Jim Rugg was spot on in selecting 1986 as THE year in which comics underwent a seismic shift.  1986 is an 80-Page Giant-Size black & white magazine that provides a broad and thorough  –  also idiosyncratic, iconoclastic and eccentric – cross-section of this year in the form of, mostly, paratextual selections and excerpts from the print comics universe, such as comics advertisements, reviews and articles largely sourced from fan and news magazines such as The Comics Journal, Comics Interview, Amazing Heroes and others, as well as odds and ends from some of the more obscure corners of the comics spectrum. 

This magazine can make for some fun reading for comics collectors, fans, historians and obsessives – but the subset of obsessive collectors should BEWARE, as too much time spent with this fine publication could lead to a compulsive desire to track down and procure the original sources of everything herein on display. You have been warned.

GONE!