From: tyg@valhalla.HQ.Ileaf.COM (Tom Galloway)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Awards: What came out this year
Date: 4 Jan 1993 10:23:37 -0600
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Dave Stroud on GEnie came up with a list of various mini-series, graphic
novels, and new series from DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse, as well as a list of
what he thought of as notable indies for GEnie's Thunderbolt Awards. The list
may not be complete (for example, I added Hepcats on the indie list), but it
should at least do some memory jogging.

DC mini-series: Issue numbers in "( )" came out before the start of the time
frame; series marked with a "*" are unfinished; a "?" means I'm not sure.

  Arion, the Immortal  1-6             Armageddon: Alien Agenda (1-2?) 3? -4
  Armageddon: Inferno  1-4             Batman: Gotham Nights 1-4
  Batman: Run Riddler Run  1-3        *Batman: Sword of Azrael  1-3? [of 4]
  Batman vs Predator  1-3              Black Canary: New Wings  (1-2?) 3-4
  Brave and the Bold (1) 2-6           Clash (1?) 2-3
 *Congorilla 1-2 [of 4]                Cool World  1-4
 *Deadman: Exorcism 1 [of 2]           Eclipso: Darkness Within 1-2
  Elongated Man  1-4                   the Griffin  (1-2) 3? -6
  Guy Gardner: Reborn  1-3            *the Hacker Files  1-5? [of 12]
 *Hammerlocke  1-4 [of 9]              Lobo's Back  1-4?
 *Lobo Infanticide  1-2 [of 4]        *Martian Manhunter: A. S.  1-2 [of 3]
  My Name is Chaos  1-4                OMAC  (1-2) 3-4
  Outlaws  (1-4) 5-8                   Ragman  (1-3) 4-8
  the Ray 1-6                          Robin II  (1?) 2-4
 *Robin III  1?  [of 6]                Shado: Song of the Dragon  1-4
  Skull and Bones  1-3                *Timberwolf  1-2  [of 5]
  Warlord  1-6

Here's a list of DC "ongoing" series that started this "year":

Batman Adventures, Black Condor, Darkstars, Eclipso, GL: Mosaic, Guy Gardner,
Heckler, JSA, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt, Spectre, Team Titans, and Valor. 

Marvel mini-series:

 *A-1  1?  [of 4]                      Adv. of Capt. America  (1-2) 3? -4
 *Cable  1  [of 2]                     Captain Confederacy (1-2) 3-4
  Captain Planet (1-3?) 4? -12         Cops: The Job  1-4
  Death's Head II  1-4                *DH II/Killpower: Battletide  1 [of 4]
  Defenders of Dynatron City  1-6      Destroyer: Terror  (1) 2? -4
 *Digitek  1  [of 4]                   Dinosaurs: A Celebration  1-4
  Double Dragon  (1-5) 6               Dreadlands  1? -4
  Epic  1-4                            Hook  (1-2?) 3-4
  Idol  1-3                            Infinity War  1-6
 ?Jihad  (1) 2?                        Metropol   (1-8?) 9-12
  Metropol A.D.  1-3                  *Mutatis  1-2  [of 3]
 *Night Thrasher  1-3  [of 4]          Olympians 1? -2
 *Onyx Overlord  1-3  [of 4]           Pirates of Dark Water  (1-2?) 3? -9
 *Punisher/Capt. America: Blood and Glory  1-2  [of 3]
 *Slapstick  1-2  [of 4]              ?Spider-Man Saga  (1-2) 3? -4
  Tomb of Dracula  (1-2?) 3-4          Transmutation of Ike Garuda  1? -2
  Weaveworld (1?)  2-3

Marvel new ongoing series:

 Cage, Darkhold, Dark (Hell's) Angel, Death's Head II, Morbius, Motormouth,
 Nightstalkers, Nomad, Pendragon II, Punisher War Zone, Ravage 2099, Ren &
 Stimpy, Silver Sable, Spider-Man 2099, Spirits of Vengeance (aka GR/Blaze),
 Terror Inc, Toxic Crusaders, Warheads, (Adam) Warlock & Infinity Watch,
 William Shatner's Tekworld, and World Championship Wrestling. Also, perhaps
 James Bond Jr and Kid 'n Play.

Dark Horse mini-series:

  Alien^3  1-3                        ?Alien: Genocide (1-3) 4?
  Alien: Hive  1-4                     Alien: Newt's Tale  1-2
  American: Lost in America 1-4?       Batman vs Predator (1?) 2? -3
  Concrete: Fragile Creature (1-3) 4   Creepy  1-4
 ?Deadface: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire  1-4?
  Dr. Giggles  1-2                     Evil Dead: Army of Darkness 1 [of 3]
  Grendel: War Child 1-5 [of 10]       Hardboiled (1-2) 3
  James Bond: Serpent's Tooth 1? - 3?  Mask Returns 1-2? [of 4]
  the New Frontier  1-3?               Nexus the Liberator 1-3? [of 4]
  Orion 1-2? [of 6]                    Predator: Bloody Sands of Time  1? -2
  Predator vs Magnus  1-2? [of 2]      Primal 1-2? [of 4]
  Ring of Roses 1-2? [of 4]            Rio at Bay  1-2
  RoboCop vs Terminator  1-4           Tales of Ordinary Madness 1? -4
  Terminator: End Game 1-3? [of 3]     Terminator: Enemy Within (1-2) 3? -4
  Terminator: Hunters and Killers 1-3? [of 3]
 ?The Thing  1? -2                     The Thing: Climate of Fear 1-4? [of 4]
  Vampirella (1-2) 3? -4               Virus 1? [of 4]

New ongoing (in some cases not sure) Dark Horse series:

 Caravan Kidd, DH Comics, Flaxen, Hard Looks, Herbie (part reprints), Next
 Men, Star Wars: Dark Empire, Vampirella, Venus Wars II, Version 1.X, Young
 Indiana Jones Chronicles. 

Dark Horse GN's, specials, and reprints (?): 

 Aliens vs Predators tpb, Blanche Goes to New York, Classic Star Wars,
 Columbus, Critical Error, DH Classics - Last of the Mohicans and 20000
 Leagues Under the Sea, DH Presents Milestone Edition, Deadline USA, Eyeball
 Kid (mini), Fat Dog Mendoza, Minotaur's Tale, Next Men 0, Nexus: the Origin,
 Nina's All-Time Greatest Collector's Item, Outlanders 0, Prairie Moon and
 Other Stories, Predator:Big Game tpb, RoboCop: Prime Suspect, Signal to
 Noise, Terminator: Enemy Within tpb, Terminator: Secondary Objectives tpb,
 Terminator: Tempest tpb, Thirteen O'Clock, Vampirella's Summer Nights, and
 Vampirella: Transcending Time and Space.

And one final list -- a smattering of indies of various types; no Image or
Valiant books are included since they're fairly well known. 

 Airwaves (cal)                        Albedo (ap)
 Anne Rice: the Witching Hour (mill/com)
 Arzach Gallery (tndr)                 Baker Street (cal)
 Battle Angel Alita (viz)              Blue Moon (mu)
 Bone (cartoon books)                  Bratpack Collection (tndr)
 Cages (tndr)                          Capt Harlock: Fall of the Empire (etr)
 Cartoon Hist. of the Univ. (rip off)  Cerebus, & reprints (av)
 Cobalt 60 (tndr)                      Crow (tndr)
 Desert Peach (mu)                     A Distant Soil (aria)
 Dracula (topps)                       Eightball (fant)
 Elfquest: various (WaRP)              Gay Comics (gay comics)
 Hate (fant)                           International Cowgirls Magazine (cal)
 Invisible People [Eisner] (ksp)       Love and Rockets, & reprints (fant)
 Madman Adventures (tndr)              Man-Eating Cow, et al (nec)
 Maximortal (tndr)                     Miracleman, & Apocrypha (eclp)
 Mr Monster Attacks (tndr)             Nestrobber (blue sky blue)
 New Adventures of Rick O'Shay (cottonwood)
 Ninja High School, et al (etr)        Omaha (ksp)
 Oz Squad (bnw)                        Paranoia (mal ?)
 Pat Savage: Woman of Bronze (mill)    Plastron Cafe (mirage)
 Raggedy Man (bnw/cult press)         ?Rain (tndr)
 Skin (tndr)                           Smokehouse 5 [Aragones] (?)
 Southern Knights (hero)               Space Usagi (mirage)
 Spider: Reign of/ Vampire King (eclp) Spirit, & Origin Years (ksp)
 Taboo (tndr/spiderbaby)               Tales from the Heart (slave labor)
 Tarzan: various (mal ?)               Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (mirage)
 Usagi Yojimbo (fant)                  Vietnam Journal: Tet '68 (apple)
 Wimmin's Comix (rip off)              Yummy Fur (drawn & quarterly)
 Hepcats (double diamond)

"When visiting Washington, D.C. recently, President-elect Clinton gave a
homeless man a quarter. The man commented that he'd voted for Clinton for
change, and that's just what he'd gotten." --Capitol Steps
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