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Except for the Spectacular Spider-Man issues, these all came from the 50 cent bins! The Spider-Man issues were $3 each!

This completed my run of Amalgam 1997! I am also down to only needing one issue each for my runs of Alpha Flight, Sectaurs, Doom Patrol, Vanguard, and BloodWulf!

Tales of Terror 6, 1986 Cover art by Joe Chiodo

I’m pulling comics for a local show and thought these might interest some people. Pretty sure I bought them both off the stand, but then the 300 should have been a Mark Jewelers as well. So maybe I got it later? I do know it was signed at the Spiders Web in Puyallup WA, Todd was a co-owner and did several signings there over the years.

Written by Mike Baron, art by David Ross and John Beatty.

The Punisher is caught between the Mecozzis and the Rosettis!

Terrorists have escaped with a kilo of plutonium

Punisher decides to use his last rocket to destroy the compound

Hoping to slip away as the Mecozzis and the Rosettis fight, he is cornered by Manuel Herrera, a former CIA member working for the Mecozzis, but let go when he convinces him he is a Mossad agent after the terrorists

Microchip believes the terrorists are going to attack the Liberty Bell Celebration in Philadelphia.  He convinces Frank to inform the FBI, saying Punisher can’t handle it alone

Frank is contacted by Mossad agent Rose Kugel, in hopes that he’ll help take the terrorists down

Rose and Frank bond over the fact that both their families were killed by criminals

The Punisher and Rose confront Manny after the terrorists fail to attack the Liberty Bell Celebration

Seeing a picture of a building the Mecozzis have been building on the wall, Punisher realizes that the terrorists are going to attack Manhattan

Punisher and Rose stop the terrorists, but Rose is seemingly thrown to her death

Punisher learns that Rose was not really with Mossad, and there is no record of who she really was

Punisher is left mourning a potential ally

Frank’s Body Count - 2+ (He uses a rocket to destroy the Mecozzi compound, it’s unknown how many guards die.  He shoots one of the terrorists and tosses another off the building.  Rose also guns down a few guards)

Written by Mike Baron, art by David Ross and Kevin Nowlan. Cover by Mike Mignola.

Punisher is awoken at one of his hideouts to the sound of garbagemen being killed and left in the back of their own truck

Microchip and Junior discover the Mecozzi Crime Family have set up a business called Unisym to muscle in on Rosetti territory

Punisher infiltrates the Unisym compound, he spares the lives of the dogs because he hates to cause animals pain

Punisher discovers the mob is using their waste disposal business to sell nuclear waste to terrorists

While fleeing from guards, Punisher discovers an armory, giving him lots of weapons to fight the guards

Punisher manages to capture a guard and finds out that the Mecozzis are selling to the terrorists to boost their power base, the terrorists are planning to build bombs for attacks

He decides he can’t leave the compound and the armory standing, but before he can destroy it, the Rosettis attack

Frank’s Body Count - 13 (he kills two guards at the first Unisym compound, then 11 more in various skirmishes at the second facility where the nuclear waste is)

UNCANNY X-MEN

Steadily growing my Wolverine covers, very happy to add these to my collection. I got Hulk #340 at a great price, still on cloud 9 over it.

• Written by Mike Baron, art by Klaus Janson
• Punisher travels with the Reverend and other members of the Church to Guiana
• Punisher, under the name of Joe Rainey, has become a trusted member of the Church and is meant to train the members to use the weapons they’ve been stockpiling
• The Reverend tells Frank he may need to assassinate a congressman he claims is CIA
• Frank sleeps with Vicki, the wife of Ray White, the cop who helped him infiltrate the Church
• Frank meets Sadie, the Reverend’s sister, who apparently also has a power
• Frank saves the Reverend from a disgruntled member of the Church.  When he attempts to let the man go, another member shoots him
• Frank worries he’s under the spell of the Reverend, but when he learns that there will be a mass suicide, he makes his choice and becomes The Punisher again
• The Reverend orders his followers to drink their poison, Punisher tries to stop him and his sister
• During a struggle, Punisher shoots the Reverend.  He doesn’t finish him off because he save his life, but does tell the Church followes he is dead so they don’t commit mass suicide
• Sadie escapes
• Punisher tells the Congressman he is CIA operative and asks him to help the remaining Church members
• Frank takes Vicki and her daughter back to Ray, feeling guilty about sleeping with her
• Frank’s Body Count - 4, possibly 5 (he shoots a church member attempting to kill rebellious members, three more when the Reverend attempts to escape.  He does shoot the Reverend, but leaves him instead of finishing him off.  So it’s possible he survives)

Another comics magazine similar to Wizard! It ran for 26 issues and a couple of specials! Apparently, the newsstand copies were slightly larger in size! I only have about a third of the run, but am always on the lookout for more!

Pick this guy up for 65 bucks. It a little beat up. Happy to have it in my collection