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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 19, 2017 4:01:19 GMT -5
Hoosier, you are putting together a really nice run of Batman Books.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 19, 2017 10:17:48 GMT -5
Hoosier, you are putting together a really nice run of Batman Books. As soon as I get #405, I'm going to take a break for a while. I want to save about $300 for a low-grade (but not TOO low-grade!) copy of Detective Comics #359, with the first appearance of Barbara Gordon.
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Post by antoine on Apr 19, 2017 20:06:45 GMT -5
I took a walk with my daughter to the library today, and I saw a little shop inside the building where the library is that sells 1$ / 2$ books that were donated to the library. I got this for 18$ total : Classic Franco-Belge Stuff by Vance and Van Hamme, plus 4 spinoff about characters of the series (they are all surprisingly good reads). And 1 Elephantmen TPB. I don'T know much about it, but for 1$ ? The XIII will be a gift for my father, as I already have them all.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Apr 20, 2017 23:39:20 GMT -5
Hoosier, you are putting together a really nice run of Batman Books. As soon as I get #405, I'm going to take a break for a while. I want to save about $300 for a low-grade (but not TOO low-grade!) copy of Detective Comics #359, with the first appearance of Barbara Gordon. Hey I got a question for alla youse, using Hoosier as my guinea pig. If, like Hoosier, you collect A title of someone who has multiple published (Spidey, Bats, Supey etc) do you also add to your run any books a story may be continued in? As an example, Hoosier, you have Detective 400 - 965(give or take...too lazy to make it exact), would part of your 'tec run include all of the Knightfall books published in other titles? Do our Amazing Spider-Man collector's include Spectacular issues that are part of extended stories? The next question is would you have multiples of crossovers so they could be filed with respective runs? So a Knightfall set with your 'tec books and one with your Batman run. That way if you were reading through Batman you wouldn't have to pull out your Detective boxes as well. This makes bloody good sense to me. Surely some of you are that anal...right
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 21, 2017 2:40:19 GMT -5
As soon as I get #405, I'm going to take a break for a while. I want to save about $300 for a low-grade (but not TOO low-grade!) copy of Detective Comics #359, with the first appearance of Barbara Gordon. Hey I got a question for alla youse, using Hoosierx as my guines pig. If, like Hoosierx, you collect A title of someone who has multiple published (Spidey, Bats, Supey etc) do you also add to your run any books a story may be continued in? As an example, Hoosierx, you have Detective 400 - 965(give or take...too lazy to make it exact), would part of your 'tec run include all of the Knightfall books published in other titles? Do our Amazing Spider-Man collector's include Spectacular issues that are part of extended stories? The next question is would you have multiples of crossovers so they could be filed with respective runs? So a Knightfall set with your 'tec books and one with your Batman run. That way if you were reading through Batman you wouldn't have to pull out your Detective boxes as well. This makes bloody good sense to me. Surely some of you are that anal...right If I like the storyline, yes, I do buy the other issues besides the chapters in Detective Comics. Knightfall is a great example. It was going back and forth between Batman and Detective, and there was also a sort of side-story in Shadow of the Bat featuring Scarecrow. I bought all of them, and they are filed with Detective. I did the same with Prodigal. But the storyline where Gotham City was hit by an earthquake and the city was in chaos and divided up into various gangster territories, I only got the Detective Comics issues. Also there was a multi-part Ras al Ghul story in the #830 to #840 era (approximately) and I only bought the Detective chapters for that because I think Ras is way past his due date and should be retired. More recently, I bought all the issues of the Rebirth Monster Men story, and during the New 52, I got all the chapters for Death of the Family and the Robin War.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 21, 2017 2:42:04 GMT -5
And I should add that I won the auction for Detective Comics #405. I paid $37 for it. So when that and #395 arrive, Ill have every issue from #390 to the present.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 21, 2017 5:38:23 GMT -5
Hey I got a question for alla youse, using Hoosier as my guinea pig. If, like Hoosier, you collect A title of someone who has multiple published (Spidey, Bats, Supey etc) do you also add to your run any books a story may be continued in? As an example, Hoosier, you have Detective 400 - 965(give or take...too lazy to make it exact), would part of your 'tec run include all of the Knightfall books published in other titles? Do our Amazing Spider-Man collector's include Spectacular issues that are part of extended stories? The next question is would you have multiples of crossovers so they could be filed with respective runs? So a Knightfall set with your 'tec books and one with your Batman run. That way if you were reading through Batman you wouldn't have to pull out your Detective boxes as well. This makes bloody good sense to me. Surely some of you are that anal...right I'll jump in on this- My Avengers collection is complete from #1-402 with the exception of #1 and #4. I also have Submariner # 34, 35 which has the Avengers vs. Namor, Hulk and Silver Surfer Defenders 8-11 - The Defenders / Avengers war which connects to Avengers 115-118 Captain Marvel # 33- Conclusion of the Thanos / cosmic Cube that was part Of Avengers # 125 Fantastic Four # 150 the second part of Avengers 127 Super Villain Team-up # 9 which ties into Avengers 154 Marvel Two in one Annual #2- second part of Avengers annual #7 There were other Storylines that crossed over like Galactic Storm and the lousy Crossing saga but I didn’t feel it was worth it to include it in my collection.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 21, 2017 5:46:02 GMT -5
As soon as I get #405, I'm going to take a break for a while. I want to save about $300 for a low-grade (but not TOO low-grade!) copy of Detective Comics #359, with the first appearance of Barbara Gordon. Hey I got a question for alla youse, using Hoosier as my guinea pig. If, like Hoosier, you collect A title of someone who has multiple published (Spidey, Bats, Supey etc) do you also add to your run any books a story may be continued in? As an example, Hoosier, you have Detective 400 - 965(give or take...too lazy to make it exact), would part of your 'tec run include all of the Knightfall books published in other titles? Do our Amazing Spider-Man collector's include Spectacular issues that are part of extended stories? The next question is would you have multiples of crossovers so they could be filed with respective runs? So a Knightfall set with your 'tec books and one with your Batman run. That way if you were reading through Batman you wouldn't have to pull out your Detective boxes as well. This makes bloody good sense to me. Surely some of you are that anal...right I have lengthy runs of both Amazing and Spectacular Spider-Man, each filed separately, but I never got into Web of Spider-Man. I only own a handful of issues of that title, such as the two pieces of Kraven's Last Hunt and the three issues of Maximum Carnage, and those are filed in a short box labeled "Crossover Issues" along with other books that tie into bigger storylines but are from series that I don't collect (like Cable, X-Force, 90s Ghost Rider, Wolverine).
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Post by sacorn on Apr 21, 2017 10:39:31 GMT -5
As soon as I get #405, I'm going to take a break for a while. I want to save about $300 for a low-grade (but not TOO low-grade!) copy of Detective Comics #359, with the first appearance of Barbara Gordon. Hey I got a question for alla youse, using Hoosier as my guinea pig. If, like Hoosier, you collect A title of someone who has multiple published (Spidey, Bats, Supey etc) do you also add to your run any books a story may be continued in? As an example, Hoosier, you have Detective 400 - 965(give or take...too lazy to make it exact), would part of your 'tec run include all of the Knightfall books published in other titles? Do our Amazing Spider-Man collector's include Spectacular issues that are part of extended stories? The next question is would you have multiples of crossovers so they could be filed with respective runs? So a Knightfall set with your 'tec books and one with your Batman run. That way if you were reading through Batman you wouldn't have to pull out your Detective boxes as well. This makes bloody good sense to me. Surely some of you are that anal...right Yep, I do. I've got spectacular, web of, and self-titled all in the amazing spider-man boxes. Same with X-men, xfactor, new mutants etc under Uncanny. Its tough when you're going through the respective boxes and seeing the huge gaps, and a pain when trying to find missing issues if you use spreadsheets. I'm actually considering adding the extra issues, but can't bring myself to do it yet ;-) Do you?
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Post by urrutiap on Apr 21, 2017 11:30:55 GMT -5
You guys should be reading the stuff you bought instead of going to the comic book shop every day for more stuff.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 21, 2017 12:15:22 GMT -5
You guys should be reading the stuff you bought instead of going to the comic book shop every day for more stuff. Buying more than you can read is the curse of the comic collector. Besides, you never know, you might get snowed in.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 21, 2017 13:28:15 GMT -5
You guys should be reading the stuff you bought instead of going to the comic book shop every day for more stuff. Can't speak for anyone else, but much of what i purchase is with the intent of my retirement years and fulfilling my poorer days of youth when i was limited to affording or having only a small collection. Now after many years of working, moving several times, supporting family and friends and now settled into "MY HOME" i now have space to build and store my collection. I have a voracious taste for reading and enjoying books and comic books and i enjoy being able now to find those things i couldn't in my youth. Especially with the Omni's and TPB's collecting so many series i never had full collections of or they had my interest but were the "hot" collector item which i couldn't and wouldn't afford. These days i indulge when i find something collected which i haven't read before or series that i can upgrade and trade in the single's.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 21, 2017 13:38:24 GMT -5
You guys should be reading the stuff you bought instead of going to the comic book shop every day for more stuff. I read everything within a few days of buying it. With very few exceptions. When I started getting DK III, the comic-book shop had #1, #2 and #5, and I read the first two issues and decided to wait until I could get #3 and #4 before I went on. That didn't take more than a few weeks. And a few months ago, I got a lot of comics on eBay auctions where I won a lot more low bids than I thought I would. So I had a bunch of random comics for $3 and $4, like a couple of issues of House of Mystery, quite a few issues of Doom Patrol, an issue of Four-Star Spectacular, etc. It took me a couple of weeks to read all those. And the Wonder Woman story in Four-Star Spectacular (a reprint from the Kanigher era) is so stupid that I started it several times and didn't read the whole story until fairly recently. And sometimes, I'm not so great with digital Golden Age comics from Comixology. Those old Batman comics have a lot of stories in them. I'll read two or three stories and then forget I have them for a while.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 24, 2017 20:19:31 GMT -5
I know I said I wasn't going to get any more old comics for a while after getting every issue of Detective Comics from #390 on. But it's all early Bronze Age Detective, and my favorite era is the Jack Schiff era and I haven't bought one of those for a while! So I felt like it would be OK to but just one more old issue of Detective before this hiatus. So I got this. Detective Comics #290. Low grade (but not TOO low grade). $21. It has two holes punched a quarter inch from the binding, but it's other wise pretty solid.
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Post by bor on Apr 25, 2017 3:42:04 GMT -5
Bought a whole bunch of The Spirit issues a couple of weeks ago. Good stuff.
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