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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 17:17:45 GMT -5
Didn't purchase them, but I did get gifted the whole 12-part X-Cutioner's Song crossover from one of my old coworkers:  |
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 28, 2020 17:49:58 GMT -5
Didn't purchase them, but I did get gifted the whole 12-part X-Cutioner's Song crossover from one of my old coworkers: Who cares about the comics, right? Just rip those suckers open and put together the trading card set!  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 28, 2020 21:40:35 GMT -5
Tartanphantom, great set if books.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 28, 2020 22:53:48 GMT -5
Tartanphantom, great set if books. Actually, I have you to thank in part.
I was inspired by your recent trip to a shop that you hadn't visited in several months. I did the same. It paid off.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 29, 2020 6:13:09 GMT -5
Tartanphantom, great set if books. Actually, I have you thank in part.
I was inspired by your recent trip to a shop that you hadn't visited in several months. I did the same. It paid off. Feels good to dig through those boxes, doesn't it?  |
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 29, 2020 8:25:14 GMT -5
Actually, I have you thank in part.
I was inspired by your recent trip to a shop that you hadn't visited in several months. I did the same. It paid off. Feels good to dig through those boxes, doesn't it? Yes, even while wearing required PPE. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 29, 2020 20:39:19 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 29, 2020 20:46:29 GMT -5
There it is... the only regular Thor issue of Journey Into Mystery I ever held in my hands! That was one hard title to collect around my parts... although I did have Annual #1 and at least one pre-hero issue. And your copy looks better than the one I had of it, even with the slight subscription crease. I just got Thor #259 & 260 in the mail, so I'm still plugging away at it, I see #260 is the first by Walt Simonson! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 29, 2020 20:55:41 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it's time to lay down the wallet and start reading these beauties.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 29, 2020 21:13:18 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it's time to lay down the wallet and start reading these beauties. Methinks thou shouldst brush up on thine Elizabethan English before thy reading commence-- in order to obtaineth maximum enjoyment.
Nay, varlet! That's what always made me chuckle about Stan Lee's Thor dialogue...
Stan Lee visste bara inte hur man skriver på svenska eller norska, så han skrev bara på elisabetanska engelska.
(I happen to speak and write a little Swedish, thanks to a former bandmate who was from Sweden)
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 29, 2020 23:41:12 GMT -5
Here's my latest batch of acquisitons. Spoilers: it's a lot of romance stuff mostly.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2020 0:05:57 GMT -5
These weren't a purchase, but a very generous care package via the Classic Comic Exchange from DrakeTungstun. Much gratitude and I hope he enjoys the books I sent along to him. The Marvel Epic Fafhrd & Gray Mouser books by Chaykin and Mignola. I've only ever had the trade of these but love Mignola' covers so much I've always wanted the original issues, and now I have them.  Some of the only books I ever sold that I have severely regretted parting with (and only did so because I had the b&w trade collections DC did at the time) was Kirby's Fourth World stuff. I got most of the run at Hal Kinney's Bookie just after the Legends mini was coming out and Amazing Heroes #100 showcased Kirby's stuff, and I was so eager to dive into this stuff that was a new discovery for me at the time. This was circa '86 or '87 well before Bronze Age stuff took off and I got full runs of New Gods, Mister Miracle and Forever People for 50 cents to a dollar an issue as there was little demand for Bronze Age stuff at the time. The Jimmy Olsen stuff took a little longer to track down, and I had these up until I started to get ready to move across country, and ended up selling off the lot of them when I sold off my Silver Age Marvel collection. I don't miss or regret selling most of that stuff, but man I wish I had hung on to the Fourth World stuff, and I have been slowly picking up the stuff as I can find it at reasonable prices (and some of it is just very pricey now). But thanks to DrakeTungsten, I got a nice little chunk of those books back to help my efforts...   The only Marvel run I regretted selling was the Simonson Thor run, and I had tracked down all of it but one book again over the last few years, and thanks to Mr. Tungstun again. I now have the last one I needed...  I cannot properly express my gratitude for these books. Thanks to his generosity, I have been able to get a handful of books I regretted parting with and some I had never had a chance to get the originals of before. Thanks you again. -M |
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Post by berkley on Jun 30, 2020 0:52:58 GMT -5
One of the things I like about that Thor cover with the Absorbing Man is the expression on Thor's face, which to me successfully conveys "yeah, that hurt" but also a kind of stoic determination. Kirby's facial expressions are under-rated, especially in his 60s Marvel work. Simple but effective.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 30, 2020 4:48:15 GMT -5
These weren't a purchase, but a very generous care package via the Classic Comic Exchange from DrakeTungstun. Much gratitude and I hope he enjoys the books I sent along to him. The only Marvel run I regretted selling was the Simonson Thor run, and I had tracked down all of it but one book again over the last few years, and thanks to Mr. Tungstun again. I now have the last one I needed... I cannot properly express my gratitude for these books. Thanks to his generosity, I have been able to get a handful of books I regretted parting with and some I had never had a chance to get the originals of before. Thanks you again. -M Those are some amazing books that Drake sent you. Well done ! |
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Post by antoine on Jul 1, 2020 15:50:06 GMT -5
I cannot properly express my gratitude for these books. Thanks to his generosity, I have been able to get a handful of books I regretted parting with and some I had never had a chance to get the originals of before. Thanks you again. -M Happy for you MRP! This is also the only one I'm missing to complete the run, but it is so expensive. I could have gotten it for 15$ when I started collecting the run 10 years ago but I thought it was too much.... |
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