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This thread made me smile alot.

2 hours ago, MagnusX said:

 

If you are looking to read this is the RIGHT answer;
if you prefer a book in your hand try your local Library...

 

 

Actually I mainly used a combination of MyComicShop and MidTown comics to finish purchasing the run. Although alot of the issues had been sitting in my long box for the last 20 years; which I got at my LCS. Plus rolling back the clock a few years I used eBay as well.  I suppose if I want to  complete the rest of my run I would use Metropolis for the silver age reader books but that will never happen.(Even if I win the lotto, which I do not play anyway.)

One thing that stood out during this reading was how the issues sort of alternated through the 90's. For example the Jim Lee X-men series ran like the bi-monthly portion of the Uncanny series for something like 75 or 100 issues I believe. I think that was the hardest thing to follow. If wanted the rest of the story from one you needed to buy the other. Not to mention the many Marvel wide crossover events and other mini-series.  Not even counting the Vol.2, Vol.3 and Vols. 4 out there right now. This is why I would not try to say I know everything about the X-men just from reading the '63 series. Tons and tons more reading that I will likely never even scratch the surface of. Just a bucket list thing that I wanted to do as a comic collector. I just wondered what it would be like to read near 50 years worth of a monthly title.

It was cool.

On 7/12/2017 at 6:37 PM, OldGuy said:

In my signature there are links to web pages I put together years ago regarding Silver and Bronze Age crossovers, if you haven't seen them already.

Some fascinating links there. Thank you.

One last thank you to anybody out there still  listening. I could not have completed this read with out the assistance of the people that contributed here on the CGC boards. 

So thank you all!

Does anybody have a release date for this years guide?

10 hours ago, bababooey said:

Did you read the crossover stories?   There has to be at least 150 other books that continued to/from the Uncanny run.

Yes, aware of how many crossover issues there are involved with the original UXM series, but no intention of reading them anytime in the near future. 

If you ask me the whole crossover idea in general started out well enough but by the time of the Onslaught event it just seemed like an extraneous gimmick to sell more of the over-published issues in an over saturated market. 

Just now, ComicConnoisseur said:

Interested in your thoughts for the last 200 issues.

I think most of us here have read the first 300 and know all there in that run,but a lot of of us didn't read those last 200 issues so

How are they as a read compared to the earlier issues?

Do any of those issues stick out like the Uncanny X-Men run 94 to 143?

I know Gambit being a very popular character( and with out trying to give out spoilers )his focus as a major player sort of ends in issue 350. So technically that is within the last 200 issues. 

So as far as other major players coming along not so much. It is mostly a rehashing of the same team members in different locals and such. I believe the Onslaught was a huge crossover event just before that run as well but I really just found extraneous. 

So I guess starting from the beginning it got good around issue #50 with the introduction of Alex Summers and Lorna Dane. I also dug the upgrades in uniform that were going on through that part of the series and even seeing the retro art as well.  

After that I felt it got interesting again around issue #100-130 with the introduction of the Phoenix. That seems to be the most popular fan favorite. Issue #141 was a great one off that set the tone of the series for a very long  while.

The story arc leading up to #150 was fun with Scott and Madelyne  getting stranded on Magneto's island. The introduction of Rogue was a good arc for a few issues. I found it   through the Fall of the Mutants and Inferno up until the introduction of Bishop and Cable around the Executioners song and Bishop being kidnapped in space. After that it was sort of   again through the trial of Gambit. I was never a big fan of him and still I am not.

My most favorite arc was the Fall of the Shiar Empire 12 issue run from #475-487. I really liked that. Anything with the Shi'ar I found most enjoyable. The art was very cool. I liked how the series wrapped up by being sort of open ended.

And ....Done! A full read through of 544 issues minus the 26ish reprints.

It sounds like he is asking about reslapping.

Here is OPG #44 2014-2015

7.5

6.5

I cannot stop laughing.

This made my day.

I thought Annual 1 had a really cool story.

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Basically you can sell raw or CGC books here, but not the"competitions" books.

Pretty nice sales thread by the way.

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On 7/1/2017 at 0:22 PM, piper said:

FF4 over ASM4. (I own both)

So then FF4 or FF anual 1?

Really not funny and I am not making fun of it, but that is some craziness.

14 hours ago, BlowUpTheMoon said:

My bad, it was a CGC case.

 

So wait...this is not a comic book but rather a photocopy of a comic book?

In a cracked to all heck case.

True what they say. Once it gets cracked and re-subbed the graders have no idea of its previous grade. 

According to OP's math it is a $3000 gamble, although I am not really qualified to give advice about a flip.