Kray Z Comics And Stories

Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan. 

They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes.  It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!

They also discuss:

• Blind Bag Comics: Threat or Menace!
• Why Alan Moore and Frank Miller are incredibly wealthy men. 
• How Joe’s shop did so well in the early 90’s because of the X-Men cartoon
• Joe’s criteria for getting an autograph. 
• How a bad advertising killed the Minneapolis Show Comic Zone
• Why Marvel has a series called Fantastic Force
• A new sponsor!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gatorman/the-apostasy

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!

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Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan. 

They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes.  It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!

They also discuss:

• Joe giving cars away and Butch covering them with magnets. How do they work?
• Why Cory!! hated the original Magnus Robot Fighter
• The Early Image book Cory!! fell in love with. 
• Is there any old inventory left floating around at Marvel?
• What character created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz at Marvel had his own series, but was MADE TO DIE!
• Cory!! Reviews First Issue Special #6 in the Retro review
• A new sponsor!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gatorman/the-apostasy

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All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!

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Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan. 

They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes.  It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!

They also discuss:

• RUB THE BLOOD on a comic
• They are confused about how different parts of a continued story aren’t interested in buying all of the parts.
• The start of the Ultraverse from Malibu
• Jack Kirby and Charles Band worked together?  
• Freaking and Geeking

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!

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Cory!! found a listing of the top 100 comics for June of 1993 on an old issue of Overstreet Fan. 

They go over what they remember with Joe owning a shop, it being on the eve of the 90’s comics sales implosion, and LOT of new super hero universes.  It’s a trip down memory lane for a time period that people have a lot of opinions about, the 90’s!

They also discuss:

• A PSA on the lottery
• DC’s first “multi cover” comic and why they did it with no warning to retailers.
• DEATHMATE!!!
• Why did DC kill Superman
• Joe’s Retro Review is Ren and Stimpy with Spider-Man!

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!

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This week, since Previews has died and gone to magazine heaven, Joe and Cory!! go over the comics they still buy or read as individual comics, not trades or graphic novels collections.  It’s an episode of recommendations, nostalgia and the comic collectors desire to “keep the run intact.” 

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!

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The Fantastic Four are the core of the Marvel Universe, and they just got another movie, so Joe and Cory!! have their Fave Five FF stories to tell you about! 

• Fantastic Four 191 – 200
• The Trial of Reed Richards
• Solve Everything 
• Fantastic Four 1-2-3-4
• Fantastic Four 176 – 184
• What If #1
• Fantastic Four 84 – 87
• Fantastic Four 51: This Man, This Monster

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!!

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Yes, we have been away from the show for a bit, but that is because Joe was out wandering the world again, driving his daughter Daner from Reno NV to Cincinnati OH.  He tells stories of hsi road trip as well as:

• Joe is no longer interested in modern wrestling. FOR SHAME!
• Air travel without doing the “Let me tell you about airline food” jokes. 
• Cory’s last discussion with his grandmother.
• The story of Cory’s last family trip.
• Joe only got to go to ONE comic shop of the trip
• Once they got to Cincinnati, Joe was able to get into bookstores, and some had comics.
• DEATH CRAZED TEENAGE SUPERHEROES!!!!

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

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It’s the second part of our look at Jim Shooter’s life in comics as we discuss:

• Shooter’s attempt to buy Marvel after being fired leading to Valiant
• Valiant’s early failures before becoming a hit via Wizard
• STEVE DITKO DREW WWF COMICS
• Joe’s shop making money with Valiant comics
• How Shooter was forced out of Valiant and the companies he started after that
• The rise and rapid fall of Defiant comics and Broadway comics
• Shooter at Marvel and DC in the 2000s
• Cory at a convention after party where Jim Shooter told stories until 3 am.

Rather than a retro review, they talk about the new Superman movie!

All of this, the usual shenanigans and much, much more!

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Former comics writer, editor and publisher Jim Shooter recently passed and in this first of two episode, Cory!! and Joe go over his career from his first comics sale at age 13 to his last days as Marvel editor in chief. There are a LOT of stories, history and more as they discuss the life of one of the most influential people to ever work in comic books.

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