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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 13:57:04 GMT -5
Dr Fate has such a great look.
I picked up a bunch a few months back, but haven't gotten to them yet.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 15:12:11 GMT -5
tartanphantom I've tried for almost 8 years to stumble across a copy of #24 and it never happened, so congrats! I'm sure now that I bought it at a going rate price I'll probably now start finding them, but thems the breaks. -M Well it happened. I went to a used book store in Yellow Springs today looking for some of the Charles Saunders sword and soul stuff and they have a large collection of comic back issues on sale, and lo and behold while I was talking to the comics guy about Dave Stevens covers, he pulled out a copy of DNAgents 24 he had just bought in a collection yesterday...so I expect I will start seeing them all the time now... -M PS all their back issues were 20% for September, so I couldn't resist poking around and picking up some stuff as I had no luck finding the Saunders books even though I was trying not to buy much right now. I'll try to post with some pics of what I got later, but the rest of my ebay buys (Son of Sinbad, Witzend 8, Frank Frazetta Illustrated 5) arrived in the mail today, so I need to process them first. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 8, 2020 18:11:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 19:05:17 GMT -5
Okay, so like I said I went out looking for some of the Charles Saunders sword and soul books this afternoon, and stopped at Dark Star Books in Yellow Springs but they had none. They did have a couple other paperbacks Ipicked up, and all their regular price back issues were 20% off as their September sale, so I poked around for a while. So here's what I ended up picking up... a pair of comic-adjacent novels...The Gypsy novel part of Byron Preiss' Weird Heroes new pulp line and one of the two Red Sonja novels I didn't have...  a collection of Frank Frazetta's Johnny Comet (and Ace McCoy) dailies and Sundays that Eclipse put out...  a pair of comics out of their dollar box...  some stuff out of their oversized dollar box. an issue of Questar witha Frazetta cover, one of the Blackthorne Prince Valiant volumes, Kyle Baker's King David and an issue of Comics Revue...  more from the oversized dollar bin, Verdilak GN by Bo Hampton, a Somerset Holmes GN, Dragon Chiang by Tim Truman, and a book called Working Methods that explores the creative process of comic artists, cartoonists and animators...  and then the regular price stuff that was on sale, a pair of Atlas magazine first issues...  a couple of issues of the Spirit Magazine...  a quartet of issues off my want list... Scout #1 completing that series, Fly #1 with a Steranko cover, one of 4 issues of Flash Gordon I needed to complete that series and one of three issues of Elvira's House of Mystery I needed for that run...  a trio of issues of Star*Reach (two covered for NSF covers)...  and lastly another trio off my want list, the last issue of World of Wood I needed to finish that series and a pair of Xenozoic Tales issues...  I was tempted by a Dave Stevens art book, and they had a copy of Chilling Adventures in Sorcery #1 which is the last issue I needed for that run, but it was priced a little more than I wanted to pay. I also briefly considered picking up the copy of DNAgents 24 he had, but he hadn't priced it out yet (they also had a stack of Perry Rhodan novels they just got in and hadn't priced up yet, but those were going to be sold in lots on their ebay store). I also stopped by my lcs in YS, but only picked up my pull books not any classic stuff. -M |
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Post by spoon on Sept 8, 2020 19:42:42 GMT -5
I should stop buying so many comics until I read more of my unread comics. But I had over $150 in credit card reward points to use at Amazon, so I bought The Batman Golden Age Omnibus volume 5, which arrived today. I'm in a DC mindset so I also bought Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale, the Hawk & Dove limited series TPB, and the third Suicide Squad TPB. But those were from separate Amazon Marketplace sellers, so they haven't arrived yet.  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 9, 2020 5:09:26 GMT -5
(...) I went to a used book store in Yellow Springs today looking for some of the Charles Saunders sword and soul stuff (...) You're probably going to have a devil of time finding anything, unfortunately. You have the best chance of finding the original Daw editions of Imaro and its sequel, Quest for Cush, on the shelves of some well-stocked used bookstore for a reasonable price. You may also have some luck with the revised edition of Imaro that was published in 2006 (although that was a small press affair). The third installment, The Trail of Bohu (also published by Daw in the mid-1980s), is *really* hard to find. I ended up buying a copy on eBay about 10 years ago for something like $25, the most I've ever paid for a single mass market paperback - and I considered that a lucky stroke, as most other available copies went for several times that price.
He only wrote the fourth book in the Imaro series in 2009, and at the time I bought it from one of those print-on-demand online booksellers. Trail of Bohu was also re-released at about the same time using that same publishing format; the same goes for the two Dossouye books. His pulp hero novel Damballa can be found in either hard copy or ebook form at at the publisher's site, Airship 27. I'm not sure any of these books were ever distributed in bookstores. His other novel of note, the last one he wrote, Abengoni (2014), as well as a Nyumbani Tales (2017), a collection of his short stories set in the same world as Imaro, may have appeared in bookstores, but I'm not too sure about that. Needless to say, given my current place of residence, I tracked these down and bought them all online. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2020 12:11:20 GMT -5
(...) I went to a used book store in Yellow Springs today looking for some of the Charles Saunders sword and soul stuff (...) You're probably going to have a devil of time finding anything, unfortunately. You have the best chance of finding the original Daw editions of Imaro and its sequel, Quest for Cush, on the shelves of some well-stocked used bookstore for a reasonable price. You may also have some luck with the revised edition of Imaro that was published in 2006 (although that was a small press affair). The third installment, The Trail of Bohu (also published by Daw in the mid-1980s), is *really* hard to find. I ended up buying a copy on eBay about 10 years ago for something like $25, the most I've ever paid for a single mass market paperback - and I considered that a lucky stroke, as most other available copies went for several times that price.
He only wrote the fourth book in the Imaro series in 2009, and at the time I bought it from one of those print-on-demand online booksellers. Trail of Bohu was also re-released at about the same time using that same publishing format; the same goes for the two Dossouye books. His pulp hero novel Damballa can be found in either hard copy or ebook form at at the publisher's site, Airship 27. I'm not sure any of these books were ever distributed in bookstores. His other novel of note, the last one he wrote, Abengoni (2014), as well as a Nyumbani Tales (2017), a collection of his short stories set in the same world as Imaro, may have appeared in bookstores, but I'm not too sure about that. Needless to say, given my current place of residence, I tracked these down and bought them all online. Our library has an anthology book, Sword and Sorcery that includes a Sunders short story, which I picked up form the library yesterday. After my search yielded nothing yesterday, I ordered the revised 2006 edition of Imaro from Amazon, as we had a gift card balance left to use. Ebay and Amazon marketplace searches for the DAW originals yielded some scary prices, but I have some places left to look around here when I get the chance. I don't expect it to be an easy get, that's for certain. I did find this site: MV Media that seems to be a small press publisher/epublisher doing fiction and comics in the genres pioneered by Saunders, and he did intros for some of their stuff. There's sword and soul, Steamfunk, Afrofuturism, etc. that might be of interest to those who are interested in Saunders stuff. They also have a nice overview of Saunders body of work on the site, which I found helpful. -M |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 9, 2020 13:26:30 GMT -5
Our library has an anthology book, Sword and Sorcery that includes a Sunders short story, which I picked up form the library yesterday. After my search yielded nothing yesterday, I ordered the revised 2006 edition of Imaro from Amazon, as we had a gift card balance left to use. Ebay and Amazon marketplace searches for the DAW originals yielded some scary prices, but I have some places left to look around here when I get the chance. I don't expect it to be an easy get, that's for certain. I did find this site: MV Media that seems to be a small press publisher/epublisher doing fiction and comics in the genres pioneered by Saunders, and he did intros for some of their stuff. There's sword and soul, Steamfunk, Afrofuturism, etc. that might be of interest to those who are interested in Saunders stuff. They also have a nice overview of Saunders body of work on the site, which I found helpful. I have the revised edition, but also the original. The revisions are considerable: Saunders replaced one major chapter with a completely new one, and then added a new final chapter and "moved" the original final chapter to the beginning of the second book, Quest for Cush. Saunders explained the reasons why he got rid of that chapter, which I think are valid (basically, it was too evocative of the Rwanda genocide), but I still think it's worth reading the original, so I'd recommend getting that one as well if you can find it.
Otherwise, yeah, MV Media is a cool publisher; they published Abengoni and Nyumbani Tales, as well as two short story collections, Griots and Griots: Sisters of the Spear, both of which have stories by Saunders in them (I have the former as a .pdf ebook and the latter in hard copy). The print-on-demand bookseller I mentioned, by the way, is Lulu.com. I checked and see that they still offer a few of Saunders' books (like Trail of Bohu, Naama War, Dossouye) for $20 each. Those were published under the Sword & Soul Media imprint, which is - I think, but I'm not sure - the predecessor to MV Media. Lulu, by the way, often offers discount codes, so you can get stuff cheaper - and they probably don't charge as much for domestic postage. |
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Post by DubipR on Sept 9, 2020 13:56:05 GMT -5
Recent eBay purchase.. felt like treating myself to something nice.  |
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Post by MDG on Sept 12, 2020 10:38:26 GMT -5
Hamilton Books delivery.,,  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 12, 2020 17:28:51 GMT -5
It’s been awhile but I took my boys to a games/movies/music/comics/etc store to spend money they got from their grandparents on Labor Day and picked these up on a sale for 50 cents each.
Blue Devil #9, 11
Death Metal #1 (Marvel UK)
Dreadstar #37
Gold Digger #7, 25, 27, 32, 47, 50, 52, 63-65, 95, 99, 102 and Annual 1999
Green Lantern #13
Oh My Goddess Special #1
New Universal #1-5
New Warriors #50
Super Solider: Man of War #1 (Amalgam)
FCBD Usagi Jimbo
Warlords #71
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 12, 2020 19:27:00 GMT -5
Got this today. I only need # 108 to make it a straight run from 100-416. After I get it at a decent price, I plan on stopping any more FF purchases.  |
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Post by spoon on Sept 12, 2020 21:10:33 GMT -5
I've liked the Book 1 TPB of Morrison's Doom Patrol to buy Book 2 today. I also picked up Suicide Squad #16, so now combined with the TPB mentioned in my previous post, I have 24 of the first 25 issues.
I also bought Green Lantern #177. I read at the GCD that it's a reprint with a new framing sequence and a new back-up story, so I held off on buying it for the longest time. But I gave in to the completist urge, and I now have the complete run of #90-224.
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 12, 2020 21:45:51 GMT -5
You want Classics? You want Westerns? You want War comics? You want a little of everything, including a smidgen of super-hero and horror faire?
Then come dollar bin diving with me! Picked these up today-- everything was $1.00, regardless of what the tag might say. Sorry, no romance in this haul... which made me just a mite sad.
However, I did pick up a few other non-classic books (post 2009) for the same price, namely a super nice copy of the somewhat-semi-"hot" Miles Morales Halloween Comicfest #0... for a dollar.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 13, 2020 6:24:12 GMT -5
You can see a huge difference in the covers from the silver and Bronze Age as compared to the modern era. There's more than a few of your comics that I'd like to read just because of the cover.
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