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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 11, 2020 9:00:07 GMT -5
Ah. Well here's a comic that I haven't bought on eBay. It arrived today in the post. Due to a small bout of ignorance on my part it turns out I haven't bought volume four of the long-running heroic fantasy comic book series Lanfuest de Troy but a novelisation of volume four of the blah blah blah... The French novelise comic books. Whoda thunk it?
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 12, 2020 15:38:18 GMT -5
Got my first TinTin book today
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 12, 2020 16:57:06 GMT -5
Today's post: Three Alan Class books from sometime before 1971: For the uninitiated Alan Class was a British publisher who churned out Black and white reprints of American comics (Atlas, Marvel Charlton etc.) printed on some seriously crappy paper. As I understand it no one is quite sure how many books he produced and, though many are numbered, none of them are dated - which extended their shelf life almost indefinitely. No one that I have been able to find has ever catalogued where the stories in them were originally published or who contributed to them. The best I've been able to find is this list on a dealer's site: 30thcenturycomics.co.uk/extras/alan-class/alan-class-guide/AND: Three Spirou and fantasio books. I already have the New York one in a cheap paperback edition - given away by McDonalds I think (the rest of the world gets crappy plastic toys the French get comic books). But for 99p ($1.20) for the three I was more than happy to upgrade my copy
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 12, 2020 19:05:18 GMT -5
I like your McDonald’s better than mine.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 12, 2020 19:54:11 GMT -5
Got my first TinTin book today Woo-hoo! I'll be interested to hear what you think of it. Be sure to post your thoughts over in the Tintin thread. You do know that there are no green space-rabbits in the book though, right? I don't want you to be disappointed.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 12, 2020 20:45:17 GMT -5
What no rabbit ? Thank God.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 14:09:55 GMT -5
The package with the Bat Lash lot from Lonestar arrived this afternoon. Here's the full order... Bat Lash 1-7 plus his debut in Showcase... a couple of Bronze Age indy books, Grim Ghost #3 form Atlas completing that series and Super Cops #1 from Archie/RedCircle, with such a quintessential 70s cover... Hawkman #9 knocking another one of my list for the Silver Age series... Marvel Premiere #60 the last of the Dr. Who issues in that series I needed and a Gladstone EC reprint of Haunt of Fear from the Lonestar dollar sale and the Defenders of the Earth "OGN" which is actually a cross between a GN and a children's book... so that was the order. -M
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 16, 2020 7:03:53 GMT -5
Nice bunch of books, @mrp. I see you have an Atlas book, I was buying them up over the last few years and I refuse to pay more than 1 buck for an issue. I don't care what possible movie has been optioned.
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Post by antoine on Feb 16, 2020 9:48:01 GMT -5
The package with the Bat Lash lot from Lonestar arrived this afternoon. Here's the full order... Bat Lash 1-7 plus his debut in Showcase... -M Love the cover to Bat Lash #2, I've been looking for that book for a while now! Nice books MRP!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2020 11:09:03 GMT -5
Nice bunch of books, @mrp. I see you have an Atlas book, I was buying them up over the last few years and I refuse to pay more than 1 buck for an issue. I don't care what possible movie has been optioned. I've been picking them up on the cheap when I could for 4-5 years, but over that time Bronze Age prices across the board have gone up a bit, and Bronze Age Marvels and DC that used to be dollar bin fare are now being being priced higher too even without movie tie ins as they are now 40-50 year old books (i.e. older than Golden Age books were when I started reading comics). In that time I have even seen Lonestar's minimum standard price for any book rise form 80 cents to $2 (except for their overstock weekly dollar bin specials but most of those are stuff they normally charge $3+ for when not on sale). So I think the only way you will see Atlas books in particular (and most Bronze Age in general) in dollar bins now is with dealers who didn't have time/motivation to go through their dollar stock and pick out things to price higher or who are bulking out non-key books from collections they bought because they don't want to take/have the time to go through and price out each book individually, and that will be mostly with guys who do shows as a side business rather than shop owners. Time passes, prices go up regardless of movie speculation (which certainly fuels hot book speculation driving prices up, but as a whole minimum prices on older books go up as well as certain stuff gets phased out of dollar bins over time. -M
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Post by Farrar on Feb 16, 2020 12:31:42 GMT -5
Wow--what great hauls @mrp (esp. love the Atlas with the Russ Heath cover, and the Silver Age Hawkman) and junkmonkey (and many thanks for the link!)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 16, 2020 14:41:23 GMT -5
Nice bunch of books, @mrp. I see you have an Atlas book, I was buying them up over the last few years and I refuse to pay more than 1 buck for an issue. I don't care what possible movie has been optioned. I've been picking them up on the cheap when I could for 4-5 years, but over that time Bronze Age prices across the board have gone up a bit, and Bronze Age Marvels and DC that used to be dollar bin fare are now being being priced higher too even without movie tie ins as they are now 40-50 year old books (i.e. older than Golden Age books were when I started reading comics). In that time I have even seen Lonestar's minimum standard price for any book rise form 80 cents to $2 (except for their overstock weekly dollar bin specials but most of those are stuff they normally charge $3+ for when not on sale). So I think the only way you will see Atlas books in particular (and most Bronze Age in general) in dollar bins now is with dealers who didn't have time/motivation to go through their dollar stock and pick out things to price higher or who are bulking out non-key books from collections they bought because they don't want to take/have the time to go through and price out each book individually, and that will be mostly with guys who do shows as a side business rather than shop owners. Time passes, prices go up regardless of movie speculation (which certainly fuels hot book speculation driving prices up, but as a whole minimum prices on older books go up as well as certain stuff gets phased out of dollar bins over time. -M Had a longish talk with a friend who still runs the first comic book shop in Idaho, King’s Komix Kastle, established 1973. Non-key Silver Age books aren’t selling, particularly non-DC/Marvel. Meanwhile most Bronze Age books are in high demand. Why? Because the people who grew up collecting SA books are dying off. And other than keys and superhero books there’s no demand. Meanwhile Bronze-Age babies are trying to recapture their youth. Collectibles are a wheel.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 16, 2020 17:00:12 GMT -5
I've been picking them up on the cheap when I could for 4-5 years, but over that time Bronze Age prices across the board have gone up a bit, and Bronze Age Marvels and DC that used to be dollar bin fare are now being being priced higher too even without movie tie ins as they are now 40-50 year old books (i.e. older than Golden Age books were when I started reading comics). In that time I have even seen Lonestar's minimum standard price for any book rise form 80 cents to $2 (except for their overstock weekly dollar bin specials but most of those are stuff they normally charge $3+ for when not on sale). So I think the only way you will see Atlas books in particular (and most Bronze Age in general) in dollar bins now is with dealers who didn't have time/motivation to go through their dollar stock and pick out things to price higher or who are bulking out non-key books from collections they bought because they don't want to take/have the time to go through and price out each book individually, and that will be mostly with guys who do shows as a side business rather than shop owners. Time passes, prices go up regardless of movie speculation (which certainly fuels hot book speculation driving prices up, but as a whole minimum prices on older books go up as well as certain stuff gets phased out of dollar bins over time. -M Had a longish talk with a friend who still runs the first comic book shop in Idaho, King’s Komix Kastle, established 1973. Non-key Silver Age books aren’t selling, particularly non-DC/Marvel. Meanwhile most Bronze Age books are in high demand. Why? Because the people who grew up collecting SA books are dying off. And other than keys and superhero books there’s no demand. Meanwhile Bronze-Age babies are trying to recapture their youth. Collectibles are a wheel. I have a different experience when I go to comic shows. Many of the Bronze Age books are plentiful and relatively cheap, except of course for any key books.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 16, 2020 17:01:46 GMT -5
Latest pick ups from a local show-
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 16, 2020 17:03:43 GMT -5
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