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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 6:43:56 GMT -5
I just purchased this: And this (since it was really in expensive on IST compared to the $75 they wanted on Amazon for it):
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 14, 2016 18:23:32 GMT -5
Cool. If you order right in the beginning you can usually get 'em for half off through one of the big suppliers.
I'm never that organized, but most of the recent volumes end up on Amazon Market in the forty dollar range.
I really, really, really want that volume.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 14, 2016 18:48:28 GMT -5
Coming soon to a Silver Age DCU review thread near you...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 18:48:56 GMT -5
Cool. If you order right in the beginning you can usually get 'em for half off through one of the big suppliers. I'm never that organized, but most of the recent volumes end up on Amazon Market in the forty dollar range. I really, really, really want that volume. I think the most I ever paid for a Sub-Mariner MMW was...$50? Maybe $50. But I want to say $45. I think I bought 1-5 or 6 through an ebay vendor for so crazy cheap.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 18:49:22 GMT -5
Coming soon to a Silver Age DCU review thread near you... omfg. I want all of those. Seriously.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 14, 2016 18:51:00 GMT -5
I'm pretty excited.. They're pretty beat up (just barely intact) but they were a really good deal ($15 plus shipping for the 6). I've got a business trip this weekend, but they'll definitely get read as soon as I get back
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 21:44:29 GMT -5
I'm pretty excited.. They're pretty beat up (just barely intact) but they were a really good deal ($15 plus shipping for the 6). I've got a business trip this weekend, but they'll definitely get read as soon as I get back They're beautiful and look well loved. Which would make me happiest.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 15, 2016 11:43:01 GMT -5
Coming soon to a Silver Age DCU review thread near you... Ah, I see you have the "puppet whipping" issue. I'm not sure the contents could ever live up to the wacky WTF factor of that cover, but I can't wait to see what you think of it.
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Post by Warmonger on Jan 15, 2016 12:49:59 GMT -5
Been looking for this one for a while and it finally came in the mail today. I already have the entire Thomas/Buscema run on Conan (not Savage Sword, still have about 18 issues to go there) but have been trying to piece together the Barry Smith run. Now I just need #4 and #7.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 15:49:42 GMT -5
Been looking for this one for a while and it finally came in the mail today. I already have the entire Thomas/Buscema run on Conan (not Savage Sword, still have about 18 issues to go there) but have been trying to piece together the Barry Smith run. Now I just need #4 and #7. I just finished my CtB run last year (24 the first full Sonja issue was the last on I got to finish the run 1-275). I'm working on Savage Sword currently (I need less than 100 of the 235 issue run, and 1 issue of Savage Tales to complete it, so have a ways to go yet on that one, but I have most of the early and all of the late issues on SSoC, so the harder/more expensive ones are already in hand). -M
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Post by Farrar on Jan 15, 2016 15:59:45 GMT -5
Coming soon to a Silver Age DCU review thread near you... Ah, I see you have the "puppet whipping" issue. I'm not sure the contents could ever live up to the wacky WTF factor of that cover, but I can't wait to see what you think of it. Man, that life-size Superman puppet sure got around. Even Clark Kent couldn't resist
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jan 15, 2016 16:33:57 GMT -5
Man, that life-size Superman puppet sure got around. Even Clark Kent couldn't resist That is one kooky Swan/Anderson cover! I love it, but at the risk of blasphemy, for me there is simply no substitute for Kurt Schaffenberger's work on the Superman cast. His devious, scheming Lois and catty Lana are the automatic images my brain produces when their names are mentioned. His Superman is so broadly expressive and deliciously unsubtle. And those clean, solid lines that you can set your watch by never cease to amaze me.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 15, 2016 22:19:44 GMT -5
Ah, I see you have the "puppet whipping" issue. I'm not sure the contents could ever live up to the wacky WTF factor of that cover, but I can't wait to see what you think of it. You'd think Lex Luthor, Concert Pianist would be the weirdest cover.. but no.. it's barely in the top 3
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Post by MDG on Jan 16, 2016 11:17:30 GMT -5
Man, that life-size Superman puppet sure got around. Even Clark Kent couldn't resist That is one kooky Swan/Anderson cover! I love it, but at the risk of blasphemy, for me there is simply no substitute for Kurt Schaffenberger's work on the Superman cast. His devious, scheming Lois and catty Lana are the automatic images my brain produces when their names are mentioned. His Superman is so broadly expressive and deliciously unsubtle. And those clean, solid lines that you can set your watch by never cease to amaze me. Yes--Schaffenberger is just cartoony enough to pull it off no matter how crazy things got. Swan was more realistic so sometimes--like Clark's face on this cover--things bordered on creepy.
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Post by realjla on Jan 16, 2016 17:08:39 GMT -5
I prefer Schaffenberger's older work on the Super-titles. His style was perfect for the "Mr. and Mrs. Superman" feature in 'Superman Family'(set in the 1950s on Earth 2). But when Schaffenberger would do fill-in work for 'Superman' or 'Action Comics' in the late '70s, the contrast was too jarring. Swan's work evolved as he worked with different inkers throughout the '70s, but Schaffenberger mostly stayed the same.
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