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Both SOLD! The Sensational She-Hulk TPB 1st print, out of print. WAS$25.) NOW $15

Looks like this guy was going to make another homemade bound volume of these Classics Illustrated (Copper era) pages. You finish the job. $5 Tape not included

SOLD via PM! The Groo Dynasty. 1st print, out of print. (WAS $25) NOW $15

SOLD! Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories. $5

Clive Barker’s Night Breed Genesis 1st print (WAS $20) NOW $10

Another Chance to Get it Right. (WAS $5) NOW $3

El,Coyote #1 homemade bound volume via blue tape. En espanol. (WAS $10) NOW $5

SOLD! A Dame to Kill For TPB 1st print. (WAS $10) NOW $5

SOLD! Raw vol. 2 #1. (WAS $10) NOW $5

SOLD! Silver Surfer: The Coming of Galactus (WAS $10) NOW $5

Dave Sim High Society — note binding looks like endpapers are torn out, but I think it’s just the binding. Everything is here, blank pages, indicia pages, all that frontal stuff. (WAS $10) NOW $5

SOLD! Batman Night Cries — still sealed hardcover, 1st print 1992. (WAS $75) NOW $50

5 Simple Rules (Please, please read) 1st wins; tie/indeterminate goes to the thread. Payment is Check or Money Order (yeah, yeah I know I'm a dinosaur, troglodyte, luddite, mennonite, hermaphrodite etc. - I just don't have or want e-payments.) Shipping: This will be all sorts of different sizes and weights, and many will be eligible for Media Mail, so when the dust settles shipping will be added as either actual Media Mail, or Priority Flat Rate, whichever makes sense. Don't be listy including the little one in my head. Returns: Sure, just notify me within three days of receipt and get it back to me in the same shape, on your dime. (Kudos thread linked under my avatar.)

A quick glance above tells you we have some awesome, high-quality books on offer on the boards currently…. I’m having none o’ that! I’m heading over to Mixed right now to open up a thread I can only call Amateur Night at the Company Picnic — lots of books/TPB’s, assorted high weirdness, whatever I decide to throw in the mix. But bring your reading glasses, this ain’t fer no highfalutin old-time BSD funnybooks, this is reading material.

Ok, as Lawrence Taylor said prior to the 1986 Super Bowl, “Let’s get out there like some crazed dogs and have some fun!” AUCTION IS OPEN!

Here’s a look at covers, spine, and end paper.

Hero for Hire #1-16 in a custom bound volume of high-grade but trimmed copies with excellent gloss and off-white pages. For some reason, they were bound slightly out of order — #5 is first, then #1-4, 6-16. Go figure. If you need more/different pix, lemme know.

Rules (Please, please read) Opening bid is $250. BIN is $2,500 (I have purposely set what in my opinion is a high end of reasonable BIN so that we can have a fun auction. For reference, cgc 9.4’s and 9.6’s of #1 went on HA in the last couple years in $4500 range. While these books are high-grade, they are also bound and trimmed, so I’m pricing the #1-16 trimmed, bound set at a little over half of a comparable, untouched high-grade #1.) I will post that auction is open once all pix are up. Auction closes at 11 pm EST a week from tonight, on Saturday, March 30. (A 10:59 pm bid can win, an 11 pm bid is late.) Payment is Check or Money Order (yeah, yeah I know I'm a dinosaur, troglodyte, luddite, mennonite, hermaphrodite etc. - I just don't have or want e-payments.) Shipping is included with BIN. Medium Priority Box Shipping for the auction is $18. Don't be listy including the little one in my head. Returns: Sure, just notify me within three days of receipt and get it back to me in the same shape on your dime. (Kudos thread linked under my avatar.)

@JollyComics fyi Secret Wars 8 cgc 9.6 newsstand above

Gotta be Comics for Collectors. Tim has been there forever. I had a great experience back-issue shopping. Worth a visit if you’re ever in Ithaca.

I’ll take the under.

Fair point; we see that a lot. I probably didn’t word it exactly. I mean there’s a subset who throws dollars at the perceived best of best. (The new record highs come from somewhere). But on a percentage basis, the whale chasers may well have the effect of lifting others proportionally further along.

Hmm…

Thought-provoking thread; thank you. I’m very much of two minds on Miller: the case for his impact is easy. It’s almost impossible to overstate his impact. But I didn’t get a lot of enjoyment out of much of it. But that’s me as an individual. while he reignited Batman with DKR, I found the art hard to look at. The story of a dystopian Batman was fascinating like a train wreck. I always thought the big miss was to dismiss Superman as a caricature, a mere metaphor for Big, Bad Establishment, rather than reinvigorate him as well in the conflict of archetypes. I found Year One a lot more entertaining. He certainly (along with Claremont) fleshed out Wolverine and helped create the persona that moved the character to center stage, taking the X-Men from an ensemble cast to one that rode on his back. I’m not a huge fan personally of the brooding, angry anti-hero that constantly has to tell you he’s a bad@ss but I cannot deny he’s widely popular. With Daredevil, he took a 20-plus years established character and completely rebuilt his mythos quite systematically: he borrowed and amplified Kingpin, brought back and repositioned Bullseye, retconned in two major characters into DD’s history (Elektra and Stick), turned Gladiator into a sympathetic, full character… I read it because it was new and different, but it was still fifth read in my stack each issue, behind Avengers, Iron Man, X-Men, Defenders. Again, not squarely my taste, but massively impactful on the medium. Ronin? I still want the time back from reading that. But a lot of people liked it. I prefer reading the bright, sunny worlds of Shooter/Perez/Marcos Avengers (or Byrne/Green), or the Michelinie/JRJR/Layton Iron Man, but Miller’s dark and gritty penchant had huge impact.

It’s an N of 1, but I had that exact conversation with an Action 1 owner earlier this week. You nailed it.