Kevin Eastman Studios Order: Part 2

Dino Island #1 & Bioneers #1

Welcome back! Last week I showed off some of the great stuff I recently purchased from the Kevin Eastman Studios website. This week the reveals continue! As I mentioned before, I purchased the "Vintage Mirage Bundle". This included 15 comics from the personal collection of Kevin Eastman, which is pretty cool in itself, but the bundle also includes one signed comic from a former Mirage artist. Take a look at the books below. Did you read any of these?

Stupid Heroes #1 (1st & 2nd Printings)

Stupid Heroes #2 & Stupid Heroes #3

Plastron Cafe #2 & Plastron Cafe #3 (Includes Casey Jones TMNT story)

Plastron Cafe #4 & Prime Slime Tales #2

Eagles of the Vortex #1 & Xenotech #1

Xenotech #1 (Variant Cover) & Xenotech #3

Xenotech #2 (Autographed by Michael Dooney)

Michael Dooney is one of my all-time favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle artists. I own quite a few of his prints and he also once saved me from an accident involving some of those prints and a can of The Simpsons Duff energy drink. You can read about that by clicking HERE if you would like. Overall I am happy with the eclectic mix of books in this "Cowabundle" and I love the look back at some of the more obscure comics put out by the studio that brought us those Heroes in a Half-Shell! Now I've just got to find some time to read them all!

Monster Baseball Trading Card Set!

This set of 10 Monster Baseball Trading Cards were released by Mirage Studios in 1990. Yes, the same Mirage Studios that brought us the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! The cards were drawn by renowned artsist Gahan Wilson and the entire set is contained in this one awesome wrapper/box. If you don't know who Gahan Wilson is, you may know some of his work from the pages of Playboy, Collier's or the New York Times where he created cartoons for over 50 years. In 1993 he helped create the computer game "The Ultimate Haunted House" and he was awarded with a lifetime achievement award at the World Fantasy Awards in 2005. Wilson passed away in November of 2019 due to complications of dementia. I'm not quite sure how he and the folks at Mirage got together to create this set of cards, but I think they are pretty cool looking! The fronts feature Wilson's signature artwork and the backs contain stats and bios for each of the fictitious ballplayers. I was able to get my hands on a set as Kevin Eastman was giving away one set to each person that made an order on his site in the month of September! I took advantage of this deal and you can see what was in the set below!

Overall it's a pretty cool set. My favorite has to be the Chris Lee card, an obvious nod to actor Christopher Lee who starred in many classic horror movies like "Horror of Dracula". I also really enjoyed the aliens in the set. How can you not love a guy named "Urp Barf"? I'm glad I was able to add this bit of odd Mirage Studios merchandise to my collection...just in time for Halloween!