KISS - A MARVEL SUPER SPECIAL!

Collecting is an addiction. It seeps into your blood and quietly stirs. It keeps you up at night, takes most of your time and energy, and rapes you of all currency. There has never been a sweeter disease. After lucking into adding the 1st Marvel KISS comic book to my collection and learning the a 2nd issue was also issued the MARVEL SUPER SPECIAL KISS was gladly added to the top of my list of must have collectibles.
Most fans would more than likely consider the 2nd comic a second rate follow up to the original. In my sick and twisted way…I kind of like the 2nd issue more. I love how slick the pictures are, the front cover is absolutely mesmerizing, and a killer back cover ad for the KISS solo albums doesn’t hurt matters at all.
Sure the story is extremely cheesy and a tad lame at parts but it reminds me of those really bad STAR TREKS you use to watch on TV when it was raining outside on Sunday afternoons. Cheesy? Yes. But you cannot look away.
I miss the wrap around cover from the 1st issue and the fact that Dr. Doom was in the 1st issue will clearly make the 1st comic a classic but Issue #2 wreaks of that good ol’ fashioned 1978 PHANTOM OF THE PARK fun I look for in KISS merchandise.
To this day I still have never run across an issue with an intact “Bonus! – Full Color, Four Page, Pull-Out KISS POSTER!” as the front cover advertises but I’m sure some day I will. Damn addiction…no matter how you try, you just can’t shake it.