1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Hard to believe the future was two decades ago! 

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

I was going to comment on another page, when I realized you were posting the full issue!  That's crazy and congrats!

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Ah, so you were the one who got this issue! Joseph showed me the pages at Baltimore a couple of years back and I was sorely tempted. Happy to see this in your gallery!

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Great minds think alike, Ben!

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

It's hard to emphasize how truly historic this is. Mark Buckingham drew this in the 1990s, it was published back in 1992. 30 years later, Mark essentially "remixed" the book in a new incarnation, using his new style, based off the same script from Neil Gaiman. I really cannot think of many such such artifacts in the medium. Herge's post-war reworking of some of his older Tintin work comes close, as does Eddie Campbell's Master Edition of From Hell. I am very happy that the full issue is together in your collection. This book deserves an artist's edition, along with its modern counterpart, to show both fans and art enthusiasts the evolution of Mark's style and his visual language. Congratulations Chris!

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Well...you do know how much I like creating artist's editions these days...hmmm....

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

With regards to buying/selling/collecting, there's probably some interesting discussions to be had about keeping books together versus breaking them up.  But I suppose things like this wouldn't be as special as they are if everyone kept entire issues together.  For now, the job of protecting this artistic treasure lies with you.  Enjoy it for as long as you can.  And thanks for allowing the rest of us enjoy it together as well.

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

I'm genuinely not sure what the right answer is on this question, but I know I've done a ton of work to pull some books together (and failed way more often than I've been successful on that front) and never broken one up. Just not wired that way, maybe? But I can see the argument that breaking a book up gives more people the ability to enjoy a work they are nostalgically connected to.

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Coolness intact!

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

A rare an unexpected finish to the last arc of the original series began here and the series had evolved from superhero and sci-fi adventure to so much more in philosophical and metaphysical treatise.  Those who read Miracleman from the Eclipse issue 1 to here matured with the series becuase of the long delays.  A complete issue is like a journey in putting together a final term paper that is ultimately satisfying in the end. 

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Art deco galore.  This is eye candy for me.   Amazing. 

1 - Posted on 3/19/2024

Beautiful NY shots! Chrysler Building looks so amazing, incredible art!

1 - Posted on 3/20/2024

OK, this is unbelievably awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 - Posted on 3/20/2024

LOVE complete stories!  Especially 30 year old stories.  Thanks for sharing!

1 - Posted on 3/21/2024

Man, no easy get, I'm sure!  What a way to set the scene...and...the whole issue.  Which you own all the art to!  Big congrats!

1 - Posted on 3/21/2024

Beautiful! Mega-congrats in the issue. Love the Chrysler Building! 

1 - Posted on 3/22/2024

AMAZING! You picked up whole issue? And you posted the whole thing? That's so cool. I had fun reading through it just now. It's really, really good. It works on so many different levels and it keeps suprising you (Well, me actuallly, not you). Beyond the writing, the art is superb. The composition of the pages, the figurework, the detail, everything is so well done. I love this page, as we move in closer and closer towards Manhattan, then the Chrysler building, and then...CRASH! Kind of symbolic, right? Anyway, congratulations on a phenomenal pick-up!