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29
Mar

1990 Promo Darkhawk Vintage Poster

It is both a moment of utmost sadness as well as unexpected happiness for me right now. I found this Darkhawk promo poster selling on Ebay with a starting bid of $9.99 USD. Of course I immediately watched it like a hawk–huh huh… hawk–for the next 7 days. This was a 1990 Mike Manley drawn, [...]

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27
Mar

As I scanned some tweet RSS feeds I came across this Darkhawk “warm up piece” by artist John Cottrell. There’s a bit of Runaways, a bit of League of Losers and a bit of DH 2.0 or War of Kings in this design. It still remains very street-level is feel though and not so cosmic–which [...]

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Over at Ain’t It Cool News, the manic, self-proclaimed, assholes–err–@$$Holes, sorry–bloggers ran an “AICN COMICS: SIXTH ANNUAL @$$IE AWARDS“, where each of them picked their best in comics over the past year. I’m thrilled that Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning came up a couple times and the @$$Holes also made it a point to mention [...]

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UPDATE, MARCH 15, 2010: The biddings have come to an end! Final bidding totals listed at the end of this blog post! The original pages for War of Kings: Ascension, drawn by Wellington Alves are up on Ebay. Like the pages before them their starting bids are $9.99. This issue covers the final moments between [...]

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Don’t ask me why I woke up thinking such a trivial matter–one that I was actually just going to ignore outright. But I started thinking of the cameo image that I posted on here after reading Beyond! and keyed into an era of comics that I particularly had an affinity to because that’s when I [...]

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[Darkhawk Search on Cover Browser] Do you find that you ever just get in the mood to reminisce good times with old comic favorites without having to pull all your musty longboxes outta storage? Well–Now you can! There’s a website called “Cover Browser” which does exactly what its name claims to do. How could I NOT plug [...]

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K and J Non-Sports Cards sold a “Classic” Darkhawk Sketch by Butch Mapa on Ebay over the weekend which I happily captured in order to report on it here and preserve yet another worth Darkhawk treasure for all the Bucketheads out there! It was part of the Spider-Man Archives trading cards, released by Rittenhouse Archives on October 28, 2009. I [...]

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