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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 14, 2019 13:46:05 GMT -5
I finally found an #14 (Sgt. Fury In Space) What If that my purse liked too. I had it as a coverless comic from who knows where before I was a heavy reader and it reminded me of the Starblazers cartoon I used to run home from school to follow. I wonder how it will seem to me now after forty years? I used to have #19 and #20 'back in the day' too but in no hurry to see them again.
#17 was fun as it had three separate stories with different inkers over Infantino. I did know the original origins of two of the three so maybe that helped, and The Ghost Rider even though I didn't know a thing about Marvel Spotlight #5 I was able to follow and understand the 'turning point' used.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 15, 2019 9:14:30 GMT -5
I finally found an #14 (Sgt. Fury In Space) What If that my purse liked too. I had it as a coverless comic from who knows where before I was a heavy reader and it reminded me of the Starblazers cartoon I used to run home from school to follow. I wonder how it will seem to me now after forty years? I used to have #19 and #20 'back in the day' too but in no hurry to see them again. #17 was fun as it had three separate stories with different inkers over Infantino. I did know the original origins of two of the three so maybe that helped, and The Ghost Rider even though I didn't know a thing about Marvel Spotlight #5 I was able to follow and understand the 'turning point' used. Starblazers! That was my absolute favorite cartoon back in the day! It holds up better than some of the other stuff I used to love, too.
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Post by urrutiap on Jul 15, 2019 11:48:05 GMT -5
Stuff that Ive purchased recently. They are comic book related though
few old issues of Wizard Magazine
Issues 14, 64 and 65.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 15, 2019 21:58:15 GMT -5
In honor of MAD magazine, I reacquired the issue that I remember best from my youth:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 0:31:26 GMT -5
I mentioned in another thread that yesterday was my 50th birthday, and that I was spending the day at Buckeye Con in Columbus. I hadn't been to one of the Jeff Harper shows in a couple of years (the last one I went to I met up with our erstwhile The Captain at the show), so I wasn't sure what to expect in terms of dealers, what they would have, etc., so I went without much of a goal in mind, just a budget and my want list. A lot of dealers with $1 boxes, lots of dealers running deals like buy 2 of the same price, get a third free, others offering a discount if you bought multiple books from them, etc. Some were overpriced (way overpriced imho, as in asking $50 on some of the DC Digests I can pick up for $2-$3 each at other shows and shops), some were overgrading their books (I heard a lot of people mumbling about this as I walked around, especially unslabbed keys)-this didn't phase me much as I really wasn't looking for keys or high grade stuff, but it did contribute to some of the overpricing, but most of the dealers were friendly and willing to work with you or point you in the direction of stuff you mentioned you were looking for. There were a few (5-6) dealers I knew from the Dayton area shows, but a lot of the dealers were relatively new to me, and I ran into a lot of folks I knew, fellow fans I see at shows often and met a bunch of new folks who were friendly and fun to talk to (as well as the usual cast of asshat characters you meet at every show too-though luckily they were the minority of attendees-the guy who tried to bump you out of the way to look at the box you're flipping through, the guy who jumps in to interrupt when you are talking to a dealer about a book or working a deal because he can't wait to see the wall book he's interested in or to pay for his stuff or to try to haggle for the book he wants even though you are already in the middle of a transaction, the guy who scoffs at the books you are looking at or buying because they don't meet his standards of what "real comic fans" should be interested in, the expert who tries to tell you everything about a book you are looking at or that he is holding in his hand so everyone can experience his expertise on comics, the guys mocking the cosplayers or the not "real comic fans" they perceive to be attending the show (i.e. the kids and women at the show), the guy who forgot to take a shower the year before the show (in a crowded room on a 90 degree day no less), etc. But as I said, those types were few and far between and were mostly able to be annoyed. So I did end up getting a bunch of stuff, and here is the 50th haul... to start with, some $5 trades which were buy 4 get 1 free, so I got 5, plus a $1 hardcover FCBD edition of Mouseguard... a Concrete collection and a Jack Staff omnibus edition (collecting the first 12 issues of Paul Grist's series) a pair of Hellblazer trades... and a Strangers in Paradise trade (plus the Mouseguard book)... now onto actual comics... in a dollar bin I found the 2 issues of the adaptation of Roger Zelazny's Amber novel I needed... the issue of Battle of the Planets was $2 and the Jungle book issue was out of a dollar bin... a bunch of DC Bronze Age goodness, all in $1 or $2 bins... those two Justice Inc. issues complete the series, the Mystery in Space was one of two I needed to finish the short-lived 80s revival of the series. The Secret Origins issue is the Spectre, which was the one form that series I wanted most. a trio of Silver Age Hawkman issues, and a B&B with Canary & Wildcat, these were all $5 books form a dealer doing buy 2 get 1 free, so averaged less than $5 a book. There were a few others I got from him as well... so I don't have one huge image heavy post, I will break this up into a few posts, so more to come... -M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 0:44:54 GMT -5
I also picked up a bunch of DC war books, most were $3 and under, the majority of them were $1 each; lots of Kubert covers among these... Marvel's Doc Savage #1 and #2, these were forma different dealer also doing buy 2 get 1 free on $5 books... and here is my one splurge book (I define a splurge book as any book over $10) that I got... a really nice copy of Elvira's House of Mystery #1. I got a bunch of other stuff from this dealer as well (he was one I knew form the Dayton circuit) and he cut me a bit of a deal on the entire purchase I made with him, but he was asking $15 for this, He had 2 copies, one newsstand, one direct, and the other copy got snatched up as I was looking through his other books after I had him put this one aside for me as I looked, and the guy was commenting how he had seen someone at another show asking twice that for a much lower grade copy of it, so I felt a little better about splurging on it). I also continued to chip away at the Flash Gordon series, knocking a trio of issues off my want list... and then in one dealer's (whom I knew from the Dayton shows) dollar boxes I found a whole stack of AC Comics Golden Age Men of Mystery which are 64 page reprint collections of Golden Age stories. I had a handful of these and they are always fun reads, so I grabbed all 11 issues he had in there... and also in dollar bins I found 4 more of the later issues of the 90s run of Ghost Rider the issues post #50 are hard to find for some reason, cheap, but hard to find). Over the course of the show I picked up a stack of Detective Comics and World's Finest issues containing Hawkman back ups, most of these were $2-5 and form buy 2 get 1 free dealers, though a few were in dollar bins... more to come in next post... -M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 0:55:51 GMT -5
I also rounded up a bunch of indy books over the course of the show from various dealers, most from dollar bins (except the Yang #1 which was one of the $5 buy 2 get 1 books), and I finally manged to wrangle a copy of American Flagg #1 at a price I liked ($1) to complete that run... another of the buy one get one yields was a Mandrake the Magician #1, I am getting close to having the entire run by King now... I managed to pick up most of the post-Kirby New Gods run in dollar bins, and got a copy of New Gods #7 (The Pact) for $4, an issue I have been trying to pick up affordably for about a year, and one I was losing hope of finding as I think the New Gods movie will feature this story and bump it up into a price range I am not willing to pay, so I am glad I got it now... here's a couple of miscellaneous thingsI got out of dollar bins plus a Sgt. Rock issue I missed when I snapped the was comics pics (nice Brereton cover on it though) I love those Heroes World Catalogs with Kubert covers and snag them whenver I see them cheap, and the Golden Spidey book was something I had as a kid, that I got at a church fair in about '78, I read once, lent to a friend and never saw again, and hadn't seen in the wild since then, I was starting to think I had dreamed its existence and it wasn't real. It's an illustrated prose Spider-Man story. I also picked up 4 more Phantom Stranger issues, leaving only 2 or 3 now to complete the run in floppies (I have the 2 Showcase Presents volumes, but they don't have the back ups and such). and 1 of 2 issues I needed to get the Simonson Thor run complete in individual issues I still need 337, and it's getting to the point where it's rising out of willingness to spend that much on a single issue, so I may just call that one done. More to come... -M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 1:03:39 GMT -5
The last gets were some Star Trek comics. I have been slowly picking up the '84 and '89 DC series, and got 2 more of the '84 series out of dollar bins... I hadn't been picking up the Marvel series, but I found a chunk of them in one dealer's dollar bins, so snagged a bunch. He had 2 longboxes full of copies of Marvel Trek, including 3/4 of a long box of just copies of #1. and that wraps up the con haul. We stopped at a Half Price Books on the way home, as it wasn't far from the hotel the con was at, and they were having their 50% off coupon sale. I didn't find any comics or trades I was interested in though, but I did pick up a handful of vintage paperbacks (a Nero Wolfe Mystery, a Doctor Who noveliztion, and a 6 Detroyer novels)-the Wolfe and Who were off the vintage paperback spinner rack and were $3 each, and the Destroyer stuff was 1/2 cover, HPB's normal pricing structure on paperbacks, but the cover price on these was $1.95 so they were less than a buck each, so the coupon wasn't much of a savings. Still it was a nice little bunch of books, but I forgot to get a pic of those. All in all, not a bad day of finding interesting stuff on the cheap. -M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 16, 2019 4:22:27 GMT -5
Happy belated 50th , mrp. As always, a nice mix of books you picked up.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 16, 2019 8:12:00 GMT -5
Now that is the best way possible to celebrate a 50th birthday @mrp. A fun con and loads of cheap comic book back issues! Congratulations on your day of birthing as well on your treasure hunt finds!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 11:17:41 GMT -5
Yep, Happy belated from me, too. Comics are always good, but even better on a birthday!
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 16, 2019 11:29:56 GMT -5
I agree. I turned 50 back in January and I wish I had celebrated like you!
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 16, 2019 13:06:59 GMT -5
A wealth of comic book fun!
I remember various of those comics like the King Flash Gordon #3 with Al Williamson cover (the cover alone is worth the price and the insides were nothing special on that one), the Battle Of The Planets (only one I ever had), and the three Hawkmans, plus I have Detective #480 with the Hawkman back-up on my own to read pile. I'd covet the dollar World's Finests most right now.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 17, 2019 5:20:56 GMT -5
Drumming my fingers waiting for these to arrive through the post from an eBay seller in France... tum ti tum...
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 21, 2019 13:07:26 GMT -5
Wandering around historic Dahlonega today and one of the antique stores had a good selection of old-ish books. Total for all seen below was $20.
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