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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 13:35:21 GMT -5
I've always wanted to read some Golden Age Air Wave stories, and was excited to find out these two had reprints! Just showed up: Superman #245 (a very early Air Wave appearance in Detective #66 from 1942): World's Finest #212 (reprints Air Wave appearance in Detective #88 from 1944):
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 16, 2021 16:21:49 GMT -5
I've always wanted to read some Golden Age Air Wave stories, and was excited to find out these two had reprints! Just showed up: Superman #245 (a very early Air Wave appearance in Detective #66 from 1942): World's Finest #212 (reprints Air Wave appearance in Detective #88 from 1944): Cool! I've read a couple of Bronze Age Airwave stories with, if I remember correctly, his son, in Adventure Comics, but I've never read a Golden Age Airwave story. I only read of the character in his small number of appearances in All-Star Squadron.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 18:00:51 GMT -5
Earlier in week, I stopped by the local antique mall with a little birthday money to spend and spent a few hours rooting through boxes of $1 comics, many of which had a lot of 80s indy books and a lot of 90s Marvel and DC, and it felt like these were overstock boxes from a comic shop that went under sometime in the 90s. Brought home a stack of stuff, here are some of the highlights-everything was $1 except for the one Sgt. Rock issue, which was at another vendor and was $3. some classic comic strip reprints-Gould Dick Tracy and some Roy Crane Buz Sawyers... and a pair of issues featuring Frazetta's Jonny Comet I already have a complete collection of these strips in a trade, but it's hard to turn down classic Frazetta for a buck. Jonny Quest Classics #3, the only Comico Jonny Quest issue I didn't have... I picked up some issues of Last of the Viking Heroes done by Michael Thibodeaux, but it was the covers that were most appealing- Summer Special #1 has a Frazetta cover and #5 is a variant cover that features Kirby inked by Dave Stevens. and another paid of LoVH, #1 with a Kirby cover and #2 has a TMNT spoof that leads to an actual TMNT appearance this one's a batch of miscellaneous issues... New Talent Showcase #19 is an issue I already own, but it features Darwyn Cooke's first comic work-I paid a little more for mine, but I couldn't pass up a second copy for a buck. Black Orchid #1 by Gaiman and McKean (I actually picked up 2 copies at a buck each just because), an issue o Maze Agency to get me one closer to that run, and the only Harvey issue of Valley of the Dinosaurs from Hanna Barbera (Lonestar is selling it for #12 in mid-grade so I was glad to get it for a buck in higher grade). Another batch of misc. books... Vanity #1 and 2 by Will Meuginot, a classic Gladstone issue of Ducktales and Jungle Jim strip reprints, including the short batch done by Ditko and Wally Wood. The four issues of Rocket Man based on the classic serial put out by Innovation... Two issues of Shadow: In the Coils of the Leviathan, the Kaluta illustrated mini put out by Dark Horse (I now have 3 of the 4 issues) and lastly a quartet of war comics, another issue of Sgt. Rock and The 'Nam off my want list, the first issue of Medal of Honor form Dark Horse featuring a Simonson cover, and a random issue of Lomax's Vietnam Journal... there was a handful of other things (I managed to fill in all the issues of the O'Neil/Cowan Question series I needed except #17 which goes for stupid money because of a Rorschach appearance in a dream, a couple of the AC super-hero books like Dragonfly and other stuff like that) which I didn't snap pictures of-but those featured here were the most interesting things in the batch. -M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 19:07:48 GMT -5
Cool! I've read a couple of Bronze Age Airwave stories with, if I remember correctly, his son, in Adventure Comics, but I've never read a Golden Age Airwave story. I only read of the character in his small number of appearances in All-Star Squadron. Yeah, All-Star Squadron I think is responsible for me chasing down a lot of original Golden Age appearances! The other story that got me hooked onto Air Wave was from DC Comics Presents #55, which features the son as Air Wave but also makes a cool connection into the past with his father the original.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 17, 2021 6:37:31 GMT -5
Birthday gift from a friend of mine. ASM 100 (UK version). Still an amazing book... US or whatever country. UK price variant makes it more desirable in my book.
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Post by Josh on Jul 17, 2021 9:05:29 GMT -5
That ASM 100 cover is great. I love how Spidey and the title really pop off the page.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 17, 2021 17:36:36 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum Josh !. I have a totally destroyed copy of Spider-man 100.
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Post by Josh on Jul 17, 2021 17:39:39 GMT -5
Thanks Icctrombone, but I’ve actually been here since the beginning (used to post under “mars” and later “needs”).
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 17, 2021 18:01:52 GMT -5
Okay, welcome back Mars. Maybe you wanna join us in tomorrows zoom meeting ?
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 17, 2021 22:39:13 GMT -5
Not actual comics, but comics-history related.... I was lucky enough to acquire this-- it came yesterday. Some of the earliest published work of an influential comics icon... From the yearbook of DeWitt Clinton High School, 1935. The name is revealed at the top the left-hand column of the third image.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2021 23:25:24 GMT -5
Not actual comics, but comics-history related.... I was lucky enough to acquire this-- it came yesterday. Some of the earliest published work of an influential comics icon... From the yearbook of DeWitt Clinton High School, 1935. The name is revealed at the top the left-hand column of the third image. I am super-pumped to have this in my Eisner collection. Unfortunately, no Eisner signature within. However, these early illustrations were worth the price alone for me. These woodcuts were done when he was around 17 years old. That is simply freakin' awesome! Congrats on the acquisition. May I ask if this was an ebay find or from somewhere else? -M
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 17, 2021 23:33:32 GMT -5
Not actual comics, but comics-history related.... I was lucky enough to acquire this-- it came yesterday. Some of the earliest published work of an influential comics icon... From the yearbook of DeWitt Clinton High School, 1935. The name is revealed at the top the left-hand column of the third image. I am super-pumped to have this in my Eisner collection. Unfortunately, no Eisner signature within. However, these early illustrations were worth the price alone for me. These woodcuts were done when he was around 17 years old. That is simply freakin' awesome! Congrats on the acquisition. May I ask if this was an ebay find or from somewhere else? -M Somewhere else. Yearbooks on ebay are pretty insane, even for ones without prominent people. Don't get me wrong, they're out there, but I gave up on yearbooks on ebay-- when they start hitting the $50+ and upward range without autographs, you realize that they really aren't interested in selling, but are looking for a sucker. Used book dealers are a much more reliable source for this sort of thing. Turns out that this dealer was an estate liquidator, and unbeknownst to me at the time he happened to have the book listed on ebay as well, but I didn't buy it there. I'm sure that ebay would probably frown on that, but it was the bookseller's doing, not mine. Not surprisingly, I've seen Mile High and MCS do the exact same thing with ebay listings. I guess they view it as just another avenue for a potential sale.
On an interesting side note, you won't find a yearbook with Eisner as a graduating senior, because he didn't actually graduate. He failed a required geometry course in his senior year and never made up the course. Consequently, he never received a diploma. By then, he was already beginning to do small commercial art jobs.
Diploma or not, in the end I think he did alright.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 18, 2021 6:11:44 GMT -5
I'm happy for you that you got the yearbook, tartanphantom but if my purchase doesn't involve one person in costume punching another person in costume, I'm not buying t.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2021 7:38:23 GMT -5
I'm happy for you that you got the yearbook, tartanphantom but if my purchase doesn't involve one person in costume punching another person in costume, I'm not buying t. They you're missing out on a lot of good comics. -M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 18, 2021 7:47:47 GMT -5
I'm happy for you that you got the yearbook, tartanphantom but if my purchase doesn't involve one person in costume punching another person in costume, I'm not buying t. They you're missing out on a lot of good comics. -M I'm okay. I'm still reading a lot of good comics.
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