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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 8, 2018 19:41:30 GMT -5
There were collectors who wanted the Whitman Duck titles though. I think something was set up with specialist shops as I got some of the Barks Scrooge and Donald Whitman comics individually at a comic shop circa 1982-83. They had multiples of each issue and there were some digests as well. I remember the stories reprinted were Only A Poor Old Man (Scrooge 195), In Ancient Persia, The Pixilated Parrot, and The Lost Peg-Leg Mine (Donald 228-230). They also had Whitman Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon individually, but the owner was a huge Duck fan. No three to a bag anywhere in sight, but I usually got my Gold Keys that way as a kid. This shop made sure I got all the first Gladstones later.
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Post by comicsandwho on Aug 8, 2018 20:20:54 GMT -5
Thanks, codystarbuck, I'll check out your thread! I seem to remember seeing (but not buying) a three-pack of an adaptation of a now-nearly forgotten 1981 Disney movie, 'Condorman', in some department store(maybe Toys 'R' Us...man, I'm dating myself!). That would have to be the last I recall seeing anything by Western, anywhere. I think I found out Western was done when I read an Overstreet Price Guide around 1986, and noticed all their titles seemed to end around the same point in '84. I'd had no clue Western or anything they published existed by then.
Weirdly, also in 1981, at a (Bay Area chain)Long's Drug store, I found several DC and Marvel 3-packs, with the DC's specifically being from 1979, including two issues of DC Comics Presents, and one each of Flash, Superman, Batman, and Brave and the Bold(October and November cover dates). There were also some packs of Marvel's late '70s 'Tarzan' comic, from around issues 8-10 or so, but non of Marvel's other books. I'm guessing the store just had a bunch of old stock they were liquidating, but it was an odd, one-time thing(they just had the books displayed where they always used to be, no indication any of it was 'on sale', or anything).IIRC, the store hadn't been open that long, and perhaps they were dumping stuff from their next closest store, a few miles away.
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Post by comicsandwho on Aug 8, 2018 20:58:09 GMT -5
There were collectors who wanted the Whitman Duck titles though. I think something was set up with specialist shops as I got some of the Barks Scrooge and Donald Whitman comics individually at a comic shop circa 1982-83. They had multiples of each issue and there were some digests as well. I remember the stories reprinted were Only A Poor Old Man (Scrooge 195), In Ancient Persia, The Pixilated Parrot, and The Lost Peg-Leg Mine (Donald 228-230). They also had Whitman Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon individually, but the owner was a huge Duck fan. No three to a bag anywhere in sight, but I usually got my Gold Keys that way as a kid. This shop made sure I got all the first Gladstones later. This triggers another memory of a toy store selling several-year-old bagged Whitman comics in the early '80s(but in that case, they were 'Krofft Supershow' comics from the late '70s). I wonder if there was some massive warehouse clearance where somebody thought these would appeal to 'back issue' buyers?
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 1, 2018 10:58:07 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 1, 2018 11:30:14 GMT -5
Yep, another month when I had pretty much all of those DCs (except for that issue of Flash), all with Whitman logos and purchased in 3-pack bags.
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Post by zilch on Sept 1, 2018 20:40:27 GMT -5
for September 1978...
Captain America #228 Fantastic Four #201 (a good done-in-one after the multi-story arc) Incredible Hulk #230 Iron Man #117 Justice League of America #161 (Zatanna joins, but wait... it's cheaper this month...) Marvel Premiere #45 (Perez Man-Wolf!!!) Micronauts #1 (mind blown in three... two... one...) Ms. Marvel #21 (Claremont/Cockrum goodness!) What If? #12 (one of my favorite stories!!!) X-Men #116
... and subscription books... Avengers #178 (a head-scratching fill-in by Gerber and Infantino) Invaders #35 X-Men #116 (couldn't wait to read it, so i bought a dupe at the comic store)
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 1, 2018 23:03:55 GMT -5
I read Micronauts on the stand,since I didn't have the cash to buy it, until years later. Zatanna also got her new pixie/superhero costume, which showed off her cleavage. I'm a leg man and preferred the old one, though her next superhero suit was much better. I was happy when she went back to the stage outfit.
The Flash issue was a bit of fun. Those are crooks dressed as Wildcat and Green Lantern, who were comic book characters on Earth-1. Barry still has his colelction and shares them with friend, Barney. The comic on the cover was treated with some solution and would react to anyone thinking about that issue. Silly; but fun.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 2, 2018 6:03:14 GMT -5
The initial sweep of Micronauts, with the art by Michael Golden, is nothing short of fantastic. Both he and Mantlo were firing on all cylinders at that point. I only started reading it about 4 issues in, and only read the first few years later.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 4, 2018 8:40:18 GMT -5
September 1978 and junior year of high school in full swing, spending summer yard work earnings while spending lunch money on comics as well. Could get a burger, fries and shake for $1.00 at school cafeteria and that would provide me $2.00 spending every day as my folks gave me $3.00 for breakfast/lunch each at school. Snatching oranges from neighborhood tree's for breakfast so I wasn't starving and increasing my comic book collection greatly! Yes, mom began to notice the "extra" bit of comics piling up. So begins the really creative time in my life, hiding comics around the house, storing some at my grandparents who lived 3 blocks away and keeping a pile in a friend's tree house down the block (ahhh what a time spent the next few years in that tree house with comics, Playboy issues and watching his 3 older sisters ) and trading over the backyard fence with the neighbor twin brothers. It was good to be a teen in 1978!!! Amazing Spider-Man 187 Avengers 178 Batman 306 Devil Dinosaur 9 FF 201 Godzilla 17 Hulk 230 Invaders 36 Iron Man 117 john carter 19 Machine Man 9 Marvel Premiere 45 MTU 76 MTIO 46 MOKF 71 Micronauts 1 Ms Marvel 21 Powerman/Iron Fist 54 Spectacular Spider-Man 25 Spiderwoman 9 Star Wars 18 Warlord 16 What If 2 X-Men 116
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Post by comicsandwho on Sept 4, 2018 16:40:39 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 3, 2018 14:35:22 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 3, 2018 16:15:25 GMT -5
Ah, the first Archie Super-hero Special - I have it now, but didn't back then. I got the second one that came out a year later (I think) which kind of blew my socks off. Also vividly recall that issue of Superman with the Master Jailer, which, naturally, I got in a Whitman bag.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 3, 2018 20:56:13 GMT -5
Ah, the first Archie Super-hero Special - I have it now, but didn't back then. I got the second one that came out a year later (I think) which kind of blew my socks off. Also vividly recall that issue of Superman with the Master Jailer, which, naturally, I got in a Whitman bag. Kind of a creepy story, since it is about a stalker of Lana Lang; bit of John Fowles going on there. The Superman island prison, as I recall stuck around for a bit. Always wondered if it was a conceptual inspiration for the Super-Gilag, in Kingdom Come (which used the Hall of Doom, for the visual inspiration).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 4, 2018 3:30:48 GMT -5
Kind of a creepy story, since it is about a stalker of Lana Lang; bit of John Fowles going on there. The Superman island prison, as I recall stuck around for a bit. Always wondered if it was a conceptual inspiration for the Super-Gilag, in Kingdom Come (which used the Hall of Doom, for the visual inspiration). Yeah, that's one of the reasons I remember it. And yeah, I remember a story in Flash a little while later that featured the island-in-the-sky prison, with a guest appearance by Firestorm. A fun little story, with nice art by Perez. And yeah again, I thought the same thing about that bit in Kingdom Come.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 4, 2018 8:05:18 GMT -5
October 78: Action 491 Adventures of Superman 461 Amazing Spider-man 188 Avengers 179 Avengers annual 8 Batman 307 Branve & Bold 146 Captain America 229 Captain Marvel 60 Daredevil 156 Defender 66, 67 FF 202 Godzilla 18, 19 Human Fly 17, 18 Hulk 231 Invaders 36 Iron 118 John Carter 20 JLA 162 Marvel Super Special 8 MTU 77 MTIO 47, 48 MOKF 72 Nova 23 Peter parker 26 Spiderwoman 10, 11 Star Wars 19 Warlord 17 X-Men 117
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