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Post by Phil Maurice on Sept 28, 2015 19:44:21 GMT -5
. . .their last ever performance, which culminated in frontman Bill Drummond pulling out a submachine gun and spraying the crowd with bullets (blanks, of course). They later dumped a dead sheep outside the aftershow party, tied in a note which read: "I died for ewe – bon appetite". I can relate. Just recently, I served a Veuve Clicquot alongside chocolate-covered bacon. The chilly reception made me pray for an assassin. Though we started in the same year, I opted for the installment plan. I should be finishing up my burn next year.  |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 28, 2015 19:49:09 GMT -5
I was going to write that I have no desire to ever do anything important with comics; I work hard to change the world during the day and escape into comics at night.
Then I remembered that I built and run this place...
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Post by Phil Maurice on Sept 28, 2015 20:18:57 GMT -5
I work hard to change the world during the day, and escape into comics at night. Stan Lee Presents: T H E M A N C AL L E D -- S H A XP E R !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2015 14:18:13 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. Should have sold it to them for a couple thousand dollars  |
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Post by dupersuper on Sept 30, 2015 0:17:37 GMT -5
But my 50 year unbroken run of every DC comic from 1960-2010 is a pretty good achievement too. That must have been...expensive. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Oct 1, 2015 20:42:49 GMT -5
The bio info for Jim Aparo on DC's Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo Volume 1 was cribbed from my entry for Aparo on wikipedia.com.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 2, 2015 16:01:51 GMT -5
The bio info for Jim Aparo on DC's Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo Volume 1 was cribbed from my entry for Aparo on wikipedia.com. Ha! I was just thinking how DC's reprint division seems a little bit on the "slack" side. |
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 2, 2015 19:42:38 GMT -5
Back in the early 2000's (?) A porno shop here was using Vampirella to sell dildos and lubricants (no really), and I wrote to Harris Comics and included the ad from the local alternative paper. it was one of their comics covers. they responded to me with a thank you and a packet of goodies including cover proofs, and color guides (remember those?). The ads for the porn store removed Vampi, and I still have most of the Harris stuff framed and on the wall of the comics room Hmm...maybe I should dob in the local menswear store that's been using the name 'Superman Clothing' and the actual Superman logo for its larger men's section for a couple of decades now. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 21:50:08 GMT -5
Back in the early 2000's (?) A porno shop here was using Vampirella to sell dildos and lubricants (no really), and I wrote to Harris Comics and included the ad from the local alternative paper. it was one of their comics covers. they responded to me with a thank you and a packet of goodies including cover proofs, and color guides (remember those?). The ads for the porn store removed Vampi, and I still have most of the Harris stuff framed and on the wall of the comics room Hmm...maybe I should dob in the local menswear store that's been using the name 'Superman Clothing' and the actual Superman logo for its larger men's section for a couple of decades now. you should! I dug around the comics room earlier looking for the package from Harris (couldn't find it, it must be under the bed in there). . but I did get a pic of one of the framed pieces they sent me:  |
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 3, 2015 0:23:56 GMT -5
Nice!
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Post by coke & comics on Oct 4, 2015 3:36:28 GMT -5
I very cleverly named my cats Selina and Kyle.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2015 9:30:01 GMT -5
I was the winner in naming a Marvel Comics letters page once. Wow--what was your winning entry? Spider-Man (1990) Todd McFarlane series. Winning entry "Crawl Space". I received a phone call from Todd McFarlane telling me I was the winner & he later sent me a nice piece of signed original artwork. DAMN, was that really 25 years ago!!?? I am getting old.  I suppose that is not a great achievement, but that is all I have. I also submitted some character designs to Marv Wolfman back in the 1980's but they were returned with a kind letter of rejection. BTW, I ENVY dcindexer's achievement, quite a collection! How many long boxes does it take to hold 50 years of EVERY Marvel Comic from 1960-2010?? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2015 9:31:16 GMT -5
I very cleverly named my cats Selina and Kyle. Awesome names! |
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Post by gothos on Oct 4, 2015 13:06:14 GMT -5
I had published irregular reviews and essays in THE COMICS JOURNAL from the late 70s to the early 90s. I'm dearly hoping that it's not the apex of my critical career, but I must admit that it got me a mention in the Wikipedia essay on the JOURNAL and some comped passes at San Diego.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, I was the first CEREBUS letter-writer who, by pure accident, caused Dave Sim to publicly expousing his early 90s religious conversion. Up to that point, it seems to me that he was kind of keeping it on the down-low-- maybe sussing out how he wanted to present it to his readers.
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Post by berkley on Oct 7, 2015 1:40:05 GMT -5
I once persuaded Marvel and DC to give up their copyrights to the Eternals and the New Gods so that any writer who felt inspired could produce his/her own continuation or re-imagination of those concepts, rather than being restricted to the demands of the respective Marvel/DC shared superhero universes and associated marketing strategies.
Wait, that never happened, did it. Damn.
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I suppose that is not a great achievement, but that is all I have. 