[Fett]

The two issues of Max Rep that Dally produced seem to have disappeared for all time. Does anyone know where copies of those issues are available?

[AlexG]

The two issues of Max Rep that Dally produced seem to have disappeared for all time. Does anyone know where copies of those issues are available?

Not really certain, other then setting up a permanent search /w email notification of availability for the item over on eBay – that and checking the eBay online stores for any listings, too, for it.   😎

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By the way, I'm assuming that you've already tried to contact him via his old mailing address, right?

[color=blue”>DUMBBELL PRESS
P.O. BOX 1657
NEW YORK CITY 10276-1657

http://web.archive.org/web/20011119021902/www.max-rep.com/order.htm

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Anonymous]

There were two issues?

[AlexG]

There were two issues?

It would seem so . . .  😎

(Tho, according to a personal letter I received from him back in '98, he was planning to produce a third comic book as a sort of wrapping up of the story line.)

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Some more info I found, via Google, don't know if it will be of any assistance, Fett.

(the original link to the Evolution Forum / Comic section doesn't work so I cut and pasted this from the Cached portion)

ARCHEON 05-25-2004 09:18 PM

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Max Rep

Lyman Dally was the creator of Max Rep, Astrotitan. He produced two comic books several years ago describing the origins of Max Rep. Max is a futuristic skinny guy dumped by his girlfriend for buffed dude who beats him up. In anger and frustration, Max sets out to leave town and take up residence on a space station as a kind of "dock worker." Unbeknownst to Max, he's actually a genetic lab creation whose skeletal/muscular system was experimented upon as an infant. His muscles are genetically denser and thicker than the average human being. When he gets to the space station, the artificial "gravity" controls on the ship create an environment that requires additional exertion in movement. While most humans aren't particularly impacted by this increased gravitational pull (except for being occasionally winded) Max begins to get really buff. And then, seriously buff.

Dally's artwork is superb and copyrighted. I would love to post it here — but it would be inappropriate without authorization. Perhaps he still has some of these comic books around and would be willing to sell. He published them himself under the name of Dumbbell Press after Muscular Development Magazine declined to feature his continuing comic strip. You can contact Lyman Dally at: Epidemic@ix.netcom.com.

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A review of the first comic can be found here:

http://www.popsmear.com/popculture/reviews/books/index.html

And for both issues here:

http://www.comicsutra.com/cs/stripped/strippedv2i3.htm

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Fett]

Cool. Thanks, man. I'll have to e-mail him.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone read these comics?

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