What is the most obscure marvel comic issue/run in your collection?

[cosmoboy]

Does Ghost Rider 2099 count? That was a brilliant cyberpunk story thet required no previous knowledge of GR as the only connection was that he looked a bit like the original (i.e. flaming skull).

Also the Marvel Tech Deathlok series from the mid 1990s, which had no connection to any versions of the character before or since & featured some beautiful Leonardo Manco art & a hilarious subplot featuring the Clown from the Circus of Crime trying to make it as a hitman.

And because of that it was a very close second on my list of favorite 2099 books.

Ummm I think I could dig up the Double Dragon series
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[Hindsight lad]

Let's see....

I have one issue of Street Poet Ray (Tom Brevoort actually mentioned this in one of his blogs and gave a bit of the history behind the series. Apparantly there was quite a fad of Bronx culture at the time. I think Tom said it was the worst thing he ever worked on, and he wrote Fantastic Force), a few issues of Human Fly...

two issues of Mort the Dead Teenager...

Suburban Jersey Ninja She-devils (by Steve Gerber and apparantly in continuity since they mention the Man-thing's swamp)

eight issues of Crystar

Spider-man: Chaos at Calgary, where he fights the Frightful Four and teaches bike safety (really)

one issue of Royal Roy (I so want this guy to appear in continuity)

the issue of Ren and Stimpy with Spider-man fighting Powdered Toast Man (the first time Dan Slott wrote Spidey, I believe)

and all 50 regular issues, three annuals, two holiday specials, and a spring special of Alf, the greatest licensed comic Marvel produced. It was what got me into comics back when I was 5. Yeesh. Although Marvel doesn't own Alf, he did meet the High Evolutionary and also got an Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition (the 3-ring binder one) in his last issue by blackmailing Tom DeFalco with dirty pictures.


I don't have it, but I think the holy grail of obscure comics is the X-men at the Texas State Fair.

Hindsight lad

[Michael P]

Spider-man: Chaos at Calgary, where he fights the Frightful Four and teaches bike safety (really)

They did four of these all in one month, all combining Spidey having an adventure in Canada with a PSA of some sort. I had all of them at one point, but I'm not sure if they're still around or I got rid of them in my last purge.

the issue of Ren and Stimpy with Spider-man fighting Powdered Toast Man (the first time Dan Slott wrote Spidey, I believe)

Delightfully insane. Spidey's efforts to break through Powdered Toast Man's, er, naturally-produced bindings are hysterical.

and all 50 regular issues, three annuals, two holiday specials, and a spring special of Alf, the greatest licensed comic Marvel produced. It was what got me into comics back when I was 5. Yeesh. Although Marvel doesn't own Alf, he did meet the High Evolutionary and also got an Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition (the 3-ring binder one) in his last issue by blackmailing Tom DeFalco with dirty pictures.

Screw you. (And yes folks, all that stuff is true, and it happened in a Marvel Comic.)

[rogerio]

Black Widow and Silver Sable...

[lobsterj]

anybody else have STEELTOWN ROCKERS?

[FeminineMystique]

Mr T and the T Force. A truly horrific comic. It basically consisted of Mr T nearly killing two bit punks, while failing to properly maintain the slum like appartment he was the Super of. Then, after spending many pages beating people half to death, his letters column would talk about the wonders of non violence and how Mr T hoped to show people violence wasn't the answer.

Stare at a schizophrenic jabbering away while beating yourself in the head with an iron bar. Congratulations! You now know what it feels like to read an issue of Mr T and the T Force.

[whiteshark]

Mr T and the T Force. A truly horrific comic. It basically consisted of Mr T nearly killing two bit punks, while failing to properly maintain the slum like appartment he was the Super of. Then, after spending many pages beating people half to death, his letters column would talk about the wonders of non violence and how Mr T hoped to show people violence wasn't the answer.

Stare at a schizophrenic jabbering away while beating yourself in the head with an iron bar. Congratulations! You now know what it feels like to read an issue of Mr T and the T Force.

Quit Your Jibba Jabba!!!

No offense,didnt read the MR T comic book,but i would say it was great.

[Drcharles]

I'm pretty sure that somewhere I have the human Fly #1&2:



Then there's this gem:

I have the complete run of the Human Fly # 1-19
he was one of my favorite characters.

But
I have the two bks that were printed yrs ago which I thought were fairly obscure

''Death Crazed Teenage SuperHeroes # 1&2''

[daveageallen]

MAN THING 1-9. and i cant get anyone to buy it. its in perfect condition, but everyone knows man thing blows.

[AllisterH]

I have the entire limited Speedball the Masked Marvel limited series.

Incomplete collection of both ALF and Team America.

[riffraff]

I also have four of the Marvel Treasury Editions, including this classic:

[Tien Long]

For some really, REALLY odd reason, my aunts gave me a bunch of "Epic" titles when I was 8 yrs. old, like "Terrarists," or "Law Dog." This was some pretty f'ed up crap. Seriously, those titles somewhat traumatized me for a couple of years. Up until a couple of months ago, I still had them, and, well, they were still disturbing.

As for obscure titles, I've always had a predilection for titles that have Shang-Chi, so I have much of Chuck Dixon's "Marvel Knights" run from around '00/'01, the Gulacy/Moench Shang-Chi series from '02/'03, as well as the most recent Heroes For Hire series. Other than that, there's my "Captain America Meets The Asthma" monster one-shot. Probably one of, if not the, earliest comic I have.

[_OM_]

...Mine would be the Iron Man/Sub-Mariner one-shot from ~1968 or thereabouts, when the duet books Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense were split into four books, and the one-shot was needed to wrap up two leftover half-length stories from each book.

...Of course, Human Fly, Comet Man and Obnoxio were good suggestions as well, although I'd also have suggest Bizarre Adventures #34, which featured the only Howard the Duck story that wasn't written by Steve Gerber that Gerber admitted was "In Canon", that being Steven Grant's take on "It's a Wonderful Life". Obscure, but damn good nevertheless.

I also have four of the Marvel Treasury Editions, including this classic:

...You are aware this site blocks embedding of images from its site, right?

[Taskmaster]

I have the six issue run of Police Academy, (1989) which sticks out in my mind for its irrelevance to anything else I was collecting at the time but I went and saw most of them at the cinema as a young whipper-snapper!

I wouldn't regard titles/LS's/One-Shots such as Fallen Angels, (1987) X-Terminators, (1988) Heroes For Hope: Starring the X-Men, (1985) as being that obscure as they are linked to popular storylines/titles/ popular creators attached, at the time. Brute Force, Airwalkers etc, definitely.

I really want to locate the Marvel Fumetti Book, (1984) and The A-Team, (1984) to see what they are like.

What is the most obscure marvel comic issue/run in your collection?

Ha ha I've got the whole run of A-Team as well as what I like to think is the most obscure comic I own...."Billy the Marlin" #1 featuring Spider-Man where they team up at a Marlin's baseball game to stop Doctor Doom. PLUS i've got a signed copy, signed by Billy himself

[Ghost Shark]