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Post by tingramretro on Nov 11, 2016 9:12:16 GMT -5
Best finds I ever made were the first, second, fourth and fifth issues of 2000 AD in a cardboard box of old magazines sitting outside a second hand book shop in Crystal Palace in the early 1990s. They cost me ten pence each. The first issue alone was worth £60 at the time, the second £70 (first appearance of Judge Dredd). They've risen quite a bit since then. A few years later, I went back to the same place and found an admittedly low grade copy of The Avengers #5, for which I paid...twenty pence! Its like finding buried treasure. It is. Sadly, it doesn't happen so often now as it did twenty years ago. Even charity shops have now kind of grasped the fact that old comics are 'collectable', and therefore 'valuable'. Problem is, they're still fairly clueless about what is or is not worth anything and why, as a result of which, they now try to charge ludicrous prices for ten year old junk that's not even worth cover price...
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2016 9:18:55 GMT -5
True. I went to an antiques place in Maine and they had various prices on all the books. I don't walk into an antique place to pay 7 dollars for a 2 dollar book.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 9:43:42 GMT -5
True. I went to an antiques place in Maine and they had various prices on all the books. I don't walk into an antique place to pay 7 dollars for a 2 dollar book. The last time I visited an antiques store I came across 7 silver-age Daredevils. These were obviously cared for by someone because they were bagged, boarded and started off from #20. My conservative estimate, 3 of the books looked around 6.5 and the other 3 were 7.5 - 8.5. #20 was a 7.5 The seller offered me them for about $15. They're all spares in my collection now.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2016 9:45:53 GMT -5
True. I went to an antiques place in Maine and they had various prices on all the books. I don't walk into an antique place to pay 7 dollars for a 2 dollar book. The last time I visited an antiques store I came across 7 silver-age Daredevils. These were obviously cared for by someone because they were bagged, boarded and started off from #20. My conservative estimate, 3 of the books looked around 6.5 and the other 3 were 7.5 - 8.5. #20 was a 7.5 The seller offered me them for about $15. They're all spares in my collection now. I love a score.
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 11, 2016 9:49:44 GMT -5
True. I went to an antiques place in Maine and they had various prices on all the books. I don't walk into an antique place to pay 7 dollars for a 2 dollar book. The last time I visited an antiques store I came across 7 silver-age Daredevils. These were obviously cared for by someone because they were bagged, boarded and started off from #20. My conservative estimate, 3 of the books looked around 6.5 and the other 3 were 7.5 - 8.5. #20 was a 7.5 The seller offered me them for about $15. They're all spares in my collection now. So there is still treasure out there...
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Post by The Captain on Nov 11, 2016 11:07:49 GMT -5
The little ones will crawl right into the boxes and die, sometimes inbetween covers and pages (unbagged) if the box isn't filled. I have to wipe down the bags and shake out the boxes once in while. It's like Aliens, but with dustcloths instead of space marines. "On candy stripe legs, the Spiderman comes Softly through the shadow of the evening sun Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead Looking for the victim shivering in bed" This song literally came on my Pandora stream as I was reading and liking your post. Spooky.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 11:35:53 GMT -5
So there is still treasure out there... Yes there is, with indifferent sellers. Not sure if I told the story on these over here. I got these from...of all people, Jehovah Witnesses who were having a book sale which included comics. Clearly they don't read the comics...I think Ghost Rider might have made their toes curl. I got these 2 #1s...solid VF+ and VF/NM in a deal which cost me...$5
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 20, 2016 10:39:26 GMT -5
Does anyone know the issues of Epic Illustrated Abarax and the Earthman and Galactus The Last Story are in? I only have some issues of each as I was combing through them and thinking I'd like to read them at some point.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 20, 2016 10:41:04 GMT -5
So there is still treasure out there... Yes there is, with indifferent sellers. Not sure if I told the story on these over here. I got these from...of all people, Jehovah Witnesses who were having a book sale which included comics. Clearly they don't read the comics...I think Ghost Rider might have made their toes curl. I got these 2 #1s...solid VF+ and VF/NM in a deal which cost me...$5 I know it would've my parents. I had an uphill battle convincing them comics weren't the work of the devil the whole time I lived at home because of said religion. Some dude selling his soul to the devil would not have been a good argue point for my side.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 20, 2016 10:43:35 GMT -5
Does anyone know the issues of Epic Illustrated Abarax and the Earthman and Galactus The Last Story are in? I only have some issues of each as I was combing through them and thinking I'd like to read them at some point. Abarax and the Earthman is #10-17 The Last Galactus Story is #26-34 but is never completed. And don't you dare skip out on Marada The She-Wolf, Young Cerebus, Elric of Melnibone, nor The Metamorphosis Odyssey!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 20, 2016 11:03:04 GMT -5
Does anyone know the issues of Epic Illustrated Abarax and the Earthman and Galactus The Last Story are in? I only have some issues of each as I was combing through them and thinking I'd like to read them at some point. Abarax and the Earthman is #10-17 The Last Galactus Story is #26-34 but is never completed. John Byrne on the uncompleted Galactus story: JB: "The Last Galactus Story" is pretty much dead, at this point. Too much has happened, since, as you note. Mostly, alas, writers playing off the cliché I was trying to undo - that Galactus always loses his Heralds for one reason or another. I thought it was kinda neat to show that Nova was still his Herald, billions of years in the future. For the edification of your readers, though, this is how "The Last Galactus Story" ends" Galactus battles the Watcher who showed up at the end of the last published chapter. This turns out to be the same Watcher who witnessed the "birth" of Galactus - yes, that was not Uatu - and who has been driven insane by his guilt over all the deaths that have happened because, as he sees it, he did not snuff out the nacent Galactus when he had the chance. As the two battle, over millennia, the universe basically dies around them. The stars burn out. No "Big Crunch" of everything collapsing back onto itself to be born again. Entropy wins over all. As the universe verges on flickering out of existence, Galactus draws into himself the last shreds of energy, giving him just enough of an edge to defeat the rogue Watcher. But then Galactus and Nova are alone in an empty, endless void. The universe as we know it is gone. Galactus finally understands what it's all about. What he's been doing all these billions of years. He cracks the seals on his armor, and all the energy he has absorbed spews out of him. He becomes, effectively, the Big Bang of the next universe. Nova survives - and herself becomes the "Galactus" of that universe, the cycle beginning once again.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 20, 2016 11:21:32 GMT -5
Does anyone know the issues of Epic Illustrated Abarax and the Earthman and Galactus The Last Story are in? I only have some issues of each as I was combing through them and thinking I'd like to read them at some point. Abarax and the Earthman is #10-17 The Last Galactus Story is #26-34 but is never completed. And don't you dare skip out on Marada The She-Wolf, Young Cerebus, Elric of Melnibone, nor The Metamorphosis Odyssey! Thaks shax. I have 1-13, 31, 34. The whole reason I bought the first 10, I think, was Metamorphosis Odyssey. I'm sure the following ones were just in succession. Dunno why I jumped to 31 and 34. I plan to get the whole series. Marada I really liked what I read. As well as Elric. To be honest the eventually is to get the whole series and Marada Marvel GN. It's just something reminded me of creature in Abarax, so I was paging through them yesterday and today trying to remember which story it was. All I could recall was it was in Epic. Abarax was what I was looking for. The Galactus story I had completely forgot about but now want to read.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 20, 2016 11:24:17 GMT -5
Abarax and the Earthman is #10-17 The Last Galactus Story is #26-34 but is never completed. And don't you dare skip out on Marada The She-Wolf, Young Cerebus, Elric of Melnibone, nor The Metamorphosis Odyssey! Thaks shax. I have 1-13, 31, 34. The whole reason I bought the first 10, I think, was Metamorphosis Odyssey. I'm sure the following ones were just in succession. Dunno why I jumped to 31 and 34. I plan to get the whole series. Marada I really liked what I read. As well as Elric. To be honest the eventually is to get the whole series and Marada Marvel GN. It's just something reminded me of creature in Abarax, so I was paging through them yesterday and today trying to remember which story it was. All I could recall was it was in Epic. Abarax was what I was looking for. The Galactus story I had completely forgot about but now want to read. Nearly every issue of this run is a total gem. I thoroughly agree that you should grab them all. I think the only multi-part stories I didn't utterly fall in love with were Generation Zero and (surprisingly) The Last Galactus Story.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 20, 2016 11:30:51 GMT -5
Since we're on the subject of fantasy or mostly non superhero magazines; how would you rate Rook overall? I have #8 for a story with Alfredo Alacla art but never really knew anything the series. And looking at the issue prices, lower grades are very affordable. And is the whole series B&W? (Not that it is a deterrent, just curiosity.)
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Post by shaxper on Nov 20, 2016 11:34:53 GMT -5
Since we're on the subject of fantasy or mostly non superhero magazines; how would you rate Rook overall? I have #8 for a story with Alfredo Alacla art but never really knew anything the series. And looking at the issue prices, lower grades are very affordable. And is the whole series B&W? (Not that it is a deterrent, just curiosity.) I have a lot of The Rook's early adventures in the pages of Eerie, including the first one. Honestly, I was never a huge fan. The stories were always okay, but none of it really left an impression. Never understood the appeal of Dax, either.
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