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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 19, 2019 6:19:02 GMT -5
These just arrived in the mail today, from the wonderful UK-based online bookseller Awesomebooks: Five digests that collect, from left to right, Fantastic Four #68 to #73 & Annual #5, Amazing Spider-Man #94 to #102, Tales of Suspense #91 to #99, Iron Man and Sub-Mariner #1 and Iron Man #1 to #4, Iron Man #5 to #14, Tales to Astonish #101 and Incredible Hulk #102 to #108. That's over a thousand pages of comics, for which I paid a little over $19 total (including postage).
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Post by Duragizer on Mar 20, 2019 18:14:22 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 22:49:27 GMT -5
Won a couple of art pieces (posters/prints) in a recent Lonestar auction, and ordered a couple of books to round out the order and finish up a couple of runs. Picked up: Books of Fate #11 (completes series) Conan (90's Marvel series) #9 (completes series) Astonishing Tales #9 (Ka-Zar; one of three I needed to complete series) Spirit #19 (Kitchen Sink series) part of their weekly dollar book sale). I also picked up the first 2 issues of the Dynamite Red Sonja/Tarzan x-over series as part of the dollar sale, but they are too recent to fit our definition of classic. And the art pieces... a poster for the 2001 Frazetta documentary film... and a Cary Nord Rocketeer print from the 30th anniversary Heroes Con a few years back... -M
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Post by Confessor on Mar 21, 2019 11:59:06 GMT -5
Been meaning to post a picture of the copy of the Daredevil: Born Again collection I found in my local Oxfam shop for a bargain price last week -- and it's still-sealed! I also received the Archie Goodwin issue of Comic Book Profiles, which I ordered off of eBay a few days ago. I haven't opened either of them yet, but I'm looking forward to giving them both a read this weekend.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Mar 21, 2019 18:48:19 GMT -5
LB Cole comic for under $40 shipped? Yes please. I’ll post pics of another Cole comic o bought this weekend!
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Post by spoon on Mar 22, 2019 22:14:49 GMT -5
I got the Silver Age Doom Patrol Omnibus in the mail today!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 20:30:52 GMT -5
As I mentioned in another thread, we stopped by a Half Price Books today, and in addition to picking up the HC of Jodorowsky's Screaming Planet, I dug through th dollar bins and picked up a handful of stuff
Prince Valiant (the Marvel Select series) #3 New Teen Titans (Banter series) 48 Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger (Tekno series) 3 Action Comics Weekly 634 Arrowsmith #1 (completes series) American Gods 5, 7-9 Legends of the DC Universe 36 Icon 8 The Worlds of Dungeons & Dragons 2 Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of Spring Dawning 5 Darkhold 4 Spectre (4th series, DeMatteis Hal Jordan series) 11-14 Dark Horse Presents (3rd series) #4
plus picked up a bunch of vintage paperbacks including the novelization of Alien and Outlander, Logan's Run, Logan's World, Han Solo and the Lost Legacy, Gateway by Frederik Pohl, The Executioner Book 4, Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakas by Lin Carter, The Shuttered Room and other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard-Cthulhu Mythos & Kindred Horrors anthology edited by David Drake, Worms of the Earth by REH, and Marchers of Valhalla by REH
also hit the Ollie's in Columbus that I hadn't been to before and found a whole bunch of DC trades our local Ollie's didn't have, including the Len Wein/Kelly Jones Swamp Thing trade I had been looking to pick up as I missed the mini series when it came out.
-M
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Apr 1, 2019 13:05:15 GMT -5
Went to a small junk/antique/collectible store in town. Scored the following:
Eternals #1-10, Annual 1. Cant believe this series and the value all of a sudden. $1-3 dollar bin stuff is now quite pricey, especially the first issue. So happy I scored nice mid grade copies for a couple bucks each.
Red Circle Sorcery #3,4,7. Great series with some great Gray Morrow covers.
ASM #212, 214. I needed 214 and 212 is now a $30 book. Crazy.
Some Ditko Charlton issues. Need to go back though as there are more.
Adventure Comics #437- cool Aparo cover
Ghost Castle #2- short lived series
Marvel Spotlight #26- Scarecrow app. What a strange character. Did Marvel ever get into any legal issues with DC over this characte?
As mentioned, I need to return because I was rushed going through some of the boxes. There are some horror issues I need to double check on and a bunch of Wonder Woman stuff too for me to consider snagging.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2019 13:10:12 GMT -5
Went to a small junk/antique/collectible store in town. Scored the following: Eternals #1-10, Annual 1. Cant believe this series and the value all of a sudden. $1-3 dollar bin stuff is now quite pricey, especially the first issue. So happy I scored nice mid grade copies for a couple bucks each. Red Circle Sorcery #3,4,7. Great series with some great Gray Morrow covers. ASM #212, 214. I needed 214 and 212 is now a $30 book. Crazy. Some Ditko Charlton issues. Need to go back though as there are more. Adventure Comics #437- cool Aparo cover Ghost Castle #2- short lived series Marvel Spotlight #26- Scarecrow app. What a strange character. Did Marvel ever get into any legal issues with DC over this characte? As mentioned, I need to return because I was rushed going through some of the boxes. There are some horror issues I need to double check on and a bunch of Wonder Woman stuff too for me to consider snagging. Eternals hasn't been bargain bin material for a while, it's over 40 years old and went up when many of the Marvel Bronze Age books started to get more demand. Add in to it that Marvel has now announced an Eternals movie and the first issue will only continue to go up. Look at it this way, when I started seriously collecting (not just buying books off newsstands but hunting back issues), FF #1 was only 23 years old, Eternals #1 is almost twice as old as that now. -M
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Post by urrutiap on Apr 4, 2019 16:19:51 GMT -5
I went to the comic book shop yesterday and bought these oldies
Uncanny X-Men # 208 G.I. Joe issues #49, 53, and 54 Fantastic Four # 611 Alpha Flight # 22 True Believers reprint of Conan the Barbarian 179 True Believers reprint of Spectacular Spider-Man 117 Incredible Hulk # 316
and i bought the still new 2018 trade paperback of Swamp Thing from Barnes and Noble yesterday. Its a pretty good sized trade paperback for old Swamp Thing. Its not the one by Alan Moore. Its the 2018 trade paperback of Swamp Thing by other guys back in the day
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Post by urrutiap on Apr 4, 2019 16:21:01 GMT -5
G.I. Joe issue 49 I used to have back in the day when I was a little kid. I remember either my mom or dad getting me that issue from the spinner rack from the drug pharmacy store.
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Post by brutalis on Apr 4, 2019 16:59:06 GMT -5
G.I. Joe issue 49 I used to have back in the day when I was a little kid. I remember either my mom or dad getting me that issue from the spinner rack from the drug pharmacy store. I was a Joe comic fan from the very get go. Only had 1 Joe figure (with the black beard and hair) growing up so when the new toy launched in 1982 while I was in college, me and a couple of my friends were totally all in. They went hog wild buying EVERY figure and vehicle as they came out. I was a bit more reserved and only bought figures that interested me after the original 11 figures. For me it became the comic book and cartoon I followed. So I have very fond remembrances of the joy felt when finding the newest issue on the rack and then being able to have them in my pull box at the LCS. The original Joe comic, Special Missions and the Marvel British comic book (version called Action Man) European Missions made for fun reads. Good times!!!
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Apr 4, 2019 18:13:05 GMT -5
Eternals hasn't been bargain bin material for a while, it's over 40 years old and went up when many of the Marvel Bronze Age books started to get more demand. Add in to it that Marvel has now announced an Eternals movie and the first issue will only continue to go up. Look at it this way, when I started seriously collecting (not just buying books off newsstands but hunting back issues), FF #1 was only 23 years old, Eternals #1 is almost twice as old as that now. -M Yes you are right. When I say $1-3 dollar bin stuff, I'm thinking 8-10 years ago which is really the last time I had a chance to really dig through long boxes....its what happens when you can only buy online and have no official comic stores within 8-10 hours of where I live
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Post by brutalis on Apr 5, 2019 9:18:18 GMT -5
Been reading Daring New Adventures of Supergirl from the 23 issue run by Paul Kupperburg, Carmine Infantino and Bob Oksner from 1982-1884. Recently grabbed the 2 TPB's for cheap at a used local bookstore. Having read through issues 1-6 this is exactly what I needed at the moment to lose myself in some typical 80's light weight comic book stories. Nothing spectacular or outstanding: just light stories of the maiden of steel in an attempt for making her more "interesting" and "different" from her cousin. Drop her into a new town, Chicago. Drop her into College and new friends (with one John Ostrander a notable stand out) and drop in NEW villains (none of which ever reappear I think) and halfway through with issue 13 drop her into a new more modern costume (which looks particularly nice) around the time of her motion picture debut.
These are not stellar in any form yet they are very pleasant and enjoyable reads. Infantino/Oksner art is a big part of the draw here making the series look and feel more like one of the older romance comics from DC. They make Linda Danvers very feminine and stylish and beautiful while showing Supergirl's own beauty and charm and strength when in action. Kupperberg does well with most of the characters and side story arc's yet none of the main issue stories ever seem to come off as strongly or well. Still it is a nice clean, wholesome and pleasurable way to reminisce away an afternoon or evening.
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Post by profh0011 on Apr 8, 2019 21:29:25 GMT -5
I haven't been able to buy too much in recent years, and most of the comics I've picked up lately are in support of a blog project. Crazy enough, one I got just last November is actually one of the OLDER books now in my collection (original, not a reprint)! Poe's TALES OF TERRORphoto cover (Dell / February 1963)
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