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Post by Ozymandias on May 8, 2022 0:48:37 GMT -5
Anyone hitting FCBD? I’m having fun doing my usual and trying to track them all down. My wonderful wife accompanied me to two stores that allowed ten each with food bank donation, so that knocked off 40 of them. Have a few coming thru DCBS, and my main store allowed 6. I mostly skipped the huge stacks of Marvel and DC ones, figuring I can find those after today. My main store is also having a 30% off back issues sale, and has put out a lot of new stock recently. They have 100s of long boxes of back issues. I found the complete run of the old CrossGen series Ruse for $1 an issue, so 70 cents times 26. Why not? My local shop (Super Fly Comics and Games) has no limit on how many you can get, so I only made one stop at a comic shop today, picked up my pull, got what I wanted of the freebies, and picked up a handful of D&D minis taking advantage of their storewide sale 925% off everything). The only other stop we made was at a local game store that was having a grand reopening under new ownership (the employees pooled their resources and bought the store whenthe previous owner of nearly 30 years decided to close up shop), where Mrs MRP spent a ton on gaming stuff, but no comics. -M How does a discount over 100% work?
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Post by Trevor on May 8, 2022 5:21:08 GMT -5
My local shop (Super Fly Comics and Games) has no limit on how many you can get, so I only made one stop at a comic shop today, picked up my pull, got what I wanted of the freebies, and picked up a handful of D&D minis taking advantage of their storewide sale 925% off everything). The only other stop we made was at a local game store that was having a grand reopening under new ownership (the employees pooled their resources and bought the store whenthe previous owner of nearly 30 years decided to close up shop), where Mrs MRP spent a ton on gaming stuff, but no comics. -M How does a discount over 100% work? You get everything for free, and 8.25 times the value given on future purchases when they restock the store.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2022 14:22:47 GMT -5
Amazon just dropped this off, I'm so excited to jump into it! Iron Man #129-144 covering late 1979 through the end of 1980. Got a lazy rest of the afternoon today, no work tomorrow or the next day which is my first break in a long time, and plan to finally relax with some good reading. Since the era of this volume starts with late '79, think I'll go full retro and start the '79 World Series on DVD tonight as well, got the whole set of complete games. Nothing like reliving one's youth at times!
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Post by tonebone on May 8, 2022 17:53:12 GMT -5
Amazon just dropped this off, I'm so excited to jump into it! Iron Man #129-144 covering late 1979 through the end of 1980. Got a lazy rest of the afternoon today, no work tomorrow or the next day which is my first break in a long time, and plan to finally relax with some good reading. Since the era of this volume starts with late '79, think I'll go full retro and start the '79 World Series on DVD tonight as well, got the whole set of complete games. Nothing like reliving one's youth at times! Never been a big Iron Man fan, EXCEPT for this era! Can't wait till there's an Epic Collection that covers it all!
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Post by Ozymandias on May 9, 2022 1:51:29 GMT -5
So far you're out of luck, because there's nothing in the epic collection for issues between 115 and 157. Those were collected in the OOP Omnibus.
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Post by spoon on May 9, 2022 18:57:29 GMT -5
Just got an order of comics in the mail. I got:
Excalibur #11, 13, 15-16, 18, 20, plus the Excalibur Visionaries: Alan Davis vol. 2 TPB Adventure Comics #441 (start of a stint of Jim Aparo Aquaman stories in Adventure between the cancellation and revival of his own series) Avengers Annual #17-18 Daredevil Annual #6-7 New Mutants #99 (finishing the run, if one includes reprints) Crimson Plague #1 (a George Perez Image title I decided to try; I think someone might've mentioned it here) Plus some stuff not old enough to be classic.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 9, 2022 20:31:27 GMT -5
Something about the theory of over 45 year olds buying most of the silver/ Bronze Age collected editions sounds off. How many of the older fans still exist in this hobby as opposed to the younger comic fans ? As far as I know , no one has charted the demographics and broken it down. Sounds like there’s no way to know how many true fans of comics are still buying them. Digital sales are still a mystery as they are not included in the final tally. I think the love of a good story is universal, regardless of how old something is
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Post by DubipR on May 10, 2022 17:40:02 GMT -5
Not a purchase but back from CGC
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2022 18:17:11 GMT -5
Not a purchase but back from CGC
What's turnaround time like right now? I had friends waiting over a year (they requested cleaning and pressing as well).
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Post by DubipR on May 10, 2022 18:38:02 GMT -5
Not a purchase but back from CGC
What's turnaround time like right now? I had friends waiting over a year (they requested cleaning and pressing as well).
I don't do pressing and cleaning. I slab as is. Right now, for GA and SA, it's about 12 months. BA and Modern are about 10. All these stupid signings push everything back. This one was 11 months from a batch of 12. The others are still 'scheduled for grading'
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Post by james on May 10, 2022 18:56:41 GMT -5
After a recent post about John Byrne’’s Iron Fist I decided to finish the run so I bought issues 5, and 8 and I’m rereading the issues I have. Still need 1,2,3, 6, 9, 10 and 14.
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Post by berkley on May 10, 2022 23:04:50 GMT -5
After a recent post about John Byrne’’s Iron Fist I decided to finish the run so I bought issues 5, and 8 and I’m rereading the issues I have. Still need 1,2,3, 6, 9, 10 and 14.
That run contains some of my favourite Byrne artwork. Both Frank Chiaramonte and Dan Adkins are right up there with Terry Austin as the best inkers Byrne ever worked with, in my view. Adkins always made everyone look great - Gulacy, BWS, ... I thought Chiaramonte was interesting in that he had a kind of softening effect on Byrne's art, which worked nicely with some of the more mystical scenes - I remember thinking at the time that I'd like to see how they'd do with a Doctor Strange story.
I thought Claremont was pretty good on IF too. In general, I wish the Claremont/Byrne creative team had had a much longer run on the series or the character. I don't know much about the later era, when it was Power Man and Iron Fist as a duo. I must have stopped following after Byrne left.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2022 16:48:38 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on May 11, 2022 17:18:25 GMT -5
That Super Friends cover looks suspiciously like Super-Mod Confessor peering in on a group of CCF malcontents-- who are likely contemplating starting a political thread...
Notice how WW uses the politically charged words, "mine" and "shaft" in the same sentence in order to foment disinformation among her ill-informed team-mates, while Batman, seeing the sudden appearance of the "Mod is online" marker, judiciously attempts to change the course of the discussion by substituting the word "burrow" in an obvious attempt to guide the discourse back to more neutral discussion points before it is too late.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2022 17:50:27 GMT -5
Dang it tartanphantom, now all I can see is a giant Jaxxon attacking the Super Friends
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