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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2015 16:11:25 GMT -5
Well it was coupon week at Half Price Books and today was the 50% off highest item coupon, so Amy and took a day trip to Columbus to go out to eat, hit some ethnic food bakeries and do a little book shopping.
I took the pile of trades I had listed on the CCE that no one had claimed and sold the to HPB for almost $30 which gave me a little operating capital for the back issue hunt. We went to 2 HPB, the one near the OSU campus has lots of 50 cent and dollar bins, and the other has quarter and dollar bins.
Before diving in to those I looked of rmy higher ticket items to use the coupons on-was looking for some trades but ended up getting a few artbooks instead.
Amy picked out the Dynamite Art of Alex Ross oversive book as she is a big fan of Ross' art-$40 cover $10 after coupon.
I got the Drawing from Life by Joe Kubert hardcover and Magnetic Storm-The art of Roger Dean for about $10 combined after coupons.
The rest of the hunt went as follows...
from the quarter bins: Crossfire (Eclipse) #7 Hall of Fame Comics featuring the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (JC Comics) #3 Jon Sable, Freelance (First) #7-9, 17 The Metabarons (Humanoids) #14 The New DNAgents (Eclipse) #2 New Wave (Eclipse) #3 Nexus (First) #53-55 Sabre (Eclipse) #3, 6 The Spirit (2007 series; DC) #15 Sun Runners (Pacific) #1 Whisper (First Comics) #13 Silverblade (DC) #12
from the 50 cent bins Amazing Heroes Preview #5 Summer 1987 Grimjack (First) #6 Incredible Hulk #181 (Marvel Legends reprint) New Wave (Eclipse) #2 Nexus (First) #24, 25, 27-29, 31, 36-48, 50
from the $1 bins Airboy (Eclipse) #11, 21 Airboy Meets the Prowler (Eclipse) #1 Avengers (Busiek run, Marvel) #7, 32 Conan (Dark Horse) #0 Fate (DC) #17 Hawkman (2003 series, DC) #46 Occult Files of Doctor Spektor (Gold Key) #11 Omega Men Annual #1 (DC) Shaman's Tears (Image; Grell) #4 Tarzan (Marvel) #23 Valkyrie (an Air Fighters mini; Eclipse) #1, 3
so not a bad day of hunting.
-M
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Post by paulie on Mar 22, 2015 17:33:09 GMT -5
Well it was coupon week at Half Price Books and today was the 50% off highest item coupon, so Amy and took a day trip to Columbus to go out to eat, hit some ethnic food bakeries and do a little book shopping. I took the pile of trades I had listed on the CCE that no one had claimed and sold the to HPB for almost $30 which gave me a little operating capital for the back issue hunt. We went to 2 HPB, the one near the OSU campus has lots of 50 cent and dollar bins, and the other has quarter and dollar bins. Before diving in to those I looked of rmy higher ticket items to use the coupons on-was looking for some trades but ended up getting a few artbooks instead. Amy picked out the Dynamite Art of Alex Ross oversive book as she is a big fan of Ross' art-$40 cover $10 after coupon. I got the Drawing from Life by Joe Kubert hardcover and Magnetic Storm-The art of Roger Dean for about $10 combined after coupons. The rest of the hunt went as follows... from the quarter bins:Crossfire (Eclipse) #7 Hall of Fame Comics featuring the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (JC Comics) #3 Jon Sable, Freelance (First) #7-9, 17 The Metabarons (Humanoids) #14 The New DNAgents (Eclipse) #2 New Wave (Eclipse) #3 Nexus (First) #53-55 Sabre (Eclipse) #3, 6 The Spirit (2207 series; DC) #15 Sunrunners (Pacific) #1 Whisper (First Comics) #13 Silverblade (DC) #12 from the 50 cent binsAmazing Heroes Preview #5 Summer 1987 Grimjack (First) #6 Incredible Hulk #181 (Marvel Legends reprint) New Wave (Eclipse) #2 Nexus (First) #24, 25, 27-29, 31, 36-48, 50 from the $1 binsAirboy (Eclipse) #11, 21 Airboy Meets the Prowler (Eclipse) #1 Avengers (Busiek run, Marvel) #7, 32 Conan (Dark Horse) #0 Fate (DC) #17 Hawkman (2003 series, DC) #46 Occult Files of Doctor Spektor (Gold Key) #11 Omega Men Annual #1 (DC) Shaman's Tears (Image; Grell) #4 Tarzan (Marvel) #23 Valkyrie (an Air Fighters mini; Eclipse) #1, 3 so not a bad day of hunting. -M What kind of condition? I ask because all the Half Price Books in Dallas had tons of dealer stock in them and the majority of comics were in NM condition. We're talking 3 stores. Here in Houston they all have piles of junk. I rarely even look because the books are so manhandled.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2015 19:42:50 GMT -5
It varied, on the dollar books, some like the issue of Occult Files was probably a solid G while the Marvel Tarzan from the late 70s was a solid VF. All the quarter and fifty cent comics get the yellow HPB price sticker on them to differentiate them form the dollar books, so they will all have sticker residue on them if you peel it off (f the sticker doesn't take part of the cover with it), but I focus on getting reader copies most of the time on key books to keep things affordable, so I don't mind getting reader copies for everything. I am not looking to flip these, jsut read them, and as long as they are intact and readable I do not care.
-M
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Post by Confessor on Mar 22, 2015 23:35:34 GMT -5
My most recent purchases include Thor 131 (the first Colonizers story), FF 98 and 119 (the Black Leopard, indeed!) and Mystery In Space 90, the first Adam Strange/Hawkman team-up. (emphasis mine)I've never read that comic, but I absolutely LOVE the Kirby/Sinnott front cover to issue #98. It does exactly what a good cover should do: make you desperate to read the story inside.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 22, 2015 23:53:26 GMT -5
Was able to do a little shopping this week, and my trips to various shops yielded the following: Star Wars #23, 101, 104 and 105 Star Wars #23 is a pretty decent book from the Goodwin/Infantino era. You can read my review of it here if you want to (I'd be interested in your comments, once you've read it). The post-#100 issues are...less good. I'm not much of a fan of Cynthia Martin's artwork in these issues and Bill Sienkiewicz's cover to issue #101 is the most butt-ugly cover of the entire run IMO. Still, Jo Duffy's writing isn't bad, but she's being severly handicapped at this point by the constraints that Lucasfilm were putting on her, in terms with what she could and couldn't do with the core cast. Hence why the comic got flooded with new and, frankly, substandard characters in these final issues.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 23, 2015 6:18:17 GMT -5
Was able to do a little shopping this week, and my trips to various shops yielded the following: Star Wars #23, 101, 104 and 105 Star Wars #23 is a pretty decent book from the Goodwin/Infantino era. You can read my review of it here if you want to (I'd be interested in your comments, once you've read it). The post-#100 issues are...less good. I'm not much of a fan of Cynthia Martin's artwork in these issues and Bill Sienkiewicz's cover to issue #101 is the most butt-ugly cover of the entire run IMO. Still, Jo Duffy's writing isn't bad, but she's being severly handicapped at this point by the constraints that Lucasfilm were putting on her, in terms with what she could and couldn't do with the core cast. Hence why the comic got flooded with new and, frankly, substandard characters in these final issues. I read your review of #23 early last week, as I've been keeping up with that thread pretty regularly. As for my comments, I might get around to reading it in a couple of years (so many other things ahead of it in the "need to read" pile". I completely agree with you about the post-#100 issues (these are replacements for books I owned years ago that went missing from my parent's house when I went to college, so I've already read these). You could see how much the Lucasfilm constraints were limiting the creative flexibility in the comic, so it's no surprise that the quality went down and Marvel gave up on the property.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 23, 2015 7:08:43 GMT -5
Speaking of All-Star Squadron - I do have all books except #36, #37, and #45. I just came back from my Comic Book Store and got these issues for $12.00 altogether, that's includes tax. So, I now have every single All-Star Squadron from #1 to #60. All-Star Squadron 36All-Star Squadron 37All-Star Squadron 45That is awesome! Congrats. I am missing 15 issues in the whole run, but #36 is probably the one I want the most because of the cover. I remember reading through my issues last year and being disappointed that I was missing that one.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 23, 2015 10:11:52 GMT -5
Star Wars #23 is a pretty decent book from the Goodwin/Infantino era. You can read my review of it here if you want to (I'd be interested in your comments, once you've read it). The post-#100 issues are...less good. I'm not much of a fan of Cynthia Martin's artwork in these issues and Bill Sienkiewicz's cover to issue #101 is the most butt-ugly cover of the entire run IMO. Still, Jo Duffy's writing isn't bad, but she's being severly handicapped at this point by the constraints that Lucasfilm were putting on her, in terms with what she could and couldn't do with the core cast. Hence why the comic got flooded with new and, frankly, substandard characters in these final issues. I read your review of #23 early last week, as I've been keeping up with that thread pretty regularly. As for my comments, I might get around to reading it in a couple of years (so many other things ahead of it in the "need to read" pile". I completely agree with you about the post-#100 issues (these are replacements for books I owned years ago that went missing from my parent's house when I went to college, so I've already read these). You could see how much the Lucasfilm constraints were limiting the creative flexibility in the comic, so it's no surprise that the quality went down and Marvel gave up on the property. (emphasis mine)Yes, and that's an important distinction to make. Marvel gave up on the book because, as Jo Duffy has said (I'm paraphrasing a bit here), "it seemed as if Lucasfilm would be happier if there wasn't a Star Wars comic on the shelves." This is worth noting because an often repeated myth that you hear is that the series was cancelled because of low sales. This myth is also bandied about by comic retailers looking to inflate the prices of those later issues because they're supposedly "scarce". This is not true and, again according to Jo Duffy, even at the point that the series was cancelled in 1986, Marvel's Star Wars was still outselling a lot of Marvel's other superhero books. Meaning, of course, that those final issues aren't really very scarce at all.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 14:56:10 GMT -5
It's Conan day here woot!
Mailbox was full of goodies today. First a reading copy of Conan the Barbarian #22 arrived from icctrombone via the CCE! Thaks a lot man!
Secondly, the last of the Lonestar orders via credit arrived containing a copy of Conan the Barbarian #5...leaving me just one issue now (#24) to complete the run of 1-275, all annual and the Giant Size issues.
Also in the Lonestar order were Nick Fury vs. SHIELD #2 Savage Tales #9, 10 and Annual 1 (leaving only #1 to complete that run) DC Special Series #10 featuring Secret Origins of Dr. Fate, Lightray and the training of Black Canary Iron Fist #3, 5 and 12 (leaving just 3 issues to complete that run for me)
I'll post pics later when I have access to the camera...
Also got the email from Lonestar they received the latest batch of purged books form me, so likely to put together another Lonestar order in a week or so when they post the credit. Gem City Con is this weekend but I am unable to attend, so I am finding other outlets to get my comic buying groove this year.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 18:54:56 GMT -5
Here be the pics... One from yesterday...Roger Dean's Magentic Storm The Conan day celebration... Some Iron Fist... Fury and Fate... and some Savage Tales featuring Ka-Zar... -M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 17:48:00 GMT -5
More adventures in turning stuff I had and didn't want any longer into stuff I wanted. Amy and I took a trip over to one of the Dayton suburbs today that has a Half Price Books and a comic shop that deals with used SF/fantasy/horror paperbacks as well as comics. Cleaned off a bunch of shelves this week abnd had a bunch of rpg books for games we don't play any more and a couple of bags of paperbacks to get rid of. Sold the rpg stuff to Half Price books and traded in the paperbacks to the comic shop for a decent amount of cash and credit Amazingly, the HPB seemed to have just bought a Heavy Metal collection form someone so I picked up a half dozen issues of HM I needed from them... Issues from Feb 1978 (#11) and Feb 1979 (#23)... from Sept 1980 (#42) and June 1981 (#51 including an installment of Steranko's Outland) and from Nov 1981 (#56) and March 1982 (#60) also flipped through the quarter bins while there and picked up the following: Atari Force #1-4 Conan the Adventurer #12 Battle of the Planets (Image series w/Alex Ross covers for Amy) #2-6 Scout #7 and a prepackaged set of the Claw/Red Sonja mini #1-4 for $3 over at the comic shop I picked up the following in trade (all magazines and GN were $2.95 each, all comics $1 Cheval Noir #8, 19, 11, 32, 36, 37 Conan the Adventurer #2 (finally got a copy that has the right book inside, a large chunk of the print run had an error and had the contents of Conan Classic #2 inside the covers instead) and Conan the King #21-23, 27, 28, 31 Showcase #101 featuring Hawkman and Tomahawk #93 with gorilla cover.... more to come.... -M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 17:53:34 GMT -5
The haul continued... A Kubert DC Tarzzan (#254) and a Dell Tarzan (#45 from 1953) First Issue SPecial #9 (Dr. Fate to have a non-framed copy as mine is inside a frame with a Dr. Fate poster) and Warlord #107 one of the handful of issue sI needed a trio of Marvel GNs-Killraven, Void Indigo and Sword of the Swashbucklers... a trio of random mags-Nexus #3 magazine size from Capital Comics, Warren's Spirit Magazine #2 and Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #2 and finally a quartet of issues of Savage Sword of Conan #8, 14, 15 and 27... all told after sales and credit I spent a whopping $7 and change out of pocket... -M
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 30, 2015 16:37:08 GMT -5
Hey mrp, I bought that same First Issue Special #9 a couple of years ago!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 16:43:57 GMT -5
Hey mrp, I bought that same First Issue Special #9 a couple of years ago! I've had a copy for years, but when I framed my Alex Ross Dr. Fate poster, I added the book to the deadspace within the frame to add to the display.... but after reading through the GA Doc Fate archives and the Secret Origin issue of DC Special featuring the good Doctor, I had a desire to reread it and didn't want to pull apart the frame, so when I found a copy in a dollar box (and I had credit coming anyways, I snapped up the extra copy. I know the cover is reprinted in the Immortal Dr. fate mini, but can't remember if the story was reprinted there or not and I have been too lazy to check up the GCD... -M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 16:52:09 GMT -5
Some friend sof mine run an antique mall here in town and I hadn't been by there in a good 4-5 months. Their son runs a comic stall there and I was dropping off a short box of recent comics that I no longer wanted for him to sell in his booth as a thank you nod for some help they gave me when I was a part of the studio, and decided to browse around a bit. I found a few other vendors that had comics including one who had a number of mags for $3 each and I snagged a few (shouldn't have spent the money but I succumbed to temptation).
No pics this time, but I came home with: Epic Illustrated # 19, 22, 23, 26, 27 The Spirit Magazine #17, 35 Savage Sword of Conan #28, 32, 33, 36 Marvel Preview #9, 23
and also snagged Starslayer 13 and 23 form a dollar box there.
One guy had a ton of Marvel/DC Silver and Bronze books at $5 a pop for mid grade stuff, so I need to go back when I have more time/money to sort through that stuff for stuff on my list.
-M
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