shaxper
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Post by shaxper on May 28, 2020 21:28:21 GMT -5
Been a long time since I was this excited to make new classic comic purchases. It's GREAT to be this invested in a vintage run again.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2020 22:09:00 GMT -5
^ Can safely say I've never seen any of those....but nice pickup  |
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Post by brutalis on May 29, 2020 8:25:10 GMT -5
Just so Icctrombone won't feel alone in his back issue addiction of Thor. Since Memorial Day Weekends local Phoenix Fan Fusion comic con was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic I spent a few of those saved spending dollars on some more well used/read/loved Marvel Western comics of which I adore. Ordered from MyComicshop.com on 5/21 and arrived Wednesday 5/27 (not too shabby a time frame I must say. Sorry for you out of country still waiting folks) my box of treats. All of course in the $2-6 range. Most all were $2 with around 4-5 of them in the higher $5 & $6 range. Loves me the old, torn, ripped, carried around in your pocket and read many times over issues. Mighty Marvel Western 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 17, 30, 31, 34, 35, 46. Leaves me needing 14 more issues to complete the series. Rawhide Kid 94, 96, 97, 98, 121, 151. Ringo Kid 1, 6, 11, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29. Leaves me needing just 4 more issues to complete the series. Western Gunfighters: 1, 2, 3, 13, 22. Leaves me needing just 4 more issues to complete the series. And 2 AC Comics: The Durango Kid 1 and 2. Slowly filling up those want lists! |
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Post by tartanphantom on May 29, 2020 9:03:54 GMT -5
Just so Icctrombone won't feel alone in his back issue addiction of Thor. Since Memorial Day Weekends local Phoenix Fan Fusion comic con was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic I spent a few of those saved spending dollars on some more well used/read/loved Marvel Western comics of which I adore. Ordered from MyComicshop.com on 5/21 and arrived Wednesday 5/27 (not too shabby a time frame I must say. Sorry for you out of country still waiting folks) my box of treats. All of course in the $2-6 range. Most all were $2 with around 4-5 of them in the higher $5 & $6 range. Loves me the old, torn, ripped, carried around in your pocket and read many times over issues. Mighty Marvel Western 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 17, 30, 31, 34, 35, 46. Leaves me needing 14 more issues to complete the series. Rawhide Kid 94, 96, 97, 98, 121, 151. Ringo Kid 1, 6, 11, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29. Leaves me needing just 4 more issues to complete the series. Western Gunfighters: 1, 2, 3, 13, 22. Leaves me needing just 4 more issues to complete the series. And 2 AC Comics: The Durango Kid 1 and 2. Slowly filling up those want lists! Sounds like a killer haul there. I like 99% of the Marvel Western titles, but I never could stomach Rawhide Kid... don't know exactly why, He's no more formulaic than the other Marvel cowboys, but Johnny Clay/Johnny Bart stories just bored me. I've never been able to explain it... I suppose I've always tended to view the character as a teen-age punk Mickey Rooney type, but without the comedic flair? So maybe my dislike for the character is more about me than about the character.
I'll take Kid Colt (Outlaw!) Two-Gun Kid, Matt Slade and especially Ringo Kid and Ghost Rider any day of the week though!
Weird, ain't it?
Bigger fan of DC's Son of Tomahawk and especially Jonah Hex, though. With the exception of a couple of Blue Ribbon Digests, my Jonah Hex collection is 99.7% complete.
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Post by brutalis on May 29, 2020 10:14:38 GMT -5
I spent a few of those saved spending dollars on some more well used/read/loved Marvel Western comics of which I adore. but I never could stomach Rawhide Kid... don't know exactly why, He's no more formulaic than the other Marvel cowboys, but Johnny Clay/Johnny Bart stories just bored me. I've never been able to explain it... I suppose I've always tended to view the character as a teen-age punk Mickey Rooney type, but without the comedic flair? So maybe my dislike for the character is more about me than about the character.
Know how you feel about Rawhide Kid. I imagine him as played by Audie Murphy for movies and that seems to help make him more tolerable for me. He was always the last in line of Western heroes for me as well. Speaking of Ghost Rider (nee Haunted Horseman) I have quite a few of AC Comics Best of the West which features him as one of the main stories (alongside Durango Kid and Red Mask) and those stories are quite the weird/different than the Marvel version. Much more reflective of the time of their creation with Sing Song the racial/silly stereotype Chinese side kick and less emphasis of gun play while using more of the fearful/horrific imagery tht Dick Ayers is good with. I have only read the first few issues and am very much looking forward to delving into the rest of the issues and other western hero stories. A simpler time of stories more about adventure and fun with good triumphing over bad all in 4-6 pages! Nice variety therein with usually 5 stories to an issue with occasional 2 -3 pagers along for the ride. |
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Post by Ozymandias on May 29, 2020 13:07:30 GMT -5
Nothing for me this week. The only two parcels to arrive were the "lost & found" from Lone Star and Anthony's Comic Book Art, which arrived after the refund and made a U-turn.
To compensate, next week I'm expecting my biggest box yet: 54 comics!
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Post by Icctrombone on May 29, 2020 13:25:49 GMT -5
Just so Icctrombone won't feel alone in his back issue addiction of Thor. Since Memorial Day Weekends local Phoenix Fan Fusion comic con was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic I spent a few of those saved spending dollars on some more well used/read/loved Marvel Western comics of which I adore. Ordered from MyComicshop.com on 5/21 and arrived Wednesday 5/27 (not too shabby a time frame I must say. Sorry for you out of country still waiting folks) my box of treats. All of course in the $2-6 range. Most all were $2 with around 4-5 of them in the higher $5 & $6 range. Loves me the old, torn, ripped, carried around in your pocket and read many times over issues. Mighty Marvel Western 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 17, 30, 31, 34, 35, 46. Leaves me needing 14 more issues to complete the series. Rawhide Kid 94, 96, 97, 98, 121, 151. Ringo Kid 1, 6, 11, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29. Leaves me needing just 4 more issues to complete the series. Western Gunfighters: 1, 2, 3, 13, 22. Leaves me needing just 4 more issues to complete the series. And 2 AC Comics: The Durango Kid 1 and 2. Slowly filling up those want lists! Sounds like a killer haul there. I like 99% of the Marvel Western titles, but I never could stomach Rawhide Kid... don't know exactly why, He's no more formulaic than the other Marvel cowboys, but Johnny Clay/Johnny Bart stories just bored me. I've never been able to explain it... I suppose I've always tended to view the character as a teen-age punk Mickey Rooney type, but without the comedic flair? So maybe my dislike for the character is more about me than about the character.
I'll take Kid Colt (Outlaw!) Two-Gun Kid, Matt Slade and especially Ringo Kid and Ghost Rider any day of the week though!
Weird, ain't it?
Bigger fan of DC's Son of Tomahawk and especially Jonah Hex, though. With the exception of a couple of Blue Ribbon Digests, my Jonah Hex collection is 99.7% complete.
It's funny but I never cared for westerns except The Rawhide kid. |
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Post by brutalis on May 29, 2020 13:35:25 GMT -5
We all likes different things my brudder Icctrombone, that's whats so great about classic comics. I enjoy mythology and Thor so I have all the Essential's and then bought new off the rack the Simonson run and the Defalco/Frenz run and then the Jurgens/Romita run. Waiting for the Epic collection to pick up where the Essentials ended so I can get the Thomas and Buscema and then Pollard runs. Have no desire to pursue the singular Kirby issues as long as I already have em in the Essentials. |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 29, 2020 13:53:50 GMT -5
I'm not disparaging westerns in any way. I guess what didn't draw me in about them ,or even Archie comics, was that there wasn't any real continuity. The issues didn't really build on the past ones. Maybe the westerns had recurring villains but you could read them all out of order and not miss anything.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 29, 2020 13:55:04 GMT -5
Nothing for me this week. The only two parcels to arrive were the "lost & found" from Lone Star and Anthony's Comic Book Art, which arrived after the refund and made a U-turn. To compensate, next week I'm expecting my biggest box yet: 54 comics! I still have 3 books that are missing in action. One of them for over 30 days. |
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Post by tartanphantom on May 29, 2020 13:55:52 GMT -5
I'm not disparaging westerns in any way. I guess what didn't draw me in about them ,or even Archie comics, was that there wasn't any real continuity. The issues didn't really build on the past ones. Maybe the westerns had recurring villains but you could read them all out of order and not miss anything. My real problem is that there's not really a classic comics genre that I DON'T like--- except for modern "talking head" books which are usually only writer's diatribes masquerading as a comic. |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 29, 2020 13:59:07 GMT -5
I'm not disparaging westerns in any way. I guess what didn't draw me in about them ,or even Archie comics, was that there wasn't any real continuity. The issues didn't really build on the past ones. Maybe the westerns had recurring villains but you could read them all out of order and not miss anything. My real problem is that there's not really a classic comics genre that I DON'T like--- except for modern "talking head" books which are usually only writer's diatribes masquerading as a comic.You got a point there TPhantom. |
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Post by brutalis on May 29, 2020 14:11:12 GMT -5
I'm not disparaging westerns in any way. I guess what didn't draw me in about them ,or even Archie comics, was that there wasn't any real continuity. The issues didn't really build on the past ones. Maybe the westerns had recurring villains but you could read them all out of order and not miss anything. Didn't think you were disparaging my beloved Westerns at all. They are fairly simple without any continuity which makes them easy to read and you won't care all that much if you miss any issues. Westerns are just something I grew up watching on television and at the movies and nature/the mountains/desert with riding horses was another part of my life through my grandfather and a deacon at our family church. So I easily gravitated towards reading and enjoying Western comics. But dagnabbit a lot of those 1950's golden age comics had some wild and woolly writing and artistry! A lot different from what you might see from Marvel and DC. |
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Post by tartanphantom on May 29, 2020 14:48:59 GMT -5
I'm not disparaging westerns in any way. I guess what didn't draw me in about them ,or even Archie comics, was that there wasn't any real continuity. The issues didn't really build on the past ones. Maybe the westerns had recurring villains but you could read them all out of order and not miss anything. Didn't think you were disparaging my beloved Westerns at all. They are fairly simple without any continuity which makes them easy to read and you won't care all that much if you miss any issues. Westerns are just something I grew up watching on television and at the movies and nature/the mountains/desert with riding horses was another part of my life through my grandfather and a deacon at our family church. So I easily gravitated towards reading and enjoying Western comics. But dagnabbit a lot of those 1950's golden age comics had some wild and woolly writing and artistry! A lot different from what you might see from Marvel and DC. I have a particularly soft spot for the "Prize Comics Western" title. Love me some of John Severin's "American Eagle!"
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Post by tartanphantom on May 29, 2020 14:59:09 GMT -5
Been a long time since I was this excited to make new classic comic purchases. It's GREAT to be this invested in a vintage run again. Life With Archie is probably the best all around Archie title ever. Just a smidge more reality/seriousness than most of the other titles.
Of course, that's just one man's opinion. |
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