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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 9, 2016 20:27:56 GMT -5
Those are the best ones, man! I have never been to a con before, but I tell you what, I've been to 25 cent box days, and that can get just about as crowded and ridiculous as I'd like to get. I don't know what would happen if I ever made it to an actual con. I'd probably get eaten. All the cons I've been to have hundreds of boxes and it's awesome. The bargains blow your mind. Unfortunately, the admission prices have skyrocketed in the last 5 years.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 9, 2016 20:37:18 GMT -5
A lot of Silver Age Sub-Mariner (and early Bronze Age Sub-Mariner, come to think of it) IS Bill Everett. My Sub-Mariner collection is spotty but I have several issues of Marvel Super-Heroes (reprinting Tales to Astonish) with Bill Everett drawing Namor. I got this in the mail today: It reprints this: (I haven't read the Namor story yet. I read the Hulk story though! The High Evolutionary!) And Bill Everett's early 1970s Namor work is uniformly great! You can tell it's Everett but it's not the least bit outdated.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2016 20:47:42 GMT -5
A lot of Silver Age Sub-Mariner (and early Bronze Age Sub-Mariner, come to think of it) IS Bill Everett. My Sub-Mariner collection is spotty but I have several issues of Marvel Super-Heroes (reprinting Tales to Astonish) with Bill Everett drawing Namor. I got this in the mail today: It reprints this: (I haven't read the Namor story yet. I read the Hulk story though! The High Evolutionary!) And Bill Everett's early 1970s Namor work is uniformly great! You can tell it's Everett but it's not the least bit outdated. You are correct! Everett did a lot of art on TTA stories, if I remember correctly, but I *think* Stan wrote most of the stories? I could be wrong. I would have to get my books out. I'm quite jealous of your latest purchase, Hoosier X! Good stuff! Well, the TTA #94 is great! I have not read the other.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 9, 2016 20:53:35 GMT -5
You are correct! Everett did a lot of art on TTA stories, if I remember correctly, but I *think* Stan wrote most of the stories? I could be wrong. I would have to get my books out. I'm quite jealous of your latest purchase, Hoosier X! Good stuff! Well, the TTA #94 is great! I have not read the other. On the Sub-Mariner story, Stan Lee is credited as Editor and Roy Thomas is credited as Scripter. I'm going to read it as soon as I get back from walking the dogs.
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Post by antoine on Jan 9, 2016 20:55:06 GMT -5
I buy A LOT of comics and rarely post them here, cause i'm usually too lazy to take pictures and upload them, but today I'm going to share what I bought. I'm not a big fan of eBay. I mean, It's an AWESOME way to buy comics, but being in canada 1) Shipping is ridiculous most of the time and 2) 1$ US cost us 1,40$ right now...
But this week, I found a seller who lives 15 minutes from my house with great comics at a good price.
Starting bids were all 99 cents (US, of course!)
I got SGT. Fury and his howling commando #23,28 SGT FURY Annual 4-5-6 Ka-Zar (volume 2) #1 Iron Man 44,49,56-58 Marvel Super Action #18 (Reprints avengers First Vision) Metamorphic #15 Metal Men #20 Our Fighting Force #98,121,124 Showcase #46 (Who is Tommy Tomorrow? I'll found out this week while reading it I guess!)
Only two I didn't win for 99 cents were Iron man 56 (2$) and Ka-Zar (2,75$).
Went to pick them up today and they are in better condition than announced. The guys has hundreds of comics for sale but didn't want to show them to me, said to check eBay. My only regret is that I miss 2 Old Dr Strange and Amazing Adventures #1, they sold for 1,50$...I should have upped my max bid for the 3 books I really wanted.
Anyway, I might have more to tell soon! He just putted more comics on eBay.
PS - and his comics are bagged and boarded, but with some kind of ultra resistant plastic bag...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2016 20:59:22 GMT -5
You are correct! Everett did a lot of art on TTA stories, if I remember correctly, but I *think* Stan wrote most of the stories? I could be wrong. I would have to get my books out. I'm quite jealous of your latest purchase, Hoosier X! Good stuff! Well, the TTA #94 is great! I have not read the other. On the Sub-Mariner story, Stan Lee is credited as Editor and Roy Thomas is credited as Scripter. I'm going to read it as soon as I get back from walking the dogs. oh man! Have I had it wrong this entire time!?!? Or maybe Roy came in on later issues for TTA? I am going to look at my books. Wouldn't that be funny for me to think I had been reading Stan's Namor when I have actually been reading Roy's Namor? But I could have sworn Roy wrote a "softer" Namor and Stan always wrote a dramatic, easily-angered Namor.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2016 21:04:19 GMT -5
I buy A LOT of comics and rarely post them here, cause i'm usually too lazy to take pictures and upload them, but today I'm going to share what I bought. I'm not a big fan of eBay. I mean, It's an AWESOME way to buy comics, but being in canada 1) Shipping is ridiculous most of the time and 2) 1$ US cost us 1,40$ right now... But this week, I found a seller who lives 15 minutes from my house with great comics at a good price. Starting bids were all 99 cents (US, of course!) I got SGT. Fury and his howling commando #23,28 SGT FURY Annual 4-5-6 Ka-Zar (volume 2) #1 Iron Man 44,49,56-58 Marvel Super Action #18 (Reprints avengers First Vision) Metamorphic #15 Metal Men #20 Our Fighting Force #98,121,124 Showcase #46 (Who is Tommy Tomorrow? I'll found out this week while reading it I guess!) Only two I didn't win for 99 cents were Iron man 56 (2$) and Ka-Zar (2,75$). Went to pick them up today and they are in better condition than announced. The guys has hundreds of comics for sale but didn't want to show them to me, said to check eBay. My only regret is that I miss 2 Old Dr Strange and Amazing Adventures #1, they sold for 1,50$...I should have upped my max bid for the 3 books I really wanted. Anyway, I might have more to tell soon! He just putted more comics on eBay. PS - and his comics are bagged and boarded, but with some kind of ultra resistant plastic bag... Sounds like you got quite a few books! I have not read any Sgt. Fury, but I have considered it. Also, for the bags, it might be mylar he is putting them. It's ultra protective, yes. I use it for my books.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 9, 2016 21:15:29 GMT -5
I just read some Tom Tomorrow - it was surpsingly hard science fiction, although obviously written for kids. I liked it, anyway!
I keep meaning to get around to reading the Losers stories in Our Fighting Forces. Some day.
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Post by antoine on Jan 9, 2016 21:43:55 GMT -5
I just read some Tom Tomorrow - it was surpsingly hard science fiction, although obviously written for kids. I liked it, anyway! I keep meaning to get around to reading the Losers stories in Our Fighting Forces. Some day. Yeah, they are not books I would buy at a Con at full price, but for 1$, they are always great read! And when I don't like them, I trade, sell, or give them away to Salvation army
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 9, 2016 22:11:14 GMT -5
I love The Metal Men and this is one of the 9 or 10 issues that I have. It is the most insane comic book ever - except for every other issue of Metal Men.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 9, 2016 22:12:52 GMT -5
And coldwater, please note the Ross Andru art. He was the original artist (inked by Mike Esposito) on Metal Men and he drew it for quite a while in the 1960s.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 9, 2016 22:13:24 GMT -5
A lot of Silver Age Sub-Mariner (and early Bronze Age Sub-Mariner, come to think of it) IS Bill Everett. My Sub-Mariner collection is spotty but I have several issues of Marvel Super-Heroes (reprinting Tales to Astonish) with Bill Everett drawing Namor. I got this in the mail today: It reprints this: (I haven't read the Namor story yet. I read the Hulk story though! The High Evolutionary!) And Bill Everett's early 1970s Namor work is uniformly great! You can tell it's Everett but it's not the least bit outdated. You are correct! Everett did a lot of art on TTA stories, if I remember correctly, but I *think* Stan wrote most of the stories? I could be wrong. I would have to get my books out. I'm quite jealous of your latest purchase, Hoosier X! Good stuff! Well, the TTA #94 is great! I have not read the other. I haven't read a lot of the later Tales to Astonish*, but even the volume that Cooper bought has some Everett art at the end. It's still Stan's Sub-Mariner, but Bill's, though. (And a lot of Gene Colan, who's one of my favorite artists but a huge mis-match here.) * Although if I buy Sub-Mariner vol. 2 I'd own all of Tales to Astonish in color reprints. That would be kinda cool.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 10, 2016 1:52:25 GMT -5
I've read an awful lot of the Sub-Mariner stories in Tales to Astonish because of all the issues of Astonish (and the reprints in Marvel Super-Heroes) that I got for the Hulk. But I don't usually remember them very well. Except the great Gene Colan and Bill Everett art! The stories seem a bit repetitive. Warlord Krang! Dorma alternately saves Namor or betrays him (but she's probably betraying him just to save him). An occasional villains from the surface world, like the Puppet-Master or the Plunderer.
Not bad but not really my cup of tea.
I read the Namor story in Marvel Super-Heroes #49 (reprinting Tales to Astonish #94) and there's this Caribbean dictator named Dragorr who sends a message to Namor suggesting an alliance. Namor is upset at the effrontery of this tinpot tyrant. Such impudence! So instead of ignoring it or sending an insulting tweet, Namor goes in person to teach him some proper diplomatic protocol and is promptly enslaved by an electrical Namor-enslaving device invented by a weasely little person called the Gnome who serves Dragorr.
Namor is sent to fight the rebels who are trying to overthrow Dragorr. It is very disheartening to the rebels to see Namor fighting them. They think he is Dragorr's ally and they think the entire military force of Atlantis will soon be directed at them.
Anyway, Dorma figures out what's going on somehow and swims to the nation where she meets up with the rebels (she speaks Spanish, according to a caption) and they show her a secret way into the presidential palace and she rescues Namor and takes care of the Namor-enslaving device. Then Dragorr shows up to stop him and they throw each other around for a bit and Dorma squirts water on Dragorr and it turns out he is a robot and the water short-circuits the robot and a door opens on the back and the Gnome jumps out of the robot! He is soon apprehended by the rebels.
The rebels form a government between panels and are getting ready for an election and thanking Namor for helping them win freedom. As Namor and Dorma swim back to Atlantis, Namor is sulking because he seems to be upset that he helped some surface people defeat a tyrant, even if it was mostly by accident.
Reading this with Coldwater's interpretation in mind makes it seem very amusing. Perhaps I should read these Namor in Astonish issues over again with the right frame of mind. (And I love Bill Everett's drawings of Dorma. I'd forgive her for betraying me to Warlord Kang! As many times as she thinks is necessary!)
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Post by the4thpip on Jan 10, 2016 3:51:50 GMT -5
Invaders is awesome.. I have the two trade collections (Which cover the whole series). I have to get that 2000-ish mini they did at some point. The recent James Robinson revival was pretty good, too. The mini suffered from horrible 90s art. Not sure it can be considered canon, as the appearance of Doctor Nemesis is hard to make fit with his later X-Men appearances.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 10, 2016 6:36:59 GMT -5
I've read an awful lot of the Sub-Mariner stories in Tales to Astonish because of all the issues of Astonish (and the reprints in Marvel Super-Heroes) that I got for the Hulk. But I don't usually remember them very well. Except the great Gene Colan and Bill Everett art! The stories seem a bit repetitive. Warlord Krang! Dorma alternately saves Namor or betrays him (but she's probably betraying him just to save him). An occasional villains from the surface world, like the Puppet-Master or the Plunderer. Not bad but not really my cup of tea. I read the Namor story in Marvel Super-Heroes #49 (reprinting Tales to Astonish #94) and there's this Caribbean dictator named Dragorr who sends a message to Namor suggesting an alliance. Namor is upset at the effrontery of this tinpot tyrant. Such impudence! So instead of ignoring it or sending an insulting tweet, Namor goes in person to teach him some proper diplomatic protocol and is promptly enslaved by an electrical Namor-enslaving device invented by a weasely little person called the Gnome who serves Dragorr. Namor is sent to fight the rebels who are trying to overthrow Dragorr. It is very disheartening to the rebels to see Namor fighting them. They think he is Dragorr's ally and they think the entire military force of Atlantis will soon be directed at them. Anyway, Dorma figures out what's going on somehow and swims to the nation where she meets up with the rebels (she speak Spanish, according to a caption) and they show her a secret way into the presidential palace and she rescues Namor and takes care of the Namor-enslaving device. Then Dragorr shows up to stop him and they throw each other around for a bit and Dorma squirts water on Dragorr and it turns out he is a robot and the water short-circuits the robot and a door opens on the back and the Gnome jumps out of the robot! He is soon apprehended by the rebels. The rebels form a government between panels and are getting ready for an election and thanking Namor for helping them win freedom. As Namor and Dorma swim back to Atlantis, Namor is sulking because he seems to be upset that he helped some surface people defeat a tyrant, even if it was mostly by accident. Reading this with Coldwater's interpretation in mind makes it seem very amusing. Perhaps I should read these Namor in Astonish issues over again with the right frame of mind. (And I love Bill Everett's drawings of Dorma. I'd forgive her for betraying me to Warlord Kang! As many times as she thinks is necessary!) You're recap of the story sounds better than the actual story. You have to love the silver age.
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