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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 14, 2015 15:56:35 GMT -5
I'm 9 issues short of completing my Creepy magazine collection (same goes with Eerie), I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you don't have Eerie #1  In all seriousness though, nice collection (at least from what I can see here -- a full run of Fantastic Four??? Wow!), and I absolutely admire your dedication to floppies. Yes, the ads and the letter columns are irreplaceable. I wish the Archive Editions would reprint those pages. Remember when Marvel was doing those floppy reprints back in the '90s that actually reproduced every single page? That was first class archival work. Most indeed. I have Creepy 1-37 complete and most of Wrightson/Corben later, but Eerie #1 remains elusive. I used to live in a nice suburb of Paris in the 90ies, rich people, quite a few old american couples whom I used to offer my teen services to clean (up?) their attic. I managed to grab FF 1-3, 7-14, 17-28, 30-54, 69-78, 80-102 and a few others for free in one go and even got paid for helping them get rid of it, all in at least VF condition, most VF+. Greatest find though through those attic diggings was EC comics full runs, though in VG- conditions for the most. One thing that will probably make you guys cringe a little is that almost none of my comics are back boared and in plastic bags, everything is on shelves, available for reading. The only bagged ones are the damaged ones... One other cool item of my collection is a full swedish run up till 1999 of the Phantom (Lee Falks). It is the most popular comic there, bi-weekly 80 page magazine, with a lot of exclusive arcs for the local market from many british, french and american writers and artists, unpublished anywhere else to the best of my knowledge. Many really cool adventures from local artists as well. All in all, I have about 800 comics on my extended cb wantlist left. |
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Post by dupersuper on Sept 14, 2015 16:31:03 GMT -5
Superman (2nd series) 202
Superboy 28
Ray annual 1
Captain Atom 46
a few other post-Crisis Superman guest spots/cameos
a bunch of classic/Vertigo/Image trades
In general, pretty much every Superman, Star Trek and Doctor Who comic ever...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 14, 2015 16:51:12 GMT -5
I feel like a spoilsport... I'm not looking for anything anymore. I wouldn't mind finding a decently-priced copy of the earliest issues of Conan the barbarian or Master of Kung Fu, but I already read those issues and have several types of reprints for them... it would really just be a completist thing. I think my heavy collecting days ended when I completed my Savage sword run. The next things I'm really looking forward to are all reprint books: the third Walking dead compendium, the eventual second Saga hardcover, the next Burne Hogarth Tarzan hardcover ( Tarzan vs the nazis, who can resist?) and things of that nature. I'll be a spoilsport too. I do have a wish list on Amazon, but it's 75% strip reprints. The other 25% are comic reprints and a few OGNs. |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 14, 2015 19:29:48 GMT -5
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you don't have Eerie #1 In all seriousness though, nice collection (at least from what I can see here -- a full run of Fantastic Four??? Wow!), and I absolutely admire your dedication to floppies. Yes, the ads and the letter columns are irreplaceable. I wish the Archive Editions would reprint those pages. Remember when Marvel was doing those floppy reprints back in the '90s that actually reproduced every single page? That was first class archival work. Most indeed. I have Creepy 1-37 complete and most of Wrightson/Corben later, but Eerie #1 remains elusive. I used to live in a nice suburb of Paris in the 90ies, rich people, quite a few old american couples whom I used to offer my teen services to clean (up?) their attic. I managed to grab FF 1-3, 7-14, 17-28, 30-54, 69-78, 80-102 and a few others for free in one go and even got paid for helping them get rid of it, all in at least VF condition, most VF+. Greatest find though through those attic diggings was EC comics full runs, though in VG- conditions for the most. That is just amazing. Most serious old time collectors will tell you that, while bagging and boarding is the most efficient means of protecting your comics, it is not the safest. If you really know what you're doing and are careful, stacking unbagged comics right-side up, upside down, right-side up, upside down, etc etc, and keeping them in a dry place out of the sun keeps comics looking new practically forever. With bags and boards, there is always the risk of moisture, acid, or something else bad inside of the bag making the entire comic worse over time. Would love to see scans of this! |
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Post by coke & comics on Sept 14, 2015 22:30:36 GMT -5
If I ever see a decently priced copy of any of the following, I will grab them:
Night Nurse #1,4
Marvel Comics Super Special #1
Silver Surfer #4
Not holding my breath.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 15, 2015 10:31:48 GMT -5
Sept 14, 2015 22:56:35 GMT 2 Arthur Gordon Scratch said: One other cool item of my collection is a full swedish run up till 1999 of the Phantom (Lee Falks). It is the most popular comic there, bi-weekly 80 page magazine, with a lot of exclusive arcs for the local market from many british, french and american writers and artists, unpublished anywhere else to the best of my knowledge. Many really cool adventures from local artists as well. Sept 15, 2015 2:29:48 GMT 2 shaxper said: Would love to see scans of this! Well, I don't have a scanner, but internet once again proves useful Since Fantomen (the swedish name) has been published here since 1950 on a bi-monthly basis (corrected from me writing bi-weekly) plus specials, there's around 1500 issues and I think I have around 800, might start looking for some holes. By far, my fave artist on the Phantom is Hans Lindhal from Sweden, closely followed by Kari Leppänen from Finland   More from him there : illusionernasblogg.blogspot.se/2009/11/axel-von-fersen-moter-fantomen.htmlHe kind of was a perfect mix between Graham Ingels, Neal Adams, Steve Pugh and Wrightson. He really thrived in more horror orientated stories and peaked around 1987-88 IMHO. Many (including me) strongly believe him to be the best artist the Phantom ever had. A lot of his work was translated in aussie editions of the phantom, so here's an index of it : www.deepwoods.org/lindahl_index.htmlA particular fave is The Rose Of Cairo, really creepy stuff.  Kari Leppänen is probably a little cleaner in his style, but it's style quite fitting and exciting, close to Steranko and Gulacy, masters of shadows. karileppanencomics.fi/english%20phantompage.htmkarileppanencomics.fi/english%20my%20favorite%20phantom%20works.htm   The site is worth investigating as it shows some of his science fiction work, the style he was best at (Achilles Wiggen!)    The Achilles Wiggen strips were serialized in Fantomen, but I think there's an english album of that, World Of Demon or something. karileppanencomics.fi/finnish%20%20sigma%20draconis%20new.htm |
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Post by berkley on Sept 16, 2015 23:32:47 GMT -5
I never took to the Phantom much, though I remember reading the newspaper strip regularly as a kid in the 60s & early 70s, but that artwork is pretty impressive.
I'm another guy who isn't really on the hunt for anything in a serious way at this point. I'm trying to fill a few holes in series like Conan the Barbarian and ToD, but they're the hard to find, IMO over-priced issues like CtB #1 & #3 and ToD #10 (first appearance of Blade) and I'm not going to pay top-dollar for them. If I ever see what I consider a reasonably priced copy in decent shape I'll go for it but if I never do, so be it. Like RR, I have reprints of various kinds of the stories so I won't have to skip them whenever I get around to re-reading those runs.
Lately I've been looking for things of secondary importance to me, like the early Claremont X-Men, a few of the later SSoC issues that RR's thread has convinced me to try, some other series I'd never heard of before until seeing samples or descriptions here or elsewhere online, stuff like that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2015 0:32:46 GMT -5
I'm about to preorder the next couple Usagi Yojimbo Saga hardcovers.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 20, 2015 11:20:34 GMT -5
I just put a bid on a very low-grade copy of one of the books I've wanted to read for a while - Detective Comics #311. It's the first appearance of Catman and the first appearance of Zook! The cover shows Batman and Robin being attacked by Catman riding a gigantic mechanical cat!
The description says it's complete but has water damage and the cover is detached. I normally wouldn't buy something in such bad shape but this has never been reprinted and I really want to read it. I'll know if I got it in 9 hours.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 20, 2015 21:13:08 GMT -5
I just put a bid on a very low-grade copy of one of the books I've wanted to read for a while - Detective Comics #311. It's the first appearance of Catman and the first appearance of Zook! The cover shows Batman and Robin being attacked by Catman riding a gigantic mechanical cat! The description says it's complete but has water damage and the cover is detached. I normally wouldn't buy something in such bad shape but this has never been reprinted and I really want to read it. I'll know if I got it in 9 hours. I didn't get it. Somebody outbid me at the last minute. |
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Post by MDG on Sept 21, 2015 10:02:10 GMT -5
To be honest, my current wish is to get rid of a bunch of stuff.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 21, 2015 10:31:17 GMT -5
I got a low-grade Detective Comics #325 for a very good price. It's beat-up, but it's all there and in one piece.
Catman appeared three times in the early 1960s before disappearing for 12 years (resurfacing in, of all places, Freedom Fighters). He was a wealthy man-about-town who had made his fortune trapping big game but he had lost his money through gambling. So he became Catman partly because he was bored and also to get his fortune back. His three appearances in Detective Comics make up a story arc as he becomes Catman, falls in love with Batwoman, develops and exploits a mysterious "nine lives" power through his magic costume (yeah, it gets weird) and then dies in Detective #325. But is he really dead?
I've known about this storyline since I was a kid because I got the Batman Encyclopedia for Christmas in the late 1970s. I got his second appearance (Detective #318) a few years ago but I've still never read the other stories. (As far as I know, they've never been reprinted. Which is stupid!)
I'm so glad I'll be getting Detective #325 in a few days! (I'm a little sad about not getting the first Zook though. That little guy cracks me up!)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2015 15:50:48 GMT -5
The #1 thing on my wish list though is a spinner rack for my comic room or office/studio.
-M
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Post by Crimebuster on Sept 21, 2015 21:14:22 GMT -5
I need 7 issues of Usagi Yojimbo to complete the run. Five of these arrived today, and the other 2 are in the mail. Hopefully in another couple days I can finally read #122-up. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 24, 2015 23:12:50 GMT -5
My Detective Comics #325 got here today! Yay! It's a bit beat-up but it's all there and it only cost $10!
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