joe_collector

9 minutes ago, kav said:

All he does is cook, and gloat.

And eat.

2 hours ago, kav said:

It's cool to check what was on the stands when you bought your first comic.  I remember seeing that Aquaman:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1967,_May

Those must have been on the spinner rack in late-August/early-September (we went back the day before school started), as they are all MIA from my collection and all lost in the Great Camping Fiasco. It's amazing how all those issues cut a thin line through my childhood collection and I have ALL the issues from the previous month like Avengers 128, FF 151, MTU 26, Defenders 16, Thor 228... though I did lost Hulk 180 but I think I brought that with me along with ASM 137.

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1974,_November

17 minutes ago, kav said:

And Batman cracked when he still had plenty of meat on his bones-what a wimp:
 

And that fat cook is back gloating again. Will he ever stop?

On 5/10/2017 at 3:42 PM, Quicksilver Signs said:

what the H is a strap-hanger?

Those hand-straps on the subway, to which I assume Cage is referring to "suits" or downtown NY workers who ride the subway each day.

15 minutes ago, vaillant said:

Yes, they are the same. They are modern, of course. I thought you were speaking about these.
 

Tsk, tsk, remember what forum we're in.

40 minutes ago, kav said:

Superman stop whining-if you were starving you'd be scrawny and you look just fine.

That cook (Popeye gone to seed?) sure seems to be getting his share of calories, and check out Kirk Douglas behind Batman.

Both, but it would have been "for what I had" if I didn't manage to keep most of my collection. Even so, my "camping trip disaster" got me hunting down all those issue later and it was a real rush to inadvertently getting an purchase in the mail and finding out it was "one of those books". A great example was Marvel Premiere 24 and 25, which I forget I owned and only remembered after reading them. Same with Daredevil 93 and 94, which were coverless books I got from relatives. I brought my favorite books, like all my ASM's in the 130's and 140's, my X-Men in the mid-late-90's, as well as (drum roll) Hulk 181 (and 180), which bugged me for years.

But I also remember books that were out-of-my-price-range when I was a kid, like the early issues of Marvel Team-up and early Starlin Captain Marvels (my first issue was 32) and after staring at them on the LCS wall it was a blast finally getting HG copies and actually reading them.

Great job!

I had a Tuska Captain America vibe right from the start, but I couldn't remember him drawing an issue, so I went with Kirby Cap and Tuska on Champions 17.

3 hours ago, deadleg said:

I'm a fan of cover swipes but this one will always be my favorite.

On 2/19/2017 at 7:49 PM, divad said:

Whoever thought Flash 1 (1987) would be a $100+ book???

...in CGC 9.8.

it's hardly "a $100 book" and when it comes to 9.8's the $50-$100 range, people are just paying for the grading fees, the legwork, the 9.4-9.6 masses that come back or are rejected, back and forth mailing, etc.

55 minutes ago, vaillant said:

There are, but they came out as an imitation of the american ones. They had/have limited print run, and to me they are just a "bad copy" of the original idea (already abused by itself, BTW).

Got any examples, as I don't know of any Canadian or UK variants, other than junk Modern manufactured cover variants, which don't count.

23 minutes ago, Ghost Town said:

Sure. Consider this a re-gifted gift horse. Or a gift horse with better teeth.

 

 

Awesome, thanks.

25 minutes ago, valiantman said:

In every case, though, I'm mostly interested in obtaining what I wanted-but-couldn't-get when I was a kid.  It was my "kid grails" that became my "adult grails".  Anything easy to get when I was a kid still isn't that important to me now.  I don't want what I used to have, I want what I used to want.

Exactly, and that ended a long time ago when adults took over. If kids aren't in the comic stores and  current "hot key issues" have a half-life of a few weeks, how does your scenario make sense in terms of mass market appeal going forward? A LOT has changed since you were a kid, and I believe that at some level, nostalgia and (using your words) "buying what you used to want" are virtually dead in our ultra-disposal, ADHD digital world.

On 4/11/2017 at 11:54 AM, F For Fake said:

  These posts are always appreciated, as they're the sort of thing I'd like to know, but don't have the patience or work ethic to find out for myself!

Agreed, but at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, is there any way you can put the grades after the titles in the "2 copies in 9.0 or better" list?

28 minutes ago, valiantman said:

"pretty well dead by the 90's" is a little vague.

I'd say the adult shift ramped up around 1989-90, and the "rule of 25" was pretty well dead by 1994.

1 hour ago, vaillant said:

Yo don’t. You just can hide them.

Thanks, and I thought "hide" had more to do with hiding threads/users from *you* viewing them, like it does on other forums.

I quit buying new comics when Phoenix died, bought the last of the Byrne X-Men issues and then drifted off. Comics were going through a lot of changes them, from Bronze to Copper, and I didn't like a lot of them. X-Men sucked, ASM sucked, MTU sucked, and Avengers really sucked.

Then a few years later I was in a 7-11 and saw this sitting on the spinner rack - it reminded me of a classic Green Goblin cover and it hooked me back into the hobby until the trio of Spider-man 1, X-Men 1, X-Force 1 + Wizard turned out to be the straw the broke the camel's back (I just hated going to a comic shop back then) drove me out for good.

On 5/4/2017 at 0:35 AM, Beamer said:

You will be surprised how big the fan based is for foreign variants.

I would be very surprised, especially considering I've never even seen a foreign variant. There are probably a few, but they must be exceedingly rare.

On 5/3/2017 at 9:36 PM, Lazyboy said:

Foreign variants are almost nonexistent. Foreign licensed reprints are abundant.

Exactly, only in North America would you think a foreign comic is a "variant" - to buyers in that country, they're just regular comics.

On 11/13/2015 at 11:19 AM, valiantman said:

A resurgence in interest generally occurs around the time something (or some fad) which was once popular becomes 25 years old.

With the caveat that this demographic trend only occurs in kid fads/hobbies, and for comics, it was pretty well dead by the 90's when adults took over for good.

After all, no 25-35+ year old buying comics today is going suddenly pine away for these comics (especially since his mother never threw them out) when they're 50-60 years old.

In the end, it's probably going to turn out to be some weird Charlton book no one has read in 40 years.

On 4/6/2017 at 5:56 PM, Timmay said:

what about all these from the same seller?

multiple books well over $40

http://www.ebay.com/sch/123ubgreen/m.html?rmvSB=true&hash=item237eff315c%3Ag%3AmUMAAOSwdGFYteXb&item=152454508892&_from=R40&_sacat=0&_sop=16&_nkw=35&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2046732.m1684

 

 

This is a really cool book, First Constrictor:

Here's a weird one: