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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 13, 2019 17:26:28 GMT -5
Some pick ups at a show in New Jersey This completes my GS FF collection
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 13, 2019 17:27:48 GMT -5
Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting back in the day...
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 13, 2019 17:29:05 GMT -5
Two More Kyle Raynor Lantern issues I never knew this comic existed
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Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Oct 16, 2019 7:21:37 GMT -5
I picked up a few comics that were on my wants list when I was in America recently. I got three issues from Steve Englehart's run on Dr. Strange: Marvel Premiere #14, and Dr. Strange #4 and #9 (I'm working on getting Englehart's full run). I also picked up a copy of issue #1 of the fantastic, utterly awesome Angle and the Ape, which I've been hunting for at a reasonable price for ages. Angel and the Ape was a short-lived comedy series from the late '60s, with great characters, snigger-inducing dialogue, and gorgeous artwork (especially the laydeez) by Bob Oksner. Only a small comic haul, but I'm really pleased with them.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 16, 2019 12:17:22 GMT -5
Having enjoyed the Justice Society ten issue series from 1992-93, I had been half watching for the 1991 eight issue run just before it and finally getting that now. I also picked up a Namor #12 to see how Marvel/Byrne re-introduced The Invaders around the same time. Also: the various Superman titles comprising the 'Panic In the Sky' storyline circa 1992, I guess this is just before Doomsday (which I don't think I will ever read, I'd rather re-visit the 'Kryptonian leprosy' story from '60s Action I think). Avengers (vol.3?) #38, 39 & 40 (I had #36 & 37) circa 2000, looks like a Hulk story. Hellcat mini-series #1-3 also circa 2000. I took a chance on the 1989 series of The Huntress (all 19 issues, yo). I liked the '70s Joe Staton so I'm hoping the '89 version is as good (even though I never cared for the E-Man revival at first after the first few). I'm thinking it's played pretty straight? I also took a flyer on a late '80s Zatanna Special as it has Gray Morrow art, and an Aquaman Special with George Freeman listed. I thought it seemed like they would go well with the Batgirl Special from the same time. No big exciting '70s keys or anything, but hopefully lots of good four-color reading. How does the 1988 Power Girl 4 issue mini-series stand up?
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Post by profh0011 on Oct 16, 2019 13:46:22 GMT -5
JOYAS DE LA LITERATURA 17cover by F. SAMANIEGO (Novedades Editores / Mexico / November 15, 1984) These Mexican digests are very rare, and almost never seem to come up on Ebay (although they can be found in great numbers at the Mercado Livre site in Mexico-- except, that site does not deal with buyers in the US). This one adapts 4 POE stories: " The Masque of the Red Death", " The Assignation", " Metzengerstein" and " The Raven". Since they're all in Spanish, it will be quite some time before I can read them, if and when I get around to processing this book for my Poe blog project.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 17, 2019 12:25:04 GMT -5
A $70.00 purple Poe... how exotic! That's up there with Japanese peso from the Philippines. I went ahead on the Power Girl mini-series of 1988 as Lone Star had an affordable set, plus I managed to fill in the revived 80 Page Giant comics I had wanted as well, even the first four Marvel Super Heroes ones. I'm finding really low prices sometimes lately and it's my birthday near the end of the month! Bad news: a seller cancelled my Doctor Strange Special Edition which reprinted the '70s issues #1,2,4 &5. But I used to have it and some of the originals so it was something I'd read before, it was more an impulse addition when ordering something else anyway.
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Post by profh0011 on Oct 17, 2019 17:14:33 GMT -5
A $70.00 purple Poe... how exotic! That's up there with Japanese peso from the Philippines. Yeah, well, I know that's not U.S. Dollars. I paid $14.95 US from a seller in NYC (total $21.27 with the shipping). Apart from the scraping and creases all over the place, there was a large STAMP with numbers right in the center of Poe's face... amazing what you can do with several hours on Photoshop, hmm?
Hey, wait a minute, there's NO price on that cover! I guess you must be familiar with these digests.............
Another one in this series turned up on Ebay once 2 years ago, and I decided to wait until payday to get it. 2 days later... IT WAS GONE, and hasn't turned up again since. My home care client at the time, ever the smartass, said, "THAT'LL TEACH YA!!!" Yep. This time, I hit " BUY NOW" in under 60 seconds.
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Post by profh0011 on Oct 17, 2019 17:20:16 GMT -5
I love buying from Lone Star (alias "My Comics Shop"). Buddy Saunders once sent me nice scans of some FANZINE covers he did way back in the 60s. Anyway, the prices tend to be decent, and they have a single FLAT-RATE shipping charge, so the more books I buy in a single order the better for me.
I got about a DOZEN Dark Horse comics with Richard Corben stories in them all in one go a year or so back.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 17, 2019 17:26:52 GMT -5
I love buying from Lone Star (alias "My Comics Shop"). Buddy Saunders once sent me nice scans of some FANZINE covers he did way back in the 60s. Anyway, the prices tend to be decent, and they have a single FLAT-RATE shipping charge, so the more books I buy in a single order the better for me.
I got about a DOZEN Dark Horse comics with Richard Corben stories in them all in one go a year or so back.
AGREED> They have been my go to for inexpensive/affordable comics for quite a few years now. I also enjoy watching the auction bids and am amazed how crazy some folks are in bidding. I have managed to get a few issue sets (between 5-10 comics in a set) through the bids though, which is fun and frustrating all at the same time!
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Post by junkmonkey on Oct 17, 2019 21:25:09 GMT -5
I got some spending money from the family for my birthday and a couple of days later one of my semi-regular online venders had a "Déstockage de bd de 1 à 3€" to which I said, "Merci beaucoup!" and did squander it all on big hardback books. There is another in the post (a Thorgal) via eBay - which went a bit wrong and ended up costing more than it should. Belgium, apparently, does not have the same stupidly cheap paper and books postal tarrif that France does - I'll not be buying anything from Belgium again if I can help it
Blake et Mortimer -10- L'affaire du collier Vagabond des Limbes (Le) -2- L'empire des soleils noirs Lanfeust des Étoiles -2- Les tours de Meirrion Lanfeust de Troy -8- La bête fabuleuse Lanfeust de Troy -7- Les pétaures se cachent pour mourir Lanfeust de Troy -6- Cixi impératrice Lanfeust de Troy -5- Le frisson de l'Haruspice
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Post by brutalis on Oct 18, 2019 8:33:15 GMT -5
Oooohhhhh, those look good junkmonkey . Enjoy your new reads!!! I looked them up on Amazon and there are English translations of Blake and Mortimer, so that may get added to my purchase orders down the line to check out. Looks like quite the fun mish-mash of adventure that I would enjoy. Part of why I love the CCF and the member purchases and reading choices. Always providing me new reading material to drain the bank account and leave the wallet empty!
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Post by junkmonkey on Oct 18, 2019 13:28:11 GMT -5
Lanfuest is a jolly romp. A tad violent at times for me (at one point a minor hero magician character disembowels a captured enemy to read his entrails and finding the guy still alive when he's finished tells his assistant to stuff them back in.). The books are stuffed full of glorious drawing, great scenery, interesting architecture, lovingly drawn gratuitous sexism - lines like "Le monde est rond comme la cul d'une pucelle!" ("The world is round like a virgin arse!") accompanied by a slap to the bum of a passing serving girl. A sidekick hero troll that eats everything! - including, at one point bits of our hero, and a hero that really is not too bright. (In a later book, he's battled his way through endless adversity - including being partially eaten alive by sirens (and his best mate) - to the home of the Gods. He needs them to help him in his quest... only to tell them he's an atheist... that was awkward.
The sequel series (Lanfeust des Étoiles) takes him, the troll sidekick, and his nymphomaniac girlfriend (That's her on the cover of book 6) into space.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 18, 2019 15:07:40 GMT -5
Lanfuest is a jolly romp. A tad violent at times for me (at one point a minor hero magician character disembowels a captured enemy to read his entrails and finding the guy still alive when he's finished tells his assistant to stuff them back in.). The books are stuffed full of glorious drawing, great scenery, interesting architecture, lovingly drawn gratuitous sexism - lines like "Le monde est rond comme la cul d'une pucelle!" ("The world is round like a virgin arse!") accompanied by a slap to the bum of a passing serving girl. A sidekick hero troll that eats everything! - including, at one point bits of our hero, and a hero that really is not too bright. (In a later book, he's battled his way through endless adversity - including being partially eaten alive by sirens (and his best mate) - to the home of the Gods. He needs them to help him in his quest... only to tell them he's an atheist... that was awkward. The sequel series (Lanfeust des Étoiles) takes him, the troll sidekick, and his nymphomaniac girlfriend (That's her on the cover of book 6) into space. Ahhh if only I read French. But purty pictures are sometimes enough. Have several Manga and as long as the artist is telling the story properly I can pretty much follow along and even guess to what is being said.
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Post by junkmonkey on Oct 18, 2019 16:23:37 GMT -5
My French is pretty ropey but it's improving daily by reading comics - I'm not sure what KIND of French I'm learning though, I can't imagine phrases like "un astronef tres puissant", (a powerful spaceship) , and "Ha Ha! vous avez tombez dans ma piege!" ("Ha ha! you have fallen into my trap!") occur in everyday conversation. And I have a niggling idea that the Tintin books were written so long ago that their pages are full of archaic idioms - "Golly Gosh! What a wizard lark!" type things.
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