Thursday, December 31, 2020

COLEY, Wild In The Street, Pt. 2

(Continued from COLEY, Wild In The Street)

The 2nd self-published Coley book by John Blackburn was a collection of short stories that apparently all took place sometime after his 6 weeks on Voodoo Island.

As I stressed with the 1st book, I don't own this work, and I'm cleaning up and coloring these stories purely FOR FUN.  But if circumstances present themselves where I am able to re-publish this work at some time, the FIRST thing I'd do would be to contact Blackburn's estate, find whoever it is that owns the Copyrights, and strike a deal to SPLIT any potential profits from such an undertaking.

In the meantime... ENJOY!

By the way, I finally finished cleaning up & coloring this story on 2-27-2022.

COLEY, WILD IN THE STREET
cover by JOHN BLACKBURN (John Blackburn / 1989)
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"COLEY ON THE EDGE:  ROLLER BOOGIE HOTROD"

Story & Art by JOHN BLACKBURN
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"ROLLER BOOGIE HOTROD" is supposed to have been the 2nd Coley story published.  While John Blackburn self-published "COLEY: WILD IN THE STREETS" in 1989, the story also appeared in MEATMEN Volume 14  (Leyland Publications  /  December 1992).  The art was reproduced slightly smaller in this (at regular "comic-book size"), but there were also minor differences.  After all these years, I just noticed that Coley was not wearing the medallion around his neck as seen in "...STREETS", and, the dialogue in the final panel was completely different.  I suspect this was a reprint of the original version of the art, but if it was published by itself before "...STREETS", I have yet to find any information confirming it.

As you can see here, the story was originally intended as a stand-alone, while in the version collected in "...STREETS", Jessica decides she wants to "get" Coley.  This has unfortunate consequences in the stories that follow.

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Copyright
(C) 1989 JOHN BLACKBURN.
New COLOR Copyright (C) 2022 HENRY R. KUJAWA.

Scans from MY collection!

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.

For more:
Read about John Blackburn at the Prism Comics site.
Read about "Coley Running Wild" at the Graphic Novels Info site.
See my detailed indexes of these books at the GCD site.
See my COLEY overview at this very blog!
Read GreyIrish' review of "Dagger Of Blood" at the
     Deep Cuts In A Lovecraftian Vein blog.

Read COLEY ON VOODOO ISLAND in COLOR!
Read COLEY: WILD IN THE STREET in COLOR!

(Continued in COLEY: Wild In The Street, Pt. 3)

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