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Bill Mantlo was a prolific writer for Marvel in the late 70's/80's giving us ROM, MICRONAUTS (a testament to his skill that he wrote such wellcrafted works based on a couple of toy lines!), a run on the HULK that PAD credits as laying the groundwork for much of his subsequent run, ably following up John Byrne's early ALPHA FLIGHT work. In 1992, Mr. Mantlo was struck by a hit-and-run driver head-on while rollerblading and suffered a traumatic brain injury from which he's never recovered. BILL MANTLO: A LIFE IN COMICS is being published as a 64 page collection with in-depth looks at the breadth of Mr. Mantlo's career and commentary and interviews from many of his illustrious collaborators. All proceeds will be sent to his legal guardian (his brother, Michael Mantlo) to aid in costs of his ongoing care. No price or release date has been announced. Content and contributor specifics can be found in this news item at Newsarama.
"Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
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What a damn shame. I will pick up this book, and wish Bill and his family peace.
...but you don't have a moment where you're sitting there staring at a table full of twenty-five characters with little name signs that say, "Hi, my superpower is confusing you!"
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This can be bought from Sleeping Giant Creations directly, for $7.50+S&H($6.25). There's a PayPal account set up. My little sister's boyfriend was a passenger in a DUI accident, and suffered a traumatic brain injury. Got me thinking about Mr. Mantlo, and remembered I needed to order this.
"Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
"Anytime an awesome book like S6 is cancelled, I hope EVERY Titan is murdered." --Me
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Swashbucklers Online to Benefit Mantlo Thanks to Newsarama for the article. Very cool idea here. Smashout Comics is working with Wowio to make Bill's Swords of the Swashbucklers available as free .PDF downloads.
"Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
"Anytime an awesome book like S6 is cancelled, I hope EVERY Titan is murdered." --Me
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They are available now to. Pretty cool. Thanks Bri!
And, not to take away from Bill, but Wowio also has five or six issues of Sojourn available. I wonder how they got those.
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ROM was the first comic I ever collected! It's tragic what happened to Mantlo - let's hope the benefit helps his family with the care expenses.
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