This Week’s Haul…In 1990!

Rachelle | July 30, 2009

As much as I would love to indulge in reading and writing about 90s comics all night, I’m afraid I’m going to have to make this quick. I am jetting off to New York City tomorrow!
But first, let’s see what treasures November 1990 had to offer.

Danny MF Ketch in the house!
I suggest clicking on that cover [...]

John Would Have Bought Some of These Comics in 1990

Johnathan | July 29, 2009

Well, I would have if I hadn’t been 10 and consequently broke. But yeah, what few comics I did buy at the time were not classics of the art. Why, I still remember my regret at selling that issue of New Mutants that Cable made his debut in - that thing was worth its weight [...]

Oh God, Is 90s Week Over Yet?!?

Dave | July 29, 2009

All right, so this past Sunday afternoon, I held my nose and dove right in to a pile of 18 comics that were purchased on Sept. 14, 1990, for a whopping…$26.64? Great Scott! That would maybe buy you five or six comics today. On the flip side, I’m happy to report that most of these [...]

90s Week: Back to the Drawing Board with Bruce Wayne

Rachelle | July 28, 2009

In 1995 a team of "archaeologists" at DC discovered Bruce Wayne’s long lost collection of concept sketches for his costume. These sketches were released in the form of an Elseworld entitled Batman: Knight Gallery, and let me tell you, it has not aged well.

From these historic drawings we learn that:
a) Bruce Wayne was ahead of his time [...]

A Bit of a 90s Palate-Cleanser.

Dave | July 27, 2009

Welcome to 90s Week at Living Between Wednesdays! This whole idea was inspired by a collection we acquired recently at Strange Adventures, where a guy who had been buying comics at another store for over twenty years had picked up his comics faithfully every week or so, read them once, then stored them back in [...]