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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 12, 2020 16:19:29 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 12, 2020 16:19:46 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 12, 2020 17:09:02 GMT -5
Some odds and ends. The X-men cover with Warlock and Captain Marvel caught my eye I just read that comic last night for the first time. What are the odds? It is a great cover. What's happening with that X-Men comic is they've been transported to a Skrull moon with a faux NYC set for Skrulls transformed into Earth heroes to practice in. Warlock, Captain Marvel and Thunderbird (all Skrulls permanently transformed into those forms) are now outcasts there who are useless since the originals they were based on have died, so they are in hiding from the other Skrulls (and think Kitty is one of them hunting them). At the same time as ending up there, the X-Men find they are back in time, just before Galactus is known to have destroyed the Skrull homeworld (including that moon), and Professor X seems determined to try to change that history. It's a pretty cool story from the Alan Davis run spread over about four and a half issues of Uncanny and X-Men.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 17:45:33 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 12, 2020 21:05:44 GMT -5
And not a Thor in the bunch... what’s the world coming to, Icctrombone ?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 12, 2020 21:09:08 GMT -5
Ha. The Thors that I'm seeking are the more pricey of the run and the dealers want premium prices. I have better luck with eBay on that mission. I'm gonna stop after today though, all my Christmas money is about gone.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 13, 2020 9:19:25 GMT -5
Couple eBay buys here. First some Red Sonja goodness to help fill in the run. Next a great LB Come cover. Slowly pecking away at owning all these Terrors of the Jungle books:)
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Post by MDG on Jan 13, 2020 10:41:40 GMT -5
Love the covers on this series. Are the insides any good?
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 13, 2020 11:25:15 GMT -5
Couple eBay buys here. First some Red Sonja goodness to help fill in the run. Next a great LB Come cover. Slowly pecking away at owning all these Terrors of the Jungle books:) Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout! L.B. Cole made some real eye-popping covers.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 13, 2020 14:45:48 GMT -5
Love the covers on this series. Are the insides any good? I enjoy them! The writing is simplistic but I find the jungle stories more fun and enjoyable overall. With horror, I always find the covers are the best thing in the world but then the interiors and story lack in terms of writing quality and artistic quality. It's like you get this great creepy skeleton cover but then get a basic skeleton drawn inside. I mean I understand the artists pouring their time into the covers because that is what draws people to buy. And sometimes you get a nice splash page in the horror books or a few larger interesting panels but not as often as I would like. The jungle comics are similar where the interior art is never as elaborate but generally the opening splash page is nice and you get some better shots (trapped or tied up with the approaching wild animals or whatever may be in the story). I also find the stories more action packed, and you get a lot of animals and humans battling whereas I never feel you get a good battle in a horror comic (usually the creepy thing or entity appears briefly and again, always less elaborate and interesting than you see on the cover). But to be honest, I buy Cole Jungle stuff for the covers. I could stare at them all day. I get his horror and sci fi are loved and desired and seem scarcer but for my money and interest, his jungle stuff is incredible. Kind of a nice middle ground for those who cannot afford his higher desirable stuff. And it is better than his crime/western work. Those still have some solid covers, but the stories inside are very blah. I hope this rambling answers your question a bit haha
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 13, 2020 19:12:10 GMT -5
Love the covers on this series. Are the insides any good? Go see for yourself. Many of them are in the Digital Comic Book Museum site
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Post by earl on Jan 13, 2020 21:38:08 GMT -5
Ha. The Thors that I'm seeking are the more pricey of the run and the dealers want premium prices.
Thor seems to be a much hotter back issue comic now. The Marvel history tied through the later Kirby run into the Roy Thomas run etc. have made those pretty key books and stories.
I'm guessing that is where you are looking.
Hulk is under-rated in that regard other than the big one (w/ #181), but now over the years a lot of Marvel history twisted through that comic too.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 13, 2020 23:19:15 GMT -5
Ha. The Thors that I'm seeking are the more pricey of the run and the dealers want premium prices.
Thor seems to be a much hotter back issue comic now. The Marvel history tied through the later Kirby run into the Roy Thomas run etc. have made those pretty key books and stories.
I'm guessing that is where you are looking.
Hulk is under-rated in that regard other than the big one (w/ #181), but now over the years a lot of Marvel history twisted through that comic too.
I was surprised to have gotten the bulk of my run relatively cheap.
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Post by berkley on Jan 14, 2020 0:36:32 GMT -5
Thor seems to be a much hotter back issue comic now. The Marvel history tied through the later Kirby run into the Roy Thomas run etc. have made those pretty key books and stories.
I'm guessing that is where you are looking.
Hulk is under-rated in that regard other than the big one (w/ #181), but now over the years a lot of Marvel history twisted through that comic too.
I was surprised to have gotten the bulk of my run relatively cheap.
I overpaid for at least one issue of the Kirby/Lee Thor that I'd been having a hard time finding but I'm happy to have the whole run now, apart from the earliest stuff when they hadn't really found their game. And I had kept hold of the Roy Thomas Ragnarok and Celestials saga from #272 to #301 or so from when I read them back in the day. The post-Kirby stuff up to around #203 or whatever I managed to find at pretty reasonable prices online.
Most of the #200s up to #272 (If I'm recalling the correct issue #) I never thought was all that great, from what I remembered, and thus never really craved the back issues, but I'm starting to feel a bit of nostalgia for some comics from that early to mid-70s era even if I didn't like them all that much at the time, so I might break down and start looking for back issues of those as well.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 14, 2020 4:55:57 GMT -5
From eBay The stories here are not up to much but the art is seven types of seriously groovy. (This is in the original Spanish.) Including this little homage / dig at the Valérian and Laureline books when their astroship makes a fleeting appearance in a scrapyard
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