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Comics Buyer's Guide (1971) 173

  • Issue #173
    Comics Buyer's Guide (1971) 173
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    The Buyers Guide for Comic Fandom #173, March 11, 1977. This issue has three sections and 60 pages, Features include a Now What? column by Murray Bishoff; an unattributed The Fans Corner column; a two-page Sylvan Byck interview (with photos) by Shel Dorf for his column Shel Dorf and the Fantasy Makers; and a WE Seal of Approval report page. Also inside is a Crusader Comments column by Martin L. Greim, where, in lieu of his normal column, Greim features Part II of a report about the 1976 New Con. Part II includes three pages of extensive panel comments by Harvey Kurtzman, Gil Kane, John Stanley, Joe Kubert and Barbara Boatman, and was compiled by Greim and Bob Cosgrove. Part I appears in TBG 169 and Part III appears in TBG 180. Finally, there are two miscellaneous pages of art by Alan Jim Hanley. The first is a Marvelman story. The second is a gag rejection letter page. The cover features Ikarus of the Eternals, as envisioned by artist Doug Herring. Written by Russ Maheras