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Post by The Captain on Sept 16, 2020 11:12:57 GMT -5
Finally got this for a price I could live with. Still pecking away at my Captain Marvel run...  You probably have most of the higher numbers, but if you have a list of issues you're still looking to pick up, send it to me in a PM. I grab these here and there when I see them cheap, and if I have something you need, I would be willing to send to you, as I have no emotional attachment to the series and am not actively collecting it. |
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Post by brutalis on Sept 16, 2020 12:12:20 GMT -5
Guess you don't want to hear that I got my copy new from the spinner rack for cover price?😍 You still have it? I actually love hearing when that happens  Actually, MOST of my collection is from my days of youth through today buying issues new as they came out. Issues that were before my time or I would miss and end up with holes in series have been my back issue shopping. My big LCS back issue time was in the early 80's when I filled in my Avengers, Fantastic Four and Captain Mar-Vell issues before I was buying comics. Anymore much of my purchasing is TPB or Omnibus reprintintings. For single back issue series collecting I spent the last 2 years on hunting for the inexpensive reader copies. ROM Spaceknight, the Marvel Tarzan, and various War/Westerns of Marvel, DC and Charlton along with many Archie's comics. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 16, 2020 12:30:16 GMT -5
You still have it? I actually love hearing when that happens Actually, MOST of my collection is from my days of youth through today buying issues new as they came out. Issues that were before my time or I would miss and end up with holes in series have been my back issue shopping. My big LCS back issue time was in the early 80's when I filled in my Avengers, Fantastic Four and Captain Mar-Vell issues before I was buying comics. Anymore much of my purchasing is TPB or Omnibus reprintintings. For single back issue series collecting I spent the last 2 years on hunting for the inexpensive reader copies. ROM Spaceknight, the Marvel Tarzan, and various War/Westerns of Marvel, DC and Charlton along with many Archie's comics. I still have most, if not all, of the comics I bought from spinner racks before I went to college and had access to a comic shop. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 16, 2020 15:07:04 GMT -5
I have the first few Star Wars and one Battlestar Galactica I bought in 1979 and they are pretty tattered, somewhere I lost the oversized treasures of those titles but they'd also be at best Good- probably. I think I only started to care about keeping my comics in nice shape around late 1980 when I was 12 or 13. Used to cut things out or lose the covers and not even flinch before then.  No purchasing here for awhile, austerity measures, but filing things on a list for maybe someday... |
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 16, 2020 16:18:02 GMT -5
I have the first few Star Wars and one Battlestar Galactica I bought in 1979 and they are pretty tattered, somewhere I lost the oversized treasures of those titles but they'd also be at best Good- probably. I think I only started to care about keeping my comics in nice shape around late 1980 when I was 12 or 13. Used to cut things out or lose the covers and not even flinch before then. No purchasing here for awhile, austerity measures, but filing things on a list for maybe someday...
A-HA!
So you're the culprit! Now I totally know who to blame when I run across these in my collection... 
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 16, 2020 18:51:11 GMT -5
A-HA!
So you're the culprit! Now I totally know who to blame when I run across these in my collection...
No, but if you got a comic with the tiny posters pictured or Marvel Value Stamp cut out I might have done those. Or a Ka-Zar with the make your own Zabu gone, and also the figures from the front cover gone... I'd glue them to card paper and add a stand up tab. I remember carefully cutting the two mice from a Tom & Jerry cover and they stood on the book shelf for a few years. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 17, 2020 7:57:35 GMT -5
I don't remember ever cutting a comic for ads or posters.
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 17, 2020 8:03:23 GMT -5
Me either.
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Post by Ozymandias on Sept 17, 2020 8:08:47 GMT -5
I don't recall taking my scissors to a comic, prior to 1984. That year I decorated a folder with comic panels from a few comics I had (duplicated). I did that again in 1987. What I did a lot in the 70's was color some of them, the Spanish editions were in B&W, so they were really asking for it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 17, 2020 8:25:56 GMT -5
I always considered the Essentials and Showcase collections to be big coloring books. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 17, 2020 9:33:56 GMT -5
If you ever come across a Savage Sword of Conan #1 with a blond Conan. That was me. Meanwhile:this arrived today :
And so will the next 51 issues. My family bought me a subscription for my birthday. Woo-hoo! And this was only two Euro on Ebay the other week and finally turned up today.  |
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 17, 2020 11:08:14 GMT -5
And more Birthday presents:   thanks, mum! |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 17, 2020 16:09:34 GMT -5
Meanwhile:this arrived today :
I wish I could've learned French better when I see things like this Atom Agency! Canardo... not so much. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Sept 17, 2020 16:18:26 GMT -5
I wish I could've learned French better when I see things like this Atom Agency! Canardo... not so much.
I wish I had learned earlier. Trying to pick up a new language at my time of life is HARD!
I must say I am incredibly impressed by this Spirou. 52 pages with only 2 pages of adverts - and both of those are 'in house': one for a book and the other for a Spirou theme park. Four pages of editorial - three of those interviews with writers and artists. Four continuing strips; The Atom Agency featured on the cover is seven pages - part one of eight. Ten or so one and two page gag strips. AND an A2 sized pull out poster (not included in the page count). - and it's a WEEKLY!
They take their comics seriously do the Belgians.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2020 23:01:40 GMT -5
Well it only took Lonestar 2 days to send the B&B 36 to me, it arrived this afternoon along with some other books I added to the order to make the shipping worthwhile.. the B&B  and another Kubert cover, Tomahawk #138, one of three I needed to complete the Son of Tomahawk run (now need only 2)  and I managed to find another inexpensive Matt Baker book, Four Color #588 featuring Richard the Lionheart and the Crusaders, it's a photo cover, but Baker interiors...  and a few other random things to cross off stuff form my want lists...  Sandman Mystery Theatre #61, leaving only 2 issues needed to complete the run Critters #38 featuring a Usagi appearance Scout War Shaman #15, I need only the last issue (16) to finish the War Shaman series and that is the last of the Scout related series I need to finish. and just a three more...  the two issues of Surge I needed to complete the mini and all the DNAgents stuff #4 also features a Rainbow back up with art by Steve "the Dude" Rude. The last book is a modern book that EdoBosnar brought to my attention, Antar #1 written by sci-fi author (and part of the Afrofuturism movement) Nnedi Okorafor. -M |
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