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Post by Duragizer on May 18, 2024 21:38:25 GMT -5
 So, I realized these only reprint the earliest issues of Detective Comics, none of the early issues of Batman. Very vexing, especially when there's a Joker story in there, but not his first. Still, it's nice to finally own a collection with at least some of these stories. |
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Post by Ricky Jackson on May 19, 2024 0:56:18 GMT -5
My sister bought that for me for my birthday when it first came out. Love those early dark and moody issues. To this day, it's the only Batman archives I've owned
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 19, 2024 21:43:12 GMT -5
So one of the local vintage toy stores was having their Spring Parking Lot mini-con today with about a dozen vendors set up in their parking lot. That store also announced as part of the con, they were liquidating their bulk back issues of comics and were only going to carry graded comics and complete sets moving forward. They don't have a lot of comics, but has a large fixture of somewhere between 1500-2000 individually priced back issues. Everything in the fixture was going to be $1, regardless of the price tag. I got there just as the store was supposed to open this morning, and greeted Aaron the owner who had opened about10 minutes early. We chatted for a bit and I dig through the fixture. I've bought a fair share of back issues form him since he brought comics in about 2 1/2 years ago, but his back issues had stagnated to the point where he wasn't selling enough to make it worth his while to buy more collections, which made for unhappy customers trying to sell, and he needed more floor space for stuff he does sell a lot of (namely toys) so he decided to liquidate the backs issues as part of the parking lot con, and will run that liquidation for a week or two before selling the rest in bulk to one of the dealers in the area I know. He was also doing half off all trades (and his trades were already about 1/2 off MSRP, so were about 75% off overall. I spent about an hour digging and came out with 97 back issues originally stickered from $2 to $15 (with $4-$5 being the most common sticker price), mostly DC stuff, and 5 trades, which he knocked down to $100 even for me. Not taking pictures of individual books (but I'll list them below as I sort through them) but here was the complete haul...  -M |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 19, 2024 22:59:35 GMT -5
So what was in the haul...
Trades:
Batman (2016 series) Vol. 2-5, 7 (I already owned 1 and 6)
Back Issues:
Action Comics 668, 687, 690, 691, Annual 5
Adventures of Superman 444, 498, 500, 503, 505
Batman: Day of Judgment 1
Captain Atom 16
DC Comics Presents 3 (Whitman variant), 68, 70, 71, Annual 3
Flash (1959 series) 300, 330, 333, 335, 336, 338
Flash (1987 series) 1, 6-10, 13, 15
Green Lantern (1960 series) 119, 153, 169, 170, 171, 174, 175, 177, 178, 180, 181, 184, 186, 187, 198, 203-205, 210, 212
Green Lantern (1990 series) 1, 47, 51, 0, Annual 2
Green Lantern Mosaic 1
Infinite Frontier 0
King Conan (Marvel) 1
New Teen Titans (1984) 4
New Teen Titans (Keebler Drug Issue)
Nightwing (2016) Annual 1
Peacemaker (Modern Comics Reprint) 2
Robin (1993) 1, Annual 2
Superman (1939) 271
Superman Special (1984 series) 2
Superman (1987) 2, 71, 75 (4th Print), 78-80, 82, 106, Annual 5
Superman The Man of Steel 22, 24
Superman: The Man of Tomorrow 5, 15
Teen Titans Spotlight 21
Wonder Woman (1942 series) 216, 298, 301,303, 311, 312, 314-317. 320, 322, 323
Wonder Woman (1987 series) 28, 30, 39
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on May 20, 2024 4:19:29 GMT -5
I notice there's a lot of Dc books. It feels like , even now, Dc books aren't as collectible as Marvel. Shocked that you could get a New Teen Titans #4 for a buck.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 20, 2024 7:03:55 GMT -5
I notice there's a lot of Dc books. It feels like , even now, Dc books aren't as collectible as Marvel. Shocked that you could get a New Teen Titans #4 for a buck. He had a lot of Marvel stuff too, everything from Bronze Caps to huge chunks of Byrne FFs to lots of GI Joe, X-Men, Spidey, Thor etc. too. I'm just not buying Marvel back issues outside of a small handful of titles that I only need a couple of issues to complete runs. I have Marvel Unlimited, so I don't need to buy Marvels to be able to read them, and I long ago sold off my Silver/Bronze collection, and I don't really have much of a desire to reacquire most of it (outside of those issues I need to recreate my childhood collection, which I had already snagged what they had of those on previous visits). What was available wasn't based on what was collectible or not, and my choices are based on what I already had access to. The only books I picked up for "collectible" reasons were the three duplicates I intentionally got-the King Conan #1, a copy of Flash (1987) #1, and GL #171 which features art by Alex Toth. In fact the only thing there wasn't a big selection of was Batman, Transformers and Star Wars, which Aaron says are what sold best among toy collectors. (G.I. Joe is among his best sellers as well, but he built his business of specializing in Joe toys and has bought several collections of G.I. Joe comics over the years as he does a lot of G.I. Joe focused conventions in his con circuit and he can always move Joe comics if he brings them to shows-last time I was there before this, he had just bought a huge G.I. Joe comic collection featuring 30-40 pages of original art from the Image/Devil's Due runs of the Joe comic, which he then resold within a month at the 2 Joe shows he attended in that time). Overall, I'd say about 60-70% of the books in the fixture were Marvel books, not DC, I just wasn't looking to buy Marvel stuff so it's not well represented in the stuff I brought home. -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on May 20, 2024 9:17:28 GMT -5
I notice there's a lot of Dc books. It feels like , even now, Dc books aren't as collectible as Marvel. Shocked that you could get a New Teen Titans #4 for a buck. I wanna say that's because the movies aren't nearly as popular as Marvel's output, but that seems largely unfair. I've loved DC ever since I was a kid and only really got into Marvel as and adult |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 23, 2024 1:23:32 GMT -5
Small mail call today, another Darwyn Cooke cover added to my collection (Batman Gotham Knights #12), more of the Gemstone EC reprints of Two-Fisted Tales, and another of the Batman Animated (Batman & Robin Adventures #19) issues off the list.    -M |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 24, 2024 0:12:05 GMT -5
Another small mail call today, just 2 books. The first, Dell Western Round Up #18 featuring one story with art by Alex Toth, so another off my Toth want list  The second Defenders #50, another off my quest to recreate my childhood comic collection. This completes the 4 issues of Defenders I had as a kid (29, 50, 52, 77). Bonus, some awesome Giffen art, plus it's the Diamond Box version I had as a kid as I got this one out of a polybagged 3 pack not off a spinner.  -M |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2024 10:06:21 GMT -5
I know I like to beeyotch and moan about how awkward Omnibi (is that a word?) are....but I digress.
This one had a cover price of $125 and I got it new, sealed for $38, effectively 70% discount. Its contents straddle both classic and modern timescales but I'm not going to split rat hairs, I posted it here. This series is one I really liked at first, but the waters got muddied when its original lead artist was arrested for assaulting his wife. I think he's cleaned up his act (at least I hope so).
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Post by Icctrombone on May 27, 2024 10:51:12 GMT -5
Great deal !
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 27, 2024 20:01:33 GMT -5
So Half Price Books was having their regular 20% off Big Sale for the holiday weekend, and I hadn't been to one is quite a while, so I took a ride over this afternoon and did some digging, coming away with some comics, a trade, and some vintage paperbacks, some of which were comic related. I also hit the Walmart inthe same plaza and finally found the Super Powers Bug ship (Blue Beetle's ship) that had eluded me thus far (pics of that in the Toy section). The one trade I got, is just under the 10 year guideline, which was Vol.3 of Batman Eternal (series came out in 2015). I had gotten Vol. 1 & 2 at Ollie's on the cheap, and 3 completes that series. Since it's not quite 10, no pic. I did get 2 comic paperbacks though-the Marvel Illustrated Novel of Dragonslayer and the Tempo Books Superman volume. I didn't realize until after I snapped the picture, they both feature fire breathing dragons on the cover.  I also got some comic/Batman related prose novels...  They had some others, but either I wasn't all that interested (novelizations of 52 and Infinite Crisis, or I had them already. In their "collectible" comics section I found 2 reasonably priced issues of Kirby's New Gods, one was marked $5 the other $3, both minus the 20% off of course...  then I started digging through their "bulk" comic bins, where most books are a buck ( a few priced otherwise), and the first thing of interest I came across was a pair of Anthro issues for a buck each...  nothing else was as interesting, but here's the rest of the comics I picked up. The DCCP 7 was $3, everything else a buck or buck and change.     I did find some other interesting books, but they were only tangentially related to comics at best (a vintage paperback edition of Robert E. Howard's Almuric I hadn't seen before for $4 was the highlight, bit also found a Doc savage novel I didn't have for $2, plus a few other sci-fi/fantasy/horror volumes). -M |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 31, 2024 11:15:10 GMT -5
Small mail call today-4 books First up Daredevil #47  I've wanted this book since I read it in Son of Origins as a kid. I must have read it 100 times or more form that collection, and it's still one of my favorite single issue DD stories, but in all my years of colleting, I've never owned a copy of it before. I didn't collect much SA DD when I was heavy into getting SA Marvel stuff for some reason. Next up, Conan the Barbarian #76  This was the first Conan comic I ever got and read as a kid. This is an upgrade as the copy I own is that one I got from the 3 pack polybag as a kid, complete with its severe spine roll and cover detached at one staple. So when I found another Diamond box copy at a very good price from a seller I was getting other stuff from, I put in my bid and won it. Next, Ghost Rider #34  One of 4 (5 if you count Marvel Spotlight 5) issues of Bronze Age Ghost Rider I needed to complete the Johnny Blaze run/series. It was one of the 2 affordable issues left I needed, so I only realistically need 1 more (#16) to complete the run I will own (I've written off getting Marvel Spotlight 5 and Ghost Rider 1 and 2 as being out of my budget, but now have Spotlight 6-11, and GR 3-81 except for #16). and last, but not least Metamorpho #5  I'm always happy to add affordable issues of fringe SA DC books. -M |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on May 31, 2024 14:51:20 GMT -5
A week or so ago, I went to Roma's Parking lot con (a local vintage toy store) because they were liquidating their back issues at $1 each. Somehow I managed to pick up 2 copies of the same book, and since the owner is a con firned, I swung by today to see what they had left and to see if I could swap out that double for another book, which he had no problem with. But, he had put out a bunch more short boxes of stuff from collections he had previously purchased but just hadn't gotten around to processing and pricing, so now they were out there in all their unsorted, unbagged glory. And there was some cool stuff, even a few 10 centers, all for $1 each, so I took some time to dig through the new boxes of stuff. Here's what I came home with... a large chunk of the Busiek Avengers run to replace that run for me-I had slowly been picking up issues out of dollar and quarter bins to replace the run which I had sold off to lighten the load when I moved out to Ohio, intending to get the trades, which went OOP before I got them. I filled in most of what I didn't have today (I need to check things off there might be a couple holes still)  Here was the other stuff I found for a buck each...      all told about 60 books for $55 plus tax. The Thor Annual is what I swapped out my double for, everything else was in that batch. Wasn't expecting to pick up a bunch of stuff today, I was thinking there might be 5-10 things of interest I left behind that might still be there after last time, wasn't expecting to find 4 short boxes of stuff that wasn't there last time. Highlights, another Dell Donald Duck for me, finished off the Legends mini now, and some cool misc 50s and 60s non-hero books. Oh, and Aquaman 62 is another of the list of books I had as a kid that I needed to recreate my childhood collection, one of the handful of DC books I owned as a kid. -M |
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Post by DubipR on May 31, 2024 22:04:57 GMT -5
Picked up a couple mini-grai   |
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