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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2024 17:48:20 GMT -5
MILLIE (Mother-in-law-looks-in-everything) spied this and evaluated 14 of the 17 Bronze-Age GHOSTS to be in VF shape...and negotiated a good deal  She's keeping an eye out for runs in nice shape and with some luck I'll be expanding my DC horror line a bit over the next few months. She got me 75% of the Herbies and is looking at Swing with Scooter next.....
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Post by Trevor on Mar 18, 2024 21:07:03 GMT -5
Couldn’t resist this in the dollar bin. Beat to crap, but complete except the back cover.  |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 20, 2024 15:10:17 GMT -5
Took advantage of Lonestar's pop up sale on trades last week (30% off) to pick up a few classic runs in trade, and rounded it out with a handful of stuff from the $1 comics sale...  got the last 2 volumes of the SA Green Lantern collections to give me all 4 now. Also grabbed a copy of the Zatanna's Search tpb to finally have a copy of Hawkman 4 in color (I have it the Showcase collection but not in color). I had just gotten a notifier they had a cheap copy in stock when I got the notice of the trade sale (which made it even cheaper).  The Dragonstrike is another "official" D&D comic off my want list, and I've not read much of the '03 Aquaman series so I snagged a few on the cheap to sample it. -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 20, 2024 19:27:53 GMT -5
Whelp, christmas came early! Wasn't supposed to get here until Monday  Funnily enough I just finished reading the "original quest" today, so I'm excited to dive into Volume 2 |
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Post by berkley on Mar 20, 2024 21:03:06 GMT -5
I picked up a Trigan Empire collection that I came across in a used bookstore. I was in two minds whether I should buy it or not, as I have no idea whether it's part of a series or just a random collection of stories from different points in the overall chronology. If it turns out to be the latter, I could well end up buying other books to cover the gaps, rendering this one redundant. However, the price seemed reasonable and I didn't want to take a chance on leaving it until I was able to research it a little more, so I went ahead. It's around 180 pages and has no introduction or explanation of the contents apart from listing the titles.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 21, 2024 4:08:13 GMT -5
I encourage everyone who posts here to check out the weekly thread called Top Shelf Friday. It 's run by MRPs_Missives and gives you an opportunity to post the books in your collection that you think are special. It's a lot like this thread but you can showcase the books you already have from the past. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2024 15:42:12 GMT -5
This is the very rare 'Vampirella Special by Jose Gonzales' from 1977. It was the very first collected edition, 88 pages, approx 8.5 x 11 and in full-colour. Getting these above mid-grade is near impossible but my source had 2-3 in VF or better. I think my favourite Vamp story, Death's Dark Angel is included and worth the price I paid (well below the $150 tag...)
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Post by DubipR on Mar 22, 2024 17:25:23 GMT -5
This is the very rare 'Vampirella Special by Jose Gonzales' from 1977. It was the very first collected edition, 88 pages, approx 8.5 x 11 and in full-colour. Getting these above mid-grade is near impossible but my source had 2-3 in VF or better. I think my favourite Vamp story, Death's Dark Angel is included and worth the price I paid (well below the $150 tag...)
Congrats. The Warren special books, this and the Spirit, are getting super rare to find. I paid a little under $100 for mine but its worth it. Great find. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 22, 2024 21:00:32 GMT -5
I picked up a Trigan Empire collection that I came across in a used bookstore. I was in two minds whether I should buy it or not, as I have no idea whether it's part of a series or just a random collection of stories from different points in the overall chronology. If it turns out to be the latter, I could well end up buying other books to cover the gaps, rendering this one redundant. However, the price seemed reasonable and I didn't want to take a chance on leaving it until I was able to research it a little more, so I went ahead. It's around 180 pages and has no introduction or explanation of the contents apart from listing the titles. Doesn't matter too much, there's only like 3 stories that are just repeated over and over. The art is great though |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2024 10:40:29 GMT -5
Love tying up an annoying loose end, this #5 completes my SPOOF run.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 24, 2024 22:18:54 GMT -5
So today was the spring Champion City Comic Con here in town, my second show in 2 weeks, but probably my last until summer. This was is run by my friend Jesse, who also runs Gem City Comic Con in Dayton and the FB auction group I get a lot of books from. Speaking of that group, I picked up both of the books I had gotten there since I last saw Jesse 2 weeks ago, and dropped off a small box of trades I was purging that will give me credit towards those auctions. Here are the 2 books I got from the FB group...  I toured the room and started browsing at the dealer in the back corner after circling the room once to see who was there. This dealer had a number of boxes filled with $5 books, but they were 3/$10 so essentially but 2 get 1 free. and I picked up several books from him, including Metal Men #20 (the birthday cake cover), the Verotick Frazetta Death Dealer #3 to complete that series, an Amazing Spider-Man #158 (one of the books I had as a kid-I am trying to recreate that collection), an issue of RBCc with a gorgeous Flash Gordon cover, copies of the Daredevil Love & War and Batman Son of the Demon OGNs and some Bronze Batman stuff...    After I paid and loaded the books in my bag, Jesse came up to me and pointed out that this dealer had some quarter bins on the flor that I hadn't seen, so I got a chair and started flipping through the quarter bins. Because I had just bought a bunch of other books, he only charged me $5 for the whole stack (there was like $6-$7 worth of books, so not a huge deal, but free comics is free comics!) Here's what I got form the quarter bins:    next I went to the table of Jesse's con travelling partner (they set up together at shows a lot and Bill co-runs Gem City with Jesse). Here I spent the most for any single comics all day-a whopping $5-for Batman/Hellboy/Starman #2 to finish that mini-I hadn't seen it for under $15ish in 4 years)  and then raided his dollar bins for 15 more books to make it an even $20 at the table...I was surprised to see a Flash (1987) #1 in there, it's a solid VF. They usually fetch in the $10ish range last I saw.   I then walked around browsing through dollar bins and finding deals. One dealer had by 5 get 1 free on his dollar books and I picked up these 5 books, including Jonah Hex #50 by Darwyn Cooke, a book I have been hunting and nly finding in the $15-$20 range since I started (the variant featuring a different Darwyn cover goes for about the same but I didn't find that)  I was close to the end of my walk-around money that I brought at this point (not a lot), and was not going to break out a card or paypal, so I only stopped at 1 more table on my way out, to browse their dollar bins. They had a buy 10 get 5 free sale going on with their dollar books, and he threw in an extra book when I miscounted and had 16...   All in all a good show, spent some time chatting and catching up with con friends, meeting new folks and dealers, and doing a lot of dollar bin diving. I spent around 2 hours there, found a few books at good prices that finished off a couple of nagging series, and continued the Batbinge I've been on for a bit now. Not planning on doing another show until Gem City this summer, but we'll see. -M |
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Post by berkley on Mar 24, 2024 23:47:18 GMT -5
Love tying up an annoying loose end, this #5 completes my SPOOF run.
I read this when I was a kid, along with a couple other issues of Spoof. I liked them a lot and still remember some of the jokes - e.g. in the Night Gallery parody, Rod Serling announcing "Here's a story with a surprise ending entitled, 'Man Gets Killed by Falling Safe and Doesn't Know He's Dead!'."
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 25, 2024 17:06:51 GMT -5
I saw a beat-up but not-too-beat-up copy of Detective Comics #237 on eBay. It’s got a nice glossy cover but it has a few defects, like a 1.5-inch spine split and some slightly ragged edges on the front cover. But it looks pretty nice mostly. We’ll see when it gets here, I guess. Only $150.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 25, 2024 17:37:44 GMT -5
I saw a beat-up but not-too-beat-up copy of Detective Comics #237 on eBay. It’s got a nice glossy cover but it has a few defects, like a 1.5-inch spine split and some slightly ragged edges on the front cover. But it looks pretty nice mostly. We’ll see when it gets here, I guess. Only $150. Is it a key book ? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 25, 2024 18:01:14 GMT -5
I saw a beat-up but not-too-beat-up copy of Detective Comics #237 on eBay. It’s got a nice glossy cover but it has a few defects, like a 1.5-inch spine split and some slightly ragged edges on the front cover. But it looks pretty nice mostly. We’ll see when it gets here, I guess. Only $150. Is it a key book ? No, it is not. It’s the one that has the cover where Batman is training several different Robins, and Robin has a tear in his eye because he thinks he’s being replaced. |
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She's keeping an eye out for runs in nice shape and with some luck I'll be expanding my DC horror line a bit over the next few months. She got me 75% of the Herbies and is looking at Swing with Scooter next.....
