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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 7, 2015 11:34:10 GMT -5
The Beaverton City Library apparently decided to thin out their graphic novel section. My wife picked these up the other day for 50 cents each: Spider-Man - Election Day " " Coming Home " " Big Time " " 24/7 Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 18 - Ultimate Knights Amazing Spider-Man The Movie Prelude (this is the first Andrew Garfield movie) I went there the next day and picked up the rest of the comics stuff they had, again for 50 cents each: Bad Houses - an OGN by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil Female Force - Best Sellers - biographies of JK Rowling, Anne Rice, Stephenie Meyer and Charlaine Harris God Loves, Man Kills - the 2011 reprint Astonishing X-Men - Exogenetic Ultimate X-Men - vol. 3 - World Tour " " vol. 9 - The Tempest Not bad for $6, even with library stickers all over them. I'm not at all familiar with the contents of most of these. Can anyone tell me if I bought good Spidey & X-Men stories or bad ones? I know nothing about them. But for 50 cents a pop it hardly matters. You can always turn around and donate them to Goodwill and take a face value charitable tax deduction.
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 7, 2015 11:50:14 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me if I bought good Spidey & X-Men stories or bad ones? I can shed a small light. I stuck with Ultimate Spider-Man by Bendis and Bagley through their last issue, #110. I generally enjoyed it. The Vol. 18 that you have there collects their final story arc (106-110). "God Loves, Man Kills" reprints the classic X-Men graphic novel from the early 80s. Most X-Men fans rank this very high on their "Best of" lists. Great, moving story. The second X-Men movie was largely based on this story.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 7, 2015 13:22:03 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me if I bought good Spidey & X-Men stories or bad ones? "God Loves, Man Kills" reprints the classic X-Men graphic novel from the early 80s. Most X-Men fans rank this very high on their "Best of" lists. Great, moving story. The second X-Men movie was largely based on this story. Yes, GLMK is the one that I'd heard of before I bought it. Thanks for the info about the Ultimate Spidey!
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Post by clutterstuffmichael on May 7, 2015 13:56:00 GMT -5
Not sure if they qualify as "Classic" but after seeing Age of Ultron I got nostalgic for the "Vision Quest" storyline in West Coast Avengers nos. 42-45. Found all of them and a few other issues of WCA in the $1 boxes at my local shop. Score!
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 7, 2015 15:01:14 GMT -5
Finally managed to find a decent copy of All-Star Comics #57, the final pre-Code appearance of the Justice Society of America:
I give credit to Cei-U's marvelous and engrossing Guide to Earth-2 for keeping the JSA front and center in my brain, as I've been chasing this book for a while. Arthur Peddy and Frank Giacoia handle the art chores, working from a John Broome script, while Mighty Joe Kubert delivers six pages of Johnny Peril.
The JSA would next appear more than a decade later in The Flash #129, where Jay Garrick recalls this very adventure to Barry Allen.
Overstreet classifies this book as "Scarce" (fewer than 100 copies known to exist), but I'm skeptical. In this instance, "scarce" may simply mean "slightly more difficult to find than your car keys." Crap! Where are my keys?
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on May 7, 2015 18:17:05 GMT -5
Spent some money filling in my Frank Miller DD run. I now have #159-191, minus #166 and 168. These books are not cheap but I think I did okay on them, averaging around $4-5 per book. All are in 7.0-9.0 shape which is great.
Eventually will have to pay up for #158 and #168.
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 9, 2015 8:43:22 GMT -5
Spent some money filling in my Frank Miller DD run. I now have #159-191, minus #166 and 168. These books are not cheap but I think I did okay on them, averaging around $4-5 per book. All are in 7.0-9.0 shape which is great. Eventually will have to pay up for #158 and #168. Ah, the Miller Daredevil. I was lucky enough to buy these off the stands. Daredevil was a character that I enjoyed in his guest appearances in MTIO, MTU and particularly PPTSS, Miller's first work on the character, but his solo series left me cold. Still, when I took notice that Miller was penciling AND writing DD, I gave it one more shot. The first issue I picked up was #167 and I was hooked. The next month, Elektra debuted, then Bullseye returned, and then "Gang War." I quickly scrambled around town to gather the handful of issues I had missed.
Tightly scripted, with great, moody art, vigorous and ultra-violent, it perfectly reflected the urban crime-drenched 80s. Thirty-five years later, I still quote liberally from it. It's quite simply one of the finest runs in comics. I hope you are able to finish it out at minimum expense.
Question: Did you bother with the Ditko fill-in (#162) just for the sake of completion, as I did? Or did you skip it?
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 9, 2015 9:04:15 GMT -5
The Beaverton City Library apparently decided to thin out their graphic novel section. My wife picked these up the other day for 50 cents each: Spider-Man - Election Day " " Coming Home " " Big Time " " 24/7 Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 18 - Ultimate Knights Amazing Spider-Man The Movie Prelude (this is the first Andrew Garfield movie) I went there the next day and picked up the rest of the comics stuff they had, again for 50 cents each: Bad Houses - an OGN by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil Female Force - Best Sellers - biographies of JK Rowling, Anne Rice, Stephenie Meyer and Charlaine Harris God Loves, Man Kills - the 2011 reprint Astonishing X-Men - Exogenetic Ultimate X-Men - vol. 3 - World Tour " " vol. 9 - The Tempest Not bad for $6, even with library stickers all over them. I'm not at all familiar with the contents of most of these. Can anyone tell me if I bought good Spidey & X-Men stories or bad ones? Nice Haul! Ultimate X-Men is pretty decent... I'm not sure exactly what you've got in vols 3 and 9, but most of the series is pretty readable, as long as you're not the type that doesn't like alternate takes on characters. Spiderman: Big Time is excellent, IMO.. that's kinda where Slott establishes his (somewhat short loved) status quo with Peter Peter as a scientist in a think tank, and acting like a real adult. I'm not sure about the others, but if the other Spidey are also from Slott's run, most of that is pretty good. you just have to not be upset about the One more Day/Brand New Day thing. Ultimate Spidey was kinda meandering at that point... IIRC, that's a team up with newly introduced Ultimate Moon Knight and/or Ultimate Punisher.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on May 9, 2015 9:44:47 GMT -5
Spent some money filling in my Frank Miller DD run. I now have #159-191, minus #166 and 168. These books are not cheap but I think I did okay on them, averaging around $4-5 per book. All are in 7.0-9.0 shape which is great. Eventually will have to pay up for #158 and #168. Of course! I love me some Ditko. I really would like to close out this run this year and am trying to do so as cheaply as possible.
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Post by Pharozonk on May 9, 2015 19:14:37 GMT -5
My haul from half price books today: I wanted to pick up more of the JSA run, but wasn't sure which issues to pick up.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 9, 2015 19:24:24 GMT -5
Nice. I like those JSA's.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 10, 2015 14:05:23 GMT -5
Well after several years out of the buying circle while at the local used video games/music/movie store that sells comics and sports and card games, I picked up these 14 comics all for a $1 each. They had three long boxes stuffed with random comics, 200-300? a box, for $40. I might go back for one before my son's surgery after Labor Day so I have something to read in the hospital.
Alien Legion: One Planet At A Time Books 1-3 Amazing High Adventures #5 Batman: Shadow of the Bat #20 Camelot 3000 #11 (never read any of this) Ms Tree Quarterly #2-4, 7 (I haven't looked in them ... are these reprints? 2 and 3 are 80 page) Omega Men #15 Warlord #102-104 (never read any of this)
Not a huge splurge, but I wanted to sample a few things that I haven't read of characters/franchies I like and a few things I have heard good things about from posters here. Maybe I can rekindle something for comics again.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 11, 2015 18:15:46 GMT -5
I forgot in my last post - at the library sale, my wife picked up both volumes of Princess Knight by Osamu Tezuka. She'd never heard of Tezuka, she just thought the books looked interesting. She was amazed when I started singing Tezuka's praises.
I read the Ultimate Spidey book - it had Peter teaming up with Daredevil, Moon Knight, Shang-Chi and Iron Fist against the Kingpin.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 12, 2015 12:20:56 GMT -5
At an antique store last Saturday, my wife found some jewelry and I found a couple of classic humor comics:
Fox & Crow #76, Oct-Nov 1962. The cover price is 12 cents, but there's a '15 cents' sticker pasted over it.
Madhouse Comics, formerly Archie's Madhouse - #103, August 1976. A year or so after Madhouse was briefly part of Gray Morrow's Red Circle horror comic line, it was back to comedy in the Archie style, although the Riverdale gang appears only in house ads. It does have a page of Captain Sprocket, the long-running parody superhero (and my alter-ego in online forums where I don't use my name).
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Post by Icctrombone on May 12, 2015 16:07:07 GMT -5
At an antique store last Saturday, my wife found some jewelry and I found a couple of classic humor comics: Fox & Crow #76, Oct-Nov 1962. The cover price is 12 cents, but there's a '15 cents' sticker pasted over it. Madhouse Comics, formerly Archie's Madhouse - #103, August 1976. A year or so after Madhouse was briefly part of Gray Morrow's Red Circle horror comic line, it was back to comedy in the Archie style, although the Riverdale gang appears only in house ads. It does have a page of Captain Sprocket, the long-running parody superhero (and my alter-ego in online forums where I don't use my name). I'm hoping you got a bargain out of it. What was the price, if you don't mind?
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