to capture death but caught Morpheus, the god-like Sandman, instead. This wizard kept him held prisoner for many years. I forget how long and why DC did this (it was some kind of continuity fix, if I'm not mistaken).

Anyway, the golden-age Sandman, the human detective, was investigating a case and stumbled upon the real Sandman held in some kind of large, glass container. Their meeting was just a one-panel scene, but it was the whole reason for the comic.

It's a real shame Mystery Theatre was cancelled. It was one of my favorites.

Actually, nearly everytime I call a series "one of my favorites", they either cancell it or change the creative team.

Legion Of Superheroes

Legion (goes hand-in-hand with Legion Of Superheroes)

Sandman Mystery Theatre

Manhunter (the late '80s series about the bounty hunter)

X-Men (Claremont fired)

The Hulk (Which got bad when Marvel did that alternate universe with relaunchings of Fantastic Four, The Avengers, Captain America, and Iron Man. Liefeld got Avengers and Cap, and Jim Lee got the other two. While the Hulk's series sayed in the regular universe, the screwed with the whole comic, throwing the stories way off. Plus the art really sucked).

I'm not sure if there was a writer change before Spidey entered the Clone Saga, so that my be one of the few exceptions to my jinx streak (I actually dropped it just prior to that story when Peter Parker's parents came back from the dead...yes, I could see the horror coming when this idea readed it's ugly head).
 
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Villano said:

I also have something called Sandman Midnight Theatre #1 (a one-shot as far as I know). I might be mistaking this for the annual, but I think the story on this one goes something like this:

In DC continuity, they explained that a sorcerer tried to capture death but caught Morpheus, the god-like Sandman, instead. This wizard kept him held prisoner for many years. I forget how long and why DC did this (it was some kind of continuity fix, if I'm not mistaken).
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No it was not, this takes place in Sandman #1. The premise of
the whole series is that the dreaming gets all screwed up while
he's prisoned and he has to fix it.
Anyway, the golden-age Sandman, the human detective, was investigating a case and stumbled upon the real Sandman held in some kind of large, glass container. Their meeting was just a one-panel scene, but it was the whole reason for the comic.
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Ah, that I have read. It's collected in one of the Sandman trades.
Written by Neil Gaiman. And yeah, it was a oneshot. Basically the
editors wanted a crossover story between the two sandmen, but
because of Golden Age timeframe SMT takes place in, it became a
problem, seeing that Morpheus doesn't get out of his glass prison
until the 80s. This is how Gaiman solved this. A lot of the supporting
characters in the story are from the Sandman mythos.
 

Viking Bastard said:
No it was not, this takes place in Sandman #1. The premise of
the whole series is that the dreaming gets all screwed up while
he's prisoned and he has to fix it.
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That was the "in comic" reason. But they did that because it was established in DC continuity that someone else was in charge of the land of dreams prior to the invention of this character.

I remember reading about a character in the Who's Who In The DC Universe series way back when who was in charge of the dream dimension (Who's Who was a series that acted as DC's guide to their characters, for those that don't know).

Anyway, I think that the character was related to that series that had the Star-Spangled Kid, Jade, and Obsidian in it.

Now that I think about it, it may have been the former Silver Scarab (or whatever his name was) who was killed and became a hero named Sandman. I'm really not sure on the events since I didn't collect the original comics and am getting my info from an entry in Who's Who.

Anyway, he was supposed to be the new ruler of the land of dreams in that series (with 2 dream assistants). DC tried to pull all of its continuity together and had to explain it away when they created The Dreaming.

Part of the problems of trying to invoke retroactive continuity.

I think they got into this explanation at the end of Sandman with the character of that superheroine (Lyta or Fury or something). Her son was the son of that superhero Sandman.

Or something like that. :)

Boy, it's so confusing trying to explain this since DC has had so many Sandman's at one point or another. Not to mention all their continuity reboots.
 

Ah, I see.

Yes, the deceased Silver Scarab believed himself to be the ruler
of the Dreaming, but was really the plaything of two Nightmares
who lived on his wife Fury's dreams (or something).

Their son Daniel then became the new lord of Dreams and the Silver Scarab was reincarnated as the new Dr. Fate (in current
JSA series).
 

A few years back I swtiched entirely over to Trade Paperback or Graphic Novels only. It was kinda gradual shift, but I have pretty much eliminated all actual comics unless it is something that I know will never come out in TPB and is just too good to miss (which is darn rare these days). I'm very happy with the switch - I can display them on a shelf easy, they take up less overall room, they get damaged less often, and are easier to access. I miss seeing covers sometimes, and I miss some letters columns. But I don't miss the ads, and I don't miss having to go every week to make sure I get my stuff, and I don't miss the increased cost of individual issues, and I don't care that I am reading it sometimes a year or two later.
 

The Filth
Powers
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. 2)
Planetary (#16 out in August!)
Hellboy

I haven't been to the comic store in ages. Nor have I read a bunch of issues I have hanging around.

So much literature...so little time...
 

Oh yeah...

Any of you folks read The Invisibles while it was going on? All the TPBs are available now...that has to be my favorite comic book series of all time.
 

I've cut way back, and am currently at 5 titles:

Astro City
Avengers
Ironman
Knights of the Dinner Table
Savage Dragon

I also attend a local comic show every other month, where I'll pick up current issues of the following if I can find them for $1 or less:

Alias
Cerebus
Daredevil
Electra
JLA*
Wonder Woman
X-treme X-Men

*The current JLA series is okay, but it is the original series (1960's to mid-80's) that I've been having a ball picking up back issues of at these cons.
 
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Tom Cashel said:
Oh yeah...

Any of you folks read The Invisibles while it was going on? All the TPBs are available now...that has to be my favorite comic book series of all time.
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I'm still waiting to get my hands on the first book, it's a very
popular grab at the library, but I'm a big fan of Morrison and I
have read some of it in issue form. It's very promising.

My fav though gotta be Transmetropolitan.
 

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