A Lot of New Number 1’s Lately – Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

It was probably happening for a while, but I just noticed that both DC and Marvel are back on the “#1” train, not just with new characters, or old characters with “creative” new subtitles (or adjectives) like “Green Lantern War Journal” or “Uncanny Spider-Man” or “Uncanny Avengers” (last month), but with plain old (Volume 6 or 9 or 12) “#1″‘s of adjective-less 80 or 60 year old characters or groups like “Wonder Woman”, “Captain America”,  “Alpha Flight” (1 month ago), “Superman” (5 months ago)…..whew! And then some months down the road they will give in to pressure and conveniently start printing the “legacy number” on the cover as they approach some big anniversary with two zeroes in it. Sigh. I guess they;ve been on that train for a long time, since the  late nineties when Marvel rebooted every title and did it again a year later.

The other guys have a couple of Spawns and a couple of Turtles and a bunch of other comics.

I have to make note that this is posted BEFORE opening on Wednesday for the first time in forever. Getting the info Monday really helps.

We are still encouraging and welcoming masks, but not requiring them. You are only in our enclosed space for minutes, but Bob is there all day. We still need to be careful, people. Please tell Bob you appreciate how the store looks and feels. And help us keep them in order.

Thanks to League Of Comic Geeks for this week’s images, which are in some unusual, non-alphabetical order, and 8 across. So it’s a somewhat random sample. I’ll keep searching. Use the list, and MAYBE the pictures will be useful.

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DC Comics
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Marvel Comics
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CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 JOHN ROMITA JR VAR $ 5.99
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Other Comics
ANTARCTICA #3 CVR A ROBERTS $ 3.99
BIG GAME #3 (OF 5) CVR A LARRAZ (MR) $ 4.99
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DC Books
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Other Books
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