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Post by DubipR on Jan 17, 2022 22:07:59 GMT -5
I'm having a good day today. As most of you know, part of my comic collecting is turning some book runs into personal hardcovers and binds as part of my library. I got six back from the company. I have a friend of mine make the cover, spine and back designs. This time around 1. Xenozoic Tales -collects Death Rattle #8 & issues 1-14 2. Subhuman- 4 issue mini-series written and created by Mark Schultz 3. Evil Eye - collects issue of 1-12 of the great Richard Sala's series 4. The Spirit by Darwyn Cooke- collects Batman/Spirit & issues 1-12 5. Batman Confidential: The Cat & the Bat- collects Batman Confidential issues 17-21 6. New Spirit Adventures- collects issues 1-8 Seems Reeses was interested in my books..
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 17, 2022 22:17:32 GMT -5
Is Batman #423 supposed to be worth something? $200-$300 in high grade is where I usually see it. Almost exclusively for the McFarlane cover. -M Huh. I paid 75 cents for mine.
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Post by DubipR on Jan 17, 2022 22:29:36 GMT -5
$200-$300 in high grade is where I usually see it. Almost exclusively for the McFarlane cover. -M Huh. I paid 75 cents for mine. Same here. All those books listed, I paid cover price for. If I can turn this around in a few months and pocket $250/300 as profit, I'm okay with that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2022 0:32:45 GMT -5
I'm having a good day today. As most of you know, part of my comic collecting is turning some book runs into personal hardcovers and binds as part of my library. I got six back from the company. I have a friend of mine make the cover, spine and back designs. This time around 1. Xenozoic Tales -collects Death Rattle #8 & issues 1-14 2. Subhuman- 4 issue mini-series written and created by Mark Schultz 3. Evil Eye - collects issue of 1-12 of the great Richard Sala's series 4. The Spirit by Darwyn Cooke- collects Batman/Spirit & issues 1-12 5. Batman Confidential: The Cat & the Bat- collects Batman Confidential issues 17-21 6. New Spirit Adventures- collects issues 1-8 Seems Reeses was interested in my books.. These covers are one-of-a-kind then?
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 18, 2022 0:42:10 GMT -5
$200-$300 in high grade is where I usually see it. Almost exclusively for the McFarlane cover. -M Huh. I paid 75 cents for mine.
same here.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2022 0:42:26 GMT -5
I'm having a good day today. As most of you know, part of my comic collecting is turning some book runs into personal hardcovers and binds as part of my library. I got six back from the company. I have a friend of mine make the cover, spine and back designs. This time around 1. Xenozoic Tales -collects Death Rattle #8 & issues 1-14 2. Subhuman- 4 issue mini-series written and created by Mark Schultz 3. Evil Eye - collects issue of 1-12 of the great Richard Sala's series 4. The Spirit by Darwyn Cooke- collects Batman/Spirit & issues 1-12 5. Batman Confidential: The Cat & the Bat- collects Batman Confidential issues 17-21 6. New Spirit Adventures- collects issues 1-8 These covers are one-of-a-kind then? I recognize the art on the Spirt and Xenozoic volumes, so no. I think his friend is doing the graphics design work using existing art for the series, not doing new art for these volumes. I don't think you would be able to find volumes with these exact covers for sale anywhere else, but the art used on them is available on other volumes. For example this is the officially released Spirit New Adventures HC put out in 2016 by Dark Horse... cover art is the same (it's the cover art to the first issue of the series (see below) but the "trade dress" is different and the exact design of the covers is different. It won't have company logos and the text and blurbs on the covers are likely different, saying what DubipR wants them to say rather than a marketing or editor at a publisher. -M
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Post by tonebone on Jan 18, 2022 10:52:18 GMT -5
OK, I haven't really posted any new things since Christmas. However, I've been putting it off because I've got a pretty big stack of stuff here.
This particular post is a rather insane, quirky series.
Many of you are familiar with "Chick Tracts", the little illustrated religious pamphlet comics that have been around since the mid '60s, published by Jack T. Chick, a somewhat controversial figure in his own right. They were printed in a format similar to tijuana bibles, but that's where the similarity pretty much ends. Chick Tracts have seen worldwide distribution in many languages, and there are some that were foreign language exclusives, meaning that they were never reprinted in English. Jack Chick himself scripted and drew the first tracts, but additional artists were added later.
I have a rather extensive collection of Chick Tracts, but Chick collectors are a sort of a specialized club-- there are those who are believers in the material, and others who are cynical of the subject material but still recognize their sometimes hilarious and sometimes cringy appeal. There's even a Chick Tract Collectors Club as well as a well-researched book and even a short documentary film.
In addition to the little tract publications, Chick also published a line of full-sized comics under the " The Crusaders" title beginning in the 1970's. Unlike the tracts, the comics were published in full color, but the subject matter was no less controversial and just as heavy-handed in its message.
For Christmas, my son (and comic-collecting partner-in-crime) gave me a full 24-issue mint set of the Crusaders comics.
Wow... those bring back some memories... when I met the guy who would become my best friend in college, we had an interest in comics in common, but when he showed me his Chic comics collection I was blown away. I had never seen these things. I had seen the tracts here and there, and thought they were pretty weird, but these comics were in a league of their own. the art was fantastic, and the coloring was something I had never seen before... full-on-painted color! The writing was terrible, and aimed at converting the unwashed masses, but really didn't convince me. One thing my friend and I found really funny... when people laugh in the ChicVerse, they go "HAW HAW HAW". I read a lengthy article a while back about the artist for most of those comics... it was pretty interesting, and I am not sure he even gets credit in the comics... If I can find it, I will edit this post. Thanks for posting those, tartanphantom !
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Post by DubipR on Jan 18, 2022 12:52:13 GMT -5
These covers are one-of-a-kind then? I recognize the art on the Spirt and Xenozoic volumes, so no. I think his friend is doing the graphics design work using existing art for the series, not doing new art for these volumes. I don't think you would be able to find volumes with these exact covers for sale anywhere else, but the art used on them is available on other volumes. For example this is the officially released Spirit New Adventures HC put out in 2016 by Dark Horse... cover art is the same (it's the cover art to the first issue of the series (see below) but the "trade dress" is different and the exact design of the covers is different. It won't have company logos and the text and blurbs on the covers are likely different, saying what DubipR wants them to say rather than a marketing or editor at a publisher. -M Correct. One of a kind as in they're made only for me. I looked through all the covers and sometimes interiors to find something that would be a good choice for a cover. Mainly I've been using the comic covers because that's what most of the Omnibi and other trades use. I'm just putting them into a collection for me. Even though stuff like Spirit New Adventures has been solicited, why pay again for something I have in my collection? So I'm binding items that that mostly will never see the light of day of ever getting a trade or taking stuff that's been solicited prior (like Xenozoic Tales) and making my own version. Of those 6 books, both Spirits, Xenozoic Tales and the Evil Eye (solicited under Peculia from Fantagraphics) have had a collection. The others will never get a trade but it's books or runs I like that would look neat if they got one.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2022 13:27:32 GMT -5
It's great to know about this...maybe I can eventually do something similar with all those coverless Archies I always come across and give them a new lease of life in a nicely done 'personalised' HC with some handpicked cover art.
I've never seen a collected Millie the Model either so I might keep an eye out for coverless copies with the same intent.
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Post by DubipR on Jan 18, 2022 16:02:55 GMT -5
It's great to know about this...maybe I can eventually do something similar with all those coverless Archies I always come across and give them a new lease of life in a nicely done 'personalised' HC with some handpicked cover art.
I've never seen a collected Millie the Model either so I might keep an eye out for coverless copies with the same intent.
Sent you a PM.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2022 16:34:19 GMT -5
It's great to know about this...maybe I can eventually do something similar with all those coverless Archies I always come across and give them a new lease of life in a nicely done 'personalised' HC with some handpicked cover art.
I've never seen a collected Millie the Model either so I might keep an eye out for coverless copies with the same intent.
Sent you a PM. Got it, thanks
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Post by arfetto on Jan 18, 2022 16:40:12 GMT -5
It is not a lot, but here are some comics I got recently.
These I got for a dollar each in person. This one I got online awhile back but still haven't removed the tape and stuff:
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 18, 2022 17:01:20 GMT -5
It is not a lot, but here are some comics I got recently.
These I got for a dollar each in person. This one I got online awhile back but still haven't removed the tape and stuff:
You got issues of Unexpected and HOS... that's enough for me!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 18, 2022 19:55:39 GMT -5
I spy with my little eye a Jim Starlin cover on that HOS.
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Post by berkley on Jan 18, 2022 22:38:00 GMT -5
I'm having a good day today. As most of you know, part of my comic collecting is turning some book runs into personal hardcovers and binds as part of my library. I got six back from the company. I have a friend of mine make the cover, spine and back designs. This time around 1. Xenozoic Tales -collects Death Rattle #8 & issues 1-14 2. Subhuman- 4 issue mini-series written and created by Mark Schultz 3. Evil Eye - collects issue of 1-12 of the great Richard Sala's series 4. The Spirit by Darwyn Cooke- collects Batman/Spirit & issues 1-12 5. Batman Confidential: The Cat & the Bat- collects Batman Confidential issues 17-21 6. New Spirit Adventures- collects issues 1-8 Seems Reeses was interested in my books..
Did th images disappear? I can't see anything.
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