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Post by urrutiap on Nov 21, 2017 9:00:05 GMT -5
Well, in my opinion mycomicshop website is useful when you need an old comic issue cheap like Uncany x Men # 268 or anything. Local comic shops either have it but expensive or locked in a glass cabinet for no reason
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Post by Confessor on Nov 23, 2017 12:39:50 GMT -5
I took delivery of The Best of Little Nemo in Slumberland today. I've long been looking for a good, single volume "best of" type collection of Windsor McKay's gloriously imaginative strip. The ones you normally see online tend to be a little too brief, and getting the complete Little Nemo volumes seemed like overkill. This hardcover volume, which was published in 1997 and clocks in at 220 pages, seems just right. I'm really looking forward to digging into this tonight.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 23, 2017 12:44:31 GMT -5
Just got my Imgur account up and running, so I thought I would post the most-recent book I bought, which was a couple of weeks ago. I was checking Craigslist for comics and Magic:The Gathering cards when I came across this book, which was showing as being available in the town I live in; I found that weird, since my town only has about 2,300 people. Turns out, it was the local hobby shop, and while they don't have a huge comic selection, apparently the owner buys collections here and there when they are offered. Anyway, I've been looking for a reasonably-priced, Fine or better copy of this lovely lady for a while now, so I'm quite happy. The cover is actually fairly white, but I had to take the picture in a darker room due to some lighting issues, so it looks worse than it really is.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2017 13:00:21 GMT -5
Just got my Imgur account up and running, so I thought I would post the most-recent book I bought, which was a couple of weeks ago. I was checking Craigslist for comics and Magic:The Gathering cards when I came across this book, which was showing as being available in the town I live in; I found that weird, since my town only has about 2,300 people. Turns out, it was the local hobby shop, and while they don't have a huge comic selection, apparently the owner buys collections here and there when they are offered. Anyway, I've been looking for a reasonably-priced, Fine or better copy of this lovely lady for a while now, so I'm quite happy. The cover is actually fairly white, but I had to take the picture in a darker room due to some lighting issues, so it looks worse than it really is. I have a copy of this! Mine is also really nice. I bought it at San Diego Comic-Con about ten years ago.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2017 17:38:42 GMT -5
I think I paid $50 for my Shanna #1. We had got to the convention late and then spent all afternoon at a talk with Stan Freberg and a panel made up of Jerry Robinson, Sheldon Moldoff and Lew Sayre Schwarz and then the dealer tables were closing (or maybe my friend was hungry and he was bugging me to leave? I don't remember exactly) that I had almost no time to look around at comics ... so I just spent my entire allotted comic book money on one comic ... a real nice Shanna #1!
I think that $50 is close to ten times what I spent on the other four issues of Shanna combined.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 23, 2017 22:58:51 GMT -5
I think I paid $50 for my Shanna #1. We had got to the convention late and then spent all afternoon at a talk with Stan Freberg and a panel made up of Jerry Robinson, Sheldon Moldoff and Lew Sayre Schwarz and then the dealer tables were closing. . . Let's make sure I at least shake your hand at some point before we shuffle off this mortal coil, Hoosier X since it would allow me to Kevin Bacon my way to interacting with those luminaries. You must have been drunk with the realization that you were standing in the shadows of giants to pay $50 for Shanna #1, though. Just sayin'.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 23, 2017 23:08:51 GMT -5
You guys scare me with the amount you pay for some books.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2017 23:47:12 GMT -5
It's a really really nice Shanna #1. It's good to have a few very nice, near-mint, beautiful comic books.
But it's no fun to read it because I have to be SO CAREFUL when I take it out of the bag and hold it! That's one of the things I love about some of my beat-up comics, like my Battle #15 with the WAY offset printing on the cover (and the Russ Heath art). And my worn Brave and Bold #78 and my beat-up JA #60. And all those Marvel Western comics I have that are just a few steps away form bird-cage liner.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 24, 2017 12:55:24 GMT -5
I think I paid $50 for my Shanna #1. We had got to the convention late and then spent all afternoon at a talk with Stan Freberg and a panel made up of Jerry Robinson, Sheldon Moldoff and Lew Sayre Schwarz and then the dealer tables were closing. . . Let's make sure I at least shake your hand at some point before we shuffle off this mortal coil, Hoosier X since it would allow me to Kevin Bacon my way to interacting with those luminaries. You must have been drunk with the realization that you were standing in the shadows of giants to pay $50 for Shanna #1, though. Just sayin'. Stan Freberg was pretty awesome. But listening to Moldoff, Robinson and Schwarz talking about Bob Kane was informative and hilarious! Moldoff especially just bagged on Kane for being such a cheapskate and a manipulator with a bunch of hilarious stories about things like how Kane would be in a cab with a bunch of people and he'd say he had an appointment nearby and he'd hop out in the middle of traffic so he wouldn't have to pay his share of the cab fare. Once he did it and another vehicle knocked off the door of the cab. Kane just disappeared and left the mess for everybody else to deal with.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 24, 2017 15:13:10 GMT -5
You guys scare me with the amount you pay for some books. For the record, I only paid $15 for my copy of Shanna #1. As my wife tells people who ask if it bothers her about how much money I spend on comics: "He isn't spending it on another woman, on strippers, on drugs, or on excessive amounts of alcohol, so I'm OK with him buying expensive comic books."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2017 15:16:36 GMT -5
You guys scare me with the amount you pay for some books. For the record, I only paid $15 for my copy of Shanna #1. As my wife tells people who ask if it bothers her about how much money I spend on comics: "He isn't spending it on another woman, on strippers, on drugs, or on excessive amounts of alcohol, so I'm OK with him buying expensive comic books." I think I paid $10 combined for Shanna 1 and 2, both with Steranko covers (both were F+). I was buying a bunch of other stuff from the same dealer so I got a bit of a deal. As to spending the money, when people ask me how I afford it, I ask them how much they spend each month on cell phone, cigarettes, Starbukcs/gourmet coffee and alcohol (or other drugs of choice), none of which I use (well occasionally coffee but I don't spend $ daily on Starbucks and the like as some do), so it's a matter of what I choose to spend my money on not how much I spend. -M
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 24, 2017 17:03:10 GMT -5
I paid 20 cents for my copy of Shanna #1.
It's good to be an old guy.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 24, 2017 19:09:01 GMT -5
For the record, I only paid $15 for my copy of Shanna #1. As my wife tells people who ask if it bothers her about how much money I spend on comics: "He isn't spending it on another woman, on strippers, on drugs, or on excessive amounts of alcohol, so I'm OK with him buying expensive comic books." I think I paid $10 combined for Shanna 1 and 2, both with Steranko covers (both were F+). I was buying a bunch of other stuff from the same dealer so I got a bit of a deal. As to spending the money, when people ask me how I afford it, I ask them how much they spend each month on cell phone, cigarettes, Starbukcs/gourmet coffee and alcohol (or other drugs of choice), none of which I use (well occasionally coffee but I don't spend $ daily on Starbucks and the like as some do), so it's a matter of what I choose to spend my money on not how much I spend. -M You don't have a cell phone? What do you use , 2 tin cans and a string ?
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 24, 2017 19:11:13 GMT -5
I paid 20 cents for my copy of Shanna #1. It's good to be an old guy. I didn't feel like a dinosaur until you posted this. But I did buy most of my treasures when they came out and I gasp at the thought of having to buy my collection now....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2017 23:07:32 GMT -5
I think I paid $10 combined for Shanna 1 and 2, both with Steranko covers (both were F+). I was buying a bunch of other stuff from the same dealer so I got a bit of a deal. As to spending the money, when people ask me how I afford it, I ask them how much they spend each month on cell phone, cigarettes, Starbukcs/gourmet coffee and alcohol (or other drugs of choice), none of which I use (well occasionally coffee but I don't spend $ daily on Starbucks and the like as some do), so it's a matter of what I choose to spend my money on not how much I spend. -M You don't have a cell phone? What do you use , 2 tin cans and a string ? I don't need one. If I am at the house, we still have a landline, and at work I don't need it. My wife has one if we travel or if I am out with her, if there's an emergency, if not, no one needs to be able to reach me every moment, they can call and leave a message, and if I need to call them I use the landline or my wife's phone, but there's absolutely no reason I have o have a cell phone. I've had one in the past when I was required to for my job, but now there's no requirement to have one and I have no desire to have one and haven't in ten years. -M
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