Ian_Levine

What a question. Firstly we know the remaining 108 are lost forever. Secondly, if they did turn up, I am only interetsed in having a copy. I have no interest in having the original source. If they did exist, which they don't, a lot of money could collectively be raised to acquire them, as for most Doctor Who fans, those 108 are the holy grail. But all sources have been exhausted now. So I'll keep my comics.

Wow. Speechless. What a beautiful copy. How much did it go for ?? My number two (New Comics 2) was from the Lost Valley collection and was originally slabbed as such.

It's now an 8.0. The pages inside are perfect and almost white. But the cover looked like a rag but now looks perfect and pristine. Matt Nelson did it. I would never have been happy with it looking the way it did, with rips and dirt on the cover.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. NO CHANCE. I collect comics because I love them, not because they're some sort of investment that's dictated by their grade or whether they're unrestored. NO CHANCE. And I ADORE my restored comics. The reason they're restored is so they can look more beautiful to the naked eye. My Detective 22 and my New Fun 5, both restored by Susan Cicconi, have to be the nicest looking copies on the entire planet. I welcome restoration. I'm the guy who traded in an unrestored Action 1 for a nicer looking restored one, remember. And (shock horror of shock horrors) I'm the guy who had a totally unrestored Detective 27 restored.

I was very lucky that I bought my copy of New Adventure 13 back in the mid 1970s. I have never ever seen a copy come up for sale, not anywhere. I raher fear that if I hadn't had my original copy, that I'd still be missing one comic to this day.

Yeah some of the eary issues were tough. I seem to remember searching for years for a number 5.

Yes indeed. I have BOTH Print Journals, containing Narrative Illustration and Good Triumphs Over Evil. These are the first issues. I also have the comic of Narrative Illustration. The only one I don't have, and have never seen, is the comic version of Good Triumphs Over Evil. But as I said, I have them both anyway as Print Journals.

With the greatest of respect that's complete utter nonsense. You go find a complete run of Girls Love, or Here's Howie, or Star Spangled War Stories, I challenge you. You'll still be scratching your head in ten years time.

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I hate them and I think they're an obscene rip-offs. It really ticks me off that DC can cancel major super hero titles like Aquaman, Hawkman, Catwoman, Atom, Martian Manhunter, etc etc, titles that should be the mainstay of DC, and yet waste so much time and effort printing these stupid variants. If I ever had a reason to want to stop, these would be the core reason behind it.

It wouldn't be fair to say, as there are two sides to every story. But the truest test is if you ever have a double and try to sell a comic back to the dealer who you bought it off. I can think of two whose practices are shameful, but I won't name them. But I will say that David T. Alexander tried to overcharge me the most of anyone. And most importantly, I will say that Harley Yee is the best and most honest and reputable dealer in the whole business, and if there has ever been anything wrong with any book he ever sold me, he has always but always but always made it right. He is the best.

I hope that never happens. I have resisted all temptation. And it's hard to constantly keep it up. But it is right up to date.

Because the promos are so hard to find, and the list is incomplete and ever evolving, there was no point when it ever felt TOTALLY complete and still doesn't. Here's what I think I still need... ADVERTISE IN DC AND JOIN THE STARS CARTOON NETWORK PRESENTS Platinum Edition - 1 COMIC CAVALCADE GIVEAWAY - 3 ("The Twain Shall Meet") FLASH TV BROCHURE GIVEAWAY - 1 GOOD TRIUMPHS OVER EVIL (M.C. Gaines) LOONEY TUNES TYSON MINI-COMICS "The Great Scavenger Hunt" - 7 LOONEY TUNES TYSON FIRST SERIES - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 except for the Daffy Duck, and the Yosemite Sam OVERSEAS EDITIONS for US Armed Forces - Superman 27, 28, 72 QUEST FOR CAMELOT Mini Comic SPECIAL NAVY EDITION (1944) - 1, 5, 6 SUPERGEAR COMICS - 1 SUPERMAN CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE 1944 (Second Of Two That Year) - 2 SUPERMAN GOLDEN PRESS - 1 SUPERMAN TIM - August 42, September 42, November 42, December 42, January 43, February 43, April 43, November 43, January 44, December 45, August 46

If you're collecting Silver Age, they're all easily available unless you're only interested in the grade. I merely collect the comics. No Silver Age comic is tough if you have the money to purchase it. NONE. Whereas no matter how much money you have, there are loads of Golden Age that will take years to find, or maybe never. I'd hate to have to find another New Adventures 26 and 27, and The Big Book Of Fun Comics, and Double Action 2, not to mention Buzzy 70 and Girls Love 5.

There are no really really hard Silver Age books. Probably the hardest are Teen Beat and Teen Beam

That's 1950s isn't it ?? Apart from the last couple on my Wanted Poster, probably the entire set of It's Game Time. They're really scarce. And Sugar And Spike number one and two.

There's supposed to be one in Japan. But I know of eleven copies of Double Action 2. Lets just admit they're both very rare.

That's how I view it, but I buy them anyway without considering them essential. The current 1 in 10 and 1 in 25 variant covers are a real pain and exhibit nothing more than greed. I buy them and hate myself for doing so.

It actually ran as a whole page in the Comic Buyers Guide.

Here's the Wanted poster from 2005 when I got down to my last comic plus a few promos and upgrades.

Not lately. And I have so many now, they'd have to be cheap, especially as they're not in order so I have no idea what I have.

Although I have several thousand foreign DCs from all over the world, I just pick them up when I can. I don't think anyone would expect me to collect them all. I just keep them as examples, but I do have an awful lot of Australian ones.

It looks like a misprint to me. I have seen many over the years. One Green Lantern had the number missing for example.

I don't know how to answer this without being violently rude. 35c variants might be nice to have but they're still the same comics. Posts like this are why I quit these boards for three years.

Here is the actual ad I circulated back in 2004 when I got down to my last 14 comics I needed.