Comic Buyer’s Guide #725 October 9, 1987

I scoured through many issues of CBG earlier this month to find any evidence of Swamp Thing. I found some great articles and ads but what got me most excited were the comic strips featuring Swampy. This issue featured another great one…

Hawkman: terrifyingly helpful

This full-page Green Arrow ad is terrific. There’s usually a few ads in each CBG that I want to frame and hang on my wall.

Another Swampy ad, similar to the ones found in CBG #687 and CBG #713. As I mentioned in a previous post, these ads ran quite a bit in ’87.

The previously mentioned Swamp Thing comic strip makes an appearance amongst the birthdays section, right below Berni Wrightson’s b-day notice. Wrightson was born in October on the 27th in ’48.

A self-sustaining power duo in the making…