What Classic Comics Have You Purchased Lately? Pt. 2

[Johnny P. Sartre]

[mrc1214]

Decided to stop by the local con today. I dove right into the bargain bins. Some of these books I am not too familiar with so please share your thoughts if you have any. I paid only a quarter a piece so thats not bad.

Slash Maraud (Moench and Gulacy) 1-6 mentioned on here not long ago looking foward to it.
Nightwolf The Price (Devils Due) 4-6
Demon (1987) 1-3 (1990) 1 by Alan Grant (appears to have lasted for a while too)
Blood of the Demon-(Byrne) 1-6,10,12-17
The Establishment (Wildstorm) 1-9,11-13
Marvel Tales (is this all reprints?) 52,114,230,233,235,236,239-241,278,290
Warlord (v1) 59,60,63,64,68,74,75,77,80,81,83,86,89,98,114

[Fesch_]

Nice! Not Toppi's best (I prefer it when he draws inspiration from myths, legends or fables), but every single one of his comics is a treasure. There are a couple of great pages in this one, and I love the phantasmagoric panel of the boat in the fog with its dirty, beautiful texture:

[DubipR]

70% off...

[dan bailey]

Marvel Tales (is this all reprints?) 52,114,230,233,235,236,239-241,278,290

Most likely, though every now & then it included original material in addition to Spider-Man reprints. I picked up #100 because it included some Western-esque strip (maybe Two-Gun Kid & Hawkeye?). I think quite a few issues later on included the "Peter Porker, Spider-Ham" strip, or something in that vein.

[dan bailey]

70% off...

Very nice. I vividly remember owning that when it was new, though of course I have none now. At a decent price I'd snap any & all of that too-brief series up, since I'm pretty sure it's among the all too many Marvel horror B&Ws that haven't been favored with Essential (or any other reprint) treatment.

[DubipR]

Very nice. I vividly remember owning that when it was new, though of course I have none now. At a decent price I'd snap any & all of that too-brief series up, since I'm pretty sure it's among the all too many Marvel horror B&Ws that haven't been favored with Essential (or any other reprint) treatment.

While its nice that Marvel considering adding the magazines in their Essentials, they still edit them. I know some of the issues of Dracula Lives! and Vampire Tales the mild nudity drawn in the issues, the females are covered up, which I can understand but still....why can't they reprint them as they were? The B&Ws were the reason why did there created for the horror stuff... to skirt the Comic Code. There the writers and artists can cut loose a little bit.

I'm trying to finish up a couple of the Curtis magazine runs myself... I'll eventually get around to finding them all.

[Richard Bishop]

Attended the Pittsburgh Comicon on Friday afternoon. I went in looking for two books in particular and luckily managed to get both of them. One of them was the only copy that was at the entire show, the other was one of two copies at the show and the only one that was high grade. Below is my haul for the day:

The Two Critical Finds
The Defenders #10 - the only book I needed to complete this series, I spent $50 on a VF/VF+ copy of it; there was another copy, graded VG+/F- for $36, but since I was going to be paying a lot anyway, I went with the better looking book.

Iron Man #54 - every dealer I spoke with said, "Don't you mean #55?" This was the only copy of the book at the entire show, a VG+ version for $8. This capped off my run of Iron Man from #50 to the current issue.

The Rest of the Books
Captain America - #'s 119-124, 126-127, 129, 131, 133, 135-138. (Paid average of $6 each on these)
Avengers - #118
Champions - #'s 1, 3 and 16.
Inhumans - #'s 1-2, 4, 7-8, 10 and 12.
Tomb of Dracula - #'s 9, 12 and 16.
Fantastic Four - #'s 114, 144-146.
Werewolf by Night - #'s 11, 16-17, 24, 26, 28-30, 33-34, 37-43.
Giant-Size Dracula - #2
Giant-Size Fantastic Four - #'s 3-6 ($3 each)
Thor - Annual #13 (paid $1 for it)
Marvel Premiere - #'s 27 (Satana) and 52-53 (Black Panther)
Marvel Spotlight - #29 (Moon Knight)

Bunch of current books (Avengers, Avengers Academy, Fantastic Four, FF) for $1 each from various dealers.

Overall spent $310 on 81 books. I completed two series (Defenders and Champions), got closer to finishing my TOD run (just 6 left to go, and I have the two high-priced ones already) and moved myself to 20 books remaining on the entire Captain America series.

[Johnny P. Sartre]

Nice! Not Toppi's best (I prefer it when he draws inspiration from myths, legends or fables), but every single one of his comics is a treasure. There are a couple of great pages in this one, and I love the phantasmagoric panel of the boat in the fog with its dirty, beautiful texture:

This is my second book by him (I got the Sparrow art book and when I get paid I'm getting the second volume) and man it took me FOREVER to get done with it because I was just starting at the art for ages. I'm still new to him and discovered him accidentally when I was net surfing and I instantly fell in love with his B&W art and was happy when Archaia posted they were going to publish Sharaz-de: 1001 Arabian Nights by Toppi

He definitely ranks up there with my other favorite B&W artists; Pratt, Breccia, Solano López, Rivoche, Micheluzzi, Crepax, & Hernandez. And this will be off-topic but I wish more Latin (broad I know) comic artists and writer's got more recognition in comic world.

[Fesch_]

This is my second book by him (I got the Sparrow art book and when I get paid I'm getting the second volume) and man it took me FOREVER to get done with it because I was just starting at the art for ages. I'm still new to him and discovered him accidentally when I was net surfing and I instantly fell in love with his B&W art and was happy when Archaia posted they were going to publish Sharaz-de: 1001 Arabian Nights by Toppi

He definitely ranks up there with my other favorite B&W artists; Pratt, Breccia, Solano López, Rivoche, Micheluzzi, Crepax, & Hernandez. And this will be off-topic but I wish more Latin (broad I know) comic artists and writer's got more recognition in comic world.

Now, Sharaz-de is one of his most impressive works: compared to that one, the art in L'Uomo del Nilo looks... primitive, I guess. Don't miss it when they finally release it!

Toppi isn't bad in color either, BTW. Check his color pages in Sharaz-de, for instance, some of which I posted here (scroll down the thread): http://forums.comicbookresources.com...1#post13691174

Anyway, Breccia, Solano López, and many other "Latin" artists find some recognition in Europe (it was recently that Carlos Giménez won the Patrimony Award in Angoulême). They are only ignored in the US, but even the legends of the BD are unknown there, even by the most knowledgeable readers. It would be easy to find people who take for granted that Ditko or Crumb are essential for anyone interested in comics, but who have never heard of Franquin or Sfar (or who have at least never read anything by them). So I guess that it is not just a matter of the artists' origins, but of a general lack of interest (and of English editions) on foreign comic book tradition.

[pmpknface]

Went to the Boston Con yesterday, this was the only book I snagged. Talked him down to $40 from $60. I didn't have any of the Cole covers from this run, but I do now!

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[Johnny P. Sartre]

Now, Sharaz-de is one of his most impressive works: compared to that one, the art in L'Uomo del Nilo looks... primitive, I guess. Don't miss it when they finally release it!

Toppi isn't bad in color either, BTW. Check his color pages in Sharaz-de, for instance, some of which I posted here (scroll down the thread): http://forums.comicbookresources.com...1#post13691174

Anyway, Breccia, Solano López, and many other "Latin" artists find some recognition in Europe (it was recently that Carlos Giménez won the Patrimony Award in Angoulême). They are only ignored in the US, but even the legends of the BD are unknown there, even by the most knowledgeable readers. It would be easy to find people who take for granted that Ditko or Crumb are essential for anyone interested in comics, but who have never heard of Franquin or Sfar (or who have at least never read anything by them). So I guess that it is not just a matter of the artists' origins, but of a general lack of interest (and of English editions) on foreign comic book tradition.

That's true but I think the reason for the general uninterest (I hope) is because of lack of attention that the US mainstream comic scene doesn't put emphasis or media play our European/Latin counterparts. I mean, I've talked to people who found out bout Moebius because of his death and some creator he followed tweeted it bout him! We need to find a way to get those others.

The more I think I about it, it would be health for the US mainstream scene (talking about consumers of comics not the creators) for it to be more diverse and colorful. I'd love to talk to some of my peers bout Pratt, Sfar, Schuiten, Torres, etc. and I know it's not lack of interest from the consumer side because from my time in the comic scene, most people are up for new things, they may not like it but they don't mind checking new things.

[Johnny P. Sartre]

Went to the Boston Con yesterday, this was the only book I snagged. Talked him down to $40 from $60. I didn't have any of the Cole covers from this run, but I do now!

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That cover is goddamn beautiful.

[FanboyStranger]

That's true but I think the reason for the general uninterest (I hope) is because of lack of attention that the US mainstream comic scene doesn't put emphasis or media play our European/Latin counterparts. I mean, I've talked to people who found out bout Moebius because of his death and some creator he followed tweeted it bout him! We need to find a way to get those others.

The more I think I about it, it would be health for the US mainstream scene (talking about consumers of comics not the creators) for it to be more diverse and colorful. I'd love to talk to some of my peers bout Pratt, Sfar, Schuiten, Torres, etc. and I know it's not lack of interest from the consumer side because from my time in the comic scene, most people are up for new things, they may not like it but they don't mind checking new things.

I think the major issue why European and Latin American comics are so ignored by the majority of US comics readers is the lack of quality and affordable translated editions. I've been looking for translated Toppi and Alberto Breccia comics for years, and they're in short supply. (For Toppi, you basically have the Sparrow editions, and I haven't been able to find anything for Breccia.) This is important stuff, but it's just so damn hard to get your hands on it. I've been able to get into comics by Bilal, Moebius, etc because I can read French-- in fact, comics were a great help in my learning reading knowledge of French as I would compare the French and English translations of The Ranks of the Black Order when I was in graduate school-- but works in Italian and Spanish are beyond me.

[Johnny P. Sartre]

I think the major issue why European and Latin American comics are so ignored by the majority of US comics readers is the lack of quality and affordable translated editions. I've been looking for translated Toppi and Alberto Breccia comics for years, and they're in short supply. (For Toppi, you basically have the Sparrow editions, and I haven't been able to find anything for Breccia.) This is important stuff, but it's just so damn hard to get your hands on it. I've been able to get into comics by Bilal, Moebius, etc because I can read French-- in fact, comics were a great help in my learning reading knowledge of French as I would compare the French and English translations of The Ranks of the Black Order when I was in graduate school-- but works in Italian and Spanish are beyond me.

That too, I thought I put this above but it looks it didn't. There are multiple threats that Euro and Latin novels comics deal with, as you said quality & affordability and when we do get past those two we have to deal with limited prints & limited advertising/media play of the books. It seems like we can't win but when we do it's few and far.