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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2022 13:38:28 GMT -5
You must be a rich man to own comics and then buy collections of the same comics. Why don't you just read the comics you already have and save yourself the price of a reprint? Spend the money you would've spent on a reprint on some new comics!  It's a sickness.  seriously, I have more than a few formats of my favorite series he Avengers. I have the comics, essentials , Dvd- rom , reprint comics. I also have various collected omnibuses and tpb's. He funny thing is that I find myself reading Marvel Unlimited these days rather than pulling out the actual books. I'm that way with Ditko era Spider-Man. I have 70's Pocket Books editions, at least 3 different versions (2 hardcover and 1 paperback) of the Masterworks editions (long story), the Epic collection editions, the Taschen oversized collection they released recently, and various stories reprinted in other collections (Fireside, etc.) Every purchase "made sense" at the time (maybe?) but now I'm like, "what the heck was I thinking?" |
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Post by The Captain on Jun 12, 2022 14:18:46 GMT -5
Is anyone having a hard time getting this stuff? Those books were all quarter bin filler for decades. Maybe, but those decades are over. I see lots of dollar boxes at comic shows and flea markets, but these days most of the stuff in them is "only" 25 years old or newer. Not much stuff on newsprint. What I see in a lot of the $1 boxes now are the 40 extra copies of Random Book X that were never going to sell, which the shop ordered so they could get the 1:100 Variant Cover, which they could sell online and make enough money to cover most of the entire order, not just that single title. As for the older stuff, if you go to the stores, you can still find it, at least around where I'm at. Thankfully, since Pittsburgh is a "big enough but not too big" city, I can hit multiple stores on a single Saturday and maximize my back issue bin diving. |
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Post by Ozymandias on Jun 12, 2022 16:25:17 GMT -5
It's a sickness. seriously, I have more than a few formats of my favorite series he Avengers. I have the comics, essentials , Dvd- rom , reprint comics. I also have various collected omnibuses and tpb's. He funny thing is that I find myself reading Marvel Unlimited these days rather than pulling out the actual books. I have a preference for the floppies, but sometimes I have to resist not to fall for the siren call. For example, this week they had the Roger Stern's Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus, at 78.75€ and I didn't bite. I know I won't see it that cheap anywhere else, and it's really appealing, but I already bought all the floppies and if I want to read a really good print, there's nothing better than the digital version. I like collections with good printing as well. Some of that newsprint paper of my beloved old Bronze Age books is a little rough on the eyes even though the covers still look cool and I love the nostaliga of having the originals. But sitting down with a collected run of favorite issues with good print quality is so easy on the eyes and fun. Depends on the art and coloring. Silver age looks better on the old paper, but who can afford them? The mentioned DVDs are probably the best way tho read them. The recent digital remaster doesn't work well for much of that material. As the art gets better, things like the Epic Collection might be the way to go. And then there's the recoloring, usually a disaster, but sometimes an improvement (Water Simonson's Omnibus). I'm that way with Ditko era Spider-Man. I have 70's Pocket Books editions, at least 3 different versions (2 hardcover and 1 paperback) of the Masterworks editions (long story), the Epic collection editions, the Taschen oversized collection they released recently, and various stories reprinted in other collections (Fireside, etc.) Every purchase "made sense" at the time (maybe?) but now I'm like, "what the heck was I thinking?" I'll get back to you on Ditko as soon as my copy of the Omnibus arrives (first they have to release it, already one month behind schedule). |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 12, 2022 16:39:41 GMT -5
It's a sickness. seriously, I have more than a few formats of my favorite series he Avengers. I have the comics, essentials , Dvd- rom , reprint comics. I also have various collected omnibuses and tpb's. He funny thing is that I find myself reading Marvel Unlimited these days rather than pulling out the actual books. I'm still mad that I bought Marvel Essentials Captain America 1 & 2 just as the first two epic collections were coming out. I probably will never by them because of the fact that they collect less than what's in the Essentials collections. And personally, after Kirby leaves Cap the first time, it kind of becomes a tad boring (I was never really big on Englehart's run, regardless of what it did for the book sales wise). 80's Cap is where it's at for me, that's why I'm glad I bought Dawn's Early Light and have Monsters And Men coming soon. Hopefully they'll collect Cap after Kirby came back the second time at some point, because I remember loving Roger McKenzie's run |
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Post by tonebone on Jun 13, 2022 10:07:00 GMT -5
I don't want floppies. I HAVE THE FLOPPIES. I want collections with good printing. You must be a rich man to own comics and then buy collections of the same comics. Why don't you just read the comics you already have and save yourself the price of a reprint? Spend the money you would've spent on a reprint on some new comics! I'm not a rich man, but I am a free man. I can spend my money buying however many versions of the same material I want. Floppies are inconvenient. I love HAVING them, but I find it a chore to dig them out, unseal each one and read them and replace them in the bag. I would prefer to read the material in a real book, with crisp printing, nice color and good paper. I'm not a fan of double dipping, but I do have many comics in multiple formats. From Hell and Watchmen, I have Black and White and color. I have 4 versions of Dark Knight Returns. I have lots of floppies that I have collections of. I never touch the floppies. And to your last point, new comics are shit. I don't buy new floppy comics. |
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Post by tonebone on Jun 13, 2022 10:19:32 GMT -5
Do trade collections/compilations count as "classic comics" purchased lately? I hope so as I don't collect individual comics anymore due to various reasons. I think so, I proudly showed off my two Thor and lone Captain America Epic Collections about a month or two ago. It bothers me that DC's attempt at doing so have kind of fallen on deaf ears (I'm looking at you Power Of Shazam! and Sandman Mystery Theater) I just recently finished the first Starman Compendium... which is sort of the same idea as the Epic Collections, but it's 3 inches thick, covers about 65 issues, and is $40, which is a pretty good deal.. .especially if you buy it at In Stock Trades, etc. and get it half off. They have done all of Fables, I think, and Y the Last Man, and are now doing Sandman and some others. |
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Post by Confessor on Jun 13, 2022 16:40:50 GMT -5
You must be a rich man to own comics and then buy collections of the same comics. Why don't you just read the comics you already have and save yourself the price of a reprint? Spend the money you would've spent on a reprint on some new comics! I'm not a rich man, but I am a free man. I can spend my money buying however many versions of the same material I want. Floppies are inconvenient. I love HAVING them, but I find it a chore to dig them out, unseal each one and read them and replace them in the bag. I would prefer to read the material in a real book, with crisp printing, nice color and good paper. I'm not a fan of double dipping, but I do have many comics in multiple formats. From Hell and Watchmen, I have Black and White and color. I have 4 versions of Dark Knight Returns. I have lots of floppies that I have collections of. I never touch the floppies. And to your last point, new comics are shit. I don't buy new floppy comics. Hey, no offence meant: of course you're entitled to spend your money on whatever you want. My post was intended to be a little tongue-in-cheek, but that might've got lost over the Internet. I was just saying that you could spend the money you spend on double dipping on buying new "old" comics that you hadn't read before. I wasn't suggesting that you buy modern comics, as I also don't generally find much to enjoy in terms of comics published by Marvel or DC these days (but when I say "comics", I'm talking about floppies, TPBs, graphic novels or even Tijuana Bibles!). |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 13, 2022 18:35:28 GMT -5
I think the compendium/OMnibus size is TOO big... I do have a couple of those for Silver age DC stuff, and they're kinda a pain. My favorite trade size is definitely the epics (20-25 issues of material)
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Post by tonebone on Jun 14, 2022 10:59:45 GMT -5
I'm not a rich man, but I am a free man. I can spend my money buying however many versions of the same material I want. Floppies are inconvenient. I love HAVING them, but I find it a chore to dig them out, unseal each one and read them and replace them in the bag. I would prefer to read the material in a real book, with crisp printing, nice color and good paper. I'm not a fan of double dipping, but I do have many comics in multiple formats. From Hell and Watchmen, I have Black and White and color. I have 4 versions of Dark Knight Returns. I have lots of floppies that I have collections of. I never touch the floppies. And to your last point, new comics are shit. I don't buy new floppy comics. Hey, no offence meant: of course you're entitled to spend your money on whatever you want. My post was intended to be a little tongue-in-cheek, but that might've got lost over the Internet. I was just saying that you could spend the money you spend on double dipping on buying new "old" comics that you hadn't read before. I wasn't suggesting that you buy modern comics, as I also don't generally find much to enjoy in terms of comics published by Marvel or DC these days (but when I say "comics", I'm talking about floppies, TPBs, graphic novels or even Tijuana Bibles!). Ha... no worries. Yeah I am a bit compulsive when it comes to certain comics... Amethyst, Captain Carrot, and some of the others from that era. My snarky response was probably rooted in my own self-loathing of my compulsion to double-dip. I guess I would rather have multiple formats of what I love, rather than have take a chance on new stuff. Although, I have been fortunate to have been able to buy a lot of TPBs and Hardcovers over the past few years, and so I DO buy a lot of new stuff. I didn't hesitate to spring for BWS's MONSTERS, The Darth Vader series, etc. Haven't run across any Tijuana Bibles, tho.  Tijuana Bibles - My grandpa had a few stashed away, that I discovered as a kid... one I remember featured Plastic Man - you can probably imagine how he used his powers. |
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Post by tonebone on Jun 14, 2022 11:07:13 GMT -5
I think the compendium/OMnibus size is TOO big... I do have a couple of those for Silver age DC stuff, and they're kinda a pain. My favorite trade size is definitely the epics (20-25 issues of material) Yeah, it is really the sweet spot... I also love the DC "deluxe" hardcovers.. Man of Steel, Shazam!, Leigion of Super Heroes... those are a really nice size, and nicely put together. I love the not-glossy-not-pure-white paper they use. Omnibi are really unweildy. Absolutes also. The DC Who's Who omnibus is so big and heavy, I have to FORCE myself to pull it off the shelf to read it. Like it's actual work to sit down with it. It's actually much easier to read sitting at a table. One thing about the Epic Collections... I LOVE the way Marvel has numbered them all... so that even if they start with the most popular era of the title, it might be Volume 9, but they have already figured out they can publish Volumes 1-8 to back-fill the series. I really appreciate that. I DO wish they would include the volume number in solicitations instead of just the title. "By Dawn's Early Light" is a cool title, but I don't know from that where it falls in the chronology. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2022 17:42:53 GMT -5
Got a nice batch of books in today I'm really excited about. I'll try to post some of the later 80's era ones also in the bunch at some point, but for today here's the earlier material I was able to find:  Ok, so Lassie...great adventure book actually! And no Dell major bait and switch on the art, the interiors are really nice. Soft spot for collies as well, our first family dog when I was growing up was a wonderful collie. I have really been enjoying Dagar too.   A cool Lois Lane, and also continuing to collect the Rima series, only 2 more needed after this (and already ordered). Can't wait to also complete reading the Space Voyagers backup.   Some Hercules Unbound (Garcia-Lopez pencils and Wally Wood inks on the first 6 issues!), and the last issue I needed to finally complete the Secret Society of Super-Villains series.   Gotta have a little Marvel thrown in. That FF issue has been a little tricky, everyone wants to sell an overpriced slab. Finally got a low price on a nice condition one. After reading the Squadron Supreme 80's series, had to grab this Two-In-One issue since the series referenced it at one point.  And now my hands down favorite...a book I got as a kid in 1983. This introduced me to a lot of material from the earlier decades of Superman. I was smitten with every era, and I reread this thing so many times the dust jacket literally wore out. I still remember reading the Golden Age debut of Mr. Mxyztplk (as he was at the time) in this volume, which quickly became one of my favorite Superman stories ever. It also established Wayne Boring and Curt Swan as my all-time favorite Superman artists. I've waited patiently for a nice copy to show up, and I'm ecstatic to finally have it back in my hands! Cover-to-cover read coming up this weekend for sure.  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 14, 2022 18:03:58 GMT -5
Some great pickups, @jaska!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2022 18:31:10 GMT -5
@jaska
If you're picking up Lassie books, keep an eye out for issues #20-222, they're probably some of the most affordable books with Matt Baker interiors in them.
And those Hercules books have some gorgeous Jose Luis Garcia Lopez inked by Wally Wood art in them. Later issues have Simonson/Wood material too.
I found the Shazam book that was part of that series the Supes book was from in my local library as a freshman in high school, it was one of my first real intros in GA comics in general and GA Capt. Marvel in particular. A few years back I was able to track down all 3 books (Superman, Shazam and Batman) for very reasonable prices, and now have all three.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 14, 2022 18:31:32 GMT -5
Got a nice batch of books in today I'm really excited about. I'll try to post some of the later 80's era ones also in the bunch at some point, but for today here's the earlier material I was able to find: Ok, so Lassie...great adventure book actually! And no Dell major bait and switch on the art, the interiors are really nice. Soft spot for collies as well, our first family dog when I was growing up was a wonderful collie. I have really been enjoying Dagar too. A cool Lois Lane, and also continuing to collect the Rima series, only 2 more needed after this (and already ordered). Can't wait to also complete reading the Space Voyagers backup. Some Hercules Unbound (Garcia-Lopez pencils and Wally Wood inks on the first 6 issues!), and the last issue I needed to finally complete the Secret Society of Super-Villains series. Gotta have a little Marvel thrown in. That FF issue has been a little tricky, everyone wants to sell an overpriced slab. Finally got a low price on a nice condition one. After reading the Squadron Supreme 80's series, had to grab this Two-In-One issue since the series referenced it at one point. And now my hands down favorite...a book I got as a kid in 1983. This introduced me to a lot of material from the earlier decades of Superman. I was smitten with every era, and I reread this thing so many times the dust jacket literally wore out. I still remember reading the Golden Age debut of Mr. Mxytplk (as he was at the time) in this volume, which quickly became one of my favorite Superman stories ever. It also established Wayne Boring and Curt Swan as my all-time favorite Superman artists. I've waited patiently for a nice copy to show up, and I'm ecstatic to finally have it back in my hands! Cover-to-cover read coming up this weekend for sure. Very nice cache of variety there! FYI-- issues #20, 21 and 22 of that MGM's Lassie series feature interior pencils by Matt Baker... it's probably some of the most affordable and accessible Baker art available (as @mrp noted in the post above, while I was composing this).
Can never go wrong with a Turok vs. Honkers story... and I'm a big fan of the short-lived Rima series. I love the interior Redondo art as much as the Kubert covers. As far as the character goes, many folks don't know that Rima pre-dated Burrough's Tarzan by about 8 years. The character was created by W.H. Hudson in 1904, appearing in his novel, Green Mansions. In the novel, Rima supposedly dies at the end, but Robert Kanigher (in one of his better scripts at the time) took artistic license and had her escape. As a kid, I always found it very cool that her clothing was fashioned out of spider silk.
I've got a huge post to make next, with a large variety such as your post. Hope you like it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2022 18:34:04 GMT -5
Got a nice batch of books in today I'm really excited about. I'll try to post some of the later 80's era ones also in the bunch at some point, but for today here's the earlier material I was able to find: Ok, so Lassie...great adventure book actually! And no Dell major bait and switch on the art, the interiors are really nice. Soft spot for collies as well, our first family dog when I was growing up was a wonderful collie. I have really been enjoying Dagar too. A cool Lois Lane, and also continuing to collect the Rima series, only 2 more needed after this (and already ordered). Can't wait to also complete reading the Space Voyagers backup. Some Hercules Unbound (Garcia-Lopez pencils and Wally Wood inks on the first 6 issues!), and the last issue I needed to finally complete the Secret Society of Super-Villains series. Gotta have a little Marvel thrown in. That FF issue has been a little tricky, everyone wants to sell an overpriced slab. Finally got a low price on a nice condition one. After reading the Squadron Supreme 80's series, had to grab this Two-In-One issue since the series referenced it at one point. And now my hands down favorite...a book I got as a kid in 1983. This introduced me to a lot of material from the earlier decades of Superman. I was smitten with every era, and I reread this thing so many times the dust jacket literally wore out. I still remember reading the Golden Age debut of Mr. Mxytplk (as he was at the time) in this volume, which quickly became one of my favorite Superman stories ever. It also established Wayne Boring and Curt Swan as my all-time favorite Superman artists. I've waited patiently for a nice copy to show up, and I'm ecstatic to finally have it back in my hands! Cover-to-cover read coming up this weekend for sure. Very nice cache of variety there! FYI-- issues #20, 21 and 22 of that MGM's Lassie series feature interior pencils by Matt Baker... it's probably some of the most affordable and accessible Baker art available (as @mrp noted in the post above, while I was composing this).
Can never go wrong with a Turok vs. Honkers story... and I'm a big fan of the short-lived Rima series. I love the interior Redondo art as much as the Kubert covers. As far as the character goes, many folks don't know that Rima pre-dated Burrough's Tarzan by about 8 years. The character was created by W.H. Hudson in 1904, appearing in his novel, Green Mansions. In the novel, Rima supposedly dies at the end, but Robert Kanigher (in one of his better scripts at the time) took artistic license and had her escape. I've got a huge post to make next, with a large variety such as your post. Hope you like it.
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seriously, I have more than a few formats of my favorite series he Avengers. I have the comics, essentials , Dvd- rom , reprint comics. I also have various collected omnibuses and tpb's. He funny thing is that I find myself reading Marvel Unlimited these days rather than pulling out the actual books. 
