Showing posts with label Starhead Comix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starhead Comix. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Storm Warnings
1st edition, February 1986, Pullman, Washington. 50 copies, white cover, enlarged digest size.
2nd edition, February 1986, Pullman, Washington. 30 copies, white cover, enlarged digest size.
3rd edition, 1990, Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix. 17 x 13 cm. Color covers.
Available as a print-on-demand title in regular digest size, 1996.
1st Danger Room Reprint edition. July 2005. 5 copies, blue cover, regular digest size.
The nationally distributed Starhead version reprinted the 1980s story "Downtime Laff Riot" and a maze not found in the original edition.
My initials follow me around. I was born in Spokane, Washington. SW. I live in Southwest Washington. SW. Storm Warnings. SW.
I'm not particularly fond of this comic, especially the Rainmaker story. Oddly, it seems to me that out of all my comix, this one is the most acceptable to fans of conventional comic books.
Trivia:
P. 3-4: Mr. Wright also appeared in Delayed Stress Syndrome Funnies.
P. 13: Mukey and porcupines. It doesn't get much better than this, one of the few bright and happy spots in this book. Notice Mukey has a Max Fleischer character type of nose here. He was still under construction.
P. 23: Hey, isn't that ... Brad Foster in that crowd? Why, yes, I think it is!
Labels:
Brad Foster,
conventional taste,
Delayed Stress Syndrome Funnies,
I don't get it,
mazes,
Mukey the Mutant Membrane,
porcupines,
Spokane,
Starhead Comix,
Storm Warnings
Monday, February 28, 2011
Starhead Presents # 1
1st edition, 1986, Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix. Traditional comic format.
I believe this was my first nationally distributed comic, published during the start of the Great Black and White Glut of the 1980s.
50 copies included a hand drawn Morty Comix inside the front cover. The range was # 1641-1690.
A physical oddity: the cover is made of the same newsprint material as the guts.
This was later re-released by Starhead in 1992 under the title Morty the Dog in the Shadow of the Rainbow.
I'm also including the promotional material Starhead's Michael Dowers assembled for marketing to comic dealers.
Labels:
Arnie Wormwood,
Black and white comix glut,
Life and Times of Morty the Dog,
Michael Dowers,
Morty Comix,
Morty the Dog in the Shadow of the Rainbow,
Starhead Comix,
Starhead Presents # 1
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