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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 13:20:00 GMT -5
All those comics were made to be consumed and not stored away as an investment. It's a wonder any comics or toys exist from the past.
These were owned by just one person, who bought them and stored them away since their original street date back in the 70s. He told me he's sending them in a 'lp mailer' with a free lp....maybe I'll get Bee Gees or something
He's owned these books longer than my lifetime and has decided to pass them on....he took great care of them so I'm only too pleased to give them a new home. I have this sort of bad habit that when I come across books like this, I have to say come to mummy....
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Post by DubipR on Jan 14, 2021 13:31:54 GMT -5
Not a purchase but a preservation of some of my favorite comics. Honestly I'm happy with the 7.0 with the Black Panther that I bought for $2.00 back in the 90s. And the Doorway to Nightmare, color me surprised.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 13:35:45 GMT -5
Not a purchase but a preservation of some of my favorite comics. Honestly I'm happy with the 7.0 with the Black Panther that I bought for $2.00 back in the 90s.
Yeah, I remember all the times I saw it for cheap, even in high grade, and I still dragged my feet. Now its price bites you in the arse like a real panther would.
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Post by DubipR on Jan 14, 2021 13:45:05 GMT -5
Not a purchase but a preservation of some of my favorite comics. Honestly I'm happy with the 7.0 with the Black Panther that I bought for $2.00 back in the 90s.
Yeah, I remember all the times I saw it for cheap, even in high grade, and I still dragged my feet. Now its price bites you in the arse like a real panther would.
The 90s were a golden time to pick up Silver Age. The market for it was dead, while everyone was buying Bad Grrl comics, I was slowly buying Silver Age as best as I could.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 14:06:57 GMT -5
The 90s were a golden time to pick up Silver Age. The market for it was dead, while everyone was buying Bad Grrl comics, I was slowly buying Silver Age as best as I could.
I had that opportunity closer to 2009-2012...a lot of books were being dumped for cheap. I look at the prices I paid for silver age Spidey then compared to now and am glad I bought them when I did, the prices now are horrendous.
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Post by james on Jan 14, 2021 16:34:30 GMT -5
Trying to decide if I should purchase a VF+ Avengers 34 .
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Post by The Captain on Jan 14, 2021 17:13:50 GMT -5
Picked up these last night. This was from my LCS. My goal is to collect all of the Alan Moore Swamp Thing TPBs this year (got the first one from my CCF Secret Santa, then the next two with a gift card after Christmas), so I have 2/3 of them already. Then went to Ollie's Bargain Outlet and got this, which I had forgotten had ever been released: And yes, that's a factory-sealed Omnibus that was originally $125 marked down to $19.99. It's a hodge-podge of issues that had the MCU GotG in it back in the day, including the first two Groot appearances, first Drax (which is, of course, also the first Thanos), first Gamora, first magazine and comic appearances of Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon, Rocket's entire mini, and a bunch of old Captain Marvel, Warlock, annuals (both the MTIO and Avengers annuals with Thanos) and other stuff. Sure, I have a good deal of these already in floppies, but things like the first Groot and first magazine appearance of Rocket aren't in my price range, and this also means I never have to physically touch my Iron Man #55 again and can still read the story if I want to.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 14, 2021 18:44:18 GMT -5
Not a comic but it led to a lot of comic reading. I finally got it . It's still good. I watched the whole three series with two of my kids a couple of years ago and we had the most fun. Season three got a bit clunky but the sexual interplay between Adam West and Yvonne Craig had its moments.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 14, 2021 18:50:39 GMT -5
Co-incidentally with my favourite German bookseller coming back to eBay (after, presumably, sorting out whatever hoops they now have to jump through to sell to a non-EU Scotland) I received a "£5 off - minimum purchase of £10!" voucher from eBay. A quick Clickity click later and two bound volumes of Spirou should be winging their way to me for a grand total of £6 (including postage). I am so cheap!
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Post by berkley on Jan 14, 2021 22:00:27 GMT -5
Co-incidentally with my favourite German bookseller coming back to eBay (after, presumably, sorting out whatever hoops they now have to jump through to sell to a non-EU Scotland) I received a "£5 off - minimum purchase of £10!" voucher from eBay. A quick Clickity click later and two bound volumes of Spirou should be winging their way to me for a grand total of £6 (including postage). I am so cheap! Those Spirous are quite big and bulky, aren't they? How many do you have and how do you have them stored or shelved? Are you targetting specific volumes or just snapping them up when you see one available at a good price?
I have only one coming apart at the seams volume that I bought for a dollar from a used-bookstore discount bin last year and that I haven't read yet. It includes #1290 - 1302, 3 Jan - 28 Mar 1963. One of the things I find so alluring about it besides the comics is the variety of text, from sports columns to news features to articles about animals or nature or science and technology, ... I dont know how on earth they managed to produce 48 pages every week, it's so chock-full of cool stuff. What a goldmine these must have been for a kid reading them back in the day. And what a window into the past for people like us leafing through them today.
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 15, 2021 4:47:39 GMT -5
Honestly I'm happy with the 7.0 with the Black Panther that I bought for $2.00 back in the 90s. It looks even better than 7, at least the cover. Great buy at two bucks. Picked up these last night. This was from my LCS. My goal is to collect all of the Alan Moore Swamp Thing TPBs this year (got the first one from my CCF Secret Santa, then the next two with a gift card after Christmas), so I have 2/3 of them already. Do they print the covers nowadays? I bought them at the beginning of the 90's but decided on selling them and buying the floppies just because of that. New editions of the TPBs might have hopefully improved.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 15, 2021 6:04:10 GMT -5
@berkley
Yes, they are quite chunky. About one and a half kilos each. I'm just picking them up as cheaply as I can when I see them - not particularly bothered about condition as long as they are complete. I bought one recently that had an issue missing, bar the cover, I bought that issue cheap ripped off the cover and glued it in. (Then had great fun trimming it to the same size as the slightly cropped bound issues.) I currently have 14 complete albums, a couple of other ones with pages missing and a pile of loose issues. One of the things that I find surprising (and joyous) about them is how proud the publishers were of the art/craft and history of comic making. There are articles about and interviews with artists and authors littered through the things at a time when British Comics rarely (if ever) credited their creators on the page. They do have fun messing with the format and playing. In one issue all the regular strips were drawn by one person (Philippe Bercovici) after all the other artists had contracted a rare disease from Indian ink. (He was the only artist who worked with marker pens so didn't catch it.) They'd found a cure by the next week. Another time a character went missing and to set up the gag's punchline the (one page) strip where he should have been was, for several weeks, filled with drawings of the inside of his empty office or the queue of people sat outside waiting to see him - They weren't saying anything or doing anything - just sat there. It was very surreal. Last week's issue had a suggested playlist in which the author/artists suggested the tracks you should listen to as you read their strips. The playlist included Tom Waits, The Stooges and Nancy Sinatra. I love this comic.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 15, 2021 7:10:34 GMT -5
Ozymandias, they are printing the covers in this version. They really help to set the mood for each issue.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2021 23:41:00 GMT -5
2nd round of FB auctions for the year, all books were won for $3 or less... I used to own this, but haven't since the move to Ohio some 17 years ago, it was in one of the short boxes that got lost in the move. this one's a modern book, and one I thought I would never get as it came out before I started getting SDTU regularly, and became a hot book and pricey quickly, I've seen it at shows raw for $25-$30 and slabbed for $100ish, so getting it at essentially cover made me very happy. 1st Guy Gardner as GL in continuity (#59 was an imaginary/what if story) and lastly... I never actually managed to track down one of these before, always meant to but never got around to it, but now I have one. -M
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 16, 2021 1:46:38 GMT -5
I've got that Vertigo issue. Since they were done as both comic inserts and stand-alone giveaways, you'd think that there would be a bunch floating around in the discount boxes... but it's kind of like Chick Tracts-- when you're actually hunting for them, they go into hiding and become difficult to find. I found mine in a 50-cent bin, it's one of the giveaway editions.
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