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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 13, 2018 20:54:04 GMT -5
I bought a few more Marvel's Greatest Comics '70s Fantastic Four reprint comics today, going backwards to more Kirby issues. They aren't as collectable as some things but they have the nostalgia factor for me. I just finally got Marvel Tales #98 & 99 which reprint you know which two famous issues, even the reprints of those are not cheap. Actually I remember my older brother having a Kirby Fantastic Four, #77 I've figured out since, but I was so little I couldn't make much sense out of it. He also had a Neal Adams Deadman that I couldn't even figure out which order the panels went, I was pretty much used to C.C.Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger and cartoony comics, so don't dis me for it; I did come to enjoy Adams much later. The first John Byrne comic I had must've been a Wheelie & The Chopper Bunch, but I've looked at the covers online and have no idea which one I had (mine lost their covers often at that age), three of them credit Mr. Byrne though.
I wondered for ages about a coverless Adventure Comic I'd had and only figured that out recently because someone on a blog had scanned one of the stories. There was also a 100 Page DC Giant that had lost it's front, with Super-chief, Airwave and a Murphy Anderson Hawkman story with tornado-motorcycle baddies... I finally found it again once and it was a bit disappointing; now those Giants are much more collected and some have great cover art. So I'm not always so keen on getting again comics I have had.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jun 13, 2018 22:10:20 GMT -5
Alright so I used some of (make that most of) the money I made selling an X-Men collection to get back to my collecting roots and add some Spider-Man stuff I really wanted.
First was a copy of ASM #122. Says VG, but looked really nice Next, Marvel Team-Up #1 and #2 Amazing Spider-Man #53. I had a copy but sold it last year as it was pretty ragged. This one should be mid grade Amazing Spider-Man #120. I have a copy but this one might be nicer. Either way it was too good of a deal to pass up.
I am picking up the bunch above tomorrow from the post office and should have photos posted then.
Finally, the motherload. Amazing Spider-Man #10, 16, 20, 26, 33, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 64, 66, 67, Annual 2 plus the first four Marvel Masterworks volumes for Amazing-Spiderman. This bunch was costly and the condition ranges from really rough (#10 is missing a large chunk of the cover) to what I believe to be VG to Fine. Sadly, issue #50 is rough but there are several others in this lot I dont own. I will try and sell/trade the stuff that is maybe too worn for my liking. This should arrive next week, I will add photos at that time!
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 13, 2018 22:39:51 GMT -5
I just got Amazing Spider-Man Annual #12 which reprints in some kind of abridged form #119 + 120 guest-starring the green anger-management dropout. It came by mail the day before Marvel Tales #98 & 99 so that worked out well enough. Marvel Tales #100 had #123 so I'm pretty happy to have that small slice of classic Spidey with reprints of the first man Wolf two-parter in #101 + 102. I'm declaring collection complete. Oldest and most expensive I was ever lucky enough to have was Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1. I more than doubled my money when I did have to sell that one, one of the last '60s comics I hung onto, but if you had to keep just one Spider-Man that was pretty classic. I had to explain how the annuals all had blank back covers back then to the buyer strangely enough, they really thought they'd gotten some great rarity or something!
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Post by comicsandwho on Jun 13, 2018 23:23:12 GMT -5
I used to have ASM Annual # 12, and later read the 'unabridged' version of #119. For the reprint, they hacked out the first six pages of the story (dealing with the 'Aunt May lives with Doc Ock' and 'Harry Osborn is really high and Norman is really pissed off' subplots). They just subbed in a new splash page, with Spidey complaining that he 'just got this telegram from Rimbaud, and I have to go to Canada'...with no mention of who Rimbaud is, or that, in the original story, May Parker received the telegram, and it was actually shown in the story. The reprint follows the original starting from where Peter says 'The Hulk, in Canada? Far out!"(The Roy Thomas footnote mentioning Hulk has been there in the current issue of 'his own mag' is also droppped.) Marvel was known for 'creative editing and reformatting' back then, but this is n awkward fit for a reprint. The whole point of reprinting this when they did was, as the cover of the annual indicated, to (re)print something with Marvel's two heroes with their own TV shows having a fight.(Very cool John Byrne cover for the annual, at least!)
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jun 13, 2018 23:29:01 GMT -5
I just got Amazing Spider-Man Annual #12 which reprints in some kind of abridged form #119 + 120 guest-starring the green anger-management dropout. It came by mail the day before Marvel Tales #98 & 99 so that worked out well enough. Marvel Tales #100 had #123 so I'm pretty happy to have that small slice of classic Spidey with reprints of the first man Wolf two-parter in #101 + 102. I'm declaring collection complete. Oldest and most expensive I was ever lucky enough to have was Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1. I more than doubled my money when I did have to sell that one, one of the last '60s comics I hung onto, but if you had to keep just one Spider-Man that was pretty classic. I had to explain how the annuals all had blank back covers back then to the buyer strangely enough, they really thought they'd gotten some great rarity or something! Actually the blank back and interior covers on ASM Annual 1 are harder to find. Most claim they were only sold in Canada and its often labelled a Canadian variant.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 14, 2018 4:49:49 GMT -5
I bought a few more Marvel's Greatest Comics '70s Fantastic Four reprint comics today, going backwards to more Kirby issues. They aren't as collectable as some things but they have the nostalgia factor for me. I just finally got Marvel Tales #98 & 99 which reprint you know which two famous issues, even the reprints of those are not cheap. Actually I remember my older brother having a Kirby Fantastic Four, #77 I've figured out since, but I was so little I couldn't make much sense out of it. He also had a Neal Adams Deadman that I couldn't even figure out which order the panels went, I was pretty much used to C.C.Beck, Kurt Schaffenberger and cartoony comics, so don't dis me for it; I did come to enjoy Adams much later. The first John Byrne comic I had must've been a Wheelie & The Chopper Bunch, but I've looked at the covers online and have no idea which one I had (mine lost their covers often at that age), three of them credit Mr. Byrne though. I wondered for ages about a coverless Adventure Comic I'd had and only figured that out recently because someone on a blog had scanned one of the stories. There was also a 100 Page DC Giant that had lost it's front, with Super-chief, Airwave and a Murphy Anderson Hawkman story with tornado-motorcycle baddies... I finally found it again once and it was a bit disappointing; now those Giants are much more collected and some have great cover art. So I'm not always so keen on getting again comics I have had. I Pretty much have the entire Marvel Collectors item classics/Marvels Greatest comics run. They are my version of the FF up until 115. I have the originals after that from 116-412 of the Regular title. MGC was a great print book, although I heard that some pages were edited out here and there.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 14, 2018 12:26:09 GMT -5
I remember other Marvel annuals of 1965 (I only ever had that one 1964 one) that all had blank back covers, and I think inside covers too, I don't have any anymore to check though. Fantastic Four annual #3, Journey Into Mystery annual #1, Sgt. Fury annual #1 and Millie The Model (never had Spider-Man annual #2). The first few square-edged Marvel Tales may have also had the blank pages. From 1966 the annuals and giants had ads.
Thanks for the details on the edit jobs, I have noticed things sometimes that seemed to be a product of trying to update or eliminate continuity from other titles from the original appearance.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 18:37:54 GMT -5
Not a classic comic but a book concerning several classic comics, my copy of The Art of Jim Starlin: A Life in Words and Pictures arrived for me at my lcs today. I missed the original IDW edition 5 or so years ago, but Aftershock just put out a new edition, that I didn't hear about until the week it came out, so missed the pre-order window. Diamond still had copies available though, so got it through the good folks down at Superfly Comics. -M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 15, 2018 18:30:08 GMT -5
The local comic chain was doing a 'fill a short box for $49.99' sale, so I treated myself.. haven't done the quarter bin thing for ages! Got some fun stuff to try, and a few random bronze age books. It was really fun spending like 2 hours just running through long boxes!
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Post by Confessor on Jun 18, 2018 7:43:30 GMT -5
So, while I was on holiday in the U.S. recently, I scored a few comics and related items. The first picture is a wonderful selection of gifts that our very own Icctrombone gave to me as a welcome to the States and to New York City. He kindly gave me a copy of the sought after (well, sought after by me, anyway) and rather expensive Amazing Spider-Man #36, which is the World Trade Center disaster issue; a paperback copy of the Roy Thomas/Howard Chaykin/Steve Leialoha adaptation of Star Wars, but this is in black and white, which really shows off the artwork in all its glory; and a Boba Fett figurine mug. Not pictured is a fantastic apple pie that Icc gave to my wife and I, which was quickly devoured that very evening and the next morning. Thanks for being so generous, Icc, it was unexpected and very welcomed. Then, from Harrison's Comics & Pop Culture shop in Salem, Massachusetts, my wife bought me this handful of issues, which I picked out, as a wedding anniversary present (it's our first, so the theme is paper you see)... I'm really pleased with this little haul, which includes a few books from my Wants List. It also includes my very first "Superdickery" cover. These are my first ever American comics bought by me from a real American comic shop...and that's significant. Finally, of potential interest to the forum, is the copy of The Byrds' Preflyte album I got from Joe's Albums in Worcester, MA. This is a 1973 reissue with cover artwork by Barry Windsor-Smith, depicting the band as futuristic astronauts...
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 18, 2018 12:28:10 GMT -5
I've seen that Byrds LP only in pictures for some reason, and keep hoping to run into it in the wild someday; really beautiful! I am a Byrdsmaniac (two t-shirts and most all the solo and later groups albums too). Trina Robbins knew them back when they were still fairly new on the strip in L.A. and made clothes for David Crosby. I did find a Mighty Groundhogs LP with a Neal Adams cover though once. Crate-digging isn't what it used to be though and if you do find something good, as with comics, the sellers seem to have things way overpriced and if you ask if they'll consider something lower think you're trying to fleece them and add another zero to the already high price. (sigh) I remember a kid at school having the Star Wars paperback. I had some of the British Weeklies, but I kind of liked the stories starting with the green bunny as they were new and the other was just the movie I'd already seen.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 18, 2018 17:17:19 GMT -5
I've seen that Byrds LP only in pictures for some reason, and keep hoping to run into it in the wild someday; really beautiful! I am a Byrdsmaniac (two t-shirts and most all the solo and later groups albums too). Trina Robbins knew them back when they were still fairly new on the strip in L.A. and made clothes for David Crosby. Yeah, I'm a Byrdmaniac too...I already have two copies of that Preflyte album -- the original 1969 pressing and a CD copy -- but I wanted the 1973 pressing because of the cool Barry Windsor-Smith artwork. So, I'm a bit of a Byrds completist. I never knew that about Trina Robbins though, that's fascinating. I remember a kid at school having the Star Wars paperback. I had some of the British Weeklies, but I kind of liked the stories starting with the green bunny as they were new and the other was just the movie I'd already seen. Well, I'm a huge fan of Marvel's original SW run, and being from England, the Marvel UK weekly comics were how I first encountered the series. I'm also a big fan of Jaxxon, the 6ft tall, green, carnivorous space rabbit, as you can see from my avatar. Just don't tell Icctrombone that there's another fan of green space bunnies in the forum, he might lose his shit!
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jun 20, 2018 9:49:12 GMT -5
I love it when a plan works! These are the books I am essentially getting for free after selling a bunch of stuff that came in the same lot. Granted, I am sad that I sold a copy of ASM #50 (it was real rough) but I did get a bonus gift from this seller. He included a beat up copy of ASM #3 with a reprinted cover attached!!!! The interior was a little too destroyed for my liking (someone had literally gone over every image in pen for half the story) but I was able to find someone who wanted it. Super happy with the above books essentially being free having made money back and some. The Masterworks are awesome to have, even though I plan to track down as many original issues possible. The first appearances of Rhino rock!!!! Love them! As does the Death of Green Goblin...I once had a really rough copy that I sold a few years ago now. This one is in 4.5-5.0 shape, so I am happy. This narrows down my list of ASM issues between #50-400. Currently hunting for #50, 56, 59, 61, 70, 72, 75, 76, 80, 85, 86, 108, 111, 112, 113, 115, 129, 151, 159, 204, 270, 280, 308, 378, 394, 397, 399. Hoping to knock off at least a quarter of these if not half by year's end!
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Post by Confessor on Jun 20, 2018 16:21:30 GMT -5
^^ Very nice Spidey haul. I'm jealous.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 22, 2018 6:04:16 GMT -5
Got these in the mail yesterday. The Birds of Prey book completes the 2010 series for me and the New Avengers issues competes the Bendis series for me. The Balder issue completes the Mini from the Simonson era.
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