Wizard Magazine issue 1, Sept 1991, Kayfabe Commentary

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Each week Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg will be giving detailed commentary and analysis about a very wild time in comic book history using each issue of Wizard magazine to tell the story. A four-color gold rush tale about a bubble, it's bursting, and the lasting ramifications that led to the comics culture we have today.
This episode's contents and external links for later viewing:
* A Todd McFarlane interview on the heels of his immense success with Spider-Man issue 1
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* A fascinating piece about Digital Coloring in 1991 (pre-photoshop)
• Photoshop first versi...
* Horror Comics, Then and Now, an article comparing the EC comics of the '50s with the (then) current Vertigo DC horror comics (Sandman, Hellblazer, Swamp Thing)
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• The Birth Of Vertigo C...
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3 ноя 2018

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@thesonofbrianpeppers 3 месяца назад

RIP Ed 💔 This was the best place on youtube

@nicholassmith4900 3 месяца назад

The absolute best place on the internet. Incredible to hear Ed’s hopes for the channel in episode one.

@alexsarzosa 3 месяца назад

it was the greatest youtube channel for comic books ever. no contest. rest in peace Ed Piskor. Thank you for the years of laughs and insight. with love, -the kayfabers P.S: READ MORE COMICS

@josefrootgum 3 месяца назад

I've been watching and REwatching you guys everyday for five years now and I'm not about to stop. As long as this channel is alive, so is Ed Piskor. Just like what Ed always say, 'keep it rockin', Jimmy'. 👍

@BruceWayne-kv2dj 3 месяца назад

RIP to a legend

@andrewp_cc 3 месяца назад

Rest easy Ed. We’ll miss you.

@dannymac1310 5 лет назад

“I’m very ignorant about what’s happening in comics these days, you’re gonna have to forgive me on that because I only talk about cool shit” - Ed Piskor 😂😂😂

@calebr 3 месяца назад

Starting back from the beginning.

@jcandram 3 месяца назад

Me too!

@mastrbutcher Месяц назад

Not alone fam 🙏🏽

@BearIslandComics 3 месяца назад

I never knew how deep these boys went into my favorite stuff from the 90s! Awesome stuff. Rest In Peace, Ed. Gone but never forgotten

@keithkovalic 2 года назад

So today I start my quest to watch the ENITRE Kayfabe Commentary library in chronological order. I will even be re-watching videos the ones I have already watched as I come across them. As an owner of a pro wrestling company (VIP Wrestling in Dallas, TX) and a lifelong comic fan, I love these guys' style, and I, generally, share their opinions. OCD is a bitch. It is June 5, 2022. Let's see how long this takes.

@HenricWallmark 20 дней назад

Hows it going?

@JSan-ek2np 3 месяца назад

Love to hear Ed laugh! It makes me terribly sad that his final days were lived in despair. We love you Eddie P. Rest in Power!

@23therevdr 2 месяца назад

Coming back and re-watching (or watching some episodes for the first time) everything from beginning to end. I hope Jim finds it in his heart to keep the channel going in some fashion. RIP Ed. Never forget. Kayfabe Forever.

@jin4006 3 года назад

My job sucks ass, thanks for making this thing a podcast keeps my mood bright.

@gregmce 5 лет назад

Thanks for the shout-out, guys! And yeah, I was on the SPX board from 1998 through 2014 (including a three-year stint as the executive director, plus multiple years as the Ignatz Awards chair), in addition to writing for CBR, Read About Comics, and iComics for many years. I wrote a bunch of interviews for Wizard until those went in-house (I was always a freelancer) and then some short news pieces as well. It was a fun way to get a little money back from a hobby! (These days I'm still obliquely connected to comics through my work at a very large library in Washington DC, plus a fair amount of reading of course.)

@CartoonistKayfabe 5 лет назад

Just seeing this now. Thanks for your confirmation, and your contributions to comics over the years, Greg.

@willpfeifer3312 5 лет назад

I'm not even a fan of Wizard, and I found this fascinating. Nice job!

@bobigghhb3 5 лет назад

This is dope. I had issues of Wizards up into the 100s and this really took me back. My 1st Wizard was the WildCATS cover but I lost them all in Hurricane Katrina

@theelinfarto 5 лет назад

I had a long box full of Wizards from issue #1- well, however many were published by 1999. That was the year I lost the entire box when my house flooded during Hurricane Floyd. It was a bummer.

@BGranoff 5 лет назад

Great opening ep! You just blew 99% of comics-RU-vid out of the water.

@spongebobsquarepants4576 3 месяца назад

Rest in peace Ed

@jasonfate8026 5 лет назад

This is awesome. My childhood is back!

@charliestolz4296 5 лет назад

I think that "Cuticle Injury due to flipping through boxes of back issues" is something that we can all relate to.

@mercenaut 5 лет назад

43:00 My buddy had an entire run of GROO in a topless short box & kept it outside under his car canopy cause he just didnt give a shit about 'em. lol

@danielw3850 5 лет назад

This is so great to listen to when drawing, thanks for making a good comic related podcast guys, I was born in 96, so I used to go to corner bins as a kid and pic up old Wizard Magazines just too look at all the cool weird stuff.

@MoniBolis 5 лет назад

I enjoyed this show very much

@jimcampbell 5 лет назад

Speaking of “washing the dishes”.. (17 minute mark in this video) I’m coloring comics for marvel while playing this video on my phone next to my computer. Basically listening to the audio while I color. I listen to a lot of audiobooks that way.

@mdsmithcomics 5 лет назад

The flying Spider-Man was for that brief period where he had cosmic type powers, if I remember correctly.

@pk1715 9 месяцев назад

super cool video!

@josuemenjivar618 5 лет назад

It is July 2019. I just discovered this show. Love it!!It was so good to see all those old comics again and I loved the geeky stuff such as talking about signatures and colour. Will be watching every single episode in chronological order.

@synistawun4201 2 месяца назад

Sad to come back to this channel and hear Eddie. He was human; flawed, as we all are. Can't nobody cast judgement on anyone when we all have skeletons in our closets. No matter how small or how big. RIP EP

@UNCANNYNERD 5 лет назад

Love it. Thanks for this trip down memory lane.

@HeroicNerd 4 года назад

I love these videos. Its great to see these little bits of comic history from the perspective of wizard.

@art_zachs4754 5 лет назад

This is incredible!! Keep up your hard work guys!!!!

@samhighvoltage 3 месяца назад

Rest easy Eddie P. ❤

@amirmalekpour4316 5 лет назад

I love it! I am so happy that you uploaded it Sunday PST! Thank you fellas

@DJCoffman 5 лет назад

Bravo Gentlemen. I look forward to future episodes and a walk down memory lane! Really appreciate this! Also GREAT NAILS, ED! lol.

@mrtang18 5 лет назад

Congrats guys! Am excited to follow along 💁🏻‍♂️

@JosephMelanconArt 5 лет назад

We're so lucky you guys made this channel! This could prove to be one of the best resources on RU-vid for guys like me. Thank you!

@Maxx-m3p 3 года назад

Just discovered this series. I will be watching them all. Thank you much for doing this. #16 was my first Wizard from my local grocery store. Subscribed!

@jimdietz784 5 лет назад

Great debut guys! You are so spot on about that MacFarlane Batman Year Two and so many other things.

@mdsmithcomics 5 лет назад

Watching now and loving it. Brings back so many memories. You mentioned finding out what your subscribers might want to see down the road...well, Jim mentioned Marvel Age during this episode! That would be great to see...I started rebuying those not too long ago.

@mattsimmons5148 5 лет назад

This podcast is an absolute dream come true! You guys are two of my biggest heroes in comics, and to have hour plus long episodes of you guys talking about the era of comics when I first became a fan (thanks to my dad) is incredible! Thank you!

@scott.arnold 5 лет назад

Great first episode - I will say I *DO* cherish my "How To Draw Comics..." - it's beat up, has been used as a table (has the dents in the cover to prove it) - and I got it signed a few years ago by Stan Lee... that book is so pivotal for a lot of people my age, I think (about the same age as both of you) - thanks for adding it to this conversation.

@carrion_man3700 5 лет назад

Going back through these videos of you guys...just discovered your channel. I'm Jim's age- got these when I was in middle school. Your guys' commentary is spot on. Dope channel. Dope content. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

@docolomansky00 5 лет назад

Awesome first episode. You nailed me on my 90's roots. I started reading comics in the late 80's in my hometown, in Barcelona, Spain. Years later I found my first Wizard, which was Issue 49 - in the height of the Image era - and my mind really exploded. You guys just had a regular visitor. Congrats!

@ZacharyWeaver-rc8xc 3 месяца назад

RIP to a true maverick.

@tyler209459023523 5 лет назад

Loved this.

@johnlovejoy7736 5 лет назад

Loved this episode and looking forward to next week's! Thanks, guys! I especially appreciated the Larry Stroman shout-out. I grew up reading comics around the same time, and Stroman's X-Factor stands out in my memory as some of the best artwork in any of the late-80s/early-90s X-titles, and it was perfectly paired with Peter David's writing. I've always felt that he should have been a bigger star, like Liefeld or Silvestri. In my mind, though, Jim Lee will always be the greatest from that era, and my brothers and I also had a few copies of X-Men #1.

@wkos07 5 лет назад

Just awesome! Sub'd for life-- can't wait for more!

@archermalmo-j.hester6699 5 лет назад

Love it guys! I still have all my Wizard issues. I was there from the jump. Keep making dope videos and I'll keep watching

@nickogartcomics1947 5 лет назад

Just found out this existed, you guys are already killer, andnow you got this awesome show?? Too much!

@andyristainodraws 5 лет назад

great job jim and ed! i was never into wizard but was definitely heavily collecting at this time. excited to hear your takes on the other issues.

@apexcomix3200 5 лет назад

I still have a few Wizards left and Comics Buyers Guide. Famke Janssen's email was in a Shazam covered issue. That's why I kept it. Lol

@bewaretheconficker 5 лет назад

Great start, this is gonna be a nice thing to keep looking forward to. Early Wizard mags are a blind spot for me, I only started picking up Wizard off the racks around #100, it's cool seeing each page broken down and discussed.

@LukeDodge916 5 лет назад

I still have my Wizard 1 too! It was my absolute favorite magazine growing up (until I found motorcycle mags...). I lament the loss of Wizard. Thanks for discussing the mag.

@TheSirDominic 5 лет назад

Very cool haha I liked this a lot

@Clappincardboard 4 года назад

Really enjoyed this and man did bring me back. Biggest thing with wizard for 8-13 yr old me was deciding to either get the issue or get another comic. That 10-15 dollars I’d have every few weeks to spend meant I had some hard purchasing choices and if the comic titles weren’t in my wheel house then wizard mag was my fallback. Once they started including the trading cards with them the choice was even harder!

@posableproductions5640 5 лет назад

Holy crap. Dragon’s Den is my local shop. They must’ve moved or expanded upstate (now in Poughkeepsie NY) sometime shortly after this. Crazy to see their ad in the first issue of Wizard. They did indeed close for... less than a year I think it was for tax reasons, but recently reopened in a new location under new management. LOVED this first episode! Can’t wait for more. And thanks so much for putting it on iTunes also!!

@realshinobi 5 лет назад

Yea there was one in Yonkers that closed down over a decade ago.

@dwallain 5 лет назад

Dragon's Den was my shop when I went to Sarah Lawrence from 00-04, they were definitely barely doing comics but we could walk to it and I bought all of the Best American Comics hardcovers as they came out there. Once I got a car, I'd go to Steve Oto's shop in Scarsdale, Alternate Realities, also now closed :(

@chaddixson8398 5 лет назад

This is so dope. Made me remember Hero Illustrated. The McFarland part made me remember a VHS tape that came with Spawn 1 where he drew a character in front of an audience he promised would show up in Spawn but I don’t think she ever did. Ah the memories! :)

@lilexistentialcrisis5863 5 лет назад

This is great, really enjoyable to listen to two pros talking about this stuff, love the conversational but researched and knowledgeable style, really looking forward to future episodes! Keep up the good work!

@EtcEtcEtcFilms 5 лет назад

Love the first episode! Cant wait to be tuning in each week.

@sanhimself 5 лет назад

Awesome; really looked forward to this! Oh, and Ed? Your hands look good, man.

@mdsmithcomics 5 лет назад

I had that X-Force promo poster, as well...the one with Feral with the slick back hair. It was from a comics magazine and was like a double centerfold size.

@lcdrfish8633 5 лет назад

What about Hero magazine? Got a handful of those hanging around in a box in the garage.

@AbbyGarrett 5 лет назад

Yes!!! It's here!!! :D

@henryferkey4505 4 года назад

My cousin Julia got into the Sandman comics and she was my first knowledge of women being interested in comic books! Also, Now Comics produced a lot of good Twilight Zone comics.

@MrRoboken Год назад

I was in first grade when the first, I had a subscription wizard I bought it for my school scholastic subscription program we would have to sell magazine subscriptions

@peter-hassett 5 лет назад

great idea

@NitroModelsAndComics 4 года назад

I was 26 when Wizard came out and my peers laughed at it. I was already dealing in the northeast and doing the Boston and Attleboro shows. I got it since it was a different POV compared to CBG. I gave my entire run to my brothers brother in law and it was about 55 issues. It had a big influence on current buying trends as I recall. Of course for me it was silver age and bronze and Heavy Metal where my interests lay at the time.

@IvarConq 4 месяца назад

Brandon Graham reference 🎉 Big fan of you all ✌🏾

@mdsmithcomics 5 лет назад

You guys should check out Groo...

@Peteyparks89 5 лет назад

Dragons Den moved to poughkeepsie. It was down a few stores from the barnes and noble in this tiny weird mall. They moved to this lil store up the road from vassar college. Not the same.

@AbbyGarrett 5 лет назад

I unfortunately didn't grow up with comics. Lived in a small town. However, I eventually stumbled upon Sandman Overture and I was hooked. So I got into comics by way of Sandman, too. ;)

@erichall1 2 месяца назад

At this time, there was of course no internet and youtube so Wizard was for me the only place to find out about artists and writers and other comic stuff. Other than Wizard, the only way to find out about artists and inside type stuff was going to conventions.

@mistagreenbeanz 5 лет назад

Hey Ed! Would love to see an episode on Hip Hop influence in Comics or vice versa!

@stanlee5465 3 года назад

That was me too bud, I have doubles AT LEAST of all the Xmen 1 variant covers... Luckily I only bought 1 of the expensive glossy version with the fold out cover!

@kanto151 5 лет назад

I'm only 12 minutes in and I fucking love this idea already. Keep it up!

@CartoonistKayfabe 5 лет назад

New episodes every Monday!

@junglebean75 5 лет назад

The manicure works, there's a nice sheen to your thumbnails!

@thomas8176 5 лет назад

So many memories, I subscribed later on to get a Jim Lee Hush Figure.

@mpjedi212 4 года назад

Holy Terror is an amazing Elseworlds book. Also quite relevant.

@jrotszta 5 лет назад

I have a couple of issues of Married With Children comics and they're excellent. Great quality printing/colour too

@jrotszta 5 лет назад

I love Groo. I have almost every issue. Aragones is my fave classic cartoonist

@anthonystock1687 5 лет назад

Enigma and a few other early Vertigo titles were originally solicited for the Disney/Touchmark comics line. I think the line was cancelled before anything was published and Berger just took them on at DC.

@AcesArtie 4 года назад

I was surprised to see Disney linked to those titles. I collected all those Vertigo titles at the time and they were quite subversive adult oriented books.

@jeffhotchkiss 2 года назад

@@AcesArtie According to wikipedia, Touchmark was to be a mature audience imprint for Disney Comics, like Touchstone Pictures was Disney's mature audience film studio. When Touchmark was abandoned, they were folded into Vertigo.

@ryanjavierortega8513 3 года назад

Yup, I agree, Ed.

@justinewing7260 5 лет назад

All I could imagine while watching this was the manicurist breathing in Ed's nail dust

@jaimeking501 3 года назад

Did issue 1 come in a sealed plastic promo bag? What issue did they start coming in bags?

@petouletfly 5 лет назад

actually I think Spider-Man is flying on that trading card because at the time he had cosmic-powers ( Captain Univers' )...

@THectOrtiz 4 года назад

Where do these guys find mint copies of the magazine?

@micahholmquist9319 5 лет назад

I wonder if it is a regional thing (I am from the Midwest) and I have put together most issues of Groo from $1 and less bins.

@SegaDream131 5 лет назад

There were special editions as well, i have the spider-man, x-men, and death of superman ones.....magic words.....

@zep909 5 лет назад

nice and nerdy

@firdawesome3203 5 лет назад

I noticed that Starman #28 is listed in the price guide at $27. Anybody remember why? Doesn't seem like a significant issue at all.

@AllOfTheRestWillFlow 5 лет назад

Last Roger Stern issue maybe?

@apexcomix3200 5 лет назад

You need to wear disposable gloves when you're diving into quarter bin comics.

@AdHouseBooks 5 лет назад

Why was there a Felix the Cat on that McFarlane opening spread?

@DJCoffman 5 лет назад

He used to hide Felix inside every issue of Spider-Man, Usually in rubble or running away from an explosion...

@AdHouseBooks 5 лет назад

I "sorta" remember that. Been AGES since I read any of those things. Thanks! @@DJCoffman

@wimpyrutherford 5 лет назад

@@AdHouseBooks McFarlane tells the story of meeting a Felix the Cat fan at a signing and the guy agreed to buy every Todd issue of Spider-man if there was a Felix the Cat cameo. That's the reason.