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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 27, 2020 19:09:34 GMT -5
Got these in the mail today from Lonestar. These two make it 9 issues left to complete the Wally West Flash run The Mantra # 24 completes the series, and I think this Godwheel book completes the 4 issue mini. I have to check Edit: I had all 4 issues already.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 22:01:13 GMT -5
Just won this in the Lonestar auction that ended tonight (so it will be a few weeks before it arrives most likely)... I also stopped by the local antique mall out by the county fairgrounds today, and walked around a bit. There's over 750 vendors and more than a handful have comics for sale, including a place called Zack Attack Comics run by the son of the owner there, who I know from the con circuit. A few years back he bought out a lot of over 100 longboxes of 80s and 90s overstock which has the usual suspects like more copies of Deathmate than you can shake a stick at, but also had a lot of 80s indies books. I've gone through some of those boxes previously, but I spent some time through a bunch today and picked up a bunch of dollar books filling in some runs. I found a few other gems at some other dealers, but spent $3 each on two books and the rest were a buck each. No pics, but here's what I ended up picking up... $3 booksJudo Master 91 M.A.R.S. Patrol 10 $1 booksBlood Syndicate 17, 25 Blue Devil Annual 1 (I actually picked up 2 copies of this at a buck each as it is a book getting some heat, I wanted a copy, but I will trade/give away the other at some point)Night Force (90s) 3 Dark Horse Presents 41 Dark Horse Presents 100 4, 5 Defenders of the Earth 1-4 Doomsday Squad 3, 4, 6 (completes series; I had 3 already but it has an early color Usagi Yojimbo story, so I picked up an extra) Dragonlance 33, 34 Icon 25 Mister X ('88 series) 5-10 'Nam 24, 30. 31, 41, 48, 49, 51, 57 Pacific Presents 3 Pat Savage: Woman of Bronze one-shot (Millennium) Ray Bradbury Comics 1, 3 Scout 20, 23 Scout War Shaman 2, 3, 8, 11, 12 Scout New America 1, 2 (completes series) Scout Swords of Texas 1 (finishes off mini) Spacehawk 4 (Wolverton) The Spider Book One (Truman & Alcantena) Super Powers ('86) 2, 3 Tarzan: Love, Lies and the Lost City #1 (Malibu) Tarzan the Warrior 5 (Malibu) Walt Kelly's Christmas Classics Xombi 0 Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 5, 6, 7, 9 -M
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Post by DubipR on Jul 28, 2020 14:41:28 GMT -5
eBay win last night. Should arrive this weekend...
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 28, 2020 15:00:03 GMT -5
Just won this in the Lonestar auction that ended tonight (so it will be a few weeks before it arrives most likely)... Gorgeous!
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 29, 2020 8:45:47 GMT -5
Big Bundle of comicy goodness arrived in the post this afternoon. Thorgal 25 and from the same seller. I'll buy anything in Dargaud's Histoires Fantastiques series - (if it's cheap enough). and which needed a little attention from the glue pot to reattach a couple of the magazines which had pulled free of the covers. It cost me about 5 quid (including postage) for 500 odd pages. I'm not complaining.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 31, 2020 8:21:49 GMT -5
AHA! Our local bookshop (they don't really do comics bar the odd graphic novel adaptation of some pre-existing best seller) has a small section of second-hand stuff up stairs. In it today I found a book which I should have known existed but didn't have the nous to look for. I have the first book after all. I should have checked to see if there were any more. The Further Adventures of The Wee Boy by Bud Neill. For the uninitiated - and that would be most of the World's population I guess - the 'Wee Boy' is Lobey Dosser a Glaswegian Cowboy sheriff who rides a two legged horse. It's a collection of strips from 1950s Glasgow newspapers. Very famous in Glasgow but little known outwith, there's even a bronze statue of the character raised by public subscription - the world's only two-legged equestrian statue. Surreal & funny stuff.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 31, 2020 10:46:23 GMT -5
AHA! Our local bookshop (they don't really do comics bar the odd graphic novel adaptation of some pre-existing best seller) has a small section of second-hand stuff up stairs. In it today I found a book which I should have known existed but didn't have the nous to look for. I have the first book after all. I should have checked to see if there were any more. The Further Adventures of The Wee Boy by Bud Neill. For the uninitiated - and that would be most of the World's population I guess - the 'Wee Boy' is Lobey Dosser a Glaswegian Cowboy sheriff who rides a two legged horse. It's a collection of strips from 1950s Glasgow newspapers. Very famous in Glasgow but little known outwith, there's even a bronze statue of the character raised by public subscription - the world's only two-legged equestrian statue. Surreal & funny stuff. You find some of the most interesting Euro/UK material that I've ever seen.
I've got to see if I can find this-- it looks to be right in my aesthetic bailiwick!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 31, 2020 12:47:52 GMT -5
AHA! Our local bookshop (they don't really do comics bar the odd graphic novel adaptation of some pre-existing best seller) has a small section of second-hand stuff up stairs. In it today I found a book which I should have known existed but didn't have the nous to look for. I have the first book after all. I should have checked to see if there were any more. The Further Adventures of The Wee Boy by Bud Neill. For the uninitiated - and that would be most of the World's population I guess - the 'Wee Boy' is Lobey Dosser a Glaswegian Cowboy sheriff who rides a two legged horse. It's a collection of strips from 1950s Glasgow newspapers. Very famous in Glasgow but little known outwith, there's even a bronze statue of the character raised by public subscription - the world's only two-legged equestrian statue. Surreal & funny stuff. I went and googled “wee boy statue Glasgow” and now I have another comic-related statue to visit when I travel the world after I see the Condorito statue in Santiago, Chile. 🇨🇱
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 31, 2020 13:51:20 GMT -5
I went and googled “wee boy statue Glasgow” and now I have another comic-related statue to visit when I travel the world after I see the Condorito statue in Santiago, Chile. 🇨🇱 Here's another for you: (and another cowboy character too!)
This is Desperate Dan in Dundee - home of DC Thompson. Desperate Dan first appeared in 1937 and has been a staple of British comics ever since: The girl in the tam and catapult is Minnie The Minx.
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Post by antoine on Jul 31, 2020 20:39:12 GMT -5
I went and googled “wee boy statue Glasgow” and now I have another comic-related statue to visit when I travel the world after I see the Condorito statue in Santiago, Chile. 🇨🇱 If you ever go to Brussels, there is more than 50 walls painted with Franco-Belge characters. HUGE paintings. Quick et Fluke, Lucky Luke, Tintin, Blake et Mortimer, etc.. I only saw a few when I was there but I think you can get a map and try to see them all. (PS - the second one is from "Lincoln", everyone should read that.)
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 31, 2020 21:32:36 GMT -5
Why dont we have more of those in the US?
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 31, 2020 21:55:13 GMT -5
Why dont we have more of those in the US? I would love to see that panel where Brainiac 5 is telling Saturn Girl “It’s too dangerous for a girl!” on the side of a building in Pomona.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 31, 2020 22:07:54 GMT -5
That'd be great... maybe side by side with Wonder Woman decimating Ares or something
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 23:04:57 GMT -5
Three more gets from the FB group auctions... lots of 50s era horror reprints for the first two lots... Seduction of the Innocent #1-3 Here's what's inside each: It was the Alex Toth and Jack Katz stories that caught my eye. Shocking Tales Digest (for far less than the sticker price) here's what's inside this digest: and the somewhat hard to find due "low print run" and sometimes pricey final issue of the Name (#84) for less than what Lonestar is buying midgrade copies at... I have most of the first 2/3 of the run but the later issues are hard to come by in my experience, but slowly getting there. -M
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Post by junkmonkey on Aug 1, 2020 4:18:25 GMT -5
Why dont we have more of those in the US?
"Because," he suggests, donning his cynical snobbish European liberal arty persona (it comes very easily). "The Disney corporation hasn't (yet) found a way of monetizing public art."
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