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openWhat is this from? Print Comic
What comic is this from? It was originally on the ironing my dog page but got taken down.
resolved Paperinik, Phantomias, Superduck, PK, Super Donald, Phantom Duck or whatever he is called Print Comic
I'm looking for the comic where Donald goes to the future and finds out that among other things his nephews are continuing his super hero work. Despite all three of them working together the beagle boys are still outmatching them, until Donald takes HD&L to the hideout of the burglars which he knew about because they also used it in the past/present
Edited by dutchguy1986openSome miniseries from the 90s Print Comic
I believe it was a Marvel take on Batman. It was a rich idiot that convinced his gardener to train him in martial arts because he was Asian or something. He decided to become a masked vigilante because people needed help and it seemed stupid to wait for a tragic backstory. It was mostly played for laughs.
openBloody Dinosaur Comic Print Comic
All I remember is that it's a cover for a horror/sci-fi comic that shows a policeman or night watchman shining his flashlight on a dinosaur eating a man. Google Images is being a little bitch.
Edited by Robertroperopen70s Batman and other DC Comics Print Comic
I remember some Batman and other DC stories from the 1970s and I am trying to find them again. These were in annuals or UK editions so they may have been reprints from earlier years. All of these were black and white line art but that may have been because they were reprinted. Details are: (1) Batman and Robin go against a criminal with dogs trained to attack on specific words. He calls Batman a demon he is going to send back to hell but 'demon' is the dog's attack word and it savages him instead. (2) Dick Grayson is at college where he finds Professor Crane is teaching a psychology class on fear. Somebody else releases fear toxin and chaos ensues. This may be the same story as the attack dog one as the dog guy was panicking (3) The sons of Batman and Superman are adult men. They drive through a weird power field into a western town where they are trapped and Clark Jr is depowered. Two evil cowboys fight them and our heroes use their wits to fake powers and win. I remember Clark Jr using a revolver with candle wax bullets to shoot and stun a bad guy (4) A band of DC villains including Vandal Savage and Degaton work together and take over a city, possibly Washington DC. All I remember is Degaton appearing from behind a pillar and choking someone with his forearm (5) An evil sorceress villain has someone using a bazooka to blow holes in the Pentagon turning it into the world's biggest pentagram (just go with it) and amplifying her power. This may be the same supervillain story as above (6) A Teen Titans (or other youngish hero team) story which starts with a black character trying to join and accusing the team of racism even though one of the team is blue. (He is rejected because his powers aren't useful). An explosion later is drawn so if you lean the page way back you can read the words "holy cow will you look at those fireworks" or something like it. I am looking for the original editions they were in or any compilations printed since. Thanks!
Edited by TargetOnMyBackopenBiographical Comic about a Comic Artist Print Comic
The main character had brown hair. He liked to read comics and went to a Christian school. The nuns didn't like kids reading comics.
openA whole series Print Comic
There was this DC series from the 80s where each issue featured the origin of a different hero. The last issue had a cover where all the heroes were seen taking words down off the page, like they were shutting down the comic themselves.
openB&W comic in a Martial Arts magazine Print Comic
So this is going way back to very late 80's early 90's. There was a black & white comic serial wedged into some Martial Arts magazine. The story had a bit of "The Crow" vibe to it. Protagonist's girlfriend is murdered and he gets the electric chair after killing the gang that killed her. He is brought back to life to work for some organization or something and is given a black sword or weapon that can transform into armor or something like that. Along the way he finds a sentient horse named Galahad (I think). The banter between the horse and hero was pretty funny. Any ideas?
openLooking for a character... Print Comic
There’s a character I’m trying to find more information about. All I know is what he looks like.
He seems to be an adventurer type. He wears a red shirt, blue pants, and a bag he wears with the strap crossing his chest. He has blonde hair (I think) and his shirt has a white symbol in it that could be a T, a hammer, or both.
He reminds me a lot of Tom Strong, but I don’t think he is.
openkrazy kat comic Print Comic
I saw this "In one Krazy Kat strip, Ignatz attaches a magnet to a balloon to get Krazy's iron helmet off. Enter a woodpecker..." Any one know where i can find the comic strip where this happened? images or title of the strip for krazy kat where this happened?
openRobot Diggers/Machinery vs Spave Insect Print Comic
Ok I have comic annual story I am looking for
When I was about 7-10 (87-90) I used to read my Uncles old comic annuals and one of the stories I used to love involved a bunch of digger looking robots, fighting a horde of space insects on what I think was a Meteor. I remeber pictures of these digger robots having eyes and expressions and chomping up these large insectoid things as they tried to defend a base or defend a city. The comic was in colour and thats about all I remember - Long shot I know - I don't know if this was a one off story or an on going series that appeared in this annual
My Uncle is now in his late 50s so these annuals could have been from 60s/70s I guess.
I thought at one point I had found it "Bug Hunters" which seems to be a group of robots similar to what iw as looking for, but in this series they seem to be fighting rogue droids. In the story there were actual large insectoid looking things
resolved A supervillain comic Print Comic
It has a Villain Protagonist who is an Expy of Bruce Wayne becoming an Expy of The Joker. He has a blank, white featureless mask and one issue cover had him painting a Slasher Smile on it with blood. IIRC one issue also had him kill president Obama with a spear to the head.
openRecent Marvel comic Print Comic
In Marvel comics, an old character recently became Mayor of New York City. In which comic books can I read about how that happened? (I won't name him. Spoilers.)
openThis comic where 2 kids have to find a magic coin as part of a deal with monsters to save a city. Print Comic
There was this comic-style graphic novel I read as a kid, probably released in the 90's or very early 00's (I'm almost certain I read it in 2002). I think it was in black and white but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a manga. As for the plot: Years ago, these monsters gave human settlers land, but under one condition: every so-and-so years the monsters would store power in a random item, and it would be up to the humans to find it and give it to the monsters, or else the land would be taken back. Eventually in the modern day, a New York-like city has been built there since, and everyone seemingly forgot about the deal, and it's time for another "scavenger hunt". Somehow this boy finds out about this, and while he's trying to figure this out, somehow a girl he knows finds out, and both of them go looking for this item, which turns out to be a coin. I can't remember much other than 1 other scene where the girl goes to the monsters chamber to ask them for more time, and they get really mad and tell her that they've given that luxury to no one. I don't really remember the title, but I could have swore I remember "city", "of the", and/or "brave" being in it. I might be wrong. Sorry about this, I already tried google and it failed me.
Edited by aeongopenLuanne Print Comic
This was a Luanne comic that showed the difference between men and women. The women's side showed a lot of switches and dials. The men's side showed one on and off swithch.
openDonald Duck comic about "Zargoth"? (SOLVED) Print Comic
There was this one Donald Duck comic book I got from the library back when I was a kid, and I want to read it again, but I can't remember it's title. The comic focuses on a fantasy movie that becomes a big hit with audiences, and everyone has fun roleplaying the characters from the movie, with a group acting like the heroes. Donald is all humbug about it at first, but after the leader of said group woos Daisy, Donald decides to check out the movie for himself, and ends up loving it. To get back at the leader and win Daisy's heart, Donald uses a giant robot in likeness of the movies main antagonist (I think his name is Zargoth?) to terrorize everyone during a festival (Including the heroic group), while he swoops in to save the day, framing himself as a hero. Unfortunately, something goes wrong with "Zargoth", and he goes to the incinerator plant and plops into a lava pool to melt, in spite of Donald's upset pleas. After that, he loses it and starts treating the remote control as "his precious" (Yes, he starts acting like Gollum in this scene). Daisy decides not to expose him since he needs the money for doctor bills. The story ends with the movie everyone previously raving about being shoved to the side, while the heroic group now becomes a cult for "Zargoth".
I think the comic book also had a story about Gyro Gearloose's happypants invention.
Edited by WolfThunderopenNobility named after horrible diseases? Print Comic
I remember finding a book in the library a few years ago where a normal dude gets straight up Prince and the Pauper'd by the Prince's family who are just a bunch of almost (or possibly actual) vampires named after diseases that live in a world colored with a lot of purples and blacks. I don't remember the name of it but every time I try to look it up with keywords I get actual diseases and that's not what I wanted to find at all.
openA Sandman Story? Print Comic
This was a Graphic Novel I read a single chapter of back in high school. I had a collected graphic novel book, sort of a "sampler." I believe the title was something along the lines of "20XX graphic novel previews," and it had a single chapter of quite a few graphic novels. One of the few I remember specifically was a Blacksad chapter, if that helps.
Anyways, within this sampler, was a single chapter of a comic I've been wanting to read ever since, but never tracked down. I've since narrowed it down to SOMETHING related to Neil Gaiman's Sandman, due to recognizing a character. It featured a man visiting an island(I think it may have been somewhere in Greece or Italy) that was supposed to have some ancient ruins. He got dropped off by a sailor, or rented a rowboat or something, and went against warnings by the locals. Instead, he ended up at a lively party, and speaking with Death of the Endless(this is how I finally learned what series it's from).
The party was nobles dancing, or something of the like, and I'm pretty sure they all suddenly died of disease over the course of the story. It was very interesting at the time, and I remembered loving the design and characterization of Death, it was the first time I'd seen a non-negative portrayal of a Death character. does anybody know which of the many, many spinoffs or sequels I might have been reading?
openComic with yellow, dog-like creatures with long, trunk-like noses. Print Comic
I remember bits and pieces of a comic I once read. I think it starred a man, a woman, a boy and a girl, but they weren't a nuclear family. I think they were "Doctor Who"-like travellers, visiting strange worlds like cosmic drifters. The woman, I remember had a really distinctive look to her. White clothes, with a style that made her look something between an ancient egyptian goddess and "master" from "Monkey Magic".
But the most distinctive thing that I remember was that the group had two identical dog-like creatures with them, that were yellow, and had long noses like big, floppy rectangular prisms growing out of their faces. I'm pretty sure the creatures were sentient and they might've even been able to speak english.

I'm looking for a comic I read about a small space colony, formed by some people who ran away from earth or something.
The first settlers have kids, who take the ship they arrived in, and go trying to find another planet to live in or something.
The main theme of the comic is nostalgia, and the writer uses the space-time trope of light-speed time travel as a medium. For example, two women who are in love, one of them accompanies the kids, and come back like a year later. But the one who stayed on the planet is 20 years older. They still love each other, even when the older one gets married to a man. They live and grow old on the colonized planet, on a farm/cowboy lifestyle, with 21/22 century technology. One of the characters uses a 21 century pick-up.
The kids also find an alien species, who look like ants, and have a slightly different set of moral principles. In one particular instance, one of the ant-aliens kill a crew member with an axe, and then calmly tells everyone who saw it that it was in self-defence, and that he was scared of the crew member. It's ambiguous if it really was self-defense or more like "he had it coming".
Both the drawing and the literary style are realistic, modern, American style, similar to Y: The last man.
I'm 90% is a comic, and 10% that it might have been a webcomic. Read it in website to read comic online (you know which one).
What was the name of this comic? Can't find it in any of the tropes pages I remember.
Edited by Salvastalker