shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Jun 2, 2016 21:19:01 GMT -5
Seems like we must already have a thread for sharing the books that you consider to be the centerpieces of your collection (whether due to value, sentimentality, scarcity, historical importance, etc), but I couldn't find one. If I missed it, just kindly point me there and I'll merge this into it. Anyway, the post a pic of your oldest comic! thread got me looking through my most cherished books (which I don't take the time to enjoy often enough), so I thought I'd show them off here, less to brag and more to share my love for these beauties. My third favorite: The first real issue of World's Finest Comics, and also an iconic cover of my three favorite characters:  My second favorite: The oldest and rarest comic I own, as well as one heck of a bad-ass Bernard Bailey Spectre cover. It's my second favorite of all time, the first (#54) being impossibly out of my price range.  My First favorite. I don't think I need to explain this one.  I've got a lot more I'll post eventually -- big first appearances and the like, but these are my absolute favorites, due to their age, scarcity, and most importantly the piece of history they were a part of. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 2, 2016 22:29:17 GMT -5
Those are so beautiful.
Over the years I've sold anything worth money, but I've saved portfolios, prints, sketches and original art.
I'll post some if I can get to them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2016 23:21:44 GMT -5
I think this is the thread you were thinking of Shax, -a thread about people's top 5 pride and joys from their collection. -M |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 3, 2016 6:00:48 GMT -5
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 3, 2016 6:05:06 GMT -5
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 3, 2016 6:27:46 GMT -5
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shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Jun 3, 2016 7:02:00 GMT -5
I think this is the thread you were thinking of Shax, -a thread about people's top 5 pride and joys from their collection. -M Thanks for the link! I don't want to limit this to five, though. I'd encourage folks to share every comic in their collection that they are psyched to own and feel like showing off  |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 3, 2016 7:22:20 GMT -5
I think this is the thread you were thinking of Shax, -a thread about people's top 5 pride and joys from their collection. -M Thanks for the link! I don't want to limit this to five, though. I'd encourage folks to share every comic in their collection that they are psyched to own and feel like showing off You could end up regretting that... The cover below, incidentally, is from a British reprint title from the early eighties and may, I believe, be the only time the JSA have been the sole cover stars in a British comic. The cover art is by David Jackson.  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 3, 2016 7:32:33 GMT -5
What currency is the 'd' from? Also, 2000 AD #1 is pretty sweet.. never seen that before |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 3, 2016 7:42:01 GMT -5
What currency is the 'd' from? Also, 2000 AD #1 is pretty sweet.. never seen that before I think you're looking at a 'p', not a 'd'. Stands for 'pence'. Although before the adoption of decimal currency in Britain in 1971, 'd' actually was the symbol for pence. I've never worked out why. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 3, 2016 7:56:10 GMT -5
Ahh... I've seen 'p's for pence on comics before, (which I did know about)... I had no idea they used a d before that.. thanks!
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Post by MDG on Jun 3, 2016 8:24:15 GMT -5
I don't know when I'll get pictures up, but aside from original art, my two favorite things are a copy of The Studio signed by Jones, Wrightson, Smith, and Kaluta and a copy of Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told autographed by Schwartz, Infantino, Anderson, Kubert, Esposito, McLaughlin, Novick and Giella.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2016 10:43:50 GMT -5
What currency is the 'd' from? Also, 2000 AD #1 is pretty sweet.. never seen that before I think you're looking at a 'p', not a 'd'. Stands for 'pence'. Although before the adoption of decimal currency in Britain in 1971, 'd' actually was the symbol for pence. I've never worked out why. It's on the Avengers & FF issues, not 2000AD. Pre-decimal British currency was colloquially known as LSD, which became corrupted to £sd ("pounds, shillings and.. hang on, pence doesn't begin with D"), but the initials are actually Latin for librae, solidi and denarii. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 3, 2016 11:39:37 GMT -5
I think you're looking at a 'p', not a 'd'. Stands for 'pence'. Although before the adoption of decimal currency in Britain in 1971, 'd' actually was the symbol for pence. I've never worked out why. It's on the Avengers & FF issues, not 2000AD. Pre-decimal British currency was colloquially known as LSD, which became corrupted to £sd ("pounds, shillings and.. hang on, pence doesn't begin with D"), but the initials are actually Latin for librae, solidi and denarii. Thank you, always nice to learn something new! |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 3, 2016 12:32:10 GMT -5
Ahhh.. Denarii!! That's it! It all makes sense now! You rock, Simon!
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