Bought this comic because the cover was ridiculous, and it came from a publisher I’d never heard of—First Comics.
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Bought this comic because the cover was ridiculous, and it came from a publisher I’d never heard of—First Comics.
And yeah, it’s ridiculous. The Badger isn’t your typical superhero. Official description:
BADGER, a self-styled crime fighter, metes out bloody justice to jaywalkers, ticket scalpers, indifferent teenaged fast-food clerks—in fact, anybody he feels like. Because he’s CRAZY!
This issue? The Badger helps Elvis take down a drug smuggling ring. Somehow Bruce Lee is involved too.
It’s the kind of comic that just throws everything at you and never slows down. Straight chaos from start to finish.
Hard to believe this came out in 1990—definitely not the safe, kid-friendly stuff you’d expect from the time.
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Bought this comic because the cover was ridiculous, and it came from a publisher I’d never heard of—First Comics.
And yeah, it’s ridiculous. The Badger isn’t your typical superhero. Official description:
BADGER, a self-styled crime fighter, metes out bloody justice to jaywalkers, ticket scalpers, indifferent teenaged fast-food clerks—in fact, anybody he feels like. Because he’s CRAZY!
This issue? The Badger helps Elvis take down a drug smuggling ring. Somehow Bruce Lee is involved too.
It’s the kind of comic that just throws everything at you and never slows down. Straight chaos from start to finish.
Hard to believe this came out in 1990—definitely not the safe, kid-friendly stuff you’d expect from the time.
@atomicpoet
Heh, I knew those guys. The late 80s and early 90s were the heyday of indie comics. I know, I published a bunch of them.
Pre-internet and pre Diamond owning the entire distribution chain, there was a really big underground and indie market. Some astonishingly good and really bad stuff got published, but my friend Kate, who wrote a furry comic had national distribution. Most of our print runs were 3000 copies, and we had national distribution. It really was a glorious time to be a comics creator.
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