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Are you sure it was MOLES he was hunting?  Or could it have been "WOMBLES"!

On 12/9/2023 at 9:36 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

OK, listen. I've watched all three specials now. Read that word specials in inverted commas. Like other members of the solitary group discerning I was, of course, hoping for a return to something resembling form after the lost years of Chibnall. Alas, whilst there has been some good moments, it hasn't worked for me at all. Possibly because it is not aimed at me, Who knows. There is an absence of intelligence, respect and continuity that leaves me isolated. I'm not going to go into detail you'll be pleased to hear, as I have done in the past, picking it apart, or post at length about how long I've followed the show, to what degree, and why it has been so important. I'll just say this: I saw the best, and the best was Peter Capaldi, speaking the words of Steven Moffat. Heaven Sent, they were.

Anyway, I don't like goodbyes either, so... see you on the other side.

     

 

 

First of all how are you keeping Steve, it's nice to see you still posting. I also watched all three specials and while it was nice seeing David Catherine  and Bernard I have to agree with you it lacked any charm. I was reminded of the Spider-man Clone saga and the Peter and Ben parting. Peter you can go live your life and take MJ with you,  as you deserve a rest and I'll handle what comes next. Seriously I've lived my own life NEVER caring or even thinking about "waken" but these specials were a tale to far. Can you imagine little Jimmy handing in his homework claiming that Newton was of the Asian race.

I've been away for a while due to family matters but I must post a comment on this thread. First of all I won't believe it until @Get Marwood & I starts a UK variant thread I had hundreds of horror and sci-fi tapes gifted to me by a friend most of them still sealed, I encapsulated them in my local landfill! Funny enough the only sealed VHS I have is a copy of the Exorcist with the banned BBC documentary, it's a film I have no desire to ever watch.

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10 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

@Garystar 

From now on, this will be in my mind when I think of you Gary: 

Come to think of it, there's got to be a jigsaw of Jigsaw, surely 

 

And please don't call me Shirley!

As for the Jigsaw I would just say it was lost in the post as it's a beauty. Seriously, as I was summoned to appear unfortunately I'm still very busy but I wish you all the best also hello Steve my friend. 

I see the buyer has a 4.0 maybe he sweetened the pot with a trade, however good luck to both. I'm of the opinion that if I were to come across an AF15,  even though I don't have one that I would hold it for a day or two then sell.  I know I'm probably in the minority but a comic is a COMIC.

12 hours ago, Garystar said:

Without ever considering them part of my collection I too pick up the Alan Class Marvel covers when I see them cheap;

WOW and I thought that I was doing well with my ten or so copies!!!! That's a great set to own and as you mentioned not too many people or collectors are interested.

17 hours ago, Kevin.J said:

Always loved Rex, real tough series in the UK back in the day  

Yes the comics were in RUFF state when you did find one!  

33 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Alan Class on the other hand, well...  

Oops busy day, I've edited it to the right name. That's a great cover and one I'm on the look out for as I'm sure it will be telephone numbers in value.

@Get Marwood & I No problem Steve on a side note I'm always interested in what you post as I love to read about things I never knew.  I've recently been buying the Alan Class Marvel covers, yes they might be worthless but on the other hand I enjoy them immensely.  

WHAT'S THIS A PARTY!  I'm always the last to know and Steve never even mentioned me? If you could see me now the tears are streaming down my cheeks  (Face cheeks) I hope I'm still in time to wish all the forum members a most wonderful coming year.

I recently watched a Youtube video were the guy would crack these cases open and showed you how. What shocked me was that CGC does not heat seal the comics anymore but just places mylites on the front and back, what gets me is will thee last as long?

I'm collecting the Batman Golden age omnibus' and it would be nice to know when they end and the Silver age starts.

5 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

Am I the only one that sees this?

(I'm not reading the whole thread,imagine how off topic we'd get)

I hated that character as well as the Puma and Alpha WHAT were you thinking Marvel?

17 hours ago, kav said:

A good writer would explain where a costume came from.  We're supposed to believe every superhero is some master seamstress and prop expert and can assemble these elaborate get ups.  To put it in perspective the costume for the first spider man film cost $40,000 to create.
Oh and every other issue the costume gets shredded so theyre always there at the sewing machine when not fighting crime.

That was the only idea I liked from the latest Spidey run that the Hobgoblin was running an industry on Super costumes, it made so much sense as he was already involved in the fashion industry. However I do agree it does look like the stealth suit, at least until Spider-Man's new film.  

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Christmas and holiday greetings from the Crypt, I wish you all the very best at this time and hope that things will become a lot better for all of us.

23 hours ago, mediaslave said:

The most important question...full size slab with tiny comic, or tiny slab?

 

I've never seen these mini comics before can you tell me what they are also the copy of issue 300, thanks.

31 minutes ago, awakeintheashes said:

but some of the characters introduced in these books (Miles Morales) are going to be the Wolvie or Venom of this newest generation.

His book did not raise in value until the Spiderverse movie so it is debatable if it will keep its value. I also agree about the Youtube videos and I do enjoy them.   

6 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I've been pondering that recently Gaard, and remembering when I was a kid buying comics with my big brother. They were some of the happiest collecting days that I can recall. Even though the books themselves - old UK reprints - had no real value, the excitement came from sharing the experience. The UK weeklies used to have centrespread posters and we would buy a handful of books each - they were priced at 1p and 2p in dirty great marker pens - and we would look excitedly through them to see who got the best posters on the way home. Hulk, Spidey, Galactus etc got a 'wow, look at that!', lesser characters a groan. It was such fun. 

Now I'm older I can see how collecting has a solitary, almost lonely aspect to it. It's you against the hunt. Your collection, your records. And the thrill you get when 'that book' is found - well, it's one of the greatest feelings there is. But as the years go by, I start to see how meaningless it all is if no one shares those feelings. I suspect a good number of us have had that feeling of elation in respect of our hobbies, and then that tinge of sadness that no one else 'gets it'. There have been times when I have posted new finds here and I am practically falling off of my chair with excitement. And then the slow realisation dawns - once again - that no one shares that excitement - at least not in respect of the specific book you have discovered. And that is when it all starts to become clear. That is when you start to ask yourself, "Why am I doing this? What is the point?"

I go in phases myself, up one minute, down the next. But I wish now that I had allowed myself to share what I do more, rather than keep it insular as I have tended - and still tend, to do. It's not just comics either. You go and see a film. It moves you somehow, you want someone else to understand what it meant to you. I suppose it's what Roy Batty was trying to say before his four years were up. Look at what I've seen, look at what I've done. What was the point? Where is the monument to it, however small? In a few years time, who will give a damn that this fool put together the only run of Charlton pence copies in the whole world?

So my feeling is this. The best you can hope for is to enjoy what you do in the moment. If you can share it with others, and I mean really share, then that is the next level of success, of joy. So carry on, while you enjoy it, can afford it and have the space and energy to do it. But once you stop enjoying it, once the doubts and negative feelings won't go away, have the courage to knock it on the head.

That would be a good last post, to make on a forum wouldn't it? 

 

Steve that was a brilliant posting I really enjoyed reading it and agree fully. As for sharing your collection I've had the same problem that is unless my home needs work done by workmen! There has been a few times were the central heating needed repaired and as my collection is built onto my walls the radiator had to be removed. So the manager comes to my room to look at the radiator that needs replace on Monday morning, then on Tuesday four workmen turn up for one radiator? By Friday I got curious and asked one of them why they needed so many workers and his answer was "We all heard about some guys crazy collection!!!!!!!!!"  

I have been wondering lately after watching numerous Youtube videos that the modern run of comics is worthless! Yes I can hear your shock but hear me out, unless a comic is limited in its run I believe that there would be thousands of 9.8's and to inflate certain prices is nonsense. Personally I would rather invest in an older first appearance than a modern for two reasons: One that there are fewer copies and two they are better comics in general both in art and story. Maybe I'm alone in this thought but it does make sense, now if you are only going to flip the moderns please feel free.  Another trend I've noticed through the video's is that nearly all of them want bargains and are NOT prepared to pay full market value and again have to show off the same canon of popular covers. That's another reason I'm convinced that comics from say 1970 onwards are everywhere if you're prepared to hunt, it makes me laugh when I hear one of them claiming "I bought Hulk 181 for a dollar!" Then during the same video claiming that it is worth X amount of Dollars?Have any of the other forum members an opinion, thanks for reading? 

48 minutes ago, Spider-Variant said:

No worries.

Now you tell me I've went cross-eyed looking over my browser history I never realised HOW much time I wasted browsing.  

3 hours ago, Spider-Variant said:

Hey, @tv horror, please post a link if you get a chance.

I'll try but it might take me a bit of time as I've watched hundreds of video's, just to be clear Ross was not mentioned only modern artists.

On 11/30/2020 at 3:15 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Yep. I wonder what the man himself would make of it. 1,000 posts in admiration of what was a small - but very telling to us - period of his life

I was watching a recent You Tube video were it states that artists in the present era are not allowed to use real locations in their work in case they are sued! Ross would have been in court his entire run.

42 minutes ago, SkOw said:

I am 4 books away right now from a Superman full run from 1-423. 

And I thought that my old run of Spider-man was amazing...Great Caesar's ghost I can't even imagine what that would look like, what numbers are you missing?

On 11/28/2020 at 5:42 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I sold one comic and bought a car the other year. The car does so much more for me than the comic ever could, sitting as it did in a box unseen

Yes but was it a Spideymobile?

As I sit in my Crypt reading all your very interesting responses I would like to add my own. I've been reading comics since I was 5 years old the first year I was just drooling over the drawings and I can even remember "reading" my first comic which was a Beano U.K comic, I realised then that I lost something maybe it was the magic who knows but it never stopped me. I loved the thrill of waiting on the next issue coming out and remember these were all black and white reprints back in the Sixties and Seventies but I loved them all. At first back then in the early 60's I had maybe four friend or at least kids I knew who collected the same issue and if I were to miss an issue I would move Hell and high water to get that copy of them by hook or by hook, yes I was relentless! However it "HAD" to be done, my run would be kept under my bed and like Fagin I browse over my treasures nightly before bedtime that was the special time getting to read the new adventures of say Batman or any Superhero. Then as I grew older in my teenage years I discovered horror and that has been my love since then, however I've only got two long distance friends in which I share my passion by phone! Yes they have never seen my collection due to me sharing my home with my older brothers and sisters and I respect their privacy. As for comics I did get back into collecting during the mid eighties due to my nephew expressing an interest in buying a Spider-man run, as I travelled around flea markets and such buying up everything they had my nephew lost interest and I was left with about one hundred copies of comics that I had once loved, what to do? I confess that I loved the hunt more than the comics and looking through those long boxes was quite a thrill. Then we move to present day I'm now three issues short of a complete run of ALL the Spidey titles less AF15 Amazing 1,2 yet I now find that they are all STUFF even my horror collection and nobody else in the family is interested so it looks like the dumpster for them. Lately I have found more interest in watching people show their collections on You tube and have a right few laughs at the "experts", there was one I was watching last night that had gotten a short box full of comics for free from his cousins? Well as he went through this box of what some on the forum would call drek, he announces that this one is worth $600 and this one $95 "Oh I might send this one to CGC...Nah maybe not?" Yes TV Horror gets his jollies from You Tube meanwhile I still love going through my stuff as it is my STUFF!!!!!!!!!! So yes I can well understand how some of you are feeling so go ahead show your collections on You tube before you pop your clogs at least you might earn a few dollars along the way, phew this is a lonnnnnnnnnnnnng post, stay safe.