1 July 2025

Podcast: Image Comics: The Roaring Nineties

 

Available from all your usual podcast providers, or listen here:  

It's all well and good talking about comics, but they are obviously a visual medium - pretty pictures!  Therefore, to accompany each episode, we also do a little blog post with some images and other extras to give you some context as to what on earth we're talking about!   

 

 What Have We Been Reading Recently?

Batman The Cult #1-4 (1988)
Published by DC Comics
Written by Jim Starlin
Art by Bernie Wrightson
Colours by Bill Wray
Lettering by John Costanza 



 
 
Absolute Flash (2025)
Published by DC Comics
Written by Jeff Lemire
Art by Nick Robles
Colours by Adriano Lucas
Letters by Tom Napoltano
 


 
 

The Roaring Nineties

Superman #75 - an estimated 6m copies sold!

Superman #75 bagged Platinum Edition - aimed squarely at collectors/investors

Unity #1 - the crossover would help put new Valiant Comics on the map, and launch the 90s mega-crossover fad

Dale Keown's Pitt #1 - the second issue would take 6 months to arrive

Tribe #1 from Larry Stroman - another where the second issue took 6 months

Spawn #21 - released before #19 & 20 because they were running so far behind

Deathmate, the Image and Valiant crossover plagued by delays, is considered by many to mark the end of the boom and start of the bust









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