Almost Hidden
Almost Hidden – Guy and Ice Go to the Ice Capists
We live in an age of nearly total access. Our own Greg Hatcher wrote a great article on the topic here, about how so many of the comics of his youth are available in trade paperback collections. Even with this large amount of available comic books, there are still a number of great comic books that have never been collected into trade paperback (I’d say roughly 60% of them are DC Comics from the 1980s through the mid-1990s). So every day this month I will spotlight a different cool comic book that is only available as a back issue. Here is an archive of the comic books featured so far.
I want you folks to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com with your suggestions for comics that I should feature this month. I’d like to see what you all would like to see get more attention. But for day one, I’ll be featuring one of my favorite single comic book issues (well, at least among those that have never been reprinted), Justice League America #45 (which I write about here a lot, since I like it so much), which details a date between Guy Gardner and Tora Olafsdotter (Green Lantern and Ice of the JLI, respectively) that does not go the way Guy expected.
Almost Hidden Archive
Here are write-ups on some notable comic book stories that have never been reprinted:
1. “Nobody Dies. It’s a Rule.” (Flash #54)
2. The Children’s Crusade 1993-94 Vertigo Crossover
3. Chester Williams, American Cop (Swamp Thing #165)
4. Guy and Ice Go to the Ice Capists (Justice League America #45)
5. The Haunting of Jim Corrigan (Spectre #52-56)
6. The Pied Piper Comes Out of the Closet (Flash #53)
8. The Suicide Squad Travels to Apokolips! (Suicide Squad #33-36)
9. Tales From the Bully Pulpit
10. Keith Giffen’s PunX (PunX #1-3)
11. Christopher Priest and Denys Cowan’s run on Steel (Steel #34-52)
13. The Extremist Vector (Justice League Europe #15-19)
14. Justice League International vs. Starro! (Justice League Europe #26-28)
15. Justice League America vs. Despero! (Justice League America #38-40)
16. Tony Isabella and Eddy Newell’s Black Lightning run (Black Lightning (Volume 2) #1-8)
17. Stig’s Inferno
18. Roger Stern and Tom Lyle’s Starman run (Starman (Volume 1) #1-25)
19. The Rise and Fall of Red Orion (Orion #1-15)
20. Wally West’s “Perfect Gift” (Flash #73)
21. The Introduction of the Blood Syndicate (Blood Syndicate #1-4)
23. Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson go on a Date (Birds of Prey #8)
24. James Hudnall and Andrew Paquette’s Harsh RealmHarsh Realm #1-6
25. The Trial of the Terminator (Tales of the Teen Titans #53-55)
BONUS: Greg Hatcher did a piece about some uncollected comics he’d like to see collected. Here are the ones he listed. Click on any of the titles to see Greg’s article:
