As you can see, I managed to get hold of one of the two missing issues from the near-complete run of Skull the Slayer I acquired this time last year. I spotted the missing issue on a shopping trip to London last week, which also yielded four of the books shown in the photo. The other two books were bought online, while the DVDs came from my local HMV store.
In broad terms, the book is about the crossover of ideas between science fiction and Fortean-style speculation. I picked that subject partly because I already know a bit about it, but mainly because it’s the perfect excuse to indulge in lots of lowbrow “research material” of the kind pictured above!
2 comments:
I can't recall if I ever bought Skull at the time, but I have a reprint of the first ish in one of the great 'Marvel Firsts' books. Looking forward to reading what you've got to say about it.
Thanks Kid. Actually you left a comment to similar effect when I wrote last year's post, so you must have already read it! That first issue is the one I still don't have, but having read a synopsis of it I don't think it gives a real flavour of the wackiness to come. I absolutely love issues 2 to 8, but then I have pretty offbeat tastes. Shortly after I wrote my original post, Marvel issued the whole series as a Trade Paperback (that probably wasn't cause-and-effect, though).
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