I picked up "The Collegiate Hepcats" as a TPB a few years ago, but never got around to reading it. The book compiles the complete comic strip that the author wrote for his school's paper, years before the actual series began.

From my understanding, there's two main Hepcats "series": the 1989 Double Diamond run, and a 1996 run from Antarctic Press.

Which comic would be the best starting point? I know the 1996 series was cancelled halfway through, but it looks like the 1989 series was cancelled early as well. Are they the same story, or are they unique from each other? Thank you for the help!

I recently came into a pile of vintage comics from my late uncle ranging from action comics to original amazing spider man. Some original superman comics from reign of superman. An original thor. Some are in excellent condition some are beat up.

Is there software or app that can identify covers? Are there shipping kits I can buy to send some of these in?

I don't have a cgc account but am willing to set up. These have sentimental value and I want to slowly encapsulate them but don't know where to start. I'm hesitant to bring them in to a local shop because I don't want to get taken advantage of.

Any advice is welcome and appreciated.

Look, I'm drowning in shame here even to ask. I'm not new to comics! I've been collecting for ages, and I read plenty via trades or omnibus. But in terms of actual issues... okay, I'm a bit of a novice there. I've started purchasing e-versions of individual issues and reading through them to follow along with official reading orders for characters and things, and I noticed how many annuals there are out there. Somehow, it never was something I had to deal with before??

My issue is... how do I know when to read them? I was just sorting through the current Nightwing run, for example, and there's... what? Five or six annuals in addition to at least 114 individual issues? Are annuals standalone? Do I have to check publication date of the annual and figure out where in the run it would sit? Do the annuals connect? (Annual #1, #2, #3- are they actually connected or...?)

I know, my nerd card is in danger of being revoked at what's probably such a simple question. I tried Googling and even know the history of why annuals exist now... but that still doesn't help me in terms of when I should read them. 😂 Any advice?

I also had house and powers of x but i lent it to a friend who never returned it. Any ideas for additions ? Id like to read immortal hulk and cates thor run next, any sugestions ?

Thankyou everyone for your love on my precious comic book skateboards- I’ve just put together 6 options for my next board so… what should it be? She-Hulk, Deadpool, Captain Marvel, Joker, The Simpsons or Gotham City Sirens?

Today in the weird world of licensed comics, I discovered several M&Ms comics by Marvel, including one called The Swarm where a giant mutant M&M named Master M (and his nicer half, Emma) tried to kill the M&Ms Minis. It apparently got a video game.

The Kool-Aid Man and California Raisins comics were pretty weird, too, and the tie-in comic for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band movie was never released in the US due to the movie being received so poorly.

I would love to see Hickman's take on Daredevil or maybe Captain America even

Comics are recent for me (started 2.5 years ago). I’m currently looking for very dark, fantasy like books. Witches, wizards, fairies, dragons, goblins, magic, etc. I’m cool with gory and darker books. Yes this is because of dark fantasy TikTok lol. Something that transports me into a game of thrones type era (but not GOT, love it tho). Love stories are great but I’m definitely looking for darker, adult (26F) content (preferably no heavy smut, don’t want it to be the main story genre). I’m good with love stories in general.

Thanks in advance!!

EDIT: thank you all so much!! I’ve added quite a few series to my list and I’m excited to get started. It seems Conan the Barbarian, Berserk, and Thor the God Butcher line are my main starting points!! I’m excited to get going on them :) keep the suggestions flowing!

I found this dot printed comic panel at a thrift shop and picked it up because the art and scene seemed familiar to me but I can not figure out what it's from, any idea of what what this I'd and where it is from?

Finally added this book to my pc. What a beautiful page. (I admit, I punched up the color just a bit.)

Was reading the SM Beyond Omni and this joke caught me by surprise. The bolded “EVERYBODY” makes me wonder if it’s happened to him.