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Post by tonebone on Jul 1, 2020 16:29:46 GMT -5
Went on another hunt yesterday, visited a couple of shops in Nashville (30-ish miles away) that I haven't been to since March. Here are some of the highlights-- However, the "bargain of the day" find was a complete 56-issue run of "Jon Sable: Freelance" in fine+ condition in the 50-cent boxes at one location. So, I bought the entire run for about $28. Obviously, I'm not going to post pics of all those books, but issue #1 is shown below. Other nice finds for the day included a small cache of books shown in the last picture below, several key issues of Starslayer (including 2nd appearance of Rocketeer and 2nd appearance of Groo) for 50 cents each, Girls' Romances #160 (final issue) with a cover by my favorite romance artist Jay Scott Pike and an interior story by my 2nd favorite romance artist John Romita. I also picked up a decent copy of Romantic Confessions #3 (1949) for $5.99. Another sweet deal was the 4 issues of The Invaders for 50 cents each... nothing great in the condition department, but still good, solid complete reader copies.        So all in all, it was pretty much a Mike Grell and romance book feature day, with a good mix of other stuff and a dash of Kirby goodness thrown in OOh... that Michael Golden Batman Special is a keeper! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 2, 2020 14:15:40 GMT -5
Went to a LCS Picked these up for a buck  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 2, 2020 14:17:25 GMT -5
Also took the plunge in tracking down the Tarzan issues from Marvel and DC. Blame brutalis.  DC issues-   |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 2, 2020 14:18:34 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Jul 2, 2020 14:35:19 GMT -5
Good haul my brother of a different color Icctrombone! I will gladly take all the blame for "forcing" you into back issue purchases. I want us all here in the CCF keeping the CLASSICS alive! Some really nice copies you found there of Ape-man Tarz! They must have been quite affordable enough for you to jump and grab so quickly. Wish my LCS's here in Phoenix were as well stocked with choice comics like you and the others have been finding of late. Most everything around Phoenix is within the last 10 years and anything older seems to get marked up like you it was a Gold investment. Or they are the cheapest and cruddiest books not fit for Dollar bins. Placed a smallish order with MyComicshop.com on Tuesday and should arrive Monday or Tuesday next week. Working on digging through their listings for some more classic War goodness for my next order. Stay tuned and watch for details... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2020 14:42:54 GMT -5
My LCS had a 1/2 off sale last week. I picked up: Superman 197 - for a reprint story from 142 - Supes travels back in time to witness Perry White investigating Al Capone Batman 311 - Dr. Phosphorous and Batgirl. This is one of the few comics I owned as a kid, and I'm also a sucker for a decent Batgirl story, so I've had my eye on this, waiting for deal ($10 after the half of is just about my limit for something like this). DC Presents Annuals 2 and 4: Superwoman stories. The stories are serviceable bronze-agers, and again, I like the character. Yes, you now know who the one Kristin Wells Superwoman fan is, besides Elliot s! Maggin. 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 My pleasure. I prefer knowing they get appreciated rather than somebody trying to flip 'em for a quick buck. Just so nobody thinks I suddenly lost my good taste in comics - I much prefer collected editions to individual floppies. I understand there is a kind of magic to physically handling the originals, but in reality, the old floppies collected dust while I always read the minty-new TPB/Omnibus versions (at least the ones which don't screw up the coloring). |
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 2, 2020 15:19:25 GMT -5
Also took the plunge in tracking down the Tarzan issues from Marvel and DC. Blame brutalis . DC issues- While looking for DC Tarzan issues-- see if you can hunt this one down-- It's not in the regular Tarzan series numbering, it's an early 100-pager with its own number (DC-19). You'll thank me later-- probably my favorite of all DC Tarzan issues... it's mainly reprints from the old Russ Manning Tarzan newspaper strips-- in color.  |
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Post by MDG on Jul 2, 2020 15:24:36 GMT -5
Went to a LCS Picked these up for a buck I always pick up Jimmy Olsens when I see them for cheap. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 2, 2020 15:36:25 GMT -5
Went to a LCS Picked these up for a buck I always pick up Jimmy Olsens when I see them for cheap. He's kind of a tart. That must happen a lot. |
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Post by brutalis on Jul 2, 2020 16:10:39 GMT -5
Also took the plunge in tracking down the Tarzan issues from Marvel and DC. Blame brutalis . DC issues- While looking for DC Tarzan issues-- see if you can hunt this one down-- It's not in the regular Tarzan series numbering, it's an early 100-pager with its own number (DC-19). You'll thank me later-- probably my favorite of all DC Tarzan issues... it's mainly reprints from the old Russ Manning Tarzan newspaper strips-- in color. Yeppers there ya phantom tartan (sniff, sniff, is that a wee hint of Malt poots wafting in the air from ye I be smelling?) about the 100 Page Giant. I picked up that issue last summer myself. Lovely Manning art indeed! Read it as soon as received it and now it's in my to read pile of Marvel Tarzan just so I can enjoy it again. Ya know, any excuse to enjoy Manning again will work!!! |
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 3, 2020 0:51:51 GMT -5
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 3, 2020 9:46:42 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 3, 2020 22:01:40 GMT -5
A set of '70s Jungle Action with the Black Panther, #9-12. I used to have #12 on it's own, don't remember too much about it now... also more recent vintage Galactus The Devourer #1-6 mini-series from 1999... says the art is by John Buscema on most! I just received five of the six 'Marvels Comics' comics one-shots from 2000, plus a thin mini-history of the company as it is supposed to exist within the Marvel universe... the Fantastic Four comic says it's 100% authorized and narrated by the super foursome, while Spider-Man and Daredevil look like monsters going by the descriptions people have given about them. Captain America is set in WWII with Bucky. The only one I've read so far though is 'Call Him Thor' where Asgard is a secret hi-tech lab and the Mjolnir hammer is alien technology. Also, only in public doth Thor speaketh ye Elizabethan English, the rest of the time Don Jolson, son of the original Thor since disabled, speaks like anyone else. The mostly text companion title (below) tells of how 'Marvels' comics started in 1937 with a Purple Pig comic just before the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner showed up in their 'real life'. The company cut a deal with the scientist creator of the Torch for his story and rights.  |
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Post by The Captain on Jul 4, 2020 12:02:51 GMT -5
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Post by The Captain on Jul 4, 2020 12:09:50 GMT -5
On Friday, I made a quick trip to another LCS (part of the same chain as the one where I bought the ASM Epic Collection), and I got these from the $1 boxes: Two more Suicide Squad books that I don't own, and two Iron Man replacement copies for books that are in garbage condition:  Next-to-last Sub-Mariner, and a Spring Special with Moon Knight, Hercules, AND Brother Voodoo stories? Yes, please!  Some Marvel Fanfare issues, including the last two parts of a four-part Warriors Three story that I needed, another Moon Knight story, and a Cap story I don't own.  Still more Marvel Fanfare, with Shanna the She-Devil in them (and gorgeous covers to boot).  And while I almost never buy a book solely for the cover, I did for this one:  It's The Spectre riding a flaming dinosaur elemental thing. Who wouldn't part with $1 for that? |
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