 Hi, this is Gicho. What we're going to do in this video is do a little introduction to the next set of readings we're going to do for the comic book section of the site and If you will follow in the comic book videos I'm putting out a little intro and mention that I'm just going to start producing some comic book related videos for a larger purpose but basically mainly focused on comic books and and We did some readings We did six readings. I grabbed six books from my collection and we read through them. We did some framings and You know produced about an hour plus video of sort of going through some of the comic books in my collection And after that I sort of got the comic book bug big time in me So I went ahead and I'd done a big purchase On eBay and what we did was I put out a couple of videos going through or three videos Going through the comic book boxes that I bought my comic book haul and You know, I still have the comic book bugging me and I love sharing Sharing the stuff with you guys. I just love sharing comics. That's one of the main things with the comic industry is You love sharing these stories because they're amazing a lot of them, right? So over the last couple of months, I guess I've been putting books aside to read and like anyone that's You know, if you're actively reading comics what you end up doing is You start buying comics and you create a pile and you'd be lucky to go through some of that pile So what I want to do right now is sort of Go through the comics that I put together in a pile to do readings for and we didn't go through all of it But went through a nice chunk of it. I was really happy with that As if you watch some of the videos of the readings You notice that I get a little bit excited because I have a meeting to read some of these books For the first time and reread some of these books So what I want to do if if you're interested in the The comic books that we are we are going to read. I'm not gonna tell you what they are right now because You know, I would usually just flash the images and have hyperlinks going to them But I think part of the fun is Not knowing what's coming up next so what I'll do is I'll put the description in You know the comics that we're going to read in the description of this video And you know they will pop up the links so you can go do the readings as we talk about them And I will provide the links in the video at the end Okay, I just decided not to do it right now because part of fun is to see what's coming up next. I think But what I am going to do is show you some of the comics that We didn't get through I'm gonna go through these ones fast Just to give you a feel and we might come back to these Okay Now some of the comics I wanted to get to were some independent comics and that I got a hold of and one of them is Is this thing called Plop and I got a hold of this after someone posted a comment I did a reading for Mystic number six from 1952 from Atlas comics and that we read the story of Basil Wolff's return Okay, and I love I love his artwork You know I haven't seen a lot of his work, but I am slowly you know building the collection for of his artwork I'm gonna you know actively looking not too active You know keeping my eyes open, right? So someone posted a comment saying that he did all the covers for Plop and Maybe we'll get through to these at some point, but we're not gonna do the readings on these Basically what I was going to do. Let me show you the covers was You know open up the books and on the back of these the cover is Larger a little bit different Look at the artwork for these covers and we're gonna just look at some random stuff inside Surge or Sergio or Aragonis and the creator of grew the wonder He's done a lot of work in this. I just flipped through a couple of them and they look fine So I want to go through it But maybe we'll get a chance to go through it another day another time Awesome artwork It just looks beautiful and these are all Basil Wolff their Wolverton trippy artwork And it's this collection is not complete. So maybe we'll do a reading When I get the full, you know, whole collection together and just Go through all of it. Maybe another one Another sort of stack of independent comics that I put aside That I thought maybe we'll go through Again, it was someone that posted a comment. So I tracked some of these down. They're not first prints there Well, actually, there is one first print in this but these are zap comics and these Came out in the late 1960s 70s And again, it's it's some of the main dependent Artists that produced Work for this and maybe we'll get a chance to take a look at the stuff at some point later Did work here. I'm not too familiar with Many of the independence From this genre anyway, this is more adult-oriented for mature readers So I wouldn't mind flipping through these I Flipped her through a couple just very quickly just to see what it was like. Look great. The covers are amazing So this is another stack that we didn't get a chance to Maybe we'll do another day and One thing I wanted to go. I really like I like carnage amazing spider-man I Really like carnage. I like I like carnage better than when I'm way better than when I'm I think carnage has a huge potential It's just too bad it's You know a lot of material coming out on it is not Is not more mature because I think that's what carnage really needs and this is the first It's amazing spider-man number 359 360 361 362 363 and these are the first well two cameo appearances of Cassidy Before he came carnage and this is the first appearance first. I think the one before this 360 has one cameo shot of him, but this is the first full appearance of carnage and Cassidy made his first appearance in Amazing spider-man 344 I believe so maybe one day we get a chance to go through that okay, and one reason I didn't get to this one is because We sort of do end up doing in the in this reading session that's that we're going to do the you know we've done basically I do end up doing something similar to this and You'll find out what it is You know if you want to check out the description site Another batch of comics that we didn't get through were Comics have been used for politics a lot, okay, and I really don't have 20 political comic books The first one that I recall is this one that I bought and I bought this. This is a reprint of Martin Luther King's Montgomery story I believe when they marched March to Montgomery or took the bus the bus book I believe I forget But this is a reprint. I you know skimmed through this and read parts of it Last year it came out last year and I was sort of curious to see Look at some of the political stuff from Back during that period 1960s. So I ended up grabbing Kennedy and Eisenhower And maybe we'll go through these at another time. I just wasn't in the mood to read the politics for anyone that wants to Have a better appreciation for The civil rights I don't know. It's struggle just civil rights movement just equality. I guess There's a documentary series out there. I mentioned this during the I believe We're sharing Showing you some of the cool some of the comics in my collection and I couldn't remember the name And I looked it up again, but eyes on the prize if you want to know about the civil rights movement It's a documentary series, which is absolutely brilliant. Okay I thought about going through this one didn't get a chance Double life of private strong. That's number two TV comic books ended up making The comic industry made a lot of comics based on TV series and I thought we'd do, you know, at least one TV Base comic books and comic book anyway, and we have I just grabbed a different one in these ones Okay, and you know, we will be reading through that I do actually want to read through this one The Avengers right I used to watch this show. It was a cool show It's from the 19, I'm not sure if it's the 1950s. I think 1960s Okay, my box box here a couple of comics here Well one said that we did go through another said that we didn't Show you the one that we didn't But let's do this one. I thought maybe maybe we go through The first super math flash rays But I ended up You know putting another video together with a different Superman story The magnificent Superman story so to two Superman readings Was going to be a little bit too much so maybe we'll save this for another time and this is the third flash race the second flash Superman race and And the first Superman flash Race and there's been a few of them throughout Superman and flash days, right? They've had a few different races. This was the first one On this comic is you know, it's not in the best of shape, but intact readable, right? So maybe we'll get that then another day first appearance of Silver age. Yeah, thought maybe we go through this Didn't get a chance Maybe we do it another time. This is the Second appearance possibly can't remember this is Superman's girlfriend Lois Lane number 70 and Number 71 So we left these on the table didn't get a chance to read them. There's a couple other books I used to watch I love Lucy a lot So I thought I would read you and I love Lucy comic book Or I would read a lot of Lucy comic book and share it with you, but We didn't get a chance just wasn't in the mood We did but we did do a different humor comic book Which I think you might enjoy now this one We will get to at some point We will most definitely Be reading at least one sandman story at some point During our comic book readings Number one, I don't think we'll read this one. I Wasn't planning on reading this one. It was either a toss up between Well, it was a toss up between Sandman and this is Number two. Yeah, number two number three number four I didn't mean of my mind which want to go down Four. Yeah, so I had made up my mind which want to read yet. It was a toss up between this and Was on the table and I Was leaning more towards this actually which is if you watch the videos that I did before with the show in comic collection how blazer, right? And how blazer has some amazing storylines, but this is the one I was gonna read you guys how blazer number 151 Brian As a relo Hopefully I'm pronouncing that right This one this storyline was a Good intentions. It was a six parter And for some reason this one really stuck with me This is part one, you know other people You know, this this one is probably not in people's top ten list. It is in mind but majority of people Not very many mentioned this one How blazer number 41 a lot of people say garthiness This is the one Quintessential how blazer reading I still haven't read this one. This is how blazer number one And number two, I was just gonna show you guys these and read the Brian as a relo the good intentions storyline which is wow, it just Wasn't it involved too much magic, which is You know Something that John calls that you know how blazers known for but it was a very Twisted storyline Well worth to read And the last I definitely wanted to do a humor comic reading for you guys and we ended up doing one It was a toss up between what we've read and And I'm not sure if you guys know who the tickets the tickets Is a superhero That came out and this is the first appearance of the tech these things were numbered Five thousand and this is tick number two. There's number up to three thousand. Okay And it's a it's a dingy character. It's It's like even more Crazy than madman right more funny more slapstick really and It's if you were You know watching TV shows back in the 90s There was an animated series of the tick which was fantastic You were very very good and there was a live action TV series that ran I don't know how it ran for one season. I can't remember how many episodes it was It was super funny very disappointed when it got canceled. Okay, so, you know Almost read the tech we're gonna read the first appearance. I think tick number one is actually a reprint of that But maybe we do this another day. Okay Now those are that we left on the table that You know, I thought about reading came close to reading and Decided not to Now Let's take a look at the comics that we have read. Oh, there's actually a couple more here And I know I when I was showing you guys My comic book collection I showed you guys these and I said maybe we'll get a chance to read through them This is wanted From the Golden Age of comics, I just have these two issues and I thought maybe we'll read through one of them We didn't get a chance. Sorry get Reading one of these at some point later in the future. I love the Golden Age of comics There was some amazing stuff being put out and we do Read one of the reasons we didn't read this is because we do end up reading a couple of books From the Golden Age, and I think you'll be very very pleased with what we took a look at Actually, there's one other Set here. We'll show you some of it anyway This slain that I had mentioned before with Bisley's work And there's the three issues here, and I thought I would flip through and read you a couple of pages from each one Two or three pages from each one But we'll leave this for another day Because we do take a look at some business work While we talk about business In a different video that we've done so we do get a business fix now What did we end up reading? In these batch of videos what should we start with? I'm not sure which one I've already shot shot them. I have to edit them So I'm not sure which one I'm gonna put up first how about We put How about we put this one up first? We're gonna read through Magnus robot number a robot fighter number five But we're not gonna read the Magnus story We're gonna read the flip side. This is a flip book Magnus robot fighter number five As far as I'm concerned The most important Valiant book out there, it's in the top five of everybody's most important Valiant book Has to be right because on the flip side of Magnus number five on the back side is Right number one. Okay, and this is the story. We're going to read and The reason this book is super super important because this is the First original Valiant character. It's the first appearance of Rai and It you know with Magnus a so long Rai it was sort of the beginning of the Valiant universe being introduced very important book a great read and Magnus robot fighter number five six seven and eight There were the invasion storyline and On the front front side was the Magnus story on the back side would be the Rai story, right? So Magnus number five had Rai number one Magnus number six has Rai number two Seven has three eight has Rai number four. So those are the first four appearances of Rai and they're also the first Appearances of a lot of characters That exist in the Rai universe and the Valiant universe Okay, so we're gonna have a read through that. That's a nice read and the Valiant comics are absolutely amazing That's one reading with the next reading the next reading Now when I was showing you my comic book collection, I told you there's two Books I have in my collection, which are two of my favorites And we're gonna read EC Comics annual from 1952 which is the best-selling or best-reviewed 16 stories of EC Comics from 1951 So it's a compilation of 16 different stories from EC Comics and we flip through this thing and We end up reading One story and it's it's awesome, right EC Comics in-depth stories very story driven beautiful colors amazing science-fiction Right, and this is Another reading that we end up doing This is the second one of my and The second book That's one of my favorites in my collection, right? And this is the EC annual for 1953 16 of Like I see their best-selling or top-rated stories of 1952 for EC Comics, right? And we do the same thing we flip through this and read a story and it's Fantastic story. The story is by Ray Bradbury, right? I had no idea. I still have a lot of EC Comics to collect and read up on, right? Another Comic book that we end up reading and this is the one that there was a toss-up between this and the tic and this is Barry Ween, great genius Now I came across Barry Ween last year For my for my local comic shop they had They had a lot of graphic novels for sale. They were like two bucks a pop I never, I hadn't heard of Barry Ween So I went through and I bought a ton of graphic novels from them I would just go back every week and Look through the graphic novel box and grab a whole stack and I was reading a lot of graphic novels And I read Barry Ween and I couldn't stop laughing. It was absolutely hilarious And what I ended up doing is going online and grabbing all of the Barry Ween comics And there's three different story arcs There's Barry Ween, the first three comics that Judd Winick put out and Judd Winick is the creator of Barry Ween. There's three issues for this So that's Barry Ween, boy genius, the first set, the first appearance And then there's The adventures of Barry Ween, boy genius number two and again there was three three Three comics in that set And then there was a monkey tails and I think this is a six issue Yeah, this is a six issue run, right? So we're just gonna look at the covers of these and read Barry Well, actually we did sort of just flip through this and What we ended up doing is reading Barry Ween number one And I hope you guys enjoy. I you know, I got a little too excited on it. I couldn't stop laughing at certain parts Because it's It is super funny. I just I still find it funny I read it out on a whole new time like four or five times now And it still cracked me up. So we got us a Barry Ween video What else what else we got this book? One of the reasons I didn't read a political book one of the pro I didn't pick one of the political comic books to read is because I ended up reading this Lobo And the reason we read this is because politically Historically this is a pretty important book It's the first black hero in comic books in United States anyway, I'm not I don't know about the rest of the world, but this is the first us Black hero in comic books and it was published by del The date on it was 1965 Remember correctly Okay, and we end up reading through this flipping through this and we end up reading two Two two or three stories And it's interesting. It's pretty heavy. Okay I was surprised actually how heavy it was so this is uh You know, we end up Going through the book and I considered this to be more of a political interest on my part than The story interest but the story surprised me. I was I was pleased on how heavy it was. I thought it was going to be lighter Now the next book we ended up reading is Or one of the books we ended up reading Let me break this out. So one of the other books we ended up reading is Omega man number 37 and When I was showing you my comic book collection in You know one of the last videos um I did mention that I'm a noble fan and I think we looked at this comic and we end up reading this and taking a look at some of the omega man books Because omega man Is the first appearance Of lobo, right with omega man number three And they consider this a cameo appearance, but And I thought it was a cameo appearance, but I cracked it open and You know it was more than a cameo. He appeared in a few different pages and a few different panels So I don't know if I would call this a cameo Uh, but It is considered to be a cameo. So this is the first appearance of lobo one of the best characters out there. I really like him Uh, and this lobo is a little different looking than um, the lobo That came afterwards Right, but the essence is there and it's uh, it's a very interesting read um Fun read the omega man. I really liked and one thing I'm going to show you right now is Omega man number two Just show you this because I found this would be interesting. I flipped through some of the omega man. I've read a lot of these Uh, didn't end up finishing the series, but I've read a lot If you have omega man number two what you might want to do is Flip to the back go all the way to the end. This is the back cover the last page and if you look at The picture that they have right On the cover of omega man three It looks different the coloring is different then What actually came out? And if you look at the logo it looks a little bit different I would love to get a big scan of this and do a comparison Um, which I thought was interesting Didn't notice that before right, so I wonder how close to uh The printing deadline they went with the design of lobo Either way brilliant, right? So we end up taking a look at um omega man the first appearance of lobo and uh, that's where we talk about Lobo appearing in some of the other books and You know talk a little bit about busily and I do show you You know my favorite car comic book cover. This is basically my favorite comic book cover of all time Is demon number 12 and it's got the lobo on it with the demon in the background This is busily's cover And he does amazing work. I love his art Right his covers and his internal stuff that what he does Inside the books. He's got two different styles Okay slain the horn god the whole things like this Which is beautiful talking a little bit about the lobo one one of the other books we ended up reading is Related to the tv books that I mentioned there was comic books It was a toss up between Get smart The avengers and What was it? I should not get smart Yeah, I think so get smart the avengers or national velvet And we end up reading this one national velvet just because for me the National velvet was based on a book which a movie came out before this and And then the tv series. So this is an adaptation of the tv series and in the original movie is a little bit Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney And for me, I didn't I didn't know about national velvet my first exposure exposure to this I guess the story arc Was international velvet with tatum o'neil in 1978 And that's a movie from my childhood that stuck with me later on. I watched national velvet. It was very good as well So we end up having a read through this Okay, just look through it. It's sort of a compilation And these are uh, you know the next this is number one number two Uh of the next series that came out, but this is the first Appearance, I guess first publication of national velvet comic book format and it's from Dell four color It's number none 1195. It was interesting. The next thing we do is I think that's the last This is the last set is it I already covered all the books we were at so they should be I think there should be a total weight books hopefully I didn't miss anything but One of the other books we end up reading is Well, it's multiple books And it's the superman story arc and it's the ultimate superman story arc Which is the doomsday storyline, right? so This comic Superman man of steel number 17 is the first cameo appearance of doomsday He appears in the last page and it's just the fist Punching through the wall And in superman man of steel number 18. He makes his first full appearance. Okay, so what we end up doing is Going through the first four cameo appearances of doomsday With the last panel punching through the wall and we do read the last panel of The page preceding the doomsday punching through the wall because The panels the discussion before they started showing doomsday Had really amazing foreshadowing the superman story arc was the doomsday storyline was Absolutely fantastic during that period if you were around Everybody was reading it. It just became a circus with the media taking over And uh, it was incredible what happened and you know what it was a fantastic storyline Well worth reading a lot of fun. And if you haven't read Superman's doomsday storyline You know, they've taken all the stuff and put it together in the trade paper bags and you can read it And they're oh, it's it's very powerful. It was very well told okay, and we do take a look at The first appearance full appearance of doomsday. We don't read through the story, but we do sort of flip through it I think we did anyway And We do take a look at this one This is the one that I I consider to be More important issue than Man of steel number 18 Um, it's injustice league of america number 69 that I believe is the first time that doomsday is called doomsday booster go booster gold refers to Okay, so we end up reading uh some panels out of this one as well Okay, and um, this is the depth of superman Superman number 75 And this is sealed. We didn't take a look at it And we don't want to take a look at it if you haven't read through All of the doomsday story in line story arc You don't want to read this You'll spoil it for you, right? You want to build up to it. It was a brilliant brilliant storytelling on the DC's parts, uh, the way they you know the way they put this whole thing together Okay, and that's um, and that's our reading. Okay, we end up eating reading um eight comics if I counted correctly And they're fun. It's sort of diverse. It ranges from the golden age to modern age with bearing win and Funny horror humor Pretty intense some of it, right and some political stuff Um, and I hope you enjoy the reads. Okay I'll be back at some point We'll either take take a look at more of my collection or do more readings and I do have a couple comics that I do also want to frame Okay, I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now