Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Oct 11, 2021 9:23:18 GMT -5
Picked up a secondhand, but "minty mint" condition copy of the Sandman: Endless Nights graphic novel. I'm currently branching out and investigating some of the Sandman books that spun-off of the regular series. I've already picked up the two Death mini-series and this is my next Sandman read.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 11, 2021 12:08:15 GMT -5
Picked up a secondhand, but "minty mint" condition copy of the Sandman: Endless Nights graphic novel. I'm currently branching out and investigating some of the Sandman books that spun-off of the regular series. I've already picked up the two Death mini-series and this is my next Sandman read. I have 2 or maybe 3 of the Sandman TPB's. I don't know , but I just never "got" what everyone was so excited about with this series.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 11, 2021 19:19:32 GMT -5
I found the Classics Illustrated version of The Scottish Chiefs for only $11!
So that makes today a WIN!
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Post by Confessor on Oct 11, 2021 20:13:02 GMT -5
Picked up a secondhand, but "minty mint" condition copy of the Sandman: Endless Nights graphic novel. I'm currently branching out and investigating some of the Sandman books that spun-off of the regular series. I've already picked up the two Death mini-series and this is my next Sandman read. I have 2 or maybe 3 of the Sandman TPB's. I don't know , but I just never "got" what everyone was so excited about with this series. Well, I guess it's all a matter of taste. But personally, I like the literary qualities (for want of a better term) that Gaiman brings to the series. I mean, first and foremost it's just a damn good story, but, you know, the "depth" of the thing in terms of its layers of meaning and possible interpretations is a big part of what attracts me too it. It's a comic that really makes me think and ponder things; it's much like Alan Moore's comic book work in that respect. But yeah, it's definitely the writing that I love about The Sandman, rather than the artwork (though some of that it great too, of course).
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 11, 2021 20:22:08 GMT -5
I enjoyed the tpb's that I have but I didn't feel compelled to buy any of the other books.
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 11, 2021 21:20:43 GMT -5
I found the Classics Illustrated version of The Scottish Chiefs for only $11! So that makes today a WIN! Which one? the 10-cent Alex Blum drawn cover, or the 15-cent painted cover? That's a great book, I have a few variants of it, including a Norwegian edition of the painted cover, entitled "Skotske Hovdinger".
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 11, 2021 22:40:21 GMT -5
I found the Classics Illustrated version of The Scottish Chiefs for only $11! So that makes today a WIN! Which one? the 10-cent Alex Blum drawn cover, or the 15-cent painted cover? That's a great book, I have a few variants of it, including a Norwegian edition of the painted cover, entitled "Skotske Hovdinger". The HRN is 85 and it’s fifteen cents and I think it’s the Alex Blum cover. I sometimes read Sir Walter Scott in the fall and this year I decided to read Quentin Durward. The Scottish Chiefs isn’t by Sir Walter Scott but it was very popular in the US in the 1800s and I’ve thought of reading it a few times. As a matter of fact, I first heard of The Scottish Chiefs when I saw it listed as one of the adaptations of Classics Illustrated and I looked it up to see what it was and why Classics Illustrated would be making a comic book version. My mom and her three sisters would sometimes talk about book report assignments in school and all the kids rummaging through the neighborhood looking to see if any of their friends had Classics Illustrated versions of any of the books that had been assigned.
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 12, 2021 7:19:07 GMT -5
I sometimes read Sir Walter Scott in the fall and this year I decided to read Quentin Durward. The Scottish Chiefs isn’t by Sir Walter Scott but it was very popular in the US in the 1800s and I’ve thought of reading it a few times. As a matter of fact, I first heard of The Scottish Chiefs when I saw it listed as one of the adaptations of Classics Illustrated and I looked it up to see what it was and why Classics Illustrated would be making a comic book version. My mom and her three sisters would sometimes talk about book report assignments in school and all the kids rummaging through the neighborhood looking to see if any of their friends had Classics Illustrated versions of any of the books that had been assigned. Yes, it's kind of interesting that in some ways the Classics Illustrated series was the elementary/middle school version of Cliff Notes for many kids. In fact, the original series actually pre-dates Cliff Notes books by several years. I've been a Classics Illustrated junkie since I first discovered them as a kid around 1972 (which I found out much later was about a year after they ceased publication), but my collection is far from complete. However, whenever I see one for a decent price that's not beat all to hell, I'll snatch it up. I'm also a long-time fan of the various CI spinoffs, jumbo-sized "The World Around Us" and "Classics Illustrated Special" series in particular.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 12:50:04 GMT -5
Not a purchase, but these arrived today; an A-OK from our own tartanphantom Just want to say thank you! It's much appreciated. Leaves me with just one issue of this series on my want list. -M edit two issues, as when I updated my list I realized I had a second issue I didn't have, oopsie.
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 14, 2021 21:43:51 GMT -5
Last weekend Newkadia had a 50%-off sale on their ghost/horror titles. I don't usually order from them too much, since there grading accuracy is only about 2 steps above Mile High Comics, which isn't meant as a compliment. However, I got a few oddball space fillers at a decent price, and this time I lucked out and the grading was pretty much on target--
Among others I picked up a few more issues of Unexpected. That puts me about 15 issues away from completing the run (not including the earlier "Tales of the Unexpected" portion of the series).
Plus, a small cache of more Charlton books--
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Post by berkley on Oct 15, 2021 2:39:59 GMT -5
Not a purchase, but these arrived today; an A-OK from our own tartanphantom Just want to say thank you! It's much appreciated. Leaves me with just one issue of this series on my want list. -M edit two issues, as when I updated my list I realized I had a second issue I didn't have, oopsie.
I have #s 10-14 that I bought when they came out and I have the entire series in collected form but I'm still tempted to buy those first 9 as back-issues: it just feels like the kind of series that I 'd like to read as individual comics. And they were nicely put together, as I think many of those 80s-90s independent comics were.
Come to think of it, though I mostly read everything new in trade form these days, the independents still have some nice individual comics - unlike Marvel/DC, whose product I've found unreadable as individual issues for many years, in terms of format. By and large, I also find it unreadable in terms of content, but on the odd occasion when I do find something from Marvel/DC that I think I can read, I'll definitely wait for the trade, whereas with the independents I'll sometimes go ahead with the individual issues if it's a short, limited series.
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Post by Ozymandias on Oct 15, 2021 6:33:16 GMT -5
[...] I don't usually order from them too much, since there grading accuracy is only about 2 steps above Mile High Comics, which isn't meant as a compliment. That's an area where I never had any complaint about MHC, do you have an example laying around?
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 15, 2021 21:56:45 GMT -5
[...] I don't usually order from them too much, since there grading accuracy is only about 2 steps above Mile High Comics, which isn't meant as a compliment. That's an area where I never had any complaint about MHC, do you have an example laying around?
Not at hand. I haven't bought from Mile High in over 5 years. In the last batch of books that I got, about half of them were over-graded by at least half to a whole grade. In that batch I had several that were advertised (and paid for) as VF copies, but ended up being VG+ to Fine+ based on Overstreet grading guidelines. For the prices Chuck asks for his books to begin with, it was enough to put me off purchasing from from MHC indefinitely.
I hope your experience has been better, I know that your location sometimes limits you on purchase options. I've got too many other sources stateside where I don't have to deal with lax grading standards for most books. Maybe I'm just too hard to please.
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Post by Ozymandias on Oct 16, 2021 7:49:49 GMT -5
In general I'd say the bunch of you are somewhat spoiled, but even over the Internet, there are plenty of places better for comicbook buying. It's just that grading was never a complain; for example, last year I bought on eBay ASM #251 as FN, and I compared it to my copy of #249, bought as FN from MHC:
Paper was brown, but I've bought copies as NM with even worse paper, and the spine was much better than the other one (skip to the end).
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 19, 2021 19:39:32 GMT -5
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