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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 12, 2022 9:17:19 GMT -5
A toy dealer who tends to price high just got these in:  30 (he said--I didn't count) stripped DCs. He wanted $90, which I wasn't going to pay. If he has them next time, I'm thinking of counting and then offering a buck a book. I'm shaking my head that he wanted 90. He'll never move them. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2022 12:36:04 GMT -5
A toy dealer who tends to price high just got these in: 30 (he said--I didn't count) stripped DCs. He wanted $90, which I wasn't going to pay. If he has them next time, I'm thinking of counting and then offering a buck a book. Yeah, $3 each is too much for those. They do look like good comics, though. $1 each sounds like a fair offer. Good luck! A toy dealer who tends to price high just got these in: 30 (he said--I didn't count) stripped DCs. He wanted $90, which I wasn't going to pay. If he has them next time, I'm thinking of counting and then offering a buck a book. I'm shaking my head that he wanted 90. He'll never move them. y'all need to look at what coverless and remaindered copies of keys are actually selling for at auction and in the wild. A remaindered key could still fetch 4-5 figures depending on which book it is, and a coverless Action 1 still fetched 6 figures. Now if its not a key, the prices aren't out there, but as we get further out from when these books came out and demand increases for certain book, lower grade, remaindered, and coverless copies are starting to fetch premium prices, so it's not a stretch he was asking $3 a pop. I regularly see coverless golden age books at cons prices at $20 and up. Not sure what sales are at on them, but the market for those types of books is much higher than it has been in the past. (and I am sure there are some less scrupulous dealers snapping them up and frankensteining better copies as well) -M edit to add: not saying folks should pay more than they think they are worth, or that I would pay much for these, just that perspectives of what the actual market is for these types of books needs to be revised based on what is actually happening out there. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2022 17:55:51 GMT -5
Punisher Max Hardcover which reprints several of the Punisher Max one-shots. I have all the comics but this was a giveaway.
Got it for 0.99c plus shipping.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 13, 2022 18:26:59 GMT -5
I don’t remember buying a comic without a full cover. You have to draw the line somewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2022 18:41:44 GMT -5
I don’t remember buying a comic without a full cover. You have to draw the line somewhere. I have a half of a short box of coverless 60s era books that I "bought" for a dollar*. There's a lot of Sugar and Spike and Superman related books in there from what I remembered, but I haven't gone through it in much detail. I bought it with an eye towards crafting rather than collecting, but I haven't gotten around to doing anything with it yet. *I was buying a bunch of comics from a dealer friend of mine who was cutting me a deal and asked if I had any interest in the coverless books. I said maybe for crafting, and he responded by saying I'll throw them in, to which I said, don't you can get something for them. He had knocked like $30 off the total of what I was buying for a deal price, and responded by adding $1 to the price and handed me the box of coverless books and said "there I got something for them." So I technically bought them for a buck I guess. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2022 19:01:47 GMT -5
I don’t remember buying a comic without a full cover. You have to draw the line somewhere.
I would never buy them but I love them as reading copies, especially in the loo.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 13, 2022 19:04:44 GMT -5
I don’t remember buying a comic without a full cover. You have to draw the line somewhere. I have a half of a short box of coverless 60s era books that I "bought" for a dollar*. There's a lot of Sugar and Spike and Superman related books in there from what I remembered, but I haven't gone through it in much detail. I bought it with an eye towards crafting rather than collecting, but I haven't gotten around to doing anything with it yet. *I was buying a bunch of comics from a dealer friend of mine who was cutting me a deal and asked if I had any interest in the coverless books. I said maybe for crafting, and he responded by saying I'll throw them in, to which I said, don't you can get something for them. He had knocked like $30 off the total of what I was buying for a deal price, and responded by adding $1 to the price and handed me the box of coverless books and said "there I got something for them." So I technically bought them for a buck I guess. -M I have bought water damaged but I like a full cover. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2022 20:51:38 GMT -5
I have a half of a short box of coverless 60s era books that I "bought" for a dollar*. There's a lot of Sugar and Spike and Superman related books in there from what I remembered, but I haven't gone through it in much detail. I bought it with an eye towards crafting rather than collecting, but I haven't gotten around to doing anything with it yet. *I was buying a bunch of comics from a dealer friend of mine who was cutting me a deal and asked if I had any interest in the coverless books. I said maybe for crafting, and he responded by saying I'll throw them in, to which I said, don't you can get something for them. He had knocked like $30 off the total of what I was buying for a deal price, and responded by adding $1 to the price and handed me the box of coverless books and said "there I got something for them." So I technically bought them for a buck I guess. -M I have bought water damaged but I like a full cover. See water damage is my line. I avoid water damage whenever possible. They usually stink to high heaven with mildew or mold and makes for an unpleasant experience handling the book let alone reading it. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2022 22:13:22 GMT -5
Just prior to Gem City Comic Con, I made the decision to try to recreate the collection of comics I had as a kid (i.e. those I owned before starting high school). Part of the decision was also to try to get them in a condition similar to what they would have been in when I owned them as a kid, so low grade readers for the most part because I didn't read an issue once as a kid, I read it hundreds of times and usually read books near to tatters. I picked up some at Gem City, (some in a little better condition than I had as a kid), and I added two more when I went to the lcs earlier this week to pick up my pull. These look lore like the stuf fI remember having as a kid (though the ASM #155 is in better shape than mine had been which had a detached cover because I read it so much.  -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 14, 2022 2:15:22 GMT -5
I have bought water damaged but I like a full cover. See water damage is my line. I avoid water damage whenever possible. They usually stink to high heaven with mildew or mold and makes for an unpleasant experience handling the book let alone reading it. -M I’d much rather have coverless books than water damaged. I bought about a dozen water damaged 1960s Marvell westerns for about $5 one time. It wasn’t worth it. They went in the dumpster. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2022 8:50:01 GMT -5
See water damage is my line. I avoid water damage whenever possible. They usually stink to high heaven with mildew or mold and makes for an unpleasant experience handling the book let alone reading it. -M I’d much rather have coverless books than water damaged. I bought about a dozen water damaged 1960s Marvell westerns for about $5 one time. It wasn’t worth it. They went in the dumpster. The books that I have are slight wrinkled covers, not all out mildew encrusted messes. Three of these books are the type I mean  |
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Post by Ozymandias on Aug 14, 2022 10:01:18 GMT -5
the ASM #155 is in better shape than mine had been which had a detached cover because I read it so much Same thing happened to me with this one, had to hold it together with tape:
I'm getting the Omnibus on Wednesday, though.
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Post by Ozymandias on Aug 14, 2022 10:03:46 GMT -5
Three of these books are the type I mean Can the mild cases be "fixed" trough pressing? The smell won't go away, but the waviness at least. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 14, 2022 10:04:34 GMT -5
The local Rotary Club has a second-hand bookstore in town, and I found these two escapees from a college library there :
  One never has too many Edgar P. Jacobs books around! I had read The Yellow Mark before, but didn't own a copy. It's a classic of the Franco-Belgian comics world. The Son of Spartacus is one of the last good Alix books, and even then it's a bit slow-paced. The plot has tremendous potential: the widow of Spartacus, with their twenty-ish son in tow, wants Alix's help to join Caesar's camp in Gaul. The existence of the kid poses a problem for Pompey, who fears that he might be made the figurehead of a new revolt among the slaves and the plebs, and even worse: that Caesar might either side with him (being popular among the Hoi polloi) or might bring his armies to Rome to crush the rebellion and assume dictatorial powers. Alix volunteers to help take Spartacus's son to Thrace, instead of Gaul, so he can escape such intrigues. His mother, however, turns out to be a very cold-blooded sort; she wants to make the boy's existence known, yes, but not to lead a popular revolt; she wants to unsettle the authorities long enough for them to offer a sizable reward for the kid's head, a reward she intends to collect.
What follows is a trip through Italy, a trip that ends when our party is captured by a local governor who clearly intends to play both sides against the middle. The man was willing to bide his time but is forced to act when Caesar's envoys fail to show up (a carrier pigeon having fallen prey to a hawk) and Pompey's own envoys try to grab the kid by force. The governor's soldiers and Pompey's men kill each other, and Alix (with the help of the governor's slaves, who are sympathetic to Spartacus's cause) help the captives escape.
As ever in the early Alix books, a lot of attention is given to Roman history, politics and geography. Spartacus (in flashbacks) is not depicted as a pure freedom fighter, but pretty much as he was shown in Arthur Koestler's novel; likewise, his failed "worker's paradise" is shown for what it was.
A serious book, and one that shows how respectful of children's intelligence the Tintin weekly journal was. I learned way more about Roman history reading Alix than I did at school, that's for sure.
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Post by DubipR on Aug 14, 2022 14:23:14 GMT -5
Re-doing my graphic novel library by making my own personal binds, 7 more came from the bindery of fun and semi-forgotten minis and short lived series. 1. Angel & the Ape- This is a flipbook idea of taking the 90s mini from Phil Foglio and the Vertigo mini by Howard Chaykin. 2. Daughters of the Dragon/Heroes For Hire- Taking the fun mini series by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray that lead into the ongoing book during Civil War. 3. DC Comics Presents: Tim Truman- 2 different series from Truman. From the short lived Helix series, The Black Lamb. A monster post-apocalyptic book. Guns of the Dragon- Two fisted adventure with fun DC characters. 4. Black Canary- The 90s series. Starts with the original mini and the 12 issues. 5. Blaze of Glory/Apache Skies- Ostrander's two Marvel western series finally collected... by me! 6. Nathaniel Dusk- Collects both of the MacGregor/Colan minis. 7. Silverblade- The entire maxi-series by Bates & Colan.        |
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