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fatback · Post by **fatback** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:35 pm

Anyone here fans of this dead universe. I personally bought Perg back in the day because of the glow in the dark cover on one of the issues. The interior art though in my opinion wasn't the greatest. The story in Perg from what I recall wasn't to bad . Any other info on this dead universe would be greatly appreciated. You know maybe an issues list and maybe some of the artists or writers worked elsewhere at one time or another. Just throwing it out there as a possible interesting topic for the dead universe forum.

ibreakhorses · Post by **ibreakhorses** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:52 pm

I have a few of the books, and I thought the artwork was horrible. Its been so long since I've read them, so I can't really comment on the stories.
Maybe this website might help you.

http://www.comiccovers.net/Lightning.html

dac55 · Post by **dac55** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:11 pm

ibreakhorses wrote:I have a few of the books, and I thought the artwork was horrible. Its been so long since I've read them, so I can't really comment on the stories.
Maybe this website might help you.

http://www.comiccovers.net/Lightning.html

It a good site. And you can see some of the lightting comics are hard to get I dont even have a quater of the books. I try and pick them up ever now and again if I can get a great price on them. I would say Rocket2600 has the most clompleat collection.I think the cover art and a lot of the book art is as good as Defiant art was in most of there books.

David

childres · Post by **childres** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:31 pm

Wow, I didn't realize Lightning put out that many books.

-Joe

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:41 am

I never got into them... horrid art. I know, I should be focused on the STORY but if I want a good story and not worry about the art... I would read a book. I can appreciate underground comics and such but some of these books... didnt anyone actually LOOK at what they were producing back then ?

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:33 am

I don't know, it looks like some of the covers have some pretty good T & A on them, that would be enough for me to collect them!

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:54 am

korch · Post by **korch** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 3:05 pm

I picked up all the issues of Bloodfire and Perg. They were decent books. Bloodfire was a hot book at one time. I think it had a lot to do with the main character being the first superhero with either AIDS or HIV. I remember that the first Lady Death (by Pullido's Chaos comics) and Bloodfire came out around the same time, and the Lady Death was the book that sat on the shelves for the first few weeks. The Bloodfire shot up in price and all the collectors jumped on it. A few weeks later many collectors were wishing they had bought that first issue of Lady Death became a hot collectable for a while.

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:12 pm

Yeah big boobies can sometimes lead to a rise in prices... among other things.

dac55 · Post by **dac55** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:55 pm

Brother J wrote:I don't know, it looks like some of the covers have some pretty good T & A on them, that would be enough for me to collect them!

Now you see why some are hard to get. The covers on most of them was great , That is the Hellina covers. And I thought Purg was a good read I dident realy care much for Bloodfire.

David

fatback · Post by **fatback** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:44 pm

Thanks for the info on the website, ibreakhorses. Yeah like I said in the post above the cover art on some of these books was incredible and I too didn't realize they put out so many books.The cover of Issue #1 of Perg was so cool .I remember turning off the lights in my room and just seeing the thing glow was so cool , damn those promotional covers of the 90's get me every time.

ibreakhorses · Post by **ibreakhorses** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:15 pm

fatback wrote:Thanks for the info on the website, ibreakhorses. Yeah like I said in the post above the cover art on some of these books was incredible and I too didn't realize they put out so many books.The cover of Issue #1 of Perg was so cool .I remember turning off the lights in my room and just seeing the thing glow was so cool , damn those promotional covers of the 90's get me every time.

You're welcome. I'm glad I could be of some use.
After checking out that website, I might have to dig through my boxes and see which books I have. I didn't know they put out that many books either.

dac55 · Post by **dac55** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:20 pm

To be a dead universe its hard to find a bok under 3 bucks and thats saying a lot. And the nude cover,gold,platinum,signed books are even higher. I guess the print runs werent high. these are some of the ones I have.
Perg
01 (Glow-In-Dark Flipside)
01a Platinum Signed
02
03
04
05
06
07
07b - Blue Variant
Warparty and Dreadwolf
01 Red Foil

Hellina - Wicked Ways
01
01b Commemorative Edition

Lightning Nude Collection
01-Nude
Double Impact & Hellina
01
01a Nude
01b Gold Nude
Hellina
01

This is just some of the ones I have I dident even list Bloodfire or Judgment Day

David

fatback · Post by **fatback** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:31 pm

Hey dac, that first group of books you listed ,what was the title? The reason I ask is I have Perg 1 thru 4 .

dac55 · Post by **dac55** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:35 pm

FB it was Perg I Put it in the post. Sorry. I have a lot of others and some extras if you wont them, The extras would be most likely in Judgment Day or Blood fire. Let me know and I will look for them.

David

Second_Death · Post by **Second_Death** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:13 am

Seeing this thread reminded me that I've got a number of these books. I picked them during the time they were being published. Have several variants and signed/#'d editions I believe. As a matter of fact, the only variants that I've still got. Sold most of mine, including the Valiants, back when they were selling at ridiculous prices.

Overall quality wasn't very good. Stories were ok but the art was average at best and the writing definitely needed some refinement. A BWS or a JS could have done wonders with these characters. Of course, that could be said for anybody's characters

.

dac55 · Post by **dac55** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:50 pm

Second_Death wrote:
Overall quality wasn't very good. Stories were ok but the art was average at best and the writing definitely needed some refinement. A BWS or a JS could have done wonders with these characters. Of course, that could be said for anybody's characters .

I will Agree with this. But some of the cover were great. I like the bad girls .

Rocket2600 · Post by **Rocket2600** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:40 am

I plan on adding more scans to that Lightning Checklist real soon.

There was some great artwork by Paul Abrams and many others.

dac55 · Post by **dac55** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:33 pm

Rocket2600 wrote:I plan on adding more scans to that Lightning Checklist real soon.

There was some great artwork by Paul Abrams and many others.

Thats gerat Rocket. I go there all the time. I really like your cover scans

David

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:56 pm

These guys had to have the worst of all the ongoing companies of the nineties that lasted more than 1 month ( triumphant aside which i know goes without saying but i had to add that anyway

Truly substandard in every way.

Whats so wrong is i actually bought some and went back for more..

nEED HELP?

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:47 pm

Ok i bought some more of these for 50p.

they were bagged with COA.

nice.

Gotta be worth £10+

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:50 am

Draco wrote:Ok i bought some more of these for 50p.

they were bagged with COA.

nice.

Gotta be worth £10+

Ok i sold some of the premium bagged books for £10-15 each and Drift still keeps bringing it up and laughing and accusing me of being twisted, but one mans gold and all that.

I have since picked up a decent hit of lightning books.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Tue May 11, 2010 3:20 pm

I am drudging this old topic back up because I am thinking about doing something crazy.

Someone talk me out of putting this on my needs list.

tictuck · Post by **tictuck** » Tue May 11, 2010 6:09 pm

Can't do it man being as some of the story's look readable to me . Although I only remember reading the first 4issues of Perg back in the day. Art was pure Drek kinda like the Triumphant but storywise not to bad.

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Tue May 11, 2010 7:15 pm

Oh no, you are not dragggingggg.... mmeeeee... into.... thiiiissssaaaaaarrrrrrrrggghhhhhh.... no no NO

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