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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I finally realized who that woman seen next to tRump in the Oval the other day reminds me of... it's Lisa Marie in "Mars Attacks!"

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Flying out for setup on Wednesday morning!

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We have thus “breakfront” cabinet (no idea why it’s called that) that Julia’s grandfather got from the Illinois Land Office just before it closed in the 1940s. How long it had been there we don’t know.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

That’s the state seal of Arkansas, so…?

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Stephen King stories! Nekkid ladies! Naughty comics by Vaughan Bode! Cavalier Magazine had everything!

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hey, I just looked at the new Lunar Distribution catalog, and in the TwoMorrows pages you'll find Back Issue #170 featuring an article about Howard the Duck's nemesis Doctor Bong written by me! This issue reaches stores in September - but you can tell your local retailer to order your copy now!

Catalog description of Back Issue Magazine #170, with an article about Howard the Duck's nemesis Doctor Bong, written by me, Adam Philips!

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The first Superman comic I ever read. Not a great issue by any means, but the ones that came after made Big Blue my fav’rit.

Cover to Superman #206, 1968, by Neal Adam’s. Superman is in chains and being accused of assassination.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Is that the same Bob Wood who wrote comics and also…did other things?

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I grew up with this piece by Mel Lazarus hanging in my kitchen. It now hangs in my office. My parents lived in the neighborhood near him when they were dating.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Farewell to the great Robert Duvall. He made a lot of great movies, but 1983's "Tender Mercies" has a special place in my heart. It's a quiet, intimate movie, and it made me a fan of a certain stripe of country music.

Robert Duvall and Tess Harper in "Tender Mercies," 1983.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I also owned several pages of original art drawn by Sal B., all long gone now. Around 1980 a comics shop I occasionally visited in Paramus, NJ, had a bunch of his pages for not much money, and I picked up this lovely Marvel Two-In-One splash. I had a few Rom, Space Knight pages of his as well.

Splash page from Marvel Two-in-One #17 by Sal Buscema, with a woozy looking Spider-Man leaning on a rooftop chimney for support.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Three of the earliest issues drawn by Sal Buscema that I can remember. Marvel Team-Up cover not by him, but the other two are.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Current listening: "Thrillington," a full-on orchestral reimagining of the Paul and Linda McCartney album "Ram," recorded in the early 1970s and released years later. One of the weirdest entries in Sir Paul's back catalogue.

Cover of "Thrillington," a very odd album by Paul McCartney under the name Percy "Thrills" Thrillington. The art shows a man with the head of a ram, wearing a tuxedo and playing a violin.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Recent purchase while traveling for Baltimore Comic-Con: "Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy." Recorded in 1954, the album has been remastered with bonus tracks. Incredibly, it was made with Handy hanging out in the studio, while the band played songs he wrote at the start of the 20th century.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It still drives me crazy that the Dire Straits box set "The Studio Albums 1978 -1991" does not include their 1983 four-track EP, which memorably includes the song "Twisting by the Pool."

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

C'mon, you guys. If you're flipping through back issues of Fantastic Four looking for the lord of all Latveria, you're Doomscrolling.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

It’s such a badass move to draw a cover without the main characters from the series. Not sure who else besides Kirby could even get away with it.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

No cheating: Post your Lock Screen! This is the display poster for the Marvel black light posters from the early 70s. I used to own one of these.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Maybe this one? Adaptation by Evanier and Divono, art by Dan Spiegle. I never saw the movie, but I can’t imagine it’s very good.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I discovered Starlin with Captain Marvel #30 (January 1974), an issue I bought because it had the Controller on the cover - the villain from Iron Man #28, a comic given to me by my grandparents.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I would nominate the genius behind these.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Beautiful. Reminds of this classic comic strip by Harvey Kurtzman, creator of Mad Magazine.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I have another lovely piece of Alex Ross art up for auction on Comiclink, closing this Friday, May 9. This is a very cool unused concept drawing for Amazing Spider-Man #25 shining a spotlight on the Green Goblin. Check it out here and get those bids in! www.comiclink.com/auctions/ite...

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

What is with these idiots and the made-up term "war-fighting"?

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The average American has three far-out friends.

The fabulous furry Freak Brothers by Gilbert Shelton

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Date yourself with toys that were newly available when you played with them.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me in the national security group chat

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Way back I had a few of the Third Eye posters including this display poster.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It me, registered with two clients (maybe more to come?) for the ComicsPro meeting.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

We've seen a bunch of time-traveling villains in the series already - but the Collector at least has something specific he's trying to do. I may be partial to him as he was the villain of the first issue of Avengers I ever bought myself, #119.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

You will be visited by three (seasonally appropriate!) spirits…

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Just as he sits in the SRI's seat, a mysterious figure enters. TO BE CONTINUED! Right here - same team as last issue, including "Frankie Ray." The story opens with a shot of Hawkeye that's as cool as anything John Buscema might have drawn. Hawkeye gets up, now knowing how to get the message.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

...to get back to the team, he knocks the champ out with one punch. (The stories keep saying CA has no super powers, but when he needs to K.O. the champ, it seems real easy for him.) Back to the team - Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch are trapped in glass tubes, but SW hexes her way out.

Heck and Romita's art doesn't get much more Canifferiffic than on a face like this.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

HE says "where do I start?!" SM wakes up and finds that Mandarin has added a bunch of buttons for various rays to his sword. He uses his beams to project an image of Iron Man to the team, then says you have to add Swordsman to the team before sending SM back to NYC. Best panel of the issue shown...

Swordsman floats near the Rainbow Bridge? on his way back to the Avengers' headquarters.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Found 'em! The original hardcovers from "The Nemo Library" were B&W, from 1986 - and that cover scanned badly, as it's actually green, not blue. They were repackaged in 2006 with fancier covers and (I think) color interiors.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

And I wish Count Nefaria had played his computer or whatever that is like a pipe organ as he does on the cover. I love Don Heck, but he rarely hit the fantastic notes in his art as Kirby did.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Avengers #13, Feb 1965. Lee/Heck/Ayers. Cover by Kirby/Stone that belies the story's organized crime trappings. Still... we start with a great splash page, closeup on the team as they're being shot at. The action starts as the team stops a robbery, and the ganglords of the Maggia are not happy.

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Adam Philips from comics! @adamphilips.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.

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