Rare Nintendo Comics -- Oh Boy

[Brasel]

So I was going through some of my old NES instruction manuals and found a comic book from when I was a kid.

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Bros-Meet-Koopa/dp/0307218716

Then I remembered, I have two other really cool Nintendo comics.

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Adventures-Official-Nintendo/dp/B0006QBMK0/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364874712&sr=1-1&keywords=super+mario+adventures

and

http://www.amazon.com/legend-Zelda-link-past/dp/B0006QBMJ6/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364874729&sr=1-3&keywords=legend+of+zelda+a+link+to+the+past+comic

Pics? Okay!

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So...anyone want to part with some money?

[erm2003]

Ah the classic NP comics! I know I have the full Zelda one somewhere. Probably in one of my several bins full of crap I have in the basement. Hopefully it's there. There is a chance it was still at my parents house and I think they threw out a ton of my old crap when they moved 13 years ago. I remember reading most of the Mario one too when a friend of mine had a NP subscription. I think I got mine after both comics made their run. Remember they did a Metroid one too. I think it was a shorter run than the previous two, but I remember that being the primary comic they were running when I started to get NP myself.

[MasterSwordUltima]

That outfit Link is wearing is just begging to be cosplayed. :)

[King Aquamentus]

I remember shopping some of the comics by Valiant based on the first two Zeldas. I still have some of the images for them online for teh lulz. not terribly safe-for-work.

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/167469_10200167904498854_1819874034_n.jpg

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/14581_10200167909298974_1323785244_n.jpg

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/20710_10200167918979216_1065055820_n.jpg

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/316687_10200168184145845_860929153_n.jpg

[Nicholas Steel]

bleh, nevermind.

[mrz84]

I've still got my copy of the Mario Adventures comic, while my younger brother DO has the Legend of Zelda LttP comic. Both still in great condition and a good read to this day. I think I still have some of the Valiant Mario/Zelda comics. If not, I remember encoutnereing them in a dollar store back in the late 90s and they were pretty good buys.

[Brasel]

I'm pretty positive they probably aren't moving at the prices listed. I couldn't imagine that they are. I may try to sell them anyway.

I used to have the old Valiant Zelda comic books, but I read the hell out of them and they were completely trashed. Even if I could find them, they wouldn't be worth anything anymore. I still have the map insert, and it's all yellowed and torn. It actually looks like an old map, so I'm gonna frame it.

[vegeta1215]

I was lucky to get a copy of the bound LTTP comic book like the original poster listed. I got it on eBay many years after it was first released. I don't know why I didn't buy it when it first came out - maybe because I had all the NP issues with the comics, and I thought I'd never part with them, but I eventually did. My LTTP comic is dog-eared on one corner, but I don't care.

I also have several of the Mario and Captain N comics by Valiant, but my favorite are the Zelda comics, which I have the entire set of. Plus I have the two big bound Nintendo Comic System Valiant comics that had many comics in them (they did a few Metroid and Punch Out strips in there). The Zelda comics go along with the cartoon so well, which I was also a big fan of. I only wish they made more of them.

[King Aquamentus]

I had issue 3 of both the Captain N and Legend of Zelda comics by Valiant, both of which contained two main stories.

For Captain N, part 1 was about how Mother brain accidentally got infected with some viral substance intended for everyone else, so now everyone has to work together to save both sides. Part 2 was about Captain N and his dog getting their brains switched (that was pretty funny actually). As for Zelda, part 1 was about Link invading Level 9 and finding the Triforce of Power, but it turns him insane and he gains a bloodlust for Ganon (I'm not kidding.) in part 2, Zelda figures out why it's turning Link evil and tries to save him.

[Brasel]

That Zelda comic you're talking about was bad ass. I had it growing up, but it's long gone. I thought the comics were way better at telling a story than the cartoon was.

[King Aquamentus]

It definitely was, but they shared so much that it's easy to just see the comic as a print version of the cartoon to a lot of people. That is a shame.