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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jun 13, 2016 18:14:43 GMT -5
Finally got Brave and Bold #85! Very excited to read it. Also got Creeper #4 and Adventure Comics #434
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2016 22:41:00 GMT -5
My wife had another meeting for work at the branch next to Second and Charles, so since I still had some trade credit there, I went down with her and spent the day browsing through stuff and picked up a few gems... I got three Power Record sets...(phone is charging so using stock pics for now)... G.I. Joe: The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb G.I. Joe: The Secret Mission to Spy Island and the Man-Thing book and record set. The GI Joe ones were $12 each, the Man-Thing only $5 a couple of classic paperbacks: the Ace edition of Tarzan at the Earth's Core with a Frazetta cover... for 75 cents -a Fritz Leiber anthology called Heroes and Horrors ($1) -the Swamp Thing movie novelization by Len Wein and David Houston ($2) a couple of Conan pastiches had in high school for a buck each... Conan and the Spider-God and... Conan the Rebel with the fold out cover... and a DCUniverse novel... The Trail of Time by Jeff Mariotte (of Desperados fame) featuring Supes, Phantom Stranger, Demon and Jonah Hex. Looks interesting. Also got a quartet of old pulps for 75 cents each: Fantastic Stories of Imagination- Jan 1965 issue and May 1965 Strange Fantasy #8 Spring 1969 and #10 Winter 1969 (with stories by Fritz Leiber, Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Roger Zelazny, John Jakes, Gordon R. Dickson, Ursala k. LeGuin and others a hardcover novel-Steve Englehart's The Arena Man (the 4th in the Max August series) oh yeah, and some actual comics... Young Indiana Jones Chronicles #1 ($1.75) Ghost Rider (1st series) 33 ($2) Silver Surfer #50 ($2) and a bunch of dollar books: American Flagg! #47, 49-50 Marvel Fanfare #51 (the Surfer vs. Magog issue by Buscema recently highlighted in the Big John appreciation thread) Justice League Adventures #4 Justice Society of America #3 (Parobeck series) Ghost Rider (2nd series) #53, 56, 64, 69 and one more classic toy-the Power of the Force Darth Vader Tie Fighter sealed in box ($12) so not just a comic haul, but lots of comic related stuff... -M
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 15, 2016 7:42:12 GMT -5
My wife had another meeting for work at the branch next to Second and Charles, so since I still had some trade credit there, I went down with her and spent the day browsing through stuff and picked up a few gems... I got three Power Record sets...(phone is charging so using stock pics for now)... I remember having a Planet of the Apes Power Record set when I was a kid. It was awesome. Man, how I wish I still had it! The 70's version of a DVD.
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Post by chickenpocket on Jun 16, 2016 16:07:14 GMT -5
After seeing this in the John Buscema appreciation thread I got Marvel Fanfare 51: And then got Micronauts 1, also:
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 17, 2016 17:42:36 GMT -5
This is long overdue. Here's what I bought at the Emerald City Con back in April.
For my wife, who loves feminist history, I got a hardcover of Peter Bagge's Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story at the CBLDF booth. They threw in a copy of their latest Liberty Anyool, a satirical magazine inspired by the glory years of National Lampoon.
For myself, I filled in some Bronze Age holes:
Conan the Barbarian #91, 94, 95 & 99 - all four are Thomas/Buscema/Chan stories; the first three have covers both pencilled and inked by Big John; the last cover is Buscema/Chan.
Fantastic Four #178 - a Thomas/Perez/Hunt story behind a Romita/Sinnott cover.
Fantastic Four #198 - a Wolfman/Pollard/Sinnott story behind a John Buscema/Sinnott cover.
Avengers #178 - a strange Gerber/Infantino/Nebres fill-in story featuring the Beast, sandwiched between the end of Shooter's Korvac saga and the beginning of Tom DeFalco's run. The John Buscema cover looks like it was cobbled together by the production department.
Daredevil #152 - a McKenzie/Infantino/Janson story behind a Kane/Janson cover. The Statement of Ownership on the letters page says that the average paid circulation for the preceding 12 months was 125,079.
Giant-Size Kid Colt #3 - a Gil Kane pencilled & inked cover features Kid Colt with Night Rider, the western hero formerly known as Ghost Rider. The only new story inside is a 20-pager by Gary Friedrich, Dick Ayers & Vince Colletta, where the two heroes team up. The rest of the book includes three Kid Colt stories drawn by Jack Keller from the 1950s, a 1969 Kid Colt story by O'Neil/Roth/Colletta, and two non-series stories from the 50s, one by Stan Lee & Reed Crandall, the other drawn by Joe Maneely.
As I was buying that one, I remarked that I now own all of the Marvel "Giant-Size" comics from the mid-70s except G-S Kid Colt #2, and someone shopping at the same booth told me that there were two Millie the Model annuals in that period that were titled "Queen-Size". So I bought:
Queen-Size Millie the Model #11 - A Stan Goldberg cover with interiors mostly or all by Goldberg, probably all reprinted. Besides Millie, the other main cast members are Chili, who openly insults Millie at every opportunity, and Daisy, whose function is to be fat and ugly and the butt of jokes. This is not the best era for Millie.
And finally, the major score of this con, one of my holy grails:
In The Days Of The Mob #1-and-only! Jack Kirby's experiment with a larger format, a near-mint copy with the Wanted poster of John Dillinger still stapled in place! Even inker Vince Colletta and letterer John Costanza bring their A games to this one. The stories are introduced by a bizarre framing story - apparently Hell is organized like a prison, and our host is Warden Fry. We see him interacting with inmates, like Ma Barker, Al Capone, and Pretty Boy Floyd, and then telling the stories of how they came to end up where they are. There are also a couple of text stories and two pages of gags by Sergio Aragones. With better distribution and a better cover, this could have succeeded.
The copy I bought was marked $50 but he let me have it for $40. The rest of the comics were $1-3 each, and the Bagge book I think was $20 but I'm not sure.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 12:25:58 GMT -5
Here are some recent eBay purchases... I finally completed my run of Batman 100 page giants My second copy of Batman #260, this one in better condition VF+/NM SUPER GORILLAS!! DEADSHOT!!!
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jun 20, 2016 13:36:34 GMT -5
I got three Power Record sets...(phone is charging so using stock pics for now)... Oh, cool! Sorry I didn't see this when it was posted. I loved those GI Joe book and record sets from Peter Pan. I still have Spy Island and also "The Search for the Stolen Idol." They were well-acted, sort of like 1930s radio plays. The sound effects and cast suggested they had a considerable budget. I've likewise gone on and on about my love of Power Records and that Man-Thing story in particular. It's taken from a rather grim Steve Gerber script and has tremendous Mike Ploog art. The comic book tale begins with a sad and shocking gun suicide, and this is retained in the book and record!
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Post by dcindexer on Jun 21, 2016 14:00:35 GMT -5
Just picked up New Comics #9. (Bought it a couple weeks ago but it just now arrived.) A little history on this one... New Comics was the 2nd title launched by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1935. The 1st was New Fun. It featured pre-Superman work by Siegel & Shuster on a feature called Federal Men. This issue has some cool giant robots. Beginning on the cover of #12 the title was changed to New Adventure Comics. This title change would not be reflected officially in the indicia until #15. In early 1938, Nicholson was forced into bankruptcy and New Adventure Comics was taken over by his partners Donenfield and Liebowitz at Detective Comics Inc. With #32, the word New was dropped from the title. The series became Adventure Comics which in the late 1950s became the longest running US comic publication. A title which it held for 25 years. It was cancelled in the early 1980s with issue 490, but was revived briefly as a digest to complete its run of 503 issues. Over the course of its history Adventure Comics introduced Sandman (#40), Hourman (#48), Starman (#61), and the Shining Knight (#66). With issue #103 Superboy became the long-running headliner of the title. His feature introduced many mainstays of the DCU such as Krypto (#210) and the Legion (#247). Adventure Comics is/was an important part of DC's past. And this is #9. Woo Hoo!
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 23, 2016 0:51:38 GMT -5
Just picked up New Comics #9. (Bought it a couple weeks ago but it just now arrived.) A little history on this one... New Comics was the 2nd title launched by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1935. The 1st was New Fun. It featured pre-Superman work by Siegel & Shuster on a feature called Federal Men. This issue has some cool giant robots. Beginning on the cover of #12 the title was changed to New Adventure Comics. This title change would not be reflected officially in the indicia until #15. In early 1938, Nicholson was forced into bankruptcy and New Adventure Comics was taken over by his partners Donenfield and Liebowitz at Detective Comics Inc. With #32, the word New was dropped from the title. The series became Adventure Comics which in the late 1950s became the longest running US comic publication. A title which it held for 25 years. It was cancelled in the early 1980s with issue 490, but was revived briefly as a digest to complete its run of 503 issues. Over the course of its history Adventure Comics introduced Sandman (#40), Hourman (#48), Starman (#61), and the Shining Knight (#66). With issue #103 Superboy became the long-running headliner of the title. His feature introduced many mainstays of the DCU such as Krypto (#210) and the Legion (#247). Adventure Comics is/was an important part of DC's past. And this is #9. Woo Hoo! Great comic!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 8:05:53 GMT -5
They should make those book & record sets today, but replace the record with an audio cd. I would gladly purchase a replica type edition.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 9:33:57 GMT -5
This particular comic that I just bought off eBay has very significant meaning for me...you see, when I was a kid I went with my Dad to visit with an acquaintance/friend of his & I was in their living room and opened up a drawer on an end table and discovered a few comic books & this was one of them. I was so enamored with this comic that I was tempted to STEAL it!! I almost did, even hid it under my shirt but then felt guilty and put it back. I had forgotten all about this comic book but discovered it again when browsing on eBay, so thought it would be a hoot to actually buy it for myself...my reward for not stealing it all of those years ago.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 23, 2016 9:53:42 GMT -5
This particular comic that I just bought off eBay has very significant meaning for me...you see, when I was a kid I went with my Dad to visit with an acquaintance/friend of his & I was in their living room and opened up a drawer on an end table and discovered a few comic books & this was one of them. I was so enamored with this comic that I was tempted to STEAL it!! I almost did, even hid it under my shirt but then felt guilty and put it back. I had forgotten all about this comic book but discovered it again when browsing on eBay, so thought it would be a hoot to actually buy it for myself...my reward for not stealing it all of those years ago. That's a great story, and I'm glad you finally got your hands on it, especially through legal means. I always love to learn why people buy the books they do, particularly when there is a personal connection to the comic instead of it just being another thing in their collection (although that is certainly a valid reason as well).
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 23, 2016 14:17:41 GMT -5
This particular comic that I just bought off eBay has very significant meaning for me...you see, when I was a kid I went with my Dad to visit with an acquaintance/friend of his & I was in their living room and opened up a drawer on an end table and discovered a few comic books & this was one of them. I was so enamored with this comic that I was tempted to STEAL it!! I almost did, even hid it under my shirt but then felt guilty and put it back. I had forgotten all about this comic book but discovered it again when browsing on eBay, so thought it would be a hoot to actually buy it for myself...my reward for not stealing it all of those years ago. That is a cool cover! Reminds me of an Avengers cover with the Guardians of the Galaxy on it that I wanted to steal from my friend back in the late 70's, but luckily I didn't.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 23, 2016 14:19:16 GMT -5
Here are some recent eBay purchases... I finally completed my run of Batman 100 page giants My second copy of Batman #260, this one in better condition VF+/NM SUPER GORILLAS!! DEADSHOT!!! Super-sweet! I love tose 100 page giants. Among other things, they introduced me to Golden and Silver Age DC.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jun 23, 2016 14:33:41 GMT -5
This particular comic that I just bought off eBay has very significant meaning for me...you see, when I was a kid I went with my Dad to visit with an acquaintance/friend of his & I was in their living room and opened up a drawer on an end table and discovered a few comic books & this was one of them. I was so enamored with this comic that I was tempted to STEAL it!! I almost did, even hid it under my shirt but then felt guilty and put it back. I had forgotten all about this comic book but discovered it again when browsing on eBay, so thought it would be a hoot to actually buy it for myself...my reward for not stealing it all of those years ago. I remember buying that one off the newsstand, all those many years ago. Always had a thing for Batgirl, partly because she had the coolest costume of the Bat-family. Plus she had that whole "hot-librarian" thing going on. Hope you enjoyed it.
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