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Post by shaxper on May 6, 2019 21:44:17 GMT -5
I haven't done any significant adding to my collection in ages now, but I'm finally at a point where my youngest daughter and I are equally into a comic franchise TOGETHER. We LOVE reading Archie comics, so I went a little crazy, purchasing these beauties for a paltry combined $40: Yep. #1 and #4! As well as a huge ebay lot of mostly Betty and Veronica comics, which have now taken over one entire side of my spinner rack: So excited to finally be sharing my comic book passion with one of my kids!
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Post by The Captain on May 11, 2019 15:36:34 GMT -5
I went to my first comic book convention in a few years today, and while I didn't buy a lot of books, I was pleased with the ones I did manage to find.
Daredevil #65 - this was on my 2019 Goals list, as it was the last issue that I needed to have all of them, either in floppie or collection, from #1 to #512. It was pretty much the only book on my Want List that was a "must buy". This copy is in F+/VF- condition, and while I paid a little more for it than I really wanted to ($13), I haven't bought many books in the past two years, so a slight splurge to complete a run like that didn't phase me.
Frankenstein #8 - Frankenstein Monster meets Dracula, Marvel style, for $3.
What If #6 and 19 - two of the final six issues I was missing (I refuse to buy issue #11, where the original Marvel Bullpen is the Fantastic Four, because it's too much of a stupid premise and vanity project for me to waste money on). $3 each.
Captain America #195 and 196, Incredible Hulk #227, and Iron Man #127 - $5 each, these are high-grade copies to replace $1 box copies I bought years ago that are in crap condition.
Also, although not a classic comic book, I bought the first TPB of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina directly from Robert Hack, the artist on the series. We talked for a little while about the TV show (I just finished Season 1 of the Netflix show last night) and some of his other work, and he signed the book for me. Super cool guy, and I look forward to his continued work on the series.
I also bought the 2019 Spring Convention Special Thor Funko Pop figure. It's classic Thor, not movie Thor, and it fits in nicely with the rest of the classic-style Marvel Pops that I have, as I try to avoid the movie-based figure designs unless they are REALLY cool (like Hela).
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Post by beccabear67 on May 12, 2019 13:02:36 GMT -5
I still kick myself for just missing the sale of a real Hey Kids Comics spinner rack when they were selling the fixtures at a shop's re-design sale... apparently I was less than hour late. I didn't want to know what they sold it for. I did get part of a black wire type counter-top magazine rack though for $5 which I still have somewhere. I never thought that I could make up a retro-style sign for the top and bottom areas... the metal ones it came with were for non-comics automotive magazines.
Got a few more of those reprint/facsimile '60s 80 Page giant things DC once put out to go with the '1963' Flash and Green Lantern annuals... Secret Origins 1, Teen Titans annual 1 and Brave & Bold annual 1. I looked at More Secret Origins and Still More and decided to skip getting those (I'm pretty sure I used to have the Still More one)... maybe if they did a Batman edition... I think there was a Superman one. They're a bit difficult to search for. I wish Marvel had done a Marvel Tales 1 repro, it'd go nice with the Secret Origins 1.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 12, 2019 15:17:50 GMT -5
I don’t know why but, I don’t have an attachment to spinner racks. I think I mostly bought comics books from candy stores that had them in piles that you had to dig through. I think I saw my first comic long box in the late 70’s.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 12, 2019 23:56:49 GMT -5
I remember a couple of old shops that had long wooden racks for magazines, with the newspapers and comic books on a shelf at the very bottom in stacks. I think that must've been how they were presented much of the time indoors in the '40s-'50s.
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Post by MDG on May 13, 2019 8:59:42 GMT -5
I still kick myself for just missing the sale of a real Hey Kids Comics spinner rack when they were selling the fixtures at a shop's re-design sale... apparently I was less than hour late. I've got one from the 80s, but, unfortunately, to get silver age books in, you have to bend them a little, so right now it's still empty 'til i figure out what to do. I remember a couple of old shops that had long wooden racks for magazines, with the newspapers and comic books on a shelf at the very bottom in stacks. I think that must've been how they were presented much of the time indoors in the '40s-'50s. The last show we did, another dealer had a wooden Dell Comics display--If I'd done really well, I might have bought it (on the other hand, the van was already packed so i have no idea how i would've gotten it home.
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Post by brutalis on May 13, 2019 9:08:38 GMT -5
I have a stand up 12 row magazine wire rack which I have some magazines and graphic novels in. Also a wall length wooden 4 shelf VHS rack bought from a family run video store when they closed. Fits my Omni, Marvel Essentials and DC Showcase volumes perfectly and sturdy enough to hold them!
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Post by beccabear67 on May 13, 2019 12:39:27 GMT -5
I still kick myself for just missing the sale of a real Hey Kids Comics spinner rack when they were selling the fixtures at a shop's re-design sale... apparently I was less than hour late. I've got one from the 80s, but, unfortunately, to get silver age books in, you have to bend them a little, so right now it's still empty 'til i figure out what to do. Does your hold digests too? The one I missed had added digest holders. It was still there when I saw it with a big sold sign on it (burned into my memory, this must've been the early '90s). It was a corner shop that went from being a 7-11 type to an up-market coffee and snacks place, probably with sushi even. Yes, those early '60s DCs could be very wide indeed. Comics from the late '90s-on seem to have gotten even smaller though, and the Marvels have a 1/8" off the top as well. I think the widest regular comic I ever saw was a '40s Frogman published by Hillman.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 13, 2019 12:42:11 GMT -5
I don't know if they're classics but I just bought these from eBay. I already have number one and seeing the other three of the series at an affordable price was just too much of a temptation... The art on these looks great, once again I wish I could properly read French. No English editions? The English Yoko Tsuno is only up to book 14 so even if there is it will likely be years behind.
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Post by MDG on May 13, 2019 13:26:07 GMT -5
I've got one from the 80s, but, unfortunately, to get silver age books in, you have to bend them a little, so right now it's still empty 'til i figure out what to do. Does your hold digests too? The one I missed had added digest holders. It was still there when I saw it with a big sold sign on it (burned into my memory, this must've been the early '90s). It was a corner shop that went from being a 7-11 type to an up-market coffee and snacks place, probably with sushi even. Yes, those early '60s DCs could be very wide indeed. Comics from the late '90s-on seem to have gotten even smaller though, and the Marvels have a 1/8" off the top as well. I think the widest regular comic I ever saw was a '40s Frogman published by Hillman. No on digests--it's from the 70s or 80s (has the header design in shaxper 's picture) but when I was trying to put 60s-early 70s books in, it felt really tight (which is odd, because I thought the dealer I bought it from, in an antique co-op in Maine, had previously has silver age books in it). Maybe because most of the ones I was trying to put in had backer boards and/or spine roll.
Had a hell of a time when I just--finally, after 40 years--bagged my undergrounds. The size is all over the map! Some are modern size, but many are larger than SA and I had to get Dell-sized, which are 1/8" or 1/16" bigger. A few are magazine size, so don't even fit in the box!
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 13, 2019 14:01:48 GMT -5
Zagreb's annual comics show was held this past weekend, so I picked up the tpb of Busiek & Pacheco's Arrowsmith: Been interested in this for a while, and the seller wanted the equivalent of about 8 bucks for it, so I figured why not? Picked up a few other things, but I'll post that in the Modern comics section.
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Post by Confessor on May 14, 2019 1:18:06 GMT -5
I don’t know why but, I don’t have an attachment to spinner racks. I think I mostly bought comics books from candy stores that had them in piles that you had to dig through. I think I saw my first comic long box in the late 70’s. Yeah, I'm kinda the same. Though those American-style spinner racks are very cool, I don't really remember ever buying comics from them when I was a kid. For one thing, British comics were mostly magazine-sized or, on occasion, digest-sized, and so wouldn't have fitted in one of those spinner racks. However, I think there was one shop near me that had U.S. comics on a spinner rack for a time, but the vast majority of American comics that I encountered as a kid were either sold on the regular magazine shelves or were in a pile close to the other magazines.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 14, 2019 4:50:12 GMT -5
I did a quick eBay search for spinner racks and , yikes, they wanted from 350 to 600 for just one !
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 1:45:37 GMT -5
Just won this is the Lonestar auction that ended tonight... got it for a much better price than they were selling it on the site itself too. I love the Fireside Books, I had Son of Origins as a kid (I was an early adopter of trades), and read it cover to cover again and again, and nabbed Origins and Bring on the Bad Guys when I first started collecting seriously, and have slowly been adding more of them as I can. I already have the stories collected, but I've anted this particular book for a long time, just never ran across it on the wild or found it online at a price I liked. Now I have. -M
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 1:11:02 GMT -5
To round out my order with Lonestar and make the shipping worthwhile, I added the following to the order...
Border Worlds 7 (completes series) Camelot 3000 #11-12 (completes series) Elfquest (Marvel/Epic series) 16, 26 & 32 (completes series) Spirit Magazine #10, 16, 32-34, 37
and not a comic, but also added Star Trek Log One, the first volume of prose adaptations of the Animated Series, which was the last of the Logs I needed.
-M
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