What Classic Comics Have You Purchased Lately? [Archive] - Page 6

dan bailey

02-05-2008, 09:16 PM

A friend tried to interest me in reading Planetary online, but of course Mr Luddite here has no interest whatsoever in reading comics that he can't hold in his hands, so said friend gave up & had Amazon send me the 2nd & 3rd TPBs. (I already owned, though hadn't read till he brought it up, the first one.) Pretty nicely done.

Via eBay, I just got through reading ishes 10-21 of Aaron Williams' utterly charming & engaging PS238. I'll be tracking down the first 9 & most recent 7 (I think it is) in short order.

Submitted an order a few days ago to Mile High for mostly recent issues of titles that tend not to show up around here (& that I've been too lazy to ask my LCSes to order, an oversight I hereby resolve to remedy), but also included were Marvel Comics Presents 13-16 (which I think will give me all the ishes with the MacGregor-Colan Black Panther serial, whose existence I only learned of in this forum a few months ago) & DC's 100 Page Super Spectacular Love Stories replica from a few years ago, knowledge of which had also passed me by till I saw it a few days ago in, I think, an Amazon listing of publications with Wally Wood art, or something like that.

benday-dot

02-06-2008, 06:52 PM

I picked up DC Special #29 a couple days ago.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2216/200/2216_2_29.jpg

This is a truly fine little one-shot. I've had the digest version of this story for many years now and it was pretty much love at first sight. The thing with the digest format though... well, the artwork is just too damn compressed. So much is lost in such reduced circumstance. I have a bunch of digests, but I always glance through them with a longing to see the originals, if such do exist (see our recent discussion on this topic).

In the case of the story "The Untold Origin of the Justice Society" the price has always been rather steeper than what I wanted to pay for the original full size version. Finally I got an 8.00 copy on ebay.

The wonderful story featuring that great old "Hitler and the Spear of Desitiny" scenario is by crafted by Paul Levitz (I love the opening scene where FDR calls the members of the JSA to special overseas duty), and the art is by the tandem of Joe Staton and Bob Layton.

I'm a big fan of Staton and Layton has always been one of the finest inkers in the business. Really, here is combination worthy of all the praise showered on the other great partnerships we know of... Colan/Palmer, Byrne/Austin etc.

The classic splash panel of Superman smashing the Nazi bomber planes is worth the purchase alone.

scratchie

02-07-2008, 09:15 AM

It will come as no surprise to some of you to hear that I couldn't resist picking up Diana Prince: Wonder Woman - Volume 1 at the LCS yesterday.

http://ist.atc.cx/InStockTrades/large/NOV070241.jpg

Yes, I own all the original issues, as I mentioned here last year. But I like having TPB collections, too, so I sprung for this one.

Overall, it has some pros and some cons.

PRO:

It's nice to see these almost-forgotten classics reprinted.
They're printed on matte paper, which I prefer to glossy.
It's great to see Sekowsky's wonderful "mod" designs printed cleanly on a modern printing press.

Basically, if you like these stories, you'll like this reprint. It's well-colored, the printing is clean and neat, and all the covers are included.

CON:

Seems kind of expensive at $20 for seven issues, but I guess that's the price point these days.
No introduction or any sort of background material on when or why these issues were published.
It looks like it will take four volumes to reprint the entire run.

Although these are presumably being reprinted to tie in with the current white-jumpsuit adventures of Diana Prince in the current issues of Wonder Woman, DC seems to be doing a half-assed job of the whole thing. E.g., on the dccomics.com website, the page for this book still shows the wrong cover art and website says that Lois Lane #93 is included but it's not.

My biggest disappointment is the lack of any sort of background material to put these issues in historical context. The very existence of these issues raises a host of questions which, sadly, remain unanswered.

How badly was Wonder Woman selling to justify this move?

Did sales increase?

Why did Denny O'Neil leave the book, and why did Sekowsky take over as writer instead of finding another writer?

Had there ever been another major superhero who abandoned their costume for four or five years?

This last question seems particularly interesting, at least to the trivia-hound in me. It occurred to me as I was showing this book to my wife that here was a collection of comic books with "Wonder Woman" on the front cover, but she only appeared in her Wonder Woman costume in a few panels. In subsequent volumes, her costume will be completely missing.

That seems like a pretty (you should pardon the expression) ballsy decision for DC editorial to make, taking one of their major heroes out of her costume for an extended period of time. By contrast, a few years later, Captain America was only out of costume for about three issues after "Secret Empire", and then another three issues or so in the Nomad costume. Diana was de-powered and de-costumed from September 1968 until January 1973.

Unfortunately, the whys and wherefores seem lost in time, at least as far as the current DC editorial board is concerned.

Slam_Bradley

02-07-2008, 09:24 AM

How badly was Wonder Woman selling to justify this move?

I can't answer this directly, but my understanding is that Wonder Woman sold terribly from the early 60s through the 80s. I remember a number of times in fanzines where creators and editors would remark that WW was only published to maintain the trademark and that the character was a killer for selling underoos and pencil boxes but the comics sold for crap.

dan bailey

02-07-2008, 10:36 AM

Seems kind of expensive at $20 for seven issues, but I guess that's the price point these days.

Good christ. No wonder I no longer buy TPBs anywhere except on-line. I'll be getting this from Books-a-Million's website for $12.78, looks like -- actually less than that, assuming I can dig up a $10-off-$50-orders coupon (plus free shipping), as I've been able to do the last few months. I do my utmost to support my LCSes, but at some point money is money, & if I go to the grocery store & tell them that I'm a little short but did my part to help prop up another local merchant, I don't think they'll let me slide.

In subsequent volumes,

The second of which is apparently due in June. Cool!

dan bailey

02-07-2008, 10:53 AM

Plucked a probably VG+-ish copy of Bat Lash #4 out of a box of mostly Bronze Age odd-&-ends at one LCS yesterday afternoon, & the owner was nice enough to honor the $2 price sticker on the bag. (Probably it had been on there for years, courtesy of whoever the original seller was.) I was pleased to recognize the first few panels (I haven't had a chance to read any further), because I was pretty sure I'd bought several ishes of the too-short run back when it was new.

And because someone (possibly in this very thread ... I haven't gone looking yet) was recently extolling the virtues of the Blackhawk run by hopelessly obscure comics fringe player Mark Evanier & Dan Spiegle, from the same box I brought home its handful of ishes before & during that periodl -- #s 245, 247-251, 255, 256 & 258.

A couple featured art by Ric Estrada, for whose work I've never much cared, but #245 is EC aviation-comics great George Evans solo, which is a treat. Blackhawk was never a comic I paid any attention to as a kid, but once again some of the Evans panels looked familiar, so I suspect I'd bought this one new 30-plus years ago on the strength of his name.

scratchie

02-07-2008, 11:03 AM

Good christ. No wonder I no longer buy TPBs anywhere except on-line. I'll be getting this from Books-a-Million's website for $12.78, looks like -- actually less than that, assuming I can dig up a $10-off-$50-orders coupon (plus free shipping), as I've been able to do the last few months. I do my utmost to support my LCSes, but at some point money is moneyI hear ya. I support my LCS mainly by buying singles every week. I buy most of my trades online but occasionally the instant-gratification impluse will win out (e.g. the most recent Daredevil, which I'm reading in trades now).

Since I've got a few big-ticket items I want to pick up online in the next few months (Ultimate Spider-Man V9, Fourth World Omnibus V4, Jack Kirby's OMAC, Fables V10), and I didn't really want to wait on this one, I figured it was more attractive to just buy this with my store discount instead of trying to scare up another ~$35 of additional books right now to make up a $50 order.

dan bailey

02-07-2008, 11:37 AM

I figured it was more attractive to just buy this with my store discount instead of trying to scare up another ~$35 of additional books right now to make up a $50 order.

Note to self: Be more like Scratchie. My TPB want list is minuscule in comparison to my singles want list (the latest version of which I'll be printing out any moment, as it happens, so that I can indulge yet again in my practice of taking it home & losing it), but I probably wouldn't have any problem at all* scaring up "~$350 of additional books right now to make up a $500 order."

(Actually, I pick & choose a lot. Plans right now call for me to wait on Essential Avengers vol 6, Showcase Presents Enemy Ace & Showcase Presents Aquaman vol 2 to show up on BAMM's site so I can hit the $50 threshold with the Wonder Woman book, though probably that newish Basil Wolverton volume someone mentioned a few days ago will change that scenario somewhat ...)

*except for the part about, y'know, actually paying

pmpknface

02-07-2008, 12:40 PM

Got away with a STEAL at my shop yesterday!

They were having a sale: 40% off of Masterworks and DC Archives. They also had a sale on collections that were on a shelf: buy 1 get 3 free! So I found a Marvel Masterworks, Vol 1 of the Rawhide Kid and got it for $30 - but it was in the other sale shelf! So I got that, and got 3 other trades for free!

There wasn't much there, but I got:
- Iron Man Heroes Reborn
- Captain America Heroes Reborn
- A Punisher Marvel Graphic Novel in HC

All told, $117 worth of stuff for $30! :D

DDM

02-07-2008, 12:59 PM

Marvel Premiere #1-2 (1st: Him as Adam Warlock), Marvel Premiere #44 (Jack of Hearts, Keith Giffen art), Marvel Premiere #48 (Ant Man, John Byrne art), Incredible Hulk Annual #7 (vs Master Mold II, G: Angel & Iceman, John Byrne art), & Hulk Visionaries: Peter David Volumes 3-4

Lone Ranger

02-07-2008, 01:01 PM

pmpknface

02-07-2008, 01:04 PM

Nice

I was once set on acquiring a complete RK run, but I found those early Kirby issues to be too expensive and quite tough to track down. I ended up going the MM route (got mine at a decent discount, too). You done good.
Thanks! I didn't think I'd own this one, but at that price I can't say no! I'm really into the Kirby stuff lately with all the material they've been reprinting of his lately. It's cool to see the EARLY stuff after reading the 4th world HC's.

dan bailey

02-07-2008, 01:36 PM

Yep -- very nicely done. I'm not sure I'd even take the Heroes Reborn & Punisher books for free, but by god that's a hell of a sale!

Why don't my LCSes ever offer deals like that? Probably because of all the penny-pinchers who insist on buying TPBs online ...

pmpknface

02-07-2008, 01:40 PM

It's funny. I've read 1/2 of the Iron Man trade, and the 90's storytelling kills me! This was just about the curtain call for all things BIG and FILLED WITH GUNS. After this, all of the titles got revamped and paved the way for the future.

Classic, no... not really - but it's still a tour down memory lane!

Oh, and I'm on a quest to get all the Marvel 80-90's oversized GN's, so getting this was a no-brainer. :D

Huh?

02-07-2008, 02:25 PM

Roquefort Raider

02-07-2008, 02:25 PM

Master of Kung-Fu #38-50, thanks to the nice people at NewKadia.

I had these issues in translated and B&W form, but I always wanted to read the originals.

And you know what? I think Paul Gulacy's masterful use of high contrasts is better served by a B&W treatment than by the four color system. The same held true with Gene Colan and Tom Palmer's efforts on Tomb of Dracula, which I preferred in the Essential format.

Nevertheless, these issues are a joy to read and this run (the great story where Dr. Fu Manchu means to blow up the moon) is one of the defining moments of the 70s Marvel comics.

dan bailey

02-07-2008, 04:07 PM

Roquefort Raider

02-08-2008, 06:10 AM

Offhand, I'm not sure I've ever seen Gulacy's MOKF in b&w (was he still doing the character by the time Deadly Hands was coming out? Come to think of it, did I ever own any Deadly Hands? I suppose I did, because I seem to distinctly remember reading some early Marshall Rogers Daughters of the Dragon stuff therein, but it's entirely possible my memory's gone completely haywire), but I can easily imagine that, 'Raider.

I have few issues of Deadly Hands but what I have was illustrated by the usual Filipino artists who were so active on Marvel's magazines back then. I don't think Gulacy did much DHoKF work, if any. (It would probably have been in black gray and white anyway).

That'd make an interesting thread -- artists whose stuff looks better in b&w than color.

There are many that would fit the bill... I think that any artist who relies on stark contrasts and heavy ligthing is better off without colors, unless the colorist really tries to adapt by using a limited palette. The same thing holds true for artists who do a lot of shading effect with fine linework, like Alfredo Alcala, Rudy Nebres or Alex Niño.

pmpknface

02-08-2008, 06:50 AM

Master of Kung-Fu #38-50, thanks to the nice people at NewKadia.

I had these issues in translated and B&W form, but I always wanted to read the originals.

Great buy! Ok... How did you have these in B&W?

That's it, I'm checking out this NewKadia site now!

Simon Garth

02-08-2008, 08:17 AM

I originally read all of the Gulacy MOKF's in Marvel UK's Avengers comic*

Having seen some of the Gulacy art in colour since, I think his art works much better in B&W that in the crude colouring available in the 70s. (It would be interesting to see what it would look like with modern production standards)

(* Marvel UK, through jumping on each passing bandwagon in an attempt to keep the titles going, started with Avengers & ½ a backup story (can't remember what - maybe Dr Strange). Then merged with "Savage Sword of Conan", relegating Avengers to the backup position, then merged again with the Kung Fu boom, started having MoKF stories in there as well, so you'd get half a story each week of MoKF, Conan and Avengers. Or Conan may have followed MoKF. Damnit, I'm going to have to look this up now...)

pmpknface

02-08-2008, 08:21 AM

Interesting... thanks!

Oh, since you're handle is "Simon Garth" I thought you might enjoy seeing this. It's a preliminary look at a Living Zombie statue being made by Bowen Designs sculped by Randy Bowen himself:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j12/statueforum/14l0j2f.jpg

Simon Garth

02-08-2008, 08:33 AM

Simon Garth

02-08-2008, 08:34 AM

Cei-U!

02-08-2008, 08:47 AM

I have few issues of Deadly Hands but what I have was illustrated by the usual Filipino artists who were so active on Marvel's magazines back then. I don't think Gulacy did much DHoKF work, if any. (It would probably have been in black gray and white anyway).

Greg Hatcher gave me a handful of DHoKF issues for Christmas so I can say authoratitively that Gulacy drew the MoKF episode in #3. The story in #1, incidentally, is by co-creators Englehart and Starlin.

Cei-U!
I summon the monochrome mayhem!

Roquefort Raider

02-08-2008, 03:19 PM

Greg Hatcher gave me a handful of DHoKF issues for Christmas so I can say authoratitively that Gulacy drew the MoKF episode in #3. The story in #1, incidentally, is by co-creators Englehart and Starlin.

I will have to hunt more of these early Deadly Hands of kung-fu books, then! Thanks for the tip, Kurt!

Is the story in #1 the one that was reprinted in the Treasury edition? (It has Shang-chi mopping up the floor with a bunch of fake assassins sent his way by his father who wanted to test him).

benday-dot

02-09-2008, 04:27 PM

Deep discounted to a mere $10.00 I picked up Tor v.1 HC at my LCS

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PH2Z8E2VL._SS500_.jpg

This oversized hardcover published by DC in Archive quality reprints the 3 issues of the original St. John series (actually numbered 3-5).

This is a well put together book and has lots of extras, including Kubert sketches, background information and insights into other Tor related projects.

But of course the best thing about it after all is Kubert, Kubert, Kubert...

Yes Joe provides a great introduction to his classic character, but the artwork here is of the man in peak form. Well, I won't deny Kubert's hopped from peak to peak ever since, but the age of dinosaurs and stone age man is a period, a genre, he was born to draw.

Other than perhaps Russ Heath (whose original pinups for the St. John books are wonderfully preserved here) nobody draws a dinosaur like Joe Kubert. And his great beasts are not just sitting pretty. Want to see a what a thunder lizard looks like in action, in battle with another of its kind? Then look to Joe Kubert to show you...

I have a few of those Gold Key Turok books being discussed elsewhere on CBR Classics. I like them fine, but agree with Michi's assessment that they are a little on the formulaic side. But if you want to see a comic book along similar lines, but that is just brimming with a volcanic excitement look to Kubert's Tor.

Perry Holley

02-09-2008, 07:57 PM

Spent the day at the Atlanta Comics Expo with my wife. Picked up Essential Avengers vol 2 for $6, and got the following for 50 cents a pop:

Spellbinders #1-3, 5
Slaine the Berserker #2, 4
Power of Shazam #35-36
The 'Nam #71-73
Ms. Tree's Thrilling Detective Adventures #2
Silver Age: Doom Patrol #1
Amethyst (vol 1) #4, 6-7, 12, (vol 2) #1 , (vol 3) #1-3

Cei-U!

02-09-2008, 10:16 PM

I will have to hunt more of these early Deadly Hands of kung-fu books, then! Thanks for the tip, Kurt!

Is the story in #1 the one that was reprinted in the Treasury edition? (It has Shang-chi mopping up the floor with a bunch of fake assassins sent his way by his father who wanted to test him).

It sure sounds like the same story.

Cei-U!
I summon the provisional affirmative!

Mysterio

02-11-2008, 10:36 PM

Yay! I just got X-Men #87 (1st series). That completes my run of the 80's for that series. Got that and #83 for $12.00!

pmpknface

02-12-2008, 07:01 AM

SCORE! And congrats!

Slam_Bradley

02-13-2008, 08:30 AM

Finally came up with a copy of Joe Kubert's Fax From Sarajevo in my price range. Got it for $4.75. I've been trying to score a copy of this one almost since the day it came out. Sometimes being a cheapskate is a pain in the ass.

The Shadow

02-13-2008, 11:57 AM

Snagged some later (and thus lower print run) issues Further Adventures of Indiana Jones off eBay in NM condition!

Kirk G

02-13-2008, 01:30 PM

Yay! I just got X-Men #87 (1st series). That completes my run of the 80's for that series. Got that and #83 for $12.00!

God! You paid that much for a reprint book???
What for?
What issues did they reprint? The originals are probably not even that much if you shop for them!:rolleyes:

pmpknface

02-13-2008, 01:41 PM

Yeah, but it's HARDLY a reprint book, in the traditional sense. Here are some details on it:

X-Men #87 is cover dated April 1974 and was published by Marvel Comics. This 32 page comic contains the following story:

# "The Fateful Finale" with story and art by Roy Thomas and Don Heck (pencils) / Vince Colletta (inks) (15 pages) guest-starring Banshee and featuring Changeling, Vanisher, Blob, Unus, Mastermind (all Factor Three), the Mutant-Master and new costumes for the X-Men. (REPRINTED from X-Men #39 December 1967)
# "Mister Universe" with story and art by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (pencils and inks) (5 pages) (REPRINTED from Amazing Adult Fantasy #10 March 1962) not Amazing Adventures #10 as stated.

The cover features artwork by George Tuska (pencils and inks) of a redone version of the cover to X-Men #39.

The 2007 Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide values this comic at $95.00 in near mint- condition.

http://fanworld.buffnet.net/images/xmen087.jpg

Mysterio

02-13-2008, 02:58 PM

God! You paid that much for a reprint book???
What for?
What issues did they reprint? The originals are probably not even that much if you shop for them!:rolleyes:

Please, oh please tell me this is sarcasm. I do NOT want to go over this AGAIN!

scratchie

02-13-2008, 03:16 PM

No price is too high for any comic featuring Unus The Untouchable!

Gerry Alanguilan

02-13-2008, 04:14 PM

I just got done re-collecting my complete Chris Claremont-written New Mutants from the 80's, along with other New Mutants related comics. I've had to sell my original collection, along with a whole stack of X-Men from the same time period to pay stuff a long time ago, and I've spend all this time slowly building that collection up again.

The most recent issue I got was Web of Spider-Man Annual #2, which features Warlock and has art by the amazing Art Adams. I still love looking at it, after all this time.

The Confessor

02-13-2008, 05:21 PM

Snagged some later (and thus lower print run) issues Further Adventures of Indiana Jones off eBay in NM condition!

Ooh, nice catch! I'm working on building a complete run of that series too.

DubipR

02-13-2008, 06:04 PM

Just picked up Giant Size Chillers 1-3 this week

pmpknface

02-14-2008, 07:16 AM

Just picked up Giant Size Chillers 1-3 this week
Cool! Any giant sized book is cool! ;)

scratchie

02-14-2008, 11:32 AM

It will come as no surprise to some of you to hear that I couldn't resist picking up Diana Prince: Wonder Woman - Volume 1 at the LCS yesterday. Diana gets reviewed at the AV Club today (http://www.avclub.com/content/node/74279):

Character revamps don't get much more radical than Wonder Woman's late-'60s transformation. Deeply influenced by The Avengers and James Bond, editor/artist Mike Sekowsky and writer Dennis O'Neil removed her superpowers and remade her as a colorfully clad kung-fu fighter under the guidance of a blind martial-arts master named I Ching. (Because what else would a blind martial-arts master be called?) Diana Prince: Wonder Woman, Vol. 1 (DC) collects the earliest issues in what would ultimately be a four-year side trip. The storytelling is simultaneously brisk and awkward, but the art still looks vibrant, and the collection now reads as a fascinating time capsule, filled with dialogue about things happening at "that new hippie club" and other gems. If only all bad ideas looked so interesting after a couple of decades… B

I also recently completed my collection of Super-Sons stories (World's Finest #224, a 100-pager) and Superman "Sand creature" stories (the iconic #233) and picked up Void Indigo #1-2 to see what all the fuss was about.

DDM

02-14-2008, 12:50 PM

Incredible Hulk Annual #5 (1st: Paragon who would later become Her), Incredible Hulk #365-366, Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect #2, Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David Volume 5 TPB, The Thing #1, The Thing #27 (1st Sharon Ventura), The Thing #34 (D: The Sphinx), & Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson Volume 5 TPB

Cei-U!

02-14-2008, 02:10 PM

dan bailey

02-14-2008, 02:22 PM

Just placed my first order in months with InStockTrades and it felt so gooood! I ordered the following:

Essential Doctor Strange, Vol. 3
Showcase Presents Metal Men, Vol. 1
Crisis on Multiple Earths, Vol. 1
Diana Prince, Wonder Woman, Vol. 1

Wanna read 'em now!

Boy, do I know what you mean. I ordered the Diana Prince TPB (the first 3 you list I already own) just this week myself from Books-a-Million, along with Essential Avengers v6, Showcase Presents Aquaman v2 & The Original Art of Basil Wolverton.

Roquefort Raider

02-14-2008, 02:50 PM

Just placed my first order in months with InStockTrades and it felt so gooood! I ordered the following:

Essential Doctor Strange, Vol. 3
Showcase Presents Metal Men, Vol. 1
Crisis on Multiple Earths, Vol. 1
Diana Prince, Wonder Woman, Vol. 1

Good haul!

I'll try to get the Doctor Strange one in the coming months.

Those big volumes are habit-forming, aren't they?

Cei-U!

02-14-2008, 04:37 PM

Those big volumes are habit-forming, aren't they?

So much so that I now have a bookshelf dedicated to Showcases (22 and counting) and another to Essentials (25 and counting).

Cei-U!
I summon the geek crack!

scratchie

02-15-2008, 08:11 AM

So much so that I now have a bookshelf dedicated to Showcases (22 and counting) and another to Essentials (25 and counting).I just bought the Enemy Ace Showcase blind, based on recommendations from this message board. You all didn't steer me wrong with Jonah Hex so I figured I'd take a chance on this one. Anyone else?

Perry Holley

02-16-2008, 02:46 PM

My wife picked up the first issue of Silverblade (the Bates/Colan mini from the mid 80's) while at the Atlanta Comic Expo last weekend. She liked it, so I took a look to hunt down the rest of the series... found #2-11 in a 50-cent box.

Also found the first issue of Howard Chaykin's The Scorpion for 50 cents (woo hoo!), and #4-5 of The Realm for 75 cents a pop.

dupersuper

02-18-2008, 03:10 PM

My comic shop is having a back-issue sale this month, so I've gotten a 1990 Batman issue, the 87 Batman annual, 2 issues of The Tick, a couple Starlin issues of New Gods (seemed appropriate), 1st issue of Hardware, the Bruce Jones Vigilante mini (only because it's set in Metropolis and I thought Supes might show up), the 2nd Ultimate Spiderman TPB, several Tom Strong issues, 2 Moench Spectre issues and about a half-dozen Ostrander Spectres...and several others...

Slam_Bradley

02-18-2008, 03:18 PM

Hit a number of things on E-bay this weekend.

Superman Chronicles, Vol. 2 - $4.50.

American Century # 1-27. This is the whole series. I have the tpb's of the first two story arcs, but I don't think they'll ever get around to reprinting the rest. I really like this Chaykin take on the late 40s. $17 for the 27 issues.

Four Sin City trades (Booze, Broads & Bullets; The Big Fat Kill; Hell and Back; A Dame to Kill For) $10 for the lot.

Christopher Cross Is God

02-19-2008, 11:04 PM

I recently won Secret Society of Super-Villains #1-15 (complete run) on ebay for a very low price.....$5.25 for the entire set, another .99 cents for the Astro City tpb "Life in the Big City", and $6.25 shipping.....So it was a total of $12.50 for all that.

Believe it or not, the condition of the books wasn't bad at all, especially when considering their age. You'd expect crappy copies at that price, but the majority of them are impressive.

Man, I feel like a kid in a candy store.....So far I've only read issue #1 of Secret Society, and it was surprisingly really good. I'm looking forward to reading the rest.

Roquefort Raider

02-20-2008, 06:56 AM

I summon the geek crack!

Anythin' but a plumber crack!

I just purchased Stalker #1-4, Weird Worlds #8-10 and a handful of Eternal Warrior.

Stalker I had read in B&W in a reprint digest book that I fear is now lost; I had fond memories of the Ditko-Wood collaboration on the art (and of the atypical ending).

Weird Worlds's final three issues (which complete my run) introduced Iron Wolf, a SF character I've always been curious about and whom I've only seen in a pin-up (in WW#7) and in a cameo in Twilight. Howard Chaykin isn't always my favorite, but when he's good he's good. And he's always been great at creating new SF universes.

As for the Eternal Warrior issues, they were just too inexpensive to pass!

pmpknface

02-20-2008, 07:02 AM

Check out this auction I just won:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250216358201

Issues: Avengers 150-160

Condition:
150 VG/FN
151 FN
152 F/VF
153 F/VF
154 F/VF
155 VF
156 F/VF
157 F/VF
158 FN
159 FN
160 F/VF

Description: 150 Partial reprint of Avengers #16. Stan Lee / Jack Kirby / George Perez / Joe Sinnott / Gerry Conway.

About this lot: These comics are from the personal file collection of comic writer Roger Stern. These comics were used as research for the numerous stories Roger has penned for Marvel and DC. Each comic is bagged and boarded and comes with a certificate signed by Roger.

SWEET!!! I'm going for a run of the Avengers from 150 and up. After these, I'm almost there! :)

scratchie

02-20-2008, 07:20 AM

About this lot: These comics are from the personal file collection of comic writer Roger Stern. These comics were used as research for the numerous stories Roger has penned for Marvel and DC. Each comic is bagged and boarded and comes with a certificate signed by Roger.
Sweet! I once bought something from Mike Zeck's wife on Ebay and got a recent DC TPB from Bob Rozakis on Amazon Marketplace (presumably a promo copy).

pmpknface

02-20-2008, 07:30 AM

Thanks! That's pretty cool too. I once grabbed a print from Steranko off of ebay for a steal. It's framed on my wall now! :)

Slam_Bradley

02-20-2008, 08:32 AM

Sweet! I once bought something from Mike Zeck's wife on Ebay and got a recent DC TPB from Bob Rozakis on Amazon Marketplace (presumably a promo copy).

I've purchased quite a number of trades from Todd Klein. All books that he lettered, so I presume they were comp copies.

MDG

02-20-2008, 08:43 AM

Roger Stern's always sold comics at Ithacon, usually recent stuff he got from being on the comp list. And a few years ago at a show in Utica (maybe) I bought a couple TPBs (inc. The Al Williamson Treasury) and an original script from Bob Rozakis.

Slam_Bradley

02-20-2008, 12:14 PM

Picked up a copy of Alter Ego # 27. Looks like the focus is on Vin Sullivan.

benday-dot

02-20-2008, 05:30 PM

Sweet! I once bought something from Mike Zeck's wife on Ebay and got a recent DC TPB from Bob Rozakis on Amazon Marketplace (presumably a promo copy).

Myself as well. I picked up Zeck's copy of a Kirby Sky Masters collection. Lovely stuff.

dan bailey

02-21-2008, 07:38 AM

The owner of the LCS nearest me told me yesterday that he's been going through his Silver Age trove & pricing the ishes in not-so-hot condition to clear 'em out, which is how I came across Tales to Astonish 57 & Capt. America 123 for a cool $1 each. I'd put the TTA at around G condition & the Cap at maybe VG, but at that price, who the heck cares (not that I would anyway, of course)? That's the first TTA I've owned since I sold my first comic collection off back in the summer of '81, & even then my run didn't start till #60.

Also, courtesy of eBay, my quest to acquire all the Inhumans/Black Widow ishes of Amazing Adventures is nearing an end. Got a lot of 5 ishes -- 1, 2 & 7-9 -- for $17.50, shipping included (more than I'd normally pay, but I rationalized the expenditure as being about what a comic released today would cost, given the 10 percent local sales tax), then snagged a #10 for $1.25 as part of a mass (mostly '90s indie stuff) everything-ships-for-$5 purchase.

pmpknface

02-21-2008, 07:41 AM

Inhumans/Black Widow ishes of Amazing Adventures

Aahhhhhhhh.. that's 1 run I haven't tried to go after yet. Very cool!

dan bailey

02-21-2008, 07:50 AM

Aahhhhhhhh.. that's 1 run I haven't tried to go after yet. Very cool!

Having given up on Marvel ever (or at least any time soon) doing the right thing & releasing Inhumans &/or Ka-Zar Essentials, only within the last year or two have I decided to go after the relevant ishes of AA & Astonishing Tales, neither of which I remember ever noticing when they were on the spinner racks when I was a kid. (The split format -- Inhumans & Black Widow in Amazing, Ka-Zar & Dr Doom in Astonishing -- must've made my young eyes glaze over, or something, though it's also true that by the time those titles started appearing circa mid-'70 I'd begun scaling backs my comics reading, period.) I now lack only one of each.

Sort of remarkable to look back & realize that a decent number of ishes of such 2nd- (or even 3rd-?) tier titles contained art by the likes of Wally Wood, Neal Adams, Gene Colan & Barry Smith.

I haven't given any thought yet (well, beyond the scope of typing this sentence, anyway) to going after the Beast ishes of Amazing. I'm wondering how long it'll take Essential Classic X-Men 3 or 4 to show up, & if they'd appear there ...

pmpknface

02-21-2008, 08:14 AM

I have MOST of the Ka-Zar issues from Astonishing, so I'll certiainly finish that run. The Neal Adams art sometimes makes those Amazing issues pricey. I'll certainly be on the lookout for them, as I'm closing in on having most of the books of that era already.

As far as Essentail Classic X-Men... I doubt it'll ever be made. Ess. Classic 2 covers #25-53 & Avengers #53. That only leaves 54-66 and that's too small for an essential. What I did was just buy Marvel Masterworks X-Men vol. 6 because that covers 54 - 66! 67-93 are reprints so there's no point in making that.

After that book comes in, I'll only need about 10 issues or less to have ALL of Uncanny from 1 - today including reprinted vol's. ;)

dan bailey

02-21-2008, 09:01 AM

IAs far as Essentail Classic X-Men... I doubt it'll ever be made. Ess. Classic 2 covers #25-53 & Avengers #53. That only leaves 54-66 and that's too small for an essential. What I did was just buy Marvel Masterworks X-Men vol. 6 because that covers 54 - 66! 67-93 are reprints so there's no point in making that.

*choke* I couldn't quite remember when the reprints kicked in. If there's no Essential in the offing, I'll definitely have to look into that Masterworks myself, even though those volumes' high (at least for my wallet) price tag so far has limited me to owning only two ... Thor vol 2 (because it was on sale dirt cheap at an LCS -- $10 or $15), I think, & of course Sgt Fury (because it's, duh, Sgt Fury, & also I had a neat coupon from, I believe, Tales of Wonder). The only first-run X-Men I bought as a kid just happened to be the Neal Adams issues, & I'd love to be able to read those stories again.

Hmmm. Seems like there were a few guest appearances or something in the early '70s ... like maybe in Captain America &/or some other titles, though I guess there would have to be quite a few to fill out an Essential, along of course with the aforementioned Beast run. I'll have to look into that.

pmpknface

02-21-2008, 09:27 AM

I scored the masterworks for $24 off of another forum. You can get it for around $30 on ebay.

MayBe one day they WILL make it an Ess. with other X-appearrances. I had thought of that, but I wasn't sure there was enough.

I agree that it's LOOOOOOOOOONG overdue though. Along with Sub-Mariner and Sgt. Fury.

dan bailey

02-21-2008, 09:35 AM

MayBe one day they WILL make it an Ess. with other X-appearrances. I had thought of that, but I wasn't sure there was enough.

I'm not sure, either, even after a quick trawl through the GCD. Looks like the original lineup, or at least significant portions thereof, also appeared in Avengers 120, Hulk 172, Captain America 175-175, Giant-Size Avengers 1 (albeit in the form of a flashback) & Fear 20 (apparently in a flashback by Morbius, or something).

All of those, plus X-Men 54-66 & the 6 original Beast ishes of Amazing Adventures (turns out #17 consisted of reprints cobbled together between 2 framing pages drawn by Jim "Starling"), would translate to a page-count of something like 476 pages, not including covers.

Those results came from a Cyclops character search, so certainly they're not necessarily the definitive rundown of X-Men appearances between #66 & Giant-Size 1.

DDM

02-21-2008, 01:21 PM

Uncanny X-Men #36, The Mighty Thor #235 (1st Possessor), The Mighty Thor #236-237, Incredible Hulk #228-229 (1st Moonstone), #258-259 (1st Soviet Super Soldiers), The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #10 (1st Human Fly), & The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #20 (D: The Blizzard)

pmpknface

02-21-2008, 02:16 PM

spoon_jenkins

02-21-2008, 06:03 PM

I'm not sure, either, even after a quick trawl through the GCD. Looks like the original lineup, or at least significant portions thereof, also appeared in Avengers 120, Hulk 172, Captain America 175-175, Giant-Size Avengers 1 (albeit in the form of a flashback) & Fear 20 (apparently in a flashback by Morbius, or something).

All of those, plus X-Men 54-66 & the 6 original Beast ishes of Amazing Adventures (turns out #17 consisted of reprints cobbled together between 2 framing pages drawn by Jim "Starling"), would translate to a page-count of something like 476 pages, not including covers.

Those results came from a Cyclops character search, so certainly they're not necessarily the definitive rundown of X-Men appearances between #66 & Giant-Size 1.
According to my X-Men index, the appearances that take place between #66 and Giant-Size are Incredible Hulk #150, 161, 172; Amazing Spider-Man #92; Avengers #88, 110-111,; Marvel Fanfare #50; Amazing Adventures #11-17; Marvel Team-Up #4, 23; Captain America #172-175; Shanna the She-Devil #5; Fear #20; and Defenders #15-16.

Those include appearances by at least one member of the Silver Age team, including Professor X. Obviously, the Marvel Fanfare issue was published years later, but I'm pretty sure the others actually were from the 1970-75 time period. That's over 20 issues. Plus, Sunfire had a handful of appearances during that era.

benday-dot

02-21-2008, 06:44 PM

Having given up on Marvel ever (or at least any time soon) doing the right thing & releasing Inhumans &/or Ka-Zar Essentials, only within the last year or two have I decided to go after the relevant ishes of AA & Astonishing Tales, neither of which I remember ever noticing when they were on the spinner racks when I was a kid. (The split format -- Inhumans & Black Widow in Amazing, Ka-Zar & Dr Doom in Astonishing -- must've made my young eyes glaze over, or something, though it's also true that by the time those titles started appearing circa mid-'70 I'd begun scaling backs my comics reading, period.) I now lack only one of each.

Sort of remarkable to look back & realize that a decent number of ishes of such 2nd- (or even 3rd-?) tier titles contained art by the likes of Wally Wood, Neal Adams, Gene Colan & Barry Smith.

I haven't given any thought yet (well, beyond the scope of typing this sentence, anyway) to going after the Beast ishes of Amazing. I'm wondering how long it'll take Essential Classic X-Men 3 or 4 to show up, & if they'd appear there ...

Those Beast issues are pretty cool Dan, but I have found them to be rather more pricey than the preceding Inhumans' issues. I have a couple, then go full steam into the Killraven loveliness.

wolp

02-21-2008, 09:50 PM

Umm recently I found Marvel Essentials Fantastic Four vol. 2 and 4 and I've never read these stories before but they were 10 bucks each so I said to myself "Sure why not". Well long story short I'm loving it so far. I like the team dynamic and the way Stan Lee writes the Thing. I've only read Ult. Fan Four so I don't have any real FF exposure but I guess I've missed a lot! So much so that I went to my LCS guy and he ordered me Essentials FF vol. 1 and 3 so I can read the origins and the first Galactus and SS. It'll take 2 weeks but he gives American cover price and 15 percent off so it's all good. I think it's a great value for 15 odd bucks.

Personal Highlight has to be the Thing. He's hilarious when he's bugging the rest of the guys or talking about the Yancy street gang. Stan Lee is a genius lol

RENTALS - Found at my college library many different books. Early Brian Michael Bendis and lots of Alan Moore GN's. So I picked up Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Never read either or watched the movie. I've started Watchmen but I have a lot left and haven't even started V for Vendetta yet. Been too busy.

I'll probably finish all the books up by Monday since I have more free time now for awhile. Wish me luck guys.

pmpknface

02-22-2008, 07:07 AM

According to my X-Men index, the appearances that take place between #66 and Giant-Size are Incredible Hulk #150, 161, 172; Amazing Spider-Man #92; Avengers #88, 110-111,; Marvel Fanfare #50; Amazing Adventures #11-17; Marvel Team-Up #4, 23; Captain America #172-175; Shanna the She-Devil #5; Fear #20; and Defenders #15-16.

Those include appearances by at least one member of the Silver Age team, including Professor X. Obviously, the Marvel Fanfare issue was published years later, but I'm pretty sure the others actually were from the 1970-75 time period. That's over 20 issues. Plus, Sunfire had a handful of appearances during that era.

Ok, that could work! Thanks for the research Spoon!

I'd just be interested in the Inhumans and Beast issues because I have the Ess. Killraven.

WOLP: You're in for a treat with the reading you have to do! Enjoy!

MWGallaher

02-22-2008, 07:44 AM

According to my X-Men index, the appearances that take place between #66 and Giant-Size are Incredible Hulk #150, 161, 172; Amazing Spider-Man #92; Avengers #88, 110-111,; Marvel Fanfare #50; Amazing Adventures #11-17; Marvel Team-Up #4, 23; Captain America #172-175; Shanna the She-Devil #5; Fear #20; and Defenders #15-16.

There's also about 33 pages of an Angel backup series by Jerry Seigel and George Tuska that ran in Ka-Zar and Marvel Tales. With the Beast's solo series and the remaining X-Men, that brings the count up to over 20 issues' worth of stories...still not quite up to today's typical Essentials size. Add in Marvel Team-Up 4 (X-Men), 23 (Iceman), and 38 (Beast, with the villainous Griffin from his Amazing Adventures run) and I think you've got a reasonably saleable package, if still a little slim.

pmpknface

02-22-2008, 08:32 AM

I've heard Joe Q. say that Jen Grunwald is in charge of making the tpb collections. Anyone have her email address? Let's campaign for this!!!

dan bailey

02-22-2008, 08:51 AM

Well, she's got her own ComicSpace place -- http://www.comicspace.com/marvelgirl/ .

Not that my hidebound self has any clue just what ComicSpace is, really.

Christopher Cross Is God

02-25-2008, 12:11 PM

Just bought several Frank Miller-era Daredevil issues for $1 each at Half Price Books. Usually, that's not a good place to look for comics, as most of what they have is crap, but I was shocked to see these issues being sold at that price. They were all in VG condition, so most comic shops would have probably had them around $4 each, so I got a bargain....One was issue 181 (Daredevil vs Elektra), which was a pretty good issue.

I'm glad I got these......The only Miller-era Daredevil I had read before these was the tpb "Gang War", and I didn't like it back when I read it.....So it was a pleasure reading issue 181, which is definitely a classic.

pmpknface

02-25-2008, 12:26 PM

I got my Avengers run from Rogers Stern! AWESOME!!! :D

DDM

02-25-2008, 12:50 PM

dan bailey

02-25-2008, 01:05 PM

[B]What does M.M.M.S? Is the the Merry Marvel Marching Society?

You are correct, sir.

pmpknface

02-25-2008, 01:26 PM

DDM

02-25-2008, 05:22 PM

Very cool! As long as you're talking about Al Milgrom - FYI he's doing commissions if anyone is interested. You can email him at: EditoriAL4@aol.com

He did a KILLER PPSSM recreation for me!

http://www.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_2177/subcat_12972/PPSS%20Spot%20cover.jpg

Yes, I'm talking about Al Milgrom. This was long before Marvel hired him & they have him listed as "Allen Milgrom" as part of the Merry Marvel Marching Society.

DDM

02-28-2008, 01:08 PM

Uncanny X-Men #35 (1st Changeling, G: Spider-Man, vs Factor Three), Nova #1 (1st: Nova, Richard Rider), Nova #2 (1st Powerhouse, Condor), Nova #3 (1st Diamondhead), Nova #4 (1st Corrupter, vs Thor), Nova #5, #7(1st Sphinx), #8-9 (1st & O: Megaman), #10-11 (vs Sphinx), & Nova #12 (G: Spider-Man)...

pmpknface

02-28-2008, 01:12 PM

You'll love the Nova stuff! GOOD PURCHASE!

dan bailey

02-28-2008, 02:00 PM

You'll love the Nova stuff! GOOD PURCHASE!

Oh, thanks. A couple of days ago I rounded out a Books-a-Million order to make the $50 threshold for a $10 discount by having to choose between Essential Nova & Essential Marvel Two-in-One vol 2. After a mental coin flip, I went with the MTIO. Now I'm regretting it.

(I remember enjoying Nova pretty well when I was reading it off the spinner racks back in the '70s ... Not sure how far into the run I got, but since all but one of 'em came out before the deal-breaking price hike to 40 cents, I probably made it pretty close to the end. Or maybe I gave up during what I recall was Carmine Infantino's taking over the pencils. I love his Silver Age DC stuff, but after that ... no.)

DDM

02-28-2008, 03:01 PM

You'll love the Nova stuff! GOOD PURCHASE!

I'm going to buy Nova #13-25 next week. the books are inexpensive as back issues. The most being $4.00 for one book...

I just love buying obscure Marvel Comics. First Spider-Woman, Ms. Marvel, Iron Fist, & now Nova....

I'm still looking for the original Power Man #1 from the 1970's...

DDM

02-28-2008, 03:26 PM

Oh, thanks. A couple of days ago I rounded out a Books-a-Million order to make the $50 threshold for a $10 discount by having to choose between Essential Nova & Essential Marvel Two-in-One vol 2. After a mental coin flip, I went with the MTIO. Now I'm regretting it.

(I remember enjoying Nova pretty well when I was reading it off the spinner racks back in the '70s ... Not sure how far into the run I got, but since all but one of 'em came out before the deal-breaking price hike to 40 cents, I probably made it pretty close to the end. Or maybe I gave up during what I recall was Carmine Infantino's taking over the pencils. I love his Silver Age DC stuff, but after that ... no.)

You can buy Essential Nova next time. The Sphinx storyline got moved to The Fantastic Four after Nova was cancelled. Then it was resolved in Marvel Two-in-One #91 & Thing #34 with the death of the Sphinx.

Kirk G

02-28-2008, 03:53 PM

I got my Avengers run from Rogers Stern! AWESOME!!! :D

You bastard! YOU'RE the one I was bidding against! Crap!:mad:

Kirk G

02-28-2008, 03:56 PM

Uncanny X-Men #36 has a listing of the M.M.M.S. One important person is future editor/penciler/inker, Allen Milgrom. Through Allen Milgrom, he would hire his school friend, Jim Starlin, to work for Marvel in the early 1970's.

What does M.M.M.S? Is the the Merry Marvel Marching Society?

I remember some of those issues when they came out.
They were not terribly impressive, and the series really seemed to be loosing it's direction...especially as they wandered into the 40s.... one shot issues, and no sense of direction or plot development. Just..."Let's try something different...we'll bust them up...and then pair them up in duos and solo stories.

Frankly, I'm really surprised that they got Steranko to mess with them and Barry Windsor Smith....before the settled on Neal Adams for a year.

Finally, somebody pulled the plug before they actually got the sales figures correctly analyzed and realized that they had a hit growing on their hands!

DDM

02-28-2008, 05:35 PM

I remember some of those issues when they came out.
They were not terribly impressive, and the series really seemed to be loosing it's direction...especially as they wandered into the 40s.... one shot issues, and no sense of direction or plot development. Just..."Let's try something different...we'll bust them up...and then pair them up in duos and solo stories.

Frankly, I'm really surprised that they got Steranko to mess with them and Barry Windsor Smith....before the settled on Neal Adams for a year.

Finally, somebody pulled the plug before they actually got the sales figures correctly analyzed and realized that they had a hit growing on their hands!

My first issue of X-Men was Uncanny X-Men #221 (1st Mister Sinister). I'm just surprised my LCS has the original X-Men comics for me to buy! I'm missing 5 books to keep me from having X-Men #35-66. Then I'll work on X-Men #1-34...

X-Men is good with X-Men #27-29 (1st Banshee & Factor Three), but it loses focus afterwards. It does not regain focus until X-Men #49-53 with the introduction of Lorna Dane. Then Alex Summers is introduced in the following storyline. However, the book's magic is really captured with Roy Thomas & Neal Adams in X-Men #54-63 with the return of Magneto, Xavier, the Sentinels, & the introduction of the Savage Land Mutates & the evil Sauron. I also liked the introduction of Sunfire in X-Men #64. The Z'nox storyline is good to see the X-Men act as team including Havok & Lorna Dane.

I think X-Men really on got its true focus in Giant Size X-Men #1 with the new X-Men. Chris Claremont added layers of depth with his storylines & changed certain characters for the better such as Jean Grey's transformation from Marvel Girl to Phoenix. He stayed true the book's concept & expanded upon it with The New Mutants & Excalibur.

Beria

02-29-2008, 07:24 AM

MDG

02-29-2008, 08:22 AM

I just got home after bying Haywire 1-13. I like Michael Fleisher, the art by Giarrano looked good and it was cheap (some 4 dollars). Now I'm, looking forward to read it. Has anyone read it? Is it any good?
I picked up the first issue (Kyle Baker inks, right?), but didn't follow it. At the time, it just seemed like too much other stuff in comics--stuff I didn't care for--at the time.

If you like Giarrano, you might want to look at a pretty good mini he did with Steven Grant called BADLANDS--fictionalized story behind the JFK assassination.

Rob Allen

02-29-2008, 06:06 PM

I'm still looking for the original Power Man #1 from the 1970's...
Do you mean Hero for Hire #1? Luke Cage didn't start using the name "Power Man" until issue #17 or so.

Kirk G

02-29-2008, 06:40 PM

If you ask me, (and nobody has, or will) The best X-men stories of the original 66 ARE the Neal Adams/Roy Thomas run from #54-64. I don't care for the overly dramatic #65, as it has been done too many times. And #66 is just trash, IMHO.

However, there is a special place in my hear for #1-19, and the resolution of the Magneto storyline. I felt it lost something with all the 20s-through40s until Steranko picked up the bar with the Lorna Dune/Mesmero arc of 49-52. Throw in a filler with Blastar (what a joke) for BWS, and awful art for the first Alex Summers appearance, and you have it all.

As for the NEW Uncanny X-men, it's not really of any interest to me until #110 and Byrne hit's his stride...with #112.

The whole Factor three non-sense made no sense, especially when they wrapped it up so fast, and the four villians flipping sides so fast....yuck. There's a huge double page spread that mis-printed in about 38 or so, but I didn't care for much of anything beyond the mimic stories of 26-29.

Cherokee Jack

03-01-2008, 04:34 AM

Slam_Bradley

03-01-2008, 09:49 AM

Picked up a copy of Showcase Presents Teen Titans, Vol. 2 for $7.

Also a copy of Jess Nevin's A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for a five-spot.

Perry Holley

03-01-2008, 10:10 AM

Recently picked up a double-dose of Steve Gerber goodness: Giant-Size Defenders #4 and Giant-Size Man-Thing #5. The former I picked up because I'm pretty much a sucker for anything with the Squadron Sinister or (original) Squadron Supreme, and the latter, well... every fanboy needs to be able to proudly proclaim that he does, in fact, have a giant-size man thing. ;)

Beria

03-01-2008, 11:21 AM

Read it, and enjoyed it. Now that you reminded me, I need to read it again. And I second the motion for BADLANDS.

Now I've finished Haywire. I liked it a lot. A nice, quirky plot, a little bit of kinky sex, a cool concept and great action scenes. Too bad Fleisher hasn't gotten around to writing a sequel.

I guess I'll have to take a look at Badlands. I remember seeing it years ago and it looked interesting. Steven Grant is a fine writer.

By the way, Giarrano drew one of the most memorable issues of Grant Morrisons Doom Patrol. Featuring a grim and gritty beard-hating vigilante. Hilarious stuff.

The Confessor

03-02-2008, 04:55 AM

I've just taken delivery of a copy of Marvel Team-Up #131 - first appearance of White Rabbit. :cool:

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/5944/mtu131sj5.jpg

dan bailey

03-02-2008, 07:41 AM

Note to self: Add MTU #131 to next Lone Star or Mile High order, whichever has it cheaper.

dan bailey

03-03-2008, 11:54 AM

At this point, I could almost save time by typing up what I haven't bought lately ...

Anyway, recent purchases from eBay, BAMM.com, Mile High, Lone Star (some already in hand, some waiting as the wheels of online commerce &/or the Postal Service grind slow & exceedingly fine) --

Essential Marvel Two-in-One v 1 & 2, Nova, Ms Marvel, She-Hulk

Showcase Presents House of Mystery v2, Superman Family v2, Enemy Ace

Savage Sword of Conan v1 TPB -- I read & liked the color Conan well enough, but I really liked SSOC, which I started buying with ish 2.

Amelia Rules digests v1-3 (Offhand, I guess the first couple of years' worth fall within the forum's definiton of "classic" ... These are so great I almost wish I had a kid-type to share them with!)

PS 238 1-9, 22, 24-28 (See Amelia Rules)

Superboy 221, 223, 225, 246, 252, 253, 255-257 (I'm working to accumulate all the Legion appearances following LOSH Archives vol 10)

Defenders 31, 33, 36-39 (I actually had these on order before Steve Gerber's death, as they're all I lacked from replicating the contents of Essential Defenders vol 3, which I skipped buying because I already had so many of the individual issues)

Flying Saucers 1 (completing the very short run from Dell, for all intents & purposes, since I'm pretty sure #5 -- which I don't own -- is a straight reprint of this one)

Giant-Size Mini Marvels Starring Spidey one-shot (because the Mini Marvels strips in the backs of X-Men First Class & certain other present-day Marvels are great, & if DC can do an ongoing of Tiny Titans [also very enjoyable], Marvel should consider doing the same)

Astro City: A Visitor's Guide (which I had no idea even existed -- I've been operating for a year or two now under the blissfully ignorant assumption that everything Astro City before, I guess, '06 or so has been reprinted in TPB) until I stumbled across a mention of it in the Astro City forum)

Blackhawk 252-254, 256-257 (because some evil individual[s] in this forum had very nice things to say about Dan Spiegel's run on this title, & I'd already picked up a few of the preceding run, so ...)

Marvel Two-In-One -- a couple of dozen issues between ishes 68-98 or thereabouts, giving me pretty much the entirety of the run not reprinted in the two Essentials.

Supergirl (vol 3) -- about 2 dozen issues, giving me pretty much the first half of the run & a smattering after that.

Hard Times 1-12 (Season One) -- Got these in a lot with virtually complete runs of two (Touch, Fraction) of the other three (I already had most or all of the Kinetic ishes) titles in DC's short-lived "DC Focus" line, whose existence I hadn't even been aware of till I picked up a Hard Times 1 from a cheap bin last month & realized that the cover format was identical to that for the ishes of Kinetic & Touch I already owned.

Infinity Inc -- an eBay lot that'll bring me within 4 ishes of the entire run (of which I already had roughly half ... now I just need to do the same thing with All-Star Squadron)

Sandman Mystery Theatre -- from the same eBay seller as the Infinity Inc lot ... the first 33 ishes, bar a couple

Amazing Adventures #15 -- when it arrives it'll be the first Beast ish I've owned ... even with what the seller describes as slight moisture damage, I figure I couldn't go wrong for $1

DC 100-Page Super Spectacular 14 & 15 -- Something like $1.50 each from the same seller as the first Amelia Rules digest & Showcase Presents the House of Mystery v2 ... #14 is in really poor shape, complete with some mildewing & maybe even smoke damage, but I'm delighted to own it because I fondly remember its introducing me to Doll Man & Elmo as a kid, not to mention the super-creepy early Batman "vs the Vampire" story.

Thank god I'm not particularly condition-cognizant ...

Slam_Bradley

03-03-2008, 01:02 PM

Picked up issues 1, 3-5, 7-9 and 11 of Back Issue Magazine. Total cost was $7.50, though they're in roughish shape.

Cei-U!

03-03-2008, 01:57 PM

Essential Marvel Two-in-One v 1 & 2

Marvel Two-In-One -- a couple of dozen issues between ishes 68-98 or thereabouts, giving me pretty much the entirety of the run not reprinted in the two Essentials.

You'll want to pick up #21. It's a Thing/Doc Savage team-up so it had to be ommitted from the Essentials.

Cei-U!
I've got mine!

dan bailey

03-03-2008, 02:01 PM

Thanks for the tip. Seems to me there's a Power Man/Iron Fist involving Rom or the like that's in the same boat, which I also need to pick up ...

Has anyone ever done any sort of master list of similarly affected ishes of various titles?

Makes me wonder if this sort of thing ever cropped out before the Bronze Age. I know that Captain Action reprints are apparently out (which is a shame, because it's a pretty solid comic, or at least I thought so when I got around last year to acquiring & reading all whopping 5 issues) because of Hasbro (I think) retaining sole license, or whatever, but I don't recall that title's/toy line's characters showing up in any other DC titles of the day.

I summon the project for someone besides me to take on!

pmpknface

03-04-2008, 07:00 AM

It's PM & IF #73. If you like the Hulk Rom was also in #294 or #296 too, so that'll never be reprinted either. I know there was a Marvel 2 in 1 that had Rom towards the end too, like 97 or so.

I LOVED Hard Time. It ended waaaaay too soon.

The Confessor

03-04-2008, 07:32 PM

Astro City: A Visitor's Guide (which I had no idea even existed -- I've been operating for a year or two now under the blissfully ignorant assumption that everything Astro City before, I guess, '06 or so has been reprinted in TPB) until I stumbled across a mention of it in the Astro City forum)

Marvel Two-In-One -- a couple of dozen issues between ishes 68-98 or thereabouts, giving me pretty much the entirety of the run not reprinted in the two Essentials.

Oh yes, no serious Astro City collection is complete without a copy of the Visitor's Guide. A wise purchase.

And did you pick up #90 of Marvel Two-In-One per chance? I only ask because that's probably one of my all time favourite comics.

icctrombone

03-05-2008, 06:25 PM

Just got Avengers #11 v.1 in the mail. Good copy and now I need 7 issues to complete my Avengers Collection.

earl

03-05-2008, 08:19 PM

I just ordered a bunch of older Brave and the Bold starting a run on that title. I've got nice runs of the main Bat titles back into the 70s, but not much Brave and the Bold, which for some reason I never had many copies of even when I was collecting as a kid. I suppose it is because I really started collecting comics about the time Batman and the Outsiders got started.

I also got a bunch of .50 cent books out of my local store last weekend including about a dozen All Star Squadron issues I needed, some ha ha 80s Justice League and some of the baxter run of New Teen Titans. Slowly but surely I am getting runs of bunches of 80s DC comics that were some of my favorites. I really want to get a run of 80s Legion starting at 259, as that book was consistently a good read.

pmpknface

03-06-2008, 06:51 AM

Just got Avengers #11 v.1 in the mail. Good copy and now I need 7 issues to complete my Avengers Collection.
Awesome! Congrats! What's left?

dan bailey

03-06-2008, 07:22 AM

Picked up issues 1, 3-5, 7-9 and 11 of Back Issue Magazine. Total cost was $7.50, though they're in roughish shape.

Nicely done. I didn't start buying the mag regularly till ish 15 or so, but I've been very impressed, enough to have gone back & made an effort to amass a full lrun. I'm lacking only #s 1 & 5.

(TwoMorrows still has all the ishes in stock, looks like, & if memory serves around Xmastime they were having a 50 percent off sale, but I was either too broke &/or not in a mood to buy much of anything, the haunting knowledge of which prevents me from taking advantage right now of their ongoing 15 percent off sale. The fact that I'm also trying to complete runs of their Alter Ego [16 issues to go] & Comic Book Artist [lacking 8 ishes] is part of that equation, of course.)

dan bailey

03-06-2008, 08:05 AM

And did you pick up #90 of Marvel Two-In-One per chance? I only ask because that's probably one of my all time favourite comics.

That one I've had for awhile, looks like. I've never read it, I'm sure. As far as I know, I haven't sat down & perused a single MTIO after #49, since I discontinued buying all comics when the cover price jumped to 40 cents in late '78 (which is why until a couple of years ago, as I've related here before, I'd never seen the LOC I had printed in [I think] #54 that prompted the great Gene Day to write me a letter in mid-'79 expressing appreciation for my complimentary remarks on his great art job in ish 49). Now that I've got Essential MTIO v2 in hand -- it arrived from BAMM yesterday, along with the She-Hulk, Ms Marvel & Defenders v1 volumes & Showcase Presents Enemy Ace -- I'll be able to start catching up, as it were.

Slam_Bradley

03-06-2008, 10:37 AM

Apparently my wife just picked up the fourth Bone trade The Dragonslayer at Connor's elementary school book faire.

DDM

03-06-2008, 01:11 PM

From Mile High Comics:

Quasar #1-9, #12-16, #19, #21, #24, Ka-Zar The Savage #11-12 (1981 series, 1st: Belasco), Gargoyle #1-4 (1985 series), Thing #35-36 (1st Sharon Ventura as Ms. Marvel II), Marvel Comics Presents #158 (1st: ClanDestine), Classic X-Men #63, #71 & Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man #18 (Disband: The Champions)

LCS:

Nova #13-14, 16-25, & Thing #33 (1st New Grapplers)

icctrombone

03-06-2008, 02:56 PM

Awesome! Congrats! What's left?

Still need # 1,2 3, 4, 6 ,9 Annual # 5. All the pricey ones. :(

Kirk G

03-06-2008, 08:56 PM

Still need # 1,2 3, 4, 6 ,9 Annual # 5. All the pricey ones. :(

Hmmm... # 4 and 9, eh? Is #9 the WOnderman issue?

I got a coverless #4 when cap joins, that I found on the floor at a comic convention after everyone had left and cleaned out. I was SHOCKED. I grabbed it (backin 1980) and have held onto it ever since...:rolleyes:

icctrombone

03-07-2008, 04:29 AM

Yeah, # 9 is the first appearance of wonderman. The books that I buy are usually lower grade copies. Want them just above the readers copy condition.

Christopher Cross Is God

03-10-2008, 08:13 AM

Damn, I didn't win this auction, but someone won Daredevil (vol 1) #4 on ebay for $11.

pmpknface

03-10-2008, 08:15 AM

Damn, I didn't win this auction, but someone won Daredevil (vol 1) #4 on ebay for $11.
Back in the day (1993 maybe) I got a copy of that book for $5. Even better is that in the middle of it 1 pages is printed 2 times. ;)

Slam_Bradley

03-10-2008, 01:20 PM

Alter Ego # 17. Focus on Lou Fine and Arnold Drake.

Rob Allen

03-10-2008, 04:37 PM

Alter Ego # 17. Focus on Lou Fine and Arnold Drake.

Does it mention whether his name started out as "Louis Fine" or did he Anglicize it?

It occurred to me at some point that his name might have been "Louis Feinberg", which by coincidence was the original name of the performer better known as Larry Fine of the Three Stooges.

Kirk G

03-10-2008, 04:41 PM

Damn, I didn't win this auction, but someone won Daredevil (vol 1) #4 on ebay for $11.

You'll note that those Daredevils with the single digit issue numbers all suffer from marvel chipping on the covers. I have two copies of #4 now, and both are in rough shape. It was a function of the quality of paper, and the quality of printing, I have heard.:(

Slam_Bradley

03-10-2008, 09:14 PM

Does it mention whether his name started out as "Louis Fine" or did he Anglicize it?

It occurred to me at some point that his name might have been "Louis Feinberg", which by coincidence was the original name of the performer better known as Larry Fine of the Three Stooges.

Haven't had a chance to delve into it yet, Rob. But as soon as I do, I'll let you know.

Slam_Bradley

03-11-2008, 08:36 AM

Red Sonja, Vol. 1 reprinting Marvel Features 1-7 $4.75.

Alter Ego 68-70 and Back Issue 17,18 & 20.

dan bailey

03-11-2008, 08:43 AM

Red Sonja, Vol. 1 reprinting Marvel Features 1-7 $4.75.

Neat. I fondly remember reading those, & the subsequent ishes of the character's own comic, back when they were new. Very nice work by Frank Thorne.

If memory serves, these marked my introduction to Bruce Jones as a writer ... Until then I knew him (from Unknown Worlds of SF, where I seem to recall his stories might've been reprinted from undergrounds) soley as an exquisitely Williamsonesque artist, though probably he scripted his own stuff, too.

Makes me wonder, as I noted in a Comics Should be Good post awhile back, just when Jones last drew anything. I gather from interviews that he was just too slow an artist to attain commercial viability.

(And while I'm at it, I also find myself wondering if any other creator known primarily as an artist ever made the transiition to being known primarily or solely as a writer. I know the sf novelist Harry Harrison started out as an artist during what I guess would've been the very late Golden Age, & memory tells me that Steve Englehart did a smattering of touch-ups & the like, but to my knowledge neither of those guys was particularly accomplished with the pencil or brush. Same goes for Brian Bendis early in his career, though offhand I can't recall ever seeing any of his artwork.)

MDG

03-11-2008, 09:20 AM

The GCD lists a couple of Marvel romance stories pencilled by Englehart, as well as some stories for Warren.

scratchie

03-11-2008, 10:04 AM

Neat.
(And while I'm at it, I also find myself wondering if any other creator known primarily as an artist ever made the transiition to being known primarily or solely as a writer. Frank Miller?

dan bailey

03-11-2008, 10:23 AM

Does Miller just write these days? Without particularly intending to, I find that I seem to have avoided everything he's done in ... well, ever. Though a friend sent me the second Dark Night Return books (that's Miller, correct?) for Xmas.

Lone Ranger

03-11-2008, 10:23 AM

(And while I'm at it, I also find myself wondering if any other creator known primarily as an artist ever made the transiition to being known primarily or solely as a writer.

Mike Grell comes to mind - when he was writing Sable and Green Arrow, I don't think he was doing much artwork.

Jim Starlin as well, maybe? Not sure about him, I just seem to recall seeing more and more writing from him and less and less drawing.

JKCarrier

03-11-2008, 10:51 AM

Makes me wonder, as I noted in a Comics Should be Good post awhile back, just when Jones last drew anything.

The GCD shows a smattering of drawing credits in the late '80s/early '90s, mostly short stories. He wrote and drew a graphic novel for Marvel called "Arena" in '89.

scratchie

03-11-2008, 11:13 AM

Jim Starlin as well, maybe? Not sure about him, I just seem to recall seeing more and more writing from him and less and less drawing.He's writing and drawing the current Death of the New Gods mini at DC, and if you like that groovy 70s cosmic vibe, you'll love this.

pmpknface

03-11-2008, 11:36 AM

In his last stint at Marvel he drew a lot too.

Kan-Man

03-11-2008, 12:25 PM

(And while I'm at it, I also find myself wondering if any other creator known primarily as an artist ever made the transiition to being known primarily or solely as a writer.

I'm pretty sure Keith Giffen is known more these days as a writer than an artist, though he's been doing a lot of layout work lately. I mention him because they've been making a big deal out of the fact he's going to be pencilling a project this year.

dan bailey

03-11-2008, 12:39 PM

Yeah, good point -- Giffen definitely qualifies.

Rob Allen

03-11-2008, 12:59 PM

The GCD lists a couple of Marvel romance stories pencilled by Englehart, as well as some stories for Warren.

I have a Skywald magazine with a sword & sorcery story scripted by Gardner Fox and drawn by Steve Englehart. How's that for a creative team you never thought you'd see?

MDG

03-11-2008, 01:47 PM

I'm pretty sure Keith Giffen is known more these days as a writer than an artist, though he's been doing a lot of layout work lately. I mention him because they've been making a big deal out of the fact he's going to be pencilling a project this year.
In the 80s, when I was buying a lot of comics, Giffen was one of my favorite artists, and I still love a lot of it--Ambush Bug, Legion of Subs, the handful of Superman stories in Action, the Creeper Team-up in DCCP. I may be in the minority here, but I like this stuff a lot more than his early Legion, All-Star, etc, which just look like very immature work in comparison (Immature in the sense that he hadn't seemed to find his own style yet. And, yes, I'm aware that he copped a lot of "his own style" from Jose Munoz, but I dig it anyway).

I was very impressed with how even when other people were writing and drawing, it was still a "Giffen" book--examples are Justice League and Legionaries 3.

Not crazy about his Trencher style, but I liked the art on the Heckler.

dan bailey

03-11-2008, 02:49 PM

Whereas I'm a big, big fan of Giffen's Defenders art ... it's sort of like really fine-lined, compressed Kirby, in a way. I own a fair amount of some of the other stuff you cite but haven't really looked at it (except to be able to tell from a quick glance that Trencher looks pretty impenetrable).

scratchie

03-11-2008, 05:45 PM

Whereas I'm a big, big fan of Giffen's Defenders art ... it's sort of like really fine-lined, compressed Kirby, in a way. Yeah, I love that stuff. Derivative and "compressed" (good description) as it is, it sure is nice to look at.

benday-dot

03-11-2008, 06:06 PM

Perhaps we can add Keith Giffen to this category. I recall him almost exclusively as an artist. I guess he still draws some, but mostly it seems he exercises his considerable talents these days as a writer. But I don't follow the Big Two Universes too closely to be sure I'm right on this count.

Apologies... I didn't read down far enough to reach Kan-Man's and subsequent posts. At least I can confirm my thinking wasn't out in the wilderness.

Reptisaurus!

03-11-2008, 06:16 PM

(And while I'm at it, I also find myself wondering if any other creator known primarily as an artist ever made the transiition to being known primarily or solely as a writer. I know the sf novelist Harry Harrison started out as an artist during what I guess would've been the very late Golden Age, & memory tells me that Steve Englehart did a smattering of touch-ups & the like, but to my knowledge neither of those guys was particularly accomplished with the pencil or brush. Same goes for Brian Bendis early in his career, though offhand I can't recall ever seeing any of his artwork.)

Well, there was a British gag strip artist named Alan Moore....

Slam_Bradley

03-13-2008, 08:30 AM

Alter Ego 28, 31 & 39.

dan bailey

03-13-2008, 10:18 AM

Per a few posts last month about how the ishes involves are unlikely to show up in a cheaper format, I broke down & bought Marvel Masterworks: X-Men vol 6. With an online coupon & my loyalty club discount, I paid Books-a-Million $25 & change (shipping was free, & the total even includes state tax, since they're based in Alabama) ... not bad at all, really, as from what I can tell that would be a bargain even via eBay.

pmpknface

03-13-2008, 10:53 AM

Nice buy Dan! ;)

dan bailey

03-13-2008, 11:15 AM

Thanks! Now, if only BAMM carried the Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD Masterworks or the Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (which I know went out of print, but I'm under the impression that it's been reissued), &/or didn't price the Warlock Masterworks about $8 higher than the X-Men ...

DDM

03-13-2008, 01:11 PM

Uncanny X-Men #17-18 (Iceman vs Magneto!), Marvel Fanfare #33 (X-Men vs Questroprobe), & Marvel Fanfare #50 (X-Factor; Angel, Beast & Iceman vs Arcade)

mortari

03-13-2008, 01:30 PM

I over bought at my show last weekend.
New guy (and he better come back)

Showcases 8 fro 40
I can remeber Jonah Hex, Hawkman, Metamorpho, Challangers of the Unknown, Batgirl, Teen Titans, Atom, Wonder Woman, and then I went back at the end of the day, Elongated Man, and a few others. About 12 showcases at $5 each!
And the gem of regular books I got a Bat Lash #1 original series.
I just about filled a long box with Showcases.

pmpknface

03-13-2008, 02:03 PM

HOLY SHINKIES! That's a lotta Showcase!

mrc1214

03-13-2008, 02:28 PM

Uncanny X-Men #17-18 (Iceman vs Magneto!), Marvel Fanfare #33 (X-Men vs Questroprobe), & Marvel Fanfare #50 (X-Factor; Angel, Beast & Iceman vs Arcade)

How are the Marvel Fanfare books?? I see them from time to time but I never picked any up.

DDM

03-13-2008, 04:52 PM

How are the Marvel Fanfare books?? I see them from time to time but I never picked any up.

Marvel Fanfare is great little quiet stories. There's a Black Widow story by Ralph Macchio & George Perez, a Ben Grimm story by Barry Windsor-Smith, a Doctor Strange-Scarlet Witch team-up by P. Craig Russell, a Charles Vess Spider-Man story. All of the stories are well written & offer new incites into the characters. Marvel Fanfare #1-4 is a big story involving Spider-Man, Angel, & the X-Men against Sauron & the Savage Land Mutates! This is the story that introduces Vertigo who would join the Marauders much later...

mrc1214

03-13-2008, 06:53 PM

Marvel Fanfare is great little quiet stories. There's a Black Widow story by Ralph Macchio & George Perez, a Ben Grimm story by Barry Windsor-Smith, a Doctor Strange-Scarlet Witch team-up by P. Craig Russell, a Charles Vess Spider-Man story. All of the stories are well written & offer new incites into the characters. Marvel Fanfare #1-4 is a big story involving Spider-Man, Angel, & the X-Men against Sauron & the Savage Land Mutates! This is the story that introduces Vertigo who would join the Marauders much later...

Ill pick some up. I definitly keep my eye out for the Ben Grimm story by Barry Windsor-Smith. I really should check out more of those Marvel titles. I have a few Marvel Comics Presents but I have read them. Im probably missing out on some good reads. Thanks for the info.

Roquefort Raider

03-14-2008, 06:48 AM

Marvel Fanfare Marvel Fanfare #1-4 is a big story involving Spider-Man, Angel, & the X-Men against Sauron & the Savage Land Mutates! This is the story that introduces Vertigo who would join the Marauders much later...

Issues #1 and 2 also feature some of the best Michael Golden art ever, too.

Lone Ranger

03-14-2008, 08:53 AM

Some recent New Kadia books:

Captain Canuck #11 - $0.54
Captain Glory #1 (Ditko art) - $0.42
Eclipse Monthly 32 (Rio and Static) - $1.38
Essential X-Men #3 - $7.12
Incredible Science Fiction #9 (90s reprint) - $1.52
Incredible Science Fiction #11 (90s reptin) - $1.52
Marvel Graphic Novel #9 (Cockrum's Futurians) $2.08
Magnus Robot Fighter (90s) #19 (Ditko art) - $1.49
Magnust Robot Fighter #18 (Ditko art) - $1.38

Slam_Bradley

03-14-2008, 11:22 AM

The America's Best Comics trade. $4.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GAGJVWABL._SS500_.jpg

Kirk G

03-14-2008, 01:47 PM

Uncanny X-Men #17-18 (Iceman vs Magneto!), Marvel Fanfare #33 (X-Men vs Questroprobe), & Marvel Fanfare #50 (X-Factor; Angel, Beast & Iceman vs Arcade)

Yeah, that Uncanny X-Men 17-18 was pretty much the end of the original x-men run, as Jack kirby's art ended with that one. I LOVED the cliffhanger end at 17, and the solution to the rescue in 18 was pretty good also. I didn't like the idea of Cloning mutations from the parents... and having them about to emerge as the students returned.
But doesn't that also feature Professor X whiping the minds of the parents in mid-arguement so they have no memory of the visit? Or does he just adjust their memories with no pangs of guilt or remorse at doing so?

The next adventure, showing Unis and Blob in Xmen uniforms robbing a bank are priceless, cause I'm amazed that nobody thought of doing that before!
But the artwork is by somebody else, and the Count Nefara two parter leaves you feeling like you just missed the golden age... it was almost all downhill from there until Neal Adams...and even that couldn't save the series ultimately.

DDM

03-14-2008, 02:07 PM

Yeah, that Uncanny X-Men 17-18 was pretty much the end of the original x-men run, as Jack kirby's art ended with that one. I LOVED the cliffhanger end at 17, and the solution to the rescue in 18 was pretty good also. I didn't like the idea of Cloning mutations from the parents... and having them about to emerge as the students returned.
But doesn't that also feature Professor X whiping the minds of the parents in mid-arguement so they have no memory of the visit? Or does he just adjust their memories with no pangs of guilt or remorse at doing so?

X-Men #17 is spent largely in a public hospital after Bobby saved the X-Men & the human race from the Sentinels; Xavier acts like he does not personally know the X-Men while carrying on coversations with them telepathically.

Yes, Xavier does wipe the minds of Warren's parents. However, Magneto kept them hypnotized throughout most of their encounter with him & the X-Men.

When did Warren's parents die? I was surprised to them at all.

The next adventure, showing Unis and Blob in Xmen uniforms robbing a bank are priceless, cause I'm amazed that nobody thought of doing that before!But the artwork is by somebody else, and the Count Nefara two parter leaves you feeling like you just missed the golden age... it was almost all downhill from there until Neal Adams...and even that couldn't save the series ultimately.

X-Men #19 is the first appearance of the Mimic. I've been looking for this book too...

pmpknface

03-14-2008, 02:10 PM

I have X-Men 72 and it's gotta be the reprint of Unus and the Blob robbing a bank. That is priceless. Later you see how Lucifer cripples the Prof by dropping a SAFE on him!

Kirk G

03-14-2008, 03:56 PM

Oh crap...it's been too long since I've read those issues...I can't recall which ones are in which order or in which issue.
Thanks for correcting me, everybody...

DDM

03-14-2008, 05:47 PM

I have X-Men 72 and it's gotta be the reprint of Unus and the Blob robbing a bank. That is priceless. Later you see how Lucifer cripples the Prof by dropping a SAFE on him!

I'll definitely search for X-Men #20-21. It's going to be funny reading Blob & Unus rob the bank in X-Men costumes...! The Blob probably thought of this idea himself...:D

Kirk G

03-14-2008, 06:07 PM

I'll definitely search for X-Men #20-21. It's going to be funny reading Blob & Unus rob the bank in X-Men costumes...! The Blob probably thought of this idea himself...:D

And it seems like such an OBVIOUS way to discredit the X-men.
After all, do they have a monopoly on all the blue and yellow cloth in the Marvel Universe?

(I just don't recall WHY those to were doing it...whether it was for Lucifer or some other baddie... but why they would want to aid HIM, or for that matter, work for ANY other baddie is still beyond me. I mean, wait until issues #37-38 when Factor 3 is unveiled... You'd think that the vanisher, Unis, Blob and the other guy (Changling?) would have learned their lesson by then.)

Ryan K

03-14-2008, 06:30 PM

In the last month or two I've bought:

Two Floyd Gottfriedson Mickey Mouse collections from a Half Price Book store. Nice sized collections. One is simpley titled Mickey Mouse and has a "Best Comics" ribbon logo on the cover. The other is entitled Mickey Mouse in Color and collects Sunday narratives and has a bunch of articles and biography type material on Gottfriedson.

I also bought a couple Gladstone Comic Albums featuring Carl Barks' Duck stories and when I was in Austin I bought the two volumes of Gemstone's Barks/Rosa collections.

And somewhere along the lines I ordered a bunch of Gilbert Hernandez back issues off ebay: New Love, Yeah, Grip. Oh! And I FINALLY found a copy of his Birdland tpb.

I have a lot of reading to do.

And 20 minutes ago I ordered Art out of Time and 4 Little Lulu books from Amazon.

DDM

03-14-2008, 07:06 PM

And it seems like such an OBVIOUS way to discredit the X-men.
After all, do they have a monopoly on all the blue and yellow cloth in the Marvel Universe?

(I just don't recall WHY those to were doing it...whether it was for Lucifer or some other baddie... but why they would want to aid HIM, or for that matter, work for ANY other baddie is still beyond me. I mean, wait until issues #37-38 when Factor 3 is unveiled... You'd think that the vanisher, Unis, Blob and the other guy (Changling?) would have learned their lesson by then.)

The Blob is not known for his brain. He's a follower, following first Magneto, Changeling, Mastermind, then eventually Mystique.

Kirk G

03-14-2008, 09:42 PM

Good point. But I would have thought that Unis, after having been shown by the Beast back in issue #8 or so that his power could and WOULD be turned against him in a Midas move, would never have crossed the X-Men again. So, why did they not deal with this?

Senormac

03-14-2008, 11:21 PM

Hi all.....saw this thread and thought it was the best place to ask this question. With the "recession" and or "economy slowdown"....has anyone noticed lots more books coming into the marketplace? It seems that way to me.....but maybe I wasn't paying as much attention before.

benday-dot

03-15-2008, 01:23 PM

Availing myself of some of Dan Baily's comic crack from the dollar bins, I just picked up:

Void Indigo 1, 2 (I always knew more about the hullabaloo surronding this aborted series than the matter of the thing itself. I am usually quite into Val Mayerick's art. Spinning through the issues without having yet read them I am not so sure. Not so eye catching, but I look forward to reading one of Gerber's more famous stories)

Ringo Kid #19 (a trio of Maneely tales to stipple your comic book brain)

All-Star Squadron Annuals 2,3 (Very nice neo-Golden Age goodness here. Wonderfully semi-obscure characters at play from a pair who know how to make it work... Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway in issue #2 and a host of creators in #3 including a deliicious chiarascuro drenched Keith Giffen Dr. Fate piece, a great Don Newton Batman short and from the man what made him... an original Marty Nodell Green Lantern tale.)

Jungle Action 19, 20, 21 (I'll have to check , but I may now have the complete run of Jungle Action. Regardless, seeing Don Mcgregor, Billy Graham, Bob McLeod and Black Panther take on the Klan should be a treat. Issue #21, I see, has lots of those very cool panel layouts that distinguished "Panther's Rage")

Tom Strong #21 (This will be the first issue of one the only things by Alan Moore that I haven't yet gotten around to reading. Random as it will be, I couldn't resist the nifty cover homage to Kirby's Fantastic Four # 26.)

Strange Tales #174 (Featuring the great... well, I think he's great... Golem and some fine John Buscema pencils under Jim Mooney. I'm not the hugest Johnny B fan in the world, but I do dig Jim Mooney as both inker and penciler and the two work well here. But, hmmm... I think I already have this issue)

Concrete #4 (I already have this story from the gorgeous Dark Horse digest-plus-size trades. But I am in love with Concrete and couldn't ever turn down this one for a dollar)

Edge of Chaos #3 (Gray Morrow. Draws naked ladies. Okay. And that accidentally completes a little collection once started by accident)

Secret Origins #8 (Perhaps by best acquisition of the day. A two-fer-one that features the origin of Shadow Lass by Paul Levitz and Tom Mandrake, and a stunning look at Doll Man's first days by Roy Thomas and Murphy Anderson. Doll Man. Murphy Anderson. Just lovely.)

Howard the Duck 3, 13 (And its back to Gerber. As classic as it gets and edges to within a hair's breadth of completing the whole maginficent Duck tale, well, at least until it sort of jumped the shark in those final issues)

Blackhawk # 254 (Flipping through this one it looks to be one of Evanier and Spiegle's more awesome efforts among a whole lot of awesomness indeed. I have about half these now. And I think I'll need to carry on with this stellar series)

Madman/Jam 1, 2 (I began with a hullabaloo and now its finishing off my haul with this Allred/Mireault micro series. Tres bizarre. And tres bon I'd say)

Slam_Bradley

03-15-2008, 02:07 PM

Secret Origins #8 (Perhaps by best acquisition of the day. A two-fer-one that features the origin of Shadow Lass by Paul Levitz and Tom Mandrake, and a stunning look at Doll Man's first days by Roy Thomas and Murphy Anderson. Doll Man. Murphy Anderson. Just lovely.)

This book is a forgotten gem. Lots of quality stuff that nobody seemed to read. I have a major soft-spot for the Thomas/Colan Crimson Avenger issue.

scratchie

03-15-2008, 04:21 PM

I just picked up a nice-looking copy of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #1 to complete my collection of Steranko's (very short) run on that title.

Senormac

03-16-2008, 12:14 AM

I love Steranko's work.....he is definately once of the great ones........cept, he didn't stay long enough. Those Cap issues.....110, 111, and 113 are awesome !!!

Beta Ray Bill

03-16-2008, 04:06 PM

Detective Comics #759-762. For the Brubaker/Cooke Slam Bradley back-ups. I'm excited.

Reptisaurus!

03-16-2008, 07:28 PM

From the three for a dollar box:

DC Comics Presents 1, 52,71,87 and 91.

Between originals, Essentials, and Reprints, I now have copies of 574 team-up books.

Only 120 to go!

Also Superman 400, (Ditko! Eisner! Moebius! Freakin' Steranko!)

Sgt. Rock Annual 4, and

Superman and his Incredible Fortress of Solitude Treasury.

Sir Tim Drake

03-16-2008, 10:04 PM

Superman #400 is an utterly incredible comic book. I don't think any other American comic book has ever featured such an amazing array of talent.

Beta Ray Bill

03-16-2008, 10:45 PM

Eternals #1-12. The 1985 series.

Dan McFan

03-18-2008, 08:01 AM

[QUOTE=benday-dot;6516994]
Ringo Kid #19 (a trio of Maneely tales to stipple your comic book brain)

Joe Maneely drew the most eerie characters I ever saw. Just your buying 3 Maneelys makes me smile. I loved all of his books.

I picked up TRUE SECRETS # 35 on EBay yesterday. Prettiest blond I ever saw on the cover.

dan bailey

03-18-2008, 08:38 AM

Dan Baily's comic crack from the dollar bins

Note to self: If ever I start an eBay store, seriously consider this as a name.

pmpknface

03-18-2008, 08:55 AM

Note to self: If ever I start an eBay store, seriously consider this as a name.
HAHAHAHA!!! "Comic Crack" is kind of redundant, but makes me smile! :D

dan bailey

03-18-2008, 09:30 AM

Still filling in gaps in various runs (as I suppose will be the case until the day I die), this time courtesy of Lone Star Comics, assuming everything turns out to be in stock --

American Century 2, 20 & 26 (completes the run)
Astonishing Tales 10 -- ditto (well, probably except for the mid-Deathlok-run Guardians of the Galaxy reprint fill-in, since I've got the Marvel Super-Heroes original)
Man-Thing 15-19 & 21-22, Giant Size Man-Thing 3-5, which would give me everything not in the Essential, except for #20)
Infinity Inc 47, 52, 53 (I think I lack only #45 in the run)
Marvel Fanfare 60 (the only issue I'm missing)
Marvel Treasury Edition 4 (Conan), 12 (Conan) & 17 (Hulk) (because the Treasury Editions are utterly cool -- all of these for $9.60, total! Now watch them be out of stock ...)
Marvel Two-in-One #s 21, 50 (#21 because it's the only non-Annual issue I don't have that isn't in an Essential, #50 because while it is in an Essential, I've got a run of individual ishes starting a few before this one [which I didn't realize I didn't have till I was looking over my MTIOs late last week ... probably I actually do, & it's misfiled], & also my dim memory suggests there's a chance I've got a letter published in either this is or #46, which I also don't yet own)
Quasar 55, 58 (2 of the 5 issues I lack in the run)
Sandman Mystery Theatre 12, 30 (this'll give me the first 33, having acquired the other 31 for a song via eBay a few days ago)
Savage Tales (1985) 1, 3, 5, 7 (this will leave me lacking only #4, as #s 2, 6 & 8 arrived from Mile High yesterday ... I'm not sure I even realized this iteration of the title ever existed, since I took the '80s [& '90s, & early '00s] off, till I saw in John Severin's GCD listing that he had stories in each issue)
Scarecrow of Romney Marsh 3 (I wrote about this in another thread a few minutes ago ... short version: I think it's one of the first comics I ever owned, just before starting first grade in '65)
Spectre (1987 series) 23 (completes the run)
Sub-Mariner (1968 series) #20 (gives me every issue except #s 1 & 35)
Superboy & the Legion 212, 213, 215, 219, 226, 228, 229, 234, 235, 241, 243, 248, 252, 254, 258 (leaving me 7 ishes short of completing this LOSH run ... I've embarked on a mad scheme to amass every LOSH title & have, uh, only, um, around, let's see, geez, something like *ahem* 300 to go)
Supergirl (1996 series) 60 (12 issues to go)
Superman Family 222 (leaving me lacking only #221, thanks to a very able & generous boost some while back from our own Lone Ranger)
What If (1977 series) #s 19, 22 (13 to go)
Dazzler #39 (sad, I know, but between this one & a recent cheap eBay lot, I lack only 3 issues)
Essential Howard the Duck (was planning to buy it anyway, & Lone Star was listing a used copy for $4.20!)
Freaks' Amour #s 1 & 3 (had no idea this existed till I came across a reference to it ... somewhere ... a few days ago, but I was quite taken with the Tom DeHaven sf novel it was based on when I read the book circa '87)

dan bailey

03-18-2008, 09:47 AM

Also, quite a few cheap eBay lots of substantial or complete eBay runs of the newish stuff, like the most recent Hawkman, L.E.G.I.O.N. , Birds of Prey, Legionnaires, Legion of Super-Heroes (1989 series), The Legion, Countdown (not something I'm particularly interested in, but the first 16 issues for a penny?!), Clandestine & the current Catwoman ...

pmpknface

03-18-2008, 11:34 AM

Sweet pickups Dan! Isn't filling in holes satisfying? A few questions:

Man-Thing 15-19 & 21-22, Giant Size Man-Thing 3-5, which would give me everything not in the Essential, except for #20)

I don't remember - how much of the Man-Thing is NOT in Ess? Enought for a 2nd vol? OR shoudl I hunt them down?

Quasar 55, 58 (2 of the 5 issues I lack in the run)

How good is this? I've never read an issue!

Marvel Treasury Edition 4 (Conan), 12 (Conan) & 17 (Hulk) (because the Treasury Editions are utterly cool -- all of these for $9.60, total! Now watch them be out of stock ...)

Good luck there! Those rock!!! Do you still need many?

Dazzler #39 (sad, I know, but between this one & a recent cheap eBay lot, I lack only 3 issues)

This, I am, jealous of! :)

dan bailey

03-18-2008, 11:52 AM

I don't remember - how much of the Man-Thing is NOT in Ess? Enought for a 2nd vol? OR shoudl I hunt them down?

The Essential goes through #14 & the first two Giant-Sizes. That leaves 8 issues & 3 Giant-Sizes from the first series. The second series (which I know nothing about) lasted 11 issues, & then came various guest appearances, along with stories in the likes of Marvel Fanfare & Marvel Comics Presents, so no doubt there's enough for at least one more Essential.

At this point, though, I (a) only really care about the original series & (b) am typing this as someone who's been waiting for years now, as I've whined before, for an Essential Sub-Mariner, so I'm not holding my breath. (Though I see we're supposed to be getting Essential Captain Marvel soon, so maybe there's hope for Namor & Sgt Fury & Warlock & the Inhumans & Ka-Zar & Guardians of the Galaxy & the Invaders & Deadpool ... &, well, lots of others.)

How good is this [Quasar]? I've never read an issue!

Me neither, actually, but all sorts of people whose taste I respect have raved about it.

Good luck there! Those rock!!! Do you still need many [Marvel Treasury Edition]s?

Probably around half, but somehow Mr Obsessive List-Maker hasn't gotten around to writing them down. I think I have yet to pay as much as $4 for any of 'em.

This [Dazzler run], I am, jealous of! :)

The beginnings for this one can be blamed on the very sparse selection of mostly '80s comics we had at the (mostly sports) collectibles shop I worked at from 7/04-7/06. At the beginning of my time there, I was only interested in the comics I'd read & collected as a kid, which predated the advent of Dazzler, but with the owner's blessing I started taking home any issues I found even remotely intriguing, & that included a fairly good sampling of the first 20 of so Dazzlers. *sigh*

pmpknface

03-18-2008, 12:00 PM

The Essential goes through #14 & the first two Giant-Sizes. That leaves 8 issues & 3 Giant-Sizes from the first series. The second series (which I know nothing about) lasted 11 issues, & then came various guest appearances, along with stories in the likes of Marvel Fanfare & Marvel Comics Presents, so no doubt there's enough for at least one more Essential.

Ok - Thanks!

At this point, though, I (a) only really care about the original series & (b) am typing this as someone who's been waiting for years now, as I've whined before, for an Essential Sub-Mariner, so I'm not holding my breath. (Though I see we're supposed to be getting Essential Captain Marvel soon, so maybe there's hope for Namor & Sgt Fury & Warlock & the Inhumans & Ka-Zar & Guardians of the Galaxy & the Invaders & Deadpool ... &, well, lots of others.)

Cap is here.....
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=13403

It looks like they want to make Subby and Nick Fury in Masterworks 1st too. Fury is in Masterworks vol2 this month as well - AND an atlas age monster book.

Me neither, actually, but all sorts of people whose taste I respect have raved about it.

HA! Same for me...

Probably around half, but somehow Mr Obsessive List-Maker hasn't gotten around to writing them down. I think I have yet to pay as much as $4 for any of 'em.

The beginnings for this one can be blamed on the very sparse selection of mostly '80s comics we had at the (mostly sports) collectibles shop I worked at from 7/04-7/06. At the beginning of my time there, I was only interested in the comics I'd read & collected as a kid, which predated the advent of Dazzler, but with the owner's blessing I started taking home any issues I found even remotely intriguing, & that included a fairly good sampling of the first 20 of so Dazzlers. *sigh*

I've got most of the Sienkiewicz issues, 1, and 4. Maybe a few others. I passed ont he Essential, but they WILL BE MINE!

dan bailey

03-18-2008, 12:14 PM

I've got most of the Sienkiewicz issues, 1, and 4. Maybe a few others. I passed ont he Essential, but they WILL BE MINE!

The eBay lot I won last week (from a seller from whom I just won 22 issues of the original Maze Agency series for a combined $1.98, though I'm waiting for him to total up shipping for those, the 99-cent 12-issue Dazzler lot, & two other 99-cent lots totaling 31 various Vertigos) looks like it'll include at least 4 that I've already got -- #s 11, 14, 23 & 25. I'd be happy to send them your way if you need them.

Enough people here have done the same (& much more) for me.

Reptisaurus!

03-18-2008, 01:54 PM

Oh, hey. Amazon is, in fact, listing an Essential Man-Thing vol. 2.

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Man-Thing-TPB-Steve-Gerber/dp/0785130667/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205870006&sr=1-16

pmpknface

03-18-2008, 01:58 PM

Well cut off my legs and call me shorty! ;) Neato!

Collecting: Man-Thing (1974) #15-22 and (1979) #1-11, Giant-Size Man-Thing #3-5, Marvel Team-Up #68, Marvel Two-in-One #43, and Doctor Strange #41

Cei-U!

03-18-2008, 02:42 PM

Well cut off my legs and call me shorty! ;) Neato!

Collecting: Man-Thing (1974) #15-22 and (1979) #1-11, Giant-Size Man-Thing #3-5, Marvel Team-Up #68, Marvel Two-in-One #43, and Doctor Strange #41

Awesome! Can't wait for this one (though apparently I have to).

Cei-U!
WannitNOW!

dan bailey

03-18-2008, 02:49 PM

Well, heck. The grenades I throw myself on just so you people can have your precious Essentials.

If I ever manage to track down cheap copies of the two Silver Age Sub-Mariner Masterworks (I've got virtually all of the series, but only a couple ishes of the Tales to Astonish run), a Namor Essential will undoubtedly go on the drawing board posthaste.

dan bailey

03-19-2008, 07:47 AM

Well, crap. Lone Star has processed my order, & it turns out that Marvel Treasury Edition #12 (which I misremembered as the 2nd Conan volume ... it was the Howard the Duck issue instead) is out of stock. Oh, well, probably I'll live ... & in an order consisting of some 80 titles, for that to be the only out-of-stock item is pretty damned decent.

And since you asked, pmpknface, turns out I was living in a fool's paradise (based in part because of my incorrect assumption that 22 of 'em had come out, rather than the actual 28) when I estimated that I had about half the run. Ha! more like one-third ... once the Lone Star order arrives, I'll have #s 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 17 & 21, & I think #8, though instead of that one my Holiday Special ish might be the '74 one-shot instead. I've got the Captain America Bicentenntial one-shot, too.

pmpknface

03-19-2008, 08:04 AM

That's not a bad run!

This is a handy site: http://www.treasurycomics.com/gallery/gallery.htm

Here's my current "have" list:

1-5, 7, 11, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27. So that's 1/2 of the main 28.

I also have the Cap '76, Giant Super-Hero Holiday Grab Bag '74, both Superman / Spider-Man x-overs (one of which is #28 as I just found out so I'm over the 1/2 wasy hump!), Star Wars #1, and a few from DC.

I think th DC ones I have are Tarzan of the Apes, Fab 1st Editions of Det. 27 and Action 1, and a few random Superman ones. I forget as I got them for free. And if you count the recent ones by Alex Ross I've got all of them too. ;)

Slam_Bradley

03-19-2008, 11:49 AM

Picked up a copy of All-Star Archive Vol. 1 for $14. No dust-jacket, but otherwise in nice shape.

Reptisaurus!

03-19-2008, 01:08 PM

Man, I love those Treasury sized books. Heck, I like art that's BIG in general. :)

I've got a decent number of 'em in cruddy shape. And I'd like to get the other Joe Kubert Tarzan one, and I'd like Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, Superman vs. Wonder Woman and Superman vs. Shazam for my team-up book collection.

Sadly, I haven't seen the Muhammad Ali one online, even, for less than thirty bucks. Hopefully I'll have better luck checking stores.

Roquefort Raider

03-19-2008, 01:20 PM

Man, I love those Treasury sized books. Heck, I like art that's BIG in general. :)

They're also still the only place to see the lovely Conan story Red nails (adapted by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith) the way it should really be seen: in large format and colored by Smith himself.

It's been often reprinted, but reduced to comic-book size (which is really small, since it was initially drawn for magazine-size pages, which are not only bigger but also proportionally wider) or soaked in computerized color effects.

Plus Treasury editions smell of newsprint, which is always good!

Reptisaurus!

03-19-2008, 04:25 PM

They're also still the only place to see the lovely Conan story Red nails (adapted by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith) the way it should really be seen: in large format and colored by Smith himself.

It's been often reprinted, but reduced to comic-book size (which is really small, since it was initially drawn for magazine-size pages, which are not only bigger but also proportionally wider) or soaked in computerized color effects.

Plus Treasury editions smell of newsprint, which is always good!

Nice. I think I own that, but have never read it. If I can find it I'll read it tonight.

Along with some Arnold Drake Doom Patrol, a Hellblazer Trade, and Chester Brown's Louis Reil.

(It's Spring Break and I have to hang out and do some training stuff for work. I have nothing better to do than plan my comic reading in excruciating detail.)

Perry Holley

03-19-2008, 04:43 PM

They're also still the only place to see the lovely Conan story Red nails (adapted by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith) the way it should really be seen: in large format and colored by Smith himself.
I used to have that one, along with the one that collected together the "A Witch Shall Be Born" storyline, as well as about a dozen or so other Treasury issues. Unfortunately, I lost all of them back in the late 80's.

Slam_Bradley

03-19-2008, 04:56 PM

Back Issue Magazine # 14, 22, 25. $10 for the three issues.

dan bailey

03-19-2008, 06:23 PM

Slam -- Was that off eBay? If so, I really need to be more diligent (though I'm also obviously spending waaaaay too much there, regardless of the fact that I pay for it with my vinyl sales).

Slam_Bradley

03-20-2008, 08:15 AM

Slam -- Was that off eBay? If so, I really need to be more diligent (though I'm also obviously spending waaaaay too much there, regardless of the fact that I pay for it with my vinyl sales).

99.9% of what I buy is from Flea-Bay. I live in a VERY small town and the nearest comic shop is about 120 miles away. Add to that that the nearest book-store is about 40 miles away and I wouldn't buy anything resembling a comic book or a tpb collection if it weren't for online sources.

Not that I need more competition in bidding.

dan bailey

03-20-2008, 08:25 AM

Not that I need more competition in bidding.

Understood -- as a fellow former Arkansan of mine once said, I feel your pain.

As I mentioned a few days ago, I'm only a couple of Back Issues (1 & 6) away from having 'em all, & 8 Comic Book Artists 1-6, 17 & 21) , & 16 Alter Egos (1, 3, 6, 12, 15, 19-21, 28, 33, 35, 37, 42, 44-46), so it's not likely that my eBay strategizing includes any sort of stripmining approach to those titles ...

Senormac

03-20-2008, 11:27 AM

I recently nabbed a Police #19 in VF but with the bottom right hand corner chewed a bit as though a mouse had got ahold of it.....FOR $65 !!!:eek:

As the announcer says in soccer games.....

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE !!!

DDM

03-20-2008, 01:20 PM

Fantastic Four #45 (1st: Inhumans) & The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Texas (sold in the Dallas Times Herald)

Senormac

03-20-2008, 01:36 PM

You mean it was a newspaper add? for comics? !!! :eek: :eek:

dan bailey

03-20-2008, 01:41 PM

You mean it was a newspaper add? for comics? !!! :eek: :eek:

I assume it was some sort of newspaper supplement. Which still seems pretty odd.

Kirk G

03-20-2008, 01:50 PM

I just picked up a nice-looking copy of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #1 to complete my collection of Steranko's (very short) run on that title.

Hate to tell you this, but you don't have all of Steranko's work on Nick Fury.
Those reprint books eliminated at least a full page of artwork to condense the story and make it fit in the modern day format number of pages. The rising prices of paper, ink and production, forced the additional page of ads, and so, a page of artwork had to go.

In some places, this could be done easily, by eliminating a page of silent symbolic art, but in other places, the clumsy caption that had to be added, just doesn't fit the rest of the lettering.

This was also done in reprints of Thor and the Fantastic Four of the period. Some of it worked, but some of it didn't.:rolleyes:

Kirk G

03-20-2008, 01:51 PM

Back Issue Magazine # 14, 22, 25. $10 for the three issues.

Ooooo...that was a good value!

Kirk G

03-20-2008, 01:52 PM

Fantastic Four #45 (1st: Inhumans) & The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Texas (sold in the Dallas Times Herald)

DDM, That FF #45 would have been a sweet purchase. How much did you have to shell out for it? And what was the Xmen at the Texas State Fair going for? I don't recall ever seeing it, though I heard about it...:cool:

dan bailey

03-20-2008, 02:01 PM

Hate to tell you this, but you don't have all of Steranko's work on Nick Fury.
Those reprint books eliminated at least a full page of artwork

Unless he meant the first issue of the '68 original series, as I assumed to be the case. Which wasn't a reprint in any shape, form or fashion, to my knowledge.

Senormac

03-20-2008, 02:01 PM

I assume it was some sort of newspaper supplement. Which still seems pretty odd.

I was thinking it was maybe in the classifieds.....HaH.....what are the chances?

dan bailey

03-20-2008, 02:27 PM

Just won Supernatural Thrillers 5, 7, 9, 13 & 14 off eBay for something like $12. More than I like to pay, but again, less than I paid for any new comic yesterday, so what the heck. That's just under half the run, including the first 2 issues (#6 was an adaptation of "The Headless Horseman"), & those comics contain some of my favorite work ever by an artist I like a lot, Val Mayerik.

This, of course, starts the ball rolling for Marvel to compile them in a second volume of Essential Horror. (Which would actually be pretty cool. Quite a few neat characters lasted only a few ishes before the great horror purge of '75 or whenever kicked in.)

DDM

03-20-2008, 03:00 PM

DDM, That FF #45 would have been a sweet purchase. How much did you have to shell out for it? And what was the Xmen at the Texas State Fair going for? I don't recall ever seeing it, though I heard about it...:cool:

I paid about $55.00 for Fantastic Four #45, & I paid around $12.00 for the Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair. I have heard about the Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair for years, but NEVER personally seen a copy first hand. My LCS has had the book for awhile so I decided to buy it.

Now, I'm going to find X-Men vs Obnoxio the Clown...

DDM

03-20-2008, 03:04 PM

You mean it was a newspaper add? for comics? !!! :eek: :eek:

No, it's a comic book, but Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Texas is only sold in the Dallas Times Herald. Marvel wrote a story around the state fair with the X-Men. The story is corny with Magneto, Xavier, & the X-Men all converge on a winged centaur:

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/97923703800.1.GIF
(cover art is by John Romita)

Kirk G

03-20-2008, 03:48 PM

I paid about $55.00 for Fantastic Four #45, & I paid around $12.00 for the Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair. I have heard about the Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair for years, but NEVER personally seen a copy first hand. My LCS has had the book for awhile so I decided to buy it.

Now, I'm going to find X-Men vs Obnoxio the Clown...

Oh, unless you're a completist, don't bother with Obnoxio the clown. It wasn't worth it.
What do you think of the story and plot in the Texas State Fair book? (Oops...he already answered this in a lower posting, see above... sorry.)

And, yes, Dan, I may have errored and totally overlooked that possibility of the Nick Fury #1 from 1968.... I get the titles confused. I think Steranko only stayed for about the first ten issues, right? Or was it less.
We've all heard the tale of how Stan Lee and he disagreed over the need for editing on Tower of Shadows #1, and that Steranko walked.... I think that marked the end of all his work for Marvel. Capt. America included, though I don't know the relative timelines of Sheild, Capt, X-men and Tower of Shadow... except that TOS was the end!;)

benday-dot

03-20-2008, 05:36 PM

We've all heard the tale of how Stan Lee and he disagreed over the need for editing on Tower of Shadows #1, and that Steranko walked.... I think that marked the end of all his work for Marvel. Capt. America included, though I don't know the relative timelines of Sheild, Capt, X-men and Tower of Shadow... except that TOS was the end!;)

Actually Jaunty Jim continued to do a respectable amount of often crackerjack covers for various Marvel books into the early 70's.

Remember this pulpish beaut from '73?

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1988/200/1988_2_21.jpg

Kirk G

03-20-2008, 06:11 PM

No, I don't recall it.
I had left comics in 1972, after Marvel embraced their Monster Phaze, and two years after Jack Kirby left Marvel, I finally gave up on the Fantastic Four when Crystal was a prisoner of a S.America dicator & Diablo, and the back-up feature was Reed Richards as the Thing.
Avengers had just hit #100, and I was disappointed by Harlan Ellison's #101, and #102 starting a Sentinels run just seemed silly... so , I grew up and left them behind for almost 7 years while I went to college and found a job.
I returned when Byrne did the Days of Future Past cover where "Everyone Dies".

The Confessor

03-20-2008, 06:22 PM

I've recently got hold of a complete, 8 issue run of the 1986 'Droids' series published by Marvel's Star Comics imprint from a seller on eBay.

Yeah, I know, they're kind of written for kiddies but I'm making a move to complete my Marvel Star Wars collection. I've owned the main 107 issue Star Wars series (plus annuals & ROTJ Adaptation) for years but I've recently discovered that there's more odds and ends out there to collect before I can really call my Marvel Star Wars collection "complete".

So far I've read issues #1 to #5 of The Droids and I'm actually enjoying it more than I expected to. I'll be reading the last 3-part story, which is Episode IV: A New Hope as told from the Droids' perspective tonight. Can't wait!

Interestingly, some of the early issues are penciled by John Romita (I'm assuming JRJr.). It's in a very different style for him though, clearly influenced by the Droids cartoon style of art...doesn't really look like his stuff at all.

Now, must find a full run of the Ewoks comics! :o

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3603/droids1tp0.jpg

The Confessor

03-20-2008, 06:25 PM

Remember this pulpish beaut from '73?

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1988/200/1988_2_21.jpg

Nope...never seen it before or even heard of that comic title. You're right about it though, that's a very nice cover. Kinda makes me desperate to get hold of a copy and find out what's happening between the covers.

Thanks for posting benday-dot.

dan bailey

03-20-2008, 07:42 PM

Whereas I very fondly remember that Steranko cover & the comic within, & for that matter the subsequent COTL features, Thongor the Barbarian (probably the first time I ever encountered, or at least took notice of, personal fave Val Mayerk's art) & then Man-Wolf.

In direct contrast to Kirk G, Marvel's horror phase is what drew me back into comics circa '74 (the previous 3 or so years I'd done well to pick up a comic a month, after having been a pretty avid buyer & reader -- 50-cent weekly allowance permitting -- from ages 8-11). When that went bust in '75, I was really on the fence about completely leaving comics again ... instead, I came down on the side of "buy & read more of the damned things than ever," an approach that lasted until 12/78.

dan bailey

03-20-2008, 08:01 PM

Though while I'm at it, I'll note that even at probably age 14 or 15 (assuming I bought the issue used a few months after it actually came out, which I'm pretty sure would've been the case with all the Gullivar Jones issues & probably at least the first few Thongors as well), I was familiar enough with Steranko's style (Captain America 111 & 113 had blown me well & truly away quite effectively when I plucked them out of the spinner racks a few years earlier) to be absolutely bewildered by his cover for the following issue --

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f171/sportscardsplus/thongor.jpg

Doesn't look to me like his stuff at all. Maybe he was going for ... I dunno ... some kind of wood-cutting effect,or something?

dan bailey

03-20-2008, 08:18 PM

I think Steranko only stayed for about the first ten issues, right? Or was it less.

Half that, actually -- the first 5, though he did the covers for ishes 6 & 7. Poor Frank Springer, maybe as unspectacularly competent-biut-workmanlike an artist as there ever was, had the unfortunate assignment of succeeding him. I thought he did a helluva job, all things considered (Springer's #8 would've been my first issue ever of the title, though the GCD tells me that Herb Trimpe did the second half of the book, which I never realized till now, & his #11 is one of my favorite comics from childhood, with a cover pretty much worthy of Steranko).

Has Steranko ever done 10 issues (consecutive or otherwise) of a single title in his life? Great artist & innovator, as we all know, but he makes Neal Adams' chronic record of comings & goings look like comics' version of Cal Ripken Jr's consecutive games streak.

(Well, now that I think about it, I guess he did a bunch of Strange Tales ishes ... actually, of course, half-ishes ... with Fury.)

I don't know the relative timelines of Sheild, Capt, X-men and Tower of Shadow...

Final Steranko SHIELD (#5) -- cover date 10/68
Final Steranko Cap (#113) -- cover date 3/69
Tower of Shadows #1 -- cover date 9/69

Kirk G

03-20-2008, 08:39 PM

Thank you for the timeline on the various issues.
The timeline feels right, cause he would have left SHEILD, the done about three issues of Cap, and finally, Tower of Shadows sees print. Anybody know where the X-men covers (49-52) fit in there? I don't event know how many there actually were...Mesmero, then Eric the Red, right? Or the other way around?

I did think of Steranko's Strange Tales run, but wow, the artwork that made it into the Marvel Masterworks is so uneven. Each 10 pages had a different person finishing the pencils over Jack Kirby's layouts, and then a different inker... sheesh! It's amazing that the series even lasted until Steranko took over entirely.
I'm looking forward to the next volume, that should collect just about everything by him, right? From about 153 through, 168 and then the first five SHEILD books?

Cherokee Jack

03-21-2008, 02:37 AM

Half that, actually -- the first 5, though he did the covers for ishes 6 & 7.

Final Steranko SHIELD (#5) -- cover date 10/68
Final Steranko Cap (#113) -- cover date 3/69
Tower of Shadows #1 -- cover date 9/69

Actually, even less. He did the interiors for only issues 1-3, and 5. # 4 was Springer.

Perry Holley

03-21-2008, 03:55 AM

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1988/200/1988_2_21.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f171/sportscardsplus/thongor.jpgCreatures On The Loose was before my time, but if those covers are any indication, I may have to do some back-issue hunting...

dan bailey

03-21-2008, 08:37 AM

Actually, even less. He did the interiors for only issues 1-3, and 5. # 4 was Springer.

Yeah, I always forget that ... probably because until the last year or so I never even realized it, I guess in part because his cover for #4 is so absolutely iconic. I don't think his absence from the ish's interior clicked with me till I was looking through the Nick Fury: Scorpio TPB awhile back & realized it skipped from #3 to #5 inside. D'oh. Had to hasten myself immediately to eBay or Lone Star to rectify the hole in my run.

Even more embarrassingly, only within the last month or thereabouts did I realize that the Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. TPB (which of course features the cover of the aforementioned #4 of the solo comic, even though its contents extend only through the final Strange Tales ... no bloody wonder I've been so confused for so long) starts in the strip's midstream -- i.e. it omits the first 15 Strange Tales ishes that co-starred S.H.I.E.L.D., which of course includes a few early strips pencilled by my all-time favorite artist, John Severin.

Which, in turn, is why I've lately been appalled to discover that the S.H.I.E.L.D. Masterworks isn't available (i.e. obtainable for a palatable price) from Books-a-Million or Amazon.

I've been living a lie ... *choke* ... a lie.

I summon the potential new sig file -- "Living a lie so that you don't have to!"

dan bailey

03-21-2008, 08:50 AM

Speaking of which ...

I did think of Steranko's Strange Tales run, but wow, the artwork that made it into the Marvel Masterworks is so uneven. Each 10 pages had a different person finishing the pencils over Jack Kirby's layouts, and then a different inker... sheesh! It's amazing that the series even lasted until Steranko took over entirely.

Indeed. I'd never seen even any of the early Steranko (much less anyone else's) Strange Tales strips till I acquired a former childhood's friend collection (that actually had probably been amassed mostly by his older brother) when I was probably a senior in high schoo, circa 1976. I was totally confused at what I found to be incredibly cluttered art & layout. At that point, at least, it's as if Kirby + Steranko, while each excellent in their own right, was the equivalent of oil + water. They just didn't mix.

I'm looking forward to the next volume, that should collect just about everything by him, right? From about 153 through, 168 and then the first five SHEILD books?

As alluded to above, I'm pretty sure the two TPBs I cite collect all the Steranko S.H.I.E.L.D. I've been wrong about everything else about the strip for most of my life, though, & I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that that hasn't really changed.

Kan-Man

03-21-2008, 09:01 AM

JKCarrier

03-21-2008, 09:14 AM

Thongor was based on a series of novels by Lin Carter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Lemuria

scratchie

03-21-2008, 09:45 AM

Oh, hey. Amazon is, in fact, listing an Essential Man-Thing vol. 2.Yay. About time, too.

scratchie

03-21-2008, 09:47 AM

Unless he meant the first issue of the '68 original series, as I assumed to be the case. Which wasn't a reprint in any shape, form or fashion, to my knowledge.Yeah, I was talking about the '68 series.

dan bailey

03-21-2008, 09:58 AM

Ack! Wrong thread!

Rob Allen

03-21-2008, 12:16 PM

Those of you who start collecting Creatures on the Loose, (which I recommend) should be aware of an interesting oddity in issue #29, the last Thongor issue. The artist, Vicente Alcazar, snuck in a hidden message in Spanish. It's on an interior page, and the letters are backwards. Here it is, from a not-the-best-quality scan:

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj147/robertwallen2001/thongormessage.jpg

It says "esta viñeta se la dedico a Neal" - a tribute to Neal Adams, who helped Vicente get started in American comics.

A couple of years ago I showed this to Roy Thomas, who edited this comic. He hadn't known about it until I showed it to him. He said that Stan frowned on that sort of thing but Roy thought it was kinda fun.

Kirk G

03-21-2008, 09:48 PM

Hey Dan,
So are you saying that if you own the Masterwork first 20 Strange Tales installments (Plus FF #21 as it turns out, as an unlisted bonus!) plus the SHEILD & Nick Fure TPB that you have all the stories? Certainly all the Steranko stuff?

I KNOW you can find discounted copies of the Marvel Masterworks Nick Fury Agent of Shield on ebay for a song.... that's where I scored mine! And it arrived just this month! Check it out! For a simple search, you can find out!

scratchie

03-22-2008, 07:47 AM

Hey Dan,
So are you saying that if you own the Masterwork first 20 Strange Tales installments (Plus FF #21 as it turns out, as an unlisted bonus!) plus the SHEILD & Nick Fure TPB that you have all the stories? Certainly all the Steranko stuff?I think you get all the Steranko stories in the TPB. It starts out with him inking/finishing Kirby and moves quickly to stories that he wrote and drew himself. You need the Masterworks to get the complete run.

dan bailey

03-22-2008, 08:07 AM

Hey Dan,
So are you saying that if you own the Masterwork first 20 Strange Tales installments (Plus FF #21 as it turns out, as an unlisted bonus!) plus the SHEILD & Nick Fure TPB that you have all the stories? Certainly all the Steranko stuff?

It appears so. The Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD TPB contains Strange Tales #s 150-168 in color. The Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD: Who is Scorpio TPB contains Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #s 1-3 & 5, again in color (as well as Steranko's covers for #s 4 & 6).

That omits Springer's #4, obviously, as well as everything after Steranko.

I KNOW you can find discounted copies of the Marvel Masterworks Nick Fury Agent of Shield on ebay for a song.... that's where I scored mine! And it arrived just this month! Check it out! For a simple search, you can find out!

Rest assured, it's one of my (*choke* 97 or so, the vast majority comics-related) saved searches. No luck so far, but here's hoping.

Senormac

03-22-2008, 09:50 AM

I believe there was a full page Steranko ad in Savage Tales #2 or #3 advertising some hero named TALON (I think) but I don't remember Marvel having a book by that title. That would have been in '73 or '74. Course the art could have been done anytime.

Slam_Bradley

03-22-2008, 11:59 AM

In my continuing spending on Twomorrows magazines I picked up Back Issue # 21, 23 & 24 for $10.50.

Slam_Bradley

03-22-2008, 12:06 PM

With all the Steranko talk, I'll point out that there's a short article on Steranko's stint as a Marvel cover artist in '72-'73 in Comic Book Artist vol. 1 #2.

His covers during that time were on

Doc Savage #2 & 3
Shanna, The She-Devil #1 & 2
Supernatural Thrillers #1 & 2
Tex Dawson, Gun Slinger #1
Creatures on the Loose #21 & 22
Fantastic Four #130-132
SHIELD # 1 & 2
FOOM # 1
Western Gunfighters # 14.

benday-dot

03-22-2008, 12:54 PM

For my Dan Bailey purchase of the week I picked up Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos King Size Special (Annual) #4 (1968)

This is 47 pages of Severin goodness, an epic account of the Battle of the Bulge as only JS could tell depict it.

And as a bonus, in the backup short, jocular Johnny himself makes a quick appearance!

$5.00 at my LCS.

EDIT: I should clarify that it is Dick Ayers on the pencils and Severin on the inks, however a Severin ink job always seems to achieve a healthy domination, and here is no exception... not to take anything away from a legend like Ayers (a favourite Kirby inker of mine)

dan bailey

03-22-2008, 02:27 PM

For my Dan Baily purchase of the week I picked up Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos King Size Special (Annual) #4 (1968)

Indeed. I am on record as rating it as my favorite single comic ever.

EDIT: I should clarify that it is Dick Ayers on the pencils and Severin on the inks, however a Severin ink job always seems to achieve a healthy domination, and here is no exception...

Quite true. Wally Wood seems to similarly dominant as an inker. (Look at his inks over Kirby's pencils in early Challengers of the Unknown & over Gil Kane's pencils in Teen Titans #19, I think it was (I'd look up the details but I'm about to hit the road to the cinema), & at least one House of Mystery story circa 1970.) In both cases, the fact that each was (& John still is -- see the current Bat Lash mini) an utterly masterful penciller as well makes that pretty much OK, I'd say.

If Severin ever inked Wood, or vice versa, the world might've wobbled on its axis or something ...

Senormac

03-22-2008, 04:18 PM

Indeed. I am on record as rating it as my favorite single comic ever.

Wow dan....thats quite a statement. I'm gonna have to read that one. Do we have a "favorite story of all time thread?"

dan bailey

03-22-2008, 05:40 PM

Wow dan....thats quite a statement. I'm gonna have to read that one. Do we have a "favorite story of all time thread?"

Ten threads, actually, thanks to Cei-U! The results are summarized at http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=99453

Senormac

03-22-2008, 05:47 PM

hmmmm? you picked Not Brand Echh #10 as your fifth fav....

I would have thought you would have gone with NBE #3 instead....:D

Thanks for the link.....I've missed alot over the years......*sigh*

dan bailey

03-22-2008, 06:15 PM

hmmmm? you picked Not Brand Echh #10 as your fifth fav....

I would have thought you would have gone with NBE #3 instead....:D

Thanks for the link.....I've missed alot over the years......*sigh*

I dunno if the original threads on each ranking are still out there anywhere, but in the case of NBE, I bought & read #10 off the spinner racks ... #3, I didn't, so I didn't see if till some years later.

My #s 2-4 picks are attributable to the fact that the DC 80-Page Giants were my first comics love as a kid. My first really ambitious undertaking as a collector, in the mid-'00s, was tracking down all 89, as well as the 21 DC Annuals that preceded them. (My second really ambitious undertaking, about the same time, was amassing every nonreprint issue of Sgt Fury [bar the utterly unafforable #1], my all-time favorite comic & character.)

As for missing a lot, like someone else from Arkansas famously said, I feel your pain. I stopped buying comics cold the day that cover prices rose to 40 cents, I believe in 12/78. Sold my collection off some 2 1/2 years after that. Didn't start drifting back into the fold till around 5 or so years ago, not long before I found this wonderful site.

Senormac

03-22-2008, 06:29 PM

As for missing a lot, like someone else from Arkansas famously said, I feel your pain. I stopped buying comics cold the day that cover prices rose to 40 cents, I believe in 12/78. Sold my collection off some 2 1/2 years after that. Didn't start drifting back into the fold till around 5 or so years ago, not long before I found this wonderful site.

A beautiful sentiment. My story is not that different. :)

Slam_Bradley

03-24-2008, 04:52 PM

Does it mention whether his name started out as "Louis Fine" or did he Anglicize it?

It occurred to me at some point that his name might have been "Louis Feinberg", which by coincidence was the original name of the performer better known as Larry Fine of the Three Stooges.

I finally got this in the mail. Nope. Appears his name was indeed Louis Kenneth Fine.

Rob Allen

03-24-2008, 04:59 PM

I finally got this in the mail. Nope. Appears his name was indeed Louis Kenneth Fine.

Thanks, Slam! Another mystery solved.

I still wonder why Louis Feinberg decided to call himself Larry instead of Louie.

Senormac

03-24-2008, 09:42 PM

I just scored a Savage Tales #3 in NM......with the Barry Smiths Red Nails story....for $1.49......yup....thats a buck forty nine :D

spoon_jenkins

03-24-2008, 10:26 PM

I got Essential Marvel Two-In-One vol. 1 and the Daredevil Love's Labors Lost TPB (which reprints some Mazzucchelli work prior to Born Again) in the mail.

I'm officially an Essential addict now. Marvel Two-In-One isn't high on the list of books I'm interested in, but I saw a cheap copy on ebay and I had to have it.

dan bailey

03-25-2008, 12:18 PM

I'm officially an Essential addict now. Marvel Two-In-One isn't high on the list of books I'm interested in, but I saw a cheap copy on ebay and I had to have it.

Same here, though I've been more likely to go the Books-a-Million route rather than eBay, since with the loyalty-club discount plus their every-couple-of-weeks coupons ($5 off $25/$10 off $50) & of course free shipping, I can get a garden-variety Essential for usually $8 & change ... Which is why of late I've gone with a bunch of Bronze Age compendiums that I hadn't gotten around to before, like MTIO vs 1 & 2, Nova, Ms Marvel , Power Man v2 & She-Hulk, swelling my Essentials shelves to, I believe, 52 volumes in all.

Actually, Saturday night I found myself bidding in individual auctions for all the horror titles that I care about (which doesn't include Ghost Rider beyond the first volume or Tales of the Zombie, since I have 7 of the original mag's 10 issues, though I'll probably end up buying that one since the 3 I'm missing include #1, which undoubtedly would cost more all by itself than the Essential) as well ... Tomb of Dracula [/B]vs 1-4, Werewolf by Night v1-2, Ghost Rider v1, Monster of Frankenstein, Horror (Son of Satan & Satanna, I guess). They all started approaching or exceeding what I'd pay through BAMM, though, so that was that.

Dunno why I've so far bothered to acquire only Essential Man-Thing among the horror volumes, since those titles are pretty much what drew me back into comics fandom as a kid circa '74. Changing tastes, I guess (though I'm still a gigantic horror fan per se, to the extent of watching on average around 300 movies in the genre a year).

pmpknface

03-25-2008, 12:40 PM

Just got in yesterday from DCBS:

Wolverine Essential vol's 1 & 3. I had a RARE QVC version of Vol 2 that has a Bill Sienkiewicz cover and is signed by him too.

Now I have Wolvie 1-66, and I started collecting from around 75, so I'm almost all good! :)

spoon_jenkins

03-25-2008, 01:28 PM

Same here, though I've been more likely to go the Books-a-Million route rather than eBay, since with the loyalty-club discount plus their every-couple-of-weeks coupons ($5 off $25/$10 off $50) & of course free shipping, I can get a garden-variety Essential for usually $8 & change ... Which is why of late I've gone with a bunch of Bronze Age compendiums that I hadn't gotten around to before, like MTIO vs 1 & 2, Nova, Ms Marvel , Power Man v2 & She-Hulk, swelling my Essentials shelves to, I believe, 52 volumes in all.
It's definitely harder to find the big Essential bargains on eBay nowadays, but I actually got Two-In-One vol. 1 for only $7.99 including shipping. I've got 45 Essentials now, but I've only read 22 cover-to-cover, so I should probably slow down my purchases.

dan bailey

03-25-2008, 02:26 PM

In the interest of ameliorating the bite of the shipping charge as much as anything (i.e. I wouln't ever have noticed these if I hadn't checked the seller's other listings after winning the first auction), I just won ...

Hawk & Dove (original series) -- #s 2, 4 & 5, all for $6.26

Charlton Judomaster-- #s 89 (actually the first of the 7-issue run ... it was renumbered from Gunmaster), 91, 94 & Special War Series (the character's debut) 4, all for $5.50

... from the same seller from whom I won, as mentioned a few days ago, Supernatural Thrillers 5, 7, 9, 13 & 14.

benday-dot

03-25-2008, 08:59 PM

... from the same seller from whom I won, as mentioned a few days ago, Supernatural Thrillers 5, 7, 9, 13 & 14.

Inane little trivia on this series. It was originally advertised as being titled Gothic Thrillers, but when it finally hit the press it received a name change as Supernatural Thrillers. Maybe it was thought this would have wider appeal.

dan bailey

03-26-2008, 10:02 PM

Despite missing a 2nd straight day of work with a bad-cold-or-is-it-the-flu? (probably the former, since I've having nasal congestion, which the Web tells me isn't usually the case with influenza), I managed to *ahem* rally briefly this evening for a trip to the closest LCS. And 99 cents (well, plus a few dozen more bucks for a bunch of overpiced new stuff) later, I walked out with a rather ragged but still intact copy of [B]Fantastic Four #42.

As an added bonus, the lettercol includes a missive from one Don McGregor.

pmpknface

03-27-2008, 07:37 AM

I looked at what ws coming out yesterday, and what do I see?

Jack Kirby's Fourth World Vol. 4!!! So I'll get that on Monday. I also hooked up with a buddy that has a HUGE collection of DC stuff that he's getting rid of so I scored the KAMANDI Archives for $30 shipped! ;)

scratchie

03-27-2008, 11:06 AM

Jack Kirby's Fourth World Vol. 4!!! So I'll get that on Monday. I just ordered that yesterday. I've been plowing through the first three volumes in preparation.

One thing that's amusing about the whole series is how poorly DC did at "branding" the comics when they came out. There's absolutely nothing on the covers to indicate that, for instance, Forever People, New Gods and Mister Miracle are all part of the same story. And except for Jimmy Olsen, I think Kirby's name only appears on two issues of each of the "main" Fourth World titles (issue one, in very small type, and then again on issue #4 for some reason).

I have to wonder how differently the Fourth World series would have wound up (and, by extension, the comic industry in general) if DC had actually gone to the trouble of aggressively advertising Kirby's presence and the inter-related nature of the titles to casual newsstand browsers.