Also, you could've maybe bought this at a Wal-Mart four years ago--comics for sale in Wal-Mart? Sure that was this century? From 2020,
From Beyond the Unknown #1.
Shoot, I seem to have two of the Direct Market versions, so maybe I didn't get this at Wal-Mart; but the distribution for those was a crapshoot; and I feel like this and the
Our Fighting Forces reprint books were late in the game. I say reprint book, but there's a fair amount of new stuff in this one: a 16-page Green Lantern story, "In Gloom" Written by Dave Wielgosz, art by Kenneth Rocafort. The Guardians of the Universe lecture Hal about maybe giving the rest of Sector 2814 some of the attention that earth hogs; which Hal kind of brushes off until he encounters the Gloom, who have hunted down Bolphunga the Unrelenting, and blame Hal for not being there to save them. Bolphunga had maybe blown up their planet, but calls them crybabies, and he might have something there.
Next, a Kamandi story, "The Butler" Written by Tom Sniegoski, art by Eric Gapstur. With that title, you automatically assume it's going to involve Alfred somehow, but nope! Fighting off rat-men, Kamandi meets a robot butler, that had been struggling to maintain its home, in readiness for when its masters returned. They were of course dead as hell, but Kamandi brings back the bodies, and the butler dotes on them like they were hale and hearty. (The butler must've been a
Norman model!) Then, another new story: "Stealth Mode" with the Legion of Super-Heroes, story and pencils by Dan Jurgens, inks by Norm Rapmund. This is a short little Bronze Age Legion story--why that timeframe? I dunno, Jurgens may have just wanted to draw Wildfire and Dawnstar. And why not?
The rest of the issue is reprints, but pretty good ones: "The Riddle of Little Earth Lost!" from
DC Comics Presents #3, a classic with Adam Strange and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez art; "The 50-Story Killer!" from
Brave and the Bold #113, a Haney/Aparo number with Batman and the Metal Men; and the Alan Moore Katma Tui story from
Green Lantern Annual #3.
Hal’s always rightfully faced criticism for focusing more on Earth than the rest of his sector, but to be fair, how do you expect him not to considering that IS his home planet?
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember seeing these at my local Walmart, but good on them for at least doing this, even it was for a limited time period.
They do regularly keep stocked on trades, but they’re mostly about Batman.
A far cry from the days in the 90’s when you could randomly go to any local Walmart store & find either a comic rack and/or a 3 pack of comics in those hard to open plastic shell packs.
Good times.