My local comic store told me that alot of stores didn't get the Feb/March issue due to problems with Diamond distributors. Has anyone else heard this ?

My LCS told me the same. He never received his copies of the Feb NSU.

Was there just 1 promo in this issue ?

I got mine at Barnes & Noble on Saturday. I has 3 promos (Craniacs Series 2, Ultraman Series 4, Peanuts).

It's a great issue. One of the news items notes the passing of the artist, George Webber. Ed announced the sad news a few weeks ago.

Another news item reports the auction results of some very rare test items (boxes, cards) from the Andy Yanchus collection.

The cover story on Conan is interesting. Much of it is about the set coming out by Cryptozoic. It mentions past sets too including those by Comic Images. It didn't say anything about the holochrome parallels that were one (sometimes more) per box. Those still look cool.

I liked the article about the card companies that came and went over time.

Some people are going to get that "Trilogy of Horror" set just to get the bonus fourth set of "The Thing," the 1982 remake by John Carpenter. Stephen Colbert talked about it on his show recently with John Carpenter. Like Richard Parks, it's one of Colbert's favorite movies. He even asked Carpenter if there was a way to tell if one of the two survivors is the alien. Carpenter told him there is but didn't give him a clue.

I think the issue you picked up is the April/May issue with Conan. The one that there seems to be a problem with is the Feb/March one

Oh yeah. I see. I can delete it and then you can delete your last one if you want to do that.

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
I think the issue you picked up is the April/May issue with Conan. The one that there seems to be a problem with is the Feb/March one

Yes, for the first time in decades the local comic store was unable to get the February NSU due to Diamonds problems. I had to order my 2 copies directly from NSU