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Just got this in today. It's from a mail order set of trading cards Lev Gleason put out in 1951. If you collected the whole set you could clip off coupons from them all and mail the set of coupons in for a year's subscription, which apparently the original owner of this one did:

I have a ST #169 I got in a dollar box last year. It's actually a really solid story. I enjoyed it enough that I am on the look out for the rest of the run.

You know, from dollar boxes. Let's not go crazy. But it's not bad at all.

Just received a box of sweet mags. Happy with all aspects of this transaction. Thanks again!

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Got some b+w Marvel mags from the 70's today, including Kull and the Barbarians #2 and 3, with the origin of Red Sonja.

Punisher Vs. Archie is a fantastic comic, for what it's worth. Highly entertaining. (thumbs u

I certainly hope it is not based on Ultimate Fantastic Four. Bendis and Millar together? The two worst writers of the modern age? My god. Just... I can't even.

On the plus side, this would be a case where the movie would have to be better than the source material.

Well, I don't entirely agree. That does happen, sure. Besides needing a good story, a book needs to also catch on with a wider audience in order to stay valuable once the hotness factor wears off.

But books like Saga, Y the Last Man, Bone, Fables and Sandman have value long after initial hype has faded because the stories are good. Afterlife with Archie might be too niche to catch on long term with a wide audience, but the story is good, so it's possible.

One of the dirty little secrets around here that we try not to acknowledge is that the ebay prices aren't going to go up unless the stories turn out to be good. Or there's a movie, but that's not going to happen with this series.

The art has been amazing in this series and the story has been very good as well. I think much of the draw is the twist on the Archie universe, but that's fine since everybody on some level has an understanding of the Archie characters. It's accessible to everyone.

I will say I think the variant for #7 is... starting to get just a little goofy.

I don't quite get the casting. I don't have any problem with Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch because I don't feel like Johnny's race is a defining characteristic of the character either way. He works just as well black as white for me. So, fine.

However, Miles Teller as Reed Richards I just can't get behind. Because Reed's age and experience are defining characteristics of the character, at least to me. Teen Reed just doesn't feel right, and a Reed who is the same age or younger than Johnny is just hard for me to wrap my head around.

Maybe the screenplay is amazing and requires characters of this age, but... I'm skeptical.

Welcome to the short box, Linda Carter.

 

As someone once said to me when I got a CGC 3.0 grade on my obviously 2.0 copy of Avengers #1: Don't ever, ever open that slab. (thumbs u

This isn't a cover, it's a question. A guy I know on another forum had a question only an Archie expert could answer, so I figured, what better place than this thread to ask. He's trying to identify a comic from his childhood. Here's what he knows:

"This unknown comic has been on my mind for decades, one of the earliest comics I read that I remember. Must have been between 1961-1963 and it was an Archie's Madhouse comic. Unfortunately GCD doesn't have many of these issues indexed as of yet. The story goes as such

An inventor loves to eat cake. He builds a time machine so that after he finishes the cake, he can go back in time and eat it again. He wants to prove "You can have your cake and eat it too"

Anyone know what issue this is? Madhouse is one title I don't collect.

Just got in this Norm Breyfogle page from Life with Archie:

I went to a couple shops over the weekend and found this unopened five pack of reprints from the mid 80's:

Interesting ebay lot I came across - full run of Red Sonja in Turkish:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RED-SONJA-LOT-OF-7-ALL-ISSUE-TURKISH-EDITION-COMIC-TURKEY-CONAN-/181313151631?pt=US_International_Comics&hash=item2a371b228f

thirdgreenham September 29, 1972 or just September 29

Man, another razor thin near miss for me.

It's not a full one, and it's an arrival date in pen rather than a stamp, but I have a September 26, 1972.

Did we ever manage to find anything for anyone on this list?

September 16th

 

I found out I was born on a Friday, so doubtful it's in the year. And I don't think they still date stamped mid 80s.

I didn't think they still date stamped in the mid-80's either. I had never seen anything date stamped after 1980, or with a written arrival date after 1982.

Until today, that is:

Latest date stamp on these books is January 28, 1986!

Which is the day the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.

Anyway, no sign of a September 16 date among them, but apparently it's at least theoretically possible.

Here's something a little odd you guys might find interesting:

I was going through some dollar bins today and came across this run of Red Sonja issues from 1985 and 1986. As you can see, what makes them odd is that they all have sate stamps on the cover. I personally have never seen any comics from this era with date stamps before, not even close.

I love date stamps, so I always make a note in my records of any date stamps in my collection. I'm sure there must be others out there from this period, but there can't be many. In my personal collection anyway (which numbers around 8500 comics at present), I didn't own any comics with date stamps that were published after 1980 until now.

I'm not sure where these were being sold that still required a date stamp in 1986, but I thought it was pretty interesting.

My local antique store has one like artboy has on page 1 with the wholesome comic sign,etc for 70 dollars. Is that a good deal? They had the the circle top one once with spidey and archie already shown in this thread, but that one is gone now. I also know a guy that has a wall comic rack with the archie superman spiderman face on it, any thought on value for that if I make him an offer? Thanks

If I found that rack for $70 I would buy it in a heartbeat.

a CGC 0.5 incomplete signed by Stan just popped up on the Bay for $10K OBO cover presents nicely but I doubt Stans sig brings that much premium...even on that book IMHO

Huh.

I was at a show in Boston in 1989 where Stan was a guest. I have a very clear memory of a dealer set up near where Stan was signing who had an incomplete Captain America Comics #3 that I looked at for awhile. He wanted $100 for it. That was out of my budget as a 16 year old kid. But even if it wasn't, I remember thinking, no way am I spending that kind of money on an incomplete comic!

But retroactive continuity is not just a comics term, and was in use prior to that in other forms of media, like serials and novels.

Yep. That's what I just said. (thumbs u

There's a whole second on the etymology of retcon on the wikipedia page for retcon. According to wiki, anyway, the first recorded use of the term "retroactive continuity" was in a 1974 book. It first entered the comics community in 1982 thanks, naturally, to Roy Thomas, who heard the term at a comic book convention, liked it, and subsequently used it in the lettercolumn in All Star Squadron #18. Apparently some time in the late 80's, some guy on the internet shortened it to retcon because typing is difficult.

Here's mine again, in my living room. Comics are different now, but the rest remains the same:

My spinner only holds comics from 1974 and later. The racks are too narrow to hold anything 20 cents or earlier. So I'm hoping to get another at some point that can hold older comics.

Hey, I have a question about commissions maybe you guys can answer. I've never had any done. I'm wondering about the publication rights to the art. I've been looking through sites for a lot of different artists; some of them say stuff like "the artist retains all rights to private commissions," while in other instances, the sample artwork is shown with a copyright belonging to the person who the art was done for rather than the artist.

Is this something negotiated on an individual basis? Or...?

It's unlikely I would ever publish anything I had done as a commission, of course, but I guess it could happen in theory, so I am just wondering how the rights work.

But the Phoenix entity is a different character than Jean Grey. So that's not quite the same situation.