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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2024 20:46:14 GMT -5
Look who's back Same cat time Same cat channel. Great little haul @supercat -M Thank you my buckeye neighbor! Speaking of hauls, super nice pickups yourself, lots of great stuff in those pictures  |
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 6, 2024 23:33:31 GMT -5
sounds good. I’ve only added one, I think, but I actually have another scheduled to arrive in a few days. I’ll wait until it is safely in hand. No surprise that they’re both Gretsch guitars… I’ll at least let that cat out of the bag. My new trio is all Fenders (though I love Gretsch, can't wait to see what you picked up), and the 3rd is still inbound as well so sounds like we can celebrate together when they get here. After looking back through the music thread, I didn’t realize how long it had been (spring of 2022!). Which means I have not two, but five instruments acquired since then, including the one inbound. Still all Gretsch!  Obviously, I have no brand loyalty whatsoever… |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 7, 2024 6:04:33 GMT -5
I'm curious about that Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man #58 - specifically the Ringer, a villain I remember seeing only once, in I think the David Kraft run of the Defenders? Anyway, my memory says he was an unusual character in that he was given a kind of self-conscious socio-political motivation that you never saw too often in superhero comics, spouting anti-capitalist rhetoric, that kind of thing. So, I read Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #58 and there's no sign of that kind of motivation from the Ringer in this issue, berkley. He seems to be very much a D-list villain who is rather cowardly and way out of his depth tangling with someone like Spider-Man (but he's forced to do so by the Beetle). |
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Post by jtrw2024 on Jul 7, 2024 7:35:21 GMT -5
So, I read Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #58 and there's no sign of that kind of motivation from the Ringer in this issue, berkley. He seems to be very much a D-list villain who is rather cowardly and way out of his depth tangling with someone like Spider-Man (but he's forced to do so by the Beetle). Some of the threads regarding the Beetle and the Ringer from these issues would be picked up years later in The Deadly Foes of Spider-man (1991) limited series and its followup The Lethal Foes of Spider-man (1993). I think the original Thunderbolts series expands on this further as well |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 8, 2024 8:19:25 GMT -5
 I couldn't pass up Lois and Lana in mini skirts.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 8, 2024 9:34:21 GMT -5
Just got this in the mail minutes ago.  I need 1 more issue to complete the entire 68 issue run  I'm trying to fill in the satellite era JLA series. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jul 10, 2024 15:08:19 GMT -5
Got the Ghost Rider 92 in the mail yesterday, and a few books I ordered to round things out for shipping.  I got an Alex Toth Zorro cover featuring a woman in a red dress (not sure how many more boxes I can check off in a single cover of things that will make MRP buy this comic)  When I organized my books, I found I was missing an issue of Action Comics Weekly, which I thought I had the complete run, so I grabbed the missing issue which was one that got "hot" for a while because of a controversial line of dialog in the Wild Dog story but is now back to being filler fodder...  and the rest were dollar books off Lonestar's weekly dollar sale...    -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 10, 2024 19:39:18 GMT -5
I got a Alex Toth Zorro cover featuring a woman in a red dress (not sure how many more boxes I can check off in a single cover of things that will make MRP buy this cover) Never knew they made a Zorro comic, let alone one in the 90's. Have fond memories of watching the old Disney Live Action Zorro show in the afternoons on the Disney Channel back in the day Picked up something that caught my interest on Amazon   Decided to start back on the anime and I got really deeply into it (also picked up Season 1 on DVD). Later noticed that Kodansha had reprinted the original manga in an Omnibus style format after the cluster-fudge that was the initial Tokyopop release in the early 00's. It was and is fairly unique (tofu delivery boy helps a racing team beat an opposing faction) and I'm happy that older manga are getting more attention and getting releases here. All that usually seems to come out is newer stuff because I guess that's all companies think that manga readers want? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2024 6:14:56 GMT -5
Decided to start back on the anime and I got really deeply into it (also picked up Season 1 on DVD). Later noticed that Kodansha had reprinted the original manga in an Omnibus style format after the cluster-fudge that was the initial Tokyopop release in the early 00's. It was and is fairly unique (tofu delivery boy helps a racing team beat an opposing faction) and I'm happy that older manga are getting more attention and getting releases here. All that usually seems to come out is newer stuff because I guess that's all companies think that manga readers want? Older manga is starting to get more on my radar as well. They released a big Kamen Rider collection 2 years ago that goes all the way back to the start in 1971. It's crazy and rather awesome, and now is making me wonder how much older stuff do I need to try and go seek out. Congrats on finding this one! |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 11, 2024 8:11:33 GMT -5
Decided to start back on the anime and I got really deeply into it (also picked up Season 1 on DVD). Later noticed that Kodansha had reprinted the original manga in an Omnibus style format after the cluster-fudge that was the initial Tokyopop release in the early 00's. It was and is fairly unique (tofu delivery boy helps a racing team beat an opposing faction) and I'm happy that older manga are getting more attention and getting releases here. All that usually seems to come out is newer stuff because I guess that's all companies think that manga readers want? Older manga is starting to get more on my radar as well. They released a big Kamen Rider collection 2 years ago that goes all the way back to the start in 1971. It's crazy and rather awesome, and now is making me wonder how much older stuff do I need to try and go seek out. Congrats on finding this one! A lot of older manga are also getting anime reboots/remakes too, so I think that's pushing this to happen. I think my favorite older manga that's gotten a newer life in America is Captain Harlock. I remember getting it a few years ago and absolutely gobbling it up so fast that I nearly had the next two volumes on speed-dial on Amazon. The ending was a let down, basically Matsumoto didn't finish the story and only ended it through the anime adaptation. I thought it was such BS that I actually emailed the people who released it here about it Also been thinking about getting the Astroboy Omnis that Dark Horse has. Remember reading the first one after borrowing it from the library and loving it |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 11, 2024 20:46:43 GMT -5
I couldn't pass up Lois and Lana in mini skirts. Does Lois turn into a blueberry after she drinks the poison? (I know it's just a color error, but a hilarious one) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2024 17:17:56 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 12, 2024 17:36:51 GMT -5
Got these in the mail today. I'm chipping away at my JLA collection. Two are doubles but the price was right for the entire package.  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 12, 2024 20:06:57 GMT -5
Dicehead?? that's amazing!
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 13, 2024 7:46:13 GMT -5
I couldn't pass up Lois and Lana in mini skirts. I can't believe that there's a copy extant that some kid didn't fill in those word balloons. |
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