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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 21, 2020 13:31:00 GMT -5
An Ebay purchase arrived today-- got a sweet deal on a really low-print run bronze-age book. And no, it's not severely yellowed-- that's the normal cover color.
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 21, 2020 13:34:02 GMT -5
I am thrilled to death about this one I just got in TODAY: YELLOWJACKET COMICS 4cover by KEN BATTEFIELD (??) (Charlton / December 1944)  I've seen copies on sale online for $42.00, $75.00, $85.00 and $97.50. I just got one WITHOUT THE COVER for $12.95 + .86 tax. I needed a story inside so I could do my own HIGH-RES scans. I didn't need the cover! This is one time I'm looking forward to tackling the same story for my blog project a 2ND TIME. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 21, 2020 13:39:01 GMT -5
I am thrilled to death about this one I just got in TODAY: YELLOWJACKET COMICS 4cover by KEN BATTEFIELD (??) (Charlton / December 1944) I've seen copies on sale online for $42.00, $75.00, $85.00 and $97.50. I just got one WITHOUT THE COVER for $12.95 + .86 tax. I needed a story inside so I could do my own HIGH-RES scans. I didn't need the cover! This is one time I'm looking forward to tackling the same story for my blog project a 2ND TIME. That's just great-- one you don't see very often. |
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Post by Duragizer on Aug 21, 2020 19:40:53 GMT -5
This is now the oldest graphic novel in my collection:  Where the flying fart was THIS Chaykin when he was working on Star Wars?! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 21, 2020 21:29:12 GMT -5
Picked up 3 Deathstroke issues from volume #1. Now I only need 21 issues from the 64 issue run.   And of course who doesn't want the first appearance of Gunfire ?  |
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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 22, 2020 16:16:24 GMT -5
These arrived today-- I struck a deal with Crimebuster on some books he had mentioned in one of his latest Youtube vids.First appearance of Brother Voodoo, Lassie w/ Matt Baker interior art, My Love #1 chock full of Romita Sr. goodness, and the fairly-hard-to-find My Love Special #1. Thanks for everything, Scott!  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 22, 2020 18:11:15 GMT -5
Nice books, phantom. The Brother Voddoo book has nice Colan art if I remember correctly.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2020 22:27:14 GMT -5
So the Lonestar order showed up Saturday, but I was at work all day today and just got it opened, sorted and snapped pics. So the Dave Stevens cover I mentioned was this...  I also picked up the other 2 Lassie issues with Matt Baker interior art...  a chunk of Flash Gordon issues to fill in some holes in my King/Charlton/GK run...  one more Phantom issue from the Charlton era...  and the last 2 issues of the Phantom mini by Peter David and Sal Velluto from Hermes that my lcs at the time never ordered, even though I had gotten 1-4 from them...  and the last of the 3 issues of Showcase featuring Manhunter 2070 and one of the Gemstone EC reprints that was in their dollar sale for the week  and that's a wrap for the order. -M |
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Post by berkley on Aug 23, 2020 23:20:05 GMT -5
This is now the oldest graphic novel in my collection: Where the flying fart was THIS Chaykin when he was working on Star Wars?!
Hurrying to meet deadlines and also having his pencils covered up by inkers of various styles, none of which looked anything like his own.
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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 23, 2020 23:25:31 GMT -5
So the Lonestar order showed up Saturday, but I was at work all day today and just got it opened, sorted and snapped pics. So the Dave Stevens cover I mentioned was this... I also picked up the other 2 Lassie issues with Matt Baker interior art... a chunk of Flash Gordon issues to fill in some holes in my King/Charlton/GK run... one more Phantom issue from the Charlton era... and the last 2 issues of the Phantom mini by Peter David and Sal Velluto from Hermes that my lcs at the time never ordered, even though I had gotten 1-4 from them... and the last of the 3 issues of Showcase featuring Manhunter 2070 and one of the Gemstone EC reprints that was in their dollar sale for the week and that's a wrap for the order. -M Nice little group of books! I love the Gemstone EC reprints-- it took me quite a while to assemble the whole collection (297 in all) across all the titles. There's only one real "run killer" in the whole group-- for some reason Crime Suspenstories #22 commands quite a high price-- allegedly because it's the only time that its notorious cover has been reprinted in comic book form.
Also, that Peter David Phantom run is a good read... and now I have one less person competing with me on the Lassie Matt Baker issues!  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2020 23:43:52 GMT -5
]Nice little group of books! I love the Gemstone EC reprints-- it took me quite a while to assemble the whole collection (297 in all) across all the titles. There's only one real "run killer" in the whole group-- for some reason Crime Suspenstories #22 commands quite a high price-- allegedly because it's the only time that its notorious cover has been reprinted in comic book form. Also, that Peter David Phantom run is a good read... and now I have one less person competing with me on the Lassie Matt Baker issues! Unless some weird twist of fate occurs, those Lassie issues are probably the only Matt Baker comics (not trade collections) that I will ever actually own as most of the rest are out of the price range I am comfortable spending. I am slowly trying to put together those Gemstone reprint issues myself, having stumbled across some a couple years back at a Half Price Books. The only series I have complete currently is Valor. The only original EC I have is a copy of Piracy #1 that I lucked into for a 20 spot. I have noticed the prices creeping up on those Gemstone reprints recently though, and saw a copy of the CrimeSuspenstories #22 go for a boatload in the Lonestar auction a few weeks back. I was too busy buying mediocre (at best) big 2 comics off the racks when this stuff came out to have jumped on it unfortunately, so nows I gots to get them when I can and what prices they sell for. Ah well, such is life. -M |
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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 24, 2020 0:20:57 GMT -5
]Nice little group of books! I love the Gemstone EC reprints-- it took me quite a while to assemble the whole collection (297 in all) across all the titles. There's only one real "run killer" in the whole group-- for some reason Crime Suspenstories #22 commands quite a high price-- allegedly because it's the only time that its notorious cover has been reprinted in comic book form. Also, that Peter David Phantom run is a good read... and now I have one less person competing with me on the Lassie Matt Baker issues! Unless some weird twist of fate occurs, those Lassie issues are probably the only Matt Baker comics (not trade collections) that I will ever actually own as most of the rest are out of the price range I am comfortable spending. I am slowly trying to put together those Gemstone reprint issues myself, having stumbled across some a couple years back at a Half Price Books. The only series I have complete currently is Valor. The only original EC I have is a copy of Piracy #1 that I lucked into for a 20 spot. I have noticed the prices creeping up on those Gemstone reprints recently though, and saw a copy of the CrimeSuspenstories #22 go for a boatload in the Lonestar auction a few weeks back. I was too busy buying mediocre (at best) big 2 comics off the racks when this stuff came out to have jumped on it unfortunately, so nows I gots to get them when I can and what prices they sell for. Ah well, such is life. -M I saw the auction you mentioned. I've seen them go for stupid money (for a 90's reprint book) on Ebay as well.
Although you won't see CS #22 show up for a buck, just continue to keep any eye on the Lonestar Dollar bin section-- many of the later title runs show up there frequently, just like the one you found. I think I got almost the entire runs of both Valor and Aces High that way.
One other caveat, watch out for the earlier Gladstone reprints, which are a separate series, and combine two issues into one 64 page book, often with a mis-matched cover illustration. Fortunately, they only did a handful of titles-- The Haunt of Fear, Tales From the Crypt, The Vault of Horror, and Weird Science. Not as big a fan of those, but still good reading.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2020 0:30:40 GMT -5
Unless some weird twist of fate occurs, those Lassie issues are probably the only Matt Baker comics (not trade collections) that I will ever actually own as most of the rest are out of the price range I am comfortable spending. I am slowly trying to put together those Gemstone reprint issues myself, having stumbled across some a couple years back at a Half Price Books. The only series I have complete currently is Valor. The only original EC I have is a copy of Piracy #1 that I lucked into for a 20 spot. I have noticed the prices creeping up on those Gemstone reprints recently though, and saw a copy of the CrimeSuspenstories #22 go for a boatload in the Lonestar auction a few weeks back. I was too busy buying mediocre (at best) big 2 comics off the racks when this stuff came out to have jumped on it unfortunately, so nows I gots to get them when I can and what prices they sell for. Ah well, such is life. -M I saw the auction you mentioned. I've seen them go for stupid money (for a 90's reprint book) on Ebay as well.
Although you won't see CS #22 show up for a buck, just continue to keep any eye on the Lonestar Dollar bin section-- many of the later title runs show up there frequently, just like the one you found. I think I got almost the entire runs of both Valor and Aces High that way.
One other caveat, watch out for the earlier Gladstone reprints, which are a separate series, and combine two issues into one 64 page book, often with a mis-matched cover illustration. Fortunately, they only did a handful of titles-- The Haunt of Fear, Tales From the Crypt, The Vault of Horror, and Weird Science. Not as big a fan of those, but still good reading.
I have a couple of the Gladstone ones as well, as I discovered those before the Gemstone ones. I have picked up quite a few of the ones I have from Lonestar, but recently they seem to be "selling out" as some are listed in the dollar book list on Tuesday when it's released, and I add them to my cart, but by the end of the week they go back to regular price before the dollar sale expires. I usually wait to see if I win anything in the auction for the week before completing the orders and the Gemstone stuff tends to go off sale so to speak before the week was up. For example, in this order, there were 3 issues of War Against Crime listed, added all three to the cart, but a day later, two fo the three were back to regular Lonestar prices. I am no sure if they have a set number of copies available that they will sell at the $1 price then take them off the list or what. They don't go out of stock, just off sale. I don't like having multiple orders pending from them, so I wait on the auction to end before finalizing the orders, but it gets a little exasperating seeing the dollar books go off sale in the meantime. But hey, if that's the worst of my collecting worries, it's all good. -M |
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Post by Confessor on Aug 24, 2020 5:24:16 GMT -5
This is now the oldest graphic novel in my collection: Where the flying fart was THIS Chaykin when he was working on Star Wars?! Hurrying to meet deadlines and also having his pencils covered up by inkers of various styles, none of which looked anything like his own.
Chaykin has admitted that he totally dialled his work on the early issues of Star Wars in. He's said, in the years since, that if he'd known how big the franchise was gonna become and how often those first six issues were gonna be reprinted he'd have tried much harder. The other inkers were needed because, other than issue #1, he only had the time/inclination to provided rough pencils and later breakdowns of ever decreasing quality as the series progressed. Given the quality of Chaykin's sub-par pencils and inks on issue #1, I think the likes of Steve Leialoha, Rick Hoberg, and Tom Palmer did a fantastic rescue job on the series. |
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Post by berkley on Aug 24, 2020 5:56:08 GMT -5
Didn't mean to come across in any way as blaming the inkers, just to offer a possible reason why Chaykin<s Star Wars artwork for Marvel looked so different from solo stuff like Empire - because you can see even in some of his early self-inked Marvel work, it looked much different from the SW. But obviously if he says himself that he didn't give of his best on SW I'll take his word for it.
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