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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 11, 2019 21:18:25 GMT
I would love a TPB collecting Star Comics Thundercats #1-6, and also one collecting DC's Masters of the Universe 3-part mini-series.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 11, 2019 21:49:20 GMT
Don't see why DC haven't done the MOTU seeing as how they have the license.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 13, 2019 21:36:26 GMT
Thundercats was enjoyable at the time though only really the first couple of Annuals and Waking Nightmare stick in the mind. To be fair though it was one of the most successful Marvel UK licensed titles along with Transformers and The Real Ghostbusters in terms of longevity/sales.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 26, 2019 14:44:10 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 26, 2019 16:22:24 GMT
Sadly thats the modern stuff from DC.
We want the classic dc mini and the Marvel stuff.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 26, 2019 16:31:03 GMT
Sadly thats the modern stuff from DC. We want the classic dc mini and the Marvel stuff. No, both 1982 Superman/He-Man crossovers and the 3-issue 1982 mini-series are included in the Omnibus. Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 26, 2019 16:35:07 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 26, 2019 17:02:32 GMT
FUCK.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 26, 2019 20:12:04 GMT
But not the UK stories.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 27, 2019 8:02:40 GMT
No.
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Post by paulbyrnex on May 24, 2019 16:59:42 GMT
On a whim i paid 40 odd quid for 95 issues they arrived today in a shoebox which is handy as I had nowhere to store them. God knows when I'll get around to reading them or if i get the chance to fill in the missing gaps.
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Post by blueshift on May 24, 2019 20:19:37 GMT
On a whim i paid 40 odd quid for 95 issues they arrived today in a shoebox which is handy as I had nowhere to store them. God knows when I'll get around to reading them or if i get the chance to fill in the missing gaps. Oh wow, awesome!! How many were there? |
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Post by Pinwig on May 24, 2019 20:30:03 GMT
I think there might have been a clue in the post...
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Post by blueshift on May 24, 2019 20:31:59 GMT
I mean how many comics in the run in total!
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Post by Pinwig on May 24, 2019 21:15:04 GMT
129.
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Post by paulbyrnex on May 25, 2019 10:52:03 GMT
As was said 129 released in total though I think somewhere around the 100 mark it started reprinting older issues.
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Post by Pinwig on May 25, 2019 11:50:58 GMT
I think we did this in another thread recently because I was re-reading the run. Or was that the publication schedule? It went monthly at issue #95, which was when the page count rose enough to accommodate a reprint back up strip. The original strip content then ran out in #98 when both Cats strips became reprints. All roughly around the same time Transformers went through its format change in the 210s.
The weird thing is that one of the first 'reprints' was US #24, which hadn't actually been printed in its original form in the UK comic. When it was done (#66/67) it was adapted by Mike Collins and redrawn, maybe because it was a fairly dark story for a young audience. However, by the time of the reprint, the UK team obviously didn't care!
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Post by paulbyrnex on May 25, 2019 17:23:42 GMT
Thanks for the information Pinwig, I might set up Ebay alerts for the few issues of original material I'm missing
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Post by The Doctor on May 28, 2019 19:38:16 GMT
A comic shop in Bury has a pile of Thundercats for 50p a pop. I picked up #76-81.
Random issues in the shop. May go back another day for another rummage though some of them did look a bit knackered!
#79 is when it briefly became THUNDERCATS AND GALAXY RANGERS. I remember coming back to the title after dropping it early #50's and remained until the Galaxy Rangers strips ended. Came back again for the last few issues when the frequency changed.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 28, 2019 19:50:58 GMT
You've got two interesting stories there. Zimmerman and Rooney worked on the US run, but those stories aren't from the Star issues. Ian Rimmer also gets a writing credit on some of the issues. I read that to mean there was content produced for the US comic that wasn't used when the title was cancelled and wasn't quite complete, so it was patched up and used by the UK comic. Galaxy Rangers finished in #83.
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Post by The Doctor on May 28, 2019 20:00:14 GMT
That rings true with my memory. I didn't remember Galaxy Rangers lasting long in Thundercats at all!!! And this after only getting 9 issues of its own comic!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 28, 2019 20:04:14 GMT
I think it was just a case of them using up the left over material. Given it was UK originated it was never going to last longer than it needed to! Thundercats was on the way out then anyway, it went fortnightly at #84 and that was the beginning of the end.
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Post by The Doctor on May 29, 2019 6:53:05 GMT
Lasted for a while as a Monthly though! Wonder if that was where the idea for the initial plan for TFUK to survive as a Monthly came from.
Thundercats must have had a loyal core readership to survive going to fortnightly, then reprints and then monthly for over 2 years. Yet it's mostly forgotten today.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on May 29, 2019 7:51:20 GMT
Lasted for a while as a Monthly though! Wonder if that was where the idea for the initial plan for TFUK to survive as a Monthly came from. Thundercats must have had a loyal core readership to survive going to fortnightly, then reprints and then monthly for over 2 years. Yet it's mostly forgotten today. -Ralph Things tended to stick around longer in the public consciousness in those days, as there wasn't the internet and social media to constantly blitz the new big thing and create consumer exhaustion as much |
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Post by Pinwig on May 29, 2019 8:49:13 GMT
Thundercats must have had something about it though when you think about the number of comics that died on their arses within a few issues back then. I'm also curious about the relationship between the toyline and the comic. Did Thundercats toys arrive here significantly later than in the US? The first issue of the US comic went on sale in August 1985, but the UK title didn't start until March 1987. Had the toys been around here almost two years before the Marvel comic started? (Bearing in mind Marvel issued an Annual in August 1986 containing the first two US issues, the success of which presumably prompted them to start a weekly). I don't think they can have been, because the toy adverts in the early issues were for the first wave figures. Adverts for the later figures like Bengali and Jaga appeared in spring 1988.
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Post by paulbyrnex on May 29, 2019 11:41:55 GMT
I sorta wished a kept a notebook of what i bought, when i bought it, what i saw on sale during the 1980s would make things easier today.
I checked some Argos catalogues and Thundercats were first seen in the 1986 Christmas Argos catalogue (Lion O, Mumm RA, Sword and Thundertank), the 1987 catalogues weren't online with more of less the same in 1988 catalogue with Hammerhand also listed and in the 1989 catalogue no Thundercats listed. I can recall Thundercats clearance sale in summer of 1990 where I bought Driller. So I guess first wave in 1986 maybe then second in 1987 and final in 1988 ? I haven't check the comics to see if these dates match up.
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Post by Pinwig on May 29, 2019 12:18:13 GMT
Comic references:
Issue #1, 21/3/87 - Advert for Lion-O, Panthro, Tygra, Cheetara, Jackalman, Monkian, Mumm-Ra, Slithe with mail away Ancient Mumm-Ra, Thundertank and Sky Cutter
Issue #50, 27/2/88 - Ben Gali, Pumyra, Lynx-o mentioned on letters page.
Issue #55, 2/4/88 - Advert for Pumyra, Tuska Warrior, Luna Lasher, Thunderwings, Stilt Runner
Issue #56, 9/4/88 - Advert for Jaga, Pumyra, Safari Joe, Captain Cracker, Ben-Gali, Captain Shiner, Linx-O, Mongor
Which is interesting because that pretty much covers wave 1 and 3. I wonder why Wave 2 didn't get toy adverts in the comic. That's a bunched up release schedule, in the US the three waves were 85, 86, 87, but here we must have had them all between Christmas 86 and probably Christmas 87 if the last wave is being mentioned on the letters page in Feb 88.
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Post by paulbyrnex on May 29, 2019 12:57:47 GMT
Found an Argos 1987 Christmas catalogue it has Wave two Hachiman, Grune the Destroyer, Ram Bam and Mumm-Ra’s Tomb Fortress. Maybe we didn't have 3 LJN Toyline waves but 2 waves from Rainbow Toys ? Wave 1 1986 (American Wave 1) and Wave 2 1987 (American Wave 2 and 3 combined) You can view old Argos here retromash.com/argos/ |
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