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Post by MDG on Dec 13, 2018 15:55:56 GMT -5
I had eight or so, but gave most to a friend who was looking to get as full a run as possible. My oldest was this one:
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 14, 2018 13:31:56 GMT -5
I have Overstreet #4 (JSA), #5 (Tarzan), #6 (Spirit) and #7 (Porky Pig), and one or two from a decade or so later - the covers of #18, #20 and #21 look familiar.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 15, 2018 8:52:20 GMT -5
I bought on in the mid 90s before I know COmics.org existed so I'd have a good list of things... the articles and stuff were interesting, but nothing I'd be likely to pay full price for.
I think I bought a 2nd one like 5-7 years later in a dollar bin on a whim, not sure what happened to that though
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 15, 2018 17:29:02 GMT -5
I'm not sure, but I think this may be the first Overstreet I bought.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 15, 2018 21:14:42 GMT -5
I had eight or so, but gave most to a friend who was looking to get as full a run as possible. My oldest was this one: This was my first Price Guide, an early graduation gift from one of my best friends. I read it and reread it until the binding disintegrated.
Cei-U! I summon the summer obsession!
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Post by shaxper on Dec 15, 2018 21:25:02 GMT -5
This was my first. It was already two years old when I bought it in 2001 at a significant discount. These things were expensive for a college student! Anyway, I can completely relate to Kurt's comment about rereading it to the point that the binding wore down. I remember there being a relatively thorough index of first appearances towards the back that I found quite fun. In the early days of the world wide web, a resource like that was still utterly unique. I only bought one more issue after that. In the age of the internet, ebay could give me more reliable values, and CBR (followed by CCF) could give me more regular supplementary reading material, but man did I love that volume for a good long while before it became obsolete.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2018 2:23:42 GMT -5
Mine was the May 1990 and I had this for 10 years until someone want it for his collection of these Guides Featured the Justice League of America.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 16, 2018 3:00:12 GMT -5
The first Overstreet Guide I got was this one... -M Me too, I devoured that sucker like a .... um ... devoury thing.
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Post by rberman on Dec 16, 2018 9:30:03 GMT -5
I never used the Overstreet Guide, but I pored over the Mile High Comics ads and saved my pennies to send off for back issues; I remember getting X-Men #137 that way, for instance. It's fascinating to think how these products provided the metrics for the perceived value of comic books that partly fueled the speculative madness of the 1990s bubble.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 16, 2018 14:13:19 GMT -5
Oy! So much Thor! I finished Marvel Masterworks: Thor, Volume Five, (Thor #131 to #140), I'm still reading Essential Thor, Volume Five, (Thor #196 to #220) and I'm also reading a TPB for a recent Thor storyline where Jane Foster is Thor. (I like it a lot! I'll be posting about it in the modern comics thread soon.) The Marvel Masterworks volume starts out so strong! The Colonizers of Rigel, the Black Galaxy, Ego the Living Planet! And it keeps going! The High Evolutionary! The Knights of Wundagore! The Man-Beast! And then Jane Foster is unable to pass the test for godhood … and Sif is introduced! And then … the trolls, including the introduction of Ulik! And then, this volume ends with a strange little Kang tale with the Growing Man. When I was done with the main stories, I went back and read the Tales of Asgard backups. They are so much fun. If it wasn't for that iconic first appearance of Ego, I would say the most memorable image from Thor #131 to #140 is the epic conflict between Fafnir and Volstagg.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 17, 2018 0:03:00 GMT -5
If it wasn't for that iconic first appearance of Ego, I would say the most memorable image from Thor #131 to #140 is the epic conflict between Fafnir and Volstagg. Lo, it doth pain me to see the eagle of Asgard, the vast one, subjected to such voluminous verbiage! Verily, Fafnir's balloons doth run over. Volstagg is unable to get a word in edgewise! I look at something like that and feel sad all over again however, knowing Jack Kirby (and Stan Lee) will not be making such comics ever again. We were lucky to get Walt Simonson though! I hope he got to do all he wanted, or maybe hope he didn't and will yet do more?
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 18, 2018 23:52:59 GMT -5
I think I just won a lot of Amazing Adventures with War Of the Worlds/Killraven. I sure hope I did but sometimes when the price is low I never get them or they cancel on me. I remember winning various one cent CDs in the past and never got any except one from Marie's CDs when I was buying something else with it. The postage is more than the twenty comics. We'll see I guess. Didn't specifically want the issues before #27 (when the P. Craig Russell art began) but I'll probably be happy to keep #24-39 as a run and maybe trade the earlier issues off? Seems like these lot runs people put up are the way to buy though.
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 28, 2018 17:29:35 GMT -5
Since it's the holidays and all, I read this: It reprint Avengers #58 (Even an Android Can Cry), Daredevil #86, Marvel Team-Up #6 (Spidey & the Thing), and Tales To Astonish #93 (Hulk vs. Silver Surfer). All very good stories, though none of them had anything to do with the holidays, only the framing sequence did.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 29, 2018 17:04:40 GMT -5
I'm in the process of re-reading The Legion, the last hurrah of the post-Zero Hour Legion of Superheroes before low sales and some event or other wiped them from continuity. I was a slow convert to this iteration of the legion. I had been a fan of the 5YL era, and a clean reboot of the franchise felt like something of a treason toward old and faithful readers. I did pick up a few issues a few years later, and the lighter tone managed to win me over. I still had problems with the way some old stories were revisited and changed... but the LSH and Legionnaires books were both good reads during the '90s. Then there was the game-changing Legion of the damned storyline, with the arrival of writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning and artist Olivier Coipel. From a good series, the legion became an absolute must-read for me. Not only was the art great and the storyline engaging, but without negating the clunkier aspects of the newly established continuity, D&A acted as if they didn't exist and gave us old fans the characters we remembered. LSH and Legionnaires were cancelled and replaced with a 12-issue maxiseries, Legion Lost, which allowed the new creative team to really make its mark. Annnnnd after a few mini-series titled Legion worlds, came this series, The Legion, which by all accounts should have restarted the franchise for a good long while. Which it didn't, for reasons we might discuss later on. The initial arcs of the new title are pretty good. Coipel provides really lovely art and designs. D&A give us good stories, and what's more important, build on the LSH's concept instead of breaking it down. This was an auspicious start! The optimism was there, the Legion kicked a$$ instead of moping all the time, we were treated to great villains (Ra's Al-Ghul, Computo and the Fatal Five just in the first year or so) and new and interesting concepts were introduced! In the first arc, the characters from Legion Lost, who have spent the past year stuck in another galaxy, finally return to Earth. They discover a planet that fully recovered from the Blight invasion from Legion of the damned, but one that is secretly ruled by a villain: Batman's old foe Ra's Al Ghul! Now seemingly immortal and far stronger than Superman, Ra's has an ambitious plan: force the evolution of humanity. This, alas, is not accomplished by magic (which would have been fine with me) but by a pseudo-scientific way that totally misrepresents what evolution is, and is so wrong that it makes the entire premise unworkable. See, we are supposed to accept that whenever things go really bad, Mother Nature spontaneously creates beings called "terrorforms" that zap people and transform them into eggs, from which a radically new and "evolved" species is supposed to be born (a process he calls hypertaxis, which is a radically inappropriate use of the term). And so Ra's engineers a terrible cataclysm that will force Evolution to act! You know what? Let's just pretend it's done by magic. It's much better for this biologist's blood pressure. I mean, it's like having an episode of Dr. House hanging on the idea that to cure someone of any disease, you just have to make them extremely sick, and that Evolution will then spontaneously create a guardian angel to cure them. Anyway... Ra's plan starts to work, until the Legion manages to stop his disaster. The villain is apprehended, but his henchman turns out to be no less than Computo in disguise! The computerized old nemesis of the Legion means to hijack the hypertaxis process to cause the evolution of what he sees as his own species, robotkind, to its next level! Much action ensues, but concludes when Brainiac 5 understands that a highly evolved sentient being would leave behind its more primitive motivations like aggression and pettiness. Even as many think he has popped his cork (which did happen in the past, right?) Brainy helps Computo achieve its goal, and the villain ascends to a new level of existence. The robots he had been leading make peace, are recognized as a sentient species, and settle on what used to be Pluto but has been replaced by a XXth century construct called Battleworld. Really neat sci-fi concept, here, and I wish the series had had more time top explore the relationship between that robot civilization and the United Planets! Very engaging blend of science-fiction and superhero action, with some neat politics thrown in... I wish it could have gone on like that forever!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 29, 2018 20:38:48 GMT -5
I LOVED the Abnett and Lanning Legion... they just did good cosmic (the did great stuff with Marvel too).
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