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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2019 19:15:37 GMT -5
While at my lcs today, I picked up a few more modern editions of classic comics, i.e. facsimile editions and $1 reprint editions... Joker #1, Batman #497, and GL #85 Iron Man #55 and Tomb of Dracula #10. I doubt I would ever drop the coin for originals on these (though I have owned 3 of them in the past but sold them), but I am happy to have these modern re-issues on them. Besides, I need to find out the shocking truth about drugs... -M
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 25, 2019 19:36:41 GMT -5
MyComicShop annual Booksgving sale purchases. I did a small order to fill out the 1998-2001 Marvels I've been into, Amaz. Spider-Man, Slingers, Avengers Infinity mini-series, Captain America. I didn't see much from the free list of interest so I took only two of the three I qualified for (a Donald Duck comic book day item and a Sonic The Hedgehog). I took advantage of a big sale at one of the LCS on Saturday to celebrate Local Comic Shop Day to do a little damage to my want list (and my wallet): Namor, the Sub-Mariner #10-12 (John Byrne series, story arc with Master Man and Nazis) I read Namor #12 recently and really enjoyed it even without #10 or 11. There was also a short inconsequential Spitfire of The Invaders solo story in one of the early Marvel Super-Heroes 80 Page giants which gets footnoted in Namor #12, and I even read it before this one by sheer luck.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 26, 2019 7:59:30 GMT -5
I got some money from my Mum for my birthday last month and I decided to spend it on an order with Lone Star Comics. I managed to finish my The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones run; filled in some holes in my The 'Nam collection (which now means I have an uninterrupted run from #1-51); got a couple more issues of Steve Englehart's run on Dr. Strange; got three issues of Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man that I needed; filled a hole in my collection of the 1983 The Spirit series; and also picked up Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3, which I've been after for a good price and in reasonable shape for a long time...
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 26, 2019 9:11:57 GMT -5
I had no idea that the Nam series went that long. Nice.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 9:44:39 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 18:56:22 GMT -5
My Booksgiving order from Lonestar arrived today, four trades of classic material at better-than-Amazon-prices and a pile o' freebies... First up 2 volumes of 80s post-Crisis Batman... I was reading Batman when these came out and had most of these off the stands, but sold off pretty much all my Batman singles in the wake of my move halfway across the country 16 years ago, so these are a reunion of sorts for me... and 2 volumes of Golden Age Wonder Woman... and my pile of freebies... Brubaker Secret Avengers, BKV Runaways hc, an Archie Jokebook, Batman Secret Files and the Year of the Villain promo comic. Not so much filling in holes with the order as others did, just piling up reading material at a better price than I would if I ordered elsewhere. -M
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Post by The Captain on Nov 29, 2019 9:27:42 GMT -5
My home LCS (where I have my pull list, however small it may now be) had their annual Black Friday sale, so I got up bright and early and headed over there for the doors to open at 8:00 AM.
Armed with a gift certificate from my sister from my birthday back in August and some of the cash I have made selling Magic: The Gathering cards on eBay recently, I picked up one thing I really wanted, that being the Doctor Strange Omnibus v1, which collects the doctor's exploits from Strange Tales 110-111 and 114-146. It was 25% off, and with the gift certificate, I paid about $33 for it, which is well worth it for a $75 HC Omnibus, especially with Ditko's artwork. It also looks like this edition has the letter columns from the issues, which is a big plus.
While I was there, I saw that he had one last copy of Showcase Presents: Batman, v6 marked at 50% off. This volume collects Batman #229-244 and Detective Comics #408-436 and is loaded with Ra's Al Ghul stories. For $10 for 500 pages, I figured I would give it a shot as well.
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 29, 2019 9:29:14 GMT -5
Nice haul Confessor!
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Post by spoon on Nov 30, 2019 16:33:05 GMT -5
I switched to a different LCS a few months ago. The have a few 50 cent boxes, but I had ignored them. They weren't in alphabetical order, and I had browsed once and found stuff I had no interest in. But the last few times I visited I decide to check it out again. Now, I've been able to find some better books. For some reason, they have some of the same issues that are priced higher in the regular boxes also in the 50 cent boxes. On Friday, this is what I got for 50 cent each:
The Untold Legend of the Bat-Man #1, 2, 3 (so thrilled to finally get this) Incredible Hulk #373, 378 Iron Man #116 Blue Beetle #20 Suicide Squad #16
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Post by earl on Dec 1, 2019 0:12:44 GMT -5
Did a road trip up to Comic Book World in Erlanger, KY on Black Friday. They had a great 25% sale and they have the best inventory of bronze and silver age comics in the extended area (that I have found). I got a boodle of Savage Sword of Conan, old Daredevil and some Sgt. Fury annuals. Great fun. I then hit my local shop and found Hulk #186 for $4 bucks and then 20% off for BF. Also got my pull list and a couple of boxes. I got a run of Red Sonja V.1 and ordered a handful of other SSofC from My Comic shop coming via mailorder. So it is has been a heck of a week haul.
Hadn't bought many back issues for a couple of years, but I have made up for it a bit in the past few weeks wit a small con Halloween weekend and this burst. I got my Savage Sword of Conan run down to the last 30 issues, unfortunately 28 in the last 35, which are not all that easy to find.
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Post by Crimebuster on Dec 1, 2019 15:46:53 GMT -5
I went to a comic book show yesterday, and there was a dealer who had a few longboxes of stuff they hadn't gotten around to pricing yet, as they were new arrivals. I usually don't like that sort of thing, but I decided to take a look at the one box that wasn't already being poured over by other dealers. I found this in the box and said, "I gotta ask, how much?" He said, "Oh, it's in pretty bad shape. How about $10?" Deal. I missed my chance to get an affordable copy of this before the movie came out three years ago, and it had stalled my Dr. Strange collection because it just felt way out of reach. Now that I have this one, though, it's clear sailing to complete the run, as I already have his origin in #115 and I have #134-up. The only one that will set me back now is #126 with the first Clea, but compared to this issue, no big deal!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2019 22:54:20 GMT -5
Did a road trip up to Comic Book World in Erlanger, KY on Black Friday. They had a great 25% sale and they have the best inventory of bronze and silver age comics in the extended area (that I have found). I got a boodle of Savage Sword of Conan, old Daredevil and some Sgt. Fury annuals. Great fun. I then hit my local shop and found Hulk #186 for $4 bucks and then 20% off for BF. Also got my pull list and a couple of boxes. I got a run of Red Sonja V.1 and ordered a handful of other SSofC from My Comic shop coming via mailorder. So it is has been a heck of a week haul. Hadn't bought many back issues for a couple of years, but I have made up for it a bit in the past few weeks wit a small con Halloween weekend and this burst. I got my Savage Sword of Conan run down to the last 30 issues, unfortunately 28 in the last 35, which are not all that easy to find. Glad you mentioned the location. I might be close enough to check that shop out in a couple months, and Bronze and Silver age is what I'm looking for. 2020 could be the year I finish off my "want" list, as I've said every year for the past ten years. I traveled for the holiday weekend, which of course means I got to visit exotic comic book shops. I picked up a couple random 1970s issues of Superman, thinking "how unwise can this purchase be for only 50 cents apiece?" The answer: 1970s Superman. I might as well have lit that dollar on fire. I picked up a few other cheap issues which weren't on my want list, but looked worth the chance at about a dollar each: "The Thing And She-Hulk: The Long Night" "Hulk Vs Fin Fang Foom" with PAD "Rocky and Bullwinkle Classics" TPB from IDW "Young All Stars" 11 and 17, to start sampling the series "Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister" illustrated by Michael Lark "Munden's Bar" - I have a vague idea what this is, but with the cover advertising Rude and Ostrander (among others), I'm pretty sure I'm going to like some of it. And I picked up a bunch from my list, including some of the pricier items ($8.00+) at a reasonable price: "Batman" 321 (Joker's birthday, Simonson art), 400 (yay!) "The Incredible Hulk" 214, 300 "PPTSSM" 7 "Marvel 2-in-1" 44 (Hercules), 86 (Sandman) "Action" 467. This recently entered my "want" list because of the Super-backups thread. I wanted that Krypto story. The good news for everybody else is now that I finally have Batman 400, you can expect a nice reprint of it to be announced any day now. I saw the oddest comic ever for $2.00, but passed it up. "Captain Lou Albano vs The Honeymooners". Yep, that's Ralph and Norton. I like kitsch as much as the next guy, but I can't imagine this would have entertained me.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 2, 2019 7:03:10 GMT -5
I went to a comic book show yesterday, and there was a dealer who had a few longboxes of stuff they hadn't gotten around to pricing yet, as they were new arrivals. I usually don't like that sort of thing, but I decided to take a look at the one box that wasn't already being poured over by other dealers. I found this in the box and said, "I gotta ask, how much?" He said, "Oh, it's in pretty bad shape. How about $10?" Deal. I missed my chance to get an affordable copy of this before the movie came out three years ago, and it had stalled my Dr. Strange collection because it just felt way out of reach. Now that I have this one, though, it's clear sailing to complete the run, as I already have his origin in #115 and I have #134-up. The only one that will set me back now is #126 with the first Clea, but compared to this issue, no big deal! Sounds like the seller maybe didn't know what was in the back of it. Great pick up though, Crimebuster.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2019 13:13:42 GMT -5
I went to a comic book show yesterday, and there was a dealer who had a few longboxes of stuff they hadn't gotten around to pricing yet, as they were new arrivals. I usually don't like that sort of thing, but I decided to take a look at the one box that wasn't already being poured over by other dealers. I found this in the box and said, "I gotta ask, how much?" He said, "Oh, it's in pretty bad shape. How about $10?" Deal. I missed my chance to get an affordable copy of this before the movie came out three years ago, and it had stalled my Dr. Strange collection because it just felt way out of reach. Now that I have this one, though, it's clear sailing to complete the run, as I already have his origin in #115 and I have #134-up. The only one that will set me back now is #126 with the first Clea, but compared to this issue, no big deal! Sounds like the seller maybe didn't know what was in the back of it. Great pick up though, Crimebuster. Oftentimes unsorted boxes like that aren't really unsorted, it means the dealer has gone through and cherry picked/strip mined of what he/she thought they could get premium prices for (i.e. wall books) and haven't gotten around to pricing the rest, so they are not worried about losing out on stuff in the box, but things get missed as they sort through (sometimes dealers will acquire a collection with hundreds of longboxes days before a show and rush through the pick out the wheat from the chaff and well things slip through. I am guessing this is probably the case with this book. The rough shape probably helped in the dealer overlooking it, as they like keys/wall books that present well. You can often get deals that way, but it can also lead to unpleasantness if the dealer has put a generic price on things in the box (unsorted Silver Age books $10 each for example) and you pull out something they missed and the recognize it and they try to get out of selling it to someone. I've seen it too many times over the years on the show circuit. -M
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Post by Crimebuster on Dec 2, 2019 13:22:08 GMT -5
The weird thing here is that I handed him the book and asked him for the price. He held it! He looked at it! And then he decided $10. I have to think he just didn't know what it was, which is weird for a comic dealer, much less one who drops the money to get a table at a three day convention. This isn't exactly an obscure book! He also said that the collection had stuff like Avengers #1 and Hulk #181 in it, but they took all the good stuff out before bringing the rest, so they had definitely gone through the boxes before the show.
I'm not complaining, though!
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