"Future Imperfect" (96 pages)

AVENGERS 30TH ANNIVERSARY POSTER: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION (1994) INCREDIBLE HULK: FUTURE IMPERFECT HC (1992)

Avengers Poster For Sale
Thread started on: 01/06/04 at 3:57pm

Avengers 30th Anniversary poster signed by George Perez and Tom Smith (Marvel Limited, 1994)

The poster is still in the original shipping tube and has only been taken out once a year (just to show it off ).

E-mail me and we'll haggle over it, but ONLY if you are serious!!!

ollybygollly[a]yahoo.com (email)

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01/07/04 at 02:54am

It came already signed, but not numbered. The label on the tube reads "The Avengers signed limited edition poster by George Perez". I guess I should have made that clear (this is the first time I have tried to sell anything on the 'net, be gentle ). This was one of those "Marvel Limited" projects that they did in the early 90's. It came out about the same year as the HULK:FUTURE IMPERFECT hardcover, if I recall correctly (I got them both around the same time). It was signed with what apears to be a black marker. The man who got it for me ordered it from Diamond.

In fact, I don't remember if Marvel ever did any other projects under the name of "Marvel Limited". If I am wrong on this, somebody let me know of any other projects done under the "Marvel Limited" banner...for curiosity's sake.

And before anyone asks, the FUTURE IMPERFECT hardcover is NOT for sale. That baby WAS signed to me personally by Peter David. However, I'll have some other cool stuff on here in the next week or three. I needs me sum edjication munny...and I would rather try and sell it here than Ech-Bay so the REAL Perez fans will have first chance at it.

HULK SMASHES

HULK: FUTURE IMPERFECT

DC SPECIAL SERIES #27

Wizard picks its gamma-irradiated brain to bring you the 30 Hulk comics every fan must own!

(excerpt)

TOP 5 ESSENTIAL HULK STORIES
written by Todd Casey

3. FUTURE IMPERFECT #1-#2 (1993)
Hulk is the strongest one there is? Tell that to the Maestro. A tyrannical future version of the Green Goliath, Maestro took over the world after a nuclear war left Earth's mightiest heroes dead and civilization in shambles. an aging Rick Jones brings a young, untainted Hulk from the past to battle his more powerful future incarnation for the fate of the world... and his own soul.
$10 each

HULK'S 5 MOST BIZARRE MOMENTS
written by Jake Rossen

1. BATMAN VS THE INCREDIBLE HULK (DC Special Series #27) (1981)
Hulk smash puny human, etc, etc.... we know the drill.  But in this case, Batman actually lays out the Hulk!  The Joker convinces Green Genes that Batman is their common enemy, sending the Hulk on a destructive rampage. The Dark Knight laughably tries to use pressure points strikes to bring the monster down, which only leads to him getting squeezed like a roll of Charmin  by the big, green brute. Then Bats gets smart.  With the room filling with gas, the Caped Crusader lands a well-placed kick that forces Hulk to suck in air, knocking the beast unconscious.  Wayne, you are one crafty (and lucky) mutha.  $30

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George Perez's Hulk "Future Imperfect" 10 yrs later re-colored !
Posted by Tom smith on Sunday, April 06 2003 at 17:55:16 GMT

Hi guys..

In honor of the 10 year anniversary of what I always consider the greatest Hulk story ever told and my first project coloring my good pal George's work. I have now re-colored "now with the computer with all the bells and whistles" my favorite page of the series.

Would this be cool if Marvel would let me re-color the whole mini series this way? I can dream about it , although it will never happen.

Best..
Tom Smith " Hulk FI CAL!"

WHAT THE--?
Speaking With... Peter David
Sunday, February 23
By Marv Wolfman

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INCREDIBLE HULK: FUTURE IMPERFECT TP

MW: What do you consider your most successful works, and why?
PD: Comics? Well, artistically successful, I’d put The Atlantis Chronicles up there. And Future Imperfect with George Perez, and The Last Titan with Dale Keown, which was the last Hulk story. Supergirl 1-50, I was very pleased with artistically. I really wanted to reach with that series, to do something probing theology and faith and religion and the power of purity of the heart. Unfortunately too many readers just shrugged it off, but the people who really opened themselves up to it seemed to “get” it and embrace it. Financially? Beyond question, Spider-Man 2099 #1. The only book I’ve written to sell over a million copies.

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MW: When you are in charge and other writers write your characters (novelizations, tv shows, comics), what are you looking for as the editor as well as the creator?
PD: I had to do that a good deal when Bill Mumy and I were doing Space Cases for Nickelodeon. In that case, you find yourself doing something that’s equally creative and damage control. You have to deal with writers who are trying to grasp not only character nuances, but the realities of the world you’ve created. So in that case, when a writer submitted a script that had our ship, the Christa, shooting at someone, we had to completely rework the story because the ship is established as not having weapons.

MW: How do you define your relationship up front with your editor / story-editor / producer / the writers who work under you?
PD: That it’s my job to make them, and the show, look as good as possible. During Space Cases there were scripts that required my doing such massive rewrites that technically I could have put my name on them. I never did.

THE WRITER OF STUFF SAYS SOME STUFF--an interview with Peter David
written by Stipton99

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INCREDIBLE HULK: FUTURE IMPERFECT HC

INCREDIBLE HULK: FUTURE IMPERFECT If I had to recommend one Peter David Hulk comic, it’s this. The Hulk is pulled into the future to face the Maestro, his evil, twisted older self. The image of a decrepit Rick Jones in Professor Xavier’s wheelchair, surrounded by the relics of what was once the Marvel Universe, is one of the most powerful two-page spreads in Marvel history. All glory to artist George Perez.

THE LAST AVENGERS STORY
David’s “What If?” take on the fall of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Some of David’s strongest concepts and characterization can be found here, unfortunately diminished by murky, unclear art from Ariel Olivetti. If any book was dying for Perez’s pencil, this was it. Still well worth the trip.

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