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Packet: ARKHAM
Date: 7/13/96 (11:57 AM) Number: 0
From: David Leblanc Refer#: None
To: ALL Received: No
Subj: CBEM #67 Conf: (30) CBN: Comic Issues
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THE COMIC BOOK NET ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE - ISSUE NUMBER #67
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
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[1] On the Net ............................ David LeBlanc
[2] Letters to the Editor ................. Your Page!
TRIVIA CONTEST......................... Guesses & Answers
[3] CBN Insider ........................... News, gossip, & rumors
[4] Rich's Revelations July ............... Rich Johnston
[5] SAN DIEGO: EISNER & Ink Pot Awards .... Geoffrey Mason
[6] Review: VOLUNTEER COMICS............... David LeBlanc
[7] New Comics Shipping 7/16/96 ........... Bobb Waller
[A] E-Mag Info: Submissions, Subscriptions, Back Issues, Copyrights
[B] How to join ComicBook Network.......... BBS 101
[C] Bulletin Boards Linked into CBN........ CBN node list
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[1] On the Net by David LeBlanc
A bit later than normal this week, lot's of distractions. I was coming
off vacation last Sunday and did the flea market thing. I was up at 3:30
and spent until about 2:00 P.M. in direct sun hawking my wares and netted
about $200. Of that $56 was from old comics. That night I got sick
around 9:00 and was too weak to get out of bed on Monday. Bad enough
trying to get back in the groove after 2 weeks off, but then my brother
decides to join the world of modem communications. He bought a 28.8
Boca internal and tried to install it himself. I have spent a good part
of this week on the phone with him, reinstalling software,
trouble shooting config files and generally burning up my free time
getting him back where he was before he started. He eventually got to
the right people at BOCA who told him to swap it for another and then
talked him through the installation. Next, would you believe, he did not
even know the line he had it plugged into was dead? The line we talk on
is off a local PBX so he knew he had to use the other, but did not bother
to plug a phone in to see if it worked! I was ready to jump through the
phone when he finally told me. Now with all that behind us, he still
does not have his CD rom drive working right in windows and just found
out his speakers no longer work. So it goes.
Anyway, I am finally getting time to finish up this issue. We have a
review of comics from Nashville this week, the EISNER and Inkpot winners
and Rich's Revelations for July. A while back I mentioned that my local
retailer, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, was nominated and made the finals for
the "Spirit of the Industry" award. It turns out a store in California
and one in Australia both won. Wait til next year!
David LeBlanc [ComicBkNet@aol.com]
Editor
The Comic Book Net E-Mag
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[2] Letters to the Editor
If you want to comment on this or any previous issue, want to offer
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NOT to use them. Email address will be withheld upon request.
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From: Angelo Furlan <afurlan@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: Cbem #66
>Angelo Furlan, creator of Sinnamon
>and the Bruiser, gives us a report on his trip to the Chicago
>Convention.
Geez. You'll let ANYONE write in your magazine, won't you?
>Name the original Frightful Four.
JFK, Robert Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and J. Edgar Hoover.
Sorry! Wrong continuity.
S'okay. I'm allergic to cheese.
> A copy of Action Comics #1, the comic book in which Superman made
>his 1938 debut sold for $61,900 at a Sotheby's auction. The buyer was
>Steve Geppi, owner of Diamond Comics Distribution
Nice to see that someone's still making money from the comic biz.
> Daredevil and Shi
>cross paths in 1997. . . Mr. Mxyzptlk and The Impossible Man will be
>plaguing Superman and the Silver Surfer in a crossover by George Perez,
>Ron Lim and Terry Austin. . . new Amalgam comics are being planned, word
>is that among them is a Green Lantern/Iron Man mix called Iron Lantern .
>. . other team ups in the works include Spider-Man/Gen13 and
>Batman/Daredevil the latter by Scott McDaniel & Dan Chichester.
Sigh. I saw the Iron Man/X-O Man of War teamup at a local shop.
Hasn't the novelty worn off yet?
Let's make it more interesting. I propose a team-up of
characters wherein only one walks away back to his/her company. Loser
vanishes off the face of the publishing planet. Loser doesn't come back
from the grave, no one gets to wear the costume, nothing. Dead, dead,
dead!
Now THAT would sell!
And isn't that the entire point behind these exercises?
My first suggestion is a triangle battle: Iron Man vs. X-O vs.
Prototype! There's only room for ONE armoured hero, baby!
>[5] ChicagoConvention Report by Angelo Furlan
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>FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE WINDY CITY
Uh oh. You printed all of it?
Guess we're in trouble now. :>
>You too can enjoy the intelligent conversations and informative threads
>that occur in the conferences of the Comic Book Net every day!
Once you start printing article by the likes of me, you've
pretty much lowered the general IQ of CBEM by a dozen or so points.
BTW, have you gotten SINNAMON #6 yet? I look forward to your
comments.
[Just got it this week. Great stuff! (STUF?)]
Angelo Furlan
Writer/Creator of SINNAMON, BRUISER, and STUF.
email me at: afurlan@pathcom.com
Check out the Catfish Comics Web Page at: http//www.thenerve2.com/catfish
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Subj: Re: Steven's Comics
Date: 96-07-06 16:07:59 EDT
From: DKPress
To: ComicBknet
David --
Thanks for reviewing Steven's Comics - I'm happy to tell you that your
review is the first I've read on my new collection. Thanks for the
positive and encouraging words.
I self-syndicate my strip to alternative and gay papers and every year I
collect the strip