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Post by Magnus, Robot Fighter on Dec 11, 2023 16:57:42 GMT -8
The Superstar Artist Who Lost Everything (Todd McFarlane)
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Post by The Thing from Another World on Dec 12, 2023 17:17:20 GMT -8
Interesting video.
I forgot about the huge influence he had on the action figure market.
Thanks for posting.
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Post by Buzzetta on Dec 12, 2023 17:22:08 GMT -8
Interesting video. I forgot about the huge influence he had on the action figure market. Thanks for posting. he just sas He just signed a rather large licensing deal with Hasbro where he will have the license to produce GI Joe, D&D, and Transformers figures under his Page Punchers series |
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Post by The Thing from Another World on Dec 12, 2023 17:45:35 GMT -8
Interesting video. I forgot about the huge influence he had on the action figure market. Thanks for posting. he just sas He just signed a rather large licensing deal with Hasbro where he will have the license to produce GI Joe, D&D, and Transformers figures under his Page Punchers series Found it. Thanks. www.cbr.com/mcfarlane-toys-hasbro-multi-brand-deal/"The McFarlane Toys and Hasbro collaboration will see new figures released as part of McFarlane Toys' Page Punchers line-up, which includes a full comic book and two articulated figures each." |
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Post by kav on Dec 12, 2023 18:14:59 GMT -8
Interesting video. I forgot about the huge influence he had on the action figure market. Thanks for posting. he just sas He just signed a rather large licensing deal with Hasbro where he will have the license to produce GI Joe, D&D, and Transformers figures under his Page Punchers series As far as I can tell his net worth is 300 million so I dont know why he would file for bankruptcy over 15 million. |
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Post by Prince Namor on Dec 12, 2023 20:29:01 GMT -8
The Superstar Artist Who Lost Everything (Todd McFarlane) I'm really enjoying this video, but at the 9:20 mark it says Amazing Spider-man had fallen to Marvel's #22 sales title. That can not be correct. Here's what I show in 1987 by Statement of Publication Numbers: 1987 Un X-men 417,350 GI Joe. 331,475 WestCoAv No Report (For 1989 - 311,600) Am Spidr 276,064 WebOSpd 264,225 Fant Four 251,083 Alpha Flig 239,584 Avengers 237,241 WestCoAv No Report (For 1988 - 205,792) Iron Man 190,516 Daredevil 189,959 Thor 188,474 Inc Hulk No Report (Last one was 1986 - 172,033) ConanThB141,759 Capt Am 139,482 Marv Age No Report (For 1988 - 82,042) New Mutants - No Information (until 1991 - around 289,000) PP, Spec SPm - No Information (until 1991 - around 209,000) SSConan - No Information |
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Post by Buzzetta on Dec 12, 2023 20:33:56 GMT -8
The Superstar Artist Who Lost Everything (Todd McFarlane) I'm really enjoying this video, but at the 9:20 mark it says Amazing Spider-man had fallen to Marvel's #22 sales title. That can not be correct. Here's what I show in 1987 by Statement of Publication Numbers: 1987 Un X-men 417,350 GI Joe. 331,475 WestCoAv No Report (For 1989 - 311,600) Am Spidr 276,064 WebOSpd 264,225 Fant Four 251,083 Alpha Flig 239,584 Avengers 237,241 WestCoAv No Report (For 1988 - 205,792) Iron Man 190,516 Daredevil 189,959 Thor 188,474 Inc Hulk No Report (Last one was 1986 - 172,033) ConanThB141,759 Capt Am 139,482 Marv Age No Report (For 1988 - 82,042) New Mutants - No Information (until 1991 - around 289,000) PP, Spec SPm - No Information (until 1991 - around 209,000) SSConan - No Information I often forget how well GI Joe was doing during this time period. I never knew it was beating Spider-man though and Spider-man was a hot book in 87 where you have the Hobgoblin Saga taking center stage with Gang War and the Spider-man marriage. |
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Post by Prince Namor on Dec 12, 2023 20:35:43 GMT -8
Interesting video. I forgot about the huge influence he had on the action figure market. Thanks for posting. For sure! When those first Spawn figures came out I bought a case... I remember comparing them to the Toy Biz figures!    |
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Post by Prince Namor on Dec 12, 2023 20:39:20 GMT -8
I'm really enjoying this video, but at the 9:20 mark it says Amazing Spider-man had fallen to Marvel's #22 sales title. That can not be correct. Here's what I show in 1987 by Statement of Publication Numbers: 1987 Un X-men 417,350 GI Joe. 331,475 WestCoAv No Report (For 1989 - 311,600) Am Spidr 276,064 WebOSpd 264,225 Fant Four 251,083 Alpha Flig 239,584 Avengers 237,241 WestCoAv No Report (For 1988 - 205,792) Iron Man 190,516 Daredevil 189,959 Thor 188,474 Inc Hulk No Report (Last one was 1986 - 172,033) ConanThB141,759 Capt Am 139,482 Marv Age No Report (For 1988 - 82,042) New Mutants - No Information (until 1991 - around 289,000) PP, Spec SPm - No Information (until 1991 - around 209,000) SSConan - No Information I often forget how well GI Joe was doing during this time period. I never knew it was beating Spider-man though and Spider-man was a hot book in 87 where you have the Hobgoblin Saga taking center stage with Gang War and the Spider-man marriage. I had no idea about GI Joe either! And yeah, the Hobgoblin storyline ended in... 275, 276? So the numbers would reflect that period here. |
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Post by Buzzetta on Dec 12, 2023 20:52:35 GMT -8
I often forget how well GI Joe was doing during this time period. I never knew it was beating Spider-man though and Spider-man was a hot book in 87 where you have the Hobgoblin Saga taking center stage with Gang War and the Spider-man marriage. I had no idea about GI Joe either! And yeah, the Hobgoblin storyline ended in... 275, 276? So the numbers would reflect that period here. 289 actually. Had to look up the release date which was June 1987. So those lead in numbers are when they are firing on all cylinders. Issue 290 is the proposal. 291 and 292 is MJ leaving to go find herself and then she says, "Yes". October and November are Kraven's last hunt with 293 and 294. 295-297 were basically filler stories with that Life in the Mad Dog Ward and then the Doc Ock filler story. McFarlane takes over the title with 298 which is released in 1988. What's interesting is that DeFalco leaves the title at issue 285 right in the middle of the Gang War issues by editor Jim Owsley, who stated that they had chronically failed to meet deadlines. Owsley completes Gang War and then you have various people picking up the pieces until you have a stable team of Michilinie and McFarlane. If DeFalco turns his stuff in on time, (If that is the real reason) then I don't think Todd gets Spider-man. Todd may owe everything he has to someone else's tardiness. |
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Post by Prince Namor on Dec 12, 2023 21:33:47 GMT -8
I had no idea about GI Joe either! And yeah, the Hobgoblin storyline ended in... 275, 276? So the numbers would reflect that period here. 289 actually. Had to look up the release date which was June 1987. So those lead in numbers are when they are firing on all cylinders. Issue 290 is the proposal. 291 and 292 is MJ leaving to go find herself and then she says, "Yes". October and November are Kraven's last hunt with 293 and 294. 295-297 were basically filler stories with that Life in the Mad Dog Ward and then the Doc Ock filler story. McFarlane takes over the title with 298 which is released in 1988. What's interesting is that DeFalco leaves the title at issue 285 right in the middle of the Gang War issues by editor Jim Owsley, who stated that they had chronically failed to meet deadlines. Owsley completes Gang War and then you have various people picking up the pieces until you have a stable team of Michilinie and McFarlane. If DeFalco turns his stuff in on time, (If that is the real reason) then I don't think Todd gets Spider-man. Todd may owe everything he has to someone else's tardiness. That DeFalco run was the last time I really enjoyed reading the book I had collected for 14 years... |
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Post by kav on Dec 12, 2023 22:38:58 GMT -8
I was reading peter bagge, clowes, chester brown, weirdo, Nexus, etc at that period. No DC or Marvel (except for watch men).
The indy stuff was where it was at in the mid 80s
Didnt know who todd mc farlane was and if I had seen his stuff I would have shook my head and said "Really?"
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Post by Prince Namor on Dec 12, 2023 23:19:27 GMT -8
I was reading peter bagge, clowes, chester brown, weirdo, Nexus, etc at that period. No DC or Marvel (except for watch men). The indy stuff was where it was at in the mid 80s Didnt know who todd mc farlane was and if I had seen his stuff I would have shook my head and said "Really?" I wasn't into the new wave of Marvel artists... Liefeld, Silvestri, Lee... and the only reason I really took notice of McFarlane was because ASM was my main comic for years. I soured on him pretty quick. It WAS a great time for Independent Comics. I also read Nexus, and Dreadstar and Love and Rockets, Flaming Carrot... Xenozoic Tales came along in 1987. I didn't get into Clowes until 1990 when Eightball started up. Same with Chester Brown. I knew David Mazzucchelli from his Daredevil work and followed it into his Drawn & Quarterly stuff (and beyond) in the 90's. Charles Burns in the 90's. Allred's Madman in the 90's. It was a great time... |
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Post by bodega on Dec 13, 2023 6:29:12 GMT -8
The Superstar Artist Who Lost Everything (Todd McFarlane) I'm really enjoying this video, but at the 9:20 mark it says Amazing Spider-man had fallen to Marvel's #22 sales title. That can not be correct. Here's what I show in 1987 by Statement of Publication Numbers: 1987 Un X-men 417,350 GI Joe. 331,475 WestCoAv No Report (For 1989 - 311,600) Am Spidr 276,064 WebOSpd 264,225 Fant Four 251,083 Alpha Flig 239,584 Avengers 237,241 WestCoAv No Report (For 1988 - 205,792) Iron Man 190,516 Daredevil 189,959 Thor 188,474 Inc Hulk No Report (Last one was 1986 - 172,033) ConanThB141,759 Capt Am 139,482 Marv Age No Report (For 1988 - 82,042) New Mutants - No Information (until 1991 - around 289,000) PP, Spec SPm - No Information (until 1991 - around 209,000) SSConan - No Information I can't find anything in Comichron that would support this either. www.comichron.com/titlespotlights/amazingspiderman.htmlSales dropped, but I don't think it dropped to the 22nd place. |
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Post by kav on Dec 13, 2023 7:25:41 GMT -8
I was reading peter bagge, clowes, chester brown, weirdo, Nexus, etc at that period. No DC or Marvel (except for watch men). The indy stuff was where it was at in the mid 80s Didnt know who todd mc farlane was and if I had seen his stuff I would have shook my head and said "Really?" I wasn't into the new wave of Marvel artists... Liefeld, Silvestri, Lee... and the only reason I really took notice of McFarlane was because ASM was my main comic for years. I soured on him pretty quick. It WAS a great time for Independent Comics. I also read Nexus, and Dreadstar and Love and Rockets, Flaming Carrot... Xenozoic Tales came along in 1987. I didn't get into Clowes until 1990 when Eightball started up. Same with Chester Brown. I knew David Mazzucchelli from his Daredevil work and followed it into his Drawn & Quarterly stuff (and beyond) in the 90's. Charles Burns in the 90's. Allred's Madman in the 90's. It was a great time... I was lucky to start reading clowes when lloyyd llewellyn was coming out. I did an airbrush painting of issue #1 and had an image transferred to a T shirt and sent it to clowes. his only reply was I got the title of the movie on the left wrong. It was 'one lonely nut' not 'lonely and hot'. All you can see is onely and the T at the bottom so I took my best guess. I corresponded with him, bagge, seth, fleener and others and they always sent me a letter back. great times. |
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