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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 25, 2017 20:06:46 GMT -5
Who here has a book signed by some kid who once owned it? Heck maybe it was even you who signed it in your youth! I wanna see examples and maybe some other strange things written on or in comics. Not defacing per say but maybe more so notes left scrawled in a comic or a name of a previous owner. I will post my example later.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 25, 2017 21:16:11 GMT -5
I have several books signed by guys I knew in high school that I bought years after they'd sold them to a dealer here in town (my Adams X-Men run all belonged to Dan Webster, younger brother of my pal Steve). Perhaps more interesting to folks here is that my copy of Vol. 2 of the Steranko History of Comics used to belong to Robin Snyder, whose signature is atop the first page in red ink.
I also have a couple of comics in which I long ago hastily scribbled down a phone number for lack of any other paper handy, but for some long-forgotten reason I failed to note *whose* number I was jotting down. I suppose I could call them and see who answered but it's been 30+ years so...
Cei-U!
I summon the eternal mystery!
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Post by Phil Maurice on Feb 25, 2017 23:47:27 GMT -5
This is very embarrassing, but germane to the topic. I bought Crypt of Terror #18 from a seller on the old Usenet forums. You know, alt.rec.comics.precode or some such. If you can drag your eyes away from that butt-chin on the creepy morgue attendant, take a look at the decedent's chest.  You can see obviously that the knife in the corpse's chest was a "post-market embellishment," but the resolution on the pic the seller sent at that time was so poor that I thought it was part of the original, unadorned artwork.  |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Feb 26, 2017 0:31:26 GMT -5
I had forgotten that my sub-beater copy of IMPACT #1 has an inscription.  With an April cover date, which puts this on the stands around the middle of January, Ken can be forgiven for fudging the year. He totally nailed the millennium, let's not forget.  |
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Post by MDG on Feb 26, 2017 9:18:10 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, I have a bunch, but I buy a lot of (often unbanned) books from quarter bins. One unique example is an issue of Lois Lane where it looked like the owner pulled out the center spread, laid it on a table while he painted a model, then put it back in the book.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 26, 2017 9:22:20 GMT -5
Unfortunately, most of the books I have where kids "enhanced" the art would be inappropriate to show in a family friendly forum. The best deserved of these was done to Fantastic Four #64:  Obviously, this is not my copy, but you can pretty much guess what was done. |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 26, 2017 14:50:09 GMT -5
I will hazard a guess that the Sinister Sentry's snake made a rare cover appearance?
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Post by shaxper on Feb 26, 2017 18:40:33 GMT -5
I will hazard a guess that the Sinister Sentry's snake made a rare cover appearance? He had backup support, too... |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 26, 2017 20:28:30 GMT -5
I have several books signed by guys I knew in high school that I bought years after they'd sold them to a dealer here in town (my Adams X-Men run all belonged to Dan Webster, younger brother of my pal Steve). Perhaps more interesting to folks here is that my copy of Vol. 2 of the Steranko History of Comics used to belong to Robin Snyder, whose signature is atop the first page in red ink. I also have a couple of comics in which I long ago hastily scribbled down a phone number for lack of any other paper handy, but for some long-forgotten reason I failed to note *whose* number I was jotting down. I suppose I could call them and see who answered but it's been 30+ years so... Cei-U! I summon the eternal mystery!
You should totally call the numbers. I always wondered if it were possible to reunite a kid with a comic they once owned and had their name scribbled on. Seems like a next to impossible task even with the interwebs...
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 26, 2017 23:04:44 GMT -5
My copy of Action Comics #252 was previously owned by a kid named Denis Kitchen.  |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 27, 2017 9:53:11 GMT -5
My copy of Action Comics #252 was previously owned by a kid named Denis Kitchen. Now there's a convention discussion starter! |
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Post by Farrar on Feb 27, 2017 13:25:07 GMT -5
My copy of Action Comics #252 was previously owned by a kid named Denis Kitchen. Ha--that's pretty great! Wonder if he wants it back...  |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 27, 2017 14:04:26 GMT -5
Here is the example I have...on the back of my ASM #59. Looks like someone doing homework? There are some states and cities around the edges...wonder if Spidey distracted this previous owner from getting an A in geography.  |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 27, 2017 14:08:36 GMT -5
My copy of Action Comics #252 was previously owned by a kid named Denis Kitchen. Now there's a convention discussion starter! I agree. Maybe I am weird but I look at that and wonder what was this comic's life like? Was Denis the original owner? Did his mother sell his comics as he go older? Or perhaps he did? And how many people had it from the time it left Denis until you got it? Does Denis still collect? Oh the questions. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 27, 2017 14:17:49 GMT -5
Now there's a convention discussion starter! I agree. Maybe I am weird but I look at that and wonder what was this comic's life like? Was Denis the original owner? Did his mother sell his comics as he go older? Or perhaps he did? And how many people had it from the time it left Denis until you got it? Does Denis still collect? Oh the questions. I've thought about contacting him, but... I don't want to give up the book if he wants it back!  For those who may not be familiar with Denis Kitchen, he was a pioneering indie publisher, founding Kitchen Sink Press in 1969, publishing tons of important comics, collections, and scholarly books about comics for decades, including work by Robert Crumb, and titles like Xenozoic Tales and Omaha the Cat Dancer. Kitchen Sink closed in 1999, but he's still doing lots of stuff in the world of comics: www.deniskitchen.com/ |
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