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resolved Marvel comics Print Comic
I'm looking for one maybe two series of marvel comics since I'm not sure if what I remember is from one series or not. For the sake of this search I'm treating it as two different works.
The first one I'm looking for had Red Skull use the infinity stones to depower all heroes forcing Iron man to make powered armor. I think this also includes Red Skull making giant version of super villains
The other series had both Dr. Doom and Dr. Strange use the power of the eyes of some eldritch abomination. In the end Doom fused with several villains including Thanos while Strange combined the heroes into a giant version of Groot
resolved A comic from "Thargs future shocks" collection Print Comic
I'm looking for a short comic from the Thargs future shocks whose polot goes like this:
A pair of art thieves visit a gallery to find the most valuable piece to steal. They settle on a weird painting that is contained behind very thick bars. They saw through the bars to get at it, but instantly disappear. The next morning the curator takes a new group of tourists through the exposition, explaining that the painting is actually alive and the bars are not meant to protect the painting from people, but to protect people from the painting. The thieves are seen being tortured in Hell inside the painting.
resolved World's Finest issue with Superman and Batman robots Print Comic
Tomato in the Mirror has an entry "In a World's Finest issue, Superman and Batman, after being put through a gauntlet of trials especially designed to mess with their heads, reveal their secret identities, and then ask to be destroyed. Turns out that these were actually robots meant to perfectly emulate the two heroes, and realize that they're just imperfect copies because they didn't have either hero's mental fortitude."
Does anyone know which issue this was? I tried looking up Superman robot and Batman robot appearances and couldn't find it.
resolved Comic about a superhero employment agency Print Comic
There was a comic from the mid-90s or earlier about a organization that recruits superheroes and then sends them out on various missions; it was published in the early 90s (or earlier), featured a Sexy Secretary / Girl Friday named Nicole, and had a tone that varied between dramatic and humorous.
Edited by Luke_The_Greatresolved Horror Comic about a house that lures Print Comic
A comic whose first half is about a house that lures people from the neighborhood inside in various ways. One man is lured inside when his winning lottery ticket blows into the window an when he gets in he finds himself in the office for the destruction of losing lottery tickets and is stuck endlessly searching for his ticket in a sea of others.
The other half is the backstory in which a woman's child is buried up to his waist in the cemetery and eaten by grave worms so she gives up her soul in a magic ritual and gives birth to a horde of monsters that go out and cease the people of the town.
resolved Graphic novel: Homeless girl turns into monster Print Comic
This is a comic book / graphic novel I saw recently at a used book sale; I don't know when it was published. The main character is a homeless Black girl with a blue stripe in her hair. She transforms into a goopy monster with pure blue eyes. I believe she ends up getting stuck in monster form. There's a scene where she breaks into an apartment and finds an abused kitten that had its whiskers cut off. I think this was a Western comic, not a translated manga. I tried checking Homeless Hero and Shapeshifter Mode Lock, but didn't see anything there that rung any bells.
resolved Spider-Man holiday special? Print Comic
Which issue/holiday special is this example from the "Friend To All Children" page reffering to? "One Christmas Special has Spider-Man making his regular visit to the sick children's ward in hospital to the utter jubilation of the kids. Unfortunately, J. Jonah Jameson is also there and angrily tells Spider-Man to buzz off, however every single boy and girl, as well as the nurse, vetoes this demanding that "Spidey" can stay and the kids even rip into Jameson, pointing out all the times Spider-Man has selflessly saved and cared for them. At the end of the issue, armed criminals burst into the hospital and threaten the children, triggering an Unstoppable Rage from Spidey."
resolved cyborg has to let Titanic disaster happen Print Comic
a comic book i read a long time ago. the main character is some sort of stuntman who gets badly injured in an accident, and gets given bionic parts and becomes a cyborg. somehow, he ends up on the titanic, and has to stop someone else from trying to save the titanic, because if the titanic survives, Japan somehow wins World War 2. at the end he gets briefly trapped in prehistory
resolved Comic Strip Similar to Garfield Print Comic
Hi, I'm looking for a comic strip that I used to read back in the day. It was sort of similar to Garfield; The main cast is a man with glasses, but he has two pets: A large dog and a small cat (might have been Siamese?), and I think everyone could actually understand and speak to them like they were human. It was another slice of life comic, so no particular strips come to mind other than one where I think the cat gets back at his owner by putting hair loss cream in his shampoo?
resolved Bizarro Print Comic
There is a comic called Bizarro that is found as a strip in newspapers that I'm looking for. It's made by Dan Piraro. Does anyone know where I can find its media page?
resolved Mickey Mouse comic Print Comic
I once had a Disney characters comic
of 3 stories, the first ("Let's Get Kraken") and the 3rd featuring Donald Duck, and the 2nd featuring Mickey Mouse. It's the 2nd one and the 3rd (striking cuz I found it that I'm having trouble finding the titles of.
from this site, mentions Gemstone publishing.
)
- The Mickey one starts with Goofy's interview. When he's told to interpret some ink blots, one design in particular hypnotises him, and the interviewers as well. The aim of those hypnotised seems to be to get more people hypnotised, including the police force (Officer O'hara included) and collect equipment, especially black paint cans. Then they board a spaceship that Mickey follows on, he finds that they'll paint on the moon, and that the mastermind is the Phantom Blot (this is where I first knew of him, btw). He maroons Mickey on the moon, who mops up the design, but almost goes unconscious until an alien helps give him oxygen and finish cleaning faster. Then the alien gives him a space skiff(?) to depart, and helps the spaceship of ex-hypnotised folks to land safely. I know the Phantom Blot is a recurring enemy, but I can't find "moon" or a relevant use of "alien" on Mickey Mouse Comic Universe.
EDIT: Okay, looks like all I needed to do was dig a bit deeper still. This site gives the exact book I had in its US publications list
, and the 2nd story is called "Blot Clot".
resolved French comic about popular fictional characters going to therapy Print Comic
I'm trying to recall the name of this parody comic series in France. The gist of it is a number of illustrators, cartoonists, and artists will take a well-known character from pop culture, and they'll draw them going to therapy, specifically with a therapist listening to whatever problems they are going through related to their franchise/TV show/what have you.
The first volume for this series had a red cover; Mickey Mouse, Batman, Mario, and UFO Robot Grendizer are floating over each other, while a chaise longue is on the floor beneath all of them.
(I also recall their being a Tumblr blog that hosted some of these drawings, but I can't find this either).
resolved Garfield strip where he changes the shape of his teeth Print Comic
In this strip, Jon is telling Garfield that he sometimes can't tell if he's happy or angry. Garfield smiles normally and says that now he's happy, then smiles the same way but now his teeth are sharp and says that now he's angry.
resolved Fashion Manga where lady gets tutored by man Print Comic
Manga I read in my teens two volumes in; I know for a fact that one of the American publishers of the 2000s licensed it.
Basically it’s about some teenage/adult? Girl who wants to get better at picking up dates, so she seeks the help of some fashion expect. He had black hair I believe.
In the 1st volume, she wears an outfit that the fashion tutor to an admirer, but he says “something came up”. She heard him on the phone criticizing her outfit, and he finds out immediately . She almost gets kidnapped by this guy, but the fashion tutor saves her.
There’s also a big plot about her falling in love with and giving up a himbo to the fashion tutor’s sister.
At the end of the 2nd volume, after a basketball game, she realizes she has feelings for her tutor.
resolved [Answered] Burnout leads a mom to rework her life, help family Print Comic
Hi all, thanks in advance, fingers crossed. This was I think a French comic, but I read it in English. It's set in the modern day, the main character is a mom who works at a big company dealing with orders by phone. The execs and work culture focus on being "nimble, agile", and eventually she faints during a stand up meeting due to burnout / stress.
The rest of her family deals with the problems of modern life. Her husband is worried the international bakery he works at will kill the local wheat with over reliance on fertilizer. Their daughter is blindly following an influencer whom she realizes cares about her fans only as consumers of her beauty products.
The mom slows down her life, learns about resiliency from a botanist neighbor who helps revive the family fern.
The family goes on a vacation to a cabin in the woods, the father and daughter reconnect. It ends happily with the mom returning to work completely rejecting her boss' nimble ideology for one with stronger boundaries, and a slow growth. The husband quits his job and starts a local bakery using non-GMO local wheat that survived the fungus killing the main crops. The daughter changes her Vlog to a self-care, no-filter (as in, no beauty product, self care focused) lifestyle.
Edited by Earnestresolved Manga about little vampire girl and her adult human companion(SOLVED) Print Comic
So I'm making a list of manga I read during my developing years (1 to 18), and I'm trying to remember the name of this vampire manga I read as a kid.
It's about this little vampire girl and her human friend/guardian/companion she has around. I only recall the first few chapters of it as that's all I had a chance to read, but I remember one distinctly:
It involves the little vampire girl meeting up with a friend who's a little vampire boy at a hotel. He tells her you can control human minds by looking to their eyes, something he did for the human servant he now has.
Later on,s he gets curious and decides to do that with her human friend. After doing so, he wonders if it worked, and decides to test it out by asking him to get her some cake.
She's still unsure, so she then requests her "master" kiss him, to which he obliges. She then gets freaked out and starts crying, only for her human friend to reveal he was pranking her.
That's about all I can remember, other than the fact that "vampire" was in the title of the manga I think.
Edited by TropeFanaticFanresolved Help identifying a comic book (SOLVED) Print Comic
I'm trying to identify a recent comic book (I believe it was published within the last 3-5 years). I'm unsure if it was a mini-series or one-shot; I don't think it was an ongoing series. I don't think it was either DC or Marvel. The main character is a Black woman with a crowbar. I believe it takes place in the 1970s, or at least has a 60s vibe / ethos. I think it had some supernatural elements to the story.
Edited by cameoguyresolved Me & Joe Priest (solved) Print Comic
A man lives in a post-apocalypse world. His profession is a preacher or pastor. When he goes to minister to women who are barren and can't conceive, he is actually getting them pregnant. Their husbands don't know this and think he is praying with them. It might have been a DC Comics graphic novel in the 1980s.
Edited by cameoguyresolved horrormanga solved Print Comic
I remember an anthology manga where one chapter was about a cursed wooden classroom stool, that kills everyone who uses it. They end up using it to punish bullies and in the end the stories protagonist is forced onto it after refusing to make her best friend sit on it
Edited by dutchguy1986

I think it was originally a French comic translated to English, I don't know when it was published but I read it sometime after 2020 and the art style definitely wasn't pre-2000. It was about this insane kid with an imaginary friend, who had killed his parent(s) and became on a classmate after she killed a monster in self-defense not realizing she was terrified of him. There was this one story about a group of orphans led by this mysterious masked kid who took the girl in after she ran away, with it being revealed that the serial killer kid was the masked leader at the end of the story. It was all played for dark humor and the art style was that generic kid/teen style instead of anything more related to horror