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Post by Gene on Aug 16, 2016 12:40:06 GMT -5
Hello, Mary.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 16, 2016 17:13:34 GMT -5
I ordered a few low-grade (but not too low-grade) issues of early "New Look" Detective Comics. Detective Comics #343. I remember this one from a Showcase Batman volume from the library. I remember it as being very bad. But maybe I'll like it better seeing it in color for the first time. Detective Comics #345. I don't remember this one. I must have read it. I'll probably remember it when I start reading it. Looks like it could be pretty cool. Detective Comics #356. The conclusion of the Outsider saga! I used to hate the Outsider stories so much! (They were reprinted in Batman and Detective in the mid-1970s.) But they've grown on me. Especially any appearance by the Grasshopper Gang! I love the Grasshopper Gang! They are hilarious! I also got some really beat-up issues of Action Comics. Two of them are 80-Page Giant issues from the 1960s (with Supergirl!) and one of them is #501. They are complete but pretty rough! Cover attached by a thread, things like that. They should be coming along in a few days.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 16, 2016 17:18:03 GMT -5
I was scrolling down after I posted and looking for typos and grammar errors, and I noted the blurb on #345 - "The Blockbuster Invasion of Gotham City." OK. Yes, I do remember that one. That's a pretty good one, actually, if I'm thinking of the right story. I think it's in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told.
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Post by junkmonkey on Aug 16, 2016 20:00:40 GMT -5
Curses! I am so jealous. I'm trying to put together a collection of all Kirby's DC stuff without bankrupting myself. Cheap poor condition, uncollectable copies. Not that common in the UK. I have waited to find the Kirby fourth world issues for the right price. I just want the book to be complete even if it's a bit worn. Those books are compete but they have writing on the covers. I glued and sewed together an issue of Demon recently. The pages were all there and all cpmlete but just not attached to each other very well. Did only cost me pennies and it's now readable.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 16, 2016 20:55:52 GMT -5
I have waited to find the Kirby fourth world issues for the right price. I just want the book to be complete even if it's a bit worn. Those books are compete but they have writing on the covers. I glued and sewed together an issue of Demon recently. The pages were all there and all cpmlete but just not attached to each other very well. Did only cost me pennies and it's now readable. It's amazing that you just posted this because 4 pages of the centerfold of Mr. Miracle #6 were loose and I just stapled them in place. I haven't stapled a comic in over 40 years. I remember stapling parts of a Avengers #93 together .
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 20, 2016 15:26:03 GMT -5
I picked these up today at two different Vintage Stock (they sell games, music, movies, books, cards, toys, as well as comics) stores getting my now teen son his birthday presents.
All $1 each
Batman #501 (Knightquest) Death's Head II #13 Earth X #7 Force Works #16 Defenders #125, 129, 145 Detective Comics #605 New Warriors #4, 5, 6, 52, 54, 57 Ravage 2099 #2 Warlord #42, 44, 46, 47, 56, 63, 67
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 18:18:39 GMT -5
The Lonestar order arrived this weekend, so here's the pics.... Adventure Illustrated #1 with Jim Starlin cover... The first Attu graphic novel by Sam Glanzman... a pair of issues of Savage Sword of Conan I needed, and an issue of Alter Ego exploring sword and sorcery comics.... A pair of Flash Gordon comics formther King/Charlton run (#2 and #18), Anything GOes #5 (the last issue of the mini I needed witha Turtles cover) and Battle of the Planets #1 with an Alex Ross cover from Image, completing that mini for me a nice coffee table style hardcover collecting the first several years of Buck Rogers strips... a trio of Tarzan issues (2 Marvel, 1 DC and the final issue of Conan the Adventurer (#14) which completes that run for me... and a quartet of Jonny Quest comics, 2 from the Comico series-1 with a cover by Doug Wildley, the other has a cover by Bill Sienkewicz, and a pair of issues from the Real Adventures revival put out by Dark Horse... I also got some toy goodness from Entertainment Earth, so check out the Latest Acquisitions thread in yous to see some Flash Gordon and Battlestar Galactica goodies. -M
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 22, 2016 23:14:27 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 10:24:59 GMT -5
Just picked up FF # 51-125 on Comixology for $.99 ea That's under $75.00 and I might tell my friend to order it for me. My friend and I share an account together because he has a credit card - I don't. I can pay him with cash and on with the reading!
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 23, 2016 15:56:19 GMT -5
Lee & Kirby FF for $ .99 is unbeatable IMO.
I've got reprints of most of them, but again, they're packed away in storage.
Not sure if I'm going to keep the paper duplicates later or not.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 16:13:08 GMT -5
Lee & Kirby FF for $ .99 is unbeatable IMO. I've got reprints of most of them, but again, they're packed away in storage. Not sure if I'm going to keep the paper duplicates later or not. I've already paid him and he and I are splitting the cost - and he wanted to get it too ... he is a big FF myself and I just can't wait to read it next week.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 25, 2016 10:25:20 GMT -5
I ordered a few more low-grade (but not too low-grade, I hope) issues of "New Look" Detective Comics. I've read all of these issues before, either in 1970s reprints or the Batman Showcase volumes from the library. I've noted elsewhere that I used to be very dismissive of most "New Look" stories, especially the early ones, but they are growing on me, and I tend to look on them more favorably when I get my own copy. I probably haven't read the Elongated Man stories in these issues, but I do come across the occasional story of those crazy Dibnys that I recognize from a reprint. It's always fun (for me anyway) to read stories about Ralph and Sue that I've never seen before. Those crazy Dibnys! What the heck are they doing? They got married and then went on a very long honeymoon (it lasted for half the Silver Age and most of the Bronze Age!) where they go from town to town and Ralph sniffs out mysteries with his magical mystery-detecting nose while Sue goes shopping or goes to a show. They are hilarious! I don't recognize the story from the cover. It's probably really awful, perhaps wonderfully so, with some awesome awkward art by Sheldon Moldoff. I read this one fairly recently because it's reprinted in in Detective Comics #439 (I think). It's pretty bad. I doubt very much that the story in Detective Comics #336 will ever grow on me. It's really bad and it lacks the whacky charm of some of the goofy "New Look" stories I've come to love. I had a copy of Detective Comics #439 (which reprints the Batman story from #336) when I was 12 and I think it was the first "New Look" story I ever read. This story may be at least partly responsible for my dislike of the "New Look." It's that bad. I don't remember this one either. Looks pretty goofy! I love this cover! Overflowing with "New Look" charm! This is the second part of a two-part story and I got the first part just a few weeks ago. Both parts were reprinted in Batman #262. (I think. The Scarecrow is the villain in the new story.) It's a very crazy very silly story, but I've come to like it over the years. I bought #262 as a back issue in the 1990s and I remember rolling my eyes a lot at the reprint, but I still thought it was pretty entertaining. I read the first part for the first time in YEARS just a few weeks ago and I'm actually looking forward to reading the conclusion again in a few days.
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Post by MDG on Aug 25, 2016 10:45:27 GMT -5
I have a lot of these, and while the stories are hit-or-miss, I love all of the covers from this era.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 25, 2016 10:54:19 GMT -5
I have a lot of these, and while the stories are hit-or-miss, I love all of the covers from this era. My candidate for WORST ISSUE OF DETECTIVE COMICS EVER is Detective Comics #364. Just wait until you see who the mystery villain is! It's so dumb! I haven't read every issue of Detective Comics. So I reserve the right to change my mind if I ever come across, say, a particularly bad Golden Age issue from the mid-1940s.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 25, 2016 12:19:54 GMT -5
Love that Infantino puzzle cover !
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