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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 6, 2019 18:39:40 GMT -5
I just FLEW back from Europe and boy are my arms tired! Get it right!
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Crimebuster
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 6, 2019 18:50:57 GMT -5
I think they may have been a little pricey, but since they were souvenirs, I didn't really care. I paid 32 euro for the pair, or about $37. I probably should have just gotten the 15 (our #16), but whatever. It was the only key they had in the store - the German versions for #1, 4, 57, 93, and 100 were all missing from the run. I maybe should have bought their version of #8, as I love Kang, but I'm happy with what I got.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 6, 2019 22:21:09 GMT -5
Purchased a bunch of Marvel Preview issues including a number 7, first Satana. High grade and beautiful!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 13:17:42 GMT -5
Ollie's got another shipment of trades in, and I made an Ollie's run this morning. Picked up 22 new trades and hardcovers for just over $100. 21 DC and 1 Marvel.
The Marvel book was the Complete Deathlok collecting the Astonishing Tales run and other Bronze Age appearances.
The DC stuff included a mix of classic and modern: Daring New Adventures of Supergirl Vol. 1 Birds of Prey Vol. 1 JLA Year One Deluxe HC 3 volumes of the early 2000s Superman/Batman series 2 volumes of Lemire's Green Arrow and one other GA collection 3 volumes of various Catwoman trades a Batman Rebirth volume a volume of Black Canary and various other volumes that caught my eye.
I had about 10 more in my maybe pile, but was trying to keep my total under $100 or thereabouts. I went just a little over after sales tax.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 18:24:23 GMT -5
Alright, here's the pic of what I got on the Ollie's run... -M
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Post by The Captain on Jan 8, 2019 11:49:38 GMT -5
Ollie's got another shipment of trades in, and I made an Ollie's run this morning. Picked up 22 new trades and hardcovers for just over $100. 21 DC and 1 Marvel. The Marvel book was the Complete Deathlok collecting the Astonishing Tales run and other Bronze Age appearances. The DC stuff included a mix of classic and modern: Daring New Adventures of Supergirl Vol. 1 Birds of Prey Vol. 1 JLA Year One Deluxe HC 3 volumes of the early 2000s Superman/Batman series 2 volumes of Lemire's Green Arrow and one other GA collection 3 volumes of various Catwoman trades a Batman Rebirth volume a volume of Black Canary and various other volumes that caught my eye. I had about 10 more in my maybe pile, but was trying to keep my total under $100 or thereabouts. I went just a little over after sales tax. -M Well, I know where I'm going tonight...
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Post by chadwilliam on Jan 8, 2019 12:12:06 GMT -5
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane 71 (January, 1967) Not a title I would normally pick up, but since a local store was selling this (albeit pretty beat up) for just a few dollars, I thought 'Why not?" My problem with the title can probably best be summed up with the Editor's response to a missive from regular letter writer Irene Vartanoff in which she writes, "As for 'Lois Lane's Last Chance,' this story was certainly calculated to win the sympathy of the reader, but I do get a wee bit tired of this constant effort to teach Lois a lesson." Editor's reply "What's wrong with teaching her lessons if they do her some good? And, after all, Lois wound up the winner, with a handsome admirer who's so loaded his library is filled with nothing but bankbooks." It's not the first time that a letter has been published in which the writer suggests toning down Lois's stupidity or uselessness and the editor responds with something like, "How stupid can Lois be if she's clever enough to get men to solve her problems for her?" But, yeah, so sexist and demeaning to women that even children growing up in an era in which women were little more than pets are asking the writers to tone it down. Children! Anyhoo… "Hush money, Sweet Lois -- Or Else!"
This actually isn't a bad story, but it's conclusion is crazy even for the Silver Age. Lois has been hawking her goods when the savings she's withdrawn from her account and advance she's gotten from Perry White on her vacation pay dries up. Superman knows this and correctly surmises that she's being blackmailed. But for what? Most of the story focuses on Clark Kent's attempts to track down Lois' dark secret by heading to her home town of Pittsdale. He spends time with her parents, her school teacher, the police chief and evidence points to Lois having led a sterling, scandal free life since childhood. When her name does pop up here and there, it's always in connection with some magnanimous deed she performed as a kid "Lost Wallet With $5,000 Cash Returned by Lois Lane", "Miss Lane Wins 'Ideal Girl' Contest", "Lois Lane Awarded Girl Scout Honors!", are a few of the headlines Clark comes across during his snooping (although now that I think about it, since these articles appear in a scrapbook he finds in Lois' room and since Lois is a reporter, who's to say she didn't just write them herself?). As this transpires, we cut to Lois' thoughts and despite what Clark's being lead to believe over in Pittsdale, it's clear that Lois is harbouring some dark secret as her blackmailer presents her with an admission and an ultimatum. He's actually a handsome, rich guy named Roger (at least that's what he claims his name to be) who's longed for Lois from afar for years. Marry him and he'll destroy the film with which he's been blackmailing Lois. Man, just what is her secret? Well, you see, it's this - Lois hasn't done anything wrong. Superman, however, has and it's pretty messed up. Roger has footage of Superman destroying a strange device which appeared over the South Pacific years ago during Naval maneuvers. Neglecting to check the area around him for passing ships, Superman remained blissfully unaware that fallout from the device landed on a passenger ship below him where "the entire crew of forty sailors died a horrible death". Surely the footage has been tampered with or there's some sort of explanation exonerating Superman of causing the agonizing deaths of 40 people? Well... no, not really. After learning that the whole time he was trying to discover what Lois' dark secret was, Lois was actually protecting his, Superman explains "It's true that I accidentally caused that deadly fall-out to rain down on a ship, killing the crew! But a telescopic lens caught another aspect of the story... the first things to disintegrate were the crew's human masks! They were all aliens from another world! As I learned later, they were condemned criminals in their solar system! They'd been tried and convicted of destroying a whole inhabited planet! In fact, their home world gave me an honorary citizenship in gratitude for having 'executed' them!" So rather than "It isn't how it looks, Lois!" we get "It's exactly how it looks, Lois! I did kill those people, but it's OK because it later turned out they were criminal aliens!" It's a very strange and somewhat unsettling resolution to this story what with Superman's smiling features narrating an account of having killed a bunch of people which doesn't alter the fact that his negligence caused him to break his oath against killing forty times. Sure they turned out to be evil aliens, but it's not like Superman knew that at the time. Besides, when does Superman kill at all? This reminds me of Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun. "And congratulations to Lt. Frank Drebbin for his one-thousandth drug dealer killed!" "Ah actually, in all honesty, the last three I accidentally backed over with my car. But thankfully, they turned out to be drug dealers." The first story in this issue is actually of some historical significance as it's the second part of the Lois Lane tale which introduced Catwoman into the Silver Age. "Bad Luck for a Black Super-Cat!" feels more like the final few pages of a much longer story than it does half of a complete yarn, but it's still fun seeing Kurt Schaffenberger's Catwoman for as briefly as it's on the page. The New Look era of Batman ran for only about five years before Irv Novick came along and started to darken things up so despite this being an important era for Batman, there isn't a lot of that Pop Art style going around in the pages of his own title. Most of the artwork done on these characters would have been by Shelly Moldoff, Carmine Infantino, or Curt Swan over at World's Finest, so seeing a sort of alternate look for Catwoman is sort of neat. Oh and Superman gets turned into a cat but it's OK because Lana Lang has a magic cat's paw to reverse the transformation.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 9, 2019 17:39:38 GMT -5
Thanks to the tip from our esteemed @mrp , I visited not one but two Ollie's in my area in the past 24 hours, and I came away with the following:
* Marvel Masterworks: Invincible Iron Man, v1 (HC) - reprints ToS #39-50. Still factory-sealed. $10. * Deathlok the Demolisher Complete Collection * Guardians of the Galaxy (the Abnett/Lanning run) Complete Collection v2 (which seems kind of odd that a "Complete Collection" would have more than one volume, but hey, it was cheap. * Three Green Arrow New52 volumes. Unfortunately, they did not have volume 3 (I got 1, 2, and 4), so I'll have to hunt down the missing one to be able to read the story consecutively. * Two Birds of Prey volumes. These are early Chuck Dixon stories, pre-regular series and the first 11 issues of the regular series. * One Spectre volume from the Ostrander/Mandrake series. 12 issues of stories for $4? Yes please.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 12, 2019 12:09:42 GMT -5
So 2018 ended with a bang in terms of collecting for me. A family friend revealed he had about 1000 comics from the 70s he was gonna throw away. Well I told him no and to at least let me take a look. I offered to help him sell the stuff if there was value. He offered a figure fifty split but I said I would rather keep some comics as payment. He liked that idea knowing some of his collection would be kept by another fan. I’m still selling his stuff but so far here are some of the more interesting pieces I have held on to. I also kept a smattering of GI Combat stuff, Jonah Hex, Red Sonja, Warlord and other oddball 70s marvel titles. These magazines are in amazing shape. He had a star-lord run too which I sold. Told him I’d like these and he was happy because he didn’t think there was any value to these magazines. I told him now I love Satana and need to find more appearances! And I also completed my Ms. marvel run with these two he had plus added the Marvel Premiere 47 which I have never read.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 12, 2019 12:18:41 GMT -5
pinkfloydsound17, that's a pretty sweet deal you worked out with that individual on those books, especially since you are getting to keep some key issues there. I would love to get my hands on those Marvel Previews with Satana and Morbuis/Blade. More importantly, you saved these from going to the landfill. Just remember, kids: Friends don't let friends, or enemies, or complete strangers, throw away comics.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 12, 2019 12:41:23 GMT -5
pinkfloydsound17, that's a pretty sweet deal you worked out with that individual on those books, especially since you are getting to keep some key issues there. I would love to get my hands on those Marvel Previews with Satana and Morbuis/Blade. More importantly, you saved these from going to the landfill. Just remember, kids: Friends don't let friends, or enemies, or complete strangers, throw away comics. Yes thankfully these and many more were saved. I sold several other key comics for him (Star Lords first appearance and some other mags that featured him, a first appearance of Havok in X-Men, a first Black Adam from the seventies, some key Gold Key Disney stuff and older Green Lantern and Ghist Rider books). He had a lot of stuff outside the mainstream heroes which I love. Red Sonja for example plus random charlton issues featuring some Ditko art which I also held onto because I love Ditko.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 12, 2019 13:53:09 GMT -5
Here it is, the big moment! Drumroll please... After over 10 years, I finally completed my run of Boy Comics! I now have all 117 issues, #3-119! This was the last issue I needed. Copies of this aren't so easy to get, as many collectors who collect war covers and Hitler covers keep a hold of their copies with an iron grip. This copy, like most copies of this issue, is missing the centerfold, which was a pull-out board game. This is the only copy I've seen on ebay for the last year or so, and when it finally dropped in price low enough to be in my range, I grabbed it. Hurray!!!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 12, 2019 15:03:35 GMT -5
That must feel real good. Congrats, CB!
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Post by The Captain on Jan 12, 2019 15:06:06 GMT -5
Crimebuster, congrats on the accomplishment! It's such a great feeling when you get one of those "Holy Grail" items off the checklist, being it a single issue or finishing a run. I'm betting you feel like I did when I completed my Captain American run (although yours is SO much more difficult, since these books are a lot older and, as you mentioned, difficult to find for a variety of reasons, whereas mine was just a question of money and finding the books in the condition I wanted). Happy to see you get this done, my friend!
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 12, 2019 16:08:43 GMT -5
Boy oh boy. I wonder if you could get a color copy or print-out somehow of the center game pages? Sounds like a very historic game.
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