The American Guard In Action

Here's a page featuring my character The American Guard in action! It's from the seldom seen Suddenly LandMark! #1. Art and design work are by Dashing Dave Allred.

Surprising Characters. Surprising Comics. That's my new slogan for Surprising Comics. I commissioned artist Randy Valiente to design an ad for Surprising Comics incorporating the new slogan, as seen in this image.

John Michael Helmer

John Michael Helmer is not only the Senior Editor and a writer for Surprising Comics, he's started his own comic book publishing company, Red Leaf Comics.
Check out his website at http://www.redleafcomics.com/ for more info on what John's up to. His first comic, The Leaf #1, is due to hit the racks in late September.

Pictured are John and me. I'm the guy holding a copy of Surprising Theater #1.

Selling Comics On eBay

I bought and sold comic books on eBay for over 9 years using the user id grandcanyoncomics. During that time I received over 7,500 feedbacks, without a single negative feedback standing.
After all that time, I decided a few months ago I wanted a bit of a fresh start, and also, having been considering for some time I may end up leaving the Grand Canyon state, thereby making that user id outdated, I decided to change my user id on eBay to stockcomics. Stock Comics was the name I bought and sold under when I was a teenager, buying and selling comics via the Comics Buyers Guide.

Check out my eBay auctions here.

Now for a word from our sponsor... me! Aside from our website at www.surprisingcomics.com, Surprising Comics has a message board located at www.surprisingcomics.proboards.com. So... check 'em out!

Perilous Adventures #1

Aside from my scripting, editing, and publishing work I do for Surprising Comics, I also write for other comic book companies. To that end CE Publishing has just put out Perilous Adventures #1, which has an 11 page story I scripted called Flying Objects. The entire issue is 28 great pages. Go to www.carbonatedcomics.com/GetComicDetails?c=54 to download this issue for a mere .99!

VALIANT Prices

One thing I love to do is watch back issue prices on comic books. In view of the new Dark Horse line of comics featuring Gold Key characters that is being overseen by the chief architect of the Valiant Comics universe, Jim Shooter, I'm keenly interested to see what will happen with back issue prices of Valiant comic books. I feel namely back issue prices on Solar, Magnus, and Turok prices may rise, if the new launch at Dark Horse is successful.
Ten days ago there were five complete sets of Valiant's Solar series for sale on eBay. Since then, three sets of Valiant Solar have sold there, leaving just two for sale on the Bay. This fits in with my expected increase in demand for Valiant Solar issues due to the new launch.