If you collected comics in July of 1994, you remember exactly where you were when "Splatt Mania" took over the industry.
Following the jaw-dropping $137,000 sale of a Stephen Platt Prophet promotional image at Heritage Auctions, I wanted to take a nostalgic trip down the "Road to Insanity." In this video, we dig into the full glory of Wizard Magazine #35 and the infamous "Extreme Wizard Prophet Contest"—where fans were tasked with trying to count every single flying shell casing exploding out of Platt's hyper-detailed, maximalist splash pages.
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0:00 1994 Comic Hysteria & The Rise of Stephen Platt
0:34 Moon Knight #55: The Birth of "Splatt Mania"
1:06 Rob Liefeld, Image Comics, and Prophet
1:23 Wizard #35: "The Road to Insanity" Contest
1:53 The $137,000 Heritage Auction Connection
2:10 Can You Actually Count the Shell Casings?
2:38 The 2013 Cover Sale vs. Modern Market Insanity