harami2000 wrote:killjoy32 wrote:i think ppl are beginning to notice JG stuff more and they might make one or two tentative buys - like the items and then look for more - so then they can come speak to me You still don't have a name/title for your JG enterprise, do you?
killjoy32 wrote:i think ppl are beginning to notice JG stuff more and they might make one or two tentative buys - like the items and then look for more - so then they can come speak to me
killjoy32 wrote:i shoulda been more aggressive on your TAC cards the other month....
mbassoc2003 wrote:I do have 2 sets of the Judges Shield. I could let you have one to tide you over. I've never seen a mint one yet. I'm sure there may be one out there but I imagine it'll be with a collector.
rosenkav wrote:Seems you owe me one, bclarkie...
killjoy32 wrote:that really nice Tegel Manor arrived today - well pleased with it - excellent condition man! i've now got three (another on the way and another booklet too)...so i can do some research on this item now which is cool!my full series of V for Vendetta arrived too - really chuffed with these...... mint condition - very happy with this purchase!now i just need to find the magazines i originally read this series in back in the mid 80's.....something like MAD... but i cant remember anyone know?i also had a city state of the world emperor arrive - excellent/mint condition - really nice and got it quite cheap too....all three books and the city map - just need to find a nice condition MAP 6 now to complete it - give me something to do the guy who sold me the V for Vendetta's - also gave me a batman book "the killing joke" free! what a top guy!!! i also had some Tunnels & Trolls books arrive too - what a good day!
killjoy32 wrote:well i "think" it was MAD magazine or some such pulp-y type thing.like i said, it was about 20 years ago that i read it and the mags were older than that, so.....i will find out tho - thats the fun of searching isnt it cheersAl
V for Vendetta, the comicbook, has had an interesting history, printed by two different publishers over a span of eight years. Alan Moore wrote a detailed article on both the story's origins and how he and David Lloyd collaborated on each chapter in his article "Behind the Painted Smile". The article is included in the collected edition of Vendetta, but to summarize: In the early 1980's David Lloyd was offered a chance to do a serial in the upcoming UK comics anthology magazine, Warrior. Warrior was helmed by Dez Skinn, a longtime writer and editor in the UK comics scene. Lloyd suggested Alan Moore could write the serial, originally conceived by Skinn as mystery set in the 1930's. As Lloyd had no desire to do a period piece, Moore suggested they set the story in the (then) near-future instead. The creation of the story was very much a collaborative effort. Dez Skinn came up with the title "V for Vendetta", and it was Lloyd who first suggested dressing V up as Guy Fawkes. Moore began writing the story in 1981. Warrior magazine was published in March of 1982. It came out more or less monthly through 1985 when the magazine was cancelled with issue #26. Each issue contained one chapter of Vendetta, roughly 5 - 7 pages long, and published in a magazine-sized format with black and white art. Some interesting Vendetta-related trivia about the Warrior issues: V was featured on its covers three times: issues #5, #11 and #16. (You can view many of the Warrior covers here). The aforementioned article, "Behind the Painted Smile" appeared in issue #17. Though Lloyd was the artist, Tony Weare drew the interlude chapter, "Vincent," and provided additional art for chapters "Valerie" and "The Vacation". Warrior also featured the exploits of the superhero Marvelman (published in the U.S. as "Miracleman" due to copyright issues), also written by Alan Moore. Early on, there was an intent to link the two stories together by having V be Marvelman. This was never stated implicitly in Vendetta (and I do not know if there was any intent to reveal this information or have it remain implied), but evidence of this appears in Book One, Chapter 11, "The Vortex". Regardless, any ideas of connecting the two stories were scrapped by the time Vendetta completed its publication. (Note: I am uncertain exactly what was the last chapter to see print in Warrior. The Alan Moore Fansite says that the last chapter to see print was chapter 12 of Book Two, "The Verdict". But the copyright notice in 7th issue of the DC series lists Chapters 13 and 14 ("Values" and "Vignettes") as "first published in 1983 in the United Kingdom". If anyone can clarify this for me, I'd be most grateful.) By the time Warrior was cancelled, Moore was gaining both critical and popular acclaim through his work on the DC Comics comicbook, Swamp Thing. Moore's popularity skyrocketed with his collaboration with Dave Gibbons on the classic Watchmen. These factors no doubt contributed to DC acquiring the rights to republish Vendetta, in color, and give Moore and Lloyd the opportunity to finish the story they began six years earlier. DC Comic's released Vendetta in ten monthly issues from 1988 - 1989 in standard comicbook-sized form. Each issue was 32 pages and contained several chapters of the story. Alan Moore wrote a one-page introduction for the first issue, reflecting on the creation of the story and its thematic and personal relevance. Steve Whitaker, Siobhan Dodds, and David Lloyd provided the colors. Each issue featured original cover artwork by Lloyd and the back cover featured photography by Mitch Jenkins. The first seven issues saw the colorized reprints of what appeared in Warrior; the remaining issues were all-new material, marking this the first time the complete V for Vendetta was published. The ten issues were then collected into a trade paperback (also known by the misleading nomenclature, "graphic novel") in 1990. The original printings featured the same wrap-around cover as the first issue of the DC series. This edition presented the complete story as well as Alan Moore's introduction to the DC series, his article "Behind the Painted Smile", an introduction by David Lloyd, and reduced versions of Llyod's cover art for the DC series without the trade dress. Subsequent printings of the collected edition featured an up-close portrait of V's Guy Fawkes mask for the cover, with a story synopsis and creator bios on the back.