This is another comic I bought on impulse at Sodiler Bookstore in Brasília during my comic book explorations. With a cover by Jim Starlin, Iron Man #160 offers the pleasant surprise of pencil artwork by the legendary Steve Ditko, perfectly
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COMICS I LIKE: AVENGERS #191
Here’s the thing: this comic basically boils down to the mighty Avengers facing off twice against the fifth-rate villain Gray Gargoyle, the one who turns everything he touches to stone. They’re humiliatingly defeated the first time, just because writer David
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COMICS I LIKE: SUPER BOXERS
I started reading Marvel and DC comics in the original English when I was about twelve years old. There was a bookstore in downtown Brasília called Sodiler that used to sell American comics, and mom started bringing me some. Over
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COMICS I LIKE: IRON MAN #258
There was a time when, every now and then, I’d come across an American comic book at the newsstands and bookstores I frequented. Unlike today, the comics weren’t sealed in plastic bags, so you could politely flip through them and
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COMICS I LIKE: TEX #111 “SOUTH OF NOGALES
I started reading TEX when I was nine years old. My cousin Ivete, who collected ZAGOR but also had two TEX issues at home (TEX #24, “The Mysterious Mister P,” and TEX #25, “The Sacred Spear”, in the brazilian series)
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