Our old comic book

[fbhjr]

Back in the 80’s and early 90’s my wife and I produced a comic book. It only was sold in one store, a few dozen copies of each issue. We had 20 issues before we got involved in planing our wedding and never got around to doing it any more.

One of our friends who was a guest artist for a few issues now works as the manager of the comic book store where we used to sell it.
We were there yesterday to pick up our comics.

He told me that when he was looking through some old comics he found some of our issues from back then.
So, I added it to the comics I was already buying.


I paid my twenty five cents for it. So, I’m going to claim that our comic we did way back then is still being bought and sold on the used comic market.
OK, it was me buying it.
But, I’m still going to claim that…

Comments

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

That is so neat!!

[spaciireth.livejournal.com]

I think that's totally fair. I would do the same thing. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

good for you!

[ravena-kade.livejournal.com]

very cool

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

cool!

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Who were they and what were their powers?
Or were they just Hawkeye and Black Widow types...?

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

One was pretty close to Hawkeye. That wasn’t really intentional, it just
worked out that way.
It started as a superhero role playing game where all of my college
roommates were playing themselves with super powers.
When we made it a comic we changed a lot of that around, but kept the basic
core.
One of our roommates was an archery instructor at a summer camp, so we went
off of that and it did end up a big Hawkeyeish.

The main characters were:
Captain Fantastic: An ex-astronaut, military pilot who had no real power,
but was very lucky.
Zephyr: The daughter of someone experimented on by aliens and given super
powers. She inherited the powers, but not the insanity.
Dynamo: He had magic bracers that turned him into a big strong, tough,
flying person
Magnum: Magnetic & electrical powers
Gadget: A college professor who had built a super suit to win a bet and got
roped into using it.
Warlock: A French wizard.
Biker Bowman: A guy with a motorcycle, bow and arrow.

There were three major plot lines:
A biotech company was trying to develop super powered people as weapons.
Although working for the government they created a bunch of “villains” to
test the product. They actually funded the main characters without their
knowledge so they had someone to test the product.
An alien species was trying to get Earth to the point it could join the
galactic government so it could get more votes in an upcoming galactic
election. But, it had to make it look like Earth developed on its own
without interference.
Legends of fairies were actually based on a very powerful race that
traveled to different worlds and fed off of people. Earth had fought off
an invasion before written history and various magic and superpowers were
starting to reappear because they were coming back.

So, long winded answer.
Hope that wasn’t too much…

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Wait. How many issues did you have to explain that, tho?
Cuz print comics typically cover maybe Five to eight minutes of real time IMHO...

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

We never got to that third plot line in the comic.
We had plotted out far more than we ever wrote.
We wrote more than my wife ever drew.
She drew more than than we actually published.

So, some of the characters never got their origins explained in the run of 20 issues.
But, that doesn't mean we didn't know what they were...

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Hold on! Twenty issues? NICE.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, 20 is all we got out.
#21 was finished and only needed to be printed. (As it was a black and white comic that meant taking it down to Copy Cops...)
But, it was the start of a 3 issue story arc and we knew we weren't going to get the next two done any time soon. So, we never put it out.
And, it's been 24 years and we haven't done those other two issues yet, so I think that was the right call...

[meathiel]

Pretty cool!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Wow! Not only is it cool that you two made one, but that they had a copy all this time that you could buy. :)