Rom the spaceknight returns to Marvel!

[gaastra]

[gaastra]

Near mint doing its yearly poll of most wanted omnis and top 10 will be sent. Marvel will than pick from the top 10!

Included on the vote are shogun warriors, human fly, marvel gijoe, alf, barbie, ren and stimpy, bevis and butt-head, akira color with the extra stories never reprinted, Indiana jones, 2001, team america (70s toy comic not the puppet movie) and more!

Has some golden and silver age lesser-known books like millie the modal and marvel western also!

Also has the rare ultraverse malibu comics.

You only get 10 votes sadly.

Vote here--

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... w/viewform

Video--

[Ben]

If 2001 is the movie then I’d be interested in that, as well as Indy. Droo posted a link to online versions of the Marvel books and I enjoyed the few I got around to seeing.

[Randall]

Yes, Jack Kirby adapted the movie 2001 for Marvel in an oversized tabloid edition (I have it, and it's pretty cool), then he followed up with a ten-issue comic book series (which I'd like to track down). Machine Man was intro'd in that series.
https://www.comics.org/series/2342/covers/

With just the tabloid and a short series, it would be a brief Omnibus, but Marvel could add in the 19-issue Machine Man series that Kirby started to round it out.
https://www.comics.org/series/2457/covers/?page=1

It has been speculated, however, that DC might be more likely to reprint 2001, as the rights would lie with Warner now.

[Ben]

You had me at Kirby, but that looks crazy and nuts and cool. No idea that Machine Man was an offshoot from a 2001 comics run!

[gaastra]

[gaastra]

Skybound is reprinting the marvel gijoe comics. All comics, tie ins and mini series it says so does this include the shang chi (with daredevil, iron fist and electra also cameos) crossover, jj daily bugle crossover and rocky crossover in order of battle we don't know yet.

https://www.skybound.com/announcements/ ... compendium

[gaastra]

Results.

Ips that made top 60--

2001
avp classic
Indiana jones
transformers
gijoe
akira (with the never reprinted marvel short stories by the original manga writer!)

Note alf, barbie and shogun warriors all did well but just missed the top 60.

Top 20 will go to marvel to pick from. Indy missed top 20 by two. Ouch.

Note any book that made top 60 did incredible as there were over 600 books to vote for! So even if they didn't win marvel could still look at how well they did in the votes.

[gaastra]

Transformers will include the uk issues.

[droosan]

The early-1980s licensed comic book that I'd really love to see reprinted in an oversize deluxe hardcover format is Atari Force, published by DC Comics.
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Both the original series of five mini-comics that were included in the boxes of various Atari 2600 cartridge games, and the later full-size newsstand comic book which lasted 20 issues.

The mini-comic was fairly basic 'sci-fi explorers' fare, about multinational operatives for A.T.A.R.I. .. the Advanced Technology And Research Institute .. who venture into parallel universes in their trans-dimensional spacecraft 'Scanner One' in search of a 'new earth' for humanity to move to, after a global nuclear conflict. On one of their adventures, they encountered a massive evil alien entity who could control minds, which they labeled the 'Dark Destroyer' .. and defeated its plot to seed a global conflict on another world.

The newsstand comic shifted some twenty years into the future. The original Atari Force team is mostly retired, with one of them -- leader Martin Champion's wife Lydia -- dead (he's convinced, at the hands of the Dark Destroyer).

Martin Champion has become a recluse, obsessed with finding his wife's killer .. ignoring his son Christopher, who's grown-up to resent him. Christopher had been born with the innate power to teleport .. a mutation explained by the fact that his father and mother had been exposed to unique radiation during their explorations of the multiverse. Another pair of original Atari Force members had also had a daughter, who was similarly gifted with strong ESP.

When Martin Champion finally obtains proof that the Dark Destroyer is still alive, he recruits these super-talented children of the original Atari Force to help him find and destroy the Dark Destroyer again. To accomplish this, they steal 'Scanner One' (now a museum piece), and set out, accompanied by an unlikely rag-tag crew of aliens with their own unique powers and agendas (one of whom is merely an unlucky stowaway!).

Martin is not the only one seeking revenge, however .. the Dark Destroyer has not forgotten his first defeat at the hands of the Atari Force.

The look and feel of Atari Force was greatly inspired by Star Wars (as was the case for many sci-fi/comic book properties of the time). However, gifted artist José Luís García-López also tapped into classic pulp sci-fi inspirations in the vein of Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, etc.

The quest to find and confront the Dark Destroyer was an epic that unfolded across 13 issues, with a climactic twist which rivaled the best sci-fi novels or movies. The story was effectively over, at that point .. though the comic lingered for another seven issues, bringing satisfying closure to a number of side plotlines.

The series has never been collected into trade-paperback -- let alone hardcover -- form.

García-López's intricately-detailed artwork would look absolutely gorgeous in a deluxe presentation such as ROM, Micronauts and others have been getting, recently. Here's hoping it could happen, someday.

[Randall]

That would be nice. I never collected the series, but of course JLGL art is wonderful. Sounds like the story was a winner, too. Might have to check the back issue bins.

You only failed to mention the graphic novel Star Raiders, which kicked off the comic. it was DC's first in their "original graphic novel" line. JLGL did "painted" colors himself on it.

[droosan]

I did forget to mention Star Raiders .. which is a gorgeous trade paperback, set in the same universe as the newsstand Atari Force comic. The only ongoing AF character to appear in it is the Hukka (a semi-sentient pet creature) .. but it does name-check both the Atari Force and their battle with the Dark Destroyer, and is definitely a 'related story' that should appear in any 'complete' deluxe book collection of the series.

There was also an Atari Force Special issue, released about a year after issue 20. It contained a few short stories that'd originally been intended as 'backup' stories for the main book, before it'd been cancelled.

[Ben]

This sounds pretty awesome, actually! Although we were fairly good 2600 buyers, I never came across any extras like this in the boxes…maybe it wasn’t a UK thing. Gotta love that Warner Communications synergy, though!

[gaastra]

Don't forget the atari force mini comics that came with the home ports of the arcade games also!

Atari force was fun and would love a trade.

[Randall]

Don't forget the atari force mini comics that came with the home ports of the arcade games also!

Don't worry, he didn't. Droo mentioned them in his post already.