Maybe it's the other way around. But I remember it was a two-step process and I cleaned them out of a bunch of cheap DC 'S' books... SilverBlade,  80's old-school Superboy.

I'll look again later when I have more time and once I figure out how I did it, I'll see if I can just link to an example.

How?… I visited the site, and I can’t figure out how to sort through the cheap comics. I am I missing something?

You have to call up the cheap books first-- then, once it gives you the list of the books under a dollar or whatever, you click on the menu option that says "DC only," or "Marvel only," or whatever you're looking for. It's a two-step process, it won't call them out both at once. It's a 'search these results' thing.

I haven't read it in almost 20 years and maybe I wouldn't see the novel that way now, but I remember at the time finding it disturbing. To my thinking, this was why the film was so different: to avoid that kind of a reading.

How?... I visited the site, and I can't figure out how to sort through the cheap comics. I am I missing something?

The book was brilliantly written and it held together very well. The movie, on the other hand, I felt didn't age well. The effects seemed right out of the '80s and the plot, particularly the conclusion, didn't make much sense.

XOJL

If the same story had been done just two or three years later, it wouldn't have had three parts. It would have had at least one part in a given month's release of Action, Adventure, Superman, Man of Steel, Detective, Batman, Robin, Shadow of the Bat and possibly even Superboy, Steel, Azrael, Catwoman and Birds of Prey.

If they could have justified getting the JLA involved, they could have done it as a summer crossover event and get almost 50 or 60 issues out of it. Three months each of the previous twelve titles and also JLA, Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Aquaman.

That story would have been collected. And, sadly, probably would have been a much worse story due to contrived elements bringing in the other books and filling out space.

Does anyone tell simple, enjoyable stories like DKOM anymore? Or, is it as it seems, and everything is either a filler waiting for the next crossover event, or an out of continuity story?

Theno

Anyone want to be the tie-breaker so I can go see if I want to hunt it down and take the time to read it or not?

Chandler's one of my favorite authors, by the by. And I'm really fond of the movie.

How many of those Flash Gordon novels were there? I have The Lion Men Of Mongo, The Time Trap Of Ming XIII, and The Witch Queen Of Mongo, and according to the inside blurb there were at least two others, The Plague Of Sound and The Space Circus… Were there any others besides these?

One other, Perry. There were six in all and the last one was called The War of the Cybernauts.

As for Roger Rabbit, well, John, mileage varies. I like the book better, it's more of a head-on collision between Raymond Chandler and the funny-animal comics. But I love the old hard-boiled pulps so I'm doubtless enjoying that angle more than others might. One man's joylessness is another man's noir.

I do LOVE the movie... just not quite as much as I did the book. I think it makes a difference if you come to the book first, too; I read it when it came out, long before there was any thought of a movie. In fairness, though, Wolf's follow-up Roger Rabbit novel, that came out AFTER the movie, I didn't care for much at all. He should have quit when he was ahead.

His work on Tomb of Dracula is a masterpiece.

Well, sadly I don't have £45 to spare right now, so go ahead.

*sob*

It did rate a mention on Rip Hunter's infamous chalkboard in the pages of 52, however, so at least someone over there must remember it...and who knows, with the occasional weird concept from the distant past getting dusted off and spit back out again, there's always a chance.

I remeber picking up the first issue of Silverblade when it came out, but my 19-year self didn't quite know what to make of it at the time. Perhaps I should go back and hunt the rest of those issues down some day...

Oh, there's a simple creed that Dawn and I live by when hunting for stuff on a budget... "Cheap + Cool = VERY COOL".