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Post by beccabear67 on May 17, 2019 15:32:53 GMT -5
Happily finally found Thor #21-24 to go with the big conclusion issue #25 I already had. So strange how long I was looking for these, though not with any real dogged perseverance. Must be the Thanos appearance?
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Post by Icctrombone on May 17, 2019 16:59:22 GMT -5
Yep, Thanos is a hot character but Starlin retconned it to be a clone.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2019 20:41:16 GMT -5
Stopped by Half Price books today and picked up a few things out of their dollar bins... Nocturnals #3 Dark Horse Presents 23 & 104 Crusades 7-9 (now 4 issues shy of finishing run) Silverblade #7-10 (finishes series) Spirit #47-48 and also found these two beauties for $3 each... Astounding Stories from April 1937 Amazing Stories from May 1948. plus some sundry paperbacks I will post about in the getting thrifty thread. -M
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Post by beccabear67 on May 21, 2019 21:07:09 GMT -5
Spirits at $1 and vintage pulps at $3 are great buys... I miss the Half Price that was in Seattle I used to go to.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 22, 2019 13:19:26 GMT -5
I really liked the Nocturnals. Wonder what Brereton's up to now-a-days?
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Post by Duragizer on May 22, 2019 16:14:36 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 22, 2019 17:13:41 GMT -5
and also found these two beauties for $3 each... Astounding Stories from April 1937 Amazing Stories from May 1948. plus some sundry paperbacks I will post about in the getting thrifty thread. -M Those are great prices on pulps of that vintage. Not quite to the prime of Astounding...and probably a bit past prime for Amazing. But still great buys.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 0:51:51 GMT -5
and also found these two beauties for $3 each... Astounding Stories from April 1937 Amazing Stories from May 1948. plus some sundry paperbacks I will post about in the getting thrifty thread. -M Those are great prices on pulps of that vintage. Not quite to the prime of Astounding...and probably a bit past prime for Amazing. But still great buys. There's a comic shop a couple towns over (Bookery Fantasy) that also specializes in pulps (they produced one of the standard price guides for pulps), I used to get my new comics there when I moved out here in '03, but stopped when I started my 2007 hiatus from comics. These came from that shop, as HPB still had the tags from the lcs on the back of the bags these books were in listing the cover artist and contents of the pulps, and the old prices fromthe shop were just crossed out and the price sticker put above them-they were priced at $15 for the Astounding and $10 for the Amazing, so someone had bought these, and then sold them to HPB for essentially pennies on the dollar, and HPB put them out for $3 a pop. Pulps from this era are often out of my price range, but when I see a good deal on them, I will snap them up. Most of the pulps I have are later survivals or neo-pulps rather than from this classic era, but I was happy to stumble on these (they were in a magazine box that was filled with mostly Savage Sword of Conan and Conan Saga issues that I almost skipped loking through as I have a complete run of SSOC and am not currently in the market for Conan Saga, but I decided to skim through in case there were any of the Marvel Conan GN mixed in and literally stumbled across the two pulps as they didn't flip the way the mags did in the box and was like, hmm what's this, and did a bit of a double take on what they were. I was sure they would be priced out of my range, and I was quite shocked to see the $3 price tag on them and grabbed them immediately. -M
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Post by The Captain on May 25, 2019 10:11:54 GMT -5
@mrp, Bookery Fantasy is such a great shop. Thanks for telling me about them a few years ago, as I go there every time I am out in the area visiting family.
I made an impulse purchase this past Thursday, although it was something on my Want List. I had stopped by the comic shop closest to my office to pick up some Magic: The Gathering cards ahead of going out that evening to play. This comic shop always has on the racks behind the counter a selection of Silver and Bronze Age books for $10 apiece; they're usually either semi-keys or older books that have a little wear to them. The books rotate on a fairly-regular basis, as they will send them to one of the other stores in their local chain and bring fresh stuff in, hoping someone who doesn't go to the other stores catches what they want here.
On this particular day, they had a copy of Fantastic Four #109 in at least Fine, maybe pushing Fine+, condition. I have been trying, very slowly, to complete my Fantastic Four run from #100 up, and this was one of the last six issues I wanted (the other five are between 100 and 107). As I had not spent as much at the convention I attended a couple of weeks back, I figured it would be worth picking up.
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Post by spoon on May 25, 2019 15:36:21 GMT -5
Between a recent trip to a LCS and an online order, I've been filling in some gaps in my collection.
I bought:
Incredible Hulk #249-251, 254, 260, 264, 267. This fills in most of the issues I was missing in the gap between the Essential Hulk volumes and a series of color TPBs that start with Hulk: Pardoned.
Green Lantern #93-95, 100, 104-106, 133, 147. I know own most of the Bronze Age Green Lantern series from the revival after the cancellation of O'Neil/Adams with #90 to the cancellation with #224. It looks like I'm missing just 11 issues, and I think one is just a reprint with a couple framing pages.
Captain America #258, 261, 265-266, 270. I've filled in some of gaps in my collection between the Essential TPBs and a trio of a group of color TPBs that start with Death of the Red Skull.
Supergirl (1982) #8-9 and Superman Family #191. I decided to sample some cheap guest appearances by the Bronze Age Doom Patrol.
The Scorpion #1. I figured I'd try a comic from the 1970s Atlas Comics.
Avengers #206, 210 and West Coast Avengers #205
True Believers: What If Phoenix Had Not Died - a recent reprint of the story from the 1st series of What If?
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Post by junkmonkey on May 25, 2019 17:56:23 GMT -5
Jealous of those pulps - The last books I bought were a couple of too cheap to pass up BD from eBay: et Both of which had scenes of the kind of casual nakidness which I have come to expect from European comics but the Charbonnier de la mort - goes one step beyond in that it features full on naked lesbian nun fun - for no discernable reason other than the writer/artist couldn't think of any other way of getting tits into his book.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 21:31:09 GMT -5
Hit a couple of Half Price Books in the Columbus area to take advantage of their 20% off Memorial Day sale. Didn't get much, but found a few things... Dark Horse Presents #137 (chipping away at this series) The Dreaming #33, 45, 46, 56, 57 (leaving a dozen issues to complete the run) Star Trek(DC '89 series) #7, 22 Doctor Fate #38 (leaving 8 issues to finish that run) a Silver Age Classics reprint of Sugar & Spike #99 The Dark Crystal #2 (completing the Marvel mini adapting the movie) Dragonlance Chronicles:Dragons of Spring Dawning #11 and a Gemstone reprint edition of EC's Aces High #4 and a Goofy Big Little Book, Giant Trouble for $3... This is actually the first Big Little Book I have purchased as an adult, I had a couple as a kid at one point but no longer have them. There have been a couple I have almost pulled the trigger on before, but they were usually priced at more than I wanted to pay, but for $3 minus the 20%, I was game. -M
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 27, 2019 15:25:53 GMT -5
Goofy Big Little Book, Giant Trouble for $3... Oh, wow! "Giant Trouble"! I had that one when I was small. Read it a bunch. Nice find!
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Post by profh0011 on May 27, 2019 16:07:13 GMT -5
Just ordered last night... this was a real challenge... 3 HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES(Edit Serg / France / 1968) I had to do some serious online searching and research to determine what this was. Turned out, from several sample pages I saw, it was far more art than text, and so fits under my definition of a "children's book". And with STUNNING artwork!!! For a book this rare, I decided to jump on it, if I could find a reasonably-priced copy. 2 websites had sold their only copies, another had one FAR too expensive, but a 4th had 2 copies-- one very pricey, the other... well, let's just say, HALF what the other copy was going for. So I went for it. For the money I spent (more than I usually care to!) I'm hoping this is as good as I think it is.
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Post by brutalis on May 28, 2019 9:29:10 GMT -5
As I reported in another thread: managed to buy up 79 Classic Comics over the weekend at the Phoenix Fan Fusion Comic Convention. ALL for one dollar bill each. Glorious treasures abound in the likes of ROM Spaceknight and Marvel's Tarzan, Sergio Aragone's Groo, Baron/Rude's Nexus and a splendid haul of good old fashioned classic Marvel/DC westerns and war comics inclusive: Kid Colt, Two Gun Kid, Jonah Hex, Unknown Soldier, GI Combat, Captain Savage, The Losers and 2 reprints from AC comics of Tom Mix and Roy Rogers. I shall enjoy burying myself in the past as I attempt to slowly read my way through these yellowing gems of antiquity
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