Hellblazer Presents: Chas the Knoweldge
Again more that is directly linked with Hellblazer/John Constantine, this time featuring one of his oldest (surviving) friends.
Nice to see Chas centre stage as he has always been a major feature of the Hellblazer comics – unlike the quick kill off (and American) Chas in the @#$£ film
Ongoing plot elements continuing from issue to issue in the manner of TV soap opera. Introduced to comics in the 1960s, it’s now rare to have superhero stories complete in one issue.
Again this was picked up to help keep postage down on a lot of comics, but the covers were intriguing and thought it would be a nice small set to bulk out the DC collection and it was written by Grant Morrison which is always a bonus.
This another part of the completer/finisher desire – it features John Constantine – one of the main threads of the majority of the comics I’m collecting.
Not read them yet, again, just won’t have the time until my OU degree is finished.
A self-regulating method of proclaiming comics as wholesome, introduced in 1954 when the threat of congressional investigation hung over the industry. The prominent application of the Code stamp on the cover of a comic was an assurance to parents that the contents conformed to a stringent set of guidelines. It was once essential to ensure the distribution of comics, but is increasingly irrelevant today as only Archie and DC continue to carry the stamp (at about an eighth of its original size).
This post will be for all the Swamp Thing series and off-shoots, though each one will also get a post. This is another of my bigger collections but again I’m gradually filling the gaps.
I was first introduced to Swamp Thing through the 1982 film, and what a film it was 
thoroughly enjoyed it, though it is by all standards a terrible film.
DC
1st series
[still to get - 1-13, 15-20, 22-24] (Swamp Thing) 1972 to 1976
2nd series
[still to get - 1, 3, 5-6, 8-38] (Saga of the Swamp Thing) 1982 to 1985
[still to get - 39-46 48-51, 53-58, 59, 62, 70-73, 75, 84-87, 97, 99, 111, 113, 125, 127] (Swamp Thing) 1985 to 1993
DC/Vertigo
A guy on ebay was selling off a lot of his old series and they were series I had never heard of before, one of them was this, I got all six issues, again still haven’t read them, though probably will before the weekend.
The 1960s counterculture found comics a cheaply produced and effective way of communicating ideas, and a medium that had been the exclusive province of the major publishers was suddenly host to a wide variety of new talent and adult topics.
Just finished scanning the issues I have of this and added the gallery of covers to the site.
A Sandman-related comic series – I’ve not read any yet as I don’t have the complete series but the art I’ve seen looks excellent and I’m looking forward to seeing if it comes up to the general standard of Gaiman’s Sandman series.
[still to get - 31-32, 35-37, 38, 40-43, 45, 47-50, 57-60] – 1996 to 2001
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