What Classic Comics Have You Purchased Lately? Pt. 2

[MRP]

Picked up a few DC classics the other day...

Adventure Comics #421 (with Supergirl and Zatanna stories)
Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #1
Action Comics 443 (a 100 page giant)

and the 4 issue Sword of the Atom mini with some great work by Gil Kane.

-M

[MRP]

Very cool. Yes, I can run reports. I ran a quick one right after I updated my DB with the latest books I got in and I'm up to 19,501 logged comics! I can also run a few reports and send them to my account on comic base's site and then access them from the net on my smartphone or PC and that's very helpful!

Is SMC all on the internet or is the data kept on your PC locally? CB is of course on your PC. I now back it up a few times a month to my dropbox account just in case my PC dies (yeah, it's happened before).

I started using Stash my Comics about 2-3 months ago. The info is kept on the net, not on PC, but you can export data files to your computer-not everything but you can export the contents of a "box" or a want list, etc.

What I like is that it organizes things by box, so I not only have a record of what books I have, but in which box I have them stored, and editing which box is fairly easy if you happen to switch boxes or your "stash" grows bigger than a box and you expand to additional boxes.

It's not perfect, but I can deal with the shortcomings or flaws because it's free. It does what I need it to do, and it lessens the amount of work keeping track of my books requires, so I am happy with it. Someone who is a more serious collector or has more stringent demands for archiving purposes may not be satisfied, but to each their own. I have a limited budget for my comics, and I would rather not spend part of it on a database, so I am sticking with SMC.

-M

[pmpknface]

That is very cool. I'll share it with a few of my friends!

[pinkfloydsound17]

This lil old gem popped up in my area. Guy is taking offers. It is in pretty rough shape and he says there is some tape repair on the inside. I was gonna offer $30 tops....

[dan bailey]

I'm suspicious. That carpet seems entirely too clean to me.

[dan bailey]

I've had issues 7-25 of TwoMorrows' late lamented Comic Book Artist for a few years now, but the first 6 just kept never showing up at a decent price. The articles in most if not all of them have been incorporated in various expanded collections, but those tend not to be particularly cheap either, & the only one I own (luckily enough, considering how the asking price skyrocketed once the book went out of print) is The Warren Companion, based in part on CBA #4. In any event, when I saw #s 1-3 & 5-6 last week on Lone Star’s website for amounts varying from $1.81-$7.22, for a combined total of $24.42, I was on ‘em like a duck on a junebug.

Said order also included a few reprint comics from the ‘80s & ‘90s – Caliber’s Buried Treasure #s 2 & 4 (I’d previously picked up #s 1 & 3), Comico’s Original Tom Corbett Space Cadet #2 & AC’s Wall of Flesh #1, as well as –

Power of Shazam #47 (final issue of the series; later issues are tough to find cheap, & I still lack #s 44-46)

Superboy (1990 series, which I didn’t even realize existed till I came across it, I think, while leafing idly through a Krause Publications price guide from about 2002 a couple of weeks ago) #s 14-18 & 22, completing the run

Acclaim’s Trinity Angels #s 4-6, 8-9 & 11 (I’d bought #s 1-3 a bit earlier & was impressed to see that Kevin Maguire handled the art, which I don’t think I’d previously realized)

[pinkfloydsound17]

This lil old gem popped up in my area. Guy is taking offers. It is in pretty rough shape and he says there is some tape repair on the inside. I was gonna offer $30 tops....

He asking $75 for it. It's cool but I am not a huge Avengers collector, it is in terrible shape and that's 75 bones I'd rather put towards my goal this summer which is a decent copy of ASM 121.

[pmpknface]

Just grabbedn this last night:



The condition isn't great, but this book never comes up and the price was right!

[DubipR]

Picked up 2 magazines; my camera's all jacked so I'm using scans from other places:



The store had graded my copy as VG+, I'm thinking this is more of a Fine+/VF-.




My purchase is a NM- and a steal of a price.
The signature of the Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction is Puigdomench. I did a quick search under the name I don't see anything else this artist has done in comics. There's a Jose Martorell Puigdomench, a Spanish fine artist, but its more like 19th/20th Century still lifes. Do any of the other Classic Comic collectors know of this artist or what else he (perhaps she) might've done?

[MRP]

So my wife wanted to get rid of a couple of bags of paperback books and cookbooks today, so we took a ride to a suburb of Dayton to go to an indy used bookstore which is located across the street from a comic shop that has a bargain basement with 25K comics at $1, and then went to Half-Price Books.

Of course I picked up some books at both places

At the dollar comic basement picked up the following:
-Conan & the Midnight God # 5
-Arak #18
-Arion: Lord of Atlantis: #8, 31, Special 1
-Batman #340
-Batman & the Outsiders Ann. #2, Special 1 (2009)
-Crisis on Infinite Earths #10
-DC Comics Presents #88 (Supes & the Creeper)
-Deadman #1-4, 6 (reprinting classic Neal Adams stories)
-Detective Comics #519, 568
-Invasion #1, 3
-Secret Origns #27 (Zatara & Zatanna)
-The Weird #1-4
Who's Who in the DCU #5, 6

At Half Price Books (which was having a Memorial Day sale so everything was 20% off their half off normal prices) I picked up the following:

-Showcase Presents: Brave & the Bold Batman Team Ups Vol. 2 ($6.50)
-Showcase Presents: Batman & the Outsiders Vol. 1 ($6.50)
-Green Lantern (New 52) #5-8 ($1.20 per issue)

and from the quarter bin (making them 20 cents each):
-Doomsday Squad #1 (reprints of classic Byrne indy series from the 70's)
-Starslayer #12
-Sandman Mystery Theatre #3, 5, 37-39, 41, 46, 48
-Names of Magic #4
-Legion #28 (Darkseid!)
-Robin #88
-Warlord #103
-Superman #257 (classic issue from 1972 in awesome shape, likely F/VF if not for price sticker on it)
-Starman #22, 29,
-Morrison's Doom Patrol #40, 44
-Hunter: Age of Magic #7
-Outsiders V.3 #14, 36
-Chaykin's Challengers of the Unknown ls #1
-Action Comics #595, 597, 599
-Justice Society V.2 #32
-JSA Vol. 1 #20, 36-38, 40, 42, 56, 57, 67

so now I am looking forward to dive into reading some of these...

-M

[Venomous Mask]

What's the cut-off date for "classic" here? I don't want to look like an ass by posting a purchase of something that's too modern.

[Jezebel Bond]

What's the cut-off date for "classic" here? I don't want to look like an ass by posting a purchase of something that's too modern.

For some it's a few years...for others it's anything pre-2001...

[Venomous Mask]

For some it's a few years...for others it's anything pre-2001...

Holy shit, that means that the vast majority of my collection is technically classic and I never even knew it!

On the topic, I recently ordered a near mint copy of Venom: Finale #1:



Most of the 90s Venom comics past The Hunger are somewhat rare and difficult to come by as opposed to stuff like Lethal Protector and The Mace. Probably because the series was probably already slated for cancellation (and the stories were really getting sloppy).

[dupont2005]

My purchase is a NM- and a steal of a price.
The signature of the Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction is Puigdomench. I did a quick search under the name I don't see anything else this artist has done in comics. There's a Jose Martorell Puigdomench, a Spanish fine artist, but its more like 19th/20th Century still lifes. Do any of the other Classic Comic collectors know of this artist or what else he (perhaps she) might've done?

Is this magazine sized?

[dan bailey]

For some it's a few years...for others it's anything pre-2001...

Actually, per the forum guidelines, it's anything 2 years or older.

Basically, in other words, anything that didn't come out last week.