I just splurged on an order, after having put it off for the longest time, because a few different things came up at the same time with decent prices:

a whole slew of early '70s Marvel Thor comics, so I'm now missing only about ten or eleven issues from between 200 and 279 or so.

the rest of Chaykin's American Flagg - I mean the ones he both wrote and drew; but somehow I missed #22, the one Alan Moore wrote, which I had meant to include.

and a few odds and ends, mostly other early to mid '70s Marvel stuff, e.g. a few FF issues I was missing from that period.

Personally I'd just read it and enjoy it, but whichever way you decide to go, that's a heck of a gift, congrats!

Yeah, sometimes on a book that's gotten to be pricey, you can almost enjoy it a bit more with a collected edition...no stress to accidently add some unintended "wear" just through simple handling. Again, that's an amazing gift, I'm happy you get to enjoy it. 

Nothing says 70's like the Tarantula, or...La Tarentule?

Decided to treat myself, while Christmas shoppng, with some new old comic books yesterday from this really cool four story antique store downtown.


That Archie with that hilariously bad fatphobic joke on the cover is from Dec 1967, 55 years old this month! It's also super high grade, atleast as far as I can tell. It's been read before, including by me yesterday lol, and there's a date stamped on the cover (the wrong date, it says October 1967, but this is the December issue?), but otherwise this thing is pretty prestine considering I got it from a junk shop.


Ms. Tree is a series I always wanted to read, being a huge fan of Max Allan Collins, and these issues are very fitting as my first being holiday issues. Normally I wouldn't start in the middle of a series these days, and would track down the first issues or reprints (or scans if reprints aren't available). However I thought since this is a Christmas issue I'd go full holiday nostalgic and do what I did as a kid, just read what I could get my hands on. So even though these are issues 34 and 35 they will be the first Ms. Tree I read, then if I like them (which I'm sure I will) I'll track down a way to read it from the beginning.


Predator vs Magnus 2 is an issue I've needed for like 20 years. I've collected anything Valiant since I was able to read as a kid in the late 90s, and I've had the first issue of this double header since then. I always assumed it would be a cheap book (and it was), but comic shops are very limited around me.


Last, but not least, this Ironman graphic novel from the Epic Graphic Novel Line. I know absolutely nothing about it, but it was cheap and the claim of "The first computer generated graphic novel" has me iintrigued. I assume it was just drawn and colored digitally, but this would have been from the early or mid 80s, so that's pretty interesting.

Also if anyone has a good way to make my images smaller without losing quality I'd love to hear, I feel like the images being this big makes it harder to read the post, and takes up so much room. I'm pretty new to forums (or new again since I was on them as a kid), and don't remember how to do anything lol.