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Post by dcindexer on Aug 5, 2016 23:11:07 GMT -5
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Post by dcindexer on Jul 29, 2016 18:42:19 GMT -5
1st Lois tryout - I'm closing in on a complete run of Showcase 1st Peter Porkchops
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Post by dcindexer on Jun 21, 2016 14:00:35 GMT -5
Just picked up New Comics #9. (Bought it a couple weeks ago but it just now arrived.) A little history on this one... New Comics was the 2nd title launched by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1935. The 1st was New Fun. It featured pre-Superman work by Siegel & Shuster on a feature called Federal Men. This issue has some cool giant robots. Beginning on the cover of #12 the title was changed to New Adventure Comics. This title change would not be reflected officially in the indicia until #15. In early 1938, Nicholson was forced into bankruptcy and New Adventure Comics was taken over by his partners Donenfield and Liebowitz at Detective Comics Inc. With #32, the word New was dropped from the title. The series became Adventure Comics which in the late 1950s became the longest running US comic publication. A title which it held for 25 years. It was cancelled in the early 1980s with issue 490, but was revived briefly as a digest to complete its run of 503 issues. Over the course of its history Adventure Comics introduced Sandman (#40), Hourman (#48), Starman (#61), and the Shining Knight (#66). With issue #103 Superboy became the long-running headliner of the title. His feature introduced many mainstays of the DCU such as Krypto (#210) and the Legion (#247). Adventure Comics is/was an important part of DC's past. And this is #9. Woo Hoo!
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Post by dcindexer on Jun 4, 2016 1:52:36 GMT -5
It's hard to say what is my favorite... Maybe it's my Pre-Hero More Funs... Maybe it's my early Action Comics... It might be some of my assorted Golden Age classics... Or one of those Silver Age keys... It's really hard to pick just one out of almost 55,000 books. Maybe even this one... Ok. Probably NOT that one...
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Post by dcindexer on Jun 1, 2016 0:55:59 GMT -5
More Fun #7 (January 1936)
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Post by dcindexer on May 28, 2016 16:13:23 GMT -5
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Post by dcindexer on May 1, 2016 16:06:36 GMT -5
A couple of recent golden oldies...
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Post by dcindexer on Jan 21, 2016 23:59:32 GMT -5
One word... Mopee
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Post by dcindexer on Jan 2, 2016 20:21:06 GMT -5
Just got a trio of 1950s Batman books including this one. 2015: My Collection year-in-review I only added 56 books to the collection this year which is my smallest haul ever. But I did buy a house which limited my spending. Highlights: I got the last 1960s DC book I needed which completed my run of every DC comic from 1960-2010. Continued my focus on 1930s DC titles (7 new issues) including Action Comics #16 (my earliest Superman app.) and More Fun #7 and 8 (the oldest and rarest DC books that I now own). Got two Adam Strange books and one Sgt. Rock book giving me every appearance of both those characters. Completed just two runs: Falling in Love and Three Mouseketeers Still need 2417 books to complete my DC collection. Books I got this year: Action Comics #16,28,143 Adventure Comics #225 All-American Comics #13,71 All-American Men of War #70 All Funny Comics #23 All-Star Comics #22,31 All-Star Western #104 Batman #95,97,113 Buzzy #62 Comic Cavalcade #36 Falling in Love #41 (Series Complete) Fox and the Crow #7 Funny Folks #16 Gang Busters #18,30 G.I. Combat #62 Girls' Love Stories #1 Girls' Romances #8 Jimmy Wakely #6 Leading Comics #10 Leave It to Binky #19,22,31,42 Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood #4 More Fun Comics #7,8,21,25,30,34,114,126 Mutt and Jeff #19 Mystery in Space #32, 53 (1st. Adam Strange) Nutsy Squirrel #65 Our Army at War #83 (3rd Sgt. Rock) Our Fighting Forces #30 Real Screen Comics #56 Showcase #19 (Adam Strange) Star Spangled Comics #99,100 Strange Adventures #7 Superboy #28,41 Superman #101 Three Mouseketeers #1 (Series Complete) Tomahawk #63 World's Finest Comics #60
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Post by dcindexer on Dec 1, 2015 23:48:39 GMT -5
50 years ago this month - I've got all the DC books published in Dec 1965 50 years ago this year - Still got all the DC books published in 1965 50 years ago this decade - Yep. Still got all the DC books published in the 1960s. Of course I wasn't even born until 1973, so obviously I didn't buy them new off the newsstand.
I could do the same for the 40, 30, 20, and 10 years ago threads, but I won't.
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Post by dcindexer on Nov 28, 2015 18:50:42 GMT -5
Picked up another 1938 DC book.
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Post by dcindexer on Oct 18, 2015 1:46:46 GMT -5
Picked up another 1930s DC today.
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Post by dcindexer on Oct 16, 2015 20:25:35 GMT -5
Oh, cool, that's awesome. It only lists paperback originals though, correct? Like there's nothing for the 1979 America At War: The Best of DC War Comics, because it was originally released in hardcover? The list does include both hardcover and softcover editions. However, the Fireside stuff wasn't released by DC directly so those are not included in that list. The same thing applies to the Crown/Harmony releases like Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies or the 1972 Holt Wonder Woman book. If you want those included in the search: Go here. Then enter: HC in the number field and click "Search", it will list all the hardcover editions which can then be sorted by release date. You can do the same thing for softcovers and trades by entering SC or TPB in the number field.
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Post by dcindexer on Oct 16, 2015 18:01:18 GMT -5
Also can anyone point me to a chronological list of Marvel and DC Trade Paperbacks/Hardcovers? I believe the Fireside books were first, but I was wondering what came after those. Actually the first two DC Collected Editions were Picture Stories From the Bible from 1943 and 1945You can get a list of DC and Marvel Collections here. The list can be sorted by release date.
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Post by dcindexer on Sept 28, 2015 18:41:27 GMT -5
The Warlord minicomic that came with a recalled toy in the early 80's. I remember on the CGC boards there was one known copy and they were acting like it was worth tens of thousands of dollars, but nobody knew for sure because the guy that owned it wasn't going to sell it. I was always sure more than one survived somewhere. Then eventually another member who had been buying every one of those action figures he saw just in hopes of finding the comic found one, still in the package. So it was big news on the forum. Then a year or so later on Reddit a guy posted the same comic and asked if it was worth anything, I thought it was a troll. All the responses were "Nope, maybe a dollar or two" So I pointed him to the CGC board and the threads in question. Told him don't take less than $700 for it at least. He said he got a dozen offers in PM his first day. Pretty sure he sold it now, no clue what he got for it. The Warlord mini-comic is not as rare as the CGC boards think it is. I have 3 copies of it (still packaged with my Warlord, Hercules, and Arak figures). I run across others from time to time. I think I paid $10 total for all three figures in package. This particular book is much easier to find in toy shows/markets than in comic markets because it was packaged with toys. The last one I saw was from a year or two back and it sold for less than $5. When I told the CGC board guy I had them and even posted a pic, some people didn't believe me, probably because I wouldn't sell them. They kept telling me it didn't exist. I seem to recall that the original guy later found one and claimed it was his discovery. What I've seen happen more than once on those boards is that someone makes an anecdotal claim that they can't find a book. Suddenly it become rare and every copy gets jacked up in price. The same thing happened with Buzzy #70. I had seen many copies of that one go for a couple of bucks before the supposed rarity claim. Now it goes for hundreds. Yet it is actually no rarer (IMO) than any of the issues around it. The demand is just higher now because people think its rare. Most of the people buying it aren't even interested in Buzzy. They just want something "rare" or think they can extort money for it from one of the 3 people on Earth who care about Buzzy. I don't know why anecdotal claims of rarity seem to drive up prices. I don't put faith in those claims, but i guess enough people do that it affects the price. Apparently CGC Boards = Wizard Magazine.
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