LOOONG SHOT but can anyone identify which comic this image is from? Trying to help a friend. The accompanying Bullpen Bulletins (pictured) begins by wishing readers a happy new year and looking ahead to what happening in 1990:
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Can you get a higher resolution shot of the Bullpen Bulletins article?
The weird thing is that I think I read the comic, but I was a teenager around that time.
It references "The Death of the Incredible Hulk", which is the tv movie starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno in which the Hulk fell from a plane, landed on concrete, and died. The movie came out in February 1990, so this comic could very well be from 1989.
Edit: I'm a knucklehead. With Stan Lee wishing people a Happy New Year, it's gotta be December '89 or January '90.
[QUOTE=Walter West;3862065]It references "The Death of the Incredible Hulk", which is the tv movie starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno in which the Hulk fell from a plane, landed on concrete, and died. The movie came out in February 1990, so this comic could very well be from 1989.
Edit: I'm a knucklehead. With Stan Lee wishing people a Happy New Year, it's gotta be December '89 or January '90.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1989,_December[/url]
[url]http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1990,_January[/url]
I don't have the time right now to go through it. I was hoping the art would be immediately distinctive.
If it helps, That particular Soapbox message has a cover date of April 1990
[QUOTE=Mike_Murdock;3863017][url]http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1989,_December[/url]
[url]http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1990,_January[/url]
I don't have the time right now to go through it. I was hoping the art would be immediately distinctive.[/QUOTE]Those are the wrong months. It'll be the issues released in December or January, not the ones with that as their issue date. This week's Avengers #6 is October dated but released in August, so assuming it worked the same way 28 years ago, we need to look at February and March 1990 instead.
[url]http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1990,_February[/url]
[url]http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1990,_March[/url]
[QUOTE=JKtheMac;3863900]If it helps, That particular Soapbox message has a cover date of April 1990[/QUOTE]
That easily narrowed it down to Steeltown Rockers #1.
[QUOTE=cranger;3864992]That easily narrowed it down to Steeltown Rockers #1.[/QUOTE]
Cool. I found the same bulletin page in a corresponding Spider book but nothing in that matched. Glad we narrowed it down.
sorry never seen it before.
[QUOTE=son_ofgolem;3865592]sorry never seen it before.[/QUOTE]
Um? Lucky we have already identified it then.
[QUOTE=cranger;3864992]That easily narrowed it down to Steeltown Rockers #1.[/QUOTE]
"Steeltown Rockers"... WHAT?? What on earth was this, then? A team-book featuring a teenage hair-metal band from Chicago?
[QUOTE=L.R Johansson;3865992]"Steeltown Rockers"... WHAT?? What on earth was this, then? A team-book featuring a teenage hair-metal band from Chicago?[/QUOTE]
If one can call a non-superhero nascent band that has only tangential reference to the MU and is composed of some teenagers and some older characters a team. I have to admit I have never read it so I don’t know if the six issues can technically be called a mini-series or just an abandoned ongoing. Pretty sure it wasn’t in Chicago but it was a steel town. I am guessing crangor may have access to it, so he may be able to illuminate us as to whether it ever moves beyond being about the lives of young people in a declining industrial town.
PS just noticed it was called a mini on each cover.
Was it a licensed book?
No it was pretty much a stand-alone ‘indy like’ project. There’s a good description <[URL="http://www.depthoffieldmagazine.com/2011/07/28/pop-music-comics-steeltown-rockers/"]here[/URL]>.