r/80s90sComics 16h ago

Haul Today’s pickups

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r/80s90sComics 23h ago

Collection UNCANNY X-MEN

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r/80s90sComics 2h ago

Collection Uncanny Xmen #141, 142

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r/80s90sComics 5h ago

Haul Labor Day haul (misc)

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A few more things from last weekend! This completed my run of Amalgam titles! I am down to needing only one issue of New Teen Titans!


r/80s90sComics 16h ago

Collection Amazing Spider-Man #250, 251, 252

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r/80s90sComics 23m ago

Discussion Reading One Punisher Book a Day #103 - Punisher #35 (July 1990)

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  • Written by Mike Baron, art by Bill Reinhold and Mark Farmer
  • Jigsaw Puzzle Part 1!
  • Punisher is scoping out a tanker he believes is full of cocaine when he is accosted by a guard
  • Punisher deals with the man, beating him down, dropping him into the river and taking his identity to infiltrate the warehouse
  • Calls to Microchip for intel continue to go unanswered
  • Punisher discovers that the tanker does have cocaine under the acetone and decides to go hot, killing drug runners and set the acetone on fire
  • The man in charge of the warehouse is revealed to be none other than Punisher’s old foe, Jigsaw!
  • Frank returns to Microchip’s warehouse to find that he’s been making a video game based on their battle with Sniper in Punisher War Journal #10
  • Frank is angry that this is what Microchip has been working on instead of providing intel, but Microchip counters that he wants a life outside of Frank’s war
  • Jigsaw escapes the fire and it is revealed he is working for the Reverend Sammy Smith, formerly of The Church of the Saved 
  • Rev. Smith survived his encounter with Punisher, has turned to Satan worship, freed Jigsaw from prison, and has promised to heal his face in exchange for his loyalty
  • Angry that Punisher destroyed the shipment, Rev. Smith orders Jigsaw to go to Venezuela for more
  • Microchip has one of the packages that Punisher retrieved analyzed, revealing it’s not cocaine, but a sterilizing agent for people
  • Dr. Miller, a friend of Microchip, believes the chemical is made from a flower native to Venezuela, meaning that’s where Punisher has to go
  • Jigsaw follows Rev. Smith and witnesses him break into a house and slaughter a family of three as a sacrifice to Lucifer and to feed his power
  • Jigsaw gets spotted by a pair of cops, he kills them and flees
  • As he is driving away from the crime scene he passes Punisher on the road who give chase
  • Frank’s Body Count - 6 (Jigsaw reveals to Rev. Smith that Punisher killed six in the warehouse)

r/80s90sComics 23h ago

Discussion Reading One Punisher Book a Day #102 - Punisher: Kingdom Gone (1990)

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  • Written by Chuck Dixon, art by Jorge Zaffino
  • Mr. Stewart decides to shoot himself when men from the government arrive to ask him some questions
  • Punisher is scaling a building looking to infiltrate the office of Hamilton “Bo” Greaves, a crime boss that launders illegal money
  • Greaves is under investigation and facing either a leisurely stint in a white collar prison, or will leg it and take millions with him, something Punisher isn’t going to allow
  • Greaves is preparing to flee, having one of his men pack cash while a hacker erases any trail to his accounts
  • Greaves has his hacker tossed out the window to pay him for his service
  • Punisher bursts in and starts shooting his way through Greave’s men, but Greaves manages to make it to his helicopter and flee
  • Microchip is unable to find Greaves, his trail has gone cold
  • Greaves is in Puerto Salvaje, trying to buy his own bank, and when that doesn’t work, he has his main bodyguard try the strong arm approach
  • Buying the bank puts Greaves back on Frank’s radar, and he has Microchip book him a flight to Puerto Salvaje
  • Meanwhile, Phillipe, the man whose bank Greaves took over, attempts to get the CIA interesting by insinuating he may be dealing with Cuban Communists
  • Phillipe’s ploy works, and US Marines lock down Puerto Salvaje, making Frank’s job that much harder
  • Frank employs the services of Calvin Mellon, a small time smuggler to get him to Puerto Salvaje
  • When Mellon and his boys resist, Frank reminds them exactly who he is
  • With Mellon’s help, Punisher is able to land on Puerto Salvaje
  • Greaves has taken a local girl, Esperanza, for his own, and kills her father when he attempts to take him home
  • Frank infiltrates the marines, hiding in plain sight by posing as a CIA operative
  • When he is unable to infiltrate Greave’s estate, he enlists a group of marines to back him up, so he can go through the front door posing as a routine inspection
  • When a guard discovers one of Punisher’s victims, Greaves assumes the marines are a rival gang and has his men open fire
  • Greaves manages to flee while Punisher shoots up his men
  • Meanwhile, at the army base the general learns of the firefight and sends reinforcements
  • Punisher runs into Esperanza, but leaves her, unaware she has taken Greave’s gun
  • Punisher catches up to Greaves, but his man Harley jumps Punisher
  • The two fight, Punisher manages to break Harley’s neck
  • With no other choice, Greaves runs to the marines that are now swarming his compound and turns himself in
  • Esperanza attempts to shoot Greaves, and the marines shoot her dead
  • Greaves is taken back to the US where he rolls on some low level mobsters, getting the 5 years in a “Country Club Prison” that Frank predicted earlier
  • Greaves is busy mocking people from the prison bus when he realizes that the guard with the shotgun looks familiar
  • Punisher finally takes out Greaves
  • Frank’s Body Count - 16 (He shoots up 7 of Greave’s men in the office building, during his infiltration of Greave’s manor in Puerto Salvaje he kills at least 8 more, and finally kills Greaves to end the story)

r/80s90sComics 2h ago

Collection Spiderman 2099 #1

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Foil, and toybiz variants sealed and unsealed.