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Huh ouch?

am I actually damaging them?

On 5/22/2023 at 8:08 PM, electricprune said:

I have the following runs graded by CGC:

Ghost Rider 1-81

Tomb of Dracula 1-70 and the 5 Giant Size

Vigilante 1-50 and the 2 annuals

New Teen Titans 1-40 and 41-44 of Tales of the Teen Titans and Annuals 1-3

Vault of Evil 1-23

Debbi’s Dates 1-11

The Joker 1-9

Night Nurse 1-4

Emergency! 1-4

The Ghost Rider, ToD, Vigilante, New Teen Titans, and the Joker are all 9.8s.

Then I have the following runs that are mostly raw:

Falling in Love 10-143

Heart Throbs 47-146

Girls’s Love Stories 46-180

Girls’s Romances 44-160

Love Stories 147-152

Secret Hearts 39-153

Young Love 39-126

Young Romance 125-208

These are the DC/National runs aside from a few early issues that I don’t chase.

 

New teen titans is the kind of stuff that I would love to own

On 5/22/2023 at 10:59 AM, Ken Aldred said:

The weird thing is that I’m very good at analysis and comprehension of the written word, but actually constructing a complex, visual image of the environment itself from text, well, I’m quite appalling at it.  I got a top grade in English Literature because of the strength of the former, but it hid a marked deficit in the latter, in retrospect.  
 

I recall being quite surprised, and surprising someone else, when they said to me that you’re supposed to do this with a novel.  In my head there’s something grey, distant and sterile about any image I attempt to create;  it’s basic, simplistic.  Again, I appreciate the way comic artists can compensate for that shortcoming and bring worlds to life from a ----script.

 

Yeah its strange... its difficult to understand how you can follow the story if you cannot make pictures in your head. I love novels for the liberty that give you to imagine. And love too comics for appreciate the talent of fabulous artist. Ist 2 really different type of art, and i love both.

Men your crazy why bother to print all this pages? there are already omnibus. Yeah yeah yeah... but maybe i want my proper handmade stuff, a a nice thing with string! There is someone here who as already does it? I'm thinking about it for the most older books, that can be original and also taking less space and cheaper.

On 5/22/2023 at 12:37 AM, Ken Aldred said:

The strange thing for me is that I’m very good at analysing dialogue, motivation and symbolism in writing, the more technical side of it, but I’m extremely poor at actually visualising a scene from a text novel.  A major attraction of comics for me is not just the artwork but respecting the fact that its creators are far more gifted than I will ever be at vibrantly illustrating that world and its inhabitants, and I feel quite grateful that they can do that for me so well.  
 

For me, the two worlds of comic books and text novels are not interchangeable. For me, the latter feels much colder and greyer and very poorly-defined; such is my limitation.

Is exactly the advice that i tought see. The problem with a book like that for most of the people is that the folk-lore is too big and to strange to imagine in your heads and not forget it without picture.

I edited the first post to be more understandable

On 5/21/2023 at 11:58 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

There is one, I read it a lot on long car and plane trips as a kid.

 

Yes but the difference here is Superman already existed when they writed this book. Did you would have read if you never heard about "the man of steel" before?! Thats the question?

On 5/21/2023 at 11:42 PM, shadroch said:

A graphic novel without drawing would be a novel.  Most, if not all, Conan stories that Robert Howard have been interpreted into comics.  Other examples would be the Doc Savage , The Shadow, etc, etc.

DC has many paperbacks that were either originally in comic form or feature characters from comics.

Im more confortable to write than to draw and im thinked sometimes to write a superheroes novel but i thinked there are none exemple of them and therefore deduce that will not work, but im wrong so. i will see this Conan, Doc Savage novels you speak about. 

Im personally a great readers of 18/19th centuries novels and i started comics just one year past, its totally new for me to read with drawing in addition. I think we will never have comics on novel form because the art is an entire part of comics and its why people like it. But just if we imagine books like that exist, can you be interested to read them? 

I specify the story would be in a totaly unknown universe for you, for exemple imagine a book telling the story of superman or batman (considering you never heard about this heroes before) would you read it or not?

Really satisfied of this one. And his name is JOHN CENA! no, his name is "the toad"

wasn't there a topic where people post there creations? I thought I saw this. Can someone give me the link of this topic?

Finally i continued to read that was too crazy to avoid  im joking about that but its just awful

Im already readed 3pages but im think stopping here, so can someone resume me this sh.t?

What the ....? 

On 5/21/2023 at 2:57 PM, FoggyNelson said:

Looks like Brav is an butthead cousin

You speak about letuce?

On 5/13/2023 at 9:25 PM, shadroch said:

 

You need to draw, in order to get better.   Too many people try something, see they aren't any good and give up. 

Only by doing something badly can you get better.

I started painting toy soldiers almost two years ago and was horrible at it. They looked okay when wet but dried terribly. Twenty-five years ago, I had the same results when I started and quickly gave up. This time I stuck with it, and after painting over 500 figures, some several times, I'm at a point where some come out decent enough.  I've progressed enough that I'm beginning to paint more expensive things like tanks and houses.  I suspect in another dozen years or so I might be considered competent.  Last week, I was invited to see a diorama of the battle of Tarawa that a gentleman's father started in 1978 and left unfinished when he died in 2005. It was over 800 individual soldiers, pill boxes, cannons and the like. Each figure had the completion date on the bottom of the base and comparing a few you could see how the man progressed.

You may well not draw any better than when you 12 now,  but give it a half hour a day for six weeks and I highly suspect you'll find the statement is no longer valid. 

Doing something you enjoy badly is better than not doing something you like because you are bad at it.  

Think about singing. Most people enjoy singing, but rarely do because they aren't very good.

Bro, you saved my desginer career! 

Draw to became better at drawing. Thanks to say that. 

Practice is the key to success, (im an athlete, i do run and powerlifting) to became better in this activites i just practised a lot, there is no secret! And same for every activites!

So now i recently started to draw what i usually does when i was young, some charachters. I already see some real progress! 

This morning i decided to start an instagram account to publish my creations. I almost finish my first. Its a vilain, very bad and ugly 

Right?

On 5/21/2023 at 3:29 AM, DougC said:

I would recommend specific comic boxes (high sides with lids) which can be bought cheaply off amazon.

Storing in low sided boxes can result in damage to the top of books as you walk through to room at night, carrying something and misjudge distance, spilling/dropping something. Obviously many of us have stored books just like you are (and some still do). This is fine for now, but once you start picking up more expensive books I would recommend at least a short box.

This box is full of keys bro 

Yeah i was attracted by this box, you confirmed me in my choice.

On 5/20/2023 at 9:22 PM, csaag said:

you can fill empty space with bubble wrap, towels, bookshelf ends etc to keep from leaning

Ok but its correct to fill the box with as much book as possible?

Have to fill the box of the most books you can to prevent movement? I am Right? 

The things im not really understand is ok the books are upright but i have the sentiment they still pressure on top of each other. Im not sure

Its an intersting question, personally i not search to obtain specifically first print but want to know if it can does a great difference on the price people are ready to pay for books. 

For exemple i have a second print of Batman 423, did you think there are a great difference of value comparated with a first print?

Hi guys, this is a recommandation for my favourite sellers, SPLAT COMICS from UK.

Recently i I launched a search notice on facebook for Batman Book. Shortly after an angel came from the sky, is name was Darren Collett, he showed me is webshop "Splat Comics". On this place ive found my happiness. The choice is absolutely amazing. In more, im a very specific collecter and i collect only Direct Sales Edt, Darren took his time to verify for me each books that i wanted was in the good Edt.

I does an order for 70 books, all without exception was in the indicated grade. 

About the delivery, i never received a better package in my life, this thing could resist to a war! The delivery was really speed too, under 2 weeks for international delivery is an exceptional delay! 

Definitly the next time that I would like to buy retail books, it will be here. and I advise you to do like me! 

I think Detective Comics have maybe more "wtf" --script while Batman is more credible. And probably the principal rogues gallery appears more in Batman. But sometimes the 2 titles was connected too.

Not affirmative just what i think.

On 5/13/2007 at 3:29 PM, chromium said:

100%.

I don't start collecting a title until I know I can get each and every issue and don't stop till I have the complete series.

 

I've completed each and every series I've collected (or am busy completing them)

The hard one will be Batman...and that's the reason I'll never buy a single Tec or Action issue...no reason in fooling myself

Same for me, i analyse the entire series before to be sure i not have to sell my house (didn't have house but is for exemple ) to complet it