Silent Master

So.... I'm a member of a list-serve for Emegency Managers and Homeland Security topics and guess what I get today: June 4, 2012 “CDC Denies Existence Of Zombies Despite Cannibal Incidents” http://www.hlswatch.com/2012/06/04/cdc-denies-existence-of-zombies-despite-cannibal-incidents/

You have 1-155 in 9.8 or better, correct? That is impressive for ANY run. When I had the first 30, minus the 21, there were only a handful of each graded that high. I had several of the highest graded/one copy issues, but I was forced to sell them before I could go any further. I submitted all of them, and about 6-7 were bought by me off the stands. How bad of a crease are we talking about with the 63? It's been fun collecting them over the last 6 or 7 years now; I have about 75 or so now in 9.8 SS... It is a major crease all the way down the cover. It was the first one I found many years ago, hard to find!

If you want it I have one with a major crease down the front... It's not the best but it might hold you over until you find a better copy and you could pass this one along to someone else.

By the way - It was great to log on and see 30+ posts to the GI Joe Thread!!!!!! And thanks for the nice comments . I really owe my collection to a lot of the Boardie's and that damned E-Bay!!! Honestly I am more impressed with JRS069's GI Joe CGC collection (the guy at #2). Most of those he subbed himself and his Transformer's set is awesome! He's helped me out quite a bit, especially with my Special Missions and European Missions sets.

Man that #63 "No Fun" variant is rough to find (especially in a decent grade). I have a few of those and none of those would grade above a 7.5 (maybe 8.0 if the grader got laid the night before!).

That's not bad - That's about 8 times what a 9.8 is going for... the $7000 for the Walking Dead #1 is only about 6 times what that 9.8's going for.

And higher? You have 9.9's/10's? There can't be many from 82-94? 9.9's are super hard to find - Never seen a 10.0 in the GI Joe series. (I do issues 56, 118, and 141 in 9.9 which I will probably sell soon since I'm working on a full CGC SS set). No way do I have the guts to crack open the 9.9's for a signature!

The comic was Hama's baby. I definitely thought he was forced to include Serpentor because of the toy & TV show. Or at the very least quickly realized his mistake if he helped create him. Exhibit A: issue 76. But I disagree that it was all bad after #50. There are a lot of issues I enjoyed that came later. But I have a big nostalgia factor for G.I. Joe... I disagree as well (and I kinda enjoyed the Serpentor stuff initially - it did drag on too long though). I enjoyed them well into issues in the early 80's. I agree Hama was forced to throw in TOO MUCH from Hasbro! Some of his best characters were those that Hasbro didn't create and push down on Hama (Kwinn, Venom, that guy that served with Snake-Eyes, Tommy, and Stalker in 'Nam - brain lock).

Awesome!

http://www.cooltoyreview.com/Hasbro_GIJoe25th_CP-CO.asp

30th Anniversary Special

Kwinn.... man that was a character with a lot of potential! It is too bad he died so quickly in the comics. The early stuff was nice, smaller team, the outfits weren't too crazy (much more military in nature than the later stuff). #2 has a classic cover! Classic Snake-Eyes look! As did 19 23

23, 29 & 36 are awesome covers! Unique for the Joe run for sure. Several of the Zeck covers are my favorite but these 3 are all in my top favorite covers for sure. The covers not matching the interior art always did bother me, not just in the Joe series but many series through the years. Often wondered why comic publishers has one artist do the interior and another do the cover??? Sure, occasionally having a big name artist do the cover makes sense but as often as they did (and do)?? Odd..... It was also around 23 that the story really started to get good and start to blend well month after month (might have been the Snake-Eyes/Storm Shadow back story that started at 21 that really got me pulled in for the long haul. And if I'm not mistaken in the early to mid 20 issues the really cool toys started showing up in the comics (Skystryker, WHALE, USS Flagg, Dragonfly) plus Zartan and the Dreadnoks (loved them at the beginning, declined after that in my opinion). Ahh memories!

I'm glad things are cooling down. As much as I love collecting these it was getting awful difficult to hang on to them!! So many other things I thought about getting... That's the problem when you collect things because you enjoy it then they increase in value more then you think they are worth and you get to thinking...

Anyone watching the GI Joe #1 CGC 9.9 on ComicLink? It ran up to $550 fairly quick, I'm real curious to see what it will go for. I made a few bids myself but I don't have the extra cash I'd like to have to keep going up... It would have been nice to add to my collection though!

Man can I understand that, I apparently have some 9.8 OCD!!!!! The 2nd print of #2 have the cover of #4 on it but say #2 on the front cover and 2nd Printing on the inside. I pick up a raw every once in a while on E-Bay... never one nice enough to grade though...

If you are talking about graded copies then VERY difficult. There are no graded copies of #5, #6, or the Annual (and only 2 #4's). Oh and no copies of the 2nd print of #2 either, that's difficult to even find in any raw grade. I have a CGC 9.6 copy of #2 if you are would like it... I upgraded to a 9.8 a while back and it's just collecting dust, more than welcome to give it to a fellow Joe collector!

They are listed in the Blackthorne 3-D Series. GI Joe 3D #1 = Issue #20 GI Joe 3D #2 = Issue #26 etc... CGC does not include the glasses in the case.

That's what I'll put in my actual The Walking Dead sales Screw that, I recommend sending them into PGX. You can request that the PGX grader sign whatever signature you want to the book and then put it into their sweet gray case that says the auto is legit even though it is misspelled and looks like a 4 year old named Ryan Elliot signed it. I sent them a book recently requesting it be signed by none other than Jesus Christ and sure enough they were able to come through with that signature. My book even with some rips and missing a staple came back a 10 with this sweet sweet sig. Must have been a miracle!! Ah Christ... the original Walking Dead!

Slabbed comics last till December 21st, 2012... Everyone knows that!

? I stand corrected! NO ONE IS SAFE!!!!!

Zombie defense, Plan B.

Well Joe fans... This June (officially) will be the 30th Anniversary of the release of GI Joe: A Real American Hero #1! 30 YEARS!!! Hard to believe that it's been 29.5 years since I was asking Santa for a VAMP, FLAK, Stalker (which was my favorite Joe for a while), etc. Although it was another couple years before I got into the comic series I have to say CONGRATS to Larry Hama, Marvel, and Hasbro! Not many comic series last 155 issues over 12.5 years. And cartoons, action figures, nearly 50 separate comic series from mini's to on-going series 30 years later, 2 major motion pictures, not to mention all the other merchandise!!! A big thank you to Larry Hama and all those artist and writers that brought GI Joe to life over the last 30 years and A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THOSE 3-3/4" GI JOE'S & HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO GI JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO!!!

Page 334 for me here. You are not a noob by any stretch sir, time to change those default settings. Page 1000 for me as well Jim - Glad I'm not alone!!! (didn't even know you could change screen settings in such a way!!)

No comments... Just wanted to post on the 1000th page of this Walking Dead Thread!!!!