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I lost track are we still talking about the Batpole?

On 9/20/2018 at 10:43 AM, Gnasher said:

Yep, probably paid over the top for this one, but it doesn't turn up that often on ebay u.k.

 

Glad you were able to snag a copy. Sweet Grandenetti cover too. Love how the tail gunner is still blasting away as he is falling to the ground.

I picked up a copy at the LCS on Wednesday, I thought the story was good, with ahem a surprise inside.

I really don't care for the size of the book though (yes the book, not the other thing). I hope all of the Black Label stuff won't be in the oversize format. Otherwise it is trade wait for me.

18 hours ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

Yeah, I read MD up to issue #26 or so....its premise was really fascinating, but they didn't go anywhere with it. It was just a never ending parade of "let's see what weird creatures we can encounter THIS issue"...and, from reading the comments they (the creators) wrote in their letters section, I am not surprised in the slightest. Too bad.

Yeah it is a shame about MD. I was really enjoying it, but lately it is just been kinda meh. I plan on dropping it once this latest arc wraps up.

On 9/15/2018 at 2:44 PM, 707comics said:

Frogmen!

1 hour ago, bigfiver69 said:

GI Combat 70. GD+

 

Solid copy, just showing some wear consistent with this grade, including small hole on cover and first page at the CCA stamp. This is a tougher book in the run, and this is a solid reader. Kubert interior art.  $8.00

 

1 hour ago, bigfiver69 said:

Our Army at War 109.  VG-

Classic book, with an early Rock story and some incredible Kubert artwork. $23.00

 

On 9/10/2018 at 1:17 PM, creaturefan95 said:

 BIN price has been lowered to $1,295 as of four days ago 

What a bargain!

On 8/24/2018 at 8:37 PM, tth2 said:

One of my favorite comic artists of all time.  RIP. 

One of my favorite covers by him...

 

First Big 5 War book I purchased to start the run of all the issues. Heath did some awesome covers.

I sent one of my 8 copies in and it received a 9.4 due to the score/scratch line down the front cover (grader notes). Somehow I missed the score line when I sent it in, but otherwise I believe it should be a 9.8. Unfortunately all of my copies have this score line to varying degrees. After reading this thread, apparently this score line is a manufacturing defect. Why is it being reduced in grade? I though manufacturing issues, got a pass.

On 8/21/2018 at 8:03 AM, Gnasher said:

Just to keep the thread alive.

 

NIce books! I have a bunch of recent pick ups to share myself. Darn work keeps getting in the way of comic time.

3 hours ago, Gnasher said:

I do get quite nostalgic when I buy with the stamp on, but aesthetics wise a clean copy is the business.  

I can't tell you how many times I kept looking at my first TAPless cover.

Those Tap stamps are pretty cool.

22 hours ago, Scrooge said:

Not sure it qualifies as obscure but this is a series that one can read again and again but is never much referred to -

One of my favorite Vertigo series.

4 hours ago, Gnasher said:

I wish Balloon Buster had caught on a bit more, love WWI aerial combat. Thankfully Enemy Ace was a hit.

21 hours ago, creaturefan95 said:

How many is that? I've only got eighteen issues (7-16, 46, 61, 75, 101, 103, 107, 113, and 117).

Only 13 AAMOW at the moment (6,17,23,64-65,73,77-78,94,97,110,112-113)

Issues so far of other Big 5 titles:

OFF:19

SSWS/US:44

GIC:57

OAAW/SR:93

Oddly enough AAMOW 110 was the first issue I purchased of the Big 5 titles back in 2014. Wish I would have been into them back in the 80's and 90s...they would have been a lot cheaper.

1 hour ago, creaturefan95 said:

Only All-American Men of War for right now.

Nice! Oddly All-American is the one title of the five so far I have the least of.

1 hour ago, creaturefan95 said:

Beaters are still better than having no copy at all! I'm just waiting for a good deal on one of those issues to pop up on eBay. 

That is true about at least getting a copy. I'm not to picky (as long as it has a cover and complete) about these early issues. If I was waiting around for nice copies , I don't think I could complete a DC Big 5 run. Are you trying to complete all 5 titles as well, or a subset?

5 hours ago, revat said:

on a super-unrelated note, we bought movie pass right before the Oscars to see all the best picture noms (we'd probably seen like two of them before that), and we ended up seeing 9/10 or 8/9 of them however many there were, all but one of the noms.  The only one we didn't see was Shape of Water, the one that won.  Our pick was Three Billboards, which I'm pretty sure should have won (a surprisingly high amount of people we know saw Shape of Water, and NOBODY LIKED IT, though many were impressed).  But as a crop, last year's was pretty good.  I thought Call Me by Your Name was probably the weakest, but so beautifully shot in such beautiful locations that you could it watch it for hours even if nothing is happening (which is literally the point of the movie).

But seriously, go watch 3 billboards.  like now. 

Also, wasn't Justin Hammer (played by Sam Rockwell, who was in 3 billboards) supposed to be british in Iron man 2?  I never heard Rockewell do british before, I was hoping to hear the accent.

Three Billboards was a great movie.

Batman 181 for me. Never sell a key...until you have another one in hand.

3 hours ago, kevhtx said:

You may be right, but let's not forget that these are the same people who nominated Avatar for Best Picture.

Ugh Avatar what a terrible movie. BP was better, but still not Best Movie caliber in my opinion. Actually I don't think any superhero movie is worthy.

Ghost Rider 15...is a sweet cover, one of my favs from back in the day. Need to get my copy graded someday.