Glancing over the new comic releases for this week, I see that Ambush Bug is getting the Showcase treatment, with all the major appearances from his heyday collected in one black-and-white, phone book-sized chunk. I was curious as to exactly which issues were included, and which ones I’m missing, when I realized that I own every one. I even have a few items that probably weren’t worth collecting like the roleplaying game supplement and Ambush Bug’s cameo in Crisis on Infinite Earths, despite his protestations that he never appeared in that event. I still haven’t found the pinball game, though.

This is a real surprise to me considering that I’m notorious among my friends for almost never collecting a complete run of anything, especially without realizing it.

Image from issue 2 of the first Ambush Bug mini-series by Keith Giffen and Bob Oksner. Note the penciled grid, the result of using this image for a school art project.