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THE MIGHTY MAGNOR was published by Malibu Comics. Malibu Comics is no longer in business, which is odd when you consider that they never published Groo. Anyway, this was a six-issue mini-series that told the tale of a space traveller with amnesia who came to Earth, where he was found by two guys who write and draw comic books. The alien learned how to be a super-hero by reading Earth comic books and set out to apply those principles as he tracked down a dangerous criminal from his planet. This being a Sergio Aragonés/M.E. comic, he wound up wreaking more destruction than good. The first issue was published in two editions — a cheap one with a normal cover and a fancier one with a "pop-up" cover that unfolded into a little diorama. They sold the latter for $3.95 but if you were really dumb, you could get two copies — one signed by Sergio — for $34 plus postage on the QVC shopping network. They sold thousands, hawking it as a wonderful collector's edition and investment. That was 8 years ago and, like all comics sold that way back then, you can still pick up a signed copy on eBay for under ten bucks. (Of course, if you were really, really stupid, you could be the writer and artist of this comic, who somehow never saw a nickel of the moola for all those copies sold on QVC.) Nevertheless, it was fun to do, and it was wildly popular overseas. A paperback collecting all six issues won the top award in Spain as the best "foreign" comic of its year. Sergio received a lovely trophy and once in a while, he lets me touch it. We have to bring this back some day — and almost certainly will — if only because I bought a car while we were doing it, got "MAGNOR" on my license plate and am sick of explaining it to people in parking lots. The Mighty Magnor and all related characters and artwork |
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