An “Alice in Wonderland” riff, a surreal quest and a tale of interplanetary war: Anomaly #4 is an interesting underground featuring work from Jan Strnad, Richard Corben and Bob Kline.
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A man falls hard for a woman who wipes out on a surfboard – but her mommy issues stand between them. Bronze Age romance comics prove even harder to follow than the superhero ones, but this one features nice art by Alex Toth, Ernie Colón and others.
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Samson and company head up the Huz’n in a river boat, visit the Met Cloisters and fight a radioactive unicorn. A gorgeous George Wilson cover fronts this rather bland outing from the creative team of John Warner and Jack Abel.
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A pair of law enforcement tough guys – the NYPD’s Sam Lomax and cop-turned-P.I. Luke Malone – blow away bad guys with Magnums. Gary Friedrich serves up two crime stories long on silly and short on grit, while the work of artists Mike Sekowsky and Mike Ploog suffers from unsympathetic inking.
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The Rev. William Stryker escalates his evangelical, anti-mutant crusade to a mass-murderous level with a plot involving Professor X. A powerful addition to the X-Men canon by longtime scribe Chris Claremont and future-Astro-City artist Brett Anderson.
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Pairing a reprint of “Second Genesis!” (from the historic Giant-Size X-Men #1) with a new backup tale by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum, Special Edition X-Men #1 makes a solid package for the early collector’s market.
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Storm falls under Dracula’s thrall once more, but what’s going on with a distraught – and seemingly murderous – Kitty Pryde? Another mismatched story of horror and superheroics from the future New Mutants team of Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz.
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Professor X is impregnated with a Brood Queen; have the X-Men returned to Earth in time to stop the transformation? An excellent concluding issue to the original Brood saga, from the team of Chris Claremont, Paul Smith and Bob Wiacek.
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Facing certain doom, the X-Men lay siege to the Brood throne world in an attempt to liberate the Acanti. An underdeveloped-but-still-strong issue from the X-team of Chris Claremont, Paul Smith and Bob Wiacek.
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A nefarious Kryptonian criminal shows up on Earth, taking control of Superman and the Challengers of the Unknown. Featuring subpar, late-career art from Jack “King” Kirby (with a few pages from fellow legend Alex Toth).
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