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Post by MDG on Feb 3, 2021 8:43:23 GMT -5
I can't believe I never saw--or even heard of--this before.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 17:06:38 GMT -5
Got the #2 Secret Agent, also in high-grade and have completed the set. They should both arrive around the same time.
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Post by berkley on Feb 3, 2021 22:15:50 GMT -5
Doktor Sleepless #7-13, Warren Ellis & Ivan Rodriguez.
This just makes it into the "classic" category, having been published around 2007-2009. I read the first collection back around then but found out only recently that the series carried on for several more issues beyond those contained in that book. Actually I screwed up ordering #7-13, as my collection covers #1-8, not #1-6 as I had thought.
I remember at the time thinking this was one of the most interesting Warren Ellis books I'd ever read but can't recall many details at this point. Looking forward to reading the entire run from the beginning sometime soon.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 23:57:06 GMT -5
Picked up a late 80s collection of some late 40's/early 50s Phantom comic strips... and another small lot of comic adjacent vintage paperbacks... I am not quite sure what the Secret People is supposed to be about, but it sports a Frazetta cover I didn't have anywhere else, so I added it to the lot I was getting. -M
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Post by berkley on Feb 4, 2021 9:09:42 GMT -5
I think I tried one book of either The Spider or the Avenger back in the 80s and couldn't really get into it. I might give them another go someday,though.
Are you targeting specific titles from the Destroyer series or just picking them up when you see them? I read two or three back in the 70s and enjoyed them but haven't read any since. I have been buyng them here and there the last few years when I see one at a good price, and have accumulated a fair number of them now, mostly from the earlier years, so I'm starting to think I should probably try to be a little more discerning if I buy any more.
I was curious about The Secret People after seeing it here ,so I looked it up and apparently it's actually a very early (1930s) John Wyndham book, published under a pseudonym. I've been reading or re-reading Wyndham's four or five best-known known novels the last year or two and they are some of the best SF I've come across in recent memory, so I'm now planning to eventually read pretty much everything I can of his. I feel much more impressed with him now than I did when I read one or two in my younger days.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 4, 2021 10:37:03 GMT -5
I was curious about The Secret People after seeing it here ,so I looked it up and apparently it's actually a very early (1930s) John Wyndham book, published under a pseudonym. I've been reading or re-reading Wyndham's four or five best-known known novels the last year or two and they are some of the best SF I've come across in recent memory, so I'm now planning to eventually read pretty much everything I can of his. I feel much more impressed with him now than I did when I read one or two in my younger days. Thanks for doing that because I was curious also. I like Wyndham a fair bit. I have a long-term love affair with Day of the Triffids.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2021 11:26:29 GMT -5
I think I tried one book of either The Spider or the Avenger back in the 80s and couldn't really get into it. I might give them another go someday,though. Are you targeting specific titles from the Destroyer series or just picking them up when you see them? I read two or three back in the 70s and enjoyed them but haven't read any since. I have been buyng them here and there the last few years when I see one at a good price, and have accumulated a fair number of them now, mostly from the earlier years, so I'm starting to think I should probably try to be a little more discerning if I buy any more. I was curious about The Secret People after seeing it here ,so I looked it up and apparently it's actually a very early (1930s) John Wyndham book, published under a pseudonym. I've been reading or re-reading Wyndham's four or five best-known known novels the last year or two and they are some of the best SF I've come across in recent memory, so I'm now planning to eventually read pretty much everything I can of his. I feel much more impressed with him now than I did when I read one or two in my younger days. On the pulp series like Destroyer, I tend to target the first 10-20 books in the series, but will pick up later books in series if the price is right. I find you don't necessarily need to read them in order, but it helps to read the first 3-4 to get the basic set up and premises, but after the first volume, they tend to become fairly interchangeable in the order you read them as most are standalone type adventures. -M
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Post by berkley on Feb 4, 2021 13:12:17 GMT -5
I was curious about The Secret People after seeing it here ,so I looked it up and apparently it's actually a very early (1930s) John Wyndham book, published under a pseudonym. I've been reading or re-reading Wyndham's four or five best-known known novels the last year or two and they are some of the best SF I've come across in recent memory, so I'm now planning to eventually read pretty much everything I can of his. I feel much more impressed with him now than I did when I read one or two in my younger days. Thanks for doing that because I was curious also. I like Wyndham a fair bit. I have a long-term love affair with Day of the Triffids. Yes, he's very much in the HG Wells tradition of sort of exploring the implications of his premise and seeing how relatively ordinary people adapt or not to them, as opposed to the more heroic American SF model. WHich makes me curious to find more British SF from the era between Wells and Wyndham.
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Post by berkley on Feb 4, 2021 13:20:04 GMT -5
I think I tried one book of either The Spider or the Avenger back in the 80s and couldn't really get into it. I might give them another go someday,though. Are you targeting specific titles from the Destroyer series or just picking them up when you see them? I read two or three back in the 70s and enjoyed them but haven't read any since. I have been buyng them here and there the last few years when I see one at a good price, and have accumulated a fair number of them now, mostly from the earlier years, so I'm starting to think I should probably try to be a little more discerning if I buy any more. I was curious about The Secret People after seeing it here ,so I looked it up and apparently it's actually a very early (1930s) John Wyndham book, published under a pseudonym. I've been reading or re-reading Wyndham's four or five best-known known novels the last year or two and they are some of the best SF I've come across in recent memory, so I'm now planning to eventually read pretty much everything I can of his. I feel much more impressed with him now than I did when I read one or two in my younger days. On the pulp series like Destroyer, I tend to target the first 10-20 books in the series, but will pick up later books in series if the price is right. I find you don't necessarily need to read them in order, but it helps to read the first 3-4 to get the basic set up and premises, but after the first volume, they tend to become fairly interchangeable in the order you read them as most are standalone type adventures. -M
There's a site called Bookgasm that I haven't looked at much the last several years, but one review column in particular,Bullets, Broads, Blackmail, and Bombs used to to a lot of Destroyer reviews. As you say, by and large the reviewer's attitude is, they're all good, quick, fun reads, so don't worry too much about it, but he does come a cross a few duds that he recommends avoiding, such as (this just happened to be the first Destroyer review I found when I searched for the site just now): Balance of Power (Destroyer #44).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2021 14:24:54 GMT -5
On the pulp series like Destroyer, I tend to target the first 10-20 books in the series, but will pick up later books in series if the price is right. I find you don't necessarily need to read them in order, but it helps to read the first 3-4 to get the basic set up and premises, but after the first volume, they tend to become fairly interchangeable in the order you read them as most are standalone type adventures. -M There's a site called Bookgasm that I haven't looked at much the last several years, but one review column in particular,Bullets, Broads, Blackmail, and Bombs used to to a lot of Destroyer reviews. As you say, by and large the reviewer's attitude is, they're all good, quick, fun reads, so don't worry too much about it, but he does come a cross a few duds that he recommends avoiding, such as (this just happened to be the first Destroyer review I found when I searched for the site just now): Balance of Power (Destroyer #44). I am reading the first Destroyer book currently as I just got it and outside of the few Marvel comics and mags hadn't read any Remo Williams/Destroyer stuff. It is pretty much setting up the premise, which I was only able to get glimpses of the gist of in the material I had encountered before. Nit sure if the other early volumes add to the set up or not. The Avenger series does. First book set things up and books 2 and 3 added members to the supporting cast. But once they get to their status quo, it's pretty much just which adventures you want to read. Doc Savage and the Phantom series took 1 book to get things up and everything else after that is fairly interchangeable. I haven't read much of the Spider stuff (still trying to track down the first book), only read the first Mack Bolan book (I have a few more I will get to eventually), and have sampled some of the Shadow books but don't have the first one (I have a line on a copy to bid on though), so I don't know if they follow the same mold. I've been following the Perry Rhodan reviews in the book thread as well to see if it follows form as well. I have a handful of the first 20 books in that, but not the first, which seems to be a bit pricey, so I haven't read any of those since about 1981 when I randomly found 2 of them in our local library in rural Maine. They were later books in the series and I had no ideas what was going on, but they fascinated a 12 year old me, but I've never found a copy of the first book in the wild when I was searching for them in all the years since (though there were long tracks when I wasn't looking). I think the pulp origins of these stories has a lot to do with that kind of standalone interchangeability. They sold to a wide audience of both devoted fans and casual readers, so you wanted to tell a satisfying story to both "markets" but not every one was going to buy and read every story, so once the sandbox is set up, you just keep playing in that sandbox without changing it too much. -M PS I'll have to check out that review column when I have some time to explore on the net (probably my next day off).
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2021 16:12:59 GMT -5
I went into Jersey with the wife and made the rounds to Walmart and Costco , so I stopped at Main Street Comics in Miltown. I ended up spending 27 dollars( the first live purchase since August of last year. This is an upgrade. Still not in great condition but the copy I have is water logged with what might be mold. The rest of the books were 1 buck each.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2021 16:14:16 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Feb 6, 2021 16:19:00 GMT -5
Nice pickups! Cheap too! Making me proud to call you my brother from another mother! 2 Tarzan's with Dan Spiegel art. Have those myself in my Marvel run to read and enjoy.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2021 21:21:54 GMT -5
Nice pickups! Cheap too! Making me proud to call you my brother from another mother! 2 Tarzan's with Dan Spiegel art. Have those myself in my Marvel run to read and enjoy. It was fun going through long boxes like old times. Didn't like bending down too much, though...
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 7, 2021 16:46:54 GMT -5
Just a general question- where else can I go to get back issues other than eBay ?
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