What Classic Comics Have You Purchased Lately? [Archive] - Page 3

dan bailey

02-01-2007, 02:10 PM

Yesterday's shipment from Mile High Comics contained mostly run-fillers (including, god help me, several Dazzlers in the mid- to late 20s ... I have no shame, or at least no taste) from the '80s & '90s, with an ish of Sub-Mariner 31 thrown in for good measure ...

... & also Ripley's Believe It or Not #67.

And what's the big deal about that, you ask? (OK, so you don't ask. I'm gonna tell you anyway.)

Verily & forsooth, it completes my run of the title, making it, at 94 issues, the 2nd-longest complete run I own, behind only Master of Kung Fu (which was a damned sight easier to put together, I must say -- 3 fair-to-middling-sized cheap eBay lots & a handful of individual ish purcheses from Mile High & Lone Star, & it was done).

I summon the end of my long personal nightmare!

pmpknface

02-01-2007, 02:20 PM

Hey Dan - Some of those DAZZLER's have great Sienkiewicz covers! I think they may even make an Ess. Dazzler soon too (a little birdie told me)!

And congrats on the Ripley's Believe It or Not #67 and completing your run. That's always a good feeling.

With all the stuff you've got I'm almost shocked that your longest run is only 125 issues (and that's acutally 110 issues becasuse that title started at 15 and transfered over, but u know this...)! I guess my longest is ASM (1-today). :D

I think my next big fill-in-the-holes run will either by Uncanny X-Men and/or Marvel 2-in-1. Maybe... ;)

pmpknface

02-01-2007, 02:22 PM

dan bailey

02-01-2007, 02:55 PM

Hey Dan - Some of those DAZZLER's have great Sienkiewicz covers! I think they may even make an Ess. Dazzler soon too (a little birdie told me)!

Yeah -- he did at least 3 of the covers (#s27-29) that arrived yesterday. Sort of a shame to flip inside & find Frank Springer's utterly utilitarian, if perfectly serviceable, pencils ...

As for an Essential Dazzler ... what the heck. Fine by me. But if Marvel brings that out before Essentializing or Masterworking or whatevering Sub-Mariner (not to mention any number of other worthy candidates, like the Inhumans or Ka-Zar or Black Panther or fill-in-the-blank), the people who make such decisions should be horsewhipped, especially when the far better judgment DC is already making with Showcase Presents is considered.

And congrats on the Ripley's Believe It or Not #67 and completing your run. That's always a good feeling.

Thanks ... indeed it is. As I've mentioned elsewhere, Ripley's was the first comic I ever bought regularly, starting waaaaaay back with ish #5 in late spring of '67, right after we moved back to my hometown near the end of my 2nd-grade year, so this was more a sentimental journey than anything else.

Now that I've got 'em all, I'm toying with the idea of cross-referencing the stories therein to their probable source stories in the utterly ungodly plethora of "strange but true" paperbacks from the '60s & early '70s I've collected ... though that would border, I know, on the absolutely unhealthy.

With all the stuff you've got I'm almost shocked that your longest run is only 125 issues (and that's acutally 110 issues becasuse that title started at 15 and transfered over, but u know this...)!

'Tis true. Of course, you've gotta realize probably 99-plus percent of my comics were acquired within the last 3 years, maybe. If I'd kept my original collection instead of selling it back in the summer of '81, I'd probably at least have a good shot at a complete Avengers run, assuming I'd have been able to find affordable copies of the first 4 ishes sometimes during the intervening quarter-century. Oh, well ...

(Also, there's the fact that most of my favorite comics tend not to last hundreds of issues, with a few notable [Capt America, come on down!] exceptions. I guarantee that if Sgt Fury , for instance, was still around, I'd have 3 or 4 shortboxes filled with ishes.

I guess my longest is ASM (1-today). :D

Now, that's impressive! My longest (as opposed to longest complete) run would actually be Cap 215-422 or so, the last 7 or 8 of which also arrived from Mile High yesterday.

think my next big fill-in-the-holes run will either by Uncanny X-Men and/or Marvel 2-in-1. Maybe... ;)

As for me, I'm not that far from full runs of Nexus & American Flagg, & I lack only 7 issues (including, alas, #1) of Sub-Mariner ...

Slam_Bradley

02-02-2007, 01:09 PM

I picked up The Shield, tpb for $4.50. I'm intrigued by this as it reprints the first 8 Shield stories from Pep and Shield/Wizard. I'm pretty much totally unfamiliar with MLJ's golden age output save for the odd Archie story I've read over the years.

http://www.kenpiercebooks.com/images/archieshield.jpg

Also my Showcase Presents: The Unknown Soldier finally arrived today. Can't wait to delve in to it.

Kirk G

02-07-2007, 08:39 PM

Slam_Bradley

02-08-2007, 11:21 AM

Showcase Presents: The Phantom Stranger

dan bailey

02-08-2007, 12:21 PM

Question:
Which Ripley's Believe it or Not has the story about the Monkey's Paw? Or another from the same issue... a message from beyond, where the detective is seeking a killer, but hears the location in the morice code dripping from his faucet.
God, that comic book haunted me for years. I read in in my sleeping back on a camp out as a kid once and had fears implanted for YEARS!

You sure it was a Ripley's? The stories therein were almost always represented as having actually occurred (though it seems to me that occasionally they'd slip up & run one that made no pretense about not being pure fiction & really should instead have gone in Grimm's Ghost Stories or Boris Karloff Presents or whatever), & of course "The Monkey's Paw" is well-known as a short story by (if memory serves) WW Jacobs.

Slam_Bradley

02-13-2007, 03:07 PM

Picked up

Showcase Presents: Superman, Vol. 2 and Superman Chronicles, Vol. 1. $15 for the two of them.

Essential Hulk, Vol. 4. $ 8.50.

pmpknface

02-14-2007, 06:34 AM

Just picked up a buttload of X-books. Must be 30-40 books between #169 - 315. Almost have the run completed (the part I want anyway, from 170-up)!

Slam_Bradley

02-15-2007, 02:25 PM

Will Eisner: A Spirited Life by Bob Andelman

dan bailey

02-15-2007, 11:10 PM

Courtesy of Lone Star, yesterday the mailman brought me:

most of the mid-'70s Ka-Zar run, leaving me lacking only #19 (which I'd actually ordered this time as well, but they accidentally included an Astonishing Tales 19 instead, which is OK because I'm also working on that run & lacked that ish)

Sub-Mariner 11 (only 6 ishes to go!)

all but 1 each of the American Flaggs & Zots I was missing

Freedom Fighters 4 & 6 (completing the run)

Marvel Super-Heroes 19 (Ka-Zar, but I really bought it because of my fond memories from childhood of the Golden Age reprints in back, particularly the Marvel Boy strip)

10 assorted ishes of Nexus (extending my run to the first 65)

Blackhawk 242 (one of the two Pat Boyette series-enders ... I'd gotten the other one last month)

Defenders 40-42 (which means I can pick up the latest Essential without missing any storyline, I think, & I've got the next 16 or so subsequent ishes as well)

Unknown Soldier 260 & 265 (giving me all of John Severin's Enemy Ace backups but one, I believe)

the Wonder Woman "1967 80-Page Giant" that came out in '02 (because as everyone knows I'm an 80-Page Giant obsessive, & I only recently learned of this one's existence)

5 later issues of Superman Family (I'm working on the run -- 13 to go, thanks in large part to the huge boost Lone Ranger gave me a couple of months ago!)

assorted, mostly more recent odds & ends

Cherokee Jack

02-16-2007, 05:26 AM

Unknown Soldier 260 & 265 (giving me all of John Severin's Enemy Ace backups but one, I believe)

Shhhhhh--------don't spread word of these issues existence. I'm having a hard enough time finding them.

dan bailey

02-16-2007, 10:20 AM

The fact that the ishes in question closed out the series couldn't help a heckuva lot as far as relative affordability is concerned, I guess.

And I see I forgot to include Kull the Conqueror 10 above, marking Marie Severin's swan song on the book, brother John having departed as inker one issue previously (Frank Chiarmonte embellished the pencils this time around). After that came a title change, to Kull the Destroyer, & a new artist, Mike Ploog.

mrc1214

02-16-2007, 02:37 PM

Just picked up a buttload of X-books. Must be 30-40 books between #169 - 315. Almost have the run completed (the part I want anyway, from 170-up)!

I started the exact same run. I was reading Essential but I just would rather reading the X-Men in color.

Kirk G

02-16-2007, 04:39 PM

If you can, back up a few issues and start your run with #166-175. The Paul Smith artwork hearlds in the second great Phoenix story arc "From the Ashes" and also kicks off the New Mutants series as well! IMHO, the brood storyline that runs just before, from #145-165 isn't really very good.... but then I dislike Dave Cockrum's artwork and run, even though I have collected and read all the X-men stuff. It almost turned me off from the series between Byrne and Smith.

mrc1214

02-16-2007, 05:46 PM

pmpknface

02-17-2007, 10:09 PM

From what Ive seen though there not usually cheap. But i will give it a look. Ive had alot of luck lately finding X-Men back issues in 50 cent bins.
So have I. Anyone need 188- 193 gimme a hollar! I've bought so many x-books lately I overbought. They are quite cheap lately. ;)

mrc1214

02-18-2007, 09:24 AM

So have I. Anyone need 188- 193 gimme a hollar! I've bought so many x-books lately I overbought. They are quite cheap lately. ;)

I do. I have some books in the trading thread. So if you want to do that.

Jake Lockley

02-18-2007, 05:28 PM

Marvel Feature (1971 series) #5-7, leaving me only the first issue away from another complete series.

benday-dot

02-18-2007, 06:55 PM

A couple contrasting issues I picked up

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/837/400/837_4_097.jpg

AC comics seemed to specialize in the miniaturization story. This one may contain one of the best in my collection. The superb cover is by Ogden Whitney, but the relevant interior tale is a great John Forte effort. Big shot corporate bastard gets his cumuppins. Damn fine stuff.

Something completely different

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2230/400/2230_4_4.jpg

Picked this (I think its a reprint story) up for a dollar on account of the striking Joe Kubert cover. Wordless, captionless and everything one looks for in a great Kubert composition is present here. Peerless with the primitive, I say. Nevermind, that a T-Rex never appears within; we have to settle for a Sabre Tooth. There is also a nice Russ Heath dinosaur page as "filler."

DDM

02-22-2007, 02:36 PM

Strange Tales #120 (The Human Torch meets the X-Men's Iceman for the first time)

Avengers #57 (1st Vision)

Kirk G

02-22-2007, 03:43 PM

From what Ive seen though there not usually cheap. But i will give it a look. Ive had alot of luck lately finding X-Men back issues in 50 cent bins.

As an alternative to picking up the individual issues, you could look for the "Return from the Ashes" trade paperback. I suspect it is still in print. Don't confuse it with the Death of the Phoenix original story arc. This is the Paul Smith arc, but I'm not sure if it covers all of 166-180 or not.

Can anyone help?:rolleyes:

DDM

02-22-2007, 04:46 PM

As an alternative to picking up the individual issues, you could look for the "Return from the Ashes" trade paperback. I suspect it is still in print. Don't confuse it with the Death of the Phoenix original story arc. This is the Paul Smith arc, but I'm not sure if it covers all of 166-180 or not.

Can anyone help?:rolleyes:

The currently OOP From the Ashes TPB covers Uncanny X-Men #168-175 by Chris Claremont, Paul Smith, Walter Simonson, & John Romita Jr. A comic book specialty shop may still have the original TPB though.

Nightstar1441

02-22-2007, 08:20 PM

Hey everyone!!!

I'm actually very close to completing New Gods and Demon (both volume #1). I just nabbed Demon #7 and just need #4 to complete the run. New Gods just needs #1 and #7.

mrc1214

02-23-2007, 06:55 AM

Hey everyone!!!

I'm actually very close to completing New Gods and Demon (both volume #1). I just nabbed Demon #7 and just need #4 to complete the run. New Gods just needs #1 and #7.

If you dont mind me asking how much did you pay for various issues of those series. Im thinking about looking for them but was wondering if there expensive.

Sir Tim Drake

02-23-2007, 08:11 AM

I have two issues of The Demon, neither of which cost me more than $3. I don't remember how much I paid for them exactly.

I also have a couple Kirby Jimmy Olsens, and a large chunk of Mr. Miracles and Kamandis, including #1. Again, I didn't pay more than $3 or $4 for any of these; for most of them I paid much less.

mrc1214

02-23-2007, 08:15 AM

Nightstar1441

02-23-2007, 08:17 AM

If you dont mind me asking how much did you pay for various issues of those series. Im thinking about looking for them but was wondering if there expensive.

I started both New Gods and Demon with a dealer I know who used to do the NY shows but now is strictly ebay. I am a long-time customer so, whenever I start a series - I give him a heads up and he starts me off. This was awhile ago, so forigive me if I do not remember all the details but I scored New Gods #2, #3 and #4 (all around F+/VF-) for about $50.00. The later issues of the series are easy to find as this was cancelled and relaunched in 1976 (I believe). I also got about siz issues of Demon from him for an average of $8.00 per issue.

Well - I found a lot of the Demon's down in Altanta from a dealer. Since I had a large purchase of books - I got a pretty good deal on them and they averaged about $10.00 per issue with #1 going for about #20.00. I also bought a ton of Invaders as well but these comics were if VF+ shape and could not pass up on the run.

New Gods series will definitly run you more than Demon. Especially in the earlier issues. I do hope this helps - let me know if need specific information on an issue and I'll do my best to recall for you. I've been slowly buidling these two collections for over a year now.

scratchie

02-23-2007, 08:39 AM

Oh thats good to here that I can find them for resonable prices.If you're not looking for "collectible" copies, you should be able to find any early-70s Kirby comics for 2 or 3 bucks at most. You can probably find really trashed copies for less, but 2 or 3 bucks should buy you a complete copy with the cover attached and no major defects besides wear (wrinkles, creases, etc, but no chunks missing).

benday-dot

02-23-2007, 07:53 PM

I bought the entire Kirby Demon series, plus 3 of the 4 issues of the revived Matt Wagner series, plus some bonus Ambush Bugs this awesome e-bay seller threw in just "because" for I think about 25 bucks. I must state however that the average condition of these Kirby books was a solid VG. If you want VF condition I doubt you could score the lot for such a price.

benday-dot

03-01-2007, 06:36 PM

I picked ACG's Adventures into the Unknown 118, with its striking Ogden Whitney cover. The cover story is actually by John Rosenberger, who I'd prefer in a pinch over Whitney. There is also a nice Paul Reinmam story. Reinman's one of those Silver Age artists who through plenty of exposure in the Atlas books and then again over at Tower never really grabbed me. Having said that, here he puts in a top notch effort, and I enjoyed his fine line very much. His characters have most expressive faces.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/598/400/598_4_118.jpg

I also picked up the 15th number of Magnus, Robot Fighter, to take another needed piece out of the series puzzle. Quality Manning art all the way of course. I don't know if it is heretical to say, but I do actually prefer it when Mike Royer does inking duties over Manning's nice pencil work. In the case of M,RF #15 though its Manning wearing all hats.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1600/400/1600_4_15.jpg

BTW, note the rather oversized Comics Code stamp on the ACG title, and the complete absence of one on the Gold Key book... Can anyone enlighten me as to why Gold Key did not show the comic seal of approval on their covers?

MWGallaher

03-01-2007, 07:59 PM

BTW, note the rather oversized Comics Code stamp on the ACG title, and the complete absence of one on the Gold Key book... Can anyone enlighten me as to why Gold Key did not show the comic seal of approval on their covers?
Gold Key was an indirect successor to Dell Comics (Dell had relied on Western Publishing for material, but then dropped them and decided to produce their own stuff on the east coast; Western continued on their own under the Gold Key imprint). Dell had never subscribed to the code (Dell had always been squeaky-clean enough to get by on their own Pledge, which was prominently declared in their comics during the post-code era), so I assume Gold Key didn't feel the need to subscribe, either (being generated on the west coast might have been an additional consideration, since the CCA was a New York operation, I believe).
If Gold Key had joined the CCA, I suspect we wouldn't have had Magnus, at least not in the form it took in our reality. Part of the genius of the Magnus concept was that it could be far more violent than its CCA-approved peers. Since Magnus specialized in fighting robots, he could routinely do things like decapitate his enemies. That level of mayhem would likely have raised objections from the CCA, even though "no living beings were harmed in the production of this comic."

Lone Ranger

03-02-2007, 07:13 AM

I don't know if it is heretical to say, but I do actually prefer it when Mike Royer does inking duties over Manning's nice pencil work.

Burn Him !!!!

Just kidding. Royer is a fine inker and he and Manning go together like wine and cheese. I often got the sense that Royer took a bit more time on the inks than Manning.

Great books - I love those Whitney covers.

Kan-Man

03-02-2007, 05:09 PM

I picked ACG's Adventures into the Unknown 118

I own two issues of Adventures into the Unknown

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/Kan-Man/598_2_167.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/Kan-Man/598_2_154.jpg

I have no idea why I bought them. I have a feeling I was inspired by an old Fred Hembeck column.

Looking at the covers now, I'm not sure you could find two more different takes on the same character.

benday-dot

03-02-2007, 05:19 PM

Gold Key was an indirect successor to Dell Comics (Dell had relied on Western Publishing for material, but then dropped them and decided to produce their own stuff on the east coast; Western continued on their own under the Gold Key imprint). Dell had never subscribed to the code (Dell had always been squeaky-clean enough to get by on their own Pledge, which was prominently declared in their comics during the post-code era), so I assume Gold Key didn't feel the need to subscribe, either (being generated on the west coast might have been an additional consideration, since the CCA was a New York operation, I believe).
If Gold Key had joined the CCA, I suspect we wouldn't have had Magnus, at least not in the form it took in our reality. Part of the genius of the Magnus concept was that it could be far more violent than its CCA-approved peers. Since Magnus specialized in fighting robots, he could routinely do things like decapitate his enemies. That level of mayhem would likely have raised objections from the CCA, even though "no living beings were harmed in the production of this comic."

If not having acheived nirvana, I now consider myself enlightened. Thanks for the great info MW.

Slam_Bradley

03-05-2007, 04:25 PM

Both Lady Luck trades from Ken Pierce books.

Sandman: The Furies HC.

Slam_Bradley

03-08-2007, 04:09 PM

Elfquest Archives, Vol. 1. Not something I'd normally have purchased, but couldn't pass it up for $15.

Rob Allen

03-08-2007, 05:32 PM

Elfquest Archives, Vol. 1. Not something I'd normally have purchased, but couldn't pass it up for $15.
I just read Elfquest books 1 & 2 for the first time and really enjoyed them.

Slam_Bradley

03-08-2007, 05:41 PM

I just read Elfquest books 1 & 2 for the first time and really enjoyed them.

Well that's good to know.

Perry Holley

03-08-2007, 06:01 PM

Six From Sirius and Six From Sirius 2.

Savage Sword of Conan #219 & 220 (Conan/Soloman Kane crossover).

Slam_Bradley

03-09-2007, 06:16 AM

Hardcover copy of Tim Truman's Wilderness.

Lone Ranger

03-09-2007, 06:51 AM

Not a comic, but a bit of art.

I am trying to acquire at least one piece by each of my favourite artists (within reason), and I've been looking for an affordable Doug Wildey page for a long time.

I nabbed this one on Ebay. It's from Harvey's 'Alarming Tales' series from 1957. It was also very inexpensivve, which is pretty cool for a 50 year old page by a popular artist.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/Interiorscans/Wildey-AlarmingTales.jpg

mrc1214

03-09-2007, 08:42 AM

Thats a very good pick-up LoneRanger. The like the art in that alot.

Sir Tim Drake

03-09-2007, 08:42 AM

That is not a bad page at all. It doesn't look much like Rio, but it's still got some nice characterization and lighting effects.

Lone Ranger

03-09-2007, 08:59 AM

That is not a bad page at all. It doesn't look much like Rio, but it's still got some nice characterization and lighting effects.

I'd certainly love something from RIO - I don't think I've ever seen those for sale though. I'd also love something Jonny Quest related - but again, no luck. Also, those would be much pricier than this one.

I've got my limits.

I've also never seen any of his Atlas stuff for sale either - an Outlaw Kid page would be cool to own, but I don't know if that stuff was destroyed or if it was all scooped up years ago.

Man, I wish I started collecting this stuff 20 years ago.

relhok

03-09-2007, 12:34 PM

Reading the TwoMorrows Legion of Super Heroes Companion and the Best of the Legion Outpost books got me interested in reading many of those issues between the Cockrum and Giffen eras - I found a reasonably priced set of a hundred or so books between 1975-85, and have been reading through them over the last week or so. I used to have a decent sized run of LEGION in the mid-late 80's when I was a big fan of Levitz/Giffen.

Things I discovered, reading the books again 20 odd years later:

1. I love the Cockrum/Grell era to death. That is some classic timeless stuff right there. I do prefer the Bates-written stuff to most of Shooter's 2nd run on Legion... seems like Shooter was still kind of stuck in 1966 or so. But I love the 1973-1975 unis, and the Grell sideburns. If I could pull off that kind of hairstyle, I totally would. Also, Cosmic Boy had a serious mullet going for a little while, there.

2. The first Levitz era was OK. Readable. I found myself quite enjoying most of the issues of the Superboy/Legion up to about 250, perhaps.

3. Gerry Conway was and is a god-awful writer of superhero comics. I found myself skimming most of 250-275 looking for high points, and didn't find many. Occasional Jim Sherman art on some of these issues softened some of the blows a bit, but Joe Staton would have been better utilized elsewhere than Legion. Even the letter columns of the time would lambaste Conway's writing, and the editors often had to come to his defense. Bleah.

4. Levitz/Giffen's Legion run is still very good and readable 20 years after I loved them the first time. The Great Darkness Saga, the Shrinking Violet kidnapping/impostor, and the Legion of Super Villains Saga are all still big highlights of superhero comics for me.

rel

Slam_Bradley

03-12-2007, 08:25 AM

Essential Fantastic Four, vol. 5

Teenage Dope Slaves & Reform School Girls tpb

Winslow

03-12-2007, 08:40 AM

Essential Fantastic Four, vol. 5

I am sooo tempted to jump on the FF Essentials.*

Do you have 1-4 Slam?

*Thor Essentials have me drooling too.

mrc1214

03-12-2007, 08:44 AM

I am sooo tempted to jump on the FF Essentials.*

Do you have 1-4 Slam?

*Thor Essentials have me drooling too.

I know you were talking to Slam but I have 1-3. Definitly get them. 1&2 are good 3 has become some of my favorite comics of all time.

pmpknface

03-12-2007, 08:49 AM

Score on the Teenage Dope Slaves & Reform School Girls tpb!

Winslow

03-12-2007, 08:51 AM

I know you were talking to Slam but I have 1-3. Definitly get them. 1&2 are good 3 has become some of my favorite comics of all time.

I was looking for an excuse to spend some money. And I was 99% certain I knew the answer. :)

Thanks, I think I'll spend my money on comics that I'm almost certain I'll enjoy, rather then keep trying to find something contemporary.

Slam_Bradley

03-12-2007, 08:59 AM

I was looking for an excuse to spend some money. And I was 99% certain I knew the answer. :)

Thanks, I think I'll spend my money on comics that I'm almost certain I'll enjoy, rather then keep trying to find something contemporary.

I highly recommend FF. I know that a lot of people prefer the later issues (Surfer, Galactus, Inhumans) but I really love the very early issues of FF.

And your kids are the right age to read them as well. Nate loves them at 11.

Thor is also very good, though I'm only luke-warm on volume 1. I actually prefer the Tales of Asgard back-ups to the main feature. And I don't care for Thor-as-superhero, which is predominant in the first volume. I prefer the more mythological take that Stan & Jack get to later in the run.

Slam_Bradley

03-12-2007, 09:00 AM

Score on the Teenage Dope Slaves & Reform School Girls tpb!

It was a good score. I got it for $5.

mrc1214

03-12-2007, 09:08 AM

It was a good score. I got it for $5.

Slam, whats that about the title is very interesting.

dan bailey

03-12-2007, 10:10 AM

UPS is bringing me Vol. 2 of the All-Star/Adventure JSA from the '70s, adding to a pile that most recently incorporated Showcase Presents Aquaman, Showcase Presents The Brave & the Bold: The Batman Team-Ups & The Huntress: Darknight Daughter.

Slam_Bradley

03-12-2007, 11:06 AM

Slam, whats that about the title is very interesting.

It reprints eight exploitation comics from the fifties. Think Reefer Madness in comic book form.

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/86387248518.1.GIF

dan bailey

03-12-2007, 11:25 AM

Wow -- Ann Coulter minus the Adam's apple (& with a different hairstyle)! Still with the man-hands, I see ...

Aaron King

03-12-2007, 08:31 PM

I went on a pilgrimage across the Wisconsin/Minnesota border today for Arnold Drake. I picked up Doom Patrol #103, 108, and 113. I also dug through the quarter boxes and ended up with Shade the Changing Man #1 (Ditko), Xombi #0, 8, & 10 (some really bizarre comics from DC's Milestone line), and a few O'Neil/Cowan Question issues that I was missing.

Slam_Bradley

03-14-2007, 02:36 PM

Essential Thor Vol. 3 & Essential Luke Cage, Vol. 2. $16 for the two of them.

I'm very happy about this buy. I love Stan & Jack's Thor. And the first Luke Cage volume was surprisingly good.

On the down side, I've been buying so much stuff lately that I am back to having an enormous "to read" pile.

dan bailey

03-14-2007, 03:09 PM

On the down side, I've been buying so much stuff lately that I am back to having an enormous "to read" pile.

No kidding. I call mine "my collection."

That first Luke Cage tops my Essentials want list, along with the first Defenders. Now that I've amassed all the Silver Age Essentials I've only fairly recently begun venturing into the Bronze Age collections ... offhand, I think the only ones I've gotten so far are Super-Villain Team-Up, Iron Fist & Man-Thing.

Slam_Bradley

03-14-2007, 03:15 PM

No kidding. I call mine "my collection."

That first Luke Cage tops my Essentials want list, along with the first Defenders. Now that I've amassed all the Silver Age Essentials I've only fairly recently begun venturing into the Bronze Age collections ... offhand, I think the only ones I've gotten so far are Super-Villain Team-Up, Iron Fist & Man-Thing.

At one point I had about 25,000 pages of comics to read. I stopped buying anything (for various reasons) and whittled it way down. I'm back up to where I started again.

Slam_Bradley

03-14-2007, 04:16 PM

Complete Dennis The Menace 1951 - 1952

Someone please help me.

Rob Allen

03-14-2007, 05:10 PM

Someone please help me.
Slam,

Put half of your "to read" pile in a box and bring it to Emerald City Con and give it to me. I'll read them for you. Would that help?

Slam_Bradley

03-14-2007, 05:12 PM

Slam,

Put half of your "to read" pile in a box and bring it to Emerald City Con and give it to me. I'll read them for you. Would that help?

I really wanted to go to Emerald City this year. But I have committed to taking the chitlens to Disneyland.

I'm pretty hopeful for next year, however.

pmpknface

03-15-2007, 06:14 AM

Slam,

Put half of your "to read" pile in a box and bring it to Emerald City Con and give it to me. I'll read them for you. Would that help?
Now that's a true friend! :p

I just buy the essentials to have and read "someday." I usually take them w/ me on vacations and such. But I've bought so mane lately it's crazy. I actually OVERBOUGHT! I have UNCANNY X-MEN (from gz #1 -119) 2 times! Anyone need one?

I'm more behind on moders stuff, as I got a DCBS box all at once this month and it had a ton of trades, plus ones that I'm still catching up on from the holidays (7 Soldiers, 100 Bullets, various manga, etc...)

mrc1214

03-15-2007, 06:51 AM

I got Iron Fist #13 yesterday for $1 in VF condition. That'll start me off on that series. Hopefully I can get the rest for similar prices.

pmpknface

03-15-2007, 06:55 AM

I got Iron Fist #13 yesterday for $1 in VF condition. That'll start me off on that series. Hopefully I can get the rest for similar prices.
SWEET! The #1, 14, and 15 are the tough ones I think. But you can get decent deals if you are patient. GOOD LUCK MAN! That's 1 run I haven't really started to get yet.

But I do have the whole Marvel Premiere run, where it starts. Then just the Essentials. I'd really like to finish off my PM & IF run, which I need like from 84 - 125 except for 2.

Slam_Bradley

03-15-2007, 07:01 AM

THE COMPLETE LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND Volume II 1907-1908. This is the hardcover by Fantagraphics.

There needs to be a comic 12-step program.

MartinRedmond

03-15-2007, 09:19 AM

It was a good score. I got it for $5.

Hey check this out, I think I might order a CD from them:
http://reefermadnessmuseum.org/chap08/Alph_ListT-U.htm

TheHistorian

03-15-2007, 09:21 AM

At one point I had about 25,000 pages of comics to read.

I refuse to do the math.... but I'll probably die of old age before I can get it down to 25k pages.

Sir Tim Drake

03-15-2007, 11:49 AM

I just bought a Daily Mirror edition of Garth Book 2: The Women of Galba, by Jim Edgar and Frank Bellamy. As I understand it, Bellamy was one of the greatest British cartoonists of all time, and his run on Garth was his last work before his death.

Does anyone particularly like or dislike this strip?

Slam_Bradley

03-15-2007, 11:52 AM

Sir Tim Drake

03-15-2007, 12:05 PM

Those of us who have never heard of it feel left out by your question.

I'm sorry... what I meant to ask was "Has anyone read this strip, and if so, does anyone particularly like or dislike it?"

Slam_Bradley

03-15-2007, 12:07 PM

I'm sorry... what I meant to ask was "Has anyone read this strip, and if so, does anyone particularly like or dislike it?"

That's a much more sensitive question.

Lone Ranger

03-15-2007, 01:01 PM

I had a very good lunch today.

I stopped by my favourite used/remaindered bookstore and picked up Adam Strange Archives Vol. 1 and Doom Patrol Archives Vol. 2 at deep discounts.

I'm pretty happy because only have one or two of the Adam Strange floppies and although I probably have nearly half the DP ones, I am happy to have 'em in one place and may sell my floppies for extra $.

scratchie

03-15-2007, 01:16 PM

I stopped by my favourite used/remaindered bookstore and picked up Adam Strange Archives Vol. 1 and Doom Patrol Archives Vol. 2 at deep discounts.Wow. I might have to go check out one of my local discount/remainder bookstores.

Slam_Bradley

03-15-2007, 01:18 PM

Wow. I might have to go check out one of my local discount/remainder bookstores.

I picked up Flash Archives 1 & 2 and Superman Archives 5 at a remainder bookstore for $8 apiece. Twas a few years back, but it's always worth a look.

Lone Ranger

03-15-2007, 01:33 PM

Wow. I might have to go check out one of my local discount/remainder bookstores.

We have a good small (3 stores nwo) chain here in Toronto called BMV. They have a decent TPB section and although it's often the same books week after week (Elektra movie Adaptation anyone?), some real gems pop up from time to time - I got a whole bunch of Essential there a while back, but haven't had much luck with any of the Archives or Masterworks stuff (they either have stuff I don't want or stuff I've already got). This was just good timing, as I was at the same store last week and they didn't have anything like this, and I am sure they wouldn't have stuck around until next week.

They were less than half the cover price - I might get a lower price on eBay, but I get nailed on shipping/customs.

They are also one of the only places I've found that buy TPB back from people, so if I drop some money on something that I don't plan on keeping, I know I can always get something back for it.

In addition, the manager praised the Doom Patrol series and we had a nice chat about the loss of Arnold Drake. All in all, a nice break from the office.

DDM

03-15-2007, 01:36 PM

I got Iron Fist #13 yesterday for $1 in VF condition. That'll start me off on that series. Hopefully I can get the rest for similar prices.

Iron Fist #11 has a cameo of Jean Grey (Phoenix) & Scott Summers checking out of the hospital (this story takes place after Uncanny X-Men #101 & before Uncanny X-Men #105).

John Byrne also pencils Marvel Premiere #25 that leads into Iron Fist #1.

Iron Fist #1, Iron Fist #14 (1st Sabretooth), & Iron Fist #15 (guest starring the X-Men) are going to be expensive.

Lone Ranger

03-15-2007, 01:37 PM

I picked up Flash Archives 1 & 2 and Superman Archives 5 at a remainder bookstore for $8 apiece. Twas a few years back, but it's always worth a look.

Now, those are crazy prices!

benday-dot

03-17-2007, 12:53 PM

I recently picked up The Frogmen #3 (Dell, September 1962).

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1498/400/1498_4_03.jpg

I have a soft spot for comic books featuring the life aquatic... It must be the acoutrements of the divers... the oxygen tank, the flippers, the bell helmet, the harpoon gun, all those ropes and hoses... or perhaps it is of the fluidity of the medium itself... all those waves, the bubbles, the very murk of it. In any event whether it be Sub-Mariner comics, say Strange Adventures #155, which featured a scuba bedecked frog leaping from the blue, or to bring the two together The Frogmen ;) I have always liked underwater themed comics.

In the 50 through to the early 70's there was a sub-cultural embrace of such pseudo exotic "men's adventure" vocations as S.C.U.B.A. diving (the acronym itself bespeaks of a related cultural phenomenom of the era). Allow me to throw other things into this mix, like whirlybird bubble helicopters, forest rangers, and in later years karate... the whole sort of G.I. Joe risk taker gamut. I get rather wistful about pop cultural treatment of these sort of penenomena. Its kitsch and its lovely.

The comics of the fifties and sixties from Sea Devils to Challengers of the Unknown were partuculary good at conveying this world of outdoors derring-do.

In any event, The Frog Men#3 has more going for it than its wonderfully lurid cover. Inside is some gorgeous George Evans' art with sympathetic Frank Frazetta inks. Evans was always recognized as an exemplary draftsman with a technical skill perhaps without match (maybe only Reed Crandall was his equal) in the old EC bullpen. A knock against him was his lack of dynanism or visceralality, compared with perhaps Ingels, Kurtzman or Davis. It is however Evans skill at rendering real life technology and instruments... be it the car or the plane or the equipment of the underwater world that lends this comic a real beauty to behold.

Now the story is rather silly, but to me that is a plus rather than a knock.

I would just love to get the fifth number of this eries featuring Alex Toth art, but sadly I never see it available or affordable.

I would also love to pick up the aforementioned Russ Heath drawn Sea Devils from DC Showcase... does anyone know if these have ever been reprinted?

spoon_jenkins

03-18-2007, 05:29 PM

At one point I had about 25,000 pages of comics to read. I stopped buying anything (for various reasons) and whittled it way down. I'm back up to where I started again.
I probably have at least 10,000 pages of comics to read - largely due to the huge stockpile of Essentials that I built up. I haven't bought much recently, and now I'm dedicting myself to reading the ones I haven't read cover to cover. It's gonna take a while.

TheHistorian

03-19-2007, 06:50 PM

I'm sorry... what I meant to ask was "Has anyone read this strip, and if so, does anyone particularly like or dislike it?"

I haven't read it extensively. There's years of it in my stacks of Menomonee Falls Gazette... on my to read list. What I've seen looks beautiful (this is true of all the British strips I've seen from that era) and the couple I've read, I've enjoyed.

There aren't too many reprints easily found in the US. There are two volumes in the series you mention, MFG, and a couple volumes in some fanclub level efforts. I imagine there are somewhat more in the UK.

Slam_Bradley

03-20-2007, 08:51 AM

Not a comic, but a book about a creator.

Alan Moore: Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentleman ed. Gary Millidge.

And comics:

The Heart of the Beast: A Love Story by Dean Motter & Sean Philips.

Queen & Country, Vol. 1: Operation Broken Ground

Three Fingers by Rich Koslowski.

Slam_Bradley

03-20-2007, 03:38 PM

Showcase Presents: Batman, Vol. 1.

LUXXXCORP

03-20-2007, 09:30 PM

Aaron King

03-20-2007, 10:03 PM

I don't think anyone here's going to judge romance comics, at least as far as masculinity goes. After all, Jack Kirby invented the genre, and he's certainly a man's man. Plus, I can think of at least one other frequent poster on the Classics board who searches out funnybooks of the romantic persuasion.

Sir Tim Drake

03-20-2007, 11:58 PM

Welcome to CBR, LUXXX.

pmpknface

03-21-2007, 06:42 AM

Dude, those romance covers kick so much @$$! I've got a handful of LB Cole ones myself. Hell, even the recent Daredevil issue had a 50's romance spoof cover done by Romita Sr.!

Personally, I'm not a big fan of photo covers but to each his own.

Lone Ranger

03-21-2007, 06:51 AM

I'm trying to put together complete runs of Silver and Bronze Age Romance comics. And just so you know I haven't turned in my man card, I'm very close to completing runs of Charlton's Fightin' Air Force, Fightin' Navy and all of their Hot Rod titles.

I am a big fan of romance books - are you collecting just DC and Marvel, or any other companies?

I'd love to get my hands on more Charlton Hot Rod books - I love that Jack Keller art.

T GUy

03-21-2007, 07:05 AM

Lone Ranger re Luxxxcorp: I am a big fan of romance books - are you collecting just DC and Marvel, or any other companies?

You took the words right out of my mouth. Or keyboard, rather.

The number of Marvel Silver'n'bronze romance titles is really rather small. Even if you include 1956 on rather than begining with FF1 as your definition of Marvel.

Slam_Bradley

03-26-2007, 08:37 AM

Showcase Presents: The Haunted Tank.

Jake Lockley

03-26-2007, 09:33 AM

I picked up a copy of 80 Page Giant #13 (Jimmy Olsen) for a pittance at a garage sale over the weekend. Of course it's in terrible shape and someone once had it in a three ring binder, but I don't really mind that so much.

Slam_Bradley

03-26-2007, 01:19 PM

The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956. New (remaindered) for $10.

LUXXXCORP

03-26-2007, 01:43 PM

:confused: Is it OK to post HTML or BBC pix/comic covers?:confused:

Sir Tim Drake

03-26-2007, 01:56 PM

:confused: Is it OK to post HTML or BBC pix/comic covers?:confused:

I don't see why not.

arghyle

03-26-2007, 03:37 PM

Rom #s30 and 46 from ebay.

LUXXXCORP

03-26-2007, 04:52 PM

I'll, try to scan some of these for your viewing pleasure
. . . eventually.

12 romance comic books from the late 1940's and early 1950's
$31.00 + $6.00 shipping = $37.00

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u79/BLAM_BLAM_BLAM/12romance.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u79/BLAM_BLAM_BLAM/12romance2.jpg

* Dr. Anthony King, Love Doctor
* Confessions of Love
* Young Romance
* True War Romances
* Confessions of the Lovelorn
* My Secret Life
* Teen-Age Romance
* Love at First Sight
* Personal Love
* Complete Love
* Secret Romances
* My Own Romance

Plus these Moderns:

Catwoman Vol. 2 #10, 12, 13, 17, 35-44, 50-57, 59-62 (25 issues) $11.30
plus an additional set of Catwoman Vol. 2 #50, 52-62 (12 issues) $6.00
plus $12.00 shipping = $29.30

I pulled the trigger for the Adam Hughes covers.

Then I got more Adam Hughes covers.

Rose & Thorn #1-6 Complete Set - $3. + $3. shipping = $6.

And finally:

The Boys #1-6 - $4.25 + $4.50 = $8.75

dan bailey

03-26-2007, 05:29 PM

Cribbing from my own post some 2 1/2 weeks ago in the "What's at the Top of Your Want List" thread, I'm pleased to report the arrival this afternoon via eBay of a battered copy of Weird v2, #2, from those arbiters of sophistication (actually, the cover is quite restrained compared to what Myron Fass & his crew were churning out just a few years later) at Eerie Publications --

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r87/starcult/10209_4_0202.jpg

It's a bit of a circle-closer for me, as I'm pretty sure that one of my first posts here after I signed on 2 1/2 years ago concerned an old b&w mag that had happened to catch my eye from its spot in the long, low magazine rack at a supermarket while my mother was shopping while we lived in Pine Bluff, Ark, for most of the '66-'67 school year, when I would've been 7 years old. (At the time I'd owned &/or read probably a couple of dozen color comics, but this was almost certainly the first b&w horror title I'd ever really laid eyes on.)

I couldn't have spent more than 5 minutes or so glancing through its pages, but a couple of final panels therein have stayed with me forever -- one of a ghoul holding, by the hair, the mostly devoured bodies of their human collaborator's wife & daughter after emerging from the sewers during a dinner party; the other of a flower that somehow incorporated the visage of a man's dead, buried brother.

Anyway, turns out the first story (as I confirmed after re-reading it in the '90s reprint title Tales Too Terrible To Tell #4, I think) was "Fiends from the Crypt." Said title's appearance on the cover above made me strongly suspect that that's the mag I'm remembering, especially since the April 1967 cover date completely dovetails with my memory.

And having now finally gotten a chance to leaf through the mag, I can finally say that I was right. "Fiends from the Crypt" is the first story, while the one with the flower is called (quite counter-intuitively; this one I never would've guessed) "Terror in the Attic."

Nothing from any of the other 6 stories rings any sort of bell at all, but those 2 stuck with me so vividly that I remember trying to describe them to a friend in our front yard a year or 2 later. Weird, indeed.

MDG

03-26-2007, 06:21 PM

Those Fass books--I felt I had to sneak them into the house. I was able to pick up 8 or 10 at $2 or $3 each a few years ago... Those covers--some of them are almost dayglo, with gory situations I can't even describe.

MDG

dan bailey

03-26-2007, 06:30 PM

Man, I'm pretty sure I'd still feel the need to sneak them into the house ... & I live alone! A lot of the early '70s stuff was just downright sick -- Warren & even Skywald looked like Hallmark cards in comparison.

Who knew that such former Bullpen stallwarts as Dick Ayers & Chic Stone had it in 'em?

LUXXXCORP

03-26-2007, 07:00 PM

:( RE: The guilty pleasures of Skywald, Eerie Publications, Stanley Magazines:(

I read somewhere that the covers to Eerie Publications where outsourced to artists in Latin America, (Uruguay? Argentina, maybe?) with instructions to draw the most disturbingly gross and over-the-top gore imaginable.
And throw in some huge breasts while your at it.:eek:

Here's a good thread that "covers" them all.

http://boards.collectors-society.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=562027&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1

Here's another:

http://www.badmags.com/bmmyronfass.html

MDG

03-27-2007, 06:45 AM

Here's a pretty comprehensive gallery of Eerie Pubs. covers. Browse if you dare:

http://www.rockfiend.net/eerie/

If there's any consolation, it's that I don't think any of the cover situations appear in the stories.

I used to think that the Ayers-signed stories were pre-code reprints--was very surprised to find out that he was doing them a the time. More surprised that he signed them.

MDG

dan bailey

03-27-2007, 07:20 AM

I used to think that the Ayers-signed stories were pre-code reprints--was very surprised to find out that he was doing them a the time. More surprised that he signed them.

At least one of 'em -- called, I believe, "I Killed Mary" -- was a rather more graphic redo of a precode story. I vaguely remember (& would love to own again, just because it was soooooo over the top) his version, filled with hacked-up limbs & his trademark (at Eerie Publications, at least ... somehow, I don't remember this particular motif from his Sgt Fury run) hanging-out eyeballs, from the newsstands as a kid. The precode original, which I've got in a Tales Too Terrible to Tell reprint, comes off like a "Peanuts" outtake in comparison.

pmpknface

03-27-2007, 07:29 AM

I'll, try to scan some of these for your viewing pleasure
. . . eventually.

12 romance comic books from the late 1940's and early 1950's
$31.00 + $6.00 shipping = $37.00

* Confessions of Love

NICE ONE! That's one LB Cole book I'm missing. ;)

Lone Ranger

03-27-2007, 07:57 AM

I'll, try to scan some of these for your viewing pleasure
. . . eventually.

12 romance comic books from the late 1940's and early 1950's
$31.00 + $6.00 shipping = $37.00

Great books.

I've got that Confessions of Love, and have used it for the Guess the Classic Cover game. LB Cole used such a strange and strong colour for 'skin tone'.

I've never even seen that 'Love Doctor' book - the title alone makes it worth owning.

The Atlas books are nice because your never know what artists will be inside.

I see you've got some Ace books, too - I have a tough time figuring out who drew what in their books. I'd like to know because there is some really nice work.

True War Romances is a great series - I have a couple of those. Quality really produce some high 'quality' books in the 50s, it would have been cool to see what they could have done with the return of Superheroes.

Let us know what you think of the books in the "What have you read" thread once you've been through them.

benday-dot

03-27-2007, 06:47 PM

http://www.badmags.com/bmmyronfass.html

I think Mr. Fass took inspiration for his outlandish beyond lurid covers from his own outlandish, beyond lurid attire... Ah, the 70's.

pmpknface

03-28-2007, 07:12 AM

Lone Ranger

03-28-2007, 08:38 AM

Just got from DCBS last week the new printing of IT RHYMES WITH LUST, one of the earliest "picture novels." I flipped through it a bit last night, and can't wait to read it. It's digest / manga sized and in B&W. Excellent Matt Baker art too!

Wow - I didn't know that was on the market.

I'll have to track down a copy. Thanks for the heads up.

Slam_Bradley

03-28-2007, 09:06 AM

Essential Defenders, Vol. 2.

Lone Ranger

03-28-2007, 09:08 AM

Essential Defenders, Vol. 2.

Cool - I liked that one much more than Vol. 1, I'd be interested to hear what you think.

Slam_Bradley

03-28-2007, 09:12 AM

Cool - I liked that one much more than Vol. 1, I'd be interested to hear what you think.

Considering the truly gargantuan pile of books I have to read, that could take a while.

Lone Ranger

03-28-2007, 09:17 AM

Considering the truly gargantuan pile of books I have to read, that could take a while.

I'm a very patient man - I can wait.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/GM23-sm.jpg

pmpknface

03-28-2007, 10:08 AM

Wow - I didn't know that was on the market.

I'll have to track down a copy. Thanks for the heads up.
Anytime 'Ranger! Nice avatar, btw. ;)

Oh, I spoke about this one in my podcast w/ Augie from the Pipeline column when we covered the Previews a few months back. Give us a listen and I'll try to keep giving you the heads up! :D

MDG

03-28-2007, 11:55 AM

Anytime 'Ranger! Nice avatar, btw. ;)
I was going to ask LR where it came from--I didn't know a new printing of It Rhymes... was available.

Has anyone ever seen a copy of Charles Biro's TOPS? It was a Life-magazine size "adult" (in the good sense) comic with art by Reed Crandall and others. I saw one story reprinted in an 80s fanzine, but I guess the one or two issues that came out are pretty hard to find.

MDG

Lone Ranger

03-28-2007, 01:05 PM

Anytime 'Ranger! Nice avatar, btw. ;)

Oh, I spoke about this one in my podcast w/ Augie from the Pipeline column when we covered the Previews a few months back. Give us a listen and I'll try to keep giving you the heads up! :D

I'd love to give it a listen, but my life seems to have a 'Time is of the Essence' clause lately.

I pieced together my av after contemplaying Arnold Drake's contribution to comics.

You know that you are headed for the Comic Book Geek Hall of Fame when you actually know what rhymes with lust.

Lone Ranger

03-28-2007, 01:07 PM

pmpknface

03-28-2007, 01:19 PM

I was going to ask LR where it came from--I didn't know a new printing of It Rhymes... was available.

Has anyone ever seen a copy of Charles Biro's TOPS? It was a Life-magazine size "adult" (in the good sense) comic with art by Reed Crandall and others. I saw one story reprinted in an 80s fanzine, but I guess the one or two issues that came out are pretty hard to find.

MDG

Yup! Out as of last week! And thanks for the heads up on TOPS. I hadn't heard of it. I just googled it and found this factoid: (http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2005-08-05)

ODDBALL Factoid - Cartoonist Charles Biro also created the first comic book specifically aimed at adults, TOPS COMICS, in 1944; unfortunately, it failed to catch on with its intended audience and folded after only three issues!

I'd love to give it a listen, but my life seems to have a 'Time is of the Essence' clause lately.

That's cool man! Augie and I do one every month, and you can usually find a link to it from his column, or I'll post about it on the Pipeline board. :D

Slam_Bradley

03-29-2007, 04:09 PM

Steve Canyon: 1949. Collects all the 1949 Canyon strips. I think that Checker Publications has done a pretty good job on the Canyon books.

Milton Caniff: Conversations ed. Robert Harvey. As best I can tell this 273 page book from University Press of Mississippi collects a number of interviews with Caniff from over the years.

DDM

03-29-2007, 04:55 PM

Fantastic Four #121:

http://www.slippytown.com/four121.jpg

dan bailey

03-29-2007, 07:09 PM

[B] As best I can tell this 273 page book from University Press of Mississippi collects a number of interviews with Caniff from over the years.

Which reminds me of something I've been idly wondering about for awhile ... Anyone have any idea whether one editor (&/or administration higher-up) in particular is driving that university press' emphasis on books about comics?

benday-dot

04-01-2007, 03:36 PM

Just got from DCBS last week the new printing of IT RHYMES WITH LUST, one of the earliest "picture novels." I flipped through it a bit last night, and can't wait to read it. It's digest / manga sized and in B&W. Excellent Matt Baker art too!

Wiki site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Rhymes_with_Lust

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fd/ItRhymesWithLust.jpg/434px-ItRhymesWithLust.jpg

Got this one too today... free actually with a buy one tpb get another free sale at my LCS. Looks amazing. And couldn't Matt Baker draw the most gorgeous women!

Anyone know if this St. John version was originally done in colour? If it was I still can't imagine it looking any better this edition.

Cei-U!

04-02-2007, 10:49 AM

You ever have one of those cons where you're pleased with what you bought but disappointed because it wasn't what you'd started out looking for? That's me at Emerald City. As you'll see in a sec, I got lots of cool stuff but it feels like my money didn't go as far this year. Has the back issue market picked up? Or am I just feeling the pinch more because I bought some bigger ticket items and fewer selections from Randy's Reader Comics $1 boxes? You decide.

The two books I bought--the Astro City: Family Matters TPB (autographed by Kurt B) and an autographed copy of Michael Eury's Justice League Companion--commanded a big chunk of my con budget. But no regrets! Another chunk went towards Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil #1-2, a much-lauded project that is so far living up to the hype. But I know what you really want to hear. You want to know what I got from the bargain boxes.

I'd been promising myself that I was going to jump into collecting Master of Kung Fu so I decided to buy the first 20 issues priced at $1 I could find. That netted me #17, 32-35, 41, 43-44, 46, 48-50, 53, 58-63 and 65. It's a modest start but quite a nice sampler of the series: Englehart/Starlin, Moench/Gulacy, Moench/Zeck et al.

A similar vow regarding The Invaders, unfortunately, brought just three issues, #4, 20 and 22. As consolation I snapped up Machine Man #1-3, 5-6 and 8-9, plus his first appearance in 2001: A Space Odyssey #8. MM is the only Kirby title, Eternals excepted, produced for Marvel in the '70s I have any interest in. I was pleased to get so much of it one fell swoop.

Since my run of Captain America ends at #124 and Essential Cap, Vol. 3 starts with #127, I wanted to pick up the two intervening issues. I was only half-successful: I found a $3 #126. I also snatched up a handful of DC Comics Presents issues: #10 (Superman/Sgt. Rock), 28 (Superman/Supergirl vs Mongul) and 41 (Superman/Joker, with great Garcia-Lopez art).

The piece de resistance of my hunt was without a doubt was Marvel Tales Annual #2. A measly $5 completed my collection of superhero-themed Marvel Silver Age annuals. (I refuse to listen to the little voice whispering "Millie the Model Annuals" in my ear!)

Last, and unquestionably least, I picked up 1st Issue Special #6 (Dingbats of Danger Street), completing my run of that esoteric title. Thanks to the lovely and talented Rob Allen, I'd scored some of his duplicates from that run (#1-2, 4, 6 and 9-11) before the con proper. And thanks to the talented and lovely Mike Smash, I had copies of the first two issues of the new Brave and Bold for Mark Waid to autygraph.

So you tell me: how'd I do?

Cei-U!
I summon the insecurity!

pmpknface

04-02-2007, 11:24 AM

Cei-U! - You did well!

1) You can never go wrong w/ Astro City, especially a signed copy!
2) Master of Kung Fu is a good call too. They'll never reprint that stuff. I've got to start hunting those down myself! I have a bunch of higher grade low #'s issues (dupes too!) but that's it.
3) Nice job on the Machine Man issues too! I still love that series.
4) Congrats on the Annual run too! That, I've gotta say, is pretty cool.

Now go find a cheap Millie Annual! :D

dan bailey

04-02-2007, 11:35 AM

The piece de resistance of my hunt was without a doubt was Marvel Tales Annual #2. A measly $5 completed my collection of superhero-themed Marvel Silver Age annuals.

The other comics are quite nice (especially the MOKFs), indeed, but I'm with Pmpknface -- that's utterly fab. I suppose if I ever decide that my DC Annual/80-/64-Page Giant mania needs a sequel ...

(Curse you for putting that thought in my head!)

Slam_Bradley

04-05-2007, 10:19 AM

Showcase Presents Aquaman, Vol. 1

Essential (or as Connor says, Additional) Ghost Rider, Vol. 2

Complete Jon Sable Freelance, Vol. 2.

I got all of them from a single vendor for a total of $19.50. I know that I have floppies of pretty much everything in the Jon Sable volume, but this way I don't have to dig them out of the box to read them.

scratchie

04-05-2007, 10:25 AM

Essential (or as Connor says, Additional) Ghost Rider, Vol. 2]LOL (literally)! :D

pmpknface

04-05-2007, 10:59 AM

I just picked up a few Uncanny X-books that nearly completes the run I'm aiming for. Also got:

- 1 80's Marvel GN by Claremont and Talbot, but I can't remember the name
- a Steranko calendar
- and BATMAN BLACK & WHITE Vol. 1 HC! That's OOP and HTF! Plus, I have all 4 issues signed by: Miller, Lee, BWS, and Gary Gianni on my wall, so I needed this sweet format. :D

Rob Allen

04-05-2007, 07:12 PM

My Emerald City haul was small but choice:

Marvel Tales Annual #1
Marvel Super-Heroes (one-shot)

A pair of early Marvel reprint books that I've wanted for years.

Reptisaurus!

04-05-2007, 08:59 PM

\That's OOP and HTF!

Please don't use acronyms. In this case I know what they mean, but it still makes your writing unclear, and, therfore, less effective.

They also bother the living hell outta me, enough so that I'm going to jump on anybody that uses 'em.

dan bailey

04-06-2007, 06:49 AM

FYI & FWIW (*ahem*), I have to remind myself not to slip into abbreviation-ese myself, & I suspect I'm not the only one. Of course, even here most of us use LCS & TPB & GN, amongst others, as a matter of course.

In general, though, I agree with Reptisaurus. YMMV. Whoops ...

Otherwise, yesterday afternoon the UPS guy brought me the first Essential Luke Cage & Showcase Presents Green Arrow v2 & Hawkman, which was awfully nice of him, though come to think of it I guess I did order 'em from Books-a-Million. Alas, I also ordered, & received, Showcase Presents House of Mystery v1, which I *choke* already owned. Thought I was ordering v2.

Slam_Bradley

04-06-2007, 07:29 AM

Otherwise, yesterday afternoon the UPS guy brought me the first Essential Luke Cage & Showcase Presents Green Arrow v2 & Hawkman, which was awfully nice of him, though come to think of it I guess I did order 'em from Books-a-Million. Alas, I also ordered, & received, Showcase Presents House of Mystery v1, which I *choke* already owned. Thought I was ordering v2.

Do you have some extra-worldly source for Green Arrow vol 2?

I really hate when I duplicate thing on accident. I did that a couple weeks ago on a SF history. After I opened it up, I was sure I already had a copy. Though that copy must be in storage somewhere.

dan bailey

04-06-2007, 07:52 AM

Do you have some extra-worldly source for Green Arrow vol 2?

I'll have you know, sir, that products of the Arkansas public school system have long been taught that "Lantern" is spelled "A-r-r-o-w."

You mean it's not? Crap.

pmpknface

04-06-2007, 07:55 AM

Please don't use acronyms. In this case I know what they mean, but it still makes your writing unclear, and, therfore, less effective.

They also bother the living hell outta me, enough so that I'm going to jump on anybody that uses 'em.
I know man... I try not to, but so little time to post at work and so many places to post! I'm torn. I actually copied that from a previous post on teh pipeline board. ;)

Slam_Bradley

04-06-2007, 07:55 AM

I'll have you know, sir, that products of the Arkansas public school system have long been taught that "Lantern" is spelled "A-r-r-o-w."

You mean it's not? Crap.

Well that 'splains it.

Which Luke Cage did you get? The first volume surprised me by being one of my favorite books from the time period. I should have vol. 2 coming in the mail in the next couple of days.

Winslow

04-06-2007, 08:09 AM

I bought Akira Volume 1 and Dreadstar Vol. 1 yesterday.

Although I learned on the Comm that one should START reading Dreadstar with The Metamorphosis Oddyssey (http://www.amazon.com/Dreadstar-Metamorphosis-Odyssey-Jim-Starlin/dp/0943151287/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-9492842-8340661?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175814672&sr=8-1) and NOT Volume 1. (http://www.amazon.com/Dreadstar-1-Part-Jim-Starlin/dp/097496381X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-9492842-8340661?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175814672&sr=8-2)

Alas. I should hang out here more often so I can get answers to "questions that need answering."

dan bailey

04-06-2007, 08:35 AM

Which Luke Cage did you get? The first volume surprised me by being one of my favorite books from the time period. I should have vol. 2 coming in the mail in the next couple of days.

Vol 1. I'm looking forward to reading this one, as I well remember perusing at least a couple of the early ishes (#s1 & 5) back when they were new. George Tuska isn't one of my favorite artists -- I find him competent but dull -- but I was pleased to see, leafing through it last night, that Billy Graham handled a fair amount of the art as well.

I really hate when I duplicate thing on accident. I did that a couple weeks ago on a SF history. After I opened it up, I was sure I already had a copy. Though that copy must be in storage somewhere.

Just out of curiosity, which book? I used to have a pretty decent collection of such volumes (assuming that "SF" in this instance is "science fiction," not "San Francisco"), though offhand I probably couldn't name one that's come out in the last 20 years.

Sir Tim Drake

04-07-2007, 10:30 AM

Which reminds me of something I've been idly wondering about for awhile ... Anyone have any idea whether one editor (&/or administration higher-up) in particular is driving that university press' emphasis on books about comics?

I didn't know this at the time, but I asked around. There is an editor named Seetha Srinivasen who is primarily responsible for the comics line. I also have a vague idea that M. Thomas Inge is involved somehow, but I'm not sure of that.

dan bailey

04-07-2007, 12:02 PM

Thanks for looking into that, Aaron. Having actually been trained as a scholarly editor (though the closest I ever came to actual employment as such was a summer internship at the University of Arizona Press in '83 ... I know all of you have a copy of the book I copy-edited, Animal Use by the Cozumel Maya), I am now patiently waiting for Srinivasen to call me in after getting tired of comics & such.

Slam_Bradley

04-09-2007, 08:19 AM

Showcase Presents Elongated Man, Vol. 1.

Slam_Bradley

04-09-2007, 03:53 PM

Essential Marvel Team-Up Vol. 2

Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm.

T GUy

04-09-2007, 05:24 PM

Slam, good choice on that Elongated Man volume - I have had it a few months myself, and it's a goodie!

On the way to me courtesy of ebaY: Doctor Strange No. 2 (circa 1974) and an issue of Marvel Premiere with the same character headlining.

MichikoS

04-09-2007, 08:14 PM

Late last month there was a regional con here in town, at one of the smaller hotels, and I went, as I always do, just to poke among the longboxes and to see what's out there. Mostly it's the same vendors, although they often have new stock. 90s Marvel seemed to be the theme of my purchases at this con.

One of the bigger local players had about 30 longboxes of new (backroom? large recent purchase?) stuff at 50 cents a pop, and I came upon a big batch of Amazing Spider-Man V1, from 335 to 441 in perfect, NM to M condition, apparently bagged and boarded at purchase. I bought 20 miscellaneous issues between 335 and 399, and every issue between 400 and 441. I just finished re-bagging and grading them last night. Nothing graded below VF+, and the vast majority were NM 9.4 to NM+ 9.8. All these comics had the backing board stuck into the centerfold, which is how some collectors try to prevent spine creasing. Must have worked in this instance, because these comics looked dang near perfect. This is the climax of the Clone Saga, remember. I hate Mark Bagley's artwork, then and now. Really hate it. Steve Skroce makes a welcome appearance in a few issues, however.

Also, a large pristine run of Uncanny X-Men from 277 to 385. I bought about 50 issues, including the rarer variant covers to 342, 350, and 354. These were also bagged, boarded, and in excellent condition with original cards, inserts, Kook-Aid packets (!) and other crap they used to stick in comics in the 1990s. I was shocked to find this nice big run just sitting there, after dozens of people pawed through the boxes earlier. Huh. Even an old "classic" collector like me knew these were a good deal.

I read through most of these X-Men titles, but I lost interest pretty quickly, I admit. I bought them because they were cheap, and I'll probably sell them at some point to buy other comics I enjoy more.

Another dealer, a friend of mine, was there selling some of his vast collection, and I picked up a big bunch of Peter David INCREDIBLE HULK in the 400s in brand-new condition for 25¢ each. These I did read, all of them, but David was getting tired, and I was sick to death of the Pantheon after reading these issues.

My friend also had some early Kirby issues of KAMANDI, which I scarfed up to fill in some holes in my collection.

Finally, a couple of 1980's Marvel magazines for $2 each: Found a like-new NM copy of HULK! #23, which contains the famous Jim Shooter-penned attempted-gay-rape-in-the-shower scene. Boy is it an awful story on all counts. But it has a great Simonson cover. Marvel Preview #23 (Bizarre Adventures 2) VF, with a nice Frank Miller short.

As for new LCS purchases, on the true enjoyment front, I did pick up V2 of the Showcase HOUSE OF MYSTERY b&w reprint collection, and really liked it. I read half of it in one sitting, and have been reading a story or two a night since. Great stuff.

Also, for old time's sake, picked up the first issue of the new MADMAN ongoing by Allred. His work is so appealing, but I always feel like I'm not quite...getting it. I can report that there has been no change. I still don't quite...get it. But it's very appealing. Bonus: Great pinups by Paul Rivoche and Eric Powell!

Michi

Reptisaurus!

04-09-2007, 08:41 PM

Essential Marvel Team-Up Vol. 2

Now I'm as big a fan of the Essential Volumes as anyone... But the best part of the first batch of these issues are the downright hostile letter collumns. At least twice EVERY reprinted letter was downright negative, which was a bold move on the editors part.

OK. Maybe the BEST part of these issues was the end of # 28, where there was an editor's note that said, basically "Dude. That story was ALL Conway. Don't blame me, I had nothing to do with it. We're all under deadline here."

But warranted. The book really did kinda suck at this point. I like Conway's concurrent work on Amazing, so it's surprising how crappy his Team-up was.

It picks up nicely towards the end, though. There's a cool six issue time travel story in 41-46, and a fairly decent mind-switching/legal thriller/family drama in 48-51. (Although it's pretty lame that three of those four issues guest-starred Iron Man.)

If they do a MTU volume 3 it'll cover most of the Claremont/Byrne material, and that should be killer.

Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm.

Did you read the first few? Did yer kids? My cousinephew loved it. Although both of us started getting just a tad bored around volume 5, which cut down on the comedy at the expense of plot. And you can sorta see the beginnings of the switch in this volume. Still really good, but not as good as the first two.

Kirk G

04-09-2007, 10:11 PM

Another dealer, a friend of mine, was there selling some of his vast collection, and I picked up a big bunch of Peter David INCREDIBLE HULK in the 400s in brand-new condition for 25¢ each. These I did read, all of them, but David was getting tired, and I was sick to death of the Pantheon after reading these issues.

My friend also had some early Kirby issues of KAMANDI, which I scarfed up to fill in some holes in my collection.

Finally, a couple of 1980's Marvel magazines for $2 each: Found a like-new NM copy of HULK! #23, which contains the famous Jim Shooter-penned attempted-gay-rape-in-the-shower scene. Boy is it an awful story on all counts. But it has a great Simonson cover. Marvel Preview #23 (Bizarre Adventures 2) VF, with a nice Frank Miller short.
Michi

I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS HULK/SHOWER/RAPE SCENE. Is it well known?
Or are you just making this up to tease DDM?
:rolleyes:

Scans.... we want un-retouched scans!

T GUy

04-10-2007, 05:51 AM

Kirk,

I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS HULK/SHOWER/RAPE SCENE. Is it well known?
Or are you just making this up to tease DDM?

Michi kids thee not, O faithful one! I recall this being a big fuss o'er in The Comics Journal at the time.

MDG

04-10-2007, 07:33 AM

Slam, good choice on that Elongated Man volume - I have had it a few months myself, and it's a goodie!

I've been working through it too--I was surprised how much trouble I had getting through the early Flash stories--too many aliens.

Once you hit the Detective back-ups, it takes off--neat little mysteries, a larger role for Sue, and (best of all) Infantino inks. The book does show that Infantino is one of the best designers in comics.

MDG

Slam_Bradley

04-10-2007, 07:56 AM

But warranted. The book really did kinda suck at this point. I like Conway's concurrent work on Amazing, so it's surprising how crappy his Team-up was.

MTU was pretty weak overall until the Claremont/Byrne run. But I got the book for $10 so it's worth having for my kids to read.

I do agree with you about Conway's Amazing Spider-Man. Easily the best work of his career (except maybe Alari Force) and a very good Spidey run.

Did you read the first few? Did yer kids? My cousinephew loved it. Although both of us started getting just a tad bored around volume 5, which cut down on the comedy at the expense of plot. And you can sorta see the beginnings of the switch in this volume. Still really good, but not as good as the first two.

Yeah, I've read the first two volumes. My wife really likes them also. Haven't read them with the chitlens, but I'm thinking now that I will.

Although I'm also thinking I should have just sprung for the "Complete" edition. I had a chance to get it for $15. But it seems sooo unwieldy to read.

Oldiesmann

04-10-2007, 09:41 AM

I got Little Archie #103 on eBay last night for $4.99 (including shipping).

Sir Tim Drake

04-10-2007, 10:46 AM

I got Little Archie #103 on eBay last night for $4.99 (including shipping).

Does that one have Bob Bolling artwork?

(And while we're on the subject, do you know which issues of Little Archie after #100 were by Bolling?)

Oldiesmann

04-10-2007, 11:49 AM

Not sure if it's his art or not. Auction page is at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dlitem=230111747864

Don't know the answer to the other question. I'll see if I can get an answer for you though.

MichikoS

04-10-2007, 12:41 PM

I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS HULK/SHOWER/RAPE SCENE. Is it well known?Scroll down a few inches to see a discussion of this infamous issue, as well as a few panels from the shower scene.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/03/25/friday-in-the-shooter-gallery/

Michi

Mike Kuypers

04-10-2007, 04:43 PM

LFinally, a couple of 1980's Marvel magazines for $2 each: Found a like-new NM copy of HULK! #23, which contains the famous Jim Shooter-penned attempted-gay-rape-in-the-shower scene. Boy is it an awful story on all counts. But it has a great Simonson cover. Marvel Preview #23 (Bizarre Adventures 2) VF, with a nice Frank Miller short.

Re: The cover of HULK #23: Eat your heart out, John Travolta!

Oldiesmann

04-11-2007, 07:02 PM

Picked up the following at a local comic store earlier:

Pipsqueak #35 (November 1959) - $2.95
Little Archie (Giant) #16 (Fall 1960) - $6.95
Life With Archie #44 (December 1965) - $3.95
Archie As Captain Pureheart #6 (November 1967) - $11.95

The Life With Archie issue contains the Pureheart the Powerful story that was reprinted in a digest recently.

T GUy

04-12-2007, 05:21 AM

MDG re Elongated Man:

I've been working through it too--I was surprised how much trouble I had getting through the early Flash stories--too many aliens.

Ye-e-e-ess... I didn't find it became unendurably samey, however. I did like the bit in Flash No. 134 after Ralph has recovered from semi-mind-control-from-a-villain when Barry thinks 'Thank goodness the Elongated Man is himself again--eager, boyish, and ready for action at my side against evil--as he's always been!'

Once you hit the Detective back-ups, it takes off--neat little mysteries, a larger role for Sue, and (best of all) Infantino inks. The book does show that Infantino is one of the best designers in comics.

Roger all of that. Sadly, later stories are inked by other hands.

MDG

04-12-2007, 07:08 AM

Roger all of that. Sadly, later stories are inked by other hands.
Yes, but I'm glad most of those hands are attached to people other than Joe Giella.

MDG

dan bailey

04-12-2007, 07:50 AM

My longish effort to track down Comix Book #4, the first of 2 Kitchen Sink ishes after Marvel cancelled the title, ended yesterday afternoon, courtesy of an eBay seller & the post office. That gives me all 5 issues.

Was sort of intrigued, while glancing over the letters page, to see a call for more stuff by Mike Baron. I didn't feel like digging into my b&w mag short boxes to check out the Marvel issues, but I have to wonder what Baron had contributed. I mean, this was 6 or 7 years before Nexus. Could've been another Mike Baron, I suppose ...

pmpknface

04-12-2007, 08:04 AM

Cool. I never heard of this before!

I love this thread! :D

Kirk G

04-12-2007, 01:33 PM

Kirk G

04-12-2007, 01:48 PM

Scroll down a few inches to see a discussion of this infamous issue, as well as a few panels from the shower scene.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/03/25/friday-in-the-shooter-gallery/

Michi

WoW!
I had never heard of this.
Now, I 'll have to hunt up an issue to read for myself.
After I'm done with it, is there anyone else who might be interested in it, at cost, plus shipping to you?:rolleyes:

Oldiesmann

04-13-2007, 12:01 PM

For those who are interested, here are the links to the scans of the issues I bought on Wednesday:

Archie as Captain Pureheart #6 (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Captain_Pureheart_6)
Life With Archie #44 (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Life_With_Archie_44)
The Adventures of Little Archie #16 (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Adventures_of_Little_Archie_16)
The Adventures of Pipsqueak #35 (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Adventures_of_Pipsqueak_35)

DDM

04-13-2007, 03:13 PM

The Defenders #50-56, 58-60

pmpknface

04-14-2007, 04:02 PM

The Defenders #50-56, 58-60
SCORE! ;)

btw - cool quote in your sig.

Slam_Bradley

04-15-2007, 11:56 AM

Batman Archives Vol. 2. $ 9 total.

DDM

04-15-2007, 01:53 PM

SCORE! ;)

I plan on buying The Defenders 10 issues at a time until I get to expensive issues for the next few weeks. For example, I have The Defenders #62-70 in my folder to buy next week. Then I'll put The Defenders #71-80 for the following week. After I fill up to The Defenders #98. I'll go back from The Defenders #50 until I have all of the issues. I have The New Defenders #125-152 & most of The Defenders #99-124 (missing a few issues here).

My LCS has nearly virtually a full run of The Defenders.

DDM

04-15-2007, 01:55 PM

btw - cool quote in your sig.

Psylocke is one of my favorite characters before she became a ninja.

scratchie

04-16-2007, 10:40 AM

Best Wonder Woman cover ever!!

http://www.agitators.com/foto/qomix/ww205.jpg

Slam_Bradley

04-16-2007, 12:42 PM

Essential Man-Thing.

Oldiesmann

04-16-2007, 06:20 PM

Latest auction purchases:

Archie #203 ($3 + $3 shipping) on Yahoo Auctions (first [and probably last] time buying something through Yahoo Auctions)

Little Archie - lot of 22 issues: 114,119,122,124,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,135,13 6,137,138(2 copies),140,141,143,144,147,153 [one issue in poor condition; the rest are all VG- or better] (eBay; $15 + ? shipping)

Slam_Bradley

04-17-2007, 11:36 AM

Over the last little bit:

Huntress: Dark Knight Daughter: I have most of these stories, but it will be nice to have them in one volume.

Justice Society, Vol. 2: Ditto.

Tomorrow Stories, Book 2.

Gladstone Album # 27: The Duck in the Iron Pants.

berk

04-17-2007, 11:57 AM

I found a copy of Creepy *82 for a mere $4. It's billed as a "Super Special Summer Giant" and contains all Esteban Maroto artwork with various writers. I see Doug Moench listed among others, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

Oldiesmann

04-17-2007, 04:33 PM

Just won an auction from the same user that I bought the Little Archie comics from:

25 issues of Archie's Joke Book: 229,231,232,233,241,242,243,244,246,247,250,251,25 2,254,255,257,258,260,261,262,264,265,269,270,274

One issue is in poor condition and one is listed in "good/fair", but the rest are in VG condition or better.

All told, I got 47 comic books for about $30 including shipping. This batch cost me $6, with a reduced shipping cost of $2 since they're combining this one with my batch of Little Archie comics.

Not a bad deal at all :)

Jake Lockley

04-17-2007, 06:30 PM

UPS brought a box of goodness from Lone Star today. Inside were:

Marvel Preview #15, 16 & 21

Hulk Magazine issues #15 & 19

Justice League of America #123, 125-129

Some of these I'm getting for the first time, but others are replacements for lost or badly damaged copies I already had.

spoon_jenkins

04-18-2007, 08:05 PM

Planet X (one of the last Morrison New X-Men TPBs) and the first Cerebus TPB

I've only read one issue of Cerebus, so that'll be a new experience.

LUXXXCORP

04-19-2007, 01:05 AM

(I didn't include any shipping in these prices.)

1949 Campus Romances Comic Book No 1 Avon 3.0 G $3.09
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1949 Sweethearts Comic Book No 80 Fawcett 3.0 G $1.25
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1952 Dearly Beloved Comic Book No 1 Approved 4.0 VG $1.46
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1952 Love Problems Comic Book No 17 Harvey 4.0 VG $3.25
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Brides in Love #22 (7.0 F/VF) $2.26
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Romantic Story #43 (7.0 F/VF) $2.29
img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/luxxcorp/recent%20aquisitions/-4.jpg[/img]
Romantic Story #48 (6.5 F+)$2.26
img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/luxxcorp/recent%20aquisitions/-5.jpg[/img]
Undersea Agent #3 (5.5 F-) $1.30
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PIX of these are copyproofed by Auctiva
These are all 1st printings. I checked.

TRINA'S GIRLS CORNER UNDERGROUND COMIC 1976 $0.99
CORN FED COMICS NO#2 1973 $1.49
BIJOU COMICS VOL 1 NUMBER 2 VOLUME 1 NUMBER 6 1969 71 $2.19
DOPIN DAN TED RICHARDS COMIC 1973 OCTOBER VOL1 NO3 $1.29
BONE JEFF SMITH COMICS NO.4 NO.10 AND PREMIERE $1.49
CRUMB VINTAGE HOME GROWN FUNNIES COMIC $3.99

Western Hearts #4 Sept. 1950 Golden Age $140 NM BV!! $1.29
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Personal Love #13 comic Debra Paget & Louis Jourdan BV! $3.79
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Girls' Love Stories #175 comic BRONZE AGE January 1973 $0.99
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Guy took down some pix before I could copy them.
The ACG's & Charltons are crazy FINE/VERY FINE!
MY ROMANTIC ADVENTURES LOT 6 1959-63 SCHAFFENBERGER $17.52
LOVE CONFESSIONS 50 53 1956 MATT BAKER $6.26
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LOVE SECRETS 39 51 53 1954- 56 $5.00
WEDDING BELLS 7 18 1955-56 MATT BAKER $6.26
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ROMANTIC STORY CHARLTON ROMANCE LOT 58 59 88-93 $23.99
SWEETHEARTS CHARLTON ROMANCE LOT 6 74-100 1963-68 $24.74

BIG LOT OF 60 ROMANCE COMICS MARVEL DC CHARLTON $48.73
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/luxxcorp/recent%20aquisitions/-11.jpg

Penthouse Comix - 1st 6 issues Like new in plastic $23.00[/size]
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/luxxcorp/recent%20aquisitions/-12.jpg

[size=18]:felix: I'll, try to scan some of these for your viewing pleasure
. . . eventually. :felix:

12 romance comic books from the late 1940's and early 1950's
$31.00 + $6.00 shipping = $37.00

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u79/BLAM_BLAM_BLAM/12romance.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u79/BLAM_BLAM_BLAM/12romance2.jpg

* Dr. Anthony King, Love Doctor
* Confessions of Love
* Young Romance
* True War Romances
* Confessions of the Lovelorn
* My Secret Life
* Teen-Age Romance
* Love at First Sight
* Personal Love
* Complete Love
* Secret Romances
* My Own Romance

Plus these Moderns:

Catwoman Vol. 2 #10, 12, 13, 17, 35-44, 50-57, 59-62
(25 issues) $11.30
plus an additional set of Catwoman Vol. 2 #50, 52-62
(12 issues) $6.00
plus $12.00 shipping = $29.30

I pulled the trigger for the Adam Hughes covers.

Then I got more Adam Hughes covers.

Rose & Thorn #1-6 Complete Set - $3. + $3. shipping = $6.

And finally:

The Boys #1-6 - $4.25 + $4.50 = $8.75

pmpknface

04-19-2007, 06:16 AM

Sweet haul man! :D

Oldiesmann

04-22-2007, 07:40 PM

I got 6 of them at the comic shop yesterday. Here are the first three (click the image to view the full-sized version):

http://archie.oldiesmann.us/gallery/d/323-2/Archies_Girls_Betty_and_Veronica_135.jpg (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Archies_Girls_Betty_and_Veronica_135.jpg.html?g2_i mageViewsIndex=1)

http://archie.oldiesmann.us/gallery/d/326-2/Jughead_225.jpg (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Jughead_225.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1)

http://archie.oldiesmann.us/gallery/d/329-2/Life_With_Archie_12.jpg (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Life_With_Archie_12.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1)

The Life With Archie is #12. The cover is crooked, probably due to general wear over the years.

Oldiesmann

04-22-2007, 07:41 PM

And here are the other three...

http://archie.oldiesmann.us/gallery/d/332-2/Life_With_Archie_28.jpg (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Life_With_Archie_28.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1)

http://archie.oldiesmann.us/gallery/d/335-2/Life_With_Archie_116.jpg (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Life_With_Archie_116.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1 )

http://archie.oldiesmann.us/gallery/d/338-2/Archie_and_Me_22.jpg (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Archie_and_Me_22.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1)

The first Life With Archie is #28. The cover was not ripped when I bought it - that happened as I was putting it back in the bag. I didn't remove the tape on the bag first, and it got caught on the cover.

I also purchased a package of 100 Silver-age sized storage bags.

dan bailey

04-22-2007, 08:25 PM

I didn't remove the tape on the bag first, and it got caught on the cover.

Crap, do I *choke* hate it when that happens. Somebody should come up with a nonadhesively self-sealing bag (if they haven't already), but of course the price would then become prohibitive.

scratchie

04-22-2007, 11:11 PM

Crap, do I *choke* hate it when that happens. Somebody should come up with a nonadhesively self-sealing bag (if they haven't already), but of course the price would then become prohibitive.Scotch sells a kind of removeable tape that's basically the same adhesive they use in Post-It notes. It comes in a blue box. I use that on all my comics, but of course it doesn't help with something you've just bought, if it was taped with normal tape. I learned my lesson after planting a tape lift on a $16 issue of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. less than an hour after I bought it. Now I always remove the tape and discard it before I take the comic out of the bag, and then replace the tape with the removeable kind.

pmpknface

04-23-2007, 06:25 AM

Scotch sells a kind of removeable tape that's basically the same adhesive they use in Post-It notes. It comes in a blue box. I use that on all my comics, but of course it doesn't help with something you've just bought, if it was taped with normal tape. I learned my lesson after planting a tape lift on a $16 issue of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. less than an hour after I bought it. Now I always remove the tape and discard it before I take the comic out of the bag, and then replace the tape with the removeable kind.
Excellent policy. I do the same thing. I can't believe so many dealers out there use the "red" scotch tape! It's a SIN!!!

People: go out and get the GREEN "Magic" scotch tape. It'll save your comics!

scratchie

04-23-2007, 06:48 AM

Excellent policy. I do the same thing. I can't believe so many dealers out there use the "red" scotch tape! It's a SIN!!!

People: go out and get the GREEN "Magic" scotch tape. It'll save your comics!It's not the green box, it's the blue box.

Red Scotch Tape: Regular shiny cellophane tape
Green Scotch Tape: "Magic" tape, which has a matte finish, but the same adhesive as the shiny stuff
Blue Scotch Tape: Removeable tape. Matte finish, Post-It adhesive.

Don't ask me why I know so much about Scotch Tape.

"Just the sticky kind"

Slam_Bradley

04-23-2007, 08:24 AM

Showcase Presents Brave & Bold.

Slam_Bradley

04-23-2007, 04:25 PM

Showcase Presents Green Lantern, Vol. 2.

DDM

04-23-2007, 04:44 PM

The Defenders #62-70

dan bailey

04-23-2007, 09:41 PM

Post office willing, I just obtained via eBay the one ish of Gold Key's UFO Flying Saucers (later UFO & Outer Space) -- #10 -- that I lacked in completing the 25-ish full run. Alas, as indicated a few words ago, I'm very mindful of the mail's role in all of this ... the eBay shipment that included a previously won copy of the mag *choke* vanished sometime last July, never to surface.

DDM

04-29-2007, 10:53 AM

The Defenders #71-80

Oldiesmann

04-29-2007, 03:26 PM

Latest eBay purchases (prices are excluding shipping):

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Meet Archie (64-page special, 1990) - $4
The Adventures of Little Archie #50 (1968) - $1.99
Pep #203 (March 1967) - $1

And the bargain of the week:
Archie's Pals 'n' Gals #11 (Winter 1959, Giant Series title) - $9

mdrshazam

04-29-2007, 11:55 PM

Finally,
I'm the proud owner of Dell's Gomer Pyle # 1-3 ! A complete set!

scratchie

04-30-2007, 07:28 AM

Finally,
I'm the proud owner of Dell's Gomer Pyle # 1-3 ! A complete set!Welcome to the Classics board, M! Sounds like you've found the right place.

Slam_Bradley

04-30-2007, 03:33 PM

I just purchased Walt & Skeezix, Vol. 1 & 2. $ 27.25 for the two of them.

MichikoS

04-30-2007, 07:11 PM

Finally,
I'm the proud owner of Dell's Gomer Pyle # 1-3 ! A complete set!I remember seeing these when I was a kid in the '60s, but never opened one, to my recollection. What is the inside art like? Cartoony, a la Beetle Bailey, or Archie-ish, or semi-realistic? Any idea who did the art or wrote the stories (I know they all have photo covers from the TV show)? Please provide some details about these interesting gems.

Michi

MichikoS

04-30-2007, 07:31 PM

I stumbled upon a pretty decent cache of Silver Age goodies at my local Half Price Books. They had just recently made a large purchase from one seller, who had comics in his collection going back to the mid '60s. I found some things I wanted, at some very fair prices. Everything I bought was in about FN or better condition, unusual for books in a "casual" collection.

First, there was a big batch of ACGs:
Unknown Worlds #53, 50 (Ditko-Trapani story!), 47, 43 (includes story "The Hundred Year Witch," considered one of Hughes' best), 40

Forbidden Worlds #143 (dinosaur cover), 141, 140 (another Ditko-Trapani story), 139, 128

Adventures into the Unknown #160 (beautiful VF condition), 157

All the ACGs were $2 each. What a bargain. I think these were underpriced.

Jimmy Olsen #98 (gorilla cover - Jimmy getting married to a female gorilla by Superman!) $3

Strange Adventures #186 (the famous "Gorilla Witch" cover, showing a gorilla with an eyepatch stirring a bubbling cauldron. Nice shape, $8, much better looking than the cover I pulled from the GCD below. I couldn't resist. Could you? This is one of the GREAT gorilla covers from DC!
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i221/elbert_coalwell/strangeadvents186.jpg
Strange Adventures #178 (Lee Elias story), 176, (Lee Elias, AND Gil Kane in a Star Hawkins feature) $3 each

Occult Files of Doctor Spektor #25 (the final Whitman-only issue, which reprints the GK #1) VF $1

Brothers of the Spear #10, Whitman version, VF. $1

Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #21 (VF/NM copy! The sharpest copy I've ever seen of this with my own eyes. Glossy, corners razor sharp, inside pages perfect white. My eyes bugged out.) $5.

OK, I spent more than I should have, but if there's one thing I've learned, it's not to pass up good deals on nice comics.

Michi

MichikoS

04-30-2007, 07:42 PM

Hey, I keep meaning to do this, but this is the first time I've actually remembered...

I am attending a fairly large regional comic con this weekend, and I would be glad to keep my eyes open for one or two "special" items you have been looking for. You know how much I believe in serendipity. I am aware that some of you live in areas that don't get much con action, or have other limitations that make shopping for comics difficult.

No promises, but if you tell me what to look out for, and a price range, I will pay attention when I'm at the con. Who knows, I may stumble upon your heart's desire. You can PM me, or post here if you aren't bashful. I'll do what I can.

Michi

Oldiesmann

04-30-2007, 08:11 PM

Finally,
I'm the proud owner of Dell's Gomer Pyle # 1-3 ! A complete set!

Great to see another Cincinnatian out here :)

dan bailey

04-30-2007, 09:18 PM

All the ACGs were $2 each. What a bargain. I think these were underpriced.

I summon the understatement of the year!

Great haul, Michi -- heck, the only ishes you bought that didn't cost less than a garden-variety new comic today were Strange Adventures 186 & Doctor Solar 21.

LUXXXCORP

05-02-2007, 09:51 AM

From ckb42 - The Art of Comics - off ebay, May 1st

61 Golden Age Pre-Code Romance Comics
Average price per comic - $3.21:eek:
==================================================
$2.25
Ziff-Davis: Romantic Marriage 3 Fair

$2.25
Ace: Complete Love v29#3 G

$2.00
Ace: All Romances 2 G/G-

$3.00
Ace: Complete Love v30#1 VG

$2.00
Ace: Glamorous Romances 53 Painted cover G

$2.00
Ace: Glamorous Romances 85 G/G-

$2.00
Ace: Love at First Sight 20 G-

$2.00
Ace: Love at First Sight 22 G

$3.00
Ace: Love at First Sight 26 VG

$4.00
Ace: Love at First Sight 4 Painted cover VG

$2.00
Ace: Love at First Sight 9 G+

$3.45
Ace: Love Experiences 15 VG

$2.00
Ace: Love Experiences 20 G/G-

$2.00
Ace: Love Experiences 33 G-

$3.00
Ace: Real Love 30 G/VG

$2.00
Ace: Real Love 39 G

$2.00
Ace: Real Love 46 Painted cover G

$2.00
Ace: Real Love 55 G+

$3.00
Ace: Ten-story Love v32#5 G/VG

$2.00
Ace: Ten-story Love v36#2 G/G-

$3.00
Comic Media: Dear Lonely Hearts 1 G

$2.00
Famous Funnies: Personal Love 33 G

$3.30
Famous Funnies: Personal Love 5 G-

$2.00
Fawcett: Cowboy Love v2#11 G/VG

$3.00
Fawcett: Life Story 16 G/VG

$2.00
Fawcett: Life Story 2 G/G-

$3.00
Fawcett: Life Story 22 G+

$2.00
Fawcett: Life Story 36 G/G-

$2.00
Fawcett: Life Story 40 G

$3.00
Fawcett: Life Story 42 VG/F

$3.00
Fawcett: Life Story 9 G/VG

$3.00
Fawcett: Love Memories 3 G

$3.00
Fawcett: Romantic Secrets 2 G

$3.00
Fawcett: Romantic Secrets 28 VG

$2.00
Fawcett: Romantic Story 5 G-

$2.35
Fawcett: Sweetheart Diary 14 G-

$2.75
Fawcett: Sweethearts 92 G-

$3.09
Fawcett: Sweethearts 94 G

$3.66
Gleason: Boy Loves Girl 32 G+

$2.25
Gleason: Boy Meets Girl 13 Fair/G

$3.00
Toby: Great Lover Romances 3 G-

$2.25
Gleason: Boy Meets Girl 14 G-

$2.25
Gleason: Boy Meets Girl 21 Fair/G

$3.09
Gleason: Boy Meets Girl 24 G

$3.00
Hillman: Romantic Confessions v1#11 G/VG

$2.75
Hillman: Romantic Confessions v1#9 G

$2.75
Hillman: Romantic Confessions v2#12 G

$2.25
ME: Dream Book of Romance A-1 #5 G-

$4.40
Minoan: Dr. Anthony King, Love Doctor 4 G+

$2.00
Prize: Young Love 61 Fair

$3.80
Quality: Love Confessions 16 G+

$2.75
Quality: Love Confessions 28 G-

$2.75
Standard: Thrilling Romaces 11 G-

$2.25
Stanmor: Diary Confessions 14 G

$5.50
Star: Popular Teen-Agers 19 L. B. Cole cover :) G/G-

$5.00
Star: Popular Teen-Agers 9 L. B. Cole cover :) G-

$5.50
Star: Top Love Stories 10 L. B. Cole cover Fair/G

$3.00
Star: Top Love Stories 13 L. B. Cole cover Fair/G

$6.00
Star: Top Love Stories 16 L. B. Cole cover :) G

$2.75
Superior: Secret Romances 24 G

$2.25
Toby: Great Lover Romances 12 Fair/G

----------------------
Total: US $170.65

Shipping and handling via
US Postal Service Priority Mail:

Total: US $25.00

----------------------
Total: US $195.65

LUXXXCORP

05-02-2007, 11:53 AM

A few years ago I used to import Charlton cover scans into MS Paint and key the negative button.
Then I'd blur the titles and generally futz around with them until, finally,
I'd post them on the CGC boards with the caption, "Is it art, yet".
Well lo and behold . . . (It's so easy and the results, sometimes, are interesting.
I'm sure someone else had done it before I did. Someone else was bound to do it eventually.)
Anyway, I went ahead and took the plunge into the miasma of variants.
At these prices I'd be crazy not to.
So now I'm going to collect all the Red Sonja neg variants.
There are too many Battlestar Galactica neg-vars and I don't care for them anyway.
Soulfire has got some nice ones in purple and brown but I'm not going to drop that kind of dollar on them.
Too much, IMHO.

(That Wolverine sketch variant has a definate Alphonse Mucha art nouveau thing going on.)

April 27, 2007
From: :eBay:

9 Variant Cover Comics
Total cost: $33.61
Average price per comic - $3.05
==================================================
You've seen most of these before, right? You're familiar with negative variants.
There are some scans below but I didn't want to cripple the post with too many scans.
That and I've got other more important things to do right at this moment.

$2.25
RED SONJA #9 NEGATIVE VARIANT

$3.25
RED SONJA #10 NEGATIVE VARIANT BILLY TAN

$3.25
RED SONJA #12 NEGATIVE VARIANT

$3.25
RED SONJA #14 NEGATIVE VARIANT

$0.99
RED SONJA #16 JIM BALENT VARIANT

US $0.99
SOULFIRE ZERO #0 Michael Turner Cover

$1.62
CYBERFORCE #1 SKETCH Cover VARIANT

$1.04
WOLVERINE ORIGINS 5 Phoenix Samurai sketch variant

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/luxxcorp/blammo/wolviemucha.jpg

$0.99
CROSS BRONX #1 COVER B VARIANT

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/luxxcorp/blammo/PICT1198.jpg

$1.04
DEATH DEALER #1 (FRANK FRAZETTA'S) COVER B VARIANT

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/luxxcorp/blammo/frazdead.jpg

$1.04
SNAKE WOMAN #1 VARIANT Sketch Snakewoman Virgin Comics

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/luxxcorp/blammo/ComQ000.jpg

--------------------------------------------------
Subtotal: US $19.71
Shipping and handling $13.90
----------------------
Total: US $33.61

scratchie

05-02-2007, 10:40 PM

Not literally the last classic I've purchased, but I've just bought, received, bagged, boarded and filed my copy of Wonder Woman #187, which completes my run of the classic "no costume" issues.

http://www.agitators.com/foto/qomix/ww187.jpg

The 26 issues took me almost exactly 13 months to acquire. It started, as many of my comic obsessions do, with a random ebay purchase. I don't know what inspired me to buy issues 203 and 209 (with costume) in March of last year, or whether I was even more-than-vaguely aware of the "Diana Prince" run at all at that point, but the acquisition of those issues, and another six the following week, was enough to hook me. I also have the World's Finest issue featuring Diana but I still need Brave & the Bold #87 to get (I believe) all of her cover appearances.

The average cost (with shipping) was $6.60 per issue (median price $5.42), and that took a big leap with #187, which was almost $19.00, one of the most expensive back issues I've bought. But it did complete the run, and it's a gorgeous copy (a flat, shiny "Fine+" that a lot of Ebay dealers would sell as "VF+" or better) so no regrets there. I can't wait to sit down (when I have some time) and read them all back-to-back. The only question now is... what to go after next??

PS: The absolute last classic comic I've purchased?

http://www.agitators.com/foto/qomix/wf240.jpg

How could I pass up a cover like that? Mid-70s World's Finest covers rock my world (as you might have guessed from my current avatar).

Sir Tim Drake

05-02-2007, 10:52 PM

Oddly enough, #187 was the first no-costume Wonder Woman that I bought, although I am still quite far from a complete run. (#199 is my favorite comic cover of all time, but I've never seen a copy at a price I could afford.) I don't think I paid very much for #187, but my copy isn't in especially goon condition. I wasn't particularly impressed by the story. It seemed kind of disjointed and pointless.

How could I pass up a cover like that? Mid-70s World's Finest covers rock my world (as you might have guessed from my current avatar).

The source of that avatar might be my second favorite cover of all time.

T GUy

05-03-2007, 06:35 AM

scratchie,

I also have the World's Finest issue featuring Diana but I still need Brave & the Bold #87 to get (I believe) all of her cover appearances.

I have some news for you - good news. Click here. (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=25794&zoom=4)

Slam_Bradley

05-03-2007, 07:38 AM

How could I pass up a cover like that? Mid-70s World's Finest covers rock my world (as you might have guessed from my current avatar).

The source of your avatar is one of the three first comics I ever purchased for myself from the spinner at a local grocery store. I'm very fond of it as well.

Lone Ranger

05-03-2007, 09:58 AM

I also have the World's Finest issue featuring Diana but I still need Brave & the Bold #87 to get (I believe) all of her cover appearances.

You may already have them, but if not I should point out that the following also have 'Diana Prince' covers:

Lois Lane #93
World's Finest #204

Lone Ranger

05-03-2007, 10:00 AM

The source of your avatar is one of the three first comics I ever purchased for myself from the spinner at a local grocery store. I'm very fond of it as well.

I don't know how they ended up in my possession, because I wasn't quite buying off the spinners yet, but most of the WFs from #230 to #240 represent some of my earliest comic book memories.

They may have come from my next door neighbour who was a few years older. Those covers with Superman's head popping off, the giant Superman baby and Superman about to smash the Atom really caught my eye back then.

MWGallaher

05-03-2007, 12:07 PM

You may already have them, but if not I should point out that the following also have 'Diana Prince' covers:

Lois Lane #93
World's Finest #204

As does Jerry Lewis #117.

DDM

05-03-2007, 01:46 PM

The Defenders #81-90 & Giant Size Defenders #3

Oldiesmann

05-04-2007, 06:48 AM

Latest purchase: Archie #134 from 1963 for $0.29 + $4.99 shipping

Latest arrivals (covers will be posted later):

Archie's Pals 'N' Gals #11
Pep #203

scratchie

05-04-2007, 07:39 AM

scratchie,

I have some news for you - good news. Click here. (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=25794&zoom=4)Thanks. Any others out there that I've missed?

Ah, I just saw Lone Ranger's post. Thanks again. Looks like my work is cut out for me.

scratchie

05-04-2007, 07:45 AM

(#199 is my favorite comic cover of all time, but I've never seen a copy at a price I could afford.) I actually got a really nice copy of #199 off of ebay for $6.00 shipped. I think the guy in question was a relatively new seller and didn't get a lot of bids. The book was rated as "VG" but the cover is really nice. It's lost a lot of its gloss, but there are no tears or creases.

The best part is, the guy actually sent it to me before I paid him! That really messed with my head, let me tell you. I was sending him a money order so it took me a couple of days to go buy one, and I picked up the mail one day to find WW #199 even though I hadn't sent the money order out yet! Now that's what I call fast shipping! (And yes, I did pay him for it, and left postive feedback.)

Rob Allen

05-04-2007, 05:47 PM

Not a comic book, but at an AAUW book sale in Beaverton, I picked up a copy of the Summer 1968 issue of The Most Thrilling Science Fiction magazine. It's a reprint magazine put out by the publisher of Amazing Science Fiction and Fantastic Stories, and features stories from those two magazines in the 1956-63 timeframe. This issue was edited by Harry Harrison, and features stories by Harrison, Philip K. Dick, Kate Wilhelm, Ron Goulart, and others, with illustrations by Dan Adkins, Larry Ivie and others.

For $1.50 a pound, how could I resist?

divinebrown

05-06-2007, 08:25 AM

Since one of the local shops had a 50% off Free Comic Book Day sale I was able to pick up some old X-Men miniseries:

X-Men: Spotlight on Starjammers 1-2
X-Men vs. The Avengers 1-4
X-Men and Alpha Flight 1-2
X-Men and the Micronauts 1-4

I also picked up a couple early issues of X-men (vol. 2) and Busiek/ Perez Avengers.

All for a sweet, college-grad friendly total of $24.

The Confessor

05-06-2007, 10:36 AM

I just picked up Giant-Size Spider-Man #2 from 1974. It's in VG condition I would say but it's still a tight, nice looking comic book. The issue is a Team-Up with Shang-Chi: Master Of Kung-Fu and it's great! There's tons of serious retro Kung-Fu action in this one! :D

As a bonus, it features a re-print of Amazing pider-Man Annual #3 - the one where The Avengers ask Spider-Man to join their ranks. All in all, a great read.

Winslow

05-09-2007, 07:20 AM

Batman Illustrated Volume 2 (O'Neal / Adams)
Batman Illustrated Volume 3 (O'Neal / Adams)
Akira Volume 2

DDM

05-10-2007, 04:59 PM

The Defenders #40-49, 91-98
Marvel Team-Up #1 (1972; 1st Misty Knight)
[Uncanny] X-Men #16

scratchie

05-10-2007, 08:56 PM

Hoo doggie. All that research into Steve Gerber's work made me want to pick up a few more of his books, even though I haven't finished reading all the ones I already have (where's the fun in that?). So courtesy of Lone Star, I just placed an order for:

A. Bizarro miniseries #1-4
DC Comics Presents #97 (last chapter of "The Phantom Zone")
Howard the Duck #2 & 29 (to complete my set of high-grade copies to bind, assuming that the "VF" set of #6-#28 that I bought via Ebay ever arrives).
Suburban She Devils #1
Superman: Last Stand on Krypton
Vertigo Winter's Edge #2 (Preview for the apparently-aborted "Nevada II")

Then I threw in Vertigo Pop: London #1-4 based on a recent thread here at CBR, and Howard the Duck: The Movie #1-3 because I am, truly, a glutton for punishment (and they were 90c each).

And finally, since those nineteen comics only came to about $42.50, I threw in a "GD" copy of Adventures of Jerry Lewis #117 (with Diana Prince on the cover) to bring it up to $50 and get free shipping. Yee ha!

I summon the impulse buy!

scratchie

05-11-2007, 01:32 PM

Received Superboy #184 in the mail today which, according to GCD, completes my collection of Dave Cockrum-pencilled Legion of Super Heroes stories. There's one that belongs in the "do-able" collections threads along with, for that matter, Mike Grell's run on the Legion (it's sideburn-riffic!).

dan bailey

05-14-2007, 08:48 AM

Payday having finally arrived, I just ordered Showcase Presents: Superman v3 & The War That Time Forgot.

ismael

05-15-2007, 11:01 AM

Finally I decided to put my hands on the tpb of Camelot 3000. Despite it looks like it's taking place in the year of 1990 rather than in 3000, it's a great read, and Brian Bolland is the facial expression king.

Oldiesmann

05-15-2007, 05:57 PM

http://archie.oldiesmann.us/gallery/d/463-4/Archie_Giant_Series_142.jpg (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Archie_Giant_Series_142.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsInde x=1)

http://archie.oldiesmann.us/gallery/d/460-4/Archie_134.jpg (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Archie_134.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1)

MDG

05-16-2007, 06:58 AM

http://archie.oldiesmann.us/gallery/d/463-4/Archie_Giant_Series_142.jpg (http://archie.oldiesmann.us/v/useralbums/Oldiesmann/Archie_Giant_Series_142.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsInde x=1)

Holy Crap! I forgot that book existed, but as soon as I saw the cover I remembered reading it constantly one summer.

MDG

Oldiesmann

05-16-2007, 09:39 AM

The best part is I only paid $10.19 for that book

Budman

05-17-2007, 08:13 AM

I forgot that book existed, but as soon as I saw the cover I remembered reading it constantly one summer.

MDG

I bought this comic book when it first came out many moons ago and read it and re-read it and re-read it.....

DDM

05-19-2007, 04:19 PM

The Defenders #30-39

Indigo Al

05-19-2007, 05:11 PM

I have preordered the Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 - yeeehaw! It's significantly discounted on Amazon.

Slam_Bradley

05-22-2007, 01:16 PM

I picked up the hardcover of Sandman: Endless Nights for $9.00.

Reptisaurus!

05-22-2007, 02:14 PM

I picked up the hardcover of Sandman: Endless Nights for $9.00.

SO good. Probably my favorite of the individual volumes, and I think they're pretty much all great.

MichikoS

05-22-2007, 03:20 PM

Not comics per se, but books about comics...

It all started with my picking up this little gem at my LCS not too long ago:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i221/elbert_coalwell/confessions.jpg

The short book consists of a series of transcribed interviews with creators who had some connection to St. John Comics and/or publisher Archer St. John. This includes luminaries such as Joe Kubert, Warren Kremer, Leonard Starr, Irwin Stein and Nadine French King. It also includes a few surprises like Gene Colan and Ric Estrada. This book is essentially a short "outtake" for Benson's prior book on the St. John romance comics called ROMANCE WITHOUT TEARS. After reading some of the fascinating background research in CONFESSIONS, I of course had to track down a copy of ROMANCE:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i221/elbert_coalwell/romance.jpg

This led to an intense and insatiable curiosity about the great cartoonist MATT BAKER, who was the star artist at St. John, and may even have been the art director there at one point. It seems someone (finally) tracked down Baker's surviving relations (his nephew and his half-brother, I believe) to confirm some of the facts around this rather mysterious figure. Baker was virtually the ONLY African-American creator in the industry during the 1940's and 1950's. The Baker profile was published in an issue of ALTER EGO, which I immediately ordered from TwoMorrows.

Issue #47 of Alter Ego has a lengthy overview of Baker's career, along with an informative interview of his nephew and half-brother. There are several extraordinary photographs of Baker, who was a movie-star handsome man. I'd never seen a single photograph of Baker up to this point.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i221/elbert_coalwell/47_lrg.jpg

Baker died in 1959 of a heart condition brought on by the rheumatic fever he contracted as a child. He lived a remarkable life and was one of the most talented and influential artists in comics history.

Michi

Cherokee Jack

05-22-2007, 06:36 PM

Not comics per se, but books about comics...
Michi

I picked up the CONFESSIONS book last week but haven't read it yet. I have read the ROMANCE book, and it is excellent. Prior to reading it, I'd only read DC, Marvel, and Charlton romance stories. How different the stories in this book are. Much more adult.

Rob Allen

05-22-2007, 07:09 PM

This led to an intense and insatiable curiosity about the great cartoonist MATT BAKER, who was the star artist at St. John, and may even have been the art director there at one point. It seems someone (finally) tracked down Baker's surviving relations (his nephew and his half-brother, I believe) to confirm some of the facts around this rather mysterious figure. Baker was virtually the ONLY African-American creator in the industry during the 1940's and 1950's. The Baker profile was published in an issue of ALTER EGO, which I immediately ordered from TwoMorrows.

Michi - this very message board played a role in bringing Matt Baker's family in contact with comics fandom. Here's the story:

Matt Baker never married, so when he died his stuff went to his brother. In 2004, the brother's widow died, and some of Matt's things went to a nephew and namesake, Matt D. Baker. There were some romance comic books in the package, and Matt D. went online to see if he could find out if his uncle drew them, used them for reference, or just liked them. He found a website devoted to romance comics, and emailed its owner, Matt Thorn (there are too many people named Matt in this story). His first emails make it clear that he was unaware that his uncle was still a famous artist whose work was sought after. He was just looking to learn more about his uncle's artwork.

Matt Thorn posted here on the Classics board looking for anyone who might know more about Matt Baker's career. I saw the message here and reposted it to the timely-atlas group at Yahoo. I'd been on that list long enough to know that there were some real comics scholars there. I started getting responses within a half-hour of posting. Among them were Roy Thomas and Jim Amash. This contact led directly to the interview in Alter Ego.

In the process of introducing these people to Matt D., I had the great pleasure of giving him an orientation to his uncle's position in comics history. He went online to find out if anyone knew whether his uncle drew a few comic books, and found out that his uncle's work sells for thousands of dollars and that people are clamoring for information about him. It was one of the coolest things that happened to me in the new century.

benday-dot

05-22-2007, 07:26 PM

Rob, what a fine story you have passed along. I primarily got to know Baker through reprint exposure to his jungle comics. Marvelous, tremendous stuff. Baker and Kirby might share first place in my estimation of the Romance artists, though I stress I am not the scholar that others are on this great board. In any event, Matt Baker really is a first class artist and a treasure to our medium.

MichikoS

05-23-2007, 06:53 AM

Michi - this very message board played a role in bringing Matt Baker's family in contact with comics fandom. Here's the story:

Matt Baker never married, so when he died his stuff went to his brother. In 2004, the brother's widow died, and some of Matt's things went to a nephew and namesake, Matt D. Baker. There were some romance comic books in the package, and Matt D. went online to see if he could find out if his uncle drew them, used them for reference, or just liked them. He found a website devoted to romance comics, and emailed its owner, Matt Thorn (there are too many people named Matt in this story). His first emails make it clear that he was unaware that his uncle was still a famous artist whose work was sought after. He was just looking to learn more about his uncle's artwork.

Matt Thorn posted here on the Classics board looking for anyone who might know more about Matt Baker's career. I saw the message here and reposted it to the timely-atlas group at Yahoo. I'd been on that list long enough to know that there were some real comics scholars there. I started getting responses within a half-hour of posting. Among them were Roy Thomas and Jim Amash. This contact led directly to the interview in Alter Ego.

In the process of introducing these people to Matt D., I had the great pleasure of giving him an orientation to his uncle's position in comics history. He went online to find out if anyone knew whether his uncle drew a few comic books, and found out that his uncle's work sells for thousands of dollars and that people are clamoring for information about him. It was one of the coolest things that happened to me in the new century.Rob, fabulous story! Thanks for the background, and thanks for your role in bringing some much-needed attention to this singular creator. I'd love to hear any stories you may have picked up in the course of your conversations with Matt D. Baker.
Michi

pmpknface

05-23-2007, 06:55 AM

Just picked up and got Monday in the mail,

The Living Bible Comic Book Series #2, 1945, L. B. Cole Cover, Good (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSAA:US:11&Item=160115752048)

Just HAD to have it.

http://i10.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/9e/49/2039_1_b.JPG

MDG

05-23-2007, 06:56 AM

I picked up the CONFESSIONS book last week but haven't read it yet. I have read the ROMANCE book, and it is excellent. Prior to reading it, I'd only read DC, Marvel, and Charlton romance stories. How different the stories in this book are. Much more adult.
Are these strictly history/interviews or do they reprint some stories too?

It's great to see more history about non-superhero books and creators being documented, if it's done well. I was going to comment on the Ross Andru thread that while it's great to see so many books on (usually) silver age artists coming out, a lot read like "I drew this. Than I drew this. Then I drew this..." I'd love to see a "Men of Tomorrow" type book on the business of comics in the 60s.

MDG

dan bailey

05-24-2007, 08:29 AM

Y'know, some days it actually does pay to get out of bed (& come to work, since my home computer has been in the shop since last Friday, getting de-virused) ...

A few minutes ago, I idly typed in "Sea Devils" on eBay & came across an auction with 3 minutes to go for Sea Devils #13 & Amazing Spider-Man #55, along with a couple of lesser comics (Weird War Tales #54 & a Gold Key that I'd never heard of, Amazing Chan #1 ... with only 1 bid registered, for the minimum 99 cents. One bid & a few minutes later, they're mine, for a whopping total of $1.30.

Judging from the photo --

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r87/starcult/0dfc_1.jpg

-- they're rather worn -- "reading copies," I suppose -- but still probably in at least G+ condition (though as I've said before, my only expectations regarding condition are that all the pages are intact & the cover is, if not attached, at least in the proximity of the book).

Even at $7 shipping & the cost of a post office money order (I figure the seller's lack of interest in any sort of online payment kept interest down), I think that's the best bargain I've come across in a long, long time ...

... Even though, looking more closely, I'm fairly certain that the Sea Devils duplicates the only issue of that title I own. (If memory serves, the story's 3 parts -- drawn by, respectively, Joe Kubert, Gene Colan & Andru/Esposito -- feature one or more of the artists as characters themselves.)

pmpknface

05-24-2007, 08:40 AM

Almost forgot, I picked up a run of "WHAT IF's?" not to long ago. Mostly low #'s from the 1st run, and a few from the 2nd. All key ones, and none over $1.50! I threw in a She-Hulk or 2 too. ;)

DDM

05-24-2007, 01:16 PM

The Defenders #1 (1972), The Avengers #158, 170, 174, & 186, Alpha Flight #36, 38, & 40

benday-dot

05-24-2007, 07:13 PM