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Sorry; Pat and I were posting at the same time, I guess!

Ta-ta Tales to ta-ta tales

Giant in the city to giant-headed Blue Beetle

Oh, I realize...it's all good...and appreciated! Thank you all for welcoming me.

Guys, it just got here! Let it enjoy this good home for a while before it moves to another....but I promise to remember....

Perilous pygmies to malevolent midget

Thank you, guys! The LCS's owner's wife was covering today, and she even decided to take a picture because she would miss it. Hadda grab it.

Easter egg to Christmas present

This just in!

I see some BA Defenders getting very good prices on eBay:

 

Defenders 17 1st Wrecking Crew

 

Defenders 18 - 1st Full App Wrecking Crew

 

I've been trying to grab both of these in the last few months to no avail as yet. Surely we'll see Wrecking Club in the Marvel Cinematic/TV universe soon. If you like Wrecking Crew, I'd recommend Iron Fist 12 too, Claremont & Byrne with Iron Fist and Cap team up!

 

Grap, and flip it quick cause absolute garbage doesnt sell high for long.

 

What DREK

 

People love arse-kicking fights and destruction and these guys are involved in a ton of them with Marvel's A-list. I've been flipping these for years and get a nice profit when properly labeled as first appearances and put on my wall.

I've loved those issues since I bought them off the racks! The Hulk's entrance into that story is hysterical!

Could use some help for the following and if anyone needs any parts I only have a few books below.

 

These are books I need a cover for:

 

All Select 3

Blonde Phantom 21

Captain America comics 76

Exciting Comics 39

Journey into Mystery 83

MMC 46

MMC 45

MMC 42

MMC 40

MMC 39

MMC 35

MMC 30

MMC 20

Sub-Mariner 8

Sub-Mariner 13

Sub-Mariner 38

Plastic Man 1

Real Life Comics 3

Young Allies 3

 

These I need a coverless copy for:

 

Adv.comics 95

Adv. comics 97

MMC 79

 

Available for anyone who needs parts:

 

Young allies 8 coverless miss. Pages

Mystic 9 coverless miss CF

USA Comics 6 coverless miss last pg(I think)

I've got a coverless Adventure 95. PM me; we'll figure it out.

Lovers Lane to parachuting from a plane

Finally completed my run in 2016 with a trade for #1 (and a spare #4). Gave up a stack of 18 books from Gold to Bronze, probably highlighted by an ASM 129. But I am complete. It is my all-time favorite title, and I will read it straight through before ever parting with it.

 

My favorite story arcs in addition to the obvious classics are the Korvac saga, the Count Nefaria trilogy, and the long Masters of Evil storyline that culminated in #275, off the top of my head.

 

Avengers #4 is probably my favorite book, and the last one I will part with, along with Flash 123, if I can help it. To me, they symbolize everything I have loved about comics with the melding of the golden age history into the silver and thus the rise to prominence of continuity.

 

Feels good to complete a run, doesn't it? I'm not sure if I have a complete run of anything...except maybe Eagle Comics from 1945...it was two issues...

It does, but I found that for myself I had to keep it selective or my head would explode. I started working on every damn mid-size bronze run out there and damn near went insane from SVTU, Freedom Fighters, Prez, Champions, Stalker, Secret Society of Super Villains, etc.

Remaining sets now are just Avengers (mind you, I mean only 1-402), Iron Man (same thing, original run, 1-332), Defenders (1-152) and the entire Marvel Godzilla run from childhood, mostly because Herb Trimpe and Dan Green autographed the whole thing for me when I was a teenager.

Everything else got read once more and dealt off in trade. But I'm off-topic, sorry!

I'm in

Spellbound to pinned down

Am I the only one who reads sexual innuendo on this cover? I think It's up there with the pearl necklace cover and Betty and Me 16.

Thread bump...its criminal that it fell to the sixth page

Bond to bondage

You guys caused this! Hope you're happy!

 

I am!

 

The Primitive Man one is the best, especially if you take it for what it was meant to be (brainwashing young minds to think the world is only 5000 years old)!

I'm looking forward; I love high weirdness! Thanks again, all!

I'll second that

Guns to guns

(Boys' Ranch 6, pg. 12)

You guys caused this! Hope you're happy!

I am!

They might push your $300 cap even at the bottom of your acceptable grade range, but Marvel Premiere 15 and (even more so) Special Marvel Edition 15 are two of the best-reading origin/first app tales of the era, imo.

I'm in. I'll have to dig mine out to shoot and post. I had two but one went in a stack of books earlier this year in a trade for Avengers #1 and #4. (Needed the 1 to finish the run, and since I brought more than enough firepower, who can't use another #4?)

But Conan 2 and 3 and my other #1 went in the deal. I know an LCS with a reasonably priced #3 hanging around; I doubt I will let it linger too long.