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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 9, 2021 8:35:23 GMT -5
Yesterday for you was like the last scene of The Godfather. You settled all accounts at various places in town.
I was thinking along the same lines... @mrp definitely "took care of business" yesterday!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2021 16:27:09 GMT -5
Little Archie back then seemed to be in another universe....he was more of a little action hero.
Then he entered puberty and became the clod I know and love
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2021 19:33:19 GMT -5
Today was that moment of existential angst only a comic collector can know, when you realize you left your want list notebook at the last comic shop you were at yesterday, the one whose network was down and their phones were still not working, and your stuck at the house waiting for a contractor to show up to reinstall our rear screen door that got torn off in a wind storm last week. Luckily, my wife got home early enough for me to run across time and stop in to see if they had found it, and they had, so happy reunion. But thinking of how much time went into making the lists, checking and rechecking them to make sure I don't buy doubles, and thinking of having to start from scratch was not a fun feeling. I have a back up in word document, but it was not quite updated for recent purchases. Another thing to think about upgrading my tech game for...
-M
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 9, 2021 20:10:19 GMT -5
Today was that moment of existential angst only a comic collector can know, when you realize you left your want list notebook at the last comic shop you were at yesterday, the one whose network was down and their phones were still not working, and your stuck at the house waiting for a contractor to show up to reinstall our rear screen door that got torn off in a wind storm last week. Luckily, my wife got home early enough for me to run across time and stop in to see if they had found it, and they had, so happy reunion. But thinking of how much time went into making the lists, checking and rechecking them to make sure I don't buy doubles, and thinking of having to start from scratch was not a fun feeling. I have a back up in word document, but it was not quite updated for recent purchases. Another thing to think about upgrading my tech game for... -M As long as I have a smart phone and a signal, my want list and collection goes everywhere with me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2021 20:53:50 GMT -5
Today was that moment of existential angst only a comic collector can know, when you realize you left your want list notebook at the last comic shop you were at yesterday, the one whose network was down and their phones were still not working, and your stuck at the house waiting for a contractor to show up to reinstall our rear screen door that got torn off in a wind storm last week. Luckily, my wife got home early enough for me to run across time and stop in to see if they had found it, and they had, so happy reunion. But thinking of how much time went into making the lists, checking and rechecking them to make sure I don't buy doubles, and thinking of having to start from scratch was not a fun feeling. I have a back up in word document, but it was not quite updated for recent purchases. Another thing to think about upgrading my tech game for... -M
I've never made one and still play it by memory.
I've also found wants lists to be useless....I'd go to a convention with a wants-list and leave with things completely different
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2021 22:03:57 GMT -5
Today was that moment of existential angst only a comic collector can know, when you realize you left your want list notebook at the last comic shop you were at yesterday, the one whose network was down and their phones were still not working, and your stuck at the house waiting for a contractor to show up to reinstall our rear screen door that got torn off in a wind storm last week. Luckily, my wife got home early enough for me to run across time and stop in to see if they had found it, and they had, so happy reunion. But thinking of how much time went into making the lists, checking and rechecking them to make sure I don't buy doubles, and thinking of having to start from scratch was not a fun feeling. I have a back up in word document, but it was not quite updated for recent purchases. Another thing to think about upgrading my tech game for... -M I've never made one and still play it by memory.
I've also found wants lists to be useless....I'd go to a convention with a wants-list and leave with things completely different My memory is not quite what it used to be, and when I did rely on memory, it was a memory of covers-had I seen that cover before? If I hadn't seen the cover, it was a good bet I didn't own it, unless I had happened to see it in an Overstreet Guide or at a friend's house. I had issue numbers of certain series that I was hunting memorized (Avengers being the big one when I was working to complete it), but everything else was by cover. But in the age of the internet, I've seen thousands of covers of books I don't own now (lots of them here for our Cover Content and Cover Association games), so it's harder to rely on that, and in an age of variant covers, it's also a lot harder to keep everything straight. So sometime around '98 or '99 I started making want lists to take with me to shows and shops, as my interests were expanding and it was getting a lot harder to keep it all straight in my head (I also used to be able to rattle off stats of baseball players on my fantasy team or players I was considering for my team off the top of my head without needing references, and could keep references from dozens of sources straight when I was researching a paper or a lecture, but sometime after grad school I needed to start keeping annotation notebooks for that too. It wasn't so much my memory was declining as there were so many things competing for space and attention and less available to devote to each thing that I needed to give attention to. Basically a result of adulting I think. As more years piled on and more stuff got crammed into my head I became more and more reliant on written references than pure mental mnemonic devices I had previously relied on. So I use a list. But that never stops me from seeing something at a show or shop that catches my eye and isn't on my list and splurging on that. My list covers what I know I want and is there to prevent duplications. There's always room for discovery and impulse shopping. One added note, when I was younger and relying on memory, I owned maybe 2-3K comics, since then it ballooned to over 12K, got sold down to 4, ballooned to 10K again, got sold down to 7K and has just recently shot past the 10 and is approaching 11K again. Add in all the trades I have too, and it's a lot more to keep track of than it was before with the added complication of-do I still own that, did I sell it off, and what have you, so yeah, I use lists. -M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 15:24:36 GMT -5
Again, proof that comics don't have to be bagged and boarded to still survive up to 57 years (ie 1964) in nice shape. I don't mind the small flaws in books this age. Acquired for less than $2 each.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 12, 2021 21:54:11 GMT -5
Got these two in the mail today.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2021 1:14:18 GMT -5
Icctrombone I see your 72 pages and raise you 160....this is fattest comic-book size Archie made, from 1975. Next to impossible to get in high grade but I sniffed out this one.
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Post by Ozymandias on Mar 14, 2021 3:41:58 GMT -5
Those are two sweet covers (and both great reads as well). Congrats on getting them preserved. That's still my favorite look for Sonja. -M I'm torn, I also like Thorne.
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 14, 2021 9:38:43 GMT -5
Icctrombone I see your 72 pages and raise you 160....this is fattest comic-book size Archie made, from 1975. Next to impossible to get in high grade but I sniffed out this one.
The most interesting thing about That one is that they’re not all the same inside! It’s a mishmash of leftover individual books (returns, I would guess), stripped of their original covers and combined under one cover.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2021 13:22:07 GMT -5
The most interesting thing about That one is that they’re not all the same inside! It’s a mishmash of leftover individual books (returns, I would guess), stripped of their original covers and combined under one cover.
Yes, 5 comics (so 5 x 32 pages = 160). There were about 5-6 of them at the time, trying to get one example of each but many are dog-eared to hell.
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Post by MDG on Mar 14, 2021 15:44:44 GMT -5
The most interesting thing about That one is that they’re not all the same inside! It’s a mishmash of leftover individual books (returns, I would guess), stripped of their original covers and combined under one cover.
Yes, 5 comics (so 5 x 32 pages = 160). There were about 5-6 of them at the time, trying to get one example of each but many are dog-eared to hell.
Other companies did this with returns, notably EC.
Apparently there are 98-cent variants of these.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2021 16:39:29 GMT -5
I own very few DELL books, less than a handful. But I couldn't say no to a 112 pg thick Donald Duck in this nice shape from 1955.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2021 1:12:31 GMT -5
Only two pick ups in the FB group auction that ended Friday. First up...we were just discussing 3-D comics in another thread and this popped up: it's the 90s replica edition not the 50s original, but it is complete with glasses. And this little early trade paperback from Marvel via Ideal publishing circa 1981... there were a bunch of these "Secret Story" collections, but I had only ever seen the Spider-Man one in the wild before. It only collects 3 issues #1, an issue in the 80s and an issue from 1981 (#203 I believe) right around the time the book was released, so first appearance, most recent appearance, and one in between. I'm a sucker for these pre-trade paperback era collections, particularly the Fireside books, but this is the first of the Ideal collections I have gotten. -M
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