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William Costello
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Posted: 05 May 2026 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I see Crisis On Infinite Earths there on the stand, but can't make our which issue it is.
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Brian ONeill
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Posted: 05 May 2026 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

CRISIS # 8(Death of the Flash)
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 05 May 2026 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

It's number 8, the death of Barry Allen.

mikesamazingworld is a good resource for showing all of the comics that came out in a given month.

I was such a Marvel kid, that I was blissfully unaware of what was going on at DC at the time. While JB was still doing major work at Marvel, DC was laying the groundwork for him and several other Marvel stars to move over. BTW, for a few months up until the previous month, Jerry Ordway inked both JB's FF and Perez' CRISIS at the same time!


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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 05 May 2026 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Also, it's kinda freaky that all 4 of JB's books are all adjacent to each other like that. It's a coincidence since the titles are mostly arranged in vertical alphabetical order.
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 05 May 2026 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

I bought Alpha Flight 29 from a UK newsagent, one of the few times I found US imports in a high street newsagent during my prime comic-reading years. I was so close to getting the good stuff! Just a bit late. Began picking up back issues a few years later. 

I've never even heard of RAD. Looking it up online, I can see why!
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 05 May 2026 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

JUNGLE FEVER, judging by the comics, filmed March/April 1990:




JB missed representation by one issue - the Nebula Avengers cover was one month after he left both Avengers titles, and this is before he picked up IRON MAN or SHE-HULK - so all he had this month was NAMOR #3.

Useless fact - they didn't film the movie in Bensonhurst as stated - this is actually Mill Basin, where I lived for 10 of my adult years - I used to get my hair cut at the barber shop shown behind Nick Turturro.
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Brian Price
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Posted: 06 May 2026 at 2:01am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

 Vinny Valenti wrote:
But lately I've been reading that the newsstand editions are worth more because a large percentage of them were returned to the distributor and had less in circulation.

It's really more about anecdotal evidence that high-grade newsstand issues are rarer due to rougher handling, Chuck Rozanski ginning it up to boost sales, and fanboys wanting to think they have something special.  It's obviously legit that after direct sales overtook newsstand sales ~1986 that the newsstand issues are rarer, but I am not at all convinced that pre-1986 high-grade newsstand comics are "rarer."  I'll happily sell any newsstand copies I have at a premium to anyone who thinks differently; however.
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