Sunday @ New York Comic Con

Peter Laird

Laird, Jim Lawson and Steve Lavigne signed the only copy of Planet Racers seen at the con

Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers and Irwin Hasen

Costumes: Jessica Drew Spider-Woman, Ben Reilly Spider-Man, anime character (Battle for the Planets?) and the obligatory Storm Trooper

Keith Giffen

signed by Giffen and Kevin Maguire

Jack Kirby's Fourth World Series II (Superman's head even looks like it was redrawn by Curt Swan!)

Grant Morrison gets swarmed at the DC booth

The Incredible Hulk

Peter David and Jason Aaron (no last names allowed at this table)

signed by David

All Star Batman and All Star Superman Toys

JLU toyline continues to expand

signed by Louise Simonson

behind the scenes at The Stack

Through the looking glass: Mike Mignola and Mike Richardson

signed by Bryan Hitch

signed by Steve McNiven and Dexter Vines

Surprisingly, the most surreal sight of the day wasn't at the New York Comic Con...




(special thanks to Sara for the passes!)

Justice League of America Classic No. 217

This is my first comic book- a reprinting of a Satellite Era JLA story from 1983. Not all of the characters on the cover appeared in the comic- the Atom, Black Canary and Green Arrow were absent from the adventure, "All the Elements of Disaster." I was left wondering who they were and came to the conclusion that they must be villains. I further wondered if the Atom (whose name was not known to me at the time) was very small or very far away from the others- ostracized, perhaps, due to his imagined villain status. Green Arrow's hat was seen as a baseball cap as well.

Interview with writer Paul Kupperberg here.