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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2020 17:17:47 GMT -5
Had two packaged in my mailbox today. The first was my copy of DNAgents 24 arriving, so I finally have it in hand. The other was a big box 'comics from Jesse of Gem City Comics from the FB group he runs. These were the books I picked up in the last 3-4 weeks worth of auctions, most were a buck or two, nothing more than $5 including the set of Nam issues. A collection of mostly animated books, a couple Animaniaca, the first issue plus the Christmas Special, a Jetsons/Flinstones cross-over, a wonder Jingle Belle cross-over by Paul Dini and Kyle Baker, and a special issue of Batman produced in conjunction with TCM's Noir Alley that I had never seen before and grabbed out of curiosity...  a Spectre story I did not have, JLA/Spectre, this copy had a bonu of being signed by artist Daryl Banks, who is a regular at Jesse's shows...  spotlight on the signature...  I'll have to bring this when we get to a point that shows resume and have Daryl personalize it. A bunch of DC books, a Justice Society of America #1 and a handful of books associated with the wedding of Dinah and Ollie as my wife is a big fan of both characters and wanted these.  a mid-grade copy of Doomsday +1 #1  and one of the later arcs in the Nam run as I work on completing that series...  with shipping the whole lot was about $35 or about $2 a book. -M |
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Post by antoine on Aug 31, 2020 17:32:40 GMT -5
I grabbed the two over-sized hardcover Battle collections that were curated by Garth Ennis. The stories are HMS Nightshade, The General Dies at Dawn, Fighting Mann, War Dog and three short stories. Books are much larger than I expected. here they are with a standard hardcover (DC Goes to War) and an omnibus (Jonah Hex) for comparison.   I saw someone selling them used locally and didn't buy them as I thought they were reprints of Ennis' War Stories (that I LOVE!). Thanks for your post, I'm going to try to hunt them down now! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2020 18:00:44 GMT -5
They may still be on Amazon. That's where I got mine (I'm in the US).
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 31, 2020 21:01:07 GMT -5
These two Green Lantern books completes my Kyle Raynor hunt. I have a straight run from 51-181.   |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 1, 2020 6:55:31 GMT -5
For the first time ever, I ordered dividers for my comic boxes. Maybe it will inspire me to finally finish putting my books in alphabetical order.
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Post by Ozymandias on Sept 1, 2020 15:25:26 GMT -5
For the first time ever, I ordered dividers for my comic boxes. Maybe it will inspire me to finally finish putting my books in alphabetical order. I just undid that order last month, I opted to arrange floppies depending on how much space there's available in a box. The shelve items are grouped so that they look better (European albums, Graphic Novels, Omnibi, Harcovers, TPBs...).
In the excel file, comics are in the order they are to be found in the boxes, or the shelve divisions.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 1, 2020 15:26:51 GMT -5
I have always done it with the space available also. I need a change.
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Post by Ozymandias on Sept 1, 2020 15:31:30 GMT -5
Needs are always in flux.
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 2, 2020 10:05:57 GMT -5
Most of mine - well the ones I haven't glued together to make books - are piled into old LootCrate boxes (most of them Picked up in trash piles at cons) in some sort of alphabetical order, with funky labels pasted on the outside. The European hardbacks are just stacked against my bedroom wall - there's no order there at all. My CDs and DVDs on the other hand are in Strict alphabetical order AND the the discs are the right way up in the cases. The only ones that aren't the right way up are the discs that are where I'm up to in a series. The case will be upsidedown on the shelf too. Number Two Daughter has taken to adding a post-it note to the current box as well. No trying to remember where we were up to for HER.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 11:20:59 GMT -5
So I splurged a bit. I bought a Kubert book I've wanted since I learned of its existence, but never thought I would find an affordable copy. I found one with a starting bid at about a third of what I usually see it listed at (just a few dollars more than Lonestar is buying it at for that condition), so I took a chance and put a bid in, and lo and behold, no one else bid. Shipping was a bit high, but the book was still under what I would have ever expected to pay for it, and so I now have it. Not quite a grail for me, but close... Son of Sinbad #1 (it's only a 2.0 but for a book from 1950 I am ok with that.  Now I just have to wait for this to arrive to finally read it... -M |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 15:18:17 GMT -5
I came across these for what I thought was a good price while searching for war comics. I've never read any of it, but it sounds interesting and Wally Wood is an artist I've seen lots of praise for, but I'm not very familiar with. I also have volumes 5 and 6 on the way.  |
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Post by Ozymandias on Sept 2, 2020 15:44:33 GMT -5
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Post by Ozymandias on Sept 2, 2020 15:44:47 GMT -5
And the item they couldn't supply, I bought from the UK on eBay last Thursday and received it today:  With all those acquisitions, I went from this:  ....to this:  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 2, 2020 16:33:27 GMT -5
I came across these for what I thought was a good price while searching for war comics. I've never read any of it, but it sounds interesting and Wally Wood is an artist I've seen lots of praise for, but I'm not very familiar with. I also have volumes 5 and 6 on the way. Here's the review thread on T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents: classiccomics.org/thread/2371/agents-tower-comics-reviews-shaxper |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2020 19:03:27 GMT -5
I came across these for what I thought was a good price while searching for war comics. I've never read any of it, but it sounds interesting and Wally Wood is an artist I've seen lots of praise for, but I'm not very familiar with. I also have volumes 5 and 6 on the way. Nice looking books. shaxper reviewed the series and it didn't appear to be too good. Edit: Oops, Rob Allen beat me to it. |
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