# Ask the comic guy.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415 "2003-01-09T01:53:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/601 "2003-02-26T19:41:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mockingbird \* > **As an individual seller bringing product to dealers, a con is not a good place to go. From experience working at dealer’s tables, I have seen that one will generally get a much lower price than if one went to their store.** Interesting. > [@](#): > > **The chaff generally does move, because there are may who are looking for one odd issue, or a bunch of issues at a cheap price.** Sure, it moves for dealers, but I don’t know any dealer who’s ever been willing to buy that stuff except for a pittance and in a lot because it’s often so abundant and it clutters up inventory for a long time. Anyone looking to sell that type of material is probably better off on eBay. > [@](#): > > \*\*And it’s Sotheby’s. \*\* :smack: –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/602 "2003-02-26T21:04:36Z")
Seeing a lot of guesses and ‘probably’s’. Has anyone here tried with success selling comics on eBay? I check out the auctions from time to time to see if it’s going to be worth my while to sell my mini collections (all in a set are from the same series and consecutive when possible), but most of the auctions are for single issues. As been said before (and I totally agree), singles are hard to sell. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/603 "2003-02-26T21:33:13Z")
I’ve not sold but I’ve bought about 60 lots of comics, probably about seven or eight hundred total issues. The chunks of half-dozen to a dozen issues are the ones I avoid because they very quickly get too expensive; I typically buy very large lots for twenty or thirty cents an issue. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/604 "2003-02-27T00:46:17Z")
Max Carnage: Last fall, I sold my sets of Grim Jack (back-ups in Starslayer, issues 1-20 22-27 29-31 33-52), Jon Sable (1-31, 33-56) and Warlock (ST 178-181, Warlock 9-15) and got about $31 on E-bay, minus its fees, which I don’t remember. I was pretty happy as all the comics had been heavily read, the Grim Jack’s and Jon Sable’s hadn’t been stored in plastic bags, and some weren’t in very good shape. I figure I got more money than I would have from a store. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/605 "2003-02-27T17:09:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > **And if I am the EDITOR OF DOOM and can command time and space, I want a 12 issue “Growf Dragon” vs the Entire DC and Marvel Universe maxi-series.** Phil would even take his hat off for that one, I imagine. I’m sure Dixie would be excited just the same. > [@](#): > > \*referring to \*Alpha Flight _bafaa said:_ > **The guy on the team that could control metal turned the robot inside out. I can’t for the life of me remember that guy’s name…** It was **Madison Jeffries**. Jeffries could bend and control metal (his brother Lionel could do the same with organic material), so he created a big Thing-like robot body (actually, he modified the one Bochs had already built) for his wheelchair-bound friend Roger Bochs, who had no legs. Roger had the power to “phase” into metal, so in a sense he brought the robot (called “Box”) to life. > [@](#): > > _ResIpsaLoquitor stated:_ > \*\*Of course, we have to note that VERY FEW comic characters actually experience conventional aging. (The only example coming to mind are the Golden Age heroes such as the JSA, but even their survivors have been nicely de-aged and made static as well.) > > Thus, the “Marvel” rule has always applied to, say, Peanuts, Beetle Bailey, the Family Circus, the Simpsons, Dick Tracy, Prince Valiant, Archie…\*\* … and then we have _ **Gasoline Alley** _, in which the characters age, have children, and the children age and have children. While it’s more often “heartwarming poignant” or “pleasant in a sweet sort of way” rather than funny, I always thought this was pretty darn cool. Of course, some of the characters age faster than others, but we can overlook that… > [@](#): > > _Drastic asked:_ > **What were superheroes’ involvements in wars in between? I saw somehwere pages back that the Flash was drafted for Vietnam. What went on during the Korean War? During Gulf One? Did any smaller real world brushfires make their way into the comics?** Well, he doesn’t have any _real_ super powers, but Frank “ **The Punisher** ” Castle was a sniper in Vietnam. In fact, there was a crossover between _ **The Punisher** _ and _ **The 'Nam** _ which explained the origin of the stylized skull that Castle wears on his chest: Castle’s arch-nemesis, a Vietnamese sniper whom he eventually killed, wore a necklace of monkey skulls. The skull on the Punisher’s outfit is a stylized monkey skull. (just in case you were wondering) > [@](#): > > _Ranchoth asked:_ > **We’ve all heard of superheroes being called “vigilantes” by their critics…my question is, are there any superheroes that openly belong to a preexisting police or military organization?** Sure! **Marshal Law** is the best and brightest of the San Futuro Police Department (aided ably by his partners **Kiloton** and later **Razorhead** ), and, as **New & Improved Scott** mentioned, **The Savage Dragon** was also a cop. In fact, there was a two-issue crossover in which Dragon found himself in San Futuro fighting crime alongside the good Marshal! ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/606 "2003-03-01T20:23:14Z")
1. What are/how did they get ther powers for a) Ressurection man and b) Immortal man? 2)Is there going to be any sandman(morpheus) series coming up? Or one featuring the dreaming? I miss Sandman. ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/607 "2003-03-01T20:43:40Z")
What’s the deal with the **Micronauts**? I thought Marvel owned the rights to them, but I saw a promotion for a Micronauts series (with all the same characters) being published by Image. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/608 "2003-03-01T21:25:35Z")
Micronauts were a toy line made by Mattel( I believe) and Marvel was sold the right to publish comics featuring those characters. I’m guessing the contract to hold those rights expired,and the toy company wanted to do another toyline featuring the 'nauts so they called Image. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/609 "2003-03-01T21:39:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > \*\*1) What are/how did they get ther powers for a) Ressurection man and b) Immortal man? > 2)Is there going to be any sandman(morpheus) series coming up? Or one featuring the dreaming? I miss Sandman. \*\* 1 Ressurection man- I dunno I’m not at home and can’t get my Who’s Who, so the following may contain errors. I’m sure Fenris or another will correct any mistakes I make. 2-Immortal Man was a cro-magnon. He was fighting with an enemy when a meteor exploded between them. The strange meteor made one man truly immortal. He spread his evil through the ages and is now known as Vandal Savage. The other man took a strange jewel from the core of the meteor. He ages normally. But upon his death, he is instantly reincarnated with all his inteligence and experience intact. This is Immortal Man. Both Vandal Savage and Immortal Man featured in The Forgotten Heroes. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/610 "2003-03-01T22:18:51Z")
1. Since The Flash has an Aura that protects poeple near him from flying away like paper dolls when he runs past them at super speed, why do things like paper and other little things fly away? Why would that affect not apply to poeple? I’m sure if you were to have a plane fly at mach 3 past a group of people they wouldn’t clutch onto their hats or purse’s like they do when the flash runs by. ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/611 "2003-03-02T01:00:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DocCathode \* > \*\*1 Ressurection man- I dunno > > I’m not at home and can’t get my Who’s Who, so the following may contain errors. I’m sure Fenris or another will correct any mistakes I make. > 2-Immortal Man was a cro-magnon. He was fighting with an enemy when a meteor exploded between them. The strange meteor made one man truly immortal. He spread his evil through the ages and is now known as Vandal Savage. The other man took a strange jewel from the core of the meteor. He ages normally. But upon his death, he is instantly reincarnated with all his inteligence and experience intact. This is Immortal Man. > > Both Vandal Savage and Immortal Man featured in The Forgotten Heroes. \*\* I’m almost positive that the second guy you described _is_ Ressurection man. (Vandal Savage eventually killed him in the D.C. 1 Million “event” and was then himself killed by The Martian Manhunter – all in the future though) ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/612 "2003-03-02T01:34:08Z")
Well, it’s hard to tell seeing as their names would both be fitting, but Ressurection Man would make more sense. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/613 "2003-03-02T01:39:48Z")
Starbury: What the hell? Do Martians live forever? ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/614 "2003-03-02T01:43:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Peyote Coyote \* > \*\*Starbury: What the hell? Do Martians live forever? \*\* I guess that J’ohn eventually had a son and it kept on going on up until that time OR J’ohn time travelled. I think it was time travel,if I recall the one million event correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/615 "2003-03-02T02:34:23Z")
A bit of background: in the 1 Million series, Savage comes up with this plan to kill Superman (Superman basically is able to keep himself from aging by living inside the Sun) using a bullet made of kryptonite. He also uses the Red Rockets (Russian super heros in Iron Man-like power suits) to blow up the city of Montevideo. Basically, J’onn (J’ohn? however you spell it), Green Lantern and Huntress come up with a convoluted plan to defeat Vandal Savage and the main bad guy from One Million (it was an artificial sun, I forget what its called). Anyway, J’onn takes the Green Lantern’s ring at some point in the near future, goes to Mars and hides there until the year 1 million. He’s not exactly alive, he becomes kind of like a ghost…I realize I’m doing a bad job of explaining this. Anyway, in the year 1 million, J’onn springs his trap on Vandal Savage, switching the kryptonite bullet with the green lantern ring (they’re both green, so I guess it was easy for Savage to be mistaken) and sending Savage back to Montevideo right before it was blown up. The Resurrection Man/Immortal Man gets killed when Savage infects him with a virus. Basically, every time the Immortal Man gets resurrected, he is immediately killed by the virus. As badly as I mangled this, it was probably one of the least confusing of Grant Morrison’s story lines in JLA. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/616 "2003-03-02T02:54:35Z")
It does sound wierd, Starbury, but thanx for the explanation. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Improved\_Scott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@New\_Improved\_Scott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Improved_Scott)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/617 "2003-03-02T06:50:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > \*\*Micronauts were a toy line made by Mattel( I believe) and Marvel was sold the right to publish comics featuring those characters. > I’m guessing the contract to hold those rights expired,and the toy company wanted to do another toyline featuring the 'nauts so they called Image. \*\* It was actually te other way around. Devil’s Due pursued Mattel to get the rights to do a 'Nauts comic, which was then distributed by Image. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/618 "2003-03-03T04:38:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Starbury \* > \*\*I’m almost positive that the second guy you described _is_ Ressurection man. (Vandal Savage eventually killed him in the D.C. 1 Million “event” and was then himself killed by The Martian Manhunter – all in the future though) \*\* I’ve got a few issues of Ressurection Man. I don’t know his full origin. However, I have a JLA with Immortal Man telling his origin as well as the I issue of Who’s Who. IM is a red head. Ressurection man does NOT reincarnate in an infant body. If killed, his body is dead for a time. Then, he comes back to life with a new super power(ala Multiple Man). His first name IIRC is Mitch. Mitch is either platinum blond or has prematurely white hair. In DC 1 Million, RM had learned to change his power without dying. ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/619 "2003-03-03T06:43:35Z")
It’s been awhile since I’ve read X-Men (a year or two… hopped back on when Claremont started writing again, and then he disappeared), but, is Shadowcat still alive? \ oh please \ And, has the nature of Wolverine’s claws (mutation or implantation) ever been FULLY determined? Is Logan is first or last name? (If these have been answered, go ahead and smack me) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415/620 "2003-03-03T13:20:39Z")
Yes, but Claremont f\*cked Shadowcat up, badly. Under Warren Ellis in Excalibur, Shadowcat grew up and was a young woman in her '20s and (cough) got intimate (cough) with another character (Peter Wisdom). Then Claremont came back and _poof_ she was like 15 again so she’s apparently been molested by a 30 year old guy. :rolleyes: Check out the Warren Ellis back issues of Excalibur (roughly 80-100 give or take) and the 4 issue mini series Pryde and Wisdom for the best Kitty Pryde stories ever. Since most writers don’t want to try to untangle that mess, she’s been sent off to college and is mostly being ignored. They’ve pretty much said that Wolverine’s claws are a mutation (which is kinda stupid, IMHO). They still haven’t cleaned up the “Magneto: Gypsy or Jew” issue though, but since Magneto’s currently dead (I think. I’ve lost track) it doesn’t much matter Fenris [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-comic-guy/147415.md?page=32)