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Post by mikelmidnight on Feb 8, 2021 12:41:56 GMT -5
For a minute I thought you were talking about this series from your thread title...
I did too …
If I had to pick the best buried treasure in my collection: two minicomics from Eddie Campbell published in the 1980s with hand-coloured covers.
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Post by tonebone on Jun 30, 2021 11:01:26 GMT -5
My most treasured items have to be these 4 books published by Ideals in 1980 or 81. Ideals was a company that published mostly crafting and "home and garden" type books, geared mostly towards suburban housewives. I remember I bought them for 99 cents each on clearance in a little book section at my local Belk department store. I read and re-read them. Each is 64 pages, with the origin story, a silver age story, and a "modern" story, along with introductory text pages. The texts of each were written by Stan Lee, seemingly for a child audience. The Cap origin story is actually the Roger Stern/John Byrne version, not the golden age version. I loved (and love) these little books, and would never trade them for anything.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 30, 2021 15:56:30 GMT -5
^^ Not seen those editions before, tonebone. Really like the cover artwork...especially the Spidey and Hulk ones.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 30, 2021 16:11:26 GMT -5
My most treasured items have to be these 4 books published by Ideals in 1980 or 81. Ideals was a company that published mostly crafting and "home and garden" type books, geared mostly towards suburban housewives. I remember I bought them for 99 cents each on clearance in a little book section at my local Belk department store. I read and re-read them. Each is 64 pages, with the origin story, a silver age story, and a "modern" story, along with introductory text pages. The texts of each were written by Stan Lee, seemingly for a child audience. The Cap origin story is actually the Roger Stern/John Byrne version, not the golden age version. I loved (and love) these little books, and would never trade them for anything. That's about as happy as I've ever seen The Hulk, outside of a Hostess ad... he must be on his way to the place that sells new purple pants.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2021 16:14:33 GMT -5
My most treasured items have to be these 4 books published by Ideals in 1980 or 81. Ideals was a company that published mostly crafting and "home and garden" type books, geared mostly towards suburban housewives. I remember I bought them for 99 cents each on clearance in a little book section at my local Belk department store. I read and re-read them. Each is 64 pages, with the origin story, a silver age story, and a "modern" story, along with introductory text pages. The texts of each were written by Stan Lee, seemingly for a child audience. The Cap origin story is actually the Roger Stern/John Byrne version, not the golden age version. I loved (and love) these little books, and would never trade them for anything. I picked up the FF edition last year in the FB auction group I'm in. I've seen the Spidey volume around and about a few times, but I've never encountered Hulk or Cap in the wild. I used to regularly confuse these with the Fireside editions that were done in the late 70s as well (not the Origins/Son of Origins stuff, but the character specific reprint volumes they did). -M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2021 7:13:58 GMT -5
That Captain America volume brings back really good memories. After my family moved from NY to New England, we'd still go back to my grandmother's house in Queens each year for both Thanksgiving and Christmas and would stay for a number of days each time. I remember one year ('82 or '83 I think) being out Christmas shopping at one of the nearby department stores (it may have been the old A&S for those who remember it) that had a nice bookstore section and seeing the Captain America which I got to take home. I think being attached to a happy holiday memory has made that a sentimental favorite book in my collection. I keep it in a "special drawer" in the bedroom that has a few other special books to me: Spider-Man Pocket books from the late 70's. The first volume was my introduction to Spider-Man (probably along with reruns of the 60's cartoon around the same time), and the impression that cover made may be why Electro is my favorite Spidey villain (and the inside content why Ditko era is still my favorite). Shortly thereafter I got the third volume, but it took maybe close to two years to find the second one for some reason! Which was an eternity at that young age, and maybe turned me into a collector right out of the gate since I already had a "want list" (and I was limited to local bookstores in my quest, I wasn't aware yet of comic book shops/conventions). There was another Spider-Man volume I obtained shortly thereafter (@mrp you mentioned the Fireside editions). I remember seeing and being mesmerized by the painted cover and wondering why all comic books couldn't look like that (Bob Larkin was the original Alex Ross!)
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Post by tonebone on Jul 8, 2021 10:35:31 GMT -5
That Captain America volume brings back really good memories. After my family moved from NY to New England, we'd still go back to my grandmother's house in Queens each year for both Thanksgiving and Christmas and would stay for a number of days each time. I remember one year ('82 or '83 I think) being out Christmas shopping at one of the nearby department stores (it may have been the old A&S for those who remember it) that had a nice bookstore section and seeing the Captain America which I got to take home. I think being attached to a happy holiday memory has made that a sentimental favorite book in my collection. I keep it in a "special drawer" in the bedroom that has a few other special books to me: Spider-Man Pocket books from the late 70's. The first volume was my introduction to Spider-Man (probably along with reruns of the 60's cartoon around the same time), and the impression that cover made may be why Electro is my favorite Spidey villain (and the inside content why Ditko era is still my favorite). Shortly thereafter I got the third volume, but it took maybe close to two years to find the second one for some reason! Which was an eternity at that young age, and maybe turned me into a collector right out of the gate since I already had a "want list" (and I was limited to local bookstores in my quest, I wasn't aware yet of comic book shops/conventions). There was another Spider-Man volume I obtained shortly thereafter (@mrp you mentioned the Fireside editions). I remember seeing and being mesmerized by the painted cover and wondering why all comic books couldn't look like that (Bob Larkin was the original Alex Ross!) I have that first Spidey Pocket book.... with the black cover... LOVE it! I am always on the lookout for that Spider-Man TPB.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 8, 2021 11:56:00 GMT -5
I had all of those pocketbook Marvel reprints brand new. Carried them on family trips and vacations for reading. They were great but eventually fell apart because I read them so darn much. Summertime I truly loved being able to toss 1 in my back pocket, jump on my bicycle and head out for a day of riding all over south Phoenix.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2021 14:22:46 GMT -5
I tried something a little fun today in the spirit of "buried treasure". While I've inventoried a ton of stuff in my collection, I still have a lot of boxes that have been in storage forever. They contain a lot of more modern era content that hasn't been as much of a priority for me to catalogue, but again, it's been a long time since I've even opened them. So my exercise today was to grab a random box and just start digging in the hopes of forgotten "buried treasure": Here is the box, and it nearly broke my back so I'm guessing I stuffed it with trades: It was a good guess! Not so inspiring hunt so far, but did find a Starlin collection. Can't remember if I liked this story or not, may have to pull it aside: Kyle Rayner collection, not bad: A fun one: A few interesting finds, but I don't think I quite found "treasure" though. So I decided to head to the basement and try one more random box: Found a Badger mini-series I need to re-read, can't remember if I liked it: An old convention program! This brings a smile: Some Elseworlds issues: Still, while a few fun finds, no epic discoveries so far. BUT...still in the basement, I turned and found sitting on top of a stack of boxes, the following two volumes, truly forgotten: With them tucked under my arm ready to be rescued and put on a proper shelf, I then scanned another shelf in the basement and found this (on the right is the slipcase), a very nice limited run Jim Steranko retrospective: And autographed to boot, so a bit of a "buried treasure" after all. All in all, it was just nice to go rummaging, and a reminder I still have stuff I need to get organized (and most importantly, pull out and enjoy!)
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Post by brutalis on Jul 13, 2021 14:45:21 GMT -5
Those are indeed the kind of treasure's I was thinking of @supercat when I began this thread. I too had been sorting through my boxes trying to get things together while actually losing myself the deeper I was burrowing. As fans and collectors I think many of us become so involved in the hunt that we oftentimes forget to make time for savoring that which we already claimed as our in owning.
Enjoying a day amidst memories and much cherished issues makes the day sweeter and invigorates the soul for the next dawn for renewed searching.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 13, 2021 17:44:52 GMT -5
Those are indeed the kind of treasure's I was thinking of @supercat when I began this thread. I too had been sorting through my boxes trying to get things together while actually losing myself the deeper I was burrowing. As fans and collectors I think many of us become so involved in the hunt that we oftentimes forget to make time for savoring that which we already claimed as our in owning. Enjoying a day amidst memories and much cherished issues makes the day sweeter and invigorates the soul for the next dawn for renewed searching.
Unfortunately, my collection is too well cataloged and organized for me to find any forgotten buried treasures. I'm not saying that I'm OCD, but given the fact that I have been a lifelong collector of many things (resulting in many collections), organization and cataloging are just second nature to me.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 14, 2021 6:01:44 GMT -5
I've definitely told this story before, but this thread seems a good spot for the newer folks. I had been a few years away from new comics (I tried and eventually got annoyed with DCBS and had moved away from my favored local store a few years before) but was getting the itch (this was 2009-ish)... so I was doing some organizing, to see what I wanted to re-read and such, and got to the one box I have of 'stuff I didn't like much that doesn't have a spot'.
The last comic in the box was Walking Dead #1... purchased off the rack when it was released. Sold it about a month later for around $1000 on ebay and used the proceeds to catch up on stuff in the 5ish years I was away.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 29, 2021 13:26:40 GMT -5
Digging through a pile of comics while sorting to put into their proper short box I came across some goodness. This pile was comics purchased for me as birthday or Christmas gifts back in the 90's. I was working in Outpatient Physical Therapy and the Physican and Therapist there loved to watch home shopping television. So their go to for gift giving was getting stuff there for staff.
I have a treasured color framed signed Spiderman newspaper strip autographed by the writer and artist brother team of Stan Lee and Larry Leiber. A pair of Colan's in Iron Man #2 from 1968 and Captain America #118 sporting a Falcon cover. X-Men #19 from 1966 with Mimic's introduction. I have Amazing Adventures #16 and #17 featuring the newly hirsute Beast. A pair of Modern Comics logo of Ditko Captain Atom from 1977 and 1978.
Charlton comics Underdog issues #3, #7 and Gold Key #1. The poorly printed Star Reach Chaykin classic Cody Starbuck from 1978.
Superman Annual 80 pg Giant #1 along with 2 World's Finest split screen covers which spotlight Superman on 1 side with Batman on the other side. WF #166 featuring the 1st time Bats/Supes team of the future against the future Muto-Joker team and #171's Please don't tell your friends the SECRET of the Executioner's List with both heroes burning their individual lists before the other can decipher it while specifically mentioning the Batcave and Fortress of Solitude.
1963's Batman #158 featuring Ace the Super Bat-Hound breathing fire at Batman/Robin. A batch of Infantino Go-Go Check covers: Detective Comics #351 with Cluemaster, Detective Comics #353 with Weather Wizard coming to attack the Dynamic Duo, Detective #352 featuring the classic stylized hands by Infantino in editor info boxes, Detective #356 as they unmask the Inside Story of the Outside and then Detective #358 introducing the Spellbinder. Batman #181's Bware of--Ppison Ivy! Brave and the Bold #64 as Batman versus Eclipso sporting a Gil Kane cover.
There are 2 Detective Comics covers without the checks across the top. Detective #369 with Batgirl and Batman playing tug of war with Robin the boy wonder. Then another with the Dynamic Trio on the cover playing pin the tail on the cape of Batman for Detective #385 warning Bats will be dead within 24 hours.
A foursome of Flash goodness. Flash # 148 as Flash races across a boomerang bridge trying to catch Captain Boomerang. Flash # 134 co-starring Elongated Man and Captain Cold. Flash getting freeze-dried by that amazing team of Captain Cold and Heatwave on issue # 140. Those 3 with splendid Infantino art while the 4th features Gil Kane for Green Lantern #20 as Flash tries to charge GL's ring before the hero fades away to nothingness.
For the finale a pair of Metamorpho the Element Man as issue #3 has our E-man Rex going to pieces when lasers attack. Then 1 more Go-Go check cover for #8 with the might Cobalt Hand of Metamorpho halts the attack of Doc Dread!
All buried treasure not only for finding them all thse years later, but also for being treasured in that ALL were gifts from 2 respected leaders I spent 5 years working alongside who actually cared for while appreciating my work with them. They both showed it in LISTENING AND PAYING ATTENTION to what I talked about in liking about comic books. Fun stories and a bunch of favorite characters. Not often you can say that you received treasured gifts from treasured friends/co-workers.
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