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Ira K
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Ira K reacted to Engr62 in This Week in Your Bronze Age Collection!!
I paid way too much for this, but I finally completed my graded run of FF 140 - 200. The first comic I purchased as a kid was FF 149, so I wanted to complete a run of FF over the time frame that I collected them in my youth. I've got four 8.5's that I'd like to upgrade eventually, but I'm happy for now.
Here's the breakdown:
8.5 = 4 9.0 = 12 9.2 = 15 9.4 = 18 9.6 = 11 9.8 = 1
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Ira K reacted to Number 6 in This Week in Your Bronze Age Collection!!
Got this in yesterday. Little mixed fealings on this as the seller had two copies, indentical page quality and grades. But I liked the wrap on the one I bid on better, but they sent me the other copy they had for sale. Not biggie and definitely not worth the hassle of a return for a switch. One more hole filled...
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Ira K reacted to Xenosmilus in This Week in Your Bronze Age Collection!!
I managed to win this tonight but got in a bidding war over it. Ugh, it wasn't pretty. Only 3 9.8's and the last sale was in 2011. It doesn't come up for sale too often.
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Ira K reacted to ChrispyC66 in This Week in Your Bronze Age Collection!!
Added this to the collection yesterday. Remember reading it in a friends stack over 40 years ago!
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Ira K reacted to WEBHEAD in This week in your collection?
I've bought a lot of new slabs here is a couple
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Ira K reacted to nepatkm in Punisher fans, let’s see them favorites..💀
Going through my collection, really liking this cover from War Zone #38. John Hebert. 💀
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Ira K reacted to johnenock in This week in your collection?
FF 112 Here's a clone. Always liked when the characters drawn "in Front" of the title logo.
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Ira K reacted to bigfiver69 in This week in your collection?
Hey everyone,
I had an interesting week with my collection. I stopped collecting hard a number of years ago, and indeed have slowly been selling off a lot of my collection. I've held onto the books that I really wanted, but I still have a a few boxes of loose books that came in lot purchases, or got upgraded a long time ago, or that were unsold after selling threads and that never got put away properly. In short, I've been sloppy with a large part of my collection that got scattered around that I just lost interest in.
With the whole Covid thing, I'm home with some time on my hands (like many of us, I suppose). So, I took a few days to just get all this stuff that is secondary to my main collection into one big pile and sort through it, something I haven't done in probably 10 or 12 years.
Bottom line, I was shocked at some of the stuff I found. And because a lot of it is low to mid grade, I found myself spending a lot of time actually reading these books... which was so great. It's been a very long time since I've just put my feet up, sipped a chilled glass of root beer, and dug in.
So... what did I find? Well, first up... a LOT of war books. Between all the boxes and misplaced stack, I found about 125 mid grade war books I had pretty much forgotten I had.
A not-too-terrible run of Captain Storm...
Buncha lower-grade Silver Age War...
Some 1950s DC Westerns...
Some 12cent Big Box DCs, and a copy of Sea Devils #1... had totally forgotten about that book.
And this book I bought at my LCS (The Escape Hatch in St. John's, Newfoundland) in 1981. Great Joe Kubert art on a seminal Hans von Hammer story in showcase. This books would have been mint when I bought, and I read it down to a FN. Again, thought I had lost this book years ago...
None of these books are super valuable, but I'm taking this as a Covid silver lining for sure. My old instinct would be to sell all of these, but these are sticking around... great to have some awesome reading close at hand and not getting weirded out about dropping a grade. Also found a ton of 1980s books like Firestorm, Fantastic Four and Avengers... all store stock books I bought years ago from a shop that was closing, and promptly forgot about.
Anyone else digging around in their stacks these days and finding some forgotten surprises?
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